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Andrew Weatherall’s Sabres of Paradise were one of the U.K.’s most celebrated experimental techno groups. A combined effort of Weatherall and collaborators Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, the group released a flood of singles and EPs, many of which were collected on compilations released by Warp and Weatherall’s other main focus: the Sabrettes label, with releases from Plod and Slab, among others.

Weatherall, considers himself a DJ first, and his exhausting schedule of deckwork has been arguably as influential as his records, inspiring scores of other DJs and anticipating trends in trance-techno, inelegant dance, and even trip-hop. Still, tracks such as “Smokebelch,” “Theme,” “Wilmot,” and the expansive Haunted Dancehall did much in helping to push the post-techno envelope beyond the often staid conventions of the dance floor. Weatherall also gained visibility through remix and production work, working with Primal Scream and Scottish ambient-pop group One Dove, and reworking tracks for James, The Orb, Bjork, Therapy?, Happy Mondays, Future Sound Of London, Bomb The Bass, Skylab, and Moody Boyz. His mixing skills can be sampled firsthand via the three-CD collection Cut the Crap, released by Six by 6 Records.
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  • kaczus_

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [67]

    March 2012

  • tsintskaro

    They are not unheard of, they were pretty high profile in the 90s, certainly much more high profile than Autechre and the early Warp roster. They did a lot of high profile remix work for some pretty big bands and I think Theme even charted in the UK. The bottom line is that as a band they haven't recorded in a good 15 years and that's unlikely to change, but Andrew Weatherall has been active with his own things for a long long time, with Two Lone Swordsmen and everything else he gets up to.

    December 2011

  • IAJP

    JESUS. took me a bit too long to get into these. warp's greatest unheard of act, surely?

    December 2011

  • DoededeVries

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [66]

    October 2011

  • OFF_THE_LIP

    Another great band with a shoutbox full of mollusks. [2]

    October 2011

  • andresCR9

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [65]

    October 2011

  • tsintskaro

    Another great band with a shoutbox full of mollusks. [1]

    September 2011

  • EscAPe_MY_PaiN

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [64]

    September 2011
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