Week Forty-Three In Which I Shall Sorting Some Poignant Explosions.

That bloke outta ‘Yello’, the moustachioed aristocratic Austrian with the thick accent, who talks about ‘The Big Bang, the Ultimate Hero Of Low Frequency’ on their Pocket Universe album has made some amazing records and knows about bass. Their stuff gets used for HiFi demonstrations sometimes. Especially ‘The Race’. It’s his voice-over doing the commentary on it.
And I love extreme audio, including all and any really big wave fronts I experience. Music students at the University Of East Anglia, where I studied Environmental Sciences and Rock & Roll Touring (indirectly!) would explain that any sound that impinged upon their ears was a potential musical experience… which was an excuse for the cassettes lined up in this dude’s student digs, with girls’ names written upon their spines. And I love a good explosion, me. For thank god, I have never ever had to hear or feel a ‘˜real’ one. Not like the engineers who came and sorted out the equipment to set our seismic record. (See the news story ‘˜Big Badaboom In The Book!’) They were bearded and talked of how they missed the old days of underground blasting. Since now, they can make diamond teeth that eat through anything a tunneller machine may meet, including igneous rocks, like Granite. But in the old days, you had to stand in a side tunnel before the blast and breathe OUT as the pressure wave hit you, or risk blood vessel damage. It was quite an experience and makes our bassheads seem mild at around a 160dB maximum that 2013 saw us hit in the world of boom.
I have been known to use fireworks to try to bathe a whole crowd in a good pressure wave and even paid a professional pyrotechnician to fire us a big boom shell at a sound-off to measure it and feel the bass from it. And my mum loved fireworks. Gone these last three years, we are at last going to fulfil her wishes to be part of a firework. I’m driving to Colchester to the home of Heavenly Stars Fireworks linkto get some really loud and sparkly ones made up for a November Bonfire Night send-off. It’ll be an odd day but those explosions will be treasured!
Plenty of space to get stuff testing now.., so will be continuing the plot but first, some news to write.
Adam Rayner On Line Editor