{"id":314,"date":"2006-10-06T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2006-10-06T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T16:10:06","slug":"minimal-compact-nil-nil-rub-n-tug-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"minimal compact &#8211; nil nil (rub n tug remix)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">this is rather special.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>minimal compact<\/STRONG> were one of those  post punk bands that sounded like all the bands today are trying to emulate, and  to be honest i have only heard a few tracks (the fantastic cover verison of  <STRONG>led zepplins<\/STRONG> <EM>immigrant song<\/EM> has to be heard !), so why  the interest ? <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">well out of the band came <STRONG>the gruesome  twosome<\/STRONG> who made a track called <EM>hallucination generation<\/EM>. this  ended up being part of the short lived <EM>new beat<\/EM> phase. new beat matched  tv vocal cutups to a darker slower take on acid house, and for a few months i  loved it, i guess a lot of the stuff <STRONG>front 242<\/STRONG> did at that time  could have been lumped in with the whole scene, a little industrial, a little  house and a fair bit of naughtiness in the lyrics (hello kim fowley). following  a few media connected major label compilations,&nbsp;new beat dropped off the  face of the earth. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">all this time later, a lot of sounds remarkably  dated, however, <EM>hallucination generation<\/EM> still makes for compulsive  listening. wonderful, and well worth tracking down.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">now fast forward nearly twenty years, and a certain  <STRONG>dj morpheus<\/STRONG> from both bands is involved with the release of a  compilation featuring a whole host of my fave bands from the late 80&#8217;s (<EM>more  detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=153\">here<\/A>).<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">not only that, but he his very involved with the  new world of electronica with a hint of his post punk roots. so i guess it was  only natural that in 2004 he enlisted a chunk of new producers  (<STRONG>tiefschwarz<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>optimo<\/STRONG>, <STRONG>maurice  fulton<\/STRONG> etc) to let rip over the <STRONG>minimal compact<\/STRONG> back  catalogue for the release of <EM>theres always now, <\/EM>which i seem to believe  is available via the <STRONG>playlouder shop<\/STRONG> to download. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">however, one track that got missed out, but has  surfaced on the excellent <EM>tigersushi<\/EM> label (<EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=312\">here<\/A>) is <STRONG>rub n  tugs<\/STRONG> reworked version of <EM>nil nil<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">want to hear it ? <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">of course you do, because its fantastic&nbsp;so,  for a limited time only :<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/nil_nil.mp3\">here<\/A>&nbsp;it  is.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">enjoy.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>tigersushi<\/STRONG> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tigersushi.com\/\">website<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; this is rather special. &nbsp; minimal compact were one of those post punk bands that sounded like all the bands today are trying to emulate, and to be honest i have only heard a few tracks (the fantastic cover verison of led zepplins immigrant song has to be heard !), so why the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}