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23 skidoo cross industrial, punk, hip hop, funk, jazz and tribal elements.

Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, and brothers Johnny and Alex Turnbull, 23 Skidoo had interests in martial arts, Burundi and Kodo drumming, Fela Kuti, The Last Poets, William S. Burroughs, as well as the emerging confluence of industrial, post-punk and funk, heard in artists such as A Certain Ratio, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group and This Heat.

Jhonn Balance of Coil was briefly a member, and they produced a record with David Tibet of Current 93.

The band seemed to have disappeared in the late 80’s/90’s when they focused on behind-the-scenes production work and their own record label Ronin. In 2000 they released a self-titled album featuring jazz legend Pharaoh Sanders on sax. The group disbanded in 2003.

Much of their output has been sampled on other people’s records, most notably “Coup”, sampled by The Chemical Brothers on “Block Rockin’ Beats”. The bassline of “Fire” was used by Meat Beat Manifesto on the track “Radio Babylon” which singlehandedly kickstarted the jungle and drum and bass genres.

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esi13084 wrote:
Friday morning

Alexander Kibanov, Alexei Borisov, Alexei_Bortnichuk, Cisfinitum - Hutopia_-_TRRRack.mp3 http://www.archive.org/download/TRRRack/TRRRack_vbr_mp3.zip

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mallemma wrote:
September 2009

<3 synestezyjny eklektyk.

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mb40 wrote:
August 2009

listen to "The culling is coming (1982)" and enter heaven ...

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johntardsbaby66 wrote:
August 2009

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Hawkdaddyfoolz wrote:
August 2009

I love their name.

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optimistic_tour wrote:
August 2009

i came first. it was rad

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WhoMadeCookies wrote:
August 2009

i came buckets. this is every genre i've ever wanted, mixed into one. fucking hell yes.

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SOLOMUSIKA wrote:
August 2009

.....*♫♪ ♫♪ ♥♥♥

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polymorphous71 wrote:
August 2009

Here group --------->http://www.last.fm/group/Oblique+Satellites

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Freelove_ wrote:
August 2009

Join my group: Post-Punk.

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sparkster64 wrote:
July 2009

Coming across cool stuff like this is exactly what Last.fm is all about! :o)

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TMaltheus wrote:
July 2009

Home of some of the greatest song titles in history

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dinkydauisshit wrote:
June 2009

According to my local paper they're playing in a Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. Pretty weird.

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Lestrygonian wrote:
April 2009

this is the best band ever

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crabnebula wrote:
March 2009

original sounds go round and round

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deadtired wrote:
March 2009

this is the worst band ever

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PolychromeFizz wrote:
March 2009

I loved this! Pretentious as it may be, at the time it was great. These guys were so great!

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Robert_P_Yorke wrote:
February 2009

Местами даже пост-рок... Красиво...

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Baptist23 wrote:
February 2009

i discovered 23 Skidoo over 20 years ago and they had a profound influence on how I listen to music or sounds...they are very surreal...they rule!!!

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Richey_James wrote:
January 2009

Post-Punk Society

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