Stakker Humanoid

"Stakker Humanoid" by Humanoid
B-side: "Stakker Humanoid (The Omen Mix)"
Released: 1988, 1992, 2001, 2007
Format: CD, 12" Vinyl
Recorded: Dance Studios, Ealing London
Genre: Electronica, House, Techno, IDM, Braindance
Label: Westside Records, Rephlex
Writer(s): Brian Dougans
Producer: Brian Dougans, John Laker
Associated Act: The Future Sound of London (FSOL)



A top Acid House record heard at venues like Hacienda in Manchester during an era before the case of Betamax prevented users from remembering their dance nights, "Stakker Humanoid" charted number 17 in the UK 1988 November, and number 1 on the UK Dance charts during the same period.

[Rusko, "Betamax"]

"Stakker Humanoid" was the initiative of video artists Mark McClean and Colin Scott from Stakker graphics company, a leftfield team that specialized in providing bless-edly ASSAULTing visuals for climbers and freaks. Looking to soundtrack their latest patchwork of neon disease and acid galaxy (soul, funk, boogie, and jazz promoter Morgan Khan thought the video was unprofessional too) the two commissioned Glasgow programming and circuit wizard and fellow 'seeker' Brian Dougans to create and destroy speakers.
The track fit.

Fights happened.

Stakker and Dougans severed their relations and Morgan Khan went on to release the record on its own merit anyway.

The single would see revivals in 1992, 2001, and 2007, featuring remixes by Krafty Kuts ('01) and Feadz (duoh-7.)

Humanoid's follow up single, Slam, was less popular, only charting at a fluketastic number 54, complete with a hip-house rap edit on the flipside.

Both tracks were included on Humanoid's debut album, Global.



Track listing
1. "Humanoid"
2. "Tonight"
3. "Dream"
4. "Technoid"
5. "Cry Baby"
6. "Sunshine & Brick"
7. "The Deep"
8. "Slam"
9. "Crystals"
10. "Don't Stop

Dougans used vocals on several of the ten Global tracks, which sparked further business between other '88 Madchester studio scenesters. Tapping into the chart success of by now holy-acid-house-grail "Stakker Humanoid," Dougans continued to use Gary "Gaz" Cobain, this dude who was probably just like you or I, going to dance parties, arguing with snappy ladies at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London about God, and bringing salty babies into our wicked world of fun and food and fashion and music, etc.

Gaz and Dougans bonded and the Acid House combo became an ambient techno street team and The Future Sound of London
WAS
and is and continues to be.



I bring you the Future, the Future
and an upcoming post about Noise Factory.

Osaka Go Dutch

From Ooga Booga records:

"Lift Boys
Lift Boyz 12"
Lift Boys is Eye Yamataka's (Boredoms) solo project, and this 4-song 12" was released on the occasion of his solo art show, "Ongaloo," at Gavin Brown's Passerby Gallery in New York, November 2005.
12" vinyl record, Brown Sounds, 2005."

I don't haven't any Lift Boys clips available but I did see the Boredoms & Eye conduct a 7-necked guitar @ 9:30 club in DC, March 2008.

I sent my review to my editor at Blender.

I recorded a bunch of footage. The clips have been sitting in my video editor for a year and the result will be more interesting when I edit all 40 minutes.
Here is a 48 second excerpt/teaser:





Rational Youth
Dancing on the Berlin Wall

Label: Rams Horn Records
Catalog#: RHR 3814
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
Credits: Producer - Pat Deserio

Discomusic.com:

"Rational Youth was produced by Pat Desario who was best known for his work with the Bombers and other Canadian Disco acts. His work with Rational Youth was very different as it was more dark Euro synth and alternative sounding.

This Dutch single features two very good songs that are highly recommended to anyone who enjoyed the 80s New Wave and post-punk and early NRG scene."

Neon Boys

Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell pre-Television.

Katalyst

Randy Bewley

RIP.

Red Transistor

Reason Y Eye Dis YYYs

\/\/.|-|./-\.'''|'''.

"There is nothing like a blog to help you realize you have nothing new to say."

. . . as I draft my book proposal.
I'm visiting to Holland for the next three months.


Daily
Discuss.


1. Swans - Music Documentary 2:12
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqG9s1NUZsU

"I didn't really care about the independent scene."

"If you find an audience, then that's good."
--Michael Gira, Swans

"It can be powerful if it's loud, but I don't think that's necessary. . . Sometimes it's loud, but it doesn't depend on that."

Discuss.


2. Foetus - The Sound of Progress - 1988 - 2 Parts

Foetus is abrasive as-performance-footage but he talks out of his arse a lot so there's p o n d e r a ble content in between the screaming.

Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhVC0F9pDe4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUS4mw4kJo

"You can't help but make some pre-judgment about seeing a person and saying, 'well, they've got that hairstyle so the music must sound like that,' which is something that you do in life anyway, I mean, you see someone and you usually have an immediate impression about what they might be like which may or may not be true. I mean, I know that I've been at a record store, picked up a record, which may have an interesting front cover, looked at the back cover see a bunch of fat hippies and go, well this must be a load of garbage."

"How many rock LPs does the world need."


3. Crass - CRASS Documentary
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPIpputRkJU

"Crass could sell a hundred thousand records without any radio play."


4. Blixa Bargeld Interview Preview (of Einstürzende Neubauten)
Click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5lw22jV_AM

On the new record:
"It starts quietly so you will run forward and turn up the stereo."

Discuss.