V/Vm

In league with plunderphonic pirates and dancefloor punks like Share, Hausen & Walkman, Child-606, and DJ Olive, Manchester’s V/Vm (“volume versus mass”) crew brought a well-needed boot towards the backside from the increasingly humorless dance scene from the past due ’90s, polarized using one side by mindless club trance and on the various other by self-serious bedroom boffins. A duo made up of Adam Kirby and Andy McGregor (aka Jansky Sound), V/Vm created some releases notorious for his or her crude (but lovingly complete) product packaging, high collectability (generally just 100 to 500 copies), and, oftentimes the music itself, a damaging assault on both the laws of copyright and hearing amounts. Kirby and McGregor founded the label referred to as V/Vm Check Information with Up-Link Data Transmissions, a five-track 12″ released in 1997. V/Vm’s following launch, the “compilation” Privileged Structures for Research, inaugurated a label custom by alternating songs from real suppliers (like Jega and Datathief) with a number of productions by V/Vm (and close friends) released under aliases. Graph Runners, V/Vm’s 1st LP, made an appearance in middle-1998. Another compilation, 0161, was a joint launch with fellow Manchester collector’s label Skam. V/Vm also made an appearance on the split solitary with Third Vision Foundation for NOUVEAU RICHE BUSINESSMAN Information. The label’s 1st CD produces, the compilation AuralOffalWaffle as well as the designer album Selected Remembrances from your Haunted Ballroom from the Caretaker, made an appearance in 1999. Kirby toured america later that 12 months, as well as the label was provided legitimate remix functions for everybody from Hawkwind to Madonna. A variety of compilations (The V/VM Xmas Pudding, The Green Door, Hate You) adopted during 2000-2001, and an effective album of types — Sometimes, GOOD STUFF Happen, released in two quantities — made an appearance in early 2002.