ltd 2021 repress - back in the early 90s dave coker, justin bailey and laurant webb set up a music production studio a stones throw away from the famous cutty sark in greenwich, along with dave deptford pine as one the founders of the aforementioned studio. they called themselves strangeweather, worked on different dance music styles and formed the fabulously awesome, but slightly ill fated band wubble u. around the same time justin struck up a friendship with nathan coles, a then madly enthusiastic young dj who was starting to make a name for himself on the thriving underground house scene. nathan introduced justin to terry francis and the rest of the crew and collectively the formed housey doings. they released two records on the bush subsidiary imprint green grass and as if by magic tech house was officially born. fast forward a couple of years and the boys replaced the s with a ‘z and struck out on their own. this is a re-release of the first record on the label they named after the now legendary club night wiggle. two sides of proper, uk style tech house - a sound thats been copied, plagiarized and endlessly imitated. but never bettered
following on from his ep on livity sound, al wootton comes home to trule with the maenads ep. four percussive, textural rhythm tracks. sparse and weighty, psychedelic but focused, and scattered with dub echoes. als core influences of uk garage, techno, dub and drum and bass are organically reshaped into new forms that never lose sight of dance floor functionality.
b-stock! cover with seam split. vinyl unaffected & mint. a recontextualized hybridization of that which is familiar to create the foreign. using classic chicago, detroit and new york as a reference, i sought to explore new sonic possibilities while limiting myself to the classic machines and sounds of the era that inspired me to dedicate my life to this art-form.
dormancy is a mesh machine-like tweaks and dramatic themes that may have been inert until eddie hales songcraft forces it to stagger and sway with the synthetic rhythm. the title track begins with breathy synths and builds up its momentum with the bouncing beat. impulses is a dramatic dance floor track, fencing chords tangle with the rhythm that pulses constantly. bustling and elastic sound of variant 1 evokes the body to move along its excitable groove. the tensile theme of ju-6 never looses its cools with the stagger drums. jon hesters remix of dormancy keeps the overall theme but adding an old school approach as the track builds up with creamy synths juxtaposed with the clangy percussion.
the re-release comes in a new modified cover design - without punch-out and without printed innersleeves. whomadewho have truly succeeded on their mission to eschew convention. fusing pop and disco memes with punk paraphernalia, they now return with the sublime full length >brighter<. the new album operates as the missing link between the radical playfulness of the bands previous full-length >the plot< and the introspective focus of >knee deep<, bridging their early work with a newly founded sense of sincerity and musicianship..
before you can remember anything you are about to say to me i will tell you its time for a second round! why even bother searching for questions if ancient future already has the answers to them? delivered again in the form of four tracks by four different artists, this is number two! played & support by peter kruder, booka shade, larse, ed ed, kiki, andre crom, rainer trueby, vanilla ace and many more
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