05: JAN HAMMER GROUP
‘DON’T YOU KNOW’
(NEMPORER 7″, 1977)

“OK, this is off the LP Melodies, and full props must be given to Max Tundra for turning me onto this…it’s gorgeous. It’s a classic example of one of those records that when you first hear it you have no idea what decade it was made in -  it could be this year, it could be ’86…in fact it’s ’77.

“I played with Andrew Weatherall at Watergate in Berlin last year, and he played a set that typified that vibe completely, I was just grooving away thinking, where and when the heck are all these tunes from! I had made a bit of a dick of myself as I warmed up for him, ‘cos i had started my set too fast – by the end I was playing all this Funky and Techno at +5, and it was just far too banging for that early in the night. And there’s Andrew Weatherall, someone I’ve been inspired by since i was 15, standing behind me getting ready to go on, and i’m just cringing ‘cos I can’t just pull the pitch down now…arrrrrrgh!

“I had made a bit of a dick of myself as I warmed up for Andrew Weatherall…”

“What he did next was just proof that he was a dude who has been doing this a long time. He started with a long ambient piece, then slowly built up from there, all these 100 bpm, slow-burning god-knows-what disco and post-punk tunes, then into deep house, then gradually into the sickest new-school acid and house set (well I think it was new-school! They could all have been Future Sound B-sides for all I know!). Definately a pro! Well, back to the Jan Hammer tune: the shimmering synths, the bubbling oscillations, the soulful vocal – it ain’t all about ‘Crockett’s Theme’, you know (absolutely massive tune though!). File under ‘Sexy Space Funk Groove Comedown Soul Anthem’…or something.”

Appleblim appears at Bloc Weekend at Butlins, Minehead UK, March 12-14.  Appleblim and Al Tourettes’ Lipsmacker EP (featuring remixes by Linkwood and Deadboy)  is out on Aus Music in May, and Apple Pips has new music coming from Orphan101, Komonazmuk, Joe and Arkist in the next few months.

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