IDM Mailing Archive

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Irene McC wrote:

quoted 3 lines There's a track on Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos credited to "DJ Wally"

> There's a track on Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos credited to "DJ Wally" > - GREAT cheesy re-vamping of a soft-porn soundtrack. Does he work > only under this name, or who is this person?

Don't know who he is exactly, but he's part of the New York City jungle/"illbient" scene and has an excellent album out of Jungle Sky Records called "Genetic Flaw". Includes a really wacky "cover" (it's more of a remix, really) of Simon & Garfunkel's "Feeling Groovy" that cracks me up every time I listen to it. Greg

At 12:00 PM 1/16/98 -0500, you wrote:

quoted 5 lines Don't know who he is exactly, but he's part of the New York City

>Don't know who he is exactly, but he's part of the New York City >jungle/"illbient" scene and has an excellent album out of Jungle Sky >Records called "Genetic Flaw". Includes a really wacky "cover" (it's more >of a remix, really) of Simon & Garfunkel's "Feeling Groovy" that cracks me >up every time I listen to it.

Let us not forget the more appealing _Dog Leg Left_ by Wally and DJ (or not) Swingsett. It was put out by Ubiquity and was one of last year's better forays into abstract beats land. He also had some cuts on the early Jungle Sky comps. and the aforementioned full length on same. -B

quoted 3 lines Let us not forget the more appealing _Dog Leg Left_ by Wally and DJ (or

>Let us not forget the more appealing _Dog Leg Left_ by Wally and DJ (or >not) Swingsett. It was put out by Ubiquity and was one of last year's >better forays into abstract beats land.

This is one of those albums that I pick up and look at every time I'm in the store. I listened to a lot of it instore once, and it reminded me of Vibert's big Soup, except much better—a mix of abstract hiphop, space dub, weirdness, a killer DnB track or two, and other stuff. I later heard some of the album again at a lower volume and wasn't as impressed, so I don't know quite what to think. I've heard decent things about Genetic flaw, but also that it's weird for the sake of being weird. Also heard that his singles are better than his albums—he has tracks on a lot of the Liquid Sky/Home Entertainment comps Info on Wally: Yeah, he's part of the NYC scene, originally from Russia or something. Sort of a crossover between the more ambient/illbient stuff-dub, etc., and the jungle scene. He often tagteams with Swingsett (David Winsett I think). Very good live—they'll mix jungle with Send in the Clowns, and do other dancefloor stoppers, which often relegates them to the back room where people aren't dancing. IMO the most interesting dance-oriented djs in the Liquid Sky/HomeEntertainment scene. They have a track on deep Concentration on OM, believe it's called Centurion Space Bass or something. On a related note, has anyone heard the new Soulslinger remix album? Wally does a mix or 2, as does 1.8.7. and other NYCers. I wanted to buy the Soulslinger album but I heard bad things about it—do the remixes cut out the crap? Sam

speaking of Swingsett (who is a pretty good DJ actually), there's a record on UK label Sirkus by Lisa Shaw, produced by Swingsett. The two are married, Lisa is a vocalist, and together they've done quite a nice, deep and moody sort of song. can't remember the title, however... -John