ARTIST...: Steffe Lewry
TITLE....: Mutate
YEAR.....: 2019
LABEL....: Mannequin Records
CAT.NO...: MNQ128
GENRE....: Techno
TIME.....: 30:42
SIZE.....: 70.34 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2019/11/27
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Boi5r4atbah75zubxpdr5yb5opm
TRACKLIST
01) (08:55) Mutate (Part One)
02) (06:02) Mutate (Part Two)
03) (09:03) Mutate (Part Three)
04) (06:42) Mutate (Alessandro Adriani TR-808 Edit)
Mannequin Records next release, out 23rd November is about the Mutoid Waste Company,
the legendary performance arts group founded in West London in the early 80s and an
important part of the underground counter-culture in Berlin and European early rave
scene (Spiral Tribe) to be re-discovered. The Mutate tracks where created in 1990
when Steffe Sharpstrings Lewry, vocalist composer and producer from the UK, active
since the mid 1970 (Gong, Planet Gong, Here & Now), was living with members of the
Mutoid Waste Company.
MWC were described as "part street theatre, part art show and part traveling circus"
in the 1986 LWT documentary South of Watford presented by Hugh Laurie.
The group became famous for building giant welded sculptures from waste materials and
for customising broken down cars, as well as making large scale murals in the disused
buildings where they held their parties.
In 1989, after a number of police raids on their warehouse in King's Cross, they left
the country and travelled to Germany where they became notorious for building giant
sculptures out of old machinery and car parts, one of which was 'KΣferman', a giant
human figure with a Volkswagen Beetle for its chest, offering a Bird Of Peace
sculpture that overlooked the Berlin Wall towards East Berlin and the regime of East
Germany. They had a collection of scrap military vehicles, including a Russian MiG 21
fighter aircraft which 'followed' them around wherever they went, and a painted tank
known as "the Pink Panzer".
Deeply influenced by the rise of the acid house and the industrial/experimental
sounds naturally erupted at the end of the 80s, the 3 tracks where included in a
video compilation of Mutoid art, ôHow The Mutoids Brought Down The Berlin Wallö,
edited by film maker Jonathan Barnett.
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