The Sindrome E.P.
Charlie Don’t Surf
Have 10
1999
The Tale of Havok 10
By this point, Medicine Man had his turn; now it was mine. The title track, Sin Drome is obviously a bit of wordplay, referring to a place where sin takes happens, hence the vocal sample – Bind Me, Beat Me, Whip Me, Fuck Me (and yes, I know this doesn’t sound very cool with a Yorkshire accent.)
I suppose the real gem here, though, for me and many others, is our reworking of Slayer’s Raining Blood. Header, Dirty Blonde, and Me would usually play this as the last tune before leaving the house for each Havok event. It certainly shakes away the cobwebs and gets you in the mood. We would also play it around ten o’clock the following morning at any gatherings back at our place, as it acted like a kind of cleanser. Most people found it too heavy and left, but those who stayed often became good brethren and ended up spending the weekend with us getting wrecked.
I had been nagging Harry and Woody for ages to create a techno version, and then one day, after we had finished Sin Drome, Harry got in touch and said…’I know how we can do it‘…..It was clearly a bit of an epic tune from the start, so it needed an epic-sounding name. I had thought of many different alternatives but couldn’t find anything that truly suited it—until Header and me spent the night in Rockworld, got a little worse for wear, and got into a bit of trouble, resulting in him getting a deep, large gash down his right hand. As I awoke on his sofa the following morning with a killer hangover, the first words I heard were Header exclaiming, ‘Oh No! I’ve got blood on my giro‘…
…..and the rest is history.
Run Out Groove Etchings
This Side – I Take It By The Flapping Of The Lips
When me and Nog went to London to get a load of stock for our new record shop, it was lomg before the days of Shat Nav and you had to rely on the old London A toZ. We got lost trying to find our way to Camden Town, so we did what our mothers had always told us to do: we pulled up next to a policeman and asked him, ‘Can you tell us how to get to Camden Town?‘ The copper didn’t say anything but instead flapped his lips as he thought the question through. To this, Nog simply replied, ‘I take it by the flapping of the lips, that’s a no,’ before driving off…Little did the copper know, but he had become a techno legend.
That Side – Raining Drugs…What’s The Point
‘Raining Drugs‘, is obviously a piss-take of the Slayer track ‘Raining Blood‘. However, the ‘What’s The Point‘ part, was originally intended to be ‘What’s The Fucking Point‘, but the profanity was accidentally omitted at the pressing plant. While playing multiplayer GoldenEye on the N64, one of my old friends kept getting shot in the back by his own teammate—an eight-year-old—which prompted him to throw his controller across the room and shout ‘What’s the Fucking Point if you’re just going to keep shooting me in the back‘…again, it quickly became legendary.
