nick.K - rest in peace

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this just doesn't compute.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I have nothing to add (though I've got a little tribute up at my blog, second obit there in three weeks - that just isn't right), really. We exchanged emails just a few weeks ago. We had grand schemes on tap for 2005. RIP, Nick.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.failme.net/

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

christ
i didnt know nick but i've read many of his posts both here and on dissensus over the years,he was always remarkably enthusiastic-loads of stuff ive got into over the last while has been thanks to his site,and i loved that he had this desire for people to music that was important to him,i suppose the fact that he managed to influence my listening without ever meeting or even emailing him is testament to that...
r.i.p

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i think it's remarkable how many people here have stories of Nick saying "let's do this" or pushing for x or y and then they/us/we failing to match his energy. after one pretty crazy night very early during my stay in london, probably september 2003, he was riling us all to go to some "late night intelligent techno" and i passed

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link

This has been affecting me more than I might have expected -- this thread's showing that opportunities were lost (I'm very annoyed with myself on that front -- I feel like someone who didn't so much look a gift horse in the mouth as I do someone who never fully appreciated that there was a gift there to start with) and now one of the strongest feelings is regret.

And perhaps perversely but understandably that makes me think of the N.O. song, probably just because of the new album and all, and even though the song describes a much different situation I keep thinking of the final lines:

Just wait till tomorrow
I guess that's what they all say
Just before they fall apart

Death freezes moments, doesn't it? An era, a conception, a time will now always be harkened back to via this.

Apologies for rambling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

it's freezes this and yet it changes all of those things too. Last Exit (the track especially but the whole record) seems weighted down with so much more meaning than before. I suppose that track always seemed to have much more depth than you could easily grasp at. i wish i could express it more clearly.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said, this seems terribly unreal.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh God. This is so shocking. Gabba was the first MP3 blog I discovered, and the one or two correspondences I had with him, he seemed a great, highly enthusastic guy.

Fuck.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

So was he the owner of Electrokin?

This is sad...I just realized he was the "Nick" on the back of my junior boys promo ("contact nick@electrokin.com")

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick's energy reached so many of us. always looked forward to meeting face to face someday in the UK. condolences especially to those closest to him.

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe more than any other person or internet
'persona' ive ever encountered, i associate him with a sheer love of music. he represents that to me

so otm. rip.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I just wanna say that nick.k made me love music so much more after I discovered gabba and how to raid his slsk files.

Thanks for that, Nick.

― Brent P, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link

'Oh, if I had imagined him still in such distress, surely I might have done something to help him!' - So often the regretful remark of one's friends, when one has been permitted to perish.
(Gissing, New Grub Street, chapter 36)

And I am as culpable, if not more so, than anyone else.

How much more shit is going to happen this year? HOW MUCH MORE?

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link

RIP. i want to listen to last exit but don't think i'd be able to...

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i just heard about this a few hours ago from yanc3y. i am so so sorry. i didn't even know him hardly at all, but this makes me so very sad. RIP Nick.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

RIP Nick - the few times I met him he was really really supportive and enthusiastic, he came to the first ever ILM meet-up and sat there scribbling down every record anyone mentioned. Horrible, horrible news.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link

This is absolutely horrible news. When I saw him on Thursday he seemed on great form, and I was hoping this would be the start of us seeing him a lot more again. This has knocked me for bloody six.

― Sarah C, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone know what happened? I hope I'm not being too forward in asking...

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, this is nuts.

Anyone whose EVER been on thee ol' slsk and has any interest at all in electronic music knows the Nick.K

Fuck, christ ... I have slsk up right now, and, ... I am looking at my user list ... and I see that Nick.K

and I see his name accompanied by that red, closed-wing bird icon ... fuck fuck fuck

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i have only read his posts here, but i've learnt to appreciate you guys over these years, and i can't help but feel really sorry to know nick's not here anymore. RIP

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I only met him once, at a FAP. He was dishing out various CDs. I think I remember him giving Tom a Boom Bip CD. I remember thinking that he seemed a genuinely nice and generous guy. RIP, Nick.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link

it's terribly sad and an incredible waste.

― stelfox, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

My condolences to his family and friends.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

god, that's awful....only knew him from his posts on dissensus and obviously from gabba.net, which was such a fantastically generous thing...RIP

― Owen Hatherley (owen), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

big up jacob: http://www.gabba.cc/

keep doing what you do best dude (goes for everyone)

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 13:18 (nineteen years ago) link

thoughts from the blogosphere:

Technorati Search Results: nick kilroy
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=nick+kilroy

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Respect and condolences.

― cottoncandyhammer, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck! I didn't know him, but a friend I work with was, and I just went over to give him the bad news. :-(

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe this has happened. He's been one of the most important people in my life the past year, as a close friend and working with me on stuff for KIN. I got a huge e-mail from him on monday full of ideas of how to go forward with everything, we had plans to releas an ep this spring, it was finally coming together after so much work. We spoke everyday, I mean I called him several times tuesday morning because I was suprised I didn't hear back. I guess I'm still really in shock about this. RIP

― Johnny Dark, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Much love to his family and friends.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

RIP. best wishes to his friends and loved ones.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

rip nick

― tron, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.electrokin.com/images/zabriskie/whjyt.jpg

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

If one of his friends wants to e-mail me I'd really appreciate it. I'm having a really hard time with this.

― Johnny Dark, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

his photos are lovely. they used his cover art for the japanese release, too. beautiful:

http://www.neoplex.co.jp/img_j/juniorboys_j.jpg

rest in peace, sir. the mark you made on music can only be described as indelible.

― david day (winslow), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I woke up this morning feeling terrible. Still really cut up about this. RIP Nick

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking about him this morning waiting for the bus -- I had to wait a little while longer than usual and so took a walk around a local park in the coolness right before the sun peeked over the hills. I wondered what his photographic eye would have made of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I haven't met all that many ILXers, but I met Nick at a FAP (probably same one Dr.C mentions). He came across as friendly, cool, enthusiastic. And gabba.net was a great Project (which I leeched on regularly in its early days). That Junior Boys post just made me tear up. RIP.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

some of those photos are quite beautiful

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Johnny, I'd mail you if I could but I can't log into ilx to actually see your email address. I hope you get through tonight - one step at a time, ok? Although I didn't know Nick very well at all I'm still shaken up so I can imagine you must be having a hard time.

― Sarah C, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

looking over his photos, which i've always found haunting, has been endowed with a chilling resonance. somehow they seem so much more personal now. they are beautiful.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn’t know him at all, never talked to him, but now I feel as though I should have, that I missed out on a lot.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I only really knew of Nick through visiting gabba, taking an interest in the Junior Boys and seeing his words, name and - I suppose - influence here and elsewhere online.

It's been a bad year for the left field.
RIP - and thoughts with those of you who knew him that bit better.

― coco, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

oh god, no. I only talked to him briefly at Club FT but assumed I'd be able meet him properly in the future... this is horrible. condolences to all who knew him well, and RIP.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

fucking sad. :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

this is unbelievable.

― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

not fair. at all.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

--RIP Nick--

― Bjaltt, Wednesday, 9 February 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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