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Various Artists 2nd EditionLanguage 1996 If we're going aerodynamic, what better way to begin than with this 12" promo that bubbled up from Tony Thorpe's Language imprint way back in 1996? Its four tracks preceded the Miscellaneous: The 2nd compilation, a label round-up that followed on the heels of the previous year's first entry in … Continue reading Various Artists – 2nd Edition EP
The year of the album I'd already been working on this little list for awhile now, the concept swirling around in the back of my mind for years (much like the Metal Beat 15 had been). In fact, I was originally planning to post this last weekend, but various real world concerns only pushed it … Continue reading 1988
I had a dream about my man last night... I was chilling with my cousin in Puerto Rico, and he goes Check this out... It's a 12" of Scorpio by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, but this copy had a different vocal version on the flip! Kid Creole, Cowboy and Melle Mel were trading … Continue reading Scorpio
Various Artists 20 Parallel SystemsCheap Hotel 2020 In a sense, this compilation picks up where we left off last time with CHR-009: Terminal Vibration Vol. One, drawing a line from Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's New York New York through all manner of metal beat hip hop right up to the present day. The … Continue reading CHR-010: 20 Parallel Systems
Said rock the house y'all! After some delay (holiday season-related), it's time to pick up where we left off with the final stretch of Terminal Vibration. Tying up loose ends. The second of these post-post entries is a mop up of all the hip hop that fell between the cracks in the Edge Of No … Continue reading Terminal Vibration: Metal Beat 15
Tricky Mission Accomplished Anti- 2000 In the annals of great unexpected moments I've picked up on the radio waves over the years, one that always stands out is the time I heard Mission Accomplished played out on 91x late at night as I was driving home from UC Grossmont back in the day. A blast … Continue reading Tricky – Mission Accomplished
Let the transmission commence! A few weeks ago I promised to touch on a couple key links in the proto-punk funk story, both of whom seemed to possess wholly self-contained visions of new wave disco years before the fact. As was the case with Suicide's debut, the cockney disco of Ian Dury And The Blockheads … Continue reading Terminal Vibration: Back To Get Ya!
Told you then I'd be back to get ya! The recent, timely discussion of Ric Ocasek and Suicide in the wake of September's Mezzanine show set things up rather naturally for a return to Terminal Vibration. And as we begin to gear up for the final stretch of the whole extravaganza, which will be rounded … Continue reading Terminal Vibration Returns
Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality, Leeroy Thornhill and Keith Flint: The Original Techno Punks Amid a rash of recent untimely deaths to hit the music world, the passing of the great Keith Flint was perhaps the most unexpected. For one, he was a generation younger than figures like Scott Walker, Ranking Roger and Mark Hollis, coming … Continue reading The Prodigy
Man-machine rhythms melting into the night... There's a few things I noticed while compiling the Terminal Vibration anthology on Cheap Hotel, things that had been swirling in the background for some time before finally coming into focus. They all center around the idea of the 1980s as the decade when the liquid, telepathic grooves of … Continue reading Terminal Vibration: Melting Machines