5/12/2023 0 Comments My love mix up volume 1Contemporaries from Windsor – the commuter belt town to the West of London he grew up in – fondly remember LSD-fuelled post-pub sessions in the early 1980s, where Weatherall’s collection of Krautrock, postpunk, roots and dub, northern soul, disco and more was the soundtrack. He was making those things long before he became the DJ / producer he’s best known as. In one sense, each thing was an addition to a fantastically complex, multidimensional gesamtkunstwerk, in another it was just the output of someone who once described the common thread connecting his work as being the fact that “I really, really like making things.” And none of these were merely side projects, they were all knitted into his process, into the culture that Weatherall inhabited and created around himself.Īs his friend of 30+ years, David Holmes, put it: “music was just something Andrew did, albeit brilliantly, but ultimately he transcended that.” Or to put it another way, Weatherall’s commitment to the culture was so absolute that everything he did, down to random phrase-making and the way he dressed, was a contribution to it. This is a man whose contributions to music were spread across many hundreds of hours of solo and collaborative releases, remixes and production work, and many thousands more hours of wildly diverse DJ sets – and beyond that there was also creative writing, journalism, anecdotes, visual art, styling, archival efforts, curation and more. Trying to home in on the best of Andrew Weatherall’s work is a sanity-testing project.
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