I remember that. £2.99 in my work at the time, and I’m sure I gave plenty away for free. Anticon maybe just past its peak by then, but plenty of good shit still around and available on the label. The first comp, Music For The Advancement of Hip-Hop, is still a good place to start.
Puleo x O’Meally BGPS too!
My old housemate in Nottingham was mad in the anticon stuff and gets me all nostalgic for weed, rollies and cups of tea.
Backpacks and girl trouble.
Anticon and Def Jux were a little like things you listened to as well as hip-hop. Maybe because of the times but it still feels a bit separate now.
And obviously:
This takes me back to being an awkward gangly teenager trying to explain the virtues of Aesop Rock and Cage to the cool kids at school because it was rap and I’d only listened to Slipknot and Limp Bizkit up to that point, so I had something to prove. Little did I know all the cool kids had moved on from rap to garage by that point. Funny how kids can only enjoy one genre of music at a time.
They’d have hated Cage anyway. Even I hated Cage come to think of it. Too horrible.
…and not forgetting…
People went mad for those 10"s! Weren’t they on Ninja Tune in the U.K.?
Never liked Dose One, even though it’s his label… Did interview him once though and he was really nice and doesn’t actually sound like that at all.
Edit: No I didn’t, it was Boom Bip.
Yeah Cage was pretty ordinary.
First Can Ox album was good though.
From memory, I think they were released on Mush, but without digging about in boxes to have a look I can’t be sure.
So Dose might actually sound like that irl. I do hope so.
Right, Mush. So Big Dada over here. Which was Ninja.
Hopefully I’m right on a technicality.
Sounds about right to me. Boom Bip and Dose probably did a few things together, I’ve got Circle knocking about somewhere. I remember that being good. I will have that dig around and pull out some of those anticon era things. I was bang into it for a time. It’ll
be a nice break from only listening to classical and ambient/ instrumental music these days.
I was bang into it for a while too. 1200 Hobos and the various people that came out of that were good, and I think Language Arts and Man Overboard are two of the best albums on Anticon for sure.
I had a sketchy cassette copy of this and practically wore it out. Nearly an hour of dope freestyles.
Excited for another record by Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. I loved Superwolf - hard to believe it came out 15 years ago.
This is a wicked disco funk set, perfect for summer time. All 45’s too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OSxc9XYRc
Recently gotten into these guys that somehow sat under my radar for a few years.
Thanks to Jam, with its dreamy soundscape.
Bark Psychosis are definitely a band you need to prepare for, I think. Clear the diary.
Musically unrelated, but I always thought the same about the Cardiacs.
They’ve been accompanying my quiet mornings working from home rather well. I really enjoyed that Quietus article on them, gives a good over view of how the recording of Hex went down.
Oh yes definitely, they’re quite a ‘in your face’ band with a lot going on. It’s quite similar to someone like Aphex to having that particular mood to put them on.
I spun my mate out on accident when he took a few too many edibles on the way to see Massive Attack in Bristol last year, because I had On Land and In The Sea blaring all the way and he was right next to the speakers in the back haha. A good hour and a half journey of bonkers music. I don’t think that was probably the best introduction to that band for him…
My 15 year old was going on about something called 100 gecs. Should I be worried?
It has crossed the Atlantic…
I listened to them the other day and had a genuine ‘this is what the kids are listening to? This is awful’ moment… so it’s probably fine.
It is actually shit tho…
