{"id":383,"date":"2006-12-18T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2006-12-18T17:40:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T16:40:25","slug":"age-of-chance-slow-motion-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"age of chance &#8211; slow motion riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">it has been a while since i did my <STRONG>age of  chance <\/STRONG>plugging, and i am fairly sure that this post-virgin track has  not really surfaced anywhere else on the web so it&#8217;s only fair that i do the  honourable thing.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>age of chance <\/STRONG>had tried to be a  pop band with the release of their second album <EM>mecca <\/EM>but that didn&#8217;t  really go according to plan, so the record label dropped the band and  vocalist&nbsp;<EM>charlie h<\/EM> left, leaving the core of the band, <EM>geoff  t, jan p, and neil h <\/EM>to try and pick up the pieces.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">somehow, despite the lack&nbsp;of love,&nbsp;they  did. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the trio went back to their roots by  self&nbsp;financing a 12&#8243; record and getting it to those that wanted it via  certain shops in leeds. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">of course, the lack of a lead singer per se, meant  that someone had to step in, and i have to say, that drummer <EM>jan p<\/EM>  should have probably stepped up well before charlie was ever given a chance, as  her breathe soaked voice is perfectly matched by the bands desire for post-acid  house grooves and guitar noise (oh yes &#8211; the return of noise ! no more record  label interaction to curtail the desire). <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the white label 12&#8243; consisted of 3 tracks, the epic  stereo phased 10 minute monster that predates the drum machines and guitar  experiments with curve, and then more hard edged club mixes on the flip. i loved  the full on version, and had high hopes for it to take the band into new areas  of excellence, with the track even being rushed down to radio one on dat for the  <EM>chris lowe <\/EM>of the <STRONG>pet shop boys<\/STRONG> to play during a dance  mix (rumour was that chris had heard the track and loved it), however, one more  12&#8243;<EM>, she is filled with secrets 12&#8243;, <\/EM>and the bands steam had run  out.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">then many years later, i got online, started up the  various <STRONG>age of chance <\/STRONG>discussions via yahoo groups and slowly  got things in gear. out of this on the wire action came the fact that alongside  the normal 12&#8243; was a limited remix 12&#8243; of <EM>slow motion riot<STRONG>  <\/STRONG><\/EM>! this was news to me.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">when the tracks surfaced, they were based around  the same keyboard riff, but instead of the hard edged beats, the mixes involved  italio house pianos, <EM>warp<\/EM>-esque bleeps, and drum loops of the day  (early 90s) and so can sound a little date stamped, though with the love of all  things old school rave actually could work pretty damn well in &#8217;07.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">anyway, for a treat, i have dug out the 10 minute  <EM>guitar mix parts 1 and 2, <\/EM>its glorious.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>age of chance &#8211; <\/STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/slow_motion_riot.mp3\">slow motion  riot<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><\/STRONG>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail : <\/EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ageofchance.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; it has been a while since i did my age of chance plugging, and i am fairly sure that this post-virgin track has not really surfaced anywhere else on the web so it&#8217;s only fair that i do the honourable thing. age of chance had tried to be a pop band with the release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}