I bought this CD at Record Rack on my first return visit to Houston, back in 1996 or so. Bruce, the owner, recommended it to me and it laid the groundwork for much of my musical influences of the late 90s. This CD single-handedly pointed my musical tastes towards electronic and drum & bass and away from ambient and Britpop.
It introduced me to Fluke, Future Sound of London, Photek, Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Daft Punk. Daft Punk’s Musique was the first I had ever heard from (or of) them and it would be a full two years before their debut album dropped. And another nine years before they would become the darling of the middle school set with Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Fluke’s Atom Bomb was featured and introduced me to their following (and fourth album) Risotto with its beautiful track Kitten Moon.
Sadly, none of these tracks ever made it into my iTunes library until today.
1. We Have Explosive The Future Sound of London 6:14
2. Atom Bomb Fluke 7:57
3. Loops of Fury The Chemical Brothers 4:41
4. Tin There Underworld 5:00
5. The Third Sequence Photek 4:48
6. Leave Home (Underworld Mix 1) The Chemical Brothers 5:14
7. We Have Explosive (Herd Killing) The Future Sound of London 5:42
8. Firestarter (Instrumental) The Prodigy 4:39
9. V Six Fluke 5:19
10. Musique Daft Punk 6:51
11. 2097 Source Direct 5:35
12. Titan Photek 5:58
13. P.E.T.R.O.L. Orbital 5:49
14. Afro Ride Leftfield 4:24
iTunes Match matched tracks 1, 3, 8 & 10; the others were uploaded.
Fantastic sleeve design printed in what appears to be a 6/6 print run (CMYK + 2 Metallic spot) by The Designers Republic.
It’s actually a Tuesday. But I have the next two days off so it’s my Friday. Hello Weekend!
So what do I plan to do with my weekend? Nothing exciting. I’m hopefully going to finally get unpacked from my move-in four months ago. There are still some boxes lying around that I haven’t even opened yet, and some furniture needs to have some placement decisions made. Plus coffee and laundry, of course.
The Andy Warhol Diaries are available in epub for free at this link. Better hurry and grab it, this link may be taken down. I remember barreling through this massive book (850 pp) back in the early nineties. It was awesome. I remember keeping an index of whenever any member of DD was mentioned. Sample:
Saturday, October 10, 1981
I wanted to see Duran Duran at the Savoy because their videotape was so good, it’s called “Girls on Film.” When I got there the first band was still on. Duran Duran are good-looking kids like Maxwell Caulfield. And then afterwards they wanted to meet me so we went backstage and I told them how great they were. They all wore lots of makeup but they had their girlfriends with them from England, pretty girls, so I guess they’re all straight, but it was hard to believe. We went to Studio 54 in their white limo and Steve Rubell was really nice to them. He took them to the booth and gave them drinks. Ran into old friends, met a bunch of new kids and got home at 5:00 (cab $5).
Day Two here and still writing!
Today was a busy day at work so upon coming home I immediately took a nap. Or two.
Well it’s happy new year. Some say it will be our last year. For some I’m sure it will be. For others, not so much. Start planning.
I’m surprised that I’ve even remembered my passwords to this here site thingie. I’ve been remiss. I like to blame that on the fact that my mobile WordPress apps won’t communicate to the blog (which is true) but there is really no excuse for not sitting down here and typing this shit out. Maybe I can put a little blame on my old computer RIP ELROY II but there wasn’t an issue there either; the internet connection worked just fine and who needs quad-core power when you’re simply typing? Quad-core power is what I have now, btdubs. And it’s awesome.
So there.
Being the first day of the year and all, I’m putting forth a challenge to myself. Hopefully this will not end up like the failed 100 Words initiative. This is a big one: to write something, anything, on here every day of 2012. Yes, that’s 365 366 entries. Who’s got faith?
I’m finding that owning a new iMac means a lot of time spent in front it, playing around and investigating around. I guess these are things that I hadn’t done too much of recently maybe because it was a chore or things just weren’t as zippy (read: fun) with a six-year-old computer. RIP Elroy II, you will be sorely missed. But now that things are zippier and whoosh and wow I’m spending some time here instead of pinchin’ & swipin’ & zoomin’ on my iPad. It’s all good.
Right now I’m blasting Kylie’s “Fever” album in its entirety from my iTunes. Partly because I’m sitting here (as stated earlier) and partly because I’m trying to give the inconsiderate neighbors a taste of their own medicine. As I’m listening, I’m realizing I haven’t listed to this album in a long time because of the boyfriend that I (sadly) associated this music with. All the songs had a certain meaning at that time and now it’s nice to listen to them in a new light. And Cathy Dennis’ production in this album is totally top notch. It’s nice to hear her influences in here. Maybe next on the decks will be a little Miss Dennis? I’ll have to check and see which songs of hers made it into my iTunes library, as I have yet to unpack all of my boxes which contain mostly CDs. #sigh
Update: “Why” and “Touch Me” were the only holdovers.
Today is a half day off.
I’m enjoying my new iMac, for after six years my old G5 gave out. I think I definitely got my money’s worth on that one. So I’m running this new one through its paces, lots of apps open and testing its limits. Haven’t reached them yet, it’s nice.
Just received some insider information. Can’t spill quite just yet. But I think it’s good.
it’s hard to me to close this window