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Friday Mixtape: Altern 8 (91/12/14)
To quote John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity, “the making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention.” With that in mind, our first end of the month Friday mixtape is Altern 8 live at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool on 14 December 1991, replete with rudebwoy MC. Bass for your f*cking face, this is full on mask hysteria!
Is it possible to take Altern 8 seriously? It’s impossible not to. Because behind the rave pantomime and the giant robots and the mask hysteria, this is music for a different generation. These people never wasted their lives waiting for the next punk to arrive: 1988 was their Year Zero, and it’s still here. All you have to do is close your eyes.
This is about people with Kraftwerk, Pierre, Transmat and WARP, 808, 909 and 303 encoded in their DNA. This is a live transmission of the beat you can’t defeat, sampled over and over and hideously mutated. If you don’t understand it, you don’t deserve to. This is the phuture, right now, and this is the sound of Altern 8.
— Andrew Harrison, Select Magazine [1]
Tracklist:
01 - Move My Body
02 - E-Vapor-8
03 - Infiltrate 202 (The Altern 8 vs. Asterix & Space Re-Remix)
04 - Give It To Baby
05 - Real Time Status
06 - Activ-8 (Come With Me) (Vix-Vapo Mix)
07 - FrequencyMore Altern 8 and related recordings are available from this fan site.
