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Klaus Schulze - Style In Pornography

Klaus Schulze - Style In Pornography

The motto of Italian film maker, Lasse Braun was “Style in Pornography”. Renowned as the King Of Modern Pornography during the ‘60s, his simple, well-lit erotic style on Possessions, Sensation and Desire eventually led him to one of his last movies in 1977, Body Love, which ran with the one liner: ‘Lovely to look at, outrageous to touch’. A film whose cast includes slaves and voyeurs, Braun took it to new audiences by recruiting the former Tangerine Dream member Klaus Schulze to record the soundtrack for the exotic dances of the lead character Gilda. It was Schulze’s debut celluloid excursion and it allowed him the freedom to develop the dreamy space rock electronica that he’d honed over six studio albums during the early ‘70s, into something more wide ranging and evocative. Following the album’s huge success, a second album of music from the movie was also released, but the original Body Love remains a unique document of Schulze’s musical development and a landmark of electronic music that has survived way beyond the movie itself. Braun was soon to retire from the industry afterwards and would deliver a doctorate entitled Judiciary Censorship In The Western World. The paper caused outrage and was duly censored in an ironic twist that proved that the pen is more dangerous than a full frontal display accompanied by spacey synth overtures.

Howie B's Mobile Phone

I once lost my mobile phone and the person who found it texted me on my replacement handset to ask if there was a reward, probably because I’d inadvertently bluetoothed the whole of my address book onto it and the many numbers of various pop pals and generally dodgy characters were all on there.

Howie B's Mobile Phone

The former studio engineer, producer, songwriter, collaborator, musician and mixer, Howie B’s career blossomed through working with some of the greats of music, developing a string of inventive releases that straddle all kinds of genres, styles and mediums. According to various biogs, Mr B is a “sonic polymath”, which although sounding like some new coating for frying pans is akin to being an audio creative whose intelligent use of sound has impressed and been utilised by Bjork, U2, Tricky, Sean O’Connor, Happy Mondays and Sly And Robbie among others. Meanwhile, he’s been involved in the development of Soul II Soul with Jazzie B (no relation) in the ‘80s and James Lavelle’s hugely influential Mo’Wax label in the ‘90s, where he has been inspirational in the growth of UK hip hop.

Not satisfied with wielding his studio trickery for others, Howie B has also spent considerable time recording unique albums of electronic music that vary from the conceptual Music For Babies that etherealy moves through an aural birth canal in all its glorious ambience to the dreamy trip hop netherworld of Folk, a song-based slice of futurism that redefines electronic music.

I bet he’s even written, recorded and installed his own ringtone. Now that phone would be worth something.

United Future Organisation - Bon Voyage

The funky breakthrough album for UFO from 1999, with Dee Dee Bridgwater singing about flying saucers and all their past sound experiments melded into a hi-octane funky soul groove with Latin percussion, blaring horns and an electronica spirit making their nu jazz really shine. All musics are drawn into this unique sound, from Flamenco to pert pop and even some bluesy blowing into the bargain.

United Future Organisation - Bon Voyage