KEV "GOBLINMASTER" ADAMS MUSICAL REFLECTIONS
I had the honor & privilege of interviewing Kev "GoblinMaster" Adams for Die Wurst zine. Kev Adams sculpted the most memorable Goblins & Orcs for Citadel miniatures from 1986-1992. These years were effectively the Golden Age of Games Workshop. He included these enormous lists of music from Punk gigs that he went to, to his chill-out music list & more. I thought I'd print these lists here.
Punk Gigs:
Poison girls
UK Decay
999
UK Subs
The Ruts
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Public Image
Spiz Oil
Devo
XTC
Magazine
Flux of Pink Indians
Vice Squad
Buzzcocks
Rezillos
Penetration
Stiff little Fingers
Stranglers
The clash
Cock Sparrer
Cockney Rejects
The Vibrators
The Depressions
Slaughter and the Dogs
The Adverts
Killing Joke
Manufactured Romance
The Straps
Theatre of Hate
Crisis
The Epileptics
The mekons
The varukers
Wire
Xray Spex
Kleenex
The killjoys
KEV ADAMS’ CRUCIAL TRACKS LIST
Two favorite Chicago house tracks are Risque III - Essence of a dream & Dancer - Boom Boom. 808 State’s Newbuild album was a real game changer to me in house music, later they come along with great tracks like Deepsville & Olympic flutey mix. Aural Ecstasy - Desire - Martini Club Mix has a similar vibe Kev Bird & the wax doctor with This Is A Trip, Airspace & LFO’s - LFO track & Xon- Dissonance are moody tracks & Don Carlos tracks Mediterranio & alone still give me goose bumps. earth leakage trip , the ice cream van from hell is a nice dark track, Global Method Vibe Tribe , Good life (Orbital remix) is pure class , Collapse, My Love (AMBIENT DROPS MIX) nice memories then there are tracks like Noise Factory Imperative and Underground
Resistance ,Wavehead , Meng Syndicate Carpe diem
being another, Midi Rain - Eyes
Here are some tracks from my chillout playlists , if you want to check them you should find them on youtube and its easy to use a youtube to vid converter .
Fire Brothers - This Mortal Coil
Future Sound Of London- Central industrial
Deep Pools- Ital Tek
Visions Of Shiva - Perfect Morning
Biosphere-Cygnus A
Eternal lover -In Existance
Harold Budd-The White Arcades
Ludwig A.F. Rhrscheid - Oxygen
Cluster & Eno- Ho Renomo.
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory
Steven Halpern - Trans Pan Dance
Barry Adamson - Everything Happens to Me
Geoffrey Downes - East West
Soliman Gamil - Echoes of Memphis
Mr. Bungle - The Bends
Faust - Rudolf der Pianist
Chapterhouse & Global Communication - Beta Phase (Retranslated by Global Communication)
Paz - Time Stood Still
Deeplab - Phases of Gravity
Bognermayr , Zuschrader-Irden
Les Hommes - In Spring
Tosca - Doris Dub
Bobby Hughes Experience - Seasons
Aphrodisiac-Song Of The Siren (Atlantic Mix) 2
Leroy Vinnegar Kaftan
The Last Electro - Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion
Ensemble-Cold Nights & Rainy Days
Daniel Masson - Bangla Soul
Open Canvas - Surya
Bombay Dub Orchestra - Feasting With Panthers
Beanfield - To Be Alienated
LTJ Bukem - Deserted Vault (Instrumental Mix)
Amon Tobin - Nightlife
Edwin Astley & His Orchestra - Mio Amore Sta Lontano
A Small Good Thing - Peep Show Eccentriques
Puresonique - Golden Silence (Original Version)
Nitin Sawhney ft. Eska - Sunset (KV5 Remix)
Benet - Funkhaus
Another Fine Day - Esperanto
Cocteau Twins - Watchlar
Tim Love Lee - Twilight Reservation
Spacecraft - Earthtime Tapestry
Beastie Boys - Namaste
L.S. Diezel - Skunk
Millenia Nova - Sandman
Nova June - Another Try
Zero 7 - Destiny
Gloria de Oliveira Dean Hurley - All Flowers in Time
Orbital - Semi Detached
Dead Voices On Air - Son Of The Adding Machine
Afterlife - Lo Delta
Man Parrish - Water Sports
Solar Quest - Singtree
Faust - I've Heard That One Before
Reno Costa - It's A Beautiful Day
Vangelis - Mechanical Dolls
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
Patrick O'Hearn - Magnificent River
Love T.K.O. - Lost In the Amazon & I've Got the Jungle Blues
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band - Menage a Trois
Moodswings - Wombtones
Giles Perring Nick Cash -Drums In The Night Part 1
Ultramarine - British Summertime
David toop - The Divination of the Bowhead Whale" edit / obscure no.4 b
The Caretaker - Glimpses Of Hope In Trying Times .
Gong - I Am Your Fantasy
Lonnie Liston Smith - The Cosmic Echoes - Aspirations
Enya - Afer Venus
Art of Noise - Opus for Four
Fragile State - Panacea
Dan the Automator - Professor Pyaralal
Donnacha Costello - Nothing, Still Nothing
Pete Namlook - Picnic
Clive Stevens - Nastassja
A Small Good Thing-A Mighty Stillness
Rauschfaktor - Rauschfaktor
Spylab - Celluloid Hypnotic
R Resonant - R Earth
Jimmy McGriff - Space Cadet
Lenny Ibizarre & Trumpetman - Siroco (Original Mix)
Bombay Dub Orchestra - Dust
Ozric Tentacles - Toltec Spring
Another Fine Day - Buckets & Spades
The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra - Philip Glass - II.
Some Are Low Symphony
Greg Long-Entropy
Yello - Scorpio Rising
Catalyst - Salaam
Egotrip - Dreamworld (this is one of my ((SEAN'S)) favorite techno tracks)
IASOS - Siren shallows
David A. Stewart (Orbital Space centre medical mix b-side)-Lily Was Here
Paradise X -2 Much (Start & Depart To Paradise mix by The Orb)
more moody stuff
The Diceman -Polygon Window
Aphex Twin - Ptolemy
Reload - Peschi (Original Mix)
Recent tracks i really like are Nathan Fake’s Outhouse & Sasha Pullin · Nik Beal -Dark Matter
Early electronic music influences include Kraftwerk- Numbers , Caberet Voltaire- Drinking Gasoline album, plus their Kickback song ,Fad Gadget- Back To Nature & Lady Shave nice gnarly tracks , Human League stuff , Simple Minds New Gold Dream , American Epilog, 400 blows, 23 skidoo is a great track with Charlie Manson samples
Severed Heads -Mount
Colourbox - Give em Whisky
KLF chillout (another absolute favorite)
and Space albums were favourites in the studio back then that came from Marc Gascgoine who always delivered amazing obscure stuff & I still have his tracks from those days.
There are so many electronic artists i like , Amon Tobin is one of them plus Ambient artists like Brian Eno Harold, Budd (Ice Floes in Eden ) , Robert Rich & Steve Roach, Vladimir osmos- (Lame DeFond). & Nottingham outfit O Yuki Conjugate with their songs
Ascension & Cloud Cove .
Simon Tassano & Eddy Sayer - Waterglass is another
ambient album i love , its on bandcamp .
I rate lots of early Orb productions too
I like progressive psy Trance and also Aggressive electro
like Carl Finlow , Mike Ash and R21 .
Proper mud stomping deep house is another genre I like, tracks like
Todd Terry-Sume Bah
Baruka - play it loud ,
Playin 4 The City - The Shore
Kieran Morgan - By My Side
korda - move your body (club remix),
mbg, rame, alkemy & dj uovo - dynamic seduction -
peter pan ep.,
Playin 4 The City - Minor Track (Original Mix).
morenas - cuando brilla la luna (en la cima del mundo mix).
Mission Control - Outta Limits, wicked dark track about
having taken too much acid LOL
karen pollack - you can't touch me
3MB Feat. Eddie Fowlkes - - Illuminism (Sun Electric Edit)
glam - hell's party
Crime - Flight In 2 Fantasy
plus jazzy trip hop and lounge styles as found on Soma
FM’s groove salad which i listen to a lot while working .
Here is the issue of Die Wurst interviewing him
Here is an interview with Kev on the fantastic Realms of Chaos 80s blog.