Re: Steinski's "The Motorcade Sped On"

Matt Mullen
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:25:28 +0000


>I just saw a mention to this seminal work again. This time it was in the
>new Coldcut/Hex AV single "Timber". I've read about it in articles in
>several other magazines. Does anybody actually have this? Any reviews?
>Any historical background? Let us all know...

I've got this as a 7", which was given away on the front cover of NME back
in '86 (along with a tracks by Sly and Robbie and Sonic Youth), the only
reason that I ever bought it was that it had been given loads of airplay on
late night radio 1 in the month before it was released.

For those who have never heard it, it is basically a collection of radio/tv
clips surrounding the JFK/LHO shootings set to, what you would describe as
a circa '86 beat.

The sad thing is that this is the only single which survives from a
reasonable collection of stuff from that time by Coldcut and Steinski
<sniff> that has either been sold off <sniff> lent and never returned
<sniff> or given to long since departed girl friends <sniff> :(

Was it a domestic release anywhere ?

Matt Mullen
hero no7 recordings
http://augustan.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mcfly