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1997-06-16 20:00. . . .DRUM AND BASS IS DEAD! LONG LIVE BUM AND ASS! -Timmy?..... Got some smashing rekkids at th

From:: . . . . <kung.funk@virgin.net>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:00:01 -0700
Subject:: (idm) DRUM AND BASS is dead !!!!!

DRUM AND BASS IS DEAD! LONG LIVE BUM AND ASS! -Timmy?..... Got some smashing rekkids at the weekend in Brighton. Weak-willed hit delete now. Negativland / Truth in advertising 7" Final / Flow/Openings 7" Yay 7inchers rock, The Negativland is apparently Negativlands first ever 7".... (its brand new)..im sure ive seen a 7 about before? must have been a bootleg... ANYWAY obviously this is excellent and also pretty hard to describe, if you know Negativland youll love it, if you dont know Negativland then give it a listen, its like some twisted sinister radio show from space... hell thats the best i can do! The 7 is taken from the new album 'disPEPSI'!! The front cover of the album bares more than a passing resemblence to a Pepsi-can (with titles like 'Greatest taste around' and 'Taste in mind'), inside the 7 is an insert proclaiming: 'Negativland say that they might go on tour and they might not it depends what "happens" when the CD comes out. Youll understand this when you see an hear the CD'.... Looks like theyve done it again!! Oh Yeah the "Final" 7"!!! described to me by the shop owner as 'sonic isolationism'...This is really good too, apparently its one or more members of Godflesh (in Ambient mode).. its from 1995, there were two sevens in the shop, the gray one which i got (very dense simple melodies.. isolationism is pretty fitting) and a white one which was a lot brighter and airier (a bit like some of the less bassy and more experimental basic channel or porter ricks..).. does anyone have any more details on 'Final'? id like to get hold of a CD. oh yeah and i swapped a sandwich for a release copy of the new Spymania; DIAL - The Pause that refreshes.. everything a young boy could need.. 3/4 hip hop, oddest techno, emerging anti-submarine viruses and twisted deathnic.. grrrreatt...nniiiicee -- k.F "I tried unloading banana trains and for while I had a job collecting horses hooves for a sausage skin and glue manufacturer. They also gave me a job after that, throwing cows heads into a bone crushing machine.I soon realised that these jobs weren't really what I wanted to do." -Lol Coxhill Quote.

1997-06-16 20:22Greg Earle> Oh Yeah the "Final" 7"!!! described to me by the shop owner as 'Sonic > Isolationism' ..

From:: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.com>
Date:: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:22:42 -0700
Subject:: (idm) Re: DRUM AND BASS is dead !!!!!
Reply to:: (idm) DRUM AND BASS is dead !!!!!

quoted 8 lines Oh Yeah the "Final" 7"!!! described to me by the shop owner as 'Sonic

> Oh Yeah the "Final" 7"!!! described to me by the shop owner as 'Sonic > Isolationism' ... This is really good too, apparently it's one or more > members of Godflesh (in Ambient mode) ... it's from 1995, there were two > sevens in the shop, the gray one which I got (very dense simple melodies ... > isolationism is pretty fitting) and a white one which was a lot brighter > and airier (a bit like some of the less bassy and more experimental Basic > Channel or Porter Ricks ...). Does anyone have any more details on 'Final'? > I'd like to get hold of a CD.

Final is Justin Broadrick, the man whom I credit with single-handedly keeping the breath of life in the fetid rotting corpse that is "Industrial". There was a Final album from that era called "One", don't know if there's anything more recent. As far as I know, other than his Ice project, most of Justin's non-Godflesh moments in the past couple of years have been under the guise of Techno Animal (with Kevin Martin). There's a fabulous Industrial Trip-Hop track on Rising High's "Further Self-Evident Truths 3" compilation, and a double-CD called "Re-Entry" which was released as part of Virgin's Ambient series, although "Ambient Brut" might be a better classification. Needless to say, I think Justin's one of the most creative gents of the 90's and almost everything he's touched is either extremely creative or at least interesting, IMHO. - Greg

(idm) DRUM AND BASS is dead !!!!!