February 2 street date. A re-release of the 1997 album "Bastard", by Colin Newman. It was four years into the swim ~ label's history before "Bastard" arrived. Like Newman's previous albums, it was another collaboration - although this time only with his partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel. There was a point in the 90s when British music journalists basically didn't get dance music and would refer to it as "faceless techno bollocks". It was that very attribute that Colin and Malka felt most attracted to. With "Bastard", it took a while to get to the concept, which was essentially this: what if they subverted the whole "bloke from Wire" thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called music by a "heritage" artist, but it didn't play by the rules of dance music either. The CD version includes a second CD with rare and unreleased tracks.
February 2 street date. First time on vinyl. A re-release of the 1997 album "Bastard", by Colin Newman. It was four years into the swim ~ label's history before "Bastard" arrived. Like Newman's previous albums, it was another collaboration - although this time only with his partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel. There was a point in the 90s when British music journalists basically didn't get dance music and would refer to it as "faceless techno bollocks". It was that very attribute that Colin and Malka felt most attracted to. With "Bastard", it took a while to get to the concept, which was essentially this: what if they subverted the whole "bloke from Wire" thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called music by a "heritage" artist, but it didn't play by the rules of dance music either.
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