Y'see, when these tapes came out I never correlated that a couple of years earlier i would have called all this "Industrial", therefore it was cool. In 1990 i would have dismissed it as Dance Music. But as it was on cassette and not 12" vinyl pressed in a Brixton front room to fulfill the requirements of the times,this remains a proto house artifact of an era when tape hiss was becoming sadly rarer.
When John Q. Public noticed that the great unwashed were dancing like the fools they were, he wanted to drop some MDMA and drive around the M25 all night looking to Parteh. It always happens. When the kids, en masse, get wind of something a la Mode, they destroy it like a dog rips his favourite ball apart. Although I'm assuming Acid House Rave culture was actually rated as "Good" for some persons out there; as far as myself was concerned, wasn't this just Disco on different drugs?...not that the stuff on this C-46 is actually Acid House,it could be pigeon-holed in the Proto-Rave slot quite comfortably.
However,yet rather disturbingly, someone called Amoeba does a version of Tubeway Army electro-pop classic'Are Friends Electric',whilst doing a bad impression of lisping middleweight Chris Eubank......this is certainly not Acid House and exceedingly unfunny.....I'm assuming he was actually trying to be funny? In which case I recommend fast-forwarding to track 9.
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"PROTO-RAVE"... mmm... I love that expression. It could be the name of a comic book supervillain from the 90's. Or a new pharmaceutical product against constipation...
Could be a constipated super-villan who flys on a jet of liquid shit?
I'm already visualizing it... Know what? I'm gonna summon Steve Ditko, and start working on it!!
good tape! I laughed when I heard the funny gary newman "cover" lmao. "Factory Floor" is a good dark ambient piece.
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