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Well, thanks for watching, but I doubt the rest of my content on the channel is going to be for you, sorry! I guess my hope was to share a story about living in his house after getting kicked out of my halls of residence at university... and hopefully get other people who would have never heard of him (like I hadn't before I moved in) into his music. it's been a while since I made this, and in those few years technology and the expectations of RUclips videos has really moved on. The up-side of that is that is nowadays, anybody can make a podcast or RUclips video or whatever. From looking at your RUclips channel, you clearly have a passion for this kind of music. Why not try and make your own? Tomorrow is February 3rd. Is that what brought you to the video?

Sorry! Only just seen this. Who's that?

@@puddinski13 it was on Saturday, yeah! But the Twitch is from a week or two prior… been busy at school!

@ ohhh that makes sense! 👍

Simon from Dddd was the guy who wrote to us when we lived in the Joe Meek building, sending us a press cutting about the Joe Meek curse saying, “Like, do you know where you live?” We sort of lost touch, do you know what happened to him?

@ I have no idea what happened to him. I like the Zine cos it felt like the last of the photocopy style zines. It was a pretty dense read!

Yeah, it was a great read. He used to type letters to me with each edition. We met the guy once when we played in Southampton. It’s a bit of a hazy memory, but we might have gone on a model railway with him?!

@@chrisball3778 Yeah, that’s right, I have that on vinyl somewhere in my mum’s house, but think it’s only been played once. Sorry to hear you got attacked at the gig though!

@@chrisball3778 I think I was at that Reading festival too!

@@dronehomeless compared to the s1000, the sound quality of the s20 was great! Unfortunately though, ours kept unplugging, especially the few live shows we had. Didn’t you feel a bit limited though with just the 16 samples? I have a Roland SP404 these days, it reminds of that a little, although the 404 has battery power and massive memory and effects. The downside of the 404 is that you can’t pitch the samples so much.

@@raulgarza4835 it’s a great title too! My friend told me it got a big revival after Thom Yorke talked about it on social media or something?

@@SonicPVC Anyone who writes a song about Junior Kickstart is cool by me.

@@heartworm2705 thanks for watching! What happened in your experience?

Yes! Please find more DHC people to interview. There's absolutely nothing about them these days ..... We need someone to document them!!

@ thanks for the watch Joe! I doubt any of the other Digital Hardcore artists would be interested in chatting with me, haha! But Hanin’s take on things would be really interesting. I’d also wish I got to know Gina a bit more.

@@joesmith-xu7od I thought I had replied to this, but maybe I didn't... anyway, I doubt any of the DHR lot would want to do a video with me, hahaha. Although I'd be interested to see Hanin's take on what it was like to be in ATR, plus I'd love to hear what Gina thought too. Do you know that AudioPilz/Bad Gear guy? I seem to remember him saying he was a big fan of Cobra Killer or something... maybe he'll do it one day!

@@Fidel_Villeneuve i tend to ramble, so i'll try to sum it up and leave off the color commentary... I was working with Matt Pizzolo's "diy fest" events and got asked to do a track for that comp. Met Alec at Nic Endo show at cbgb's and gave him a demo. Apparently next he visited U.S. office and my CDR was on top of a random pile. Next several months spent lhanging about the office and mailing out my own CD and the "Don't Fuck With US" comp for press reviews because they fired all the NYC office staff and Alec's "intelligence and sacrifice" (gag) had just come out so all effort was focused there. Anyway, ran afoul of Pete Lawton's utter contempt for music and bickered with him for years over financial statements and owning my own copyrights. (really i just liked fucking with Pete. what a dickhead that guy is.) Recently blocked and "blacklisted" by Alec when i gently admonished him for ripping off his fans with NFT scams. So yeah... there's a whole buncha details and parallels from yer story i could go on about for hours... Glad you are still making tunes, making art, being excellent, etc. cheers man.

Thanks for watching! One of the good things about the label was the kind of spirit of it, for sure... There'll be a part 2 to this where we answer some more questions people sent in, so hope you can hold on for that!

@@Fidel_Villeneuve I went 20+ years without any real insight or backstory. Waiting a few weeks (or months) for part 2 is absolutely no time at all!

@ are you using a Commodore Amiga and Octamed on your channel there? Respect!

@@Fidel_Villeneuve Indeed I am. Thanks for noticing! I'm still (somehow) squeezing life out of the same gear I had back in '95-'96. Hell, I just had Patric C sign my Amiga sampler a few months ago and everything magically sounds better now. Old habits die hard, I guess. ;)

Hope it's a good watch and sorry if it's quite rambling. We haven't really spoken about it for 20/25 years! I think it was you who inspired us to talk about it!

@Fidel_Villeneuve you're welcome. Although I hold disdain for Alec Empire's hideous views and opinions these days, I still enjoy the music on my more energetic days, and glad in some cases it's a very niche and copyright disregarding genre

​@@keironhiggspoet Well, I don't want to spoil the video for you, but yeah... I think we feel the same on both those things, and it's such a shame for everyone who liked the label (like us) at the time.

I seem to remember him growing up in Finsbury Park and going to visit it years later on a TV show?

@@nigelcarren thanks for watching and the comment! Not everything on the channel is about Joe Meek, but hope you like some of the other stuff on here too. Best wishes from an Englishman on the Japanese south coast.

Hi! How's the countryside?

Come join the chat if you like?

Hi, thanks for the comment and thanks for watching! I can't be sure exactly, but the graffiti was there around the same sort of time. I didn't live in 304 for a very long, but I went to the university and lived close by for a good few years. My channel isn't really about Joe Meek, but glad you stopped by and hope you get to visit one day!

Thanks, I'll check it out! And thanks for the watch too. Didn't Wreckless Eric have a song about Joe Meek too?

Thanks for the comment and for watching. Wasn’t there something about a boat with Heinz as well?

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching too, and I quite agree! It's a shame there aren't any modern documentaries about him, unless I've got that wrong? Not sure if it was you who subscribed but welcome. My other content is completely different though!

Thanks, that's made my day! I'll sub back!

見てくれて、ありがとうございます！私も日本も住んでいます。ほかのビデオはJoe Meekについてじゃないけど楽しんで下さい。

It's pretty scary stuff!

Thanks for watching and for the question Ian, to answer... I'm not sure! The front stairs from the road and the hallway leading up to the flats were always so weirdly cold, despite it being so hot in Summer and there being no window for ventilation. There were some scratching sounds at night in the walls sometimes, but I think it was just mice. However, Sachiko (from the bands No Cars and Umez, sadly no longer with us) said she visited another guy in a different part of the building to record on a four track, and she got some weird stuff on the tape that she never recorded come up. I don't remember that happening to me, but perhaps minidiscs don't record these things so well.

Thanks for the comment! Is that Dungeness? I've not been, but it looks amazingly beautiful. I think Vic Reeves walked it and made a show about it for the BBC once? I live in Japan now, but I think the pun is lost on most people. I certainly wouldn't have called the show Radio Activity if I lived in Fukushima or Hiroshima... Fukushima is still very much an on-going problem. Doing the radio show is a lot of fun, I used to introduce cassettes when I was 4 or 5 years old on my Dad's hifi, but the only music I had then was from a Jane Fonda workout tape... hopefully the music has got a bit better since then! If you try it on RUclips though, it can be quite difficult with the copyright.

@00I Yes, that's the place. t's certainly strange place of contradictions. I wouldn't be surprised, he lives not that far away. I think he lives in Charing, a lovely village.

@@Fidel_VilleneuveI haven't recorded sounds in my local churchyard but I did try out the cut-up technique there. I think David Bowie used that technique for some of his strange lyrics. Can you imagine doing something similiar with Alphabet Speghetti, a pasta version of a ouji board :D

@@creamofcardstvit sounds like something Joe Meek would do.

It's a bit different if your armchair is in his house though... having said that we were students and I don't think we had an armchair back then, haha.

@@Fidel_VilleneuveYeah, it's a bit of a walk from Japan to Charing :)

@@creamofcardstv Aren't they both zone 6 on the tube map?

His story is a real one off, and the records he worked on sound like nobody else.

Thanks for watching and the lovely comments! I'd like to do a video about the DHR/D-Trash stuff one day, but I wasn't sure anyone would be interested! I didn't try the software on things like road and background noise, but there's a free trial with the link if you want to try it out. Thanks again!

@keironhiggspoet I asked Brian and we are going to do an online chat about it and hopefully make a video. Are there any things you want to know, or do you have any questions?

@@Fidel_Villeneuve maybe the process of been on DHR, did you meet anyone from the label (catani, empire etc..?) and overall experience as would you do it again? all the best ! :)

@@keironhiggspoet Thanks, we definitely met them all, I'll put it on that list!

@@Fidel_Villeneuve excellent. just reminded myself of a old insta post of when DJ Scud used to post there he shared a ton of old flyers/Shizuo pictures (the latter were obviously close friends) and in one he posted about you playing at electrowerkz in 2000 as the fidel alias for a DHR night but had no idea whom you were! amusing.

It's a powerful performance, isn't it?

I think I found another one of him somewhere, if you fancy doing the quiz?

@@Fidel_Villeneuve I would love that!

Thanks for watching mate. Do you fancy trying the Radio Activity quiz sometime? ruclips.net/video/eJOkb4em0iU/видео.html

Thanks a lot! I don't know if you'll get the same sort of adverts on RUclips as I do in Japan, but this kind of technology is already commercially with us. There's a Google Pixel 8 advert I see a lot where the woman's shooting a video of her baby on the swing, and she's editing out the noise of the swing with a fader.

Thanks, it’s not a good demo at all, but it’s hopefully entertaining and shows some people what’s out there.

@@Fidel_Villeneuve well, yeah ..I enjoyed it !

Thanks, not all my stuff is about Joe Meek, but hopefully you might like something else on the channel, and thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching and for the comment! I have a vague memory of someone else at my uni rmeeting Clem Cattini in a North London pub... he must have had some amazing stories to tell!

Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching! He was clearly very smart in many ways, he built some of his own equipment and his records have a really different feel to almost anyone else's. I can also see how he might have been very difficult to be in band with some of his ideas though, too!

Thanks for watching and for the comment! I also hope young people will learn more about the music Joe recorded, there's nothing quite like it. I liked the movie, although I wonder if anyone will watch it now as Kevin Spacey is in it.

Thanks for watching and for the comment! He was certainly a bit of a one off, and it was pretty mad I ended up at 304 for a few months

I agree, have you seen the new Teenage Engineering Knockout? It looks fantastic and cheap as chips.