jon ryman

I have been phucking around with music since the early eighties. I only really got into it professionally in around 1992 when i thought i could make a buck and not have to suck a shed load of . JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW WRONG YOU CAN BE!!! . Like a lot of people i found myself hanging out in Ibiza during the summer of 1987.and stumbled upon the now legendary "Amnesia"it wasn't anything like what it is today.you were just as likely to hear a pop tune as you were anything else.acid hadn't quite filtered through yet.that happpened in the UK the following year.mainly it was a place that dealers and drug users frequented.LOCO AMNESIA. When i got back something seemed to have changed in the musical landscape, i couldn't tell you precisely what that was, possibly just an influx of Frankie Knuckles style acid and dancefloor tracks. By early to mid 88 a full scale musical revolution was taking place which seems like the last real youth cult to me. You could find me in the squats with acid .this was long before the "crusties" took over that scene. You could find me in underground car parks. you could find me in some of the most drug-addled clubs the world has ever seen. Sometime around early 89 the masses got involved and everything changed. From being highly elitist, ecstasy started to get a grip on the football/soccer supporters/ West Ham/Chelsea and the rest is history. From
wanting to kick your head in they wanted to score and hug you.titheads. Ubiquitous pint in hand. Even during the hieght of 88/89 you could easily clock them in the club. They would be holding the pints!
Superclubs started emerging with strong criminal links. for a good expose of this check out a UK film called "The Rise of the Foot Soldier" on DVD. there was money to be made in selling 5 thousand E and at 20 quid (40 bucks) a pop. Suprisingly, ecstasy really took off. I can clearly remember attending parties in early to mid 88 where there was no E (that's X for our american readers:), or if there was, it was highly expensive. A lot of us were on mushrooms and LSD. LSD was a big part of the early acid scene. I remember one party with that dude from the mud club Phillip Salon taking place in huge listed building with two dancefloors with minor celebrities tripping thier heads off and dozens of people living in this club/squat! A real social mudbath. Another night , on the south coast there was a guy dishing out free mushrooms on the door.a huge plastic sack with literally thousands of shrooms. Anyway, by 1990 i had had me fill and during the early nineties i did the smart thing and took as much money off the state as humanely possible (thats you folks).some examples would be dropping out of university only when it was no longer possible to scam any more cash out of the banks and student loans. Another money making scheme was card counting. you would be AMAZED at the possibilities!! The last time i paid any real rent was back then.before i got old and angry.
In 1986 i had bought a cheap akai sampler with a total memory of about 7seconds. I didn't know anyone else with one let alone anyone to look up to.it was make the rules up as you went along! There was no such thing as copyright issues because they hadn't the time to put these laws into effect.the music scene was moving VERY fast. Frankly, I'm not a massive fan of digital production techniques.the records can sound like shit. Low depth, overtimed and weak sounding. I'm more of a fan of the 24track, analogue synth, and a huge spinal-tap sized neve desk. These days, records appear out of time or lacking a groove because they are over timed.too tight! Seems much more of an issue in the rock world. I have also noticed that sonically they are inferior in many ways to what we had beforeand i'm hardly alone in these sentiments.
I started making early acid, breakbeat, ambient and house.joining the infamous white label culture.I then found myself on one of the worlds freakiest labels: Plink plonk recordings. Most people were label slags: do a few quick tunes, buy shedloads of weed, pay rent, repeat from start. I was no different. If you are so minded there are quite a few obscurities of the uk dance scene out there with my name on. or a name. i think.! A lot of people wouldn't pay up. it was becoming a sordid scene. And i think that somewhere along the line it became a culture of containment rather than of directed anger.I now realise how much the period from 80-88 affected so many of us in so far as things were screwed up by the IRON LADY tm. Over in the states, New York was still extremely chaotic and insanitised. By the late nineties dance music was looking really tired and maybe so was i: dj's spent a weekend at their gigs i was using the money to spend months at a time in places like LA and Frankfurt and getting severely dislocated. Getting back into songs seemed like a good idea. Songs.here are a few of them for Y'all. Now , on a different note.DISCOGRAPHY!
THIS IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST AS I FORGOTTEN OR WISH TO FORGET SOME OF THESE RELEASES. THERE ARE LATE EIGHTIES AND EARLY NINETIES EFFORTS WHICH I CAN NOT REMEMBER WHAT LABELS THE TUNES APPEARED ON!!
PREVIOUS JON RYMAN RELEASES:
Releases:
Artifice & Architecture (CD) Millennium Records 1994
Artifice & Architecture (LP) Millennium Records 1994
Remixes:
Remixes Volume 3 (12") No Surrender (Double R. Swim ~ 1994
Production:
Dream Injection 3: Trance & Ambience (2xCD, Dig) Surrender Sub Terranean 1996
Appears On:
Eternally Alive (CD) I'll Find My Own Way Back Millennium Records 1994
Augur (CD) Plink Plonk 1996
Dream Injection 3: Trance & Ambience (2xCD, Dig) Surrender Sub Terranean 1996
Dream Injection 4: Bright / Dark (2xCD, Dig) Series Sub Terranean 1997
Millennium, Music For The Year 2000 (2xCD) The Edge Millennium Records 1999
Tracks Appear On:
Eternally Alive (CD) I'll Find My Own Way Back Millennium Records 1994
Swim records ep double remix 1996
Eternally Alive Vol. II (CD) The Edge Millennium Records 1995
Techno Ballads Vol. II (2xCD) Codeine Bullets Millennium Records 1997
Millennium, Music For The Year 2000 (2xCD) The Edge Millennium Records 1999
Music For The Year 2000 Part 2 (2xCD) I'll Find My Own Way Back Millennium Records 2000
RELEASES UNDER THE NAME OF INTERLOPER!!



Quantum Souls (12") EAR (Electro Audio Response) 1994
Quantum Souls (12", Promo, W/Lbl) EAR (Electro Audio Response) 1994
Augur (CD) Plink Plonk 1996
Daddy Vegas (12") Plink Plonk 1996
Dependency Culture EP (12") Octopus Recordings 1997
Dependency Culture EP (CD, Maxi) Octopus Recordings 1997
Get Together / The Sanctuary (12") Rugged Vinyl Records 1998
He's Gone Away (12") Inky Blackness 1999
Bitch Slapper (12") Plank Records 2001
Six Dragons (CD) Inky Blackness 2003
Tracks Appear On:
Chillscape Compilation, Vol. 1 - Into The Soft (CD) Surrender Chillscape / Vap Inc.
High Times (CD) Satellite State Dust 2 Dust Records
Dream Injection 3: Trance & Ambience (2xCD, Dig) Surrender Sub Terranean 1996
Parasols 02 (2xCD) Daddy Vegas Plink Plonk 1996
Spacewars 01 (CD) Surrender Plink Plonk 1996
X-Mix - The Electronic Storm (CD) Daddy Vegas Studio !K7 1996
X-Mix - The Electronic Storm (VHS) Daddy Vegas Studio !K7 1996
Dream Injection 4: Bright / Dark (2xCD, Dig) Series Sub Terranean 1997
Techno Ballads Vol. II (2xCD) Surrender Millennium Records 1997
Techno Ballads Vol. III (2xCD + Box) Seatac Millennium Records 1998
Transatlantik Lounging 3 (CD) The One Life Enhancing Audio 2000
Transatlantik Lounging 3 (3xLP) The One Life Enhancing Audio 2000
The Best Of X-Mix (Part 3) (3xCD, Box) Daddy Vegas Studio !K7 2001
X-Mix - The DVD Collection Part II (DVD) Daddy Vegas Studio !K7 2001
Balance 004 (2xCD) Bitch Slapper EQ / Stomp 2002
RELEASES AS PART OF ENSEMBLES:
2007 - Jamestown union lp - Grand cut recordings uk



as mentioned this is not comprehensive. the gap between roughly 2001 and 2007 was filled by recordings for the Lift music group and for the Extreme music group. These supply music to tv broadcast. There are a lot of compilations etc that you can find individual tracks on from the nineties.but i'm buggered if i can be arsed!
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