Andrew Wetherall and Co S/D

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It's dawned on me that practically everything I hear affiliated with this man is fucking amazing. So many classic moments, particularly the Sabres of Paradise's "Haunted Dancehall" and Two Lone Swordsmen's "Tiny Reminders" amongst others are true electronic genius.

But what I'm looking for is individual tracks that are people's faves. You may include anything that is associated with Wetherall.

Here are a few to start things off:
Sabres of Paradise: Wilmot (of course!)
Two Lone Swordsmen: Akwalek
Radioactive Man: Uranium
Two Lone Swordsmen: Ivy & Lead
Primal Scream: Slip Inside This House

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

ma cousin Ned says "soon". or maybe tha's when he's payin' a visit?

Zeke Raggett, Monday, 20 January 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Search:

Beth Orton - 'Touch Me With Your Love' (single version)

also "Nine O'Clock Drop", if that counts.

Jeff W, Monday, 20 January 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"Slip Inside This House" is quite simply the best thing Primal Screen has done to date.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

'soon' the my bloody valentine remix
- yours for 30 quid if you can find a copy.

all the early 90's remixes are great -
mbv, james' come home, one dove etc.

still can't argue with the first 4 tracks off
prmlscrm's screeemadelikka. you simply cannot argue.
still. after all this time.

ramma lamma lamma fie fie fie...

piscesboy, Monday, 20 January 2003 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

he also pre-empted electroclash by six years

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Two great themed albums "Stay Down" and "Haunted Dancehall" ....

Oh, and let's admit it ... Smokebelch II is a fantastic track. Overplayed, cliche of course, but still, some people have based a career on a track like that.

"Higher than the Sun" of course,

Plus being the only person to help out Genesis P Orridge when he was banned from the UK : Classic.

phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

'soon' the my bloody valentine remix
- yours for 30 quid if you can find a copy.

bollocks to that - it's on this:

http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/v30.gif

and the rest of the album's well worth a look too.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

oh poo - can't we do .gifs? it's here anyway:

http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/v30.gif

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i give up. oh, and Haunted Dancehall is ace apart from the horribly mutilated "Wilmot" that never kicks in properly.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

His Hypercity Force Tracks mix shows his breadth and genius. I had heard some micro-house, but then Andrew Weatherall shows up and just drops thee seminal mix.

He's also unleashed Jagz Kooner on the world. A man who will be retrospected in the near future.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

err...how does radioactive man count as weatherall?

keith tenniswood and andrew weatherall are two different people, right?

arjun (arjun), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:16 (twenty-three years ago)

He's also unleashed Jagz Kooner on the world. A man who will be retrospected in the near future.

So true...offtopic to the max, but search Kooner's remix Electrelane's "Blue Straggler", it's fucking amazing.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

it's on 'keeping the faith'
the original 1991 creation dance compilation
if that's what those 2 f*cked links were about.

piscesboy, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like his remix of St. Etienne's "Only love can break your heart".

Michael B, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Something I've noticed about Kooner's work that i've never, ever experienced before, is that his remixes are more often a major improvement on the original. I could probably say this about the DFA as well.

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:46 (twenty-three years ago)

if that's what those 2 f*cked links were about.

no, I was desperately trying to pint to the Junior Boy's Own 1988-1998 - A Perspective compilation but my computer obviously HATES ME.

Anyway. Buy it. I think it's got Wevverall's St Et remix as well.

Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I definitely without a doubt second the Hypercity Force Tracks mix.

alex in montreal, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The Swordsmen's Haywire DJ sessions is the best Electro set that has ever grased my ears. Emissions to Warp it is all magnificent

Hayden (Hayden), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 08:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Radioactive Man's recently released 'Fabric 08' mix-CD is excellent.

stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Errr...how does radioactive man count as weatherall?

Hence it being Weatherall & Co.

I'm tempted by that Radioactive Man Fabric compilation at the moment, although I'm worried that it might be a bit polite and dull... care to elaborate Stevo?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Predominantly Electro orientated, but not 'polite' eg bass-heavy tracks such as New Twist's 'Together In The Dark'. More info + track listing here.

stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt, you can also check out Fabric's website which has short samples from the mix.

stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i quite like haunted dancehall,although i haven't listened to it all that much...
a virus with shoes is great,and i really like smokebelch 2 as well
oddly enough slip inside this house is one of my least favourite primal scream tracks,it wrecks my head
weatherall is an excellent techno dj as well
he's playing in dublin soon,hopefully i'll be able to afford to go along...

robin (robin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

No-one's mentioned 'Loaded' yet. Is it true that this was AW's first recording/mix/whatever and that he'd never even done anything in a studio before this? (I remember reading this fact/myth a long time ago).

robertw, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Is weatherall good yeah Robin? I'll probably go along to that alright cos I've heard he's great and Justin Robertson is there too, of whom I'm a big fan too.

Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i love Weatherall's old 'Heavenly Social' mix - esp. when he drops Gentleman Thief's 'Havana Twilight' and Jask's 'Freedom' - reely fuggin excellent choons (tho not even the best on there what with Marshall Jefferson's 'Mushrooms' and such)

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

two lone swordsmen 'stockwell steppas'
the holy ghost 'mad monks on zinc'
bocca juniors 'rise'

michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

thats 'raise' by bocca juniors isnt it? with '63 steps to heaven' in brackets too, heh

stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan-when i saw him before it was just when i was getting into techno,it was probably the second or third techno night i'd been to,and i thought he was excellent,but i dunno what i'd think now...
i'm looking foreward to seeing if he's as good as i remember,anyway...
he's played a few times since,i think,but i've missed them for various reasons...
friends who were into techno longer than me and have similar taste thought he was really good as well though,so i'd say he will be worth seeing,its just hard to tell cause last time i saw him i knew fuck all about techno,and it was probably one of my first times taking pills as well,which may have skewed my judgement...

robin (robin), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, er, a typo stevem. spotters badge for you, son.

michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...
I've just decided that the full single version of Sabres Of Paradise's "Wilmot" is the single greatest piece of music I've heard in the last 10 years. And yes, it's TEN YEARS OLD. Be afraid, people...

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 19 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

psychpsychpsychpsych!!!

Hearing the Swordsmen dj an hour of dub reggae and blend it so well with Wilmot and then some techno stuff at Reading Festival was the best dance experience I've ever had. I'd kill for a dub mix by them. Are there any available?

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 19 March 2004 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Peppered with Spastic Magic, the Two Lone Swordsmen remix compilation never reaches the heights of Sabres of Paradise, but gives one over to thinking what did the Texas and Starsailor fans think of TLS entire destruction of "Good Souls" and Put Y"our Arms Around Me."

All of the SoP crew are responisble for grebtness. Only this morning I was basking in the manifold glories of Disco Evangelists' "A New Dawn" featuring Jagz Kooner.

paul c (paul c), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Peppered with Spastic Magic, the Two Lone Swordsmen remix compilation never reaches the heights of Sabres of Paradise, but gives one over to thinking what did the Texas and Starsailor fans think of TLS entire destruction of "Good Souls" and "Put Your Arms Around Me."

All of the SoP crew are responisble for grebtness. Only this morning I was basking in the manifold glories of Disco Evangelists' "A New Dawn" featuring Jagz Kooner.

paul c (paul c), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Untitled, the Throbbing Gristle United cover.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

2LS - "Fifth Mission (Return to the Flightpath Estate)"

damn this is sooo good if you can find it. the tiniest blips, blurps, squeaks, bubbles, zaps and tinkles arranged into strange hybrids of electro, deep house and 70s film music. first disc highlights: "little did we know" / "the best of stealth", tiny percussion orchestras dropping deep, slow electro structures that gradually build irrestistible momentum. "slow drive west" / "enemy haze" are long beatless ambient meditations, the first built around an acoustic bass motif, the second around treated dubby electric guitar. "beacon block" / "paisley dark" / "branch brothers" just thrilling ambient electro with odd "soloing", sort of like prime atom heart run through the sabres filter, um, imagine the "haunted dancehall" material crossed with newcleus and the soft-focus electronics of early carl craig and you're sort of getting there.

vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

2LS - "Stockwell Steppas EP"

if there really was a british equivalent to german microhouse, rooted in ambient house instead of motorik this would be one if it's finest moments. sort of like french house with vast spaces where the kick drums should go, and shimmering textures with odd internal syncopations instead of filtered disco bits. oh, and xylophone solos, too.

vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...
paul c is right!! "peppered with spastic magic" is actually pretty good! much better than i'd imagined, and much better to my ears than either "tiny reminders" or "further reminders".

vahid (vahid), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)


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