Sheffield / Jive Turkey / Forgemasters / Sweet Exorcist

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Interesting article, new this morning, on some of the less-trodden paths in the early northern UK dance music scene, centered around two DJs/artists responsible for helping create the first and third releases on Warp Records.  Illuminating, even for an old fart like me

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For Sheffield’s music scene, 1985 was a year of change. Jarvis Cocker fell out of a window trying to impress a girl with a Spider-Man impression. Hospitalised and in a wheelchair, he had a lyrical epiphany that would change the fate of Pulp from cult outsiders to Britpop’s finest. Industrial-funk outfit Chakk signed a major deal and used the money to build FON studios, which produced countless hit records and effectively led to the birth of Warp Records. And a pioneering new club night began: a place where Black and white kids would feverishly dance to a new style of relentlessly jacking music imported from America.

‘It felt like a revolution’: Jive Turkey, the Sheffield club night that blazed a trail for UK house | Clubbing | The Guardian

 

Edited January 17, 2023 by xy_politics