Oct 21, 2000 wells wrote:
Their new record is great... Tiny Reminders... a lot of it's wonderful,
bleepy hard electro.. I
love it.
I have 'Stay Down' which is pretty nice (but nowhere near this new record)
and 'Skimming Not Swimming' (I think that's the title), but how are their
other records/EPs? How does the Sabres of Paradise stuff compare?
Sabres of Paradise firstly differed from Tls because it was mostly a band
consisting of Weatherall (Andy!), Gary Burns and Jagz Kooner....Essential is
also their techno-oriented debut Sabresonic.....which contains such classics
as Smokebelch and Wilmott....
Haunted Dancehall came second....a concept album with a haphazard
song-by-song narrative descriptions by the group....Weatherall also claims
that they hired Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, The Acid
House, Marabou Stork Nightmares) to pen the notes, but unhappy with the
results threw their own descriptions minutes before the record was shipped
to be pressed...the album flirts with minimal ambient and mid-tempo
breakbeat....worth taking note of some credits too, namely Geoff Barrow
(Portishead) and Carthy (Mr Scruff, Ninja Tune)
Versus was the third ep.....a highly collectable record containing remixes
of Tow Truck, Bubble & Slide, Duke of Earsfield and Haunted Dancehall....by
such prominent names as Depth Charge, Chemical Brothers, LFO, Nightmares on
Wax and the highly intelligent and over-cultural In the Nursery...
Last but not least came SabresonicII.....containing the gem SmokebelchII
(the infamous (!)David Holmes mix)
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As regards Tls it is a collaboration between Weatherall and long-time
associate and sound engineer/programmer Keith Tenniswood.
Most importantly try their debut double on Emissions Audio Output The Fifth
Mission - Return to Flight Path Estate......Electronica/IDM at it's best
released circa 95/96.....The double is an immortal masterpiece....it's
simply flawless
The second - Swimming not Skimming was a hell of a weirdness on its own; it
came with a kinda playful sense of humour since the Weatherall crew had the
bright idea to release a set of tracks on cd which focused and overlapped
electro/trip hop and sometimes a sort of hazy garage (!) and the vinyl
version manifested itself as a strictly deep house affair. The funny thing
about this second album was that reviewers had to state the media which they
were reviewing since the cd and vinyl were totally two different records
with the same name!!!
Stockwell Steppas sported more of the same (as far as the lp version of
Swimming is concerned): truly weatherall-style progressive atmospheric house
by nature...nevertheless a record that can be quickly forgotten....
Stay Down was the Warp debut for the Tls (all previous material was released
on Weatherall's label Emissions Audio Ouput)...legend has it that it was
named after a heated discussion between Weatherall and Andrew Innes (Primal
Scream's (Screamadelica) guitarist) on how the music scene became a
struggle. The discussion ended with an exhausted Innes stating that
sometimes in fights it's better to stay down. Influencing Weatherall to the
point to produce an album moving away from the previous weird house
excursions to something more electronic in content whilst staying down from
any conventional and previously heard-of productions...
Out now as you stated is Tiny Reminders....which needs no introduction or
explanatory captions....the record is awesome...
Ss look out for Bag of Blue sparks ep too....
Rgds
Rob
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