Via a cassette recording of the original session (hence the quality) and one or two hard drives, here are some unreleased tracks from...

A 1990 Peel Session by LFO. (.zip/.rar file)

LFO by LFO is one of the all time greats.
I have it as my ring-tone.

THERE

ARE

MANY

IMMITATORS

BUT

WE

ARE

THE

TRUUUUUUUUE

CREATORS...

WE'RE BACK

If there's one person I wish would knuckle down, get his shit together and produce another proper, first-rate album (rather then the collection of half-arsed noodlings that was 'Sheath') - Mark Bell, come on.

KM:

If you need a fix of that kind of stuff, there are a few acts you might want to check out, if you haven't already:

Anything with Gerald Donald and/or James Stinson in, particularly Dopplereffekt and Elecktroids. Here is a rather ace video for 'Scientist' by Dopplereffekt. Last night, while I was on an Electro binge, I was actually lucky enough to find a site from which I downloaded the whole of Elecktroids' 1995 album, 'Elecktroworld'.

Anything with Paul Browse in. Obviously mid-late Clock DVA, but also System 01, 030, etc.

At a stretch (since it's more lo-fi minimal), anything involving Roger Semsroth.


If DGLH or Mark E turn up here, I'm sure they'll have some other suggestions as well. I'm not so well-versed in the Detroit scene, you see.

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Last night, while I was on an Electro binge

You say this as if it's an unusual event.

Wow, thanks, man, this is great.

Worth checking Rob Young's book on Warp if only for the extraordinary letter LFO wrote to a Japanese fanzine in the early 90s. They sound like total schoolboys – writing in a "this is what I did on my holidays" style – and yet, they are writing about working with Kraftwerk. Truly an extraordinary juncture in electronic music, when electronica really was emanating from kid's bedroom.

Many thanks for posting these up, Clive, they're really good.

I would buy that Warp book if it didn't cost about €35.

Wow, that's a lot. Blimey.

Hieronymus of Hesselink wrote:

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Many thanks for posting these up, Clive, they're really good.

I would buy that Warp book if it didn't cost about €35.

It doesn't have to be that way ...as Andy Bell once sang. Amazon has some at lower prices - assuming that's the book you mean, of course. (Can't vouch for the postage, though.)

(edit: This, however is a little expensive - anything from £50 to £230+, depending on where you try). Very pretty, though.

diggedy derek wrote:

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Wow, that's a lot. Blimey.

It would be even more if the euro hadn't risen sharply in value against sterling during the past year.

Thanks for those prices Clive. The Warp book looks tempting at the equivalent of €18.

The price of that Designers Republic thing is hilarious. A few years ago I saw a hardback book about Luis Melendez (Spanish still life painter) on sale for stg£350 on Amazon. I wonder if these people ever get any takers.