Heart Of Darkness \/ Black Sage \/ Delirium \/ Full Throttle \/ Res-erect<\/a><\/p>\nSitting somewhere vaguely between The Jonsun Crew, Tackhead and 23 Skidoo, The Empty Quarter release their second and superior LP.\u00a0Have a listen of this material if you have any interest in proto\u00a0techno or\u00a0funky as fuck breakbeats.\u00a0This LP\u00a0is indeed a rare groove and a massive treat to the ears…\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ben Watkins is a British electronic music artist and producer, best known as being the principal member of the band Juno Reactor. He started making music in 1982. In the early 1980s, Watkins started out as part of the London based New Wave band The Hitmen, featuring Alan Wilder who would end up in Depeche Mode and Recoil. He also played in Empty Quarter with Martin “Youth” Glover a founding member and bassist of Killing Joke.<\/p>\n
Three years after opting out of Killing Joke, dreadlocked bassist Youth teamed up with former Hitmen vocalist Ben Watkins (now also versed in keyboards, drums and guitar) to record The Empty Quarter, the official soundtrack from the play ‘Street Captives’ by Jonathan Moore. Recorded on the 26th & 27th August 1983 at Wave Studio. Forceful and musically intelligent, with layers of disembodied sound lunging and pulsing in and out, it’s a striking collection of dramatic, largely electronic instrumentals that bear some of Killing Joke’s fury, mixed with subtlety and artsiness. They adopted The Empty Quarter as their band name. Eighteen months later they followed up with Delerium, this time recorded in 5 days, more electronic, still instrumental, but with a greater focus on rhythms. The beats run from tribal to industrial to gothic funk a la<\/em> Brilliant (unsurprisingly) with several guest musicians filling out the sound. Alas it didnt get the credit it was due. Ben Watkins went on releasing techno till this date under the moniker Jumo Reactor. Martin “Youth” Glover is an influential record producer and rejoined Killing Joke in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bullshit \/ Glass Finger \/ Luscious Glory \/ Thunder Box Heart Of Darkness \/ Black Sage \/ Delirium \/ Full Throttle \/ Res-erect Sitting somewhere vaguely between The Jonsun Crew, Tackhead and 23 Skidoo, The Empty Quarter release their second and superior LP.\u00a0Have a listen of this material if you have any interest in proto\u00a0techno […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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