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    Not Fade Away

    Mar 19, 2020 5 minutes
    ROB HUGHES

    ANDREW WEATHERALL

    Post-rave visionary (1963-2020)

    FOR Andrew Weatherall, the communal allure of dance music was timeless. “It’s the enduring appeal of transcendent experience, which has been with us for 200,000 years,” he told in 2017, citing everything from ancient Greek rituals to 1940s dancehalls. In his overlapping roles as DJ, producer, songwriter, musician, remixer and writer, Weatherall was a pluralist in the truest sense. Nothing was off limits, a reflection of his vast record collection that found room for soul, punk, dub, techno, rockabilly, funk, krautrock, pop and more besides. He united the worlds of acid house and indie rock to devastating effect on Primal Scream’s “Loaded”, a remix of “I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have” that completely deconstructed the original by using drum loops, vocal samples and biker movie dialogue. Its success led to him co-producing 1991’s , a high-water mark for the band and for rave culture as

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