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Andy Weatherall has died

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  • #2
    sweetie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,791 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Billy Mays wrote: »
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/andrew-weatherall-british-producer-behind-screamadelica-dies-aged-56

    Legend. RIP


  • #3
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭francois


    Very sad, had the pleasure of supporting him a couple of times-really nice bloke, down to earth and an encyclopedic knowledge of music, a true talent and giant of the electronic music scene


  • #4
    tigerboon
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    I read a while back Haunted Dancehall is the official music to be played on loop on BBC in case of a national emergency in the UK. If you hear it on constant rotation you know something bad has happened.
    If I heard Haunted Dancehall on constant rotation, then all would be good in the world

    RIP Andrew Weatherall


  • #5
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,322 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Such terrible news, really can't believe it. Some of my fondest memories of discovering dance music in the early 90s include getting lost in mixes by Mr Weatherall. Right up to only a few years ago with his Masterpiece 3xCD mix, he always had a nack for selecting the perfect tracks, many of which were from all corners of the world... I actually keep that mix in my car at all times, a mix I often revisit and consider up there with some of the very best.

    RIP - an absolute legend and a massive contributor to a scene many of us have loved for several decades now. End of an era.


  • #6
    a148pro
    Registered Users Posts: 2,204 ✭✭✭a148pro


    Bizarrely I was randomly listening to one of his mixes when a mate texted me to tell me he'd died, but maybe that was Mixcloud algorithm throwing him up because people were searching him as news broke? If not its a little weird!

    Absolute icon for at least two generations of people into club culture, culture generally, dance music and more or less any music, and will be for generations to come. A music lover's music lover. He seems to have had an incredible ability to understand what make a track tick, strip it down and re-construct it.

    Interesting mix of many of his early productions here with a few less well known obscurities:

    https://testpressing.org/mix/050producers-series-3andrew-weatherall

    Lots of links at the bottom of this page to send you down a rabbit hole:

    https://testpressing.org/magazine/andrew-weatheralla-tribute

    Also found myself watching a couple of his interviews on Youtube in the last few weeks for some reason, very interesting guy with a great turn of phrase. Unfortunately they have cut the tracks from the interview, presumably due to licencing, real shame as I'd like to hear the mixes he's talking about:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-1-EKbPi_A&t=1834s

    Show his talents as a wood cutter in this one:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2A4RxpEvN4


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  • #7
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    RIP.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #8
    mvl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    I just found out ... reading David Holmes's tribute on social media. there was always something intriguing about Weatherall, even if I grew up on the other side of Europe; RIP, Maestro.



    PS: pulmonary embolism appears to have triggered this premature passing


  • #9
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    First gig i was ever at was Andy

    Francois may have been playing that night too.

    Legend may he RIP


  • #10
    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭dasdog


    I don't think I'll ever hear Screamadelica in it's youthful multi-colour again. You don't know what you've lost till it's gone.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILUpT2lWuE


  • #11
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    This might not be for everyone, but worth a look.



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  • #12
    limnam
    Registered Users Posts: 9,152 ✭✭✭limnam


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    This might not be for everyone, but worth a look.


    Watched it a few months ago. Great watch for anyone with the slightest interest in Andy


  • #13
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON




  • #14
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,792 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    A touching read by his mate David Holmes

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/12/andrew-weatherall-remembered-by-david-holmes-obituaries-2020

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #15
    Yell0 Man
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Yell0 Man


    This was made as a tribute shortly after he passed away

    Daniel Avery - Lone Swordsman



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


  • #16
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    life will not be the same without your kind soul. may it reeeel in the evermore ( below i think 112 beats per minute ). fail we may sail we must.



  • #17
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON




  • #18
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    a few daYs too late baby... but never forgotten

    sadly missed,

    ní nochtfaidh do mheon arís d’fhinné macánta



  • #19
    simongurnick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭simongurnick


    Smokebelch


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