BooKs Of BokONOn one: Another Gentleman Day by Pipl Blong Tomorrah, b/w Richard Norris (Time & Space Machine) remix

One night almost exactly four years ago I had a dream about Bill Drummond, dishing out art advice. Very weird as I never remember my dreams. I emailed him about it to see if he had any advice, and as a p.s. I mentioned Yoko Ono's Lighthouse At The Top Of The World. Although Bill is a friend of artists everywhere, I like to think that the main reason that he responded was because of that p.s. and he set up a scheme where I was to email him with my artistic developments and he in turn was secretly sending me chapters of the project he was currently working on, which of course became the novel 2023 and the return of The JAMMS.

Sometime during this email exchange, I sent Bill my latest work, a track which uses Ken Campbell's translation of Macbeth into Bislama, a pidgen english that developed amongst the slaves on the Melanesian sugar plantations and the very next week I find that Bill went and incorporated the same monologue into the next chapter of '2023'! It's right there on pages 104-106. Ace.

Meanwhile in the last two years the track has rocked so many dancefloors from my dub cut that it's finally time to get it out there. Your disco LOVES Ken Campbell...

BOB05 Another Gentleman Day by Pipl Blong Tomorrah

BooKs Of BokONOn two: Kerry Riley - You're No Good

a 21st century remake of Terry Riley's lost classic 'You're No Good'. Originally commissioned by a tripping Philly nightclub owner in '67, Terry's loop and delay masterpiece is a full FIVE YEARS ahead of Tom Moulton's "first disco record" in it's extension of a 3 minute northern soul cut into 20 minutes of hypnotic madness, an essential missing piece of disco history. Unfortunately the original becomes way too messy for even the most fuckest uppest of leftfield dancefloors, so BooKs Of BokONOn have recreated it's maddening and magical beauty from scratch using 21st Century tech to elicit wild whoops and hollers on the dancefloors of the current discordian disco underground. It's an essential piece of history for the future, now that time as we know it is coming to a big question mark, with it's newly repurposed central message thrown at a civilisation past it's sell by date. 'You're No Good' could be an anthem to sing as we wave ta-ra to our outmoded slave owners and their old ways of being, dancing our faces off, or it could be dedicated to Tories everyplace.

BOB04 You're No Good by Kerry Riley

the a-side of BooKs Of BokONOn three

This has been play tested to bits and always makes people crazy. 'In My Country' particularly forms a disorderly cue of eager track i.d. hunters. Makes me a right smug cunt i can tell you.

Let's wobble

BOB01 In My Country by Horton Jupiter

Heavenly Strings from another realm, analogue synths, summershine afro guitars, plus heavy heavy beats from Jupiter and Mark Ruthers, one half of the incredible Kodiak.

BOB02 Andromeda by Ruthers & Jupiter

Neither Ruthers nor Jupiter can remember making this one, another heavy heavy disco tune complete with sparkly bits, slapback bass, killer bass hook, paranoid random button safari, off their heads vocal drones and of course Vega's incessant call to get up offa your knees.

BOB02 We're All Frankies by Ruthers & Jupiter

Horton Jupiter - Milkshake Drive

BooKs Of BokONOn is a new vinyl only record label, and will feature wild, psychedelic, weird,  HYPNOtic, and most importantly FUN dancing music together with heavy philosophy, magick, surrealism and polemic. 

Initially there will be two simultaneous releases, setting out the label's mission statement, and five months later a further three releases concentrating more on the all out dancefloor elements.

Artwork for this project by the inimitable TURBO ISLAND

23 percent of any profits from the label releases will be split between the Orangutan Foundation and the David Lynch Foundation, which encourages underprivileged children to learn meditation.

The Books Of Bokonon

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