Lone White Guy Strikes Again. Never noticed it before but there is a classic one in the R. Kelly 'Ignition (remix)' video (one of the very few Kelly songs I’ve liked actually) and instead of being a subliminal thing they make it into a major feature of the promo. The Lone White Guy--looking exactly like the popular stereotype of a bespectacled rock critic actually (he resembles a cross between Michael Azerrad and Lou Barlow) hits the floor and starts throwing these wack (if concerted and earnest) R&B type dance moves, surrounded by a circle of black folks staring in mingled amazement and amusement (among them a second white guy hovering in the background with an ambivalent expression on his face, as well he might). So here the LWG syndrome reaches a kind of self-consciousness. Seems like quite a rich text for a reading in terms of inclusion/exclusion effects, cultural ownership, the wigga, concepts of natural rhythm versus white dis-embodiment. Also the victory of pop-ism and post-Timbaland R&B: even the guys who look like they grew up on (or are even members of) Sebadoh, like they write/read Pitchfork, can't resist getting down to our stuff!

Rob Haigh’s Pre-Omni Trio Discography: A Start

Blimey, Rob was busy in the years before the release of that first Omni Trio EP on Moving Shadow (confusingly titled Vol. 2 -- which is a weird echo of TG starting with Second Annual Report). Below is just his industrial-era output--info provided by
Francesco Brunetti, an expert on that music. Grazie!

Nurse With Wound
---keyboards on Spiral Insana
---appears on Sylvie and Babs

Diana Rogerson
unspecified contributions to albums by
Steve Stapleton's wife
---UDT 017 - Diana Rogerson - the inevitable chrystal
belle scrodd record
----UD 021 - Chrystal Belle Schrodd - Belle de Jour

Robert Haigh releases on United Dairies

UD 026 - Robert Haigh - valentine out of season
tracklist
A1 Open Minor Number One
A2 Blue In Season
A3 Ritual To Revolution
A4 Another Career
A5 Automatic Study Number One
A6 Automatic Study Number Two
A7 Impromptu
B1 Developing In Blue
B2 Senecio
B3 Open Minor Number Two
B4 Ritual To Romance
B5 Berceuse
B6 Automatic Study Number Three
B7 Automatic Study Number Four

UDT 034 - Robert Haig - the best of (only in
cassette).

A track by Truth Club appeared on the first United Dairies compilation
UDT 02 - Various Artists - Hoisting the Black Flag
(features NWW, Whitehouse, Mental Aardvarks, Truth
Club, David Cross, Hamilton and Duarte)

Robert Haigh releases on L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords

LAY 09 ---Robert Haigh - "Juliet Of The Spirits" (12")
LAY 21 ----Robert Haigh - "Music From The Ante Chamber" (12")

compilation track “Music For Piano” on The Fight Is On
(L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords) (also included with
coil/hafler/nww/lustmord/organum)

Rob Haigh as member of bands

The Truth Club -- Sleight b/w Looking for Lost Toy (Le Rey Records)

Sema with Robert Haigh - Three Seasons Only
(Le Rey Records, LR102 ) 1984
01. Empire of Signs
02. Three Seasons Only
03. Two Feats of Klee
04. Tod Dokstader

I wonder if this is all of it. (And of course if any of it is any cop). Before he went breakbeat, Haigh had a transitional period of making house tracks, so I'm curious if any of this stuff was released and what it was like.

Also curious to know if Haigh makes any appearances in England's Hidden Reverse, and whether Keenan realises who he is? 'Cos I seem to remember Keenan making a disparaging comment about Omni Trio. Actually, maybe it was his mate Jade Gordon in Obsessive Eye (yeah another great lost zine of the 90s Jon, i will photocopy you the other issues when I next come across them--Dave Howell now is part of the Fatcat team I believe), it was about how Omni was lite-weight bizniz c.f. Keiji Haino. At any rate this unexpected convergence of the universes of Keenan and Reynolds is like a rift in pop-historical space-time. Although come to think of it, a lot of industrial pierced-dick types ended up making techno-ravey stuff, didn't they, so maybe it's not so odd (remember psykick warriors of gaia? Greater Than One mutating into the ravetastic G.T.O, John & Julie, Church of Ecstasy, and then into gabbanauts Technohead? And wasn't Rising High full of ex-industrialists?). Most of the sigil squad ended up doing the whiter-than-whiter Eurotechno/trance/hardtekno stuff, though, or Drum Club area, rather than junglizm. Although 23 Skidoo claim they released the first breakbeat house track ever--title and artist elude me just now--on their label.

More than ample consolation for the non-arrival of a new Isolee album: Villalobos, Alcachofa, (Playhouse). Sooooooooo good. So thickly, gloopily, pendulously textured it's like the music's going in two directions at once--like the vertical axis is almost overpowering the horizontal, forward-through-time axis.