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Dominick said:

quoted 3 lines My tarantula successfully shed its skin last night at the ripe old age of

>My tarantula successfully shed its skin last night at the ripe old age of >13, so I put on TMCs "Tarantula" to celebrate. I wonder, does anyone keep >track of what that lot have been up to in the last decade?

TMC were a supergroup (of the 4ad artist repertoire) formed by the 4AD label head Ivo, who has since done a similar project under the name "The Hope Blister". I haven't heard the stuff done under that name so I can't comment on it but I have all the TMC discs and they are great. As side note "Tarantula" is a cover of an original done by 4AD artists Colourbox who really were ahead of their time (sampling and musically wise) with two great cd's both titled "Colourbox" and numerous 12"s. Ironically their biggest hit was as half of MARRS (along with 2 guy's from the original AR Kane) with "Pump Up The Volume" still a monster track today!! Though for my money their 1986 World Cup soccer Theme and their cover of URoy's "Baby I Love You So" will always be some of my all-time favourites. Interestingly enough I once read an interview with Paul Oakenfold where they asked him his top 10 tunes of all time he mentioned Colourbox's "Baby I love You So"!! It's nothing like his music, but I respect the man a little after seeing he does have such GOOD taste. ;) Anyhow the last I heard about them was that one of the brothers had passed on and the band was no more!? Can anyone verify this and if this is so, has the other brother continued making music and if so under what name? Lance? Cheers, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org