A drawn-out imperial dub, the track builds and builds with a moody intensity (partly down to the melodica played by Weather Prophets legend Pete Astor) that’s far more Kingston JA at dusk than Kingston-upon-Thames at kicking out time. His take on the label’s next release - Saint Etienne’s Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix of Two Halves) - would set the template for his next three decades of audio exploration. The World According To Sly and Lovechild is a swirling bass punch topped with a hypnotic marimba line and the kind of ecstatic diva vocal that you’d hear coming out of the speakers all night at post-Shoom clubs like Yellow Book. It was there that he famously picked up a copy of Primal Scream’s unloved second album and singled out a track that would later become Loaded, after being given an instruction to ‘fucking destroy’ it by the band’s Andrew Innes it was there too that the idea to remix the first Heavenly release came about.Īndrew’s mix of that first Heavenly record is very much a product of its time. Commandments Andrew would follow for the rest of his life.Īt the start of things, Andrew was a regular visitor to Capersville - the pre-Heavenly press office run by label founder Jeff Barrett (soon to become Andrew’s manager). Bored of your job? Start playing records out! Start a club night! Get in the studio! Start a label! Just don’t stand still. Back then every energised meeting could be turned into a fortuitous opportunity in this burgeoning new underground economy. With Bandcamp being a digital platform we do have to make digital available, so we set a daft prohibitive price to get around the issue.īy the time Heavenly was born in the spring of 1990, Andrew Weatherall was already an inspirational sounding board, as well as a fellow traveller on the bright new road that stretched out ahead thanks to the massive cultural liberation of acid house. The terms of this license do not allow us to sell the digital tracks, though anyone purchasing the vinyl will receive a full album download on the day of release. PLEASE NOTE: One or two of tracks on this album have been licensed from a major label.
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