Andrew Weatherall? (RIP February 2020)

this is really good in places, but a bit guilty of being exactly as you'd imagine it to sound, ie like primal scream.

Yeah that's what I thought, I mean in fairness Weatherall did create that sound but it's such a well-worn grove to slip into that unless it's absolutely sublime I find myself wanting to put something else on. Same goes for the whole Richard Norris/Time and Space Machine thing.

https://soundcloud.com/faber-social/sets/musics-not-for-everyone-series

Say what you like about Weatherall but he has a decent beard.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YiXGN8kPL.jpg

this is so sooooo good.
its very much in line with his 'love from outer space' groove.
in fact thats the final track on the 3rd cd ..
oh, and he is hoping to sort out a proper dub version of the asphodells album (as opposed to the soon to be released remix set)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=470

this is amazing

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

at a family friendly festival a couple of years back i got permission to do the selfish thing and saw him do the extended groove under the 'a love from outer space' banner.

best 3 hours ever.

I've seen him do that as well a day I dunno, I found it all a bit one paced at the time. I was in the middle of five days of Croatian beach festival mentalism and I'd just seen Optimo, so maybe it was a case of wrong set wrong time.

Looking forward to the new album though, even though I wasn't keen on the Asphodells thing I'll always give any Weatherall venture a go.

I saw A Love From Outer Space on Halloween 2013 at Plastic People. His goth side burst out for the occasion at half 12, with extended mixes of Bunnymen, Cave, Suicide etc.

wtf terrible news

RIP Andrew Weatherall, whose talent wasn't just for making music, but for thinking about in a wholly unique way.

— Michael Hann (@MichaelAHann) February 17, 2020

aw, what? fuck

just on Twitter at the moment but Dave Haslam has put this up

I can't believe I am writing this.#RIP Andrew Weatherall

(6 April 1963 - 17 February 2020)

One of the greatest, sweetest, funniest guys I've ever met. pic.twitter.com/hXKR02k850

— Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) February 17, 2020

We are deeply sorry to announce that Andrew Weatherall, the noted DJ and musician, passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday 17th February 2020, at Whipps Cross Hospital, London. The cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. pic.twitter.com/cOe6KA0yts

— Prescription PR (@prescriptionpr) February 17, 2020

shit

:(

What a fucking bummer.

What the shit?? RIP.

Fucking hell, that's horrible news. RIP.

oh no! RIP, nooooo

so many classics from the 90s and beyond, of course, but in particular I'll miss his NTS show which I tried to catch every month, was still discovering lots of good stuff from him :(

listened to his nts show just last week, wtf

fuck's sake

Fuck, this sucks bad. RIP.

His NTS was great, yeah.

wtf

oh fuck

Most random Andrew Weatherall memory is buying Tiny Reminders by Two Lone Swordsmen in Northampton HMV while at uni, gegting it home, putting it on, and the CD being a mispress that had the audio of a Shakespeare play or Dickens novel (I forget which - it was 20 years ago) instead of music. The graphic on the CD was right, just the wrong audio.

Weatherall changed the way I think and feel about music in a seismic way.

Super young. He fell off my radar a long time ago (that's my fault, not his), but I think I listen to his My Bloody Valentine remix more than I listen to MBV these days.

a personal favourite mix of his: https://www.mixcloud.com/PacOlgarte/heavenly-presents-andrew-weatherall-live-the-social-volume-3-1999/

kind of random but i just remembered that time he popped up on streetview

Think i just randomly found Andrew Weatherall on Google maps streetview - https://t.co/OKJV37KvkK pic.twitter.com/I9XxvoFDte

— 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚎𝚖𝚎 (@grohs) September 27, 2016

RIP. Screamadelica will be all over the obits, but Morning Dove White is the one I go back to more often, a favorite album from a favorite era in music.

RIP. I wasn't super familiar with his other material, but I loved Two Lone Swordsmen. Far too young to go.

my life would be different without him.

Holy shit this is terrible. I met him at a festival in Croatia a few years ago when he was having dinner at the restaurant table next to us, seemed like a lovely guy and the Love From Outer Space set he played later on was phenomenal. Yeah there's the stuff he's best known for but he appeared to have a genuine curiosity for new music, one of the few DJs from that era who never seemed to be outdated or relying on past glories.

Can’t believe it, it's easy to forget how much important output he was behind, and for how long. Two Lone Swordsmen and Sabres of Paradise were pretty important for me in my teens, and it’s sad to think part of that world is gone.

watching him and keith tenniswood playing vintage dub at Reading 98 was a lightning bolt moment for me. watching the crowd grooving to this slow reggae and hearing it morph seamlessly into techno by ways of Wilmot was so special

He played locally after Christmas and I stupidly didn’t go.

As Matt DC points out he seemed to have an undimming or unflagging interest in discovery, and never seemed to coast.

A bit before 'Tiny Reminders' came out I remember him saying something like 'We've made an electro album. I don't see why electro can't be considered a proper genre in itself, like house or techno'. And of course he was right, although in 1999 there wasn't enough new electro being produced for this to be conceivable. Two years later, electroclash was the most buoyant new genre in the game and electro would be the sound to define the coming decade in pop and dance music.

I mainly knew him through his remix work, which was reliably great from what I heard, esp given that most ppl treat it as an afterthought.

I love the fact that he had this parallel rockabilly thing going on for years as well.

when TLS went punkabilly, I have to say it threw me a bit. anyone prepared to reassess it?

I don't think I really listened to much by him after 2004 when From The Double Gone Chapel came out. What's good from after that era?

The final two TLS records were decent. Not life-changing, but enjoyable. The wrong meeting ones.

His Fabric mix from '04 is one of my favourites of the whole series

I'm really itching to listen to it again

From Bill Brewster's FB:

There were two sides to Andrew Weatherall. Over in one murky corner was the Lord Sabre of ill-repute, whose music often expressed a darkness that must have been otherwise well hidden. The other side was the quietly reflective, frequently hilarious, deadpan polymath whose character seemed deeply at odds with his piratic look. I guess he was a bit of both.

Although our paths often came close in the 1990s, it was only over the past 20 years that I really got to know Andrew. I interviewed him a couple of times, but we also DJed together at a bunch of parties and hung out at festivals, usually with his girlfriend Lizzie. In person he couldn’t have been further from his slightly foreboding reputation. He was an extremely likeable person, always with an interesting angle on a well-worn story, he was someone you’d be guaranteed to end of talking about something typically off the wall; I’m remembering conversations over the years that covered New Orleans voodoo, David Essex in That’ll Be The Day, Billy Childish or any one of countless diversions that always seemed to be part of a few hours spent with Mr Weatherall. He was also kind and thoughtful man. One summer, we spent a week together in a villa in Croatia, and he helped teach my then very young daughter how to swim (in between speculation about whether Dr John had filched lyrics from a book he’d just read).

I’d doubt whether anyone from the acid house generation has forged such a singular career as Andrew. Many have gone on to become much more successful and considerably more wealthy than him, but none of them have managed to plough a furrow so unique and utterly without ‘career planning’ in mind. Careers were for other people, but not him (during one of our interviews, he told me, “It was only about five or six years ago I realised I was a DJ.”)

Weatherall somehow beat a path in all kinds of directions – verdant and otherwise – but still managed to keep people fascinated by his next move and was equally at home banging out coruscating European techno as he was digging out rockabilly obscurities for a crowd dressed in Western checks and Levis. One of my favourite Weatherall tips was Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang’s brilliant cover of Tainted Love. Pure Andrew dynamite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJwft9B48k

He told me on more than one occasion that he’d seriously thought about knocking DJing on the head and concentrating on his art. It’s a tragedy for the art world that he never lived long enough to pursue further diversions. In fact, it’s just a tragedy full stop. What a DJ. What a producer. What a guy.



Having gone through my own losses over the past few years, my heart is aching for Lizzie and for ALFOS buddy Sean and Caroline and all of his close friends. He was a giant of a man and he’ll be terribly missed by many many people.

Amazing hilarious interview here

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/andrew-weatherall-interview-dj-disco-maverick

Xp that's great stuff from Bill Brewster. I'm amazed when someone can have that kind of impact on so many people.

The three-CD 'Masterpiece mix he did for Ministry of Sound is also tremendous, more in the Love From Outer Space vein, although I'd recommend starting with discs two and three.

Also the Essential Mix from the 90s, always and forever.

I really want to know what he thought about David Essex in That’ll Be The Day!

Oh shit, Hypercity as well, that's one of the defining microhouse mixes.

i just want to say this news sucks, i got nothing else at the moment.

before i saw i saw him perform a 3 hour set of the same kind of groove as that Masterpiece set (as mentioned upthread), i bumped into him wandering around the festival.
i was wearing an on-u t-shirt, we of course chatted.
such lovely warm nature.
just wish i had the chance to have a few drinks and really chat to him, i bet he had some brilliant stories.

related : saw this band support Jim Jones a few years back, checked out the merch afterwards and saw that Andrew had remixed them, so bought the EP on the spot for the remix alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dPcjS2NOI

which my bukowski themed local pub chose as its name too.

https://www.chinaskis.co.uk

that’s funny, I liked the Chinaski album from a few years back and did wonder if it was the ilx poster lol

ha I used to know a guy about 20 years ago who had a band called Chinaski. pretty sure he doesn't post on ilx either (or DJ in Germany)

these Next Wave Acid Punks comps look right up my street though, going to check these out

Not me. Confession: I have a vague unease about being associated with Bukowski. Not that I've been arsed to do anything about it.

Fabric have posted sets from their recent Weatherall tribute night:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/sets/commemorating-andrew
I'm listening to the Smagghe/Richards set which is three hours of burbling acid excellence:
https://soundcloud.com/fabric/ivan-smagghe-b2b-craig