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The Solid Doctor

Musical Roots

"My formative years were spent with my brother's record collection. I was still at school, but he'd left, and was working, and could afford to bring music into the house. Actually, I should say, before that: Elvis. I was an Elvis fan as a kid, and my first single was suspicious minds. Which I bought from Trevor Bolder's dad's record shop in Gypsyville. Trevor was the bassist with David Bowie and played on 'Life On Mars' [ which coincidentally was the second single I bought]. Mick Ronson, another Spider From Mars used to visit Jeff Appleby, our next door neighbour when I was little and who was in a band with Mick pre Bowie, so there was a lot of glam rock around when I was a kid... So my brother Dave was bringing Led Zeppelin, Yes, Genesis and Floyd into the house in my early teens.

When I started buying my own tunes in '80, '81, it was things like Comsat Angels, New Order, Fad Gadget - Magazine was a massive, massive influence on me - intelligent rock, for want of a better term. Then I discovered hip hop and house about '84, '85, and started buying Chicago Trax albums. I was knocking about with Porky (Pork Records owner, Dave Brennand), and he was listening to a lot of hip hop and reggae, and I immersed myself in it. Hull was a very caucasian town then and I had little or no access to black music. But when I met Porky who's from the Midlands - his record collection was another world, and that opened my ears in a big way in my early twenties. We began to DJ together at the old sugar shack at the Welly in Hull. Great days. I've always had a love of anything away from the mainstream. From Bill Nelson to Phillip Glass; Cabaret Voltaire to Studio One. All massive influences on my outlook and people using the studio as an instrument was a real inspiration."

Steve Cobby

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"And so the funky break of the trip hop groove enters the surgery of another qualified practitioner. An anaesthetic of Nepalese buckshot is administered by drip, a liquid balm of snowdrop strings and the entire works of Nino Rota (Fellini's favourite composer) are gently daubed on and small swabs of obscure dialogue and drifting radio wave samples make a patchwork poultice." - Mixmag 1995


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