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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Drug Free America
Title......: Narcotica
Rip Date...: 2009-11-21 Cat.No.....: CDKTB21
Style......: Electronic Label......: Dreamtime
Quality....: VBRk Type.......: Album
Size.......: 98.87MB Source.....: CD
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Steve first met Brian when he drew up in a white 1969 Pontiac Firebird
Convertible. HeÆs dressed head to toe in black leather and has blond hair
and looked like a rock star. ôGet in, lets move across the Planetö. They
take off like a rocket. Steve notes Suicide is playing on his cassette. Few
people knew of Suicide at the time. It bonded them immediately.
They plotted to form a band like Suicide using the latest technology adding
2 metal guitarists for a full hammer Sonic Attack.
They call themselves Drug Free America after a photograph of Keith
Richards, sat in front of a customs poster saying Patience Please A Drug
Free America Comes First (ironic)
After a couple of line up changes they eventually get guitar slingers Andy
and Paul on board, they are full metal; Racket geniuses.
Throughout æ87 and æ89, they release three singles, in the UK and Europe
æNo Solid GroundÆ, æDay Glo Pussycat, æHeaven AinÆt High EnoughÆ and an
album, æAttitude 50 Centsæ. They are all Indie top ten hits. In the New
Musical Express, Melody maker and Sounds.. All their vinyl and CDs get
great critical acclaim and so do their live shows. They get to the point
where they are playing colleges and Venues with audiences of 300 to 500.
They also support American noise bands including the Swans, Janes
Addiction, Pussy Galore, and play Futurama æ89. Also they support Uk acts
like Spacemen 3, Birdland, Thee Hypnotics, Gaye Bikers on Acid, Ghost Dance
and do sell out headline tours. The reaction is wild and violent. At some
shows bottles and cans pour down on the stage. The mosh pit is a cauldron
of seething bodies and sweat.
The Press say Drug Free are the first since Joy Division to do everything
on their own terms. The pressure of gigging on little or no money gets to
them. The crew get a small amount for each show, the band never take a
penny. All the money from shows / record sales go back into the project to
cover transport, light show, equipment, recording, CD record pressing and
Videos etc. The band and Crew, Fran, Terminator, Kevo, Dave, Mick and
Martin all sleep with the equipment in a Transit 190 van. They are also
having emotional problems with girlfriends. The burn out gets fierce.
Eventually they imploded in a mess of drugs, booze and pure exhaustion.
After 3 bright years they start to break up.
Though DFA are breaking up Concrete Inc Records contact them to do a dance
re-mix of ôDaddys GunÆ. Its released as a 12 inch in autumn æ89. Its also
included on the 1990 compilation æFunky Alternatives 5?, along with acts
like æA Guy Called GeraldÆ, æ Nitzer EbbÆ, æThrill Kill KultÆ and æKMFDMÆ.
When the band split Steve went on a round the world trip, going firstly to
Thailand and an island called Ko Pang Yang. He stays on Haad Rin beach for
a month, attends the Full moon parties and gets into acid and house music.
He then goes to live in Australia and stays a year living at Bondi Beach
On his return from Bondi refreshed and having been trying Ecstasy during
æ89/Æ90 his head had tuned into dance/techno. He was listening to Belgium
trance like Cosmic Trigger/Cosmic Baby. So when he meets up with Brian he
found he had lots in common. During the Æ90s Brian was working at Dance
Events with Pecker (PX Effects) doing lighting. Using the old DFA lights,
strobe, dry ice machine and camo back drop, The two played the Trades in
Chapeltown Leeds at the famous/infamous Dream events. Steve starts to help
out and they get bang into the blossoming E culture. Brian had tried E in
New York back in Autumn æ81 (it was Legal then) when he worked with Soft
Cell on their album æNone Stop Erotic CabaretÆ.. While clubbing in New York
he became a friend of the infamous pill dealer Cindy Ecstasy and so was one
of the first people from the UK. to try the drug that hit the Northern
clubs in æ89/Æ90 like a.. Hurricane..
Steve and Brian start to make music together again this time without the
earlier hardships.With less vocals and guitars it comes out as Techno.
Cybersound sign them and they release 3 twelve-inch singles, æMedication
TimeÆ, æLoud EverybodyÆ and æCan You FeelÆ. featuring Louise Dean. (R.I.P
Sadly missed)..
Rob Tissera plays them at Dream and they sell well. Hammy owner of
Peaceville records likes what he has heard and contacts Cybersound to buy
DFA for his new experimental label Dreamtime. This small label is not Metal
like the main label Peaceville. Dreamtime has other acts like the
immaculate psychedelic band æShip of Foolsæ and the industrial band GGFH.
In æ92 Hammy puts DFA back into the studio for 30 days and nights. They end
up crashing out in sleeping bags in the studio, working round the clock
with sound engineer supremo John Dalby. John was the only person who could
stay awake with DFA..They smoke a bush of skunk and drink lots of beer.
Steve has also been dabbling with Acid While Brian has been doing lots of
large outdoor parties. They recruit Andrea Healey (aka Valley Girl) on
vocals, DJÆsà.RMD (aka electro master Mossadon) DJD, Tall Order and Beau.
The end product is an album named simply æTripæ.This title is
self-explanatory. Mix Mag love it and DFA get labelled Intelligent Techno.
It is mostly instrumental and is designed for smokers and midnight tokers
everywhere. .
DFA get endless letters/e-mails from stoners and druggies everywhere
claiming that the opening track ôCyberspaceö and the second track æDetroit
WalkaboutÆ is a benchmark in Psychedelic Techno. The title comes from
SteveÆs visit to Detroit where he recorded vocals for the æTen Miles HighÆ
a mix released on Kenny LarkinÆs æPodÆ 12 inch. He also did vocals for John
Penns Undercurrents label and met Underground Resistance,
Brian who does all the programming and writing of the tracks was in the
band Vicious Pink Years before. VP was credited for being the first band to
coin the phrase Techno in 1982. and the first Band to have World wide
success using a Roland Bass Line TB 303.
æTripÆ sells well and gets good reviews. MTV play the Video One Alien
Nation Under A Groove taken from the Album. Brian and Steve decide to
expand the line up and DFAs guitarist Paul rejoins. They also recruit
Hayley Windsor to add her sensual, breathy, dream like vocals to the mix.
After Touring Europe playing the prestigious Mind the Gap Festival
alongside acts like Pitchshifter they go back into the studio. Touring has
tightened them up into a band once again and they record Narcotica the New
Pornography.
NARCOTICA seeps in with two long hypnotic tracks by their keyboard player/
programmer Brian Moss, showing a return to their original musical
inspiration and influence û hard edge electro duo, Suicide. Contemporary
dance genres, Trip Hop and Dance dub become evident as Narcotica begins to
take hold. The band were truly ahead of their time with the concept of
drugs as sex, with many glossies, such as Cosmopolitan running features on
drugs as the sexual crutch of the nineties. Deconstructed from verse
written by vocalist Steve Dixon, the new DFA lyrics represent observations
on the nature of addiction û emotional, social and narcotic.
Steve says: ôThings seem heavier now, and so we have returned to our old
skool electro roots and made a claustrophobic album for the Blank Post E
Generation, who are now waking up to the fact that real love does not come
in tablet formö.
This time with vocals from both Steve and Hayley and Pauls immaculate
spacey, funky guitaring they come up with a sound all of their own. They
get linked to Darkwave by European fanzines, even though they donÆt know
what Darkwave is? It is not for another 5 years that the term Darkwave
becomes used in the UK to describe an electro off shoot of the new wave of
Goth music. Again DFA are bemused when girls wearing all black, Rock boots
and fishnets attend their gigs. Their audience is a mix of techno pill
heads, Darkwave Goths and crusty festival types, i.e. a fair cross section
of drug- and Booze fuelled outsiders who are all united by the Dark Techno
music DFA are playing. To confuse matters even more Steve does a re-mix
with John Dalby for Peaceville label mates, doom metallers, My Dying Bride.
The track æTranscending (Into the Exquisite) goes out as the B side of the
12 inch æ I am the Bloody EarthÆ, and ends up on metal compilations.
In 1997 they release their last C.D. for Dreamtime entitled OM23. Working
with engineer and artist Tim Wright..Again it has strong dance beats with
neat melodies and sparse vocals. The title track OM23 is used in the film
Get Real.
They are also approached by D-J Maurice, of Union nightclub in Leeds, he is
also a regular DJ at Gatecrasher playing progressive trance.. He does a
remix of the DFA track æJewels and CaloriesÆ for Charlie HallÆs Union
Recordings. It is a dance floor hit.
Recently Brian has remastered the first three singles and the first Album
plus selective tracks off æNarcoticaæ. DFA plan to reissue all the tracks
as a double C.D and will be available to Download. Now the four originals
are back in the line up watch this space for further details, we are now
Warping Timeà Now We have a Man Down. Steve Dixon AKA Fenris Wolfe RIP.
p l a y l i s t
1 Narcotica (The New Pornography) 12:28
2 Sewers of Paradise 10:37
3 Fear and Adrenalin 9:03
4 Baby Doll and the Dolphin Burger 9:47
5 Ransacking the Ethernet 7:34
6 Soap Operas and Brown 8:40
7 Drop Zone 6:58
8 Baby Doll Reprise (Video/Radio Edit) 3:34
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68:41
g r e e t i n g s
1way - agw - amok - bass - bcc - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe - uki
xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl