RIP someone or another

[Knuckledragger]

This is a bit of an obscure one, but still significant.  RIP Mickey Mann.  Via the official Orbital FB page:

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Last week we lost Mickey Mann.
Mickey was a legendary sound engineer who worked with Orbital , Basement Jaxx  , Aphex Twin , Moby , Rachid Taha officiel , System 7 (Steve Hillage)  , Megadog, The Shamen , Drum Club, MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO (official) , Ultramarine, Curve, and many more.
He also fronted his own band, Pressure of Speech, creating dark electronic music that he described as folk music.  
We're raising funds to give Mickey the send off he deserves. If you'd like to contribute, you can do so here: 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/mickey-mann
We've also set up the Remembering Mickey Mann Facebook group. Please feel free to share your photos, memories and stories: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/4659692514317645
Thank you to everyone who has shared their support, memories and kind words. 

I first head Pressure of Speech's "X-Beats" in a DJ mix, sometime in the mid 90s.  At that point there was no Discogs, no P2P, and remarkably little info online.  In 2002, I asked about it in the techno room on the then-new Soulseek.  One of the UK denizens said "Oh, that's the sound engineer for Orbital."  Some time later, I paid $25 on eBay for the 12" (a lunatic price for the time.)  I was mortified to learn that the remix I liked so much was NOT on the 12".  Eventually I got my hands on the Phase 1 CD an deduced that the track that moved me so much in 1995 or so was any version of X-Beats, but in fact "Elone," specifically the Pressure of Speech 12" Version.  Elone got mislabeled as X-Beats on a number of compilations and bootlegs in the 90s.  As much as I tend to romanticize that decade, especially compared to the oligarch-driven, AI-generated hellscape in which we now reside, I do grant that it was a right royal PITA to be into obscure electronic music in the dialup era.  

It is a moody, timeless classic to this very day.  Times like these makes me wish my radio station was still going, so I could build a set around it.  More on that later.  Much later.