Too Many Faces

In 1988, Bill Drummond (who along with Jimmy Cauty, were The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, also known as The JAMMS...and later, The KLF) produced a book called "The Manual:  How To Have a Number One The Easy Way."  This described the process by which, under yet another name, The Timelords, they had produced the track "Doctorin' The Tardis" which was a novelty dance track full of samples (at the high point of the "cut and paste" trend that also included M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume", Coldcut "Doctorin' The House", Bomb The Bass "Beat Dis"...and other club classics) that did, indeed, hit #1 on the UK and New Zealand charts (and was top ten in a few other countries--and, sigh, nearly completely ignored by the mainstream here in the US.)  

"Doctorin' The Tardis" was crafted out of hard club beats mixed with Gary (the disgraced) Glitter's "Rock & Roll pt II" beat, samples of Daleks, Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character, parts of The Sweet's "Blockbuster", a vocal drop from a Steve Walsh track...and the Doctor Who theme.  Throw all that in a blender and you get a #1 hit.  (It was such a blockheadedly brilliant idea, that Bill and Jimmy credited the song to a car--Ford Timelord--and even got the CAR to be interviewed about "their" song.  (Have you figured out that I love all the crazy stuff those guys got into?) )  

The book, cheekily, described their process and encouraged others to do the same.  At least one hit track--"Bring Me Edelweiss" by an Austrian act calling themselves Edelweiss--is claimed to have followed The Manual for their track (this could be apocryphal.)  For that song, they based their melody on Abba's "S.O.S.", included samples from Run-DMC and Falco--and some regionally appropriate yodeling.  They sent this track to #1 in six countries, it hit #5 in the UK.  And, again...sigh, nearly completely ignored by US radio...though it was memorably played on MTV a lot--back when they actually played music videos--and it was a big hit in the clubs.  

I happen to own an original copy of The Manual.  

I'm not saying I followed The Manual in making today's Interbay track, "Hunger Mechanism," but the end result definitely reminds me of "Doctorin' The Tardis" and "Bring Me Edelweiss."  (Your mileage may vary.)    

It's a club track with some recognizable-to-some-people samples.  If you might be into that, give this track a listen, a like, a repost, a share, a comment, put it on a playlist...and follow this page for more Interbay tracks, every single day (so far!).

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