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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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  • Jinxiyu

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [71]

    16 Apr 9:04am Reply
  • widzhit

    Random comment to get rid of the previous crappy shouts.

    12 Feb 7:23am Reply
  • Atreidezz

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [70]

    19 Jan 7:55pm Reply
  • Hrcho

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [69]

    7 Dec 2012 Reply
  • gui_x

    xD

    19 Aug 2012 Reply
  • meinhold

    ;)

    14 Jul 2012 Reply
  • negve23

    Haunted Dancehall - peppy song

    11 Jun 2012 Reply
  • stremno

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [68]

    2 Jun 2012 Reply
  • kaczus_

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

    28 Mar 2012 Reply
  • 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.

    10 Dec 2011 Reply
  • IAJP

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

    6 Dec 2011 Reply
  • DoededeVries

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

    27 Oct 2011 Reply
  • OFF_THE_LIP

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

    22 Oct 2011 Reply
  • andresCR9

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

    6 Oct 2011 Reply
  • tsintskaro

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

    22 Sep 2011 Reply
  • EscAPe_MY_PaiN

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

    17 Sep 2011 Reply
  • edvinsusuri

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [63]

    11 Sep 2011 Reply
  • bot4ka

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [62]

    10 Aug 2011 Reply
  • m-saIami

    Seriously stop the flood, this a great group.

    6 Aug 2011 Reply
  • Henne1993

    Only reason I'm here is because of the Last.HQ guy's charts [61]

    23 Jul 2011 Reply
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