jon ryman

i have been phucking around with music since the early eighties. I only really got into the music 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 in ibiza during the summer of 1987...and attended 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...that happpened in the uk the following year...mainly it was a place that dealers and drug users frequented...in fact i was introduced to the club by a bar owner/drug dealer. 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 garages. 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 Chelsea supporters and the West Ham and the rest is history. FRom wanting to kick your head in they wanted to score...titheads. I can remember that lot taking the piss at the clothes and style still in thier shabby top men gear with the ubiquitous pint in hand. Even during 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 "the rise of the foot soldier"...biology etc etc there was money to be made in selling 5 thousand E and at 20 quid a pop. Suprisingly, ecstasy really took off. I can clearly remember attending parties in early to mid 88 where there was no E , 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 whats his name and everyone was tripping on acid! Another night , on the south coast there was a dude dishing out free mushrooms on the door...a huge fucking plastic sack of the shit! Anyway, by 1990 i had had me fill 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 wise and angry. in 1986 i had bought an akai s7000 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! Frankly im not a fan of digital production techniques...the records sound like shit. low depth, overtimed and weak sounding. Im a fan of the 24track, analogue synths, and a big fuck off neve desk. These days records appear out of time or lacking a groove because they are over timed...too tight! I can remember a now world famous dj playing to about 50 bods and completely ruining the party with that rare groove shite he used to drop. Then fabio would appear and drop some future prototype acid breakbeat and the house would just ROCK! seems ironic now. 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... Like fsol said: it was becoming a sordid scene. 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. Getting back to instruments and tunes seemed like a good idea. So i've spent a while getting back into songs...here are a few of them for Y'all. 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 2000RELEASES 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 2002RELEASES AS PART OF ENSEMBLES: 2007 - Jamestown union lp - Grand cut recordings ukas 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 im buggered if i can be arsed! MySpace Layouts - myspace layouts