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Jon Ryman

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General Info

  • Genre: Ambient / Electronica / New Wave

    Location Central File, Un

    Profile Views: 373929

    Last Login: 4/1/2012

    Member Since 6/1/2007

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vY2RiYWJ5LmNvbS9jZC9qb25yeW1hbg==

    Record Label REALLY REAL LTD

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    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 before..and 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! .. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Image Hosting.... ....

  • Members

    .. BUY 1984 CD NOW £5.00GBP or $7.00..(price includes P&P Worldwide!) OR...international money order...OR....C-A-S-H. Off-Grid customers are valued here at Really Real. US customers - includes postage direct from Really Real or check the above link for CDbaby.com sample review: I'm so glad I received this CD. NINETEENEIGHTYFOUR is the fifth Jon Ryman album in fifteen years and shame on me, I didn't know him until now. He works as an electronic music producer since early nineties and his latest album is a blast. He succeeded into blending into these eleven songs (the first one is a 30" introduction) so many elements coming from 80's music in a great way that there's no song that is a filler. The atmospheres goes to songs a la Paul Haig ("Julia") to ones a la Karl Bartos ("Rhythm Machine") passing through Jean Michelle Jarre (the instrumental "Oneohone"), and John Foxx ("Overexposure"). The whole CD sounds fresh with great electronic sounds and good melodies and it catches the sounds and the themes of a period dear to many of us (see the Orwell reference of the title or the one to the Thatcher Falklands period you can read about into the inner sleeve notes) but thinking about it as a mere re-proposition of an era like it was a commercial move for sure is wrong. This CD takes inspiration from a decade of electronic music (maybe for this reason the CD closes with a 90's sounding acid techno track titled "Acid music"... because a kind of electronic music ended then with the born of a new genre) and inspire. Be sure to check it. This is the first release for Really Real and I hope that they will release more gems like this. ..

  • Influences

    The Human League,SUICIDE, John Foxx, Depeche Mode, Heaven 17, Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, DAF, Wire, Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, Recoil, New Order, Yello , shedloads of belgian and dutch new beat, all acid pioneers, thx1138, LSD, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, George Jones, Hank3, all the rebels, all the LA rebels - BJM, The Rain Parade, and of course, Devo, Ron Hardy/music box/Chicago Acid (R.I.P.)/ Detroit .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ..........

  • Sounds Like

    COUNTER PROPAGANDA/20th CENTURY NEO-ESCAPIST SOUND DESIGN

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