Beaumont Hannant – Mind Colours

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

Ambient Saturday. Epic shimmering shoegazy business, old fashioned but very nice. Taken from 1993 album Texturology on GPR.


Download: Beaumont Hannant – Mind Colours

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Air Liquide – This Is Not A Mind Trip

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

This tune is firmly in the embarassing acid trance category, and would inspire me to do a big fish-little fish dad dance in the right circumstances. The bit where the 303 comes in is one of ‘those bits’. The lady’s voice is a bit dated though.

Air Liquide was a duo, also known Jammin Unit and Walker, from Cologne. In the early-mid 90s, I was a massive fan of the acid techno sound of Cologne. Other proponents of this sound included Mike Ink (aka Wolfgang Voigt). Jammin Unit and Walker put out loads of tunes under a variety of aliases on labels like Djungle Fever, Force Inc and Casper Pound’s Rising High, a lot of fast stuff with distorted 303s. Some of it hasn’t weathered well and just sounds like a bit of a racket nowadays. Air Liquide I think was very much a live set and album project, with a lot of ambient tunes and more experimental sounds.

Dr Walker put out a few new Djungle Fever releases 10 years ago which were pretty good, but then he seemed to disappear again. Probably being a techno dad somewhere I expect…

Download: Air Liquide – This Is Not A Mind Trip (Live At Love Parade 1994)

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Dad Dancing: Actual Dad Dancing

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

A techno dad who calls himself only Clom stepped up to the challenge and sent in this clip of a middle aged Turkish man with a tache dancing to dodgy rave music surrounded by doilies. I think it’s one of those internet memes that people used to watch at work before the Tories took power and made everyone redundant, meaning you can now watch it at home. It might make you chuckle a little while you try to scrape together a few morsels of low quality soap bar before you slouch down to the dole office.

This is not a more embarrassing example of dad dancing than Phil Mitchell on crack, I’m afraid. However, I’m pretty sure Phil Mitchell is fictional. This guy is real.

I do think he kind of knows how embarrassing he is though. A true dad dancer loses himself in the moment.

There is a raving baby in the corner. But why are there two TVs?

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The Fall – Lost In Music

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

If you don’t know The Fall’s music, this one might surprise you, especially if you saw the Mark E Smith performance at Glastonbury I posted the other day.

It’s a really well done psychedelic cover of the Nile Rodgers disco classic Lost In Music by Sister Sledge. It was on the 1993 album The Infotainment Scan. It’s super good. Especially the bit where the whole sound kind of changes, you’ll see what I mean when you listen.

The Fall – Lost In Music

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How To: Make Acid

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

In 1994 Mike Ink had amazing hair. He still has amazing hair today.

In this clip, Mike Ink demonstrates how to make acid using a 303 and a 606 sitting on top of a couple of washing machines with rubber gloves glued onto them. Youth TV was better in 1994. At least it was in Germany.

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Sperminator – No Women Allowed

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

This is a monster, this tune. The bit after the scream when it fully kicks in is massive.

It was released on Rotterdam Records in 1992, just before gabba sped up to the point where no dad could possibly dance to it. This is still just within the dad dancing range I think, though you’d definitely look more than a bit silly trying.

I like the fact that the cover of the record has a typo on it – it says ‘No Woman Allowed’ when it should say ‘women’.

Sperminator: No Women Allowed

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Dad Dancing: Mark E Smith with Gorillaz at Glastonbury

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor


Damon’s face says it all really. ‘Oh my God, I’ve let a jakey on the stage.’

Back in the Bungo I was doing my fat little dad dance. Finally something a bit punk in the blandathon which is the BBC TV version of Glasto. Mark E Smith swaggers on with one black leather glove looking like the Mancunian Gestapo, looking totally nonchalant, like he does this every week. First he steps up to the wrong mic. Then he tries to make it look like he always tries to sing into the wrong mic just as a warm-up. Then he reads his lyrics off a bit of paper. And Damon looks a bit worried.

Looking at the clip again though, it seems to me like the reason Damo is freaking out is actually because they have an air raid siren on stage and someone has forgotten to mic it up, cos you can’t hear it in the mix. That would piss me off as well. An air raid siren on the Pyramid stage is a cool idea.

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Eon – A Kind Of Living (Green Icing Mix)

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

Eon was responsible for some of UK dad techno’s most distinctive tunes, very much carving out his own path with film soundtrack sampling, big filthy beats and huge synth lines – absolute classics like Dune-sampling Spice and Fear: The Mindkiller, and the ludicrous Basket Case, which has the silliest hoover noise ever committed to vinyl. I will post that one in future actually – I have all three of those singles on vinyl, fact fans. Eon was Ian Loveday who sadly passed away a couple of years ago.

For today though, this is a more restrained housey track with a lovely warm analogue bass riff. I think Baby Ford was involved somehow.  Taken from a CD I used to own (no idea why I didn’t have the vinyl), Eon’s 1992 album Void Dweller, which was released on the often fabulous early UK rave label Vinyl Solution. J Saul Kane (who was I think the label boss?) also had some input to some of these productions.

In case you are wondering if there is any logic to my selections – the answer is no.

Eon: A Kind Of Living (Green Icing Mix)

 

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Dad Cast #1: Cosmic Winter Mix

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

Dad Cast #1 is a mostly disco mix assembled by a Glasgow-based Techno Dad. He was attacked by rotavirus while assembling it. What fun!

I’m sure some people might do a chubby disco dad dance to this. I certainly have.

DOWNLOAD: Cosmic Winter Vimiting Discomix

Tracklist

Wevie Stonder – Eggnition
Began Cekic – Change
Funkatarium – Jump
Sugardaddy – Love Honey (Greg Wilson edit)
Louis Chedid – Hold Up (Losoul edit)
Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20 (Glimmers mix)
Rockers revenge – Sunshine (Greg Wilson edit)
Shit Robot – Take em up (Marcus Marr remix)
Mungolian Jetset – Moon Jocks and Prog Rocks (Todd Terje remix)
The Sjukt – Ghost In The Machine
Superpitcher – Rabbits In A Hurry
Phenomenal Handclap Band – Tears (Stallions remix)
Ooft! – In Search Of Ecto One
Atom Tm – MC Unknown
Tyree – Acid Over
Grinderman – Worm Tamer

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Dad Dancing: Phil Mitchell on Crack

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Doctor Doctor Doctor Doctor

I challenge anyone to find a more embarrassing example of dad dancing than this. Phil Mitchell is bad enough just on his own, with his bright red potato head, not to mention having Ross Kemp as a brother. And now here he is smoking crack and dancing to The Who. Embarrassing.

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