Straight outta Kentish Town, via deep space, Ecologist come to confuse, delight, and touch you where the sun don't shine.
'Hot Filth', a lifetime in the making, is their debut album. It's a toxic cocktail of urban angst and pop romanticism, served with a psychedelic twist strong enough to floor an elephant.
It was late '97, in an anonymous looking housing co-op in London NW5, when Tom, our hero, put down his pen and went to investigate the strange sounds coming from the flat below. There he met Jon in his makeshift studio and was soon won over by the sub-sonic rumblings and exotic loops he toyed with.
This accidental fusion of two restless minds opened a release valve for the years of pent up ideas generated through misspent time doing the acid house, bedsit blues and giro jive. The Positive Mental Institute was born and our two intrepid sonic scientists began testing new techniques. Broken beats were employed to mend bruised hearts, bouts of melancholy were lifted with random stabs of acid humour, and they found there's nothing like a dose of primal screaming to shake off the blues.
Accomplices were sought and found amongst the low-lives and wasted youths of the capital and, before they knew it, they were a band making an album.
Tom writes songs for the loved up, the terminally twisted and the lost souls that roam the streets; the darkness he sees is always splintered by a hope which illuminates the gutter and sprinkles glitter on the pavement.
Hot Filth is the result and, from the urgent beats of She Loves You, through the halcyonic Atom Of Love, to the double-edged ballad of Poor Sad Lonely Cow, Ecologist offer deep lo-fi satisfaction for frustrated romantics, pop lovers and fuct-up beat fanatics everywhere.
'Let us rise and make large of ourselves
On the dancefloor of the soul', Tom wrote.
"Come On!", he sang.
What the Press have to say
NME 'Confounding expectations is what makes Ecologist so bafflingly brilliant'
DJ Mag album review 'Brilliant, exhilarating and different - 9/10'
"ON" feature in NME 30.10.99 & Melody Maker 'Maker Breaker" feature 2/10/99
Scottish Big Issue"Discovery of the week"
NME LP review 23.10.99."Wayward psychedelic near-genius"..8/10
What's On magazine LP review 10.99- 'There's more imagination and tunes on "Hot Filth" than some bands manage in a lifetime"
Melody MakerLP review 27.10.99: Madness running riot
The Fly magazine - 'This, at no time, sounds like a record you have heard before
London Evening Standard 7.10.99 "A demented debut LP..A collection of cute melodies, abrasive samples and twisted beats, topped with Jarvis Cockersque vocals
Rocksound LP review 11.99-"Quirky, Eclectic, Raucous, Bizarre, Psychedelic, Distorted, Melodic, Introspective, Daft, Brutal, Above all Pop
NME Single review 25/9/99 "Wow.. sounds like.. Happy Mondays ,singing Beatles songs remixed by Fatboy Slim... confusing, slightly insane, a touch scary. You're going to love it
DJ Single Review- "This is going to get hammered" 4/5
Muzik Single review 11.99 - Rampaging breakbeat work out..." Approach with Extreme Caution"
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