HW: Support bands #1 - a general approach

[ANDREW GARIBALDI]

Ah,  techno!!!! Or trance....or drum 'n' bass. Much maligned, some of it,
although fairly carpeted (most of it), but if you look for the good ones,
you'll find a lot of invention in the rhythm department, which is probably
the one aspect people have trouble getting their heads round - a rhythms
that 'sounds the same - bomp bomp bomp bomp - all the time' say many. I
thought 'Ritual Of The Solstice' not only shredded Hawkwind, it wasn't a
very good representation of the genre, and if this is all that Hawkfans have
heard,it's no wonder they supposedly hate techno (or whatever). Ambient
never really went away either, but if you want to hear an amzing track on
the trance side then check out the opening track called 'Guitar Slinger' on
the last but one album ("Mad Hatter's Acid Tea Party")  by Shamanic Tribes
On Acid - blow your head off!!!
Best rhythmic ambient album around right now? Has to be the new Banco De
Gaia album - fantastic!!
Andy Garibadi.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Medford" <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Support bands #1 - a general approach


> In message <005401c0480e$77b88fa0$8078a8c2 at xpnwjjkf>, Nick Lee
> <nick.lee2 at VIRGIN.NET> writes
> >>read somewhere that yechno/trance group "eskimos and egypt" have
supported
> >>hawkwind.
> >>
> >>anyone confirm this ??
> >>
> >>colm
> >>
> >I've seen 'em sometime or another, I pretty sure.  A HW gig is a pretty
> >likely candidate!
>
> I've seen 'em too, but it wasn't with Hawkwind, it was at one of the Club
> Dog nights at the Rocket on Holloway Road. Can't remember who else
> played there that night, possibly System 7.
>
> Thought E+E were pretty good live but when I later heard one of their
> records it didn't capture the intensity of the live sound at all. Don't
know if
> they're still around as this would have been about '93.
>
> I'm surprised that so many HW fans profess an aversion to all things
techno
> as the Hawks have undoubtedly influenced- and been influenced by- the
> more psychedelic end of the scene. Granted a lot of poppier electronic
> dance music is crap, but that's true of most pop music, n'est-ce pas? Mind
> you the sound system at Brixton was pretty irritating, what with the noise
> pollution spilling into the main hall every time anyone went in or out.
> Didn't notice this at all during Hawkwind's set but after moving further
back
> for Tim Blake it became quite intrusive at times. Also- the people who
> spent all their time out there- why?? You have the world's best band
playing
> a unique reunion show, and you choose to listen to a DJ all night? Wake up
> and smell the quarks!!
> --
> Nick Medford