HW: Tower records / chart stickers etc

Zeitgeist stuarthamilton at CONNECTFREE.CO.UK
Fri Sep 3 08:54:04 EDT 1999


> Dave Berry <daveb at TARDIS.ED.AC.UK>wrote
>At 13:33 02/09/99 , Zeitgeist wrote:
>>Well now, I was in the pub the other day with a friend of mine who is a
>>freelance music journo.  He handed over a copy of Select (a magazine I have
>>never read) to point out the good reviews of the reissues, and the 4*
>>review of the Epoch set.
>
>Woah, this is excellent news!  I assume you mean the recent re-issues, not
>the EMI ones?

Yup, the recent digipak ones.

>>the following day he was at an illegal rave
>>in Streatham where he suddenly realised that the "half hour of weird shit
>>he'd been freaking out to for several months" was in fact HW.
>
>Do you know which track(s)?  I'd be fascinated to know.

He know nothing about HW, but from the description there was a mix of
"Church.." era and early 90's ambient stuff, with what he described as a
"live fucked up bass thing".
>
>>So when I go back down to London next week I'm under instructions to have
>>several C90s worth of HW for him and his teenybopper friends to assimilate.
>
>How in space are you going to choose what to put on there?

Well, I'm spending Sunday on a train with a Discman and 20 odd HW albums,
but I suspect it'll be a mix of the above plus some of my own personal faves.

>
>I once did a set of tapes for a friend where I picked one track from each
>official album, which worked quite well.  I think I included two tracks
>from some albums (e.g. Assault and Battery/The Golden Void).
>
>Another approach might be an ambient tape, a blanga tape, a metal tape, and
>a pyschedelic tape (or something along those lines).  Or of course just
>pick the tracks that you like most.

This might be the way forward, but I'll be up all Tuesday night trying my
best!

>
>Dave.


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