Belleville Space

by Stately Homes Of England

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about

Part one of Belleville.

This Stately project is a two-pronged tribute to the Belleville Three and the peculiarly British response to that first wave of Detroit techno: the woods parties, the clubland befuddlement, the ache of the darkness that floods the room when the last strobe is switched off.

This first salvo tries to recreate that vibe through our shared distant memories of warehouse and squat parties, all-nighters at the Rocket and Robey, the lovelabs of evolution and all its cultural trimmings. It was the summer of the Orb playing space-chess on Top of the Pops, the Criminal Justice Bill and Zippies. It felt like the underground was taking the mainstream by stealth. It was great to be alive.

Part two features the original versions of the songs that sparked these diversions. They are steeped in the English way but informed by the genius of Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. There won't be a cover of Strings Of Life – but there will be strings.

credits

released 20 March 2010
All songs written by Tim Bowden and Andrew Cowen
Performed and produced by Stately Homes Of England
Original tracks recorded at The Virtual Treehouse, Birmingham, and The Glovebox, Manchester, summer 2009 to spring 2010.
Track 5 remixed by 6502g, Track 8 remixed by Tiger Mendoza
Artwork and track-dressing by Maurice

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Track Name: Støllen (Brain Machine Mix)
We used to think we were quite psychedelic,
now it's all completely academic
we got placebos and then we got got the full hit
The best minds of the blank generation
destroyed by apathy and anticipation
caught between highgate and the bottomless pit

We all breathed in when leary said 'now all breath in'
and we all breathed out and we shook it all about

We were the best minds of a bad generation
destroyed by apathy and imagination
we thought we knew it all when we really knew squat
the children of mckenna sell spiralena and henna
guarana and ginseng twenty a shot

we had seen a fractal of the future
old b-boys got their first home computer
amiga, amego, the shaman, the orb and the grid
in every dream home a float tank,
bubble lamp brain clamp,
a brain machine leech is leeching a quid

smart drinks and ravers in bright shiny mittens
waving their glowsticks and purring like kittens
all back to dan's for a weekend of bliss
there's roger the dodger, straight out of prison
tripping his tits off, talking shit in the kitchen.

"it's alright mate, he's only taking the piss."

We stayed up all night
watched dawn's blister burst
over Baldyheed Needledick
We opened our eyes
to let the moon in

and then the moon moved

and then i lost it

We're not dropping out we're dropping in
we're not copping out we're copping in
we're not dropping in we're taking over
we're not copping out we're on the border

Zen-inspired pagans, techno-powered-shamans
lovers of the mushroom and bong
See you at seven under the arches at Heaven
raving, we're raving, we're gone