John Lee of Huddersfield Daily Examiner calls it a “collaboration between the ex-Pigbag horn section and producer/director Stephen Duffy” with other musicians. Which is a stupid way of thinking – or a stupid inspiration for a song.”” We decided that if anyone found out about ecstasy – and we didn’t actually think that anybody would – then we’d have to call it ‘eggs for tea’ or something. “It was because I’d read that Cole Porter called cocaine ‘perfume from Spain’, because he couldn’t actually say, ‘I get no kick from cocaine,’ on the radio. It was so left field – too left field, really…” The second Calculus single, Perfume From Spain’s ecstasy-inspired lyrics were the precursor for The Shamen’s Ebenezer Goode, but with rather more wit. “It was so of its time – the fact that you’d just be waking down the road recording stuff. Calculus’ Designer Beatnik was acid house (with added trombones) and ambient house, four years before the terms were coined. Inspired by the cut-and-paste possibilities of fashion and music, Dr. But while Top Of The Pops beckoned, Duffy darted off to make an album of proto-acid house with Roger Freeman from Pigbag, under the moniker of Dr. “The second, Art of Noise man JJ Jeczalik’s remake of Kiss Me, reached exactly 150 places higher on the UK chart than the original’s No. Ian Peel of Record Collector: Duffy was a fully-fledged solo artist by 1984, releasing singles on Virgin/Ten. Its composition was rather more prosaic.” Calculus Moments Of Being (Reprisal) evokes long summer shadows over English lawns at dusk with the final Pimms of the day. This was down to the contributions of other ex-Pigbag players.”, thing about no singing from Duffy, “Amongst the joyful Jackson Pollock spatter of the album, a beautiful requiem appears. Mixed in with the techno jitterbug and Looney Tunes samples was beautiful live brass evoking the spirit of Miles Davis and Gil Evans. The album came and went like an acid rush, leaving barely a hangover.”, “one of the most overlooked records of the 80s”, “Each track on Designer Beatnik segues into the next, forming a non-stop 40-minute piece, at times sounding like Madness – the group and the mental state – hijacking a Chicago 808 House party.”, “the album was far more than a mere freaky free-for-all. With no lead vocal melodies as such, it’s by turns chemically joyful (Blasted With Ecstasy) and crepuscular (Moments Of Being). “the often overlooked experimental ode to emerging Ecstasy culture”, “one of the strangest albums of his or anyone else’s career.”, “ Designer Beatnik by Dr Calculus mdma is a sonic fantasia of cartoon dialogue, drum machines, mournful brass, funky bass and reversed strings. Sound collage – close to the edit – adds “Dudley and Trevor Horn, her main collaborator, may well have known firsthand from Vorhaus whence the sampler came in any case, the final moments wittily close the loop, mixing ORCH5 back into congeries of sampled orchestral blasts from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.” Classic Pop “Their clever use of disembodied vocal samples and found sounds featured heavily on mid-‘80s singles such as Moments in Love and Close (To the Edit), which arguably featured the first ever sampled and sequenced bass line.”
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