Got a bit emotional reading this. History sems to be littered wuth moments where we were within a hairs breadth of a better society and then...well, look around. Tx
I was too young for raves but i did love the music, especially the Prodigy. Also i might start a campaign to make "Jizzlobber" this years Christmas number one 😂
Dublin in it's ecstasy era was such a great city: what a time to be alive, young and able to party for days... random convos in Dame St SparOG at club kicking out time while buying fags, ice pops and gum taking you to bangers of parties with strangers god knows where - and phones didn't have cameras! Good times, good times...
You're right, some of the old tracks bring you right back - not just to *that* euphoria bump but also to the feeling that this was the start of something (alas). It was techno that got me into punk and ska - to me at the time punk was ska but faster and techo was just both faster again.
Ah the Dalymount Park gig - we bought tickets because RHCP and well, we were 15. We still went, had a blast but TBH I didn't really appreciate the line up at the time. A few years later absolutely LOVED the Angel Dust album.
I can appreicate Aphex Twin but at the time my exposure to his music and that of Autechre - veered too close to my experience of gabba. I still have vivid memories of sitting on the stairs (I still remember the pattern of the carpet) at a party full of lovely Dutch people (OG Spar again) hammering it to the only type of music that made me viscerally feel like I needed to urgently vomit intensely willing the taxi I called to get me out of there and back home where I could put on radio 4 and mtv at the same time and sip gently on sugary teas till Iit was time to go to work...
The best thing I can say about Orgy's remake is that it doesn't make irrationally angry the way Frente's absolutely abysmal remake of "Bizarre Love Triangle" does.
Got a bit emotional reading this. History sems to be littered wuth moments where we were within a hairs breadth of a better society and then...well, look around. Tx
I was too young for raves but i did love the music, especially the Prodigy. Also i might start a campaign to make "Jizzlobber" this years Christmas number one 😂
My introduction to Aphex Twin was WIndowlicker which I still adore. I just worked backwards and forwards on his discography.
The history of X was really interesting!
Thanks for the recommendation, will give the Simon Reynolds book a try.
Tim - challenge69.substack.com
Oof, again with the memory hits Bernard!
Dublin in it's ecstasy era was such a great city: what a time to be alive, young and able to party for days... random convos in Dame St SparOG at club kicking out time while buying fags, ice pops and gum taking you to bangers of parties with strangers god knows where - and phones didn't have cameras! Good times, good times...
You're right, some of the old tracks bring you right back - not just to *that* euphoria bump but also to the feeling that this was the start of something (alas). It was techno that got me into punk and ska - to me at the time punk was ska but faster and techo was just both faster again.
Ah the Dalymount Park gig - we bought tickets because RHCP and well, we were 15. We still went, had a blast but TBH I didn't really appreciate the line up at the time. A few years later absolutely LOVED the Angel Dust album.
I can appreicate Aphex Twin but at the time my exposure to his music and that of Autechre - veered too close to my experience of gabba. I still have vivid memories of sitting on the stairs (I still remember the pattern of the carpet) at a party full of lovely Dutch people (OG Spar again) hammering it to the only type of music that made me viscerally feel like I needed to urgently vomit intensely willing the taxi I called to get me out of there and back home where I could put on radio 4 and mtv at the same time and sip gently on sugary teas till Iit was time to go to work...
I did say memories! :)
The best thing I can say about Orgy's remake is that it doesn't make irrationally angry the way Frente's absolutely abysmal remake of "Bizarre Love Triangle" does.