FRONTLINES
GAVIN BRYARS - JESUS’ LOVE NEVER FAILED ME YET
A classic piece of pure conceptual music. Recorded in 1972 this is a repeating tape loop of a tramp
singing the eponymous lyrics with Bryars’ orchestration that blooms over time into a huge lush
celebration of the singer’s life and imminent death. Improves with each listening and when I fi rst
heard it I was blown away.
FUNKADELIC - MAGGOT BRAIN
Starting with a crowd chanting ‘think think
it ain’t illegal yet’ this then becomes an eight
minute prog rock work out with Gary Schneider
delivering one of the most moving guitar solos
I’ve ever heard, trust me I’ve cried many times
listening to this.
ALICE COOPER - ELECTED
Political rock of the fi rst order. Bob Ezrin’s
production is immense with the core rock of
Cooper’s band augmented by full string and
brass orchestration. One of nine essential TOTAL KAOS
tracks on the ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ album.
Brookes Brothers have signed a two-album deal with Breakbeat
SIX OF THE BEST:
PEPE BRADOCK - BURNIN Kaos and their debut album is due for release in spring 2009.
Much sampled and illegitimately remixed Brookes Brothers remix of J Majik’s ‘Crazy World’ is out soon and
LONDON
by D&B producers, this is one of the fi nest their next single, ‘Tear You Down’, is out September. Breakbeat
examples of understated melancholic house. Kaos are releasing J Majik’s ‘Crazy World’ album in a special
ELEKTRICITY
As near as you can get to perfection in dance edition format to coincide with the Ministry Of Sound release of
music... and it’s French! the ‘Crazy World’ single.
GRACE JONES - SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM In other BBK news, Fresh is releasing ‘Golddust’ / ‘The Field’ in
Producer Trevor Horn’s fi nest hour turns this simple tune into a climactic monster. Go-go beats with July and Fresh & Ivory continue touring Soundweapon over the
80s digifunk guitars and synths build to a phenomenal crescendo. This tune contains one of the summer. They’ll be the fi rst D&B act to hit Japan’s Fuji Rock festival
best chord sequences in pop music. I played it to Riley in my car and he hated it so it must be good. since Reprazent in the ‘90s. Look out for a Soundweapon / Fresh
album release in 2009. Adam F is working on a new album for BBK
SINGERS UNLIMITED - THIS I WILL GIVE featuring some exciting names and ideas hopefully for release next
From the best acapella group to appear on vinyl this song has to be the most compassionate year and a ‘Junglesound Classics’ album mixed by Fresh and Adam F
love song ever. When I hear this it makes me feel totally insignifi cant, like standing on top of a is scheduled for release in the autumn. Finally, Baron is working on
mountain or going to the US embassy to get a visa. Another tune guaranteed to make me cry. his album for BBK hopefully for release next year.
PHO
Matthew Strangis has been producing under retaining a level of coherence. Everything I was
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OGRAPHY | Stina Pr
the name Billy Gone Bad for three years, but writing was part of the wider perspective so it
he’s been making music and playing in bands was a liberating experience - I didn’t have to
for around 11 years. His album ‘The Acceptable worry about where any individual track would
Face of Rioting’ is released on July 7 so we fi t in in the wider world, as I knew it had its
decided fi nd out more about it... specifi c place within the album. It also meant I
could write some stuff outside the constraints
eece
CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND? of the dancefl oor / mixing issues, as not all the
Taffstep! I’m trying to mess with heads whilst tracks on the album are for the dancefl oor.
putting smiles on faces! It’s a dark, nasty mix of
d&b, breaks and industrial infl uences, with lots WHAT ELSE ARE YOU WORKING ON?
of live abstract noise guitar parts in the mix. I I also play guitar and sing in another project
don’t use sampled breaks, I try to do as much called Names Are For Toe Tags where I’m mixing
as possible from scratch and I sound unlike produced beats and bass with keyboards and
anyone else out there! guitars / vocals from my brother and another
mate. We should be gigging pretty soon.
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR NEW
ALBUM? ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO TELL US
There’s a wide range of stuff on there: a track ABOUT?
features my friend Shelly Still’s vocals, there’s I’ve started two brand new Billy Gone Bad
a track with my own vocals, a couple of breaks tracks since I fi nished the album and I can’t
type tunes, some 9-5 grind infl uenced nasty wait to get out of this offi ce and get back to
things, plus a lot of guitar parts which don’t them! Incidentally, I’d already come up with
sound like guitars! the title for ‘Heston’s Cold Hand’ (a Billy Gone
Bad tune featured on ‘The Acceptable Face of
WHAT WAS THE EXPERIENCE LIKE WORKING Rioting’) before Charlton Heston died, so I’m
ON AN ALBUM INSTEAD OF SINGLES? not as tasteless as that title implies!
I wanted to work on an album rather than
BAD BOY
singles as I hoped to try to take people to as www.myspace.com/billygonebad
many places as I could on one listen, whilst
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