You Were Doing Well Until Everyone Died
I'm still gutted that Jockey Slut is no more. I bought every issue for going on 10 years, and the magazine introduced me to more amazing bands and music than any other source I can think of. When the end came it was sudden - as you can tell by the website, which looks as though it will be stuck in summer 2004 in perpetuity. Perhaps in 25 years it will be still be there, looking forward to 'Devin Dazzle' and 'Kompakt 100' like a Punk on the kings road clutching a battered Damned 7" and searching out Teds.
The last year Jockey Slut was published saw an amazing CD on the front of each issue ('Disco Pogo for Punks in Pumps') which gave me my first introduction to numerous artists I now love - Ulrich Schnauss, The Go! Team, TES, King Geedorah, Erlend Oye, The Junior Boys, Joy Zipper, Agoria, RJD2, Michael Mayer / Kompakt, Mylo, DM & Jemini, The Cinematic Orchestra ..... and so on. Every CD would have 4 or 5 tracks on that you would not have heard before and that would absolutely blow you away.
Someone else i had not heard of before or since was Olav Brekke Mathisen. This track, 'Hasj Box' was on Disco Pogo Vol. 12 - which also had 'Never Be Alone' by Justice vs Simian at least a year before any vinyl made it to the UK.
Now I don't know too much about Olav, and his mate Sideshow Jogge - however I believe they are Norweigan, and from the same freakish Bergen gene pool that has spawned Royksopp, Erlend Oye, Annie, The Kings of Convenience and Ralph Myerz.
Hasj Box has a full five minute sample from the classic Futurama episode, where Bender meets God, over a throbbing electro-esque beat. There's not a lot more I can say about it. It's great.
Olav Brekke Mathisen & Sideshow Jogge - Hasj Box
Soon after hearing this I ran across a couple of Olav Brekke Mathisen 12"s in the bargain bin of my local shop, and snapped them up. I was delighted to find that they were both amazing. Electromotor is packed full of those proper old skool electro noises that the kids get off on nowadays. Gul Boss meanwhile has the best use of a Michael Jackson sample i've ever heard - slipping in the Billie Jean bassline as subtly as a greedy child filling his pockets at the pick 'n' mix counter. That twelve has another excellent track - 'Ein, Zwei, Drei, Fitteboy' - so when I saw the CD in another bargain bin I had no hesitation in snapping it up.
The bonus track i'm going to give you today is Olav's electro-ified version of 'Little Fluffy Clouds'. I hope you like it.
Olav Brekke Mathisen & Sideshow Jogge - Fluffy The Vampire
The last year Jockey Slut was published saw an amazing CD on the front of each issue ('Disco Pogo for Punks in Pumps') which gave me my first introduction to numerous artists I now love - Ulrich Schnauss, The Go! Team, TES, King Geedorah, Erlend Oye, The Junior Boys, Joy Zipper, Agoria, RJD2, Michael Mayer / Kompakt, Mylo, DM & Jemini, The Cinematic Orchestra ..... and so on. Every CD would have 4 or 5 tracks on that you would not have heard before and that would absolutely blow you away.
Someone else i had not heard of before or since was Olav Brekke Mathisen. This track, 'Hasj Box' was on Disco Pogo Vol. 12 - which also had 'Never Be Alone' by Justice vs Simian at least a year before any vinyl made it to the UK.
Now I don't know too much about Olav, and his mate Sideshow Jogge - however I believe they are Norweigan, and from the same freakish Bergen gene pool that has spawned Royksopp, Erlend Oye, Annie, The Kings of Convenience and Ralph Myerz.
Hasj Box has a full five minute sample from the classic Futurama episode, where Bender meets God, over a throbbing electro-esque beat. There's not a lot more I can say about it. It's great.
Olav Brekke Mathisen & Sideshow Jogge - Hasj Box
Soon after hearing this I ran across a couple of Olav Brekke Mathisen 12"s in the bargain bin of my local shop, and snapped them up. I was delighted to find that they were both amazing. Electromotor is packed full of those proper old skool electro noises that the kids get off on nowadays. Gul Boss meanwhile has the best use of a Michael Jackson sample i've ever heard - slipping in the Billie Jean bassline as subtly as a greedy child filling his pockets at the pick 'n' mix counter. That twelve has another excellent track - 'Ein, Zwei, Drei, Fitteboy' - so when I saw the CD in another bargain bin I had no hesitation in snapping it up.
The bonus track i'm going to give you today is Olav's electro-ified version of 'Little Fluffy Clouds'. I hope you like it.
Olav Brekke Mathisen & Sideshow Jogge - Fluffy The Vampire
posted by headphonesex @ 3:43 PM
