The Face: Paradise Regained (House Post Acid / The New Club Sound)

Great piece by David Toop from the December ’88 edition of The Face on the hose sound of New Jersey featuring interviews with Marshall Jefferson, Blaze, Larry Patterson, Jomanda, Phase II and Hippie Torales.

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NME – Acid (The Phuture) By Sarah Champion / Paul Oakenfold Interviewed By Paolo Hewitt (October 1988)

Looks like the NME got well acid house in October ’88. If you haven’t seen these they came courtesy of the Archived Music Press (via Legendary Children) and are a fine read. There’s more on the Archived Music Press site to have a dig through.


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i-D: Club Listings (October 1988)

This is a good read. Lots of scenes crossing over with each other and everyone seems to be figuring out what the fuck just went on. Photo by Dave Swindells.

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The Face: Motorcity Techno / Detroit Piece (May 1988)

This one comes from The Face in May 1988 as Stuart Cosgrove travels to the Motor City to meet and interview Derrik May, Juan Atkins, Blake Baxter and Kevin Saunderson.

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i-D Magazine: Club Listings (January 1988)

Classic cover and great club listings from i-D January 1988 with a fine Swindells photo to boot.



Thanks to Matthew J.
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Video: Rocky & Diesel – Summer 1988

Nice one Leo (Zero) Elstob for digging this out. Footage from one of West London’s early balearic parties, Barbarellas in Greenford, with DJs Rocky & Diesel. Some great jacking going on in here.

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Record Mirror: Acid Daze (Acid House Piece) (February 1988)

Taken from Record Mirror, February 1988.



Thanks to Matthew J.
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i-D: Body Beats / Acid Tracking

Release yourself… Photograph by Dave Swindells.

Thanks to Matthew J.
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Back In The Pirate Days: Kiss 94 Newsletter – July/August 1988

Before going legal the pirate radio station Kiss was going under the name Kiss 94 FM. This newsletter comes from deep in the Ninja Tune vaults and was sent out to members of the mailing list (of 3500) to inform on the DJs, parties, merchandise and more. Kiss had such a ridiculous line up back in those days – Jay Strongman, Norman Jay, Rampling, Richie Rich, Mannasseh, Coldcut, Trouble, Jazzie B, Colin’s Favor & Dale and Patrick Forge – all playing the best in underground dance.

Interesting to read the thoughts on who was breaking the signal of the station then, ‘The reason for the breaks in transmission are many. It’s hard to pinpoint precisely who is breaking the transmission, we know the D.T.I are responsible for most of the busts, but we have reason to believe that ‘outside forces’ are also at work’. Danny Rampling was Danny Ramplin and known for his ‘lively presentation!’. Does this mean whispering “balearic” across the airwaves of London? Anyway, more to follow.

Thanks to Strictly Kev.

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The Face: Dancefloor – Kid Batchelor (November 1988)

Taken from The Face, November 1988. Love the language – ‘this could be a big noise’ and ‘massive bump since it was played at Hedonism 5’ etc. Top.

Thanks to Matthew J.
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i-D: Acid House & Club Listings (April 1988)

I like these pieces. Journalists caught up in a moment and London buzzing. Comparing the now to the then I am wondering – did we get old? Is Punk in Soho the new Wag club? Worrying thought. Young future media types moving in packs… Is house turning into Northern Soul? Old men reliving their youth? We’ll come back to that one with a Test Pressing poll soon. Anyway, here’s more ephemera from times gone by.




Thanks to Matthew J.
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i-D: Yo! B.U.M Rush The Show (British Club DJs) (March 1988)

Aside from the Brass Eye-style introduction (“British Underground Music. Bum for short, it’s growing up fast” ), this is a great piece from i-D in March 1988 on many of the key DJs across the scene.







Thanks to Matthew J.
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The Face: Shoom (June 1988)

Going out on a high for 2009, a sweet piece from The Face in June 1988. Sheryl Garratt nails Shoom in one paragraph. Top lady.


Thanks to Matthew J.
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You Tube: Club Culture (1988)

Got to say thanks to our Swedish cousins at Mind On The Run (more from them soon) for finding this classic documentary on the clubbing scene shown on Channel 4 in the UK in 1988.

On a New York hip-hop tip, we get interviews with the Jungle Brothers, Mantronix, Biz Markie, Red Alert & Q Tip, Stetsasonic, Richie Rich, Keith LeBlanc and a great montage to the sound of ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ in Dapper Dan’s NYC shop.

If you want to go straight for the acid house section go to 14:20 and Mike Dunn saying, ‘So let it be written, so let it be house’. From there we get interviews with Ten City, Daryl Pandy, Tyree Cooper, Robert Owens and at 23 minutes up turns Oakey with that brilliant hair cut and Lisa Loud (wrongly named ‘Nancy Noise’) discussing balearic beat. Dorrell appears and states…


Nailed. Colin Favor tells the Ibiza story, Fat Tony talks escapism and it’s all cut in with some great acid house footage. Bam-Bam, Adonis, Marshall Jefferson, Eddie Richard go on to discuss the music and they show the E’d up video for Paul Rutherford’s ‘Make It Real’. Coldcut, Jazzie B, Youth, Baby Ford and a few others bring up the rear with the London perspective.

Jamie B Rose, the director, whoever he is, deserves a pat on the back. Someone re-release this please. Top top documentary.

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Mix: DJ Pippi – Pacha 1988

More balearic beats from Ibiza in 1988. This time DJ Pippi playing the likes of ‘Pink Cadillac’ and ‘The Race’.

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Thanks to Phil Mison.
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Mixmag: Coldcut – A History Ahead Of Our Time

Taken from Mixmag July 1988.


Thanks to Phil Mison.
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The Face: Nightclubbing

Taken from The Face September 1998.





Thanks to Phil Mison.
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Time Out: Ibiza ’89 Piece

Thanks to Tony Pointer.

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