SINGLE REVIEW ::: MIDFIELD GENERAL :: BASS MECHANIC AKA LO-FIDELITY WHERE???

Current mood: BOOMY BASSMAN...
Category: BOOMY BASSMAN... Music

Just occasionally, a band comes along that grabs you by the balls and takes you for a ride...

The Lo-Fidelity Allstars were just such a band..

It would have been somewhere around 1996 when they hit my radar. I saw them play LIVE a few times (both as supports and headliners) and felt sure they’d press right on up, into and all over the charts..

Yes boss, they were the BIG BAND Oasis should have been.

They had an intelligently sneeringly attitude ridden vocalist, a neat and decent fusion of more or less everything, they could play LIVE and their first LP How To Operate With Blown Mind showed the kind of promise that suggested album 3 could be truly and completely firggin well remarkable...


But they blew it.

Yes boss, they were a band that had it all sat infront of them and then they imploded. The Wrecked Train hit off down some back alley, and though most of the other members continued - it was never quite the same...

The chance went begging..


Since then, I’ve often wondered what their Skint label boss, Damian Harris AKA Midfield General felt about all that...

At the time, Mr Harris was knocking out some good enough stuff as Midfield General, but he got sidetracked into running his label, that though it became home to the likes of Fatboy Slim, never really kicked on in the way you felt it could have done, if only The Lo-Fi’s had held together and torn the world to bits...


Well 10 years on and The Midfield General appears to have ditched the hands on runinng of the Skint show and got back to his own musical muse, and this is good news, because he was good value in 1996, but because he’s good value now...


Bass Mechanic is the first taste.

It’s heavy club music: Driving. Pounding HEAVY BASS Chemical like - the sound of a man on a mission.

Yes boss, these 6 tracks DUSCH and batter your head in the same way a good night and 8 drip fed magic lager pills might.

The tunes are relentless and the sixth track on the single/12" entitled 137 Piano is PURE ROCKET GOLD!!


All this so, much like with his earlier album, Generalisation, you sense there’s plenty more and better to come from Mr Harris and I for one, am looking forward to it hearing it...

Currently listening : Generalisation By Midfield General Release date: By 24 July, 2000

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	Princess Stephen	excellent news, midfield general's 'on the floor at the boutique' is one of my favourite mix albums ever; possibly only surpassed by jon carter's 'seven live'... Posted by Princess Stephen on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 00:59 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I really rated Generalisation and have always felt he was wasted sat behind a desk.. Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 01:02 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	REX MUNDI	Your on the money with this 1 Lo-Fidelity Allstars showed definite promised pity they didnt follow thru,Midfield General as well I always used 2 play that trk "devil in a sports casual" when I djed back when it 1st came out so the new albums good huh must check it out.so is it a bit miami bass influenced I wonder if he got the title from that Pandisc label band Bass Mechanic remember them. Posted by REX MUNDI on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 06:32 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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I wonder where The Wrecked Train is now??? Oh and the Bass Mechanic link is very likely.. Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 11:13 [Remove] [Reply to this]