Long time readers will recall the very first album write up in the project being Lemon Jelly’s ‘64-‘95and how much has changed since then, musically, globally and culturally. Just listening to this, their first album released in 2000, brings back memories of an almost alien world- no social media as such, no 9-11 paranoia, no politically induced panic attacks and no mediascape flooded with copycats.
I say that about the copycats because around the time of release, former acquaintance Ray Pulling (Hi if you’re reading this) and I often tried to mix up similar sounds using his eclectic sound production “suite” and either my Amiga1200 or a PC – whatever was working/more portable at the time and situation – in which ever location we could be bothered to set up/be in.
But of course we never released anything, instead idled the time away chatting shit and eventually fell out over conflicting morality issues. So when Lemon Jelly started putting out much better finely polished stuff it was easier to just consume that than fart about in Qbase or whatever free sampling software came with that month’s PC Format magazine.
The album is itself highly regarded and is borrowed from stylistically by later and contemporary artists such as Bent , Zero 7 and Twofish and again, a reminder of something awesome British culture used to produce before lazy saccharinly insipid industry approved AI driven cookie cutter “culture by numbers” ruined it for everyone.
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Lemon Jelly.ky – Lemon Jelly [#670]
by stegzyLong time readers will recall the very first album write up in the project being Lemon Jelly’s ‘64-‘95 and how much has changed since then, musically, globally and culturally. Just listening to this, their first album released in 2000, brings back memories of an almost alien world- no social media as such, no 9-11 paranoia, no politically induced panic attacks and no mediascape flooded with copycats.
I say that about the copycats because around the time of release, former acquaintance Ray Pulling (Hi if you’re reading this) and I often tried to mix up similar sounds using his eclectic sound production “suite” and either my Amiga1200 or a PC – whatever was working/more portable at the time and situation – in which ever location we could be bothered to set up/be in.
But of course we never released anything, instead idled the time away chatting shit and eventually fell out over conflicting morality issues. So when Lemon Jelly started putting out much better finely polished stuff it was easier to just consume that than fart about in Qbase or whatever free sampling software came with that month’s PC Format magazine.
The album is itself highly regarded and is borrowed from stylistically by later and contemporary artists such as Bent , Zero 7 and Twofish and again, a reminder of something awesome British culture used to produce before lazy saccharinly insipid industry approved AI driven cookie cutter “culture by numbers” ruined it for everyone.
You can listen to the album on:
Amazon
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Apple Music
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