Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?).
And the Gary Numan comment that Freak Like Me was better than the original Cars is really lovely – and it seems despite the debate in the comments for this video, he still believes that. Lovely guy.
I don’t disagree with that premise but the history is a little off.- Richard X’s Warm Bitch was released in 2001. I know this because I heard it in late 2001 in Sister Ray in London, and that’s how I was already downloading and listening to bastard pop from Boom Selection and Audiogalaxy before Kylie did the Brits in 2002 with her Gary Gee / Soulwax recreation of an existing white label – around the time GYBO started?
And indeed – Freelance Hellraiser’s Stroke of Genius was 2001 – August or September I think. And I Wanna Dance With Numbers was first released on white label 12″ with Being Scrubbed earlier in 2001.
Check out the Bootleg Archive if you want to hear some of these.tunes in their original MP3 glory! (video via Garry W)
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