"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.
