Colin Faver has died
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tracklist for that here - 1993-12-03 - Colin Faver & DJ HMS @ Helter Skelter, Sanctuary Music Arena, Milton Keynes
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F.O.A.D
you rule
And lol at the story behind the tune (the sample aparently came from one of Loftgrovers farts, according to R.Wells in the comments section
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Jerome Hill Colin Faver special on Kool from 11 today...
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Obit from Mr C on his Facebook page:
After coming back from Burning Man with a heavy cold & more so a heavy heart after finding out about the passing of my dear friend Colin Faver, it still hasn't sunk in that he's no longer with us in this dimension. Colin was an absolute genius. A gentle & humble man who was always there to help people with a leg up into the scene, myself included. The word sweetheart was made for this guy. Colin was the founder of the Acid House scene as we know it, the first DJ in London playing House, Acid & Techno at the Camden Palace, Pyramid, Jungle, RIP at Clink Street, Rage, Knowledge & just about every important House & Techno event that existed in the South of England.
I first met Colin Faver in late 1984 at the Camden Palace, where he was playing with Chris Forbes from Capitol Radio. I was an 18 year old wide eyed & bushy tailed rapper living only 1 mile from the Palace & had been there many times as a kid as there was no ID check in London back in the 80s & I was regularly clubbing since 1980.
I'd been a street rapper for 2 years at this point, just bouncing rap lyrics off of friends (much to their annoyance) & I finally picked up the courage to go ask the DJs if they would let me rap. I signalled to Colin, he came over & asked me what I wanted. I explained to him that I was a rapper & would he mind if I got on the mic. He asked how good I was & I immediately threw some lyrics into his ear. Colin loved it & said hold on, I'll get you on the mic, what tune would you like to rap to? I told him Heavy Vibes by Montana Sextet as I did like things upbeat. I was shitting myself to be fair as I'd only rapped in one proper club before in Tenerife a month or so earlier. I had rapped a little at a CB radio Breakers Club but that was a small thing, this was huge at the Camden Palace, packed with 2500 people. Moments later I was on the mic, rapping to a crowd who went absolutely nuts, it was my true beginning.
I then spent most of 1985 detained at her majesties pleasure, where I wrote lyrics like crazy about all sorts of subjects & on coming out of jail in late 1985 house music had started to trickle though in the gay clubs, at the Camden Palace & also mixed in with Disco, Funk & Rare Groove at various warehouse events. Being as I like my music upbeat, I was all over House Music like a rash & I started writing lyrics about jacking your body & was at that time working as MC with Ron Tom & the LWR Soul Syndicate & Jasper The Vinyl Junkie, also on LWR doing his house & garage jingles & also rapping with him live in clubs.
By mid 1986 I'd completely dropped rapping on hip hop & was rapping exclusively on House music. I decided to check out the Camden Palace again & Colin Faver was still there, this time spinning with Evil Eddie Richards. I called Colin over & asked if he remembered me, telling him I'd rapped there 18 months or more before with him. He remembered me & was excited that I was there, such a sweetheart. He asked if I wanted to get on the mic, of course I said yes. He was playing house music (which is why I went up at that time) & said to me that I'd need to wait a little until he slowed the music down a bit & played Hip Hop. I told him that I no longer rap on Hip Hop & that I rapped exclusively on House Music. He was very taken aback & told me he'd never heard rap on House Music ever before & asked me what tune I'd like to rap on. I asked him what he had lined up & said This Brutal House by Nitro Deluxe. I said that's perfect. He then went & plugged in the mic, invited me into the booth, handed me the mic & started to mix in the tune.
I started rapping about House Music, Jackin' your body & all things House & the Camden Palace went absolutely nuts. After I rapped Colin invited me to come & rap live with him on the then illegal Kiss FM pirate radio station, of course I said yes. The radio station was actually in his house in a spare room at that time. Eddie Richards also invited me to go up to his house in Milton Keynes to go into the studio to make a recording, to which I also said yes. From this moment, I was the rapper for Colin Faver & Eddie Richards & my music career had truly started.
I then followed Colin around his London shows, went every Wednesday to Pyramid at Heaven, a gay night with Colin playing with Mark Moore (S-Express) & Ian B (Eon, R.I.P). They played House, Acid & Techno all night long. I was so hooked.
I continued as their MC / Rapper, working with Colin & Eddie at many shows, often at the Camden Palace. I went up to Eddie's studio in late 1986 & we started making my first recording called Page 67 on Eddie's Baad label, which was released in August 1987. Eddie thought I'd do a rap tune, which would've been the first Hip House track ever made, but I elected to do a spoken word vocal about the power of Meditation & Positive thinking as I deemed the subject way more important. I was so excited about making this tune with Eddie, which would never have happened had Colin not been so open to new talent & let me Rap with them. Here's the tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVwQGhjz-0
After the release of this record I decided to give up my day job as a milkman & do only music full time, so I took to the decks as well as being a rapper & started my own parties in Autumn 1987 in a flat in Upper Holloway, of course getting my mentors Colin Faver & Eddie Richards to come play too, along with Kid Batchelor, Jasper The Vinyl Junkie & Ron Tom & of course playing myself. I didn't have a huge amount of records then & Kid used to joke with Colin & Eddie about me being the Compilation King. lol
In February 1988 I started the night Fantasy at HQ in Camden Locke, London. I had Colin, Eddie & Kid come play with me. The night was once every 2 weeks on a Monday & ran only for a few months, I did only 5 parties there, but they were excellent. House, Acid & techno all night long, crazy banners, strobe lights & smoke machine & all my crazy North London mates going nuts.
It was here that I met the legendary Paul RIP. He came to check out Kid Batchelor as he was in the process of organising his first RIP night in Eversholt Street near Euston Station. Being the great man & gentleman that Paul is, out of respect he spoke to me before approaching Kid asking about booking Kid. I said that we're a crew, why not book us all to spin. He said he thought I was only a rapper, but I informed him that I've now started DJing. I went on the decks & at the end of the night, Paul RIP was up for booking all of us. And so the Acid House revolution in London began.
There were 2 RIP nights at this dingy basement in Eversholt Street & then Paul landed a venue that was formerly a prison in Clink Street in London Bridge. It's was here that I really cut my teeth as a DJ throughout 1988, inspired by Colin Faver, Eddie Richards & Kid Batchelor, the crew. The guys played in one room, I played in the other room with Shock Sound System. We started doing these RIP events every Saturday night & were soon doing A-Transmission on Friday nights & as spring turned to summer, we were then doing Zoo on Sunday nights. This went all year long in 1988 & for me was the birth place of true Acid House Culture in London. For sure it's where I really learned my true craft as a DJ after studying my mentors Colin Faver & Eddie Richards for 2 years.
The rest is His Story! heart emoticon
Colin has passed to be One with the Universe, in his rightful place at the heart of the Absolute, where we are all One. His Legacy in this Illusion that we call life, the great Hologram, is set in stone & will continue in all those who he touched & helped, those he brought in with an open heart & his legacy is the rave culture we know globally today. Colin Faver is the root of it all.
I'd like to pass on my complete condolences to Brenda Russell, Colin's long time partner, to all of Colin's family & to everyone who loved him. Colin Faver Rest In Peace.
After coming back from Burning Man with a heavy cold & more so a heavy heart after finding out about the passing of my dear friend Colin Faver, it still hasn't sunk in that he's no longer with us in this dimension. Colin was an absolute genius. A gentle & humble man who was always there to help people with a leg up into the scene, myself included. The word sweetheart was made for this guy. Colin was the founder of the Acid House scene as we know it, the first DJ in London playing House, Acid & Techno at the Camden Palace, Pyramid, Jungle, RIP at Clink Street, Rage, Knowledge & just about every important House & Techno event that existed in the South of England.
I first met Colin Faver in late 1984 at the Camden Palace, where he was playing with Chris Forbes from Capitol Radio. I was an 18 year old wide eyed & bushy tailed rapper living only 1 mile from the Palace & had been there many times as a kid as there was no ID check in London back in the 80s & I was regularly clubbing since 1980.
I'd been a street rapper for 2 years at this point, just bouncing rap lyrics off of friends (much to their annoyance) & I finally picked up the courage to go ask the DJs if they would let me rap. I signalled to Colin, he came over & asked me what I wanted. I explained to him that I was a rapper & would he mind if I got on the mic. He asked how good I was & I immediately threw some lyrics into his ear. Colin loved it & said hold on, I'll get you on the mic, what tune would you like to rap to? I told him Heavy Vibes by Montana Sextet as I did like things upbeat. I was shitting myself to be fair as I'd only rapped in one proper club before in Tenerife a month or so earlier. I had rapped a little at a CB radio Breakers Club but that was a small thing, this was huge at the Camden Palace, packed with 2500 people. Moments later I was on the mic, rapping to a crowd who went absolutely nuts, it was my true beginning.
I then spent most of 1985 detained at her majesties pleasure, where I wrote lyrics like crazy about all sorts of subjects & on coming out of jail in late 1985 house music had started to trickle though in the gay clubs, at the Camden Palace & also mixed in with Disco, Funk & Rare Groove at various warehouse events. Being as I like my music upbeat, I was all over House Music like a rash & I started writing lyrics about jacking your body & was at that time working as MC with Ron Tom & the LWR Soul Syndicate & Jasper The Vinyl Junkie, also on LWR doing his house & garage jingles & also rapping with him live in clubs.
By mid 1986 I'd completely dropped rapping on hip hop & was rapping exclusively on House music. I decided to check out the Camden Palace again & Colin Faver was still there, this time spinning with Evil Eddie Richards. I called Colin over & asked if he remembered me, telling him I'd rapped there 18 months or more before with him. He remembered me & was excited that I was there, such a sweetheart. He asked if I wanted to get on the mic, of course I said yes. He was playing house music (which is why I went up at that time) & said to me that I'd need to wait a little until he slowed the music down a bit & played Hip Hop. I told him that I no longer rap on Hip Hop & that I rapped exclusively on House Music. He was very taken aback & told me he'd never heard rap on House Music ever before & asked me what tune I'd like to rap on. I asked him what he had lined up & said This Brutal House by Nitro Deluxe. I said that's perfect. He then went & plugged in the mic, invited me into the booth, handed me the mic & started to mix in the tune.
I started rapping about House Music, Jackin' your body & all things House & the Camden Palace went absolutely nuts. After I rapped Colin invited me to come & rap live with him on the then illegal Kiss FM pirate radio station, of course I said yes. The radio station was actually in his house in a spare room at that time. Eddie Richards also invited me to go up to his house in Milton Keynes to go into the studio to make a recording, to which I also said yes. From this moment, I was the rapper for Colin Faver & Eddie Richards & my music career had truly started.
I then followed Colin around his London shows, went every Wednesday to Pyramid at Heaven, a gay night with Colin playing with Mark Moore (S-Express) & Ian B (Eon, R.I.P). They played House, Acid & Techno all night long. I was so hooked.
I continued as their MC / Rapper, working with Colin & Eddie at many shows, often at the Camden Palace. I went up to Eddie's studio in late 1986 & we started making my first recording called Page 67 on Eddie's Baad label, which was released in August 1987. Eddie thought I'd do a rap tune, which would've been the first Hip House track ever made, but I elected to do a spoken word vocal about the power of Meditation & Positive thinking as I deemed the subject way more important. I was so excited about making this tune with Eddie, which would never have happened had Colin not been so open to new talent & let me Rap with them. Here's the tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esVwQGhjz-0
After the release of this record I decided to give up my day job as a milkman & do only music full time, so I took to the decks as well as being a rapper & started my own parties in Autumn 1987 in a flat in Upper Holloway, of course getting my mentors Colin Faver & Eddie Richards to come play too, along with Kid Batchelor, Jasper The Vinyl Junkie & Ron Tom & of course playing myself. I didn't have a huge amount of records then & Kid used to joke with Colin & Eddie about me being the Compilation King. lol
In February 1988 I started the night Fantasy at HQ in Camden Locke, London. I had Colin, Eddie & Kid come play with me. The night was once every 2 weeks on a Monday & ran only for a few months, I did only 5 parties there, but they were excellent. House, Acid & techno all night long, crazy banners, strobe lights & smoke machine & all my crazy North London mates going nuts.
It was here that I met the legendary Paul RIP. He came to check out Kid Batchelor as he was in the process of organising his first RIP night in Eversholt Street near Euston Station. Being the great man & gentleman that Paul is, out of respect he spoke to me before approaching Kid asking about booking Kid. I said that we're a crew, why not book us all to spin. He said he thought I was only a rapper, but I informed him that I've now started DJing. I went on the decks & at the end of the night, Paul RIP was up for booking all of us. And so the Acid House revolution in London began.
There were 2 RIP nights at this dingy basement in Eversholt Street & then Paul landed a venue that was formerly a prison in Clink Street in London Bridge. It's was here that I really cut my teeth as a DJ throughout 1988, inspired by Colin Faver, Eddie Richards & Kid Batchelor, the crew. The guys played in one room, I played in the other room with Shock Sound System. We started doing these RIP events every Saturday night & were soon doing A-Transmission on Friday nights & as spring turned to summer, we were then doing Zoo on Sunday nights. This went all year long in 1988 & for me was the birth place of true Acid House Culture in London. For sure it's where I really learned my true craft as a DJ after studying my mentors Colin Faver & Eddie Richards for 2 years.
The rest is His Story! heart emoticon
Colin has passed to be One with the Universe, in his rightful place at the heart of the Absolute, where we are all One. His Legacy in this Illusion that we call life, the great Hologram, is set in stone & will continue in all those who he touched & helped, those he brought in with an open heart & his legacy is the rave culture we know globally today. Colin Faver is the root of it all.
I'd like to pass on my complete condolences to Brenda Russell, Colin's long time partner, to all of Colin's family & to everyone who loved him. Colin Faver Rest In Peace.
dlx1
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stethoscope
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Nice little piece here from the Ransom Note site.
(The Gone To A Rave section is well worth checking).
(The Gone To A Rave section is well worth checking).
xes
F.O.A.D
nice one. I listened to most of this last night, it's really rather bloody good like. Shame it's not downloadable.
ska invita
back on the other side
download linkJerome Hill Colin Faver special on Kool from 11 today...
http://koollondon.varsitycloud.co/I...=ec9c35ebac494d78862642ccf87774a7&AID=1262079
ska invita
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Good words from Jerome on this show...
Particularly the bit about Alpha Wave- 'Go for a poo record'.
No, in all seriousness, really good words.
xes
F.O.A.D
thank you gentlemen ( ska invita & dlx1 )
bugger, it's goign to go into my downloads folder which has dissapeared into another dimension. I'll be able to find it if I open up vlc though...
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Guys a London legend. He didn't have a great voice for radio but that didn't matter. He had the info & had the TUNES.
I've yet to watch that Kathy Burke 90s documentary but I'm sure Colin and the like are seriously written out of history.
I've yet to watch that Kathy Burke 90s documentary but I'm sure Colin and the like are seriously written out of history.
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stethoscope
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IMO he had a great voice for his radio show - and as far removed from the sort of 'DJ voice' most commercial stations seem to want.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Mr C has done a looong tribute - big file warning!
Beyond The Clouds - A Tribute To Colin Faver by Mr.C
Beyond The Clouds - A Tribute To Colin Faver by Mr.C
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Another great selection from Colin back in '91. The sonic cauldron of influences all hurtling around which led to other things of course.
Colin Faver, kiss fm 1991
Colin Faver, kiss fm 1991
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