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turning myself into a nomadic Gang
Gang Dance devotee at the late age Because it is still closely tied to
of 47… (I haven’t … yet.) I find myself
ranting to whoever will listen that GGD
the body, to dance, to sexuality,
is “THE” music of our time – they are
to this decade a what Future Sound
of London’s epic ‘Life Forms’ double-
ecstasy and altered states. Music,
LP was to the mid-nineties and what
Floyd’s ‘UmmaGumma’ was to the early because it MOVES.
70s i.e. planetary status reports in audio
and visionary travelogues transcribed
into beat, melody and texture. …
How they capture, no, CHANNEL, the
and gave me a big hug. It was weird.
zeitgeist … And how they may be the
I couldn’t name another time that
very soundtrack to the Gaia Mythos I’d
happened. … He was beyond reason…
been seeking for years now - but unable
The reason Gang Gang Dance is still
to find on real world dance-floors.
going is exactly because of Nathan….
And yes, their singer, Lizzie
He’s the kind of person people make
Bougatsos is cute, her voice even
religions out of.”
more adorable, that is, when it’s not
Gary’s stories of Nathan
downright demonic, mantic, and
reverberating in my head, I got hold of
angelic, all rolled into one, sonic
a copy of St Dymphna, their last CD. It
archetype.
stunned me. I got “Gods Money,“ and
But I don’t think I’m lusting after
ended up listening to the CD on loop x7
Bougatsos here – what obsesses me
in a single evening.
is the depth of vision in the music. The
About “Gods Money,” the band
downdraft of archetypal storylines,
indicated:
glimpses of almost-was, What Really Is,
“The title came from something
what might almost be?
Nathan used to say a lot. At some point
As if a presence were guiding it all,
he had gotten some sort of inheritance
downstepping knowledge from another
from a relative. He had always been the
domain. Nathan …?
poorest of our friends… no money, no
It’s not just my own projection.
home, just sort of floated around in a
Gang Gang Dance say as much
very mystical way. …When he got that
themselves. In interview after interview,
money and one of us would be starving,
they evoke Nathan, and agree that his
he would buy us food or drinks, and
passing provided the impetus for them
when you would try to thank him he
to take their music more seriously,
would always say, “don’t thank me…
“as if Nate was pushing us from the
it’s God’s money”.... and when we were
heavens, telling us that it was urgent
finished with that record we started
and important to do this.”
finding money all over the place. No,
As if.
really. All over the place. One of them
* * *
was on the rooftop, where Nathan was
struck by lightning. Stacks of bills.”
Gary had known Nathan from when
they both lived in DC. Nathan’s special
* * *
hugs were the quality Gary returned to
So, how does the Gaia Mythos fit into
again and again:
all of this?
“He was known for his hugs. Just
I’m inside the Smell, waiting for
coming back to DC one night, I was in
GGD to come on, and poking through
this dance club, totally pitch black, he
a bookshelf. One title pops out: “In
somehow found me in the darkness
avantoure
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homo ludens
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