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RA.940 Man Power

RA Podcast

Resident Advisor

Music

4.6640 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Young partygoers might know Man Power, AKA Geoff Kirkwood, as the earnest geezer going back-to-back with DJs like Ewan McVicar, Paul Woolford, La La and Skream—peak-time specialists with a fine line in boofy bangers and ravey techno. Kirkwood is also a dab hand at the kind of elliptical house and deep cut detours favored by '00s labels like DFA and Optimo. In spite of a long track record as a producer and promoter, if you had to boil Kirkwood's work in recent years down to a single quality, it might be altruism. He hails from North Shields, a small town fringing the boundary of Newcastle in England's oft-neglected North East, and wears his heritage proudly. The Me Me Me label boss's involvement in a flurry of civic restoration, and no-filter paeans to the importance of working class involvement in culture, have become as central to his life as music-making itself. For an accomplished DJ who has played at nearly every good club you could name, that’s no small feat. So which side of Man Power were we in for? The answer on RA.940 is: both. '60s free verse poetry, Zebra Katz, Gesaffelstein and John Carpenter in the opening stretch? Makes sense. Octave One punching through Rozalla? You got it. An extended Joe Claussell workout atop Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place"? Why not. In Kirkwood's hands, it all goes down as smooth as a pint of Newcastle Brown. @manpower-1 Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/940

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every birth a crime, every sentence, life.

0:11.0

Wipe'd of mold and mites, would the ball run true?

0:18.0

No hope of going back. Hounds falter and stray.

0:23.6

Shame deflects the pen.

0:26.6

Love murdered neither bleeds nor stifles

0:31.6

but jogs the draughtsman's elbow.

0:35.6

What can he, change, tell her, changed, perhaps dead.

0:45.3

Delight twins, lame stays the same. Brief words are hard to find. Shapes to carve and discard.

1:09.0

Bloodax, King of York, King of Dublin, King of Orkney.

1:15.6

Take no notice of tears.

1:18.6

Let her the stone to stand over love laid aside,

1:23.6

lest the insufferable happiness,

1:26.6

impede flight to stain war,

1:31.3

to trace lark, mallet, becks, flocks, and axe-knocks, Dog will not soil the slow worms mosaic, breathless mark drops to nest in sodden trash, groovy, draculult,

2:07.6

dingy.

2:08.6

Druch at the mallet, the maze down, fog on fells, guilty of spring and springs ending amputated years,

2:23.3

Ake after the bull is beef, love a convenience.

2:29.3

It is easier to die than to remember.

2:35.0

Name and date, split in soft slate, a few months obliterate.

2:43.0

Rag, sweet tenor.

2:48.0

Descan Tom Rohde's mad rebelal, each mevelins part for the fell's late spring. Dance tippedo bull black against me, ridiculous sun-loding.

3:18.3

Chess hurtling shadows morning into noon.

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