WINTER OF DISCONTENT
Extended review of the CD release of The Pop Group via Radar, titled We Are All Prostitutes from 1998, collecting key moments of the legendary political post-punk-funk band featuring Mark Stewart.
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Author: Flint Michigan
4-E
One area of electronic dance music that doesn’t seem to be being explored is a more fucked up and experimental use of the slow-break. Force Inc.’s Electric Ladyland series is an exception and one of its frequent contributors, 4-E, has been plying this approach over a series of releases.
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Dark… Darker… Dirty: Taxi Tracks
‘Darkness can be panoramic and searing enough to provide sufficient space for emotions other than those that are socially-sanctioned and saccharine. Satisfaction is not exhilarating… the attainable is uninteresting: at the end of Taxi Driver what are we to make of Travis Bickle’s glance into the rear-view mirror?’
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LISTENER AS OPERATOR
Press release text by Flint Michigan for Nomex’s Listener as Operator tape – originally in Datacide One 1997.
‘It is all reception. To listen is to go schizzy with possibility.’
This is the Way, Step Inside….
After having spawned the early acid-house LPs of 808 State and the early crossover pop-techno of a Guy Called Gerald, Manchester hasn’t been noted for providing the scene with much to get excited about. But then the first VVM releases arrived… Flint Michigan’s appraisal of the second release ‘Privileged Frames for Reference’.
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