This weekend I'm more interested in...

[John Bunnell]

I shall be drinking vino and eating custard tarts in Lisbon. I’ll be hoping for a Hammers miracle and wanting Usyk to batter that pikey and his classless entourage into the middle of next week.

Uninteresting fact. I did my first pill at a club in Lisbon playing French Filter House & Techno back in 2001.

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Uninteresting fact. I did my first pill at a club in Lisbon playing French Filter House & Techno back in 2001.

WTF is French Filter House when it's at home? Of all the countries we did our teknivals in, France was the best. But the music the French sound systems played was the worst. 'ArdTek - 180 bpm *******s without even the humour and variety of Dutch Gabba. Just monotonous drivel.

Here's an example of the humour and variety of Gabba from the early days. Here's 2 tracks from the 4 track Mokum 16 record from 1993. Headbanger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sIKRQRMyVE

And Pump That Pussy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my0e7xGmiEQ

Compare them given they were from the same disk, made by the same chap, The Original Gabba.

{My uninteresting fact: Most Gabba was from Rotterdam - back then the Feyenoord team took the pitch to the classic We Are From Rotterdam. But the Mokum record label was from Amsterdam - apparently Mokum is the old name for Amsterdam.}

The following is the music my sound system, Bedlam, was playing when I was with them in the early '90s. While all the clubs and pay raves were playing breakbeats then jungle then D&B, we played tekno. This sub-genre is London Underground Acid. Chris, Aaron and Julian were the first three DJs of our normal line up, the Murph's head**** acid at the peak around 4am, then Aztek's banging choons for dawn and then Bliss's industrial to start your come down, well, give you a reason to bosh more drugs to take you through to the afternoon.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AH_5OyCsco&t=261s

If you want to hear the sort of Industrial we'd play on Sunday, here's the six track Industrial Strength 21. Imagine boshing yet more acid on Sunday evening and hearing the metallic frequencies {from tracks A2 and B1 here, for example} coming through our Phillishaves and JBL top horns now the amps are starting to warm up and there's only the hardcore and crew left at the party as we get to Sunday night. Tops.

{And here's a bonus industrial 303 acid track I found when looking for IS2 - Penetrator by Unit Moebius:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnoFJSBl0iU

I hadn't heard that in years.}

But what is French Filter House? And do listen to the Liberator mix - that was our sound. Always preferred our London Underground Acid to Spiral Tribe's own take on hard trance and acid trance.


Ganpati bless.

[John Bunnell]

Filter House was when the French pioneered taking disco samples or even mainstream pop samples, sticking a low pass filter on a 2, 4 or 8 bar loop and slapping a house beat and bass over it. Was massive in the 90s & early 00s. Best examples I can think of...

Alan Braxe & Fred Falke - Intro https://youtu.be/0z0hatNwdGw?si=SJc0VpJd7pbJ7ZR3

Together - So Much Love to Give https://youtu.be/lPKjlbXHP3E?si=4HwrB8SOEIB9v_x5

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Uninteresting fact. I did my first pill at a club in Lisbon playing French Filter House & Techno back in 2001.

Don't worry JB, I am sure the effects of it will wear off soon...