Alex

Classic CT

Took me back. 80s in my case though

Class tune. He was a good producer. I think the white boy with dreads and the chart success of Higher State... turned him into a bit novelty act but he made plenty other good tunes. Another good one by him is Liquid Summer:

I like those two. The first one reminds me of Rez/Cowgirl by Underworld a little bit. Especially the bassline / acid squiggles. The second one is a lot like Speedy J (particularly on his Public Energy No. 1 album). I love a bit of Speedy J. He started off making more melodic stuff like on his G-Spot and Ginger albums then went more experimental with Public... and A Shocking Hobby. His last solo album (Loudboxer) is more 4 to the floor hard, fast, minimal techno. It's great. He seems to have stopped making music now as his last release was a collaboration with Chris Liebing nearly 10 years ago.

Aye, Bloated was a good night, especially for a techno night in Newcastle. It was while I was away at university so I usually only went during the hols but I went to a few. I was actually at that very one (the Alex Knight one). It was a monthly night, wasn't it? I also saw Weatherall there (by coincidence, since you've just mentioned him - loads of the Essential Mixes from back then were class as well) as well as Luke Slater, Jeff Mills and a pretty unknown Dutch lass who DJ-ed there who went by the name of Lady Aida. She was pretty cool. Nick Detnon was the resident wasn't he? As for the PWOG, I've got their History Of Psychick Phenomenon compilation which I like but I haven't listened to in a good while. I loved the techno scene in the UK at that time. I've heard of that Pure night in Ebo but I never made it up there. I used to go down to Club UK in Wandsworth for their Friday techno night called 'The Final Frontier' which was run by the Universe people who organised 'Tribal Gathering'. It was fucking mint. Three massive rooms of techno where basically everyone who was everyone used to play - Colin Dale, Colin Faver, Dave Angel, Ritchie Hawtin, etc., etc. Brilliant times.

When you think about how important the role of manager is (and how it's almost equally important that the manager is suported by able coaches) then it's ridiculous how little Ashley is prepared to spend on the manager / back room staff. Even more so when you consider what the likes of JFK and Wise were on for doing fuck all (or worse than fuck all in Wise's case).

Your memory's spot on as I bought Headstates on vinyl when it came out and it did indeed have a bonus double 12" Eterna / Intensities In-Ten-Cities. Loved the Ex:el Album In Yer Face was on as well. I'd never really thought about it but the synth is similar. 808 State were a brilliant act. Pacific is one of the best electronic tunes, which almost goes without saying. Another class tune (and one that never really got the credit it deserved) from the around the same time is Indulge by Neal Howard. Been listening to a lot of early deep house / melodic techno from that era recently.

That's a stone-cold classic, I love it. Proper hairs standing up on the back of your neck tune. Still got it vinyl somewhere and it's on the Soma 2002 10-year anniversary compilation too. Also on that was Eterna (also by Slam) which I think was the also first ever single on Soma. It's another brilliant tune from back in the day. Good DJs too. Edit:

His (one and only) outstanding attribute is his pace but his movement is absolutely abysmal. One goal in a canny few appearances doesn't exactly suggest he's an undiscovered striker either. @@Phil He was 22 when we signed him (he hadn't just turned 22 either) and he got plenty games when he first arrrived in the first half of that season - 18 league starts and without checking I would imagine most of those were before January. The crack was he was a 'Pardew signing' which would make sense given how persevered with him. He'll never be good enough as long as he's got a hole in arse and no amount of loan spells would've altered that. Pardew bringing him 'back into the fold' is an absolute joke.

Nice cover version that I like it though (love the original). Boddika is canny too. I really like Deepchord who are a smiliar-ish vibe. They're like an even dubbier version of Basic Channel. They did a really good album called Sommer which was on the Soma label (the deep house / techno label synonomous with top tunes which Slam set up years ago). Soma's a bit like Warp in that the label is a bit patchy now but back in the day you could virtually guarantee whatever came out on it would be shit-hot. Still get some excellent releases on it though, as Sommer demonstrates.

I prefer his older stuff like, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he was taking the piss with most of that recent stuff. It sounds like he is.

Considering Fish likes Jack Vettriano he's got a cheek. Also, RobW, you dirty old fucker.

The same lad (on another forum) who introduced me to The Room was going on about the trailers for Sharknado

I heard RobW's had ebola before. Twice.

Ken conspicuous by his absence in this thread

That's up there with your 'dab don't wipe' dictum.

It's always a good ploy if you want to sell a player to speak out in the press about how unprofessional he is. Reminds me of the genius hand Souness and Shepherd played when we got about 1/4 of what Bellamy was worth (that's not a direct comparison between the two players btw).

Haven't seen that before Superb. We should keep posting stuff this in here just to annoy the cineastes.

Something off the album to whet your appetite:

We should start this one again sometime and do a full Monty Python / Leazes Mag mash-up.

Do some research then get back to me.

Answer the question.

You see I've checked it out, heard those and thought 'meh'. No is generic deep house and Lyk U Use 2 is lightweight drum and bass. Not shite or anything but I feel a bit like it's a joke someone hasn't let me in on when people rave about how good he is.

How was I being argumentative then?