Musick that Needed Work - R: Radical Dance Faction

 

I've shared Chris Bowsher’s Radical Dance Faction or RDF here before. 

 

I enjoy all of Chris' output but had most of it stashed away in the Musick that Needed Work folder for one reason or another. Mostly just gain issues or ID3 tags or the like, but my copy of Raggamuffin Statement was 192Kbps & I needed a better (320K) version. Here are the three that I had needing work. These are essential... 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Borderline Cases, Earth Zone EZ1CD, 1990.
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Surplus People    
Chinese Poem    
Borderline    
Rogue Trooper (live mix)    
4 Chuck Chant    
Back in the Same Place    
Riverwise    
Hot on the Wire    
Sorepoint for a Sickman    
Firepower (originally by Military Surplus)

 

 

 

On Raggamuffin Statement, tracks 1-5 are special mixes, tracks 6-11 are live tracks, & track 12 is a poem by Chris after witnessing first-hand the Hangerford massacre where 27 year old Michael Ryan shot & killed sixteen people, including an unarmed policeman, his own mother, & then himself. 

In the daily press, Chris Bowsher, 28, an acquaintance, described Ryan as "a bit of an oddball". 

 

Radical Dance Faction - Raggamuffin Statement, Inna State Records CD004DS4A, 1995

Beast in the Doorway (Sonic mix)
Dirty Old Town (Sonic mix)
Beast in the Dub (Sonic mix)
1st Dub / Martin Foran (Sonic mix)
Rogue Trooper (Genetic Infantryman mix)
Hot on the Wire
Punks with Guns
Dum Diggy (instrumental)
Babble On
Tense Dub
Go to a War
Statement (Hungerford Poem)

 

 

 

After Raggamuffin Statement the band went on hiatus, regrouping in 2006 & again in 2012. Here's a more recent release with Chris teaming up with a bunch of my favorite artists: Gaudi; Nik Turner (Hawkwind & more); Steve Cruickshank (Revolutionary Dub Warriors). This one is 2xCD, the second one being Dub mixes by Youth.

 

Radical Dance Faction - Daydream Dystopia 2xCD, Youth Sounds YS002, 2018.

CD1 -
Old Man's Eyes
Feel Dread
Lived/We Loved
What the Man Made of Stone
RU 1
Rogue Trooper
Surplus People
Riverwise III
Paris

CD2 -
Old Man's Eyes (Youth Dub mix)
Feel Dread (Youth Dub mix)
Lived/We Loved (Youth Dub mix)
What the Man Made of Stone (Youth Dub mix)
RU 1 (Youth Dub mix)
Rogue Trooper (Youth Dub mix)
Surplus People (Youth Dance mix)
Riverwise III (Youth Dub mix)
Paris (Youth Dub mix)

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ