Colin Newman - Bastard (Vinyl)

It was four years into the swim ~ labels history before Bastard arrived. Like my previous albums, it was another collaboration this time with my partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel.There was a point in the 90s when British music journalists basically didnt get dance music and would refer to it as faceless techno bollocks. It was that very attribute that Malka and I felt most attracted to. In instrumental music, you could be anyone from anywhere. With Bastard, it took a while to get to the concept: What if we subverted the whole bloke from Wire thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? These days, this is not such a big thing, but it was hugely transgressive at the time. The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. The only singing is a one-line Malka sample on Turn. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called music by a heritage artist, but it didnt play by the rules of dan