What were you doing and wearing in 1997?

[V Knid esq]

Help please Erutufoneers! I'm writing a story and I need detail.

1997: Hilfiger, Helly Hansen, Airwalks, Spunk Jazz, Music Sounds Better With You, drum & bass going dull, Tony Blair, don't really recall much good techno...

what else was going on?

[Sheridan]

being an east coast rave kid I was wearing adidas shelltoes shoes.
liquid sky jeans with the alien girl logo stiched to the pant leg: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/images/archive/lsd_blotter_alien-grey_sm.jpg
the pants were huge and covered my feet easily. I also wore polo shirts which were also too big for my body. baggy was better then.

I remember the look for girls was all about the pixie look. short hair that was dyed and funky with lots of glitter.

[V Knid esq]

Oh yeah were girls wearing their hair in Bjork bobbles then?

Skirts over trousers must have started around then too

[Sheridan]

Oh yeah were girls wearing their hair in Bjork bobbles then?




yeah.
I loved that look.

[Tec]

I was doing loads of decent ecstasy, going to lots of good parties and wearing Tresor tshirts.

[emef]

97... i think that was the year of the floor length home made skirts, little house on the prairie style, brothel creepers, northwave esspresso's... the best trainers ever, stride trainers, steel toecap docs, piercings... various stylish chains connecting ear to nose piercing
different colour hair every time i went out (i still had hair back then)
lots of acid, lots of speed... blind date and gladiators on't tv before we went out to voodoo or the orbit etc

i might have looked like a cunt back then... but i doubt it :)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

The queen of ALL OUR HEARTS passed away.

Oh wait.. Jan Dildo died in '99.

[emef]

haha

[bracket]

I look back with embarassment at the amount of Hilfiger athletic clothing i wore. I had 4 Hilfiger jackets at one point. All before it was big in the uk and became the choice of the chav generation. It was a total dnb thing. Owned 2 Helly jackets and a couple of Nautica jackets n'all. Fila trainers, oversize jeans, oversize G-Shock watches....

Still got a well decent Helly Hansen jacket that i sometimes wear...Still own a Hilfiger jacket thats about 20 times too big for me. I dig it out for fancy dress parties...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/1150670685_ace2c1545b_m.jpg

[Loz]

97... i think that was the year of the floor length home made skirts, little house on the prairie style, brothel creepers, northwave esspresso's... the best trainers ever, stride trainers, steel toecap docs, piercings... various stylish chains connecting ear to nose piercing
different colour hair every time i went out (i still had hair back then)
lots of acid, lots of speed... blind date and gladiators on't tv before we went out

i might have looked like a cunt back then... but i doubt it :)

I wish I knew you back then

[invisibledan]

carhartt and working away building a cinema

[adsr]

wearing big pants(LOTS OF DICKIES PANTS AND OVERALLS) but never over my shoes,and skater shirts (my favorite being my thunder skate shirt) ...skating around w/ my van shoes,belly button ring,different hair cuts every month, and doing underground parties w/ my friends at a store front in town...
also working on my degree at the same time and working full time at the University....

[Sheridan]

you were a skater adsr?
cool deal.

[adsr]

you were a skater adsr?
cool deal.

I was ok at it...I liked the ramp and wanted to work my way to vert, but then..
life got in the way...

[thepigjockey]

Living in Watford. Seeing fights every week. Escaping to London every weekend. Going to Full Cycle at The End, fuck knows where else I used to go then. Wearing woolly hippy jumpers. Smoking soap bar and bogweed. Monday comedowns. Cold chips. No jiggyjiggy.

The only positive thing was Full Cycle, and I'm not even sure that was in 1997.

[mdk]

skating every day, all day (and night). dunns river nourishment and doughnuts for breakfast, tucker burger for tea, or maybe the mango curry one from the other place..you know it joe..never as good as tuckers...

yeah...spunk jazz, mealtime, writing the songs that would become open transport..

wearing skate clothes.

[V Knid esq]

Grubbs?

[bracket]

I gave up skating when i fell in the rave

[mdk]

Grubbs?

thats the one. with all the exotic burgers. good, but not tuckers.

[V Knid esq]

But yeah, not just what were you wearing / doing - what were people in general into? Fucking Britpop, obviously. But other stuff... Chris Evans? Daft Punk? Stuff like that...

[mdk]

I gave up skating when i fell in the rave

i started when i came out of the rave :)

[bracket]

Oh yeh i was wearing my 'fuck britpop' t shirt quite a lot...still gots it. :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1390/1151864473_0c4f660a49_m.jpg

[Loz]

I was coming out of Britpop in 97. After being really into it in 96, even going to that massive Oasis Knebworth gig. I was far too young to help you in your article, though, Knid. Sorry.

[thepigjockey]

Fucking Britpop

No.

Chris Evans?

Certainly not.

Daft Punk?

Maybe.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I was mainly doing this

http://www.polyfather.com/steev.jpg

[thepigjockey]

Got a tear in my eye reminiscing about all the great music that year...


Top 40 Singles of 1997
Position Song Title Artist Sales Highest Position
1 Candle In The Wind 1997 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight Elton John 4,770,000 1
2 Barbie Girl Aqua 1,590,000 1
3 I'll Be Missing You Puff Daddy & Faith Evans 1,360,000 1
4 Perfect Day Various Artists 1,270,000 1
5 Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! Teletubbies 900,000 1
6 Men In Black Will Smith 880,000 1
7 Don't Speak No Doubt 830,000 1
8 Torn Natalie Imbruglia 810,000 2
9 Spice Up Your Life Spice Girls 780,000 1
10 Tubthumping Chumbawamba 780,000 2
11 MMMBop Hanson 710,000 1
12 D'You Know What I Mean? Oasis 700,000 1
13 Never Ever All Saints 690,000 3
14 I Believe I Can Fly R. Kelly 670,000 1
15 Mama / Who Do You Think You Are Spice Girls 660,000 1
16 I Wanna Be The Only One Eternal featuring Bebe Winans 600,000 1
17 Freed From Desire Gala 560,000 2
18 Where Do You Go No Mercy 540,000 2
19 Sunchyme Dario G 500,000 2
20 Free Ultra Naté 480,000 4
21 Encore Une Fois Sash! 470,000 2
22 Too Much Spice Girls 470,000 1
23 Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro) Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli 470,000 2
24 Bellissima DJ Quicksilver 440,000 4
25 As Long As You Love Me Backstreet Boys 430,000 3
26 Baby Can I Hold You / Shooting Star Boyzone 420,000 2
27 Ecuador Sash! featuring Rodriguez 420,000 2
28 Wind Beneath My Wings Steven Houghton 410,000 3
29 Don't Let Go (Love) En Vogue 400,000 5
30 Stay Sash! featuring La Trec 400,000 2
31 The Drugs Don't Work The Verve 370,000 1
32 Lovefool The Cardigans 370,000 2
33 Tell Him Barbra Streisand & Celine Dion 360,000 3
34 Together Again Janet Jackson 360,000 4
35 2 Become 1 Spice Girls 350,000 1
36 You Might Need Somebody Shola Ama 340,000 4
37 You're Not Alone Olive 340,000 1
38 Angels Robbie Williams 340,000 5
39 Everybody (Backstreet's Back) Backstreet Boys 340,000 3
40 C U When U Get There Coolio featuring 40 Thevz 340,000 3

[mdk]

ah, it was this year

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Serpentsofthelight.jpg/200px-Serpentsofthelight.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Wu-Tang_Forever.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Company_Flow_-_Funcrusher_Plus.jpg/200px-Company_Flow_-_Funcrusher_Plus.jpg

[mdk]

and there was some good techno, actually one of the best ever techno tracks..

B1 on this (http://www.discogs.com/release/273)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

96 was a good year for music... so was 98... 97 was a bit barren for me.

[thepigjockey]

Tech house was big in 97 :/ The music was instantly forgettable but the clubs ( Heart and Soul, Whoop Whoop ) , the venues, the drugs, and the people were top.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I gave up on electronic music in 97... was listening to a lot of old minimalist stuff which went nicely with the explosion of Jim o'rourke, table of the elements, boredoms and droney stuff from 98 onwards...

[bracket]

I was playing a lot of Nintendo 64

[V Knid esq]

and there was some good techno, actually one of the best ever techno tracks..

B1 on this (http://www.discogs.com/release/273)True that - but in general it was the year that the sub-Jeff Mills loops bollocks took control big time...

[stormfield]

had just arrived in england for uni... realising i had chosen the wrong course but doing it anyway.

Missioning it into london for various parties, rephlex did the Rephresh nights in charing cross. Getting kicked out at 5am and freezing my tits off in the streets until the first train from waterloo back to egham

hanging out in a drum n bass shop called Section 5 and spending too much cash on records

[jukka]

Help please Erutufoneers! I'm writing a story and I need detail.

1997: Hilfiger, Helly Hansen, Airwalks, Spunk Jazz, Music Sounds Better With You, drum & bass going dull, Tony Blair, don't really recall much good techno...

what else was going on?

airwalks were well 89, weren't they ?

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

airwalks were well 89, weren't they ?

97 is when the townies and casuals caught up

too many words on too many t-shirts

[thembuzz]

'97 was the year big beat began to seep into the wider consciousness. have some of that

[drop]

97 was the year i moved from st. louis
everything was fucked up
friends dropping like flies from OD's and bullets
my apartment was raided once
and i had to leave in a hurry the following week because it was going to be raided again
my life was threatened twice
and the drugs stopped working
i can't even tell you what i was listening to because it wasn't even about the music anymore.
1997 was one of the worse years of my life

[wheezer]

I think my hair was still blue in 97

[Orang Utan]

SKUNK
that's all I can remember

[Martin23]

97... i think that was the year of the floor length home made skirts, little house on the prairie style, brothel creepers, northwave esspresso's... the best trainers ever, stride trainers, steel toecap docs, piercings... various stylish chains connecting ear to nose piercing
different colour hair every time i went out (i still had hair back then)
lots of acid, lots of speed... blind date and gladiators on't tv before we went out to voodoo or the orbit etc

i might have looked like a cunt back then... but i doubt it :)

That classic "at" Voodoo look :)

[mdk]

SKUNK
that's all I can remember

i guess you were in london, skunk didnt really pervade my life until i moved to london in, i think it was 98..

it was kind of around, but not like london where you basically couldnt get anything else even if you wanted to.

[Orang Utan]

Aye, that's right - I moved to London in 94 - in 1997, I was working in Our Price in Kings Road and having a bong for breakfast and playing Derrick May's Mix-Up as soon as the manager went in the office

[julian]

had been in brighton just about a year, given up alchol, more Es, less whacky drugs than before (but i think maybee i got a bonus mushroom crop that year too - or was that the year before?) and was still listening to all the music id bought during my a-levels a year or so before (direct beat, 430 west, warp/reflex electronica etc)

Ahh, but that was probably about the time some promoter in brighton was running "legends of the dark black" d&b nights at the zap? but maybee that was the year before too?

I think it was on tuseday nights - standard practice was to go out, melt brain on narcotics, and sit vacently through the lab practical the next day, littering the experiments with random readings whenever i tried to join in : /

[Lighter Thief]

I was wearing hoodies and jeans and going out a lot and smoking lots of dope.

My god, I'm stuck in a loop.

[gypsy_cream]

i was a bit of a ned, 4th year at high school.. wearin kappa, YSL, levis, adidas shelltoes, nikes, ....loved daft punk, greenvelvet, jeff mills, carl cox, blur, some happy hardcore... played final fantasy 7 ALOT, drawed alot..
drunk cider in parks lookin for fights :-/

[Orang Utan]

You must have been a kiddy in 1997?

[gypsy_cream]

yeh i was about 14 or 15

[Tec]

1997 was also the beginning of the dark times in techno.

[gypsy_cream]

i hated 1997

[thembuzz]

the whole of the late '90s were pretty dark. britpop and 'cool britannia'; the rise of the superclub; the complete commodification of, like, 'alternative culture', man; the so-called british film renaissance (basically a load of dreadful gangster flicks and laughable attempts at documenting the experience of the 'chemical generation'); fake bisexuals; the manics' poor post-richey edwards material...

[gypsy_cream]

1998 was shit too ...1999 was ok

[Spandex]

I was living with a mate in a flat above a launderette and pretending to be a postgrad student. mainly i played quakeworld and made music. i bought a lot of records with all the money I didn't have. At weekends, steev would usually come to stay and we'd play playstation and listen to music. sometimes we even went to the pub. but not much. occasionally i went out, but not much. i wore things like red jeans and stripey t-shirts. i had long hair that i hadn't washed for years. My girlfriend moved in and lived with us for about a year and i went mental. or maybe she went mental. it's all so hard to tell now.

[JonnySpeed]

adidas forever

[love_tempo]

97 was my most important and fun year :)

met my girlfriend
mushrooms and morning glory
moodymann
planet e
motorbass
played a lot of multiplayer quake in my first year of univ.
went to in san francisco fell in love with house music via DJs Iz and Rasoul, prescription records, balance records.

as for other people 97 was the year that radiohead were massive. daft punk were huge. big beat was everywhere. french house.

[love_tempo]

greenvelvet, jeff mills,/

yup, jeff mills was huge then too and luke slater and there were some good joey beltram mixes floating about. cajual + relief records. dj sneak too. boo williams. think I bought my first cristian vogel records then too.

[thembuzz]

i'm glad somebody else mentioned big beat. i was starting to fear i'd imagined it all, or it'd only happened in blackburn or something

[gypsy_cream]

oh aye i loved all that motorbass and ettiene de crecy / super discount shit back then aswell. i was quite cool for a wee schemie

[love_tempo]

Oh yeah I forgot super discount with their big bright yellow sleeves. they were huge around kerry :) Listened to pansoul recently and it's still nice to hear.

[Orang Utan]

Did they have the internet in 97?

[drop]

1997 was the year of anti-rave task forces in st. louis and chicago
it was next to impossible to promote or actually go to a party without having the police, and their dogs, all over you.

two notable parties: love love love (st. louis): basement boys, kenny dixon jr., traxx, jay goodwill, and merlin bob (at least i think he was there)

a techno party can't remember the name. it had mike dearborn, efx, and other djs. i remember it because all the djs were rocking but it was during a heatwave and was literally 100 at midnight! everyone was outside in the parking lot which caught the attention of the authorities who arrived in full riot gear, accompanied by dogs. nasty scene followed with dogs latched on to phatpants and people in dayglo running for their lives.

[love_tempo]

One of the best albums that came out in 1997 was Timbaland's Welcome to my world. Commercial hip-hops never been the same since and it's influenced almost everything. Missy Elliott became very big around then too.

[Tec]

Mr Spliffy for life

[thembuzz]

Did they have the internet in 97?

they did, but it was 90% geocities and designed with the aesthetic sensibilities of the average myspace page

[JonnySpeed]

in 97 i was 26 and mainly into acid techno and jungle. I had a major car accident and broke my skull and shoulder so actual other events are a bit of a blur... i do remember buying a pair of acid yellow 70s Kickers and being quite into stipey skate jumpers. I shaved my head properly for the first time.

[Tec]

Ozric Tentacles properly lost their powers in 1997

[cut out]

i mourned jungle losing the plot. 97 was a good year for dark jungle no doubt (like, really sick dark jungle) but all the soul disappeared and I started to look elsewhere, including techno which all my mates had always been into but I thought was largely shit. hooking up with grant and hearing subhead and stuff started to show me different.

clothes were exaclty as they were today... hoodies, jeans, trainers.

[Loz]

I now feel incredibly young. And incredibly uncool.

[Orang Utan]

wrong thread again

[kams]

2nd year of Art Degree - therefore some BAD clothes.
Vibert/Photek/4Hero etc

Pretty obvious

[Laszlo]

Spandex taught me what midi and a VCF was and I bought my first PC or was that 1996? Had 1.4 gig hard drive and scusi was fucking shit...always ruined my machine.

I certainly had a revolting pair of Kickers trainers with black and purple suede and thick chunky soles. I bought some of the reflective AirMax trainers for £110 and experienced the bubble bursting days later. Had a pepe puffer bodywarmer too. Still had a few items from GAP back then aswell.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

My girlfriend moved in and lived with us for about a year and i went mental. or maybe she went mental. it's all so hard to tell now.

I'll tell you. She was already mental, then you went mental and it was balanced, then she went even more mental but you only went a bit more mental. imbalance.

[soulcheck]

I was shaving my head back then.

Totally.

[Laszlo]

I'll tell you. She was already mental, then you went mental and it was balanced, then she went even more mental but you only went a bit more mental. imbalance.

That's living only on grey food for you.

[julian]

2nd year of Art Degree - therefore some BAD clothes.
Vibert/Photek/4Hero etc

Pretty obvious

Yes, i remember that... photek hidden camera / modus operandi on my walkman ...

(remember walkmans? ; )

[drop]

it 1997 all over again

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6953609.stm

[May Kasahara]

Hmmm, 1997...I finished my first big relationship, cut my hair short, and entered into the final year of my degree a penniless, permastoned singleton (with predictable results). The Advent were still good. Trainspotting was massive - film posters on every student wall - and consequently Underworld too, also every female student wanted to fuck Ewan McGregor. Cheap lager, great drugs, suddenly copious amounts of quality weed after a few years struggling even for soapbar. Lots of white boy dreads. Brightly coloured fluoro decor in clubs across the nation. Lots of men in dresses, for some reason. I worked in the student union bar and served approximately one billion Blastaways to members of the female rugby club (but luckily didn't have to clear up the bright orange sick at the end of every night). Barber was putting on Amorphous in Leicester. Junction 21 was still up and running and wicked, with everyone off to Stayfree afterwards for further destruction. Camo netting also a big theme in club decor. Oh, and I still looked hot in hotpants.

Memories.

[darrell]

97 doing the first bit of 3-d graff in scotland.

[joe pinapples]

In 1997 I was - 17 and going to crap student clubs and getting far too pissed on bad vodka based drinks; smoking my first zabbies with the french guys at my university halls - 1st time I'd tried proper skunk; I was wearing ill fitting 2nd charity shop clothes (like a pair of dyed red cords with a 44 inch waist, with a dodgy short sleeved shirts with shite 70's flowery designs). I had a sort of relationship for the 1st time. I was listening to photek as well and buying lots of Jesus and Mary Chain 12's, which I then left in a flat. I was eating dodgy Fray Bentos pies and smoking golden virginia, sometimes with the brown liquorice skins.

[kams]

Hmmm, 1997...I finished my first big relationship, cut my hair short, and entered into the final year of my degree a penniless, permastoned singleton (with predictable results). The Advent were still good. Trainspotting was massive - film posters on every student wall - and consequently Underworld too, also every female student wanted to fuck Ewan McGregor. Cheap lager, great drugs, suddenly copious amounts of quality weed after a few years struggling even for soapbar. Lots of white boy dreads. Brightly coloured fluoro decor in clubs across the nation. Lots of men in dresses, for some reason. I worked in the student union bar and served approximately one billion Blastaways to members of the female rugby club (but luckily didn't have to clear up the bright orange sick at the end of every night). Barber was putting on Amorphous in Leicester. Junction 21 was still up and running and wicked, with everyone off to Stayfree afterwards for further destruction. Camo netting also a big theme in club decor. Oh, and I still looked hot in hotpants.

Memories.

Hehe.. stayfree

I never went to Amorphous though.. more Zenmasters, Peek and Babble...

[May Kasahara]

Hehe.. stayfree

I never went to Amorphous though.. more Zenmasters, Peek and Babble...

Urgh. Point and laugh at the fluoro raver!

Only joking. I was a bit prone to bindi-wearing and trancing out myself, given enough drugs :)

[kams]

Hehe.. I wasn't a flouro.. no astroturf dresses for me. We used to do the upstairs room at Peek when it was at Starlight. The main room was proper digeridoo-petouli-tastic though. Ouch.

[M H]

Hehe.. I wasn't a flouro.. no astroturf dresses for me. We used to do the upstairs room at Peek when it was at Starlight. The main room was proper digeridoo-petouli-tastic though. Ouch.

Often heard them called "Bleak" on the street in leicester.. probably something to do with the Go-away trance....

[kams]

lol

[notorious J.I.M]

I had just finished Uni and was partying hard that year. I was getting tired of drum and bass and the Mo Wax type sound and Big Beat was everywhere in Brighton but I was bang into my electro again. Can't forget Tribal Gathering with Kraftwerk headlining and all the Detroit guys shutting down their arena to catch them. Clothes wise combat trousers, jeans, trainers my Universe t-shirt and a smiley one from Jockey Slut spring to mind. I had a newly shaven head after several years with a ponytail. I just found a video of Tribal Gathering actually sadly Oakey is in it and the backing music is a bit trance but it gives the memory a good jog about the clothes and hair, loads of dyed hair in bright reds, pinks and blues as I recall. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=71773056648836 84842

[thembuzz]

i was trapped in blackburn

[nempsey]

going out on thursday, friday, saturday and sunday night and then hiding on monday tuesday and wednesday

test arrived at the sub club, i was always there. i was playing techno at the odd outdoor party. culminating in a glorious appearance in full colour on page two of the sunday post.

wasn't paying attention to what anyone was wearing really. a lot of baggy combats and skate clothes, shaved techno bonces everywhere.

there were still a few crusties around in glasgow.

[notorious J.I.M]

Ah looking at the links on the bottom here it was also the year of the Brighton Dance Parade yes lots of outdoor raving went on that year, loads of daft fluoro costumes, stiltwalking aliens and the like. I found some more pictures here. http://www.imagesbrighton.com/scripts/PortWeb.dll?quickfind&template=imagesbrighton&sorton=filename&ascending=1&catalog=imagesbrighton&quickfind=dance%20parade&offset=30

[djerome]

wasn't Diesel still really popular in 97?

'music sounds better with you' wasn't until 1998 i believe?
daft punk was probably big in the u.s. in 1997. Chemical Brothers was still big.
Mtv was trying to catch onto the "electronica" bandwagon. There's a term I havent heard in ages. Electronica.
Wasn't "booty house" well known by 97?

other things i can remember...

1997 i was getting a degree. free time was watching movies, videos, on the web, buying records and making mixtapes. i was still using ICQ, but AOL had just bought it and it wasn't long until I switched to yahoo messenger or MSN.

Magazines were exploding, many new niche magazines were in the market. ALl these "alternative" music/rock magazines. The laddy mag was first introduced to the US with Maxim in april 1997 (I just checked wikipedia).

[djerome]

http://www.brandteaser.com/images/logos/logo_PornStar.gif

[djerome]

they did, but it was 90% geocities and designed with the aesthetic sensibilities of the average myspace page



and FrontPage sites, which were probably worse than Geocities pages

[gypsy_cream]

moonfruit :-/

[skosh]

lol you on the net at college already gypo?

what's moonfruit?

[gypsy_cream]

nah im at pudges hoose...need to leave in an hour : - ) ...im excited

[skosh]

ooooooooooooh good luck! xxx

[joe pinapples]

'97 was the year for bucket kits made thusly:

1 litre glass Irn Bru bottle with tinfoil gauze top

3 litre plastic cider bottle with the top third cut off

combine both with water + bad soapbar and feel slightly stoned/ill for hours

[don___quixote]

i was wearing Carhartt and Prototype21 clothes while hanging around with heavy industrialists Somatic Responses, not going to school enough, smoking home made dymex bongs and still managing to be mis-lead enough to think that throwing half arsed nights with eff all cash and even less known names in wales may actually lead to something. bloody good times.

oh and i had greasy long hair that made me look like a girl and spots.

[skosh]

i was probably wearing the same kind of stuff as i am now, charity shop chic :D

[bracket]

iPrototype21

Whatever happened to them? I have a proper decent Prototype21 hoody...

[JE:5]

I was wearing pretty much the same stuff as I am now, skate trainers, baggy jeans, t-shirts.

[cut out]

this was the love of my life in 1997:

http://www.sonicftp.com/synth/lcasesynth/esi32.jpg

£1,000 for 32 mb of memory. Akkk!

[thepigjockey]

Whatever happened to them? I have a proper decent Prototype21 hoody...

And what about Anarchic Adjustment? Where are they now? Making suits for fatcats I expect..

[bob]

this was the love of my life in 1997:

http://www.sonicftp.com/synth/lcasesynth/esi32.jpg

£1,000 for 32 mb of memory. Akkk!

its mental when they go for about £40 now!

[Rogue Molecule]

its mental when they go for about £40 now!

I paid £1200 for my ESI-4000 and sold it for £80. That hurt!

[cut out]

Still got mine. Waiting another 20 years for them to become retro-cool so I can get my grand back.

The worst thing in the world was when my Syquest SCSI disc drive broke the week before the company went bust. Knew I shouldn't have scrimped and had gone for an Iomega Zip instead.

[don___quixote]

Whatever happened to them? I have a proper decent Prototype21 hoody...

last time i spoke to them they seemed to doing more printing other peoples stuff than their own designs... they were doing mute and nintendo and stuff like that. i imagined in my head they were still doing the P21 and urban armour stuff but time moves so quickly anything could have happened to
'em i suppose.

[don___quixote]

http://www.p21.co.uk - looks like its just the terratag labels and stuff like that now on their own design front..


also not surre if it's been mentioned but it was Tribal gathering that year, so i was watching Kraftwerk, speedy J and the Bells was fucking huge at that point - i heard it around five times myself that night,


and i was wearing DC trainers, riding a GT BMX and watching loads of euro movies like trainspotting, La Haine, clubbed to death... though i could be wrong on the movies but its seems around that time.

[don___quixote]

listening to lots of disco b and electro stuff probably too.

oo and squarepusher, and leo anibaldi or however its spelt.


also i probably thought digital synths were a bit crap though again my time frame may be off a little bit there.

listening to my walkman nearly everywhere - including the old: one head up the sleave in class.

[joe pinapples]

disco b and deejay gigolos had some great records in 97

[AVX23]

And what about Anarchic Adjustment? Where are they now? Making suits for fatcats I expect..

word :) anarchic Adjustment rock - I still got an anarchic T - which I sometimes wear....the one with tetsuo giving it - they're just like candy - total classic.

97 was a bit fuzzy - I was taking a lot of Acid, throwing lots of parties, breaking into buildings - hanging out with lots of girls and discovering dubby techno and tech house.

[FiST]

fila, fly series, freshjive, mooks, droors.

[Orang Utan]

I was never a fashion victim - don't remember any brands apart from Mambo and they went shit

[cut out]

I was wearing quite a lot from these guys cos there was a skate shop in Wokingham that sold their stuff and I loved the inverted cross vibe:

http://www.lordclothing.com

[bracket]

I was never a fashion victim - don't remember any brands apart from Mambo and they went shit

Mambo never went shit. They wre never good to start with....

[joe pinapples]

i have never understood the uk love of skate gear & the gnarly d00d style, why do u want to look like americans I always think?

[AVX23]

cus stuff like the anarchic adjustment drew heavilly from anime and was (I think) made by a bunch of hippie/raver/muso types as opposed to knarly skate 'doods' - it's just that skate shops over here tended to sell them.

EMF had a lot to do with why I wore it tho - so it was more like wanting to look like a bunch of drugged up misfits from the forest of Dean than looking like americans.

Not that I was into them in 97, just I had tonnes of anarchic stuff which seems indestructable and timeless.

[komakid]

in 95 i returned from germany to croatia, to begin my high-school, so in 97 i was 2nd/3rd grade. it was 2 years after the end of the civil war and croatia was dictated by HDZ and Dr. Franjo Tudjman. It was a police state back then.

I just ended my heavy metal phase and i was wearing adidas sambas, ripped jeans, skater tees, 2nd hand stuff etc. i also had my first "beard" then, which was not a good thing, because i was often coming into confrontation with the police because of my image.

school was uncool, we mostly smoked grass and hanged out somewhere. it was a big time of tapes for me and i listened to various music like: velvet underground, daft punk, chemical brothers, cj bolland, sonic youth, dead kennedys, photek, haustor, EKV, tortoise and a bunch of mix tapes older "headz" gave to me with house, hip hop, drum and bass and techno mixes. we had one cd store in town, where te guy that worked there used to copy us music, for a few bucks on tape. we also recorded music from italian radio stations, that was mostly trip hop and down tempo stuff. big beat, too.

i visited the first house prty in my live in 97 and ate my first e. it was a party at the aurora in primosten and the dj was joe montana. who ever that was, i know he was playing sexy-funky-tribal house and for me it was the greatest thing ever, because of the first e-experience. :)

i played in a psychodelic noise rock band called "critical mass on wheels" and we also recorded our first demo in that particular year. and last but not least, i met my 1st girlfriend in 97 and walked with her 19 months. my 1st big love

a great time! teenage kicks!

[emef]

i have never understood the uk love of skate gear & the gnarly d00d style, why do u want to look like americans I always think?

whats wrong wi looking like americans?

[gen-eral]

i was listening to lots of stereolab, dying my hair pillar-box red and contemplating my rebellious teen stage.

[V Knid esq]

Thanks fucking loads all... it's not an article, I'm trying to write fiction stories. Still trying, a year later, but making progress (sl-o-o-o-o-w progress)... This thread has been more help than I can say, though.

[Ro Land]

does tuckers still exist?

when I moved to brighton 3 years ago I'd got confused and remembered it as Grubbs... which is a bit shit. Ok when yer pissed like.

[Konx-om-Pax]

starting high school i think.

[emef]

haha nice

[nempsey]

its a good thread worth resurrecting.

btw you;re talking shite about there being no good techno in 97, it was a great year for techno if you knew where to look,

http://www.discogs.com/release/13603

http://www.discogs.com/release/17647

http://www.discogs.com/release/21252

http://www.discogs.com/release/13981

[kams]

dunns river nourishment and doughnuts

mmm

although you can replace the doughnuts with cheap pork/pastry products.

[platinum ray]

Drugs in baggy trousers. Listening to "Electronica" and Chicago House. Playing UR records on the radio. Just managing to get by. Developing a stomach ulser and being about 3 stone lighter than I am now.

Nempsey, I still listen to Places all the time. I love that record.

[wheezer]

blue hair, baggy trousers, loads of strange plastic materials, spliff

[joe pinapples]

So nothings changed then Wheezer?

[Tec]

Going to Tribal Gathering, Glastonbury and various squat parties, wearing baggy rave friendly attire, failing hard at A-levels, taking lots of good ecstasy,

[thepigjockey]

I was doing loads of decent ecstasy, going to lots of good parties and wearing Tresor tshirts.

Did that affect your memory tec? ;)

I'm pleased this thread exists. I could remember several things about 1997 2 years ago but now I don't have a clue..

[Tec]

Oh shi..

You know what, i swear i didn't even re-read this thread before i posted that.

[thepigjockey]

Well, your memory's better than mine anyway ;)

[thepigjockey]

loads of strange plastic materials

So that's why you enjoy the Roy Orbison/clingfilm stories so much.

[wheezer]

So nothings changed then Wheezer?

1 out of 4 ain't bad!

[gen-eral]

in 5th year at high school, hanging out trying to be cool, listening to stereolab and wearing a pair of trousers that looked like this:

http://991.com/gallery_180x180/Spiritualized-Anyway-That-You-W-92460-991.jpg

[WON'T DO IT]

I was smoking shit loads of skunk, working in a record shop, getting even further into techno and all it's bastard offsprings, drinking loads, playing at squat parties every week (which were actually really good then) wearing clothes, taking drugs and generally having fun before it all caught up with me :)

[bracket]

wearing clothes, taking drugs

i did a lol at that

:)

[Lady E]

i had just finished my MA

Trash started that year

Cris released 'all music has come to an end' - i think

clothes wise - i dont think i was rocking any spectacularly interesting looks but clothes were a little futuristic. i remember really wanting a big diesel orange coat that looked like bubble wrap but that could have been 95

[Tec]

Why hasn't anybody admitted wearing Cyberdog threads?
C'mon Johnny, fess up man ;)

[gen-eral]

Why hasn't anybody admitted wearing Cyberdog threads?
C'mon Johnny, fess up man ;)

hihi that was 2000 for me sadly (i was young!) Glad that was a rapid passing faze. Felt dirty after leaving the shop and hid the top in my cupboard never to see the light of day.

[skosh]

1997 ...married, living in a terraced townhouse with posh neighbours who just didn't "get" us and our special 12 and 15 yr old kids, can't remember what i wore then, probably not that much different from what i wear now, i was working as a lab assistant in the centre for human reproductive biology research, was ok there but full of wankers.....

[Tec]

hahaha @ special kids..

"MUM!! have you got the rizlas?!"

[skosh]

haha they admitted years later to knowing what "daddy's special tobacco" was

there was a little private park along the road that only local residents had access to, one time gypo and jamoid decided to fill water balloons, with water i hasten to add, and tied them to the trees and fences...next thing there's a neighbourhood watch type notice thing through all the doors to look out for vicious hooligans that had tied up urine filled balloons everywhere in the park, haha my terrible kids! ;)

[bob]

hihi that was 2000 for me sadly (i was young!) Glad that was a rapid passing faze. Felt dirty after leaving the shop and hid the top in my cupboard never to see the light of day.


ha hahaha get it oot! I would love to see that...

[Loz]

yeah, wear it at coin-op!

[gen-eral]

haha yes i would get it out but i remember getting rid of it at some stage.
Incidentally the changing rooms at cyberdog have different lighting settings (normal and U.V) so you can check what yer togs look like in a club environment! Cool eh?

[gen-eral]

But not really that cool at all.

[Loz]

I think you secret wished you still had that top. Why don't you go and buy another.

[gen-eral]

i would have to pollute my ears with the hard house/psy trance that they bang out at ridiculous decibels! If i'm gonna damage my hearing it won't be for that thank you very much. Plus it would mean i would have to go to Camden. And i certainly ain't doing that in a hurry! lol

[7875]

i did acid for the first time on january 11th of that year.
i was working as a pantry cook in a restaurant and living
in a basement apartment.
got a lot of good records that year and started making
tracks more frequently, trying to find my own sound.
got this horrible cough from living in that basement
and felt like i was gonna choke to death.

[V Knid esq]

"daddy's special tobacco" lol lol lol I worked out what this meant at a pretty early age too....

[tania]

baggy trousers, piercings, The Internet, rnb that wasn't rubbish, The Matrix, the "Rachel" haircut, adidas tops, knee high skirts, wedges and platforms, semi-flared trousers, etnies shoes (skater shoes in general), trip hop etc etc

[thepigjockey]

Just stumbled on an interesting list about what was going on rave-wise in 1997:

http://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2007/11/ten-years-on-1997-year-of-dancing.html

[les diamond]

global communication 76 14 came out in 97...

here is a 97 flashback: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xh1gpfd4ik (fsol live in brighton 1997)


i remember MTV's AMP was the biggest thing about 97, bringing PHOTEK AND FSOL etc to the mainstream hated it our loved it you know you watched it if you were in the states around that time.