The story of WAU!


Alex Patterson and Youth on their acid house experimentations


‘The Orb and Youth present IMPOSSIBLE ODDITIES: from underground to overground - the story of WAU! Mr Modo’ might be a bit of a mouthful. But then set over three CDs which present the history of the label set up by Alex Patterson, of The Orb, and producer Youth, previously bassist in post-punk band Killing Joke, it packs a hefty amount of music documenting the acid house explosion of the second summer of love and beyond. Set up on the 8th of August 1988, WAU (‘What About Us’) funnelled the pioneering spirit of punk into s new world of cheap electronic instruments, producing classic acid house, Balearic and dub gems. We chatted to Alex and Youth about being championed by Andy Weatherall, degenerate music and actual trainspotting.


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APOLOGIES TO OUR INTERNATIONAL READERS, but this week opens the voting to DJmag’s Best of British awards celebrating precisely that – the stars of dance music on our own fair island. A kind of dance Galapagos, Britain is constantly evolving unique mutant variations of music unfound anywhere else in the world. In 2010 the world of bass music has been going from strength to strength, while house and techno have also been pushing forward, making this year’s nominees especially strong.


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