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early '94 pirate fave... a track that would stop me dead in my tracks when it came on the radio

technically came out in '93 but this is a tune I associate with the first months back in London, January February March '94, seemed to be on the pirates constantly 94, although it has 93 in the title

My last year living in the UK* Finally made it north of the river... living in Belsize Park... in a flat with dodgy electricals ... listening to the pirates in the kitchen and getting the occasional electric shock Jungle wasn't the only thing happening - there was so much going on in London...

Journos would get sent on trips - the papers couldn't afford to fly people to America or Europe. They might run to a train ticket to another city in the UK, but usually the record company would cover that too. This was so normal and widespread, that in practice it had the opposite of a...

i took it to be a not entirely reverential honorific

probably okay since the cigs bit doesn't apply, nor the alcohol really either too late to change now anyway

Same with tea actually. It has to be nearly scalding. You want to feel like there's a bonfire in your chest. Tea is an odd substance because there's this very narrow band between 'perfect temperature' and then all of sudden it's just warm, which is too much of a preview of the abjectness of...

Always preferred it piping hot. And then you keep topping it up to maintain at that optimum level. Ideally controlling the tap with your toe so that you can stay fully immersed Then there's that glum moment when the bath is as full as it can get but the temperature starts to go down and you...

It is - and of course I was really buzzed to see that (I think it was in Esquire or GQ, one of those "what are you reading / watching / listening" type listicle type things) Then, recently, I thought, "hmmm, why is it a warm bath?". Like, personally if I was to have a bath, I'd be wanting a...

I did like the first disc of 4 Hero's Two Pages, and probably nowadays would enjoy listening to that more than the harsher, mechanistic second disc, which I rated higher at the time of release. But that is 1998 I think, so maybe not post-98. There's hardly anything! Faint memory of buying a...

it's a minimalist statement. saying the essence is the drums and the bass and any "musical" coloration should be sparing So a good example of that to me (no idea if Nico Sykes would agree) would be peak era Roni Size + DJ Die, things like "Music Box" and "11.55" , or "Daylight", where there's...

"This is about the lack of music" is a great quote from Nico Sykes. Would that it had been heeded more...

He's wrong about "the no rules" bit, though. As the technical pages article on engineering the sound kind of indicates - there's parameters. Quite strict specifications. Standard talk for producers back then, of courses - "we can do anything!" Hmmm, no - please don't.

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