What are you listening to, right now................
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Utah Saints: Synth Hero Mix
This month's selectors were once described by the KLF as "the first true stadium house band" and have had 9 Top 40 UK hits... the one and only U-U-U-Utah Saints. Enjoy!
TRACKLIST W/ NOTES BY UTAH SAINTS
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Quiet Life - Japan. Synths right the way through and the coolest singer and bass player in music. Heard this on the radio and it had a unique combo of disco synth and punk hair.
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The Things That Dreams Are Made Of - Human League. They were way ahead of their time and a big influence on the Utahs. It was always our aim to sample them one day and we did on our track “Believe in Me”. We met Phil many years later and he told us that us sampling him and making the track a hit had inspired them to go back in the studio and make music again.
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Don't Stop - K.I.D. He was presented as an Italo Disco artist in the early 1980s but was actually a pseudonym for a Yorkshireman (our home county) called Geoffrey Bastow. He was based in Munich and collaborated with Giorgio Moroder, Boney M and played guitar for Engelbert Humperdink!
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Cybotron - Clear. This track was recorded in 1982 by Detroit legend Juan Atkins and Richard Davies and was at the forefront of the electro sound. We first heard this on the legendary Streetsounds Electro Series.
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Your Love - The Prodigy. They started 6 months before us, and we used to meet them most weeks at different raves up and down the country. Liam is a true genius and has always stayed true to his art and never compromised and followed trends. He has always raised the bar in terms of production.
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Boogie Down Bronx - Man Parish. He was instrumental in defining the electro sound of the 1980’s and had a great knack of putting the funk into electronic music. This electro sound was instrumental in Tim getting a set of turntables around 1985 and staying in his bedroom learning to mix and scratch while all his friends went to the pub. He then went on to be a UK technics DMC semi-finalist in 1987
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It's Grim Up North - Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu. It's impossible to do a Synth Hero mix without including a KLF track. The J.A.M.M.s were so important and unique and opened the door for us and so many other electronic acts - unique pioneers. Plus we live up north :).
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Moskow Diskow - Telex. They were the Belgian trailblazers - a poppier answer to Kraftwerk at the time.
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Rhythm is Rhythm - It is What It Is. It would be a bit too obvious to put in Strings of Life in here but we couldn’t not put something in by Derrick May. As May demonstrates on this track, machines can have the funk and create soul and emotion in dance music. It is always really hard to mix his tracks in clubs as nothing was ever quantised when he recorded it, hence why it has so much soul.
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Friends of Matthew - The Calling. This track reminds us of going off each weekend to play at raves back in the 90’s and a time when people made records in their bedroom and pressed up 500 copies and put them out on white label. It also used a similar approach to sampling as we used in our early tunes as it sampled a very early Human League track - “ The Lebanon” and an old disco track by Dee D Jackson which came out in 1977 called “Automatic Lover”.
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Welcome to Paradise- Front 242. They used synthesisers as sonic weapons. Sheer power live and dance floor friendly industrial grooves on record. Also paved the way for taxi driver mohawks.
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Feel Me - Blancmange. First heard this late at night on John Peel- it had so much soul and energy as a dark pop song, with such a driving, simple baseline. We also brought our Roland 909 Drum machine off them!!
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Ghost Rider - Suicide. Arguably ahead of everyone - combining rock's' roll with cheap electronics using the common denominator - distortion and scary vocals. When Jez Utah started out playing in The Cassandra Complex they handed him a casio keyboard a "Suzz" (cross between sustain and fuzz) pedal, some gaffa tape and a Suicide album. Off he went.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@salacious-crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This should be in the thread of “Learning something New every day.”
I just learned Israel is in Europe.
As is Australia.
Eurovision is a complete and total shit way of creating an extra gay pride event
Didn't Eurovision predate gay pride events (well public ones at least).
Funnily enough, one of my mates who is gay went to Eurovision. Also, oddly, it's weirdly bigger here in Oz than I thought, I know (straight) people who have Eurovision parties to watch it.
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@sammyc said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Went to see Sepultura and Death Angel play last night in Christchurch
The best type of metal concert... fucking loud and angry. Saw 3 skinheads dragged out by security for fighting.
Awesome! I went to Sepultura when i was in High School and was completely intimidated!
Are they still awesome?
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@nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@salacious-crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This should be in the thread of “Learning something New every day.”
I just learned Israel is in Europe.
As is Australia.
Eurovision is a complete and total shit way of creating an extra gay pride event
Didn't Eurovision predate gay pride events (well public ones at least).
Funnily enough, one of my mates who is gay went to Eurovision. Also, oddly, it's weirdly bigger here in Oz than I thought, I know (straight) people who have Eurovision parties to watch it.
My wife attended a Eurovision party hosted by the Portuguese Embassy.
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@sammyc said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Went to see Sepultura and Death Angel play last night in Christchurch
The best type of metal concert... fucking loud and angry. Saw 3 skinheads dragged out by security for fighting.
Awesome! I went to Sepultura when i was in High School and was completely intimidated!
Are they still awesome?
fucking awesome... They play the kind of music that is 10,000 times better live than on CD.
best concert I've been to in years.
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Not the news Tool fans want to hear.
Tool: the ultimate timeline of new album Fear Inoculum
Tool's new album Fear Inoculum is nearly upon us – here's what they've been up to in the 13 years they've spent recording it
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@bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Not the news Tool fans want to hear.
Tool: the ultimate timeline of new album Fear Inoculum
Tool's new album Fear Inoculum is nearly upon us – here's what they've been up to in the 13 years they've spent recording it
yes, but the news we all actually expect.
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How have i gone this long without discovering Steel Panther? What a crack up!
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
How have i gone this long without discovering Steel Panther? What a crack up!
Obviously Steel Panther is a comical glam band but they have some talent. The lead singer Ralph Saenz (Michael Starr in this band) and guitarist were both in a Van Halen tribute band called the Atomic Punks. Saenz was brilliant singing the DLR songs.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Great sophisto-pop track.
so great, I have the "Walking on the Rooftops" LP, solid all the way through and totally sumptuous production. The follow up "Hats" was a bit more maudlin
They never really did 'uplifting' did they?
This is about the closest they got (I quite like this album as background music)
When that first album came out the production values were quite awesome. I remember using it as a tester when setting up PAs to check clarity (the good old pre-digital days when you did front of house by ear)
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Incredibly ob$cure. “Sussex” LP was released two months after Stooges debut and five months before Sabbath debut. Overall LP is a good blend of both, with a touch of V.U. Not a weak song on the album. Might be the apex of the indie underground stoner-rock genre, and imho vastly superior to Leaf Hound’s legendary “Growers of Mushroom,” even if the audio recording quality is much inferior being straightout heavy garage distortion acidrock slop.
Bent Wind – Going to the City, from the album 'Sussex’ (1969)
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@crucial One of the reasons it sounds so good is that their engineer worked for Linn HiFi. They formed a record label just to sign them. Pity it took 5 years to produce their second album. Must've sounded good on the old Sondek record player (CD was better and all the facts stack up that way).
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@sammyc said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Went to see Sepultura and Death Angel play last night in Christchurch
The best type of metal concert... fucking loud and angry. Saw 3 skinheads dragged out by security for fighting.
It's Christchurch. I'm not sure why you're mentioning this as if it's something unusual.
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