Them Sugar Hill Gang bangers got everywhere in the 80's didn't they? Here replacing Grandmaster Flash with erstwhile lead screecher from The Pop Group, Mark Stewart. No subtlety here from absent lovers rock producer Dennis Bovell, who dubbed up The Pop Group's debut LP "Y" six years earlier, not with Adrian Sherwood at the controls there ain't. It's all there,distorted max feedback tape echo, Keith LeBlanc's thudding and crashing electro-industrial style drum samples, William S. Burroughs croaking his control data parables, and Mark himself spouting his sixth-form Politics of paranoia. An alternative left-field classic spouting some forgivable soap-boxing, and various things of the Pissed-Off variety.
There was even a time that I would even suggest that this was my favourite album!?...but tech fatigue, and a strong miners strike allergy, forced me to look elsewhere for my mashed up dance rhythms.....but... HEY!....don't let that put you off. Nowadays this stands out like a shiny beacon of joy in these post-music days. Everything produced since the turd of the century is at best pointless, and at worst, totally human free, shat out by robots for a blank generation breast fed on very similar sounding short meaningless bursts for (south)Korean-a-like clones with zero rated attention spans dancing to their own AI chosen algorithms.
Mark Stewart would explain it all for you, but he's Dead. The best I can do is post this LP as the veneer of Democracy fades to shit to the sound of the Auto-tuner.
Tracklisting:
2 Bastards
3 The Resistance Of The Cell
4 Untitled
5 As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade
6 Pay It All Back
7 Hypnotised
8 Slave Of Love
9 The Waiting Room
10 Hypnotised (remix)
11 Dreamers
Interesting this one... I always liked Mark Stewart, especially when he was doing his thing with The Mafia. Saw them perform in Rotterdam, must've been in 1983, super heavy dub music, an excellent concert and maybe this doesn't make any sense, but I always saw Mark as the guy that Nick Cave kind of build his persona on (post Birthday Party). I also remember an interview with him where he said that he actually hated performing, that he much preferred just staying at home, reading books :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, the guy that Nick Cave wishes he could be. He was always singing the appraisals of the Pop Group was Cave......i always regret missing the Pere Ubu, Pop Group, Good Missionaries(ATV) gig at my local university.
DeleteWell primarily i think Cave would sooner be Jack Kerouac,or one of thouse twats whot wrote the Bible.....olde Testament of course.
Also always a fan of anyone who refuses to be a performing Monkey....like cave always is.....yup i don't like him.
Well, if yer gonna post something ‘honoring’ the 4th of July, I can't think of a better choice. There's what we want to believe, and there’s the reality of what there is.
ReplyDeleteWell, funnily enough I had not a single thought for honoring the 4th of Ju-lie, it just appeared fully formed from the Cosmos, a sort of subconscious cosmic-ordering....next i'm gonna cosmic order an assassin who can shoot straight.
DeleteWell, we have that in common then :) You probably know that he was an invited guest to the coronation of Sausage Fingers and I saw an interview after that where he was talking about his life long love for that fucked up family... Twat... Yeah, that performance with the Birthday Party I saw, around '83 or so was great but they made us wait for like 2 hours and then only played for 15 minutes, a small riot broke out.... And him being the MC at one of the Pandora Festivals in Rotterdam, '84 I think, where they had to carry him off he was so out of it, didn't come back until the next night where he sang two songs with Die Haut so he probably got paid for that... Kerouac he ain't :)
ReplyDeleteSince the cosmos is apparently listening to you these days....
ReplyDeleteGets that through Cosmosis. Takes years to master!
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