{"id":542,"date":"2007-05-02T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2007-05-02T23:35:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:35:40","slug":"the-grid-rollercoaster-global-communication-yellow-submarine-retake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"the grid &#8211; rollercoaster (global communication yellow submarine retake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>richard norris<\/EM> was a big part of the  acid\/ambient scene. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>through his <STRONG>further <\/STRONG>alias he  released a wonderful ambient album, <EM>5 further journeys <\/EM>that has been a  regular playlister @ <EM>ireallylovemusic<\/EM> hq for many  years<EM>.<\/EM>&nbsp;however<EM>,<\/EM> it was alongside fellow electro-pop  maestro, <EM>dave ball<\/EM> of <STRONG>soft cell<\/STRONG> fame and fortune that  he formed <STRONG>the grid.<\/STRONG>&nbsp;<\/FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the duo  found&nbsp;a route&nbsp;into the pop world, combining techno infused pop-dance  moods and all manner of weirdness in the mix, they&nbsp;even hit the charts with  <EM>swamp thing <\/EM>and obviously had a great time.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i never got any of the records as they had a  slightly cheesy vibe about them, and for me there was only room in my collection  for one post-acid house cheesy pop band, <STRONG>the shamen,  <\/STRONG><\/FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>but i cannot deny the sheer brilliance  of this remix by the <STRONG>global communication<\/STRONG> team. <\/FONT><FONT  face=Arial size=2>ambient to the extreme and downright gorgeous bearing no  relation at all to the source material. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>interestingly, richard has recently  resurfaced&nbsp;with hipster-with-all-the-right-connections, <EM>erol  alkan,<\/EM> under the excellently named<STRONG>&nbsp;beyond the wizards  sleeve<\/STRONG> alias (<EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/beyondthewizardssleeve\">here<\/A>), and seems to be  making beautifully atmospheric styled music once again, even remixing the latest  <STRONG>midlake <\/STRONG>single, <EM>roscoe,<\/EM> into a sublime piece of  throbbing ambient pop.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but that is now, and this was then.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>mp3<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/music\/rollercoaster.mp3\">the grid &#8211;  rollercoaster (global communication yellow submarine  retake)<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>richard norris was a big part of the acid\/ambient scene. through his further alias he released a wonderful ambient album, 5 further journeys that has been a regular playlister @ ireallylovemusic hq for many years.&nbsp;however, it was alongside fellow electro-pop maestro, dave ball of soft cell fame and fortune that he formed the grid.&nbsp;the duo [&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-542","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\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}