Show notes, links, music and other stuff for Ep 26: Dance and drugs.
Read more: Ep 26: Dance and drugs – show notesIt took me a long time to think of a title for this episode, but Addicted To Bass seemed to work. It’s credited to Josh Abrahams and Amiel. But Josh seems to go by the name Puretone nowadays.
Photo notes
1 The Anna Wood front page
2 The Phoenician Club back in the day
3 Andrew Penhallow, head of the pioneering Volition Records
4 Itch-E and Scratch-E accepting their ARIA Award
5 German version of the Anna Wood book
6 The Anna Wood badge, and the Nasenbluten single that parodied it
7 a page from Rolling Stone Australia about the media coverage
8 Leah Betts from the UK. The poster shown in hundreds of towns and the postcard campaign that challenged it
9 The Boiler Room got it’s own poster by 2000
10 Top to bottom – Sonic Animation, Madison Avenue, Amiel & Josh Abrahams
Part one
The first part of the episode was very much me trying to understand how I was affected growing up in this era, with songs and films about drugs.
Mindless Drug Hoover
Itch-E and Scratch-E’s ARIA speech
Part two
The second part is more about what happened, with Anna Wood and Leah Betts.
Nasenbluten’s brutal song
The 60 minutes special on Rave culture.
Anna Wood’s father, still on the case.
Part three
The third part is how dance music survived anyway. Here’s some great music.
Music heard
- Idiot Box I by You Am I
- I’ll Make Love To You (instrumental) by Boyz II Men
- Kinky Afro (instrumental) by Happy Mondays
- Sorted For E’s (instrumental) by Pulp
- The Reefer Song by Mindless Drug Hoover
- (He’ll Never Be An) Old Man River by TISM
- Here’s Johnny by Hocus Pocus
- Sweetness And Light by Itch-E and Scratch-E
- Nasenbluten. – Show Us Yor Tits
- Don’t Call Me Baby by Madison Avenue
- Addicted To Bass by Josh Abrahams and Amiel
- Theophilus Thistler by Sonic Animation