
- Voodoo Monkey Skulls
- Bring On The Night
- It Glows
- Energy Drop
- Getting Jiggy With Emma G
- Rolling Thunder
- Shake It Up
- Gimme Drugs
- Headfuck
- Superchilled
- Bliss, It Was
- Last Night
All tracks written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil O'Brien.
Cover art by Neil O'Brien.
This album was another round-up of rave-oriented strays that had been written over the course of about 6 months. Despite the lack of any overarching meaning to any of it, it stands up relatively well I think: it's a dumb dance album - what more do you want? There's a handful of standout tracks I think: "Gimme Drugs" is still among my all-time favourites, "Rolling Thunder" is a bit of a banger too. There's also "Bliss, It Was", which alludes to a line from Coleridge or Wordsworth, or one of the Romantic poets at any rate talking about the French Revolution: "Bliss, it was, to be alive in that dawn, But to be young was very heaven!" The Emma G referred to on Track 5 is, of course, the anarchist Emma Goldman. Track 1 was inspired by an experience I had dropping acid in the Ivy House on my 18th birthday, when some of the tinsel Christmas decorations morphed into... well, voodoo monkey skulls.
The title of the album comes from something that was apparently printed on the membership cards at one of the early acid house clubs - maybe Shoom or somewhere like that. The speaker shown on the cover is one of the cruddy PC speakers I was still using in those pre-monitors days.
I think I'd put this album somewhere towards the top of the mid-tier of my work. The production is a bit rough in places and the first half of the album is somewhat weaker than the back end of it, but it's listenable enough anyway. I never did do any re-mixing of this album, so it'll be the original version that I make available.