I like the fractal tree. Very bauhuaroque!
Yeah, did Jim put that up? I thought it was specific to the Shamen's album Axis Mutatis.
I loved the Shamen, though I never had much luck selling 'em to anyone else. They were (I think they're more or less defunct) a cool British (Scottish, really) band that bridged pop, techno and psych-revivalism in the 80s and 90s. They were hitmakers in the UK, and big in clubs here. They had too much new-agey positivism and sloganeering to appeal to much of the US indie scene, but they got deeper as they went along. They became McKenna acolytes, and he's on the Boss Drum record. The ecstasy anthem Move Any Mountain actually made it to network TV (no deep text readers there).
The Wheel may remember seeing them live with me at Limelight around 91 or 92. It was my first Techno experience, and it was too weird. The club was packed with bad boys from Brooklyn and their guido girlfriends, with only a few heads on hand. Moby, unknown beyond the club scene, opened. I'd never heard or seen anything like it. I realized that this was the hardest music going, way beyond Hardcore Punk at that point. The Shamen weren't actually very good live, but the show was a landmark experience for me.
now that you re mind me i re member, moby opened good, glad i saw them too:>)
actually that early limelight techno rave stuff is very well poised for a (mini) comeback, IMHO
i played "Dominator" out recently and the kids loved it. also "Everybody in the place" by the Prodigy...silly and awesome
The Shamen were good--but I'm not surprised to hear that their live act wasn't. They were one of a handful of rave/techno acts that charted in the U.S. in the early '90s, years before the big failed push to make techno marketable later in the decade. Could you even hear Mr. C (the rapper) over the synthesizers?
Others from that earlier time were Opus III, Messiah (featuring a Richard Dawson sample from Running Man: "Who loves you and who do you love? It's time to start...RUNNING"), 808 State, and U-U-U-Utah Saints (sampling Kate Bush).
I just heard that Moby is playing at the Olympics closing ceremonies.
The artist who made the Tree of Life image is William Latham.
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- tom moody 2-21-2002 10:13 pm
Yeah, did Jim put that up? I thought it was specific to the Shamen's album Axis Mutatis.
I loved the Shamen, though I never had much luck selling 'em to anyone else. They were (I think they're more or less defunct) a cool British (Scottish, really) band that bridged pop, techno and psych-revivalism in the 80s and 90s. They were hitmakers in the UK, and big in clubs here. They had too much new-agey positivism and sloganeering to appeal to much of the US indie scene, but they got deeper as they went along. They became McKenna acolytes, and he's on the Boss Drum record. The ecstasy anthem Move Any Mountain actually made it to network TV (no deep text readers there).
The Wheel may remember seeing them live with me at Limelight around 91 or 92. It was my first Techno experience, and it was too weird. The club was packed with bad boys from Brooklyn and their guido girlfriends, with only a few heads on hand. Moby, unknown beyond the club scene, opened. I'd never heard or seen anything like it. I realized that this was the hardest music going, way beyond Hardcore Punk at that point. The Shamen weren't actually very good live, but the show was a landmark experience for me.
- alex 2-21-2002 10:52 pm [add a comment]
now that you re mind me i re member, moby opened good, glad i saw them too:>)
- Skinny 2-22-2002 3:10 pm [add a comment]
actually that early limelight techno rave stuff is very well poised for a (mini) comeback, IMHO
i played "Dominator" out recently and the kids loved it. also "Everybody in the place" by the Prodigy...silly and awesome
- big jimmy 2-22-2002 11:29 pm [add a comment]
The Shamen were good--but I'm not surprised to hear that their live act wasn't. They were one of a handful of rave/techno acts that charted in the U.S. in the early '90s, years before the big failed push to make techno marketable later in the decade. Could you even hear Mr. C (the rapper) over the synthesizers?
Others from that earlier time were Opus III, Messiah (featuring a Richard Dawson sample from Running Man: "Who loves you and who do you love? It's time to start...RUNNING"), 808 State, and U-U-U-Utah Saints (sampling Kate Bush).
- tom moody 2-22-2002 4:48 am [add a comment]
I just heard that Moby is playing at the Olympics closing ceremonies.
- alex 2-23-2002 1:05 am [add a comment]
I can easily imagine Moby entertaining the US troops in Iraq when the time comes.
- steve 2-23-2002 8:34 am [add a comment]
The artist who made the Tree of Life image is William Latham.
- alex 2-23-2002 1:17 am [add a comment]