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Format: CD Album
Released: Mon 11 Jun 2001
Catalogue Number: SOMACD25
ALIEN RADIO
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Description:
Glasgow's dance music pioneers release their second album 'Alien Radio' featuring Unkle, Dot Allison and Chicago's Tyrone Palmer.
This is the sound of Glasgow and Slam made it. Lock up your children.
"I have prayed at the altar of Slam. I have witnessed their eternal light. I have carried their message to heathen clubs. I have strayed from the path of righteousness and danced in the dark. Forgive me father but I cannot deny it. I have seen lights, and passing images, and even naked flesh. I have prayed at the altar of Slam - I have sinned." -- Stuart Cosgrove, Channel 4
It's a familiar fable. A story that spans three decades and three generations. Their elasticated base tones have touched the lives of everyone in Scotland's biggest city. They are the devilish duo responsible for Glasgow's techno city. Ex-NME hack, Channel 4's Stuart Cosgrove, might be pouting a load of old techno bollocks, but he is just one such infamous Scot who has been influenced by DJ Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle's twisted funk.
10 year's on and more than 100 releases after the classic debut 'Eterna' on the fledgling Soma label, Slam's Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan are set to release their greatest accomplishment to date, Alien Radio. With classics such as 'Stepback', 'Dark Forces' and 'Positive Education'; remixes that include Death in Vegas, Daft Punk and Underworld; debut album 'Headstates' and last year's critically acclaimed 'Past Lessons, Future Theories' mix CD already under their belt, 'Alien Radio' echoes the drive behind Glasgow's electronic house gurus. It's a venture into twisted dance music that nods its head to Detroit, jacks off to Chicago and hails the all consuming British dance music sound.
'Alien Radio' brings together friends, influences and experiences from the last decade's acid house exploits. Chicago's Tyrone Palmer, Dot Allison, Jazz drummer Paddy Flaherty, Unkle's James Lavelle,Synth kingpin and former Rosie Gain's producer Andy Gillespie. 'Lifetimes' featuring Tyrone (Felix Da Housecat vocalist on the infectious 'My Life is Music') is an end of nighter in the classic sense, already an 'Essential New Tune' with Pete Tong this cracker recently brought the house down at both the Soma Party in Miami and Bugged Out. Ensconced in Slam's trademark raucous bassline, which follows Palmer's falsetto vocals like an obsessive stalker, it's a recipe for dancefloor eruption. The title track 'Alien Radio' touches down like Drexciya on temazipan with scrambled electro-waves and funk fuelled rhythms. Meanwhile, 'Visions' with long time friend, Dot Allison is the album's understated hit. It's a unique fusion of sublime electro versus Cocteau Twins influenced dreamy vocals.
"Soma was the first label I signed to," remembers Dot. "I've always identified musically with Slam since their early acid house club in the late '80s, so it's great to come full circle and write 'Visions'. Slam's own mix of 'Narco Tourist' is a relentless club groover born out of a collaboration (their first since 'Close Encounters' on UFOrb) with James Lavelle's Unkle. Add to this Slam's itchy groovy 'Eyes of Your Soul' and 'Alien Radio' has all the Glasgow trademarks that make it such a unique city: driving power, esoteric soul and alien disco.
The last ten years have seen the Slam team fire ahead relentlessly with regular nights all over the city, including most memorably Slam at the Arches through to the present day's Freelance Science and Pressure. It's no surprise, that with a premiere roster of big name DJs, Slam are the only choice to produce the annual T-In The Park for 25,000 hedonistic revellers.
If the sound of France is filtered disco and London is dominated by sub-urban acid house inflections with more breakdowns than Frank Butcher; Glasgow is dark, funky, bass heavy, sweaty, writhing, sleazy techno, punctuated with house grooves.
"Going to a Slam night is an extraordinary clubbing experience," observes Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter "It contains the exact same thing that you can hear on Slam's 'Positive Education'. Spontaneity, energy, positive things. Soma, the label, Slam, the artists, Slam, the club, are really part of our family and we are grateful to those many unforgettable moments we spend with the crew in Glasgow."
Start praying. Slam are transmitting to a city near you.
Glasgow's dance music pioneers release their second album 'Alien Radio' featuring Unkle, Dot Allison and Chicago's Tyrone Palmer.
This is the sound of Glasgow and Slam made it. Lock up your children.
"I have prayed at the altar of Slam. I have witnessed their eternal light. I have carried their message to heathen clubs. I have strayed from the path of righteousness and danced in the dark. Forgive me father but I cannot deny it. I have seen lights, and passing images, and even naked flesh. I have prayed at the altar of Slam - I have sinned." -- Stuart Cosgrove, Channel 4
It's a familiar fable. A story that spans three decades and three generations. Their elasticated base tones have touched the lives of everyone in Scotland's biggest city. They are the devilish duo responsible for Glasgow's techno city. Ex-NME hack, Channel 4's Stuart Cosgrove, might be pouting a load of old techno bollocks, but he is just one such infamous Scot who has been influenced by DJ Stuart McMillan and Orde Meikle's twisted funk.
10 year's on and more than 100 releases after the classic debut 'Eterna' on the fledgling Soma label, Slam's Orde Meikle and Stuart McMillan are set to release their greatest accomplishment to date, Alien Radio. With classics such as 'Stepback', 'Dark Forces' and 'Positive Education'; remixes that include Death in Vegas, Daft Punk and Underworld; debut album 'Headstates' and last year's critically acclaimed 'Past Lessons, Future Theories' mix CD already under their belt, 'Alien Radio' echoes the drive behind Glasgow's electronic house gurus. It's a venture into twisted dance music that nods its head to Detroit, jacks off to Chicago and hails the all consuming British dance music sound.
'Alien Radio' brings together friends, influences and experiences from the last decade's acid house exploits. Chicago's Tyrone Palmer, Dot Allison, Jazz drummer Paddy Flaherty, Unkle's James Lavelle,Synth kingpin and former Rosie Gain's producer Andy Gillespie. 'Lifetimes' featuring Tyrone (Felix Da Housecat vocalist on the infectious 'My Life is Music') is an end of nighter in the classic sense, already an 'Essential New Tune' with Pete Tong this cracker recently brought the house down at both the Soma Party in Miami and Bugged Out. Ensconced in Slam's trademark raucous bassline, which follows Palmer's falsetto vocals like an obsessive stalker, it's a recipe for dancefloor eruption. The title track 'Alien Radio' touches down like Drexciya on temazipan with scrambled electro-waves and funk fuelled rhythms. Meanwhile, 'Visions' with long time friend, Dot Allison is the album's understated hit. It's a unique fusion of sublime electro versus Cocteau Twins influenced dreamy vocals.
"Soma was the first label I signed to," remembers Dot. "I've always identified musically with Slam since their early acid house club in the late '80s, so it's great to come full circle and write 'Visions'. Slam's own mix of 'Narco Tourist' is a relentless club groover born out of a collaboration (their first since 'Close Encounters' on UFOrb) with James Lavelle's Unkle. Add to this Slam's itchy groovy 'Eyes of Your Soul' and 'Alien Radio' has all the Glasgow trademarks that make it such a unique city: driving power, esoteric soul and alien disco.
The last ten years have seen the Slam team fire ahead relentlessly with regular nights all over the city, including most memorably Slam at the Arches through to the present day's Freelance Science and Pressure. It's no surprise, that with a premiere roster of big name DJs, Slam are the only choice to produce the annual T-In The Park for 25,000 hedonistic revellers.
If the sound of France is filtered disco and London is dominated by sub-urban acid house inflections with more breakdowns than Frank Butcher; Glasgow is dark, funky, bass heavy, sweaty, writhing, sleazy techno, punctuated with house grooves.
"Going to a Slam night is an extraordinary clubbing experience," observes Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter "It contains the exact same thing that you can hear on Slam's 'Positive Education'. Spontaneity, energy, positive things. Soma, the label, Slam, the artists, Slam, the club, are really part of our family and we are grateful to those many unforgettable moments we spend with the crew in Glasgow."
Start praying. Slam are transmitting to a city near you.
Details:
- Label: SOMA
- Discs: 1
Track Listing:
| 1. |
This Is
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| 2. |
Lifetimes
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| 3. |
Alien Radio
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| 4. |
Narco Tourists
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| 5. |
Visions
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| 6. |
Eyes Of Your Soul
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| 7. |
Positive Education
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| 8. |
Bass Addiction
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| 9. |
Virtuoso
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