Archive For The “Club” Category

Material – Seven Souls (1987)

By | November 6, 2010

“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on

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Arthur Russell – World of Echo (1986)

By | August 21, 2010

A genuine oddity, cello, vocals and well, echo, this is as singular as it gets. Arthur Russell was the visionary genius behind Sleeping Bag records, a label that found favour with the genre hopping iconoclasts of the eighties club scene by fusing disco with the avant garde. This is a very different proposition, having more

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