I've been asked by the Interweb to do an End of Year round up type
thing coupled
with a look to the future, so here it is.
I've realised it's nearly 2001, we are all supposed to be floating around in
space stations sitting in Eames chairs and stepping into parallel dimensions,
but in reality........................................
We had a relatively quiet year with the following releases:
02/00 Broadcast Extended Play
03/00 Mira Calix One On One
Broadcast The Noise Made By People
04/00 Vlad Motion Institute
05/00 Broadcast Come On Let's Go
07/00 Jimi Tenor Out Of Nowhere
Plaid Trainer
09/00 Two Lone Swordsmen Tiny Reminders
Mira Calix Peel Session
Jamie Lidell Muddlin' Gear
Broadcast Extended Play 2
Jimi Tenor Spell
10/00 Red Snapper Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper
John Callaghan You've Got Your Memories, I've Got My Dreams
Chris Morris Blue Jam
Prefuse73 Estrocaro
11/00 Red Snapper Some Kind Of Kink
Savath And Savalas Folk Songs For Trains, Trees and Honey
Boards Of Canada In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
We also released:
Nightmares On Wax Keep On limited vinyl
Broadcast/TLS Drums On Fire limited vinyl
Plaid Booc limited vinyl
Other stuff we did this year was move our empire to London (can't
remember why),
set up a USA office, finished the new tDR/Kleber designed web site and new
Warpmart shop to be lauched early 2001, we also signed Buffalo 66 director
Vincent Gallo and Scott Herren. If you want to find more about them
it's all out
there on the net.
Oh yeah we did a massive party at a lighthouse which had both chaotic high and
low points. At the time it was mainly seen by us as a lesson in how not to
organise things but looking back on it, it was pretty top especially hearing
Russell Haswell play Chris Morris' "the Gush" at 05:00 in the morning through a
huge PA whilst the remaining mutants had their brains fried. Sorry
again for the
hassle most people incurred at the end.
We started the Nesh nights at The Electrowerkz which have been great fun and
finally given us somewhere to feel at home (see this month's Face for the type
of people who go to it apparently). Oh yeah the PA is "too loud" this makes a
very pleasant fucking change.
11/00 Nesh1: Aphex Twin, Leila, Req, Matt Yee King, Push Button Objects.
12/00 Nesh2: Bogdan Raczynski, Ceephax, Chris From St. Albans, Geiom,
Jamie Lidell, Keith Tenniswood, Rob Hall.
01/01 Nesh3: Aphex Twin, Brothomstates, Cylob, Req, Richard Devine, Russell
Haswell, Vladislav Delay.
All events have featured visuals by Semiconductor Films and the Warp DJs.
For Nesh news go here
http://www.warprecords.com/nesh
Broadcast released a classic (but relatively unnoticed) album toured
their arses
off and morphed themselves from a good live band at the start of the
year into a
mind blowingly powerfull live force by the end of it. Two Lone Swordsmen have
been touring too. Starting down in Brighton in September where they
received gig
of the month in the NME, they have been traveling near and far to host full-on
techno funk parties.
Other events of note:
Skam "Mushroom" night in Manchester. A night with two dimensions; the "Jovial"
backstage area and the "Serious" dance floor with Autechre melting our faces
before we realised we were allowed to move away from the speakers.
Skratch at the Scala with Anti Pop Consortium, Sonic Sum, Mike Ladd and Saul
Williams giving a speech reminding us why the only thing of importance on the
planet is ART.
Apocalypse at the Royal Academy with Chris Cunningham's "flex", a film with the
first beautiful underwater cum shot, and Jake and Dinos Chapman's "masterpiece"
on the holocaust - anyone who reckons their work is depressing must not have
noticed a mini Stephen Hawking in his techno wheel chair masterminding the
operation.
Anyway onto 2001 which has got to be a great year - its our time! Boy bands and
depressing guitar combos with prehistoric sounding music will be banished from
the air waves and the music people will be space travelling with will
be........
Autechre Peel Sessions 2 01/01/01
Richard Devine Lip Switch 15/01/01
Tortoise Standards 19/02/00
+
Prefuse73 LP,
Boards Of Canada LP,
Plaid LP,
Vincent Gallo LP,
Autechre LP,
Nightmares On Wax LP,
Plone LP,
and others....
Also get your tickets for All Tomorrow's parties now - it's got a great lineup,
curated by Tortoise, featuring Boards of Canada, Broadcast and Scott Herren
amongst others. Check for more details here
http://www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk
The main thing about ATP is there's a party at the event, but a better one in
your chalet! And get your tickets for January Nesh it's gonna be a big one cos
it's a top line up and every one gets bored round about mid Jan and
needs a post
New Yr rave.
Erm, that's it, we are all off snowboarding so if we all get killed in an
avalanche please try and carry on the Warp Dynasty and can someone come in and
water the plants?
"Any one who swims with the current will reach the big music steamship; whoever
swims against the current will perhaps meet the source"
Paul Esleben (Florian Kraftwerk's father)
Steve Beckett
www.warprecords.com
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