Another track from the Black Dog Productions album, (Bytes). Close Up Over was an Ed Handley alias, and one of 3 on the LP which was credited to Close Up Over. In playing Olivine, Peel indulged in a spot of audience pleasing given that, compared to Jauqq and Caz - the two other Close Up Over tracks on the record - Olivine manages to include the dance part of Intelligent Dance Music. I’m particularly drawn towards this track because it includes more of the bicycle spoke sound that I always enjoy hearing in dance tracks. Though unlike previous examples like Date M by The Traveller or 20 Hz by Capricorn, the sound is achieved through the keyboards rather than as a percussive adornment.
As for the title, Olivine is a mineral found in the upper mantle of the Earth’s core. If Handley’s fellow Black Dog artist, Ken Downie was the collective’s resident historian, then Handley was its in-house geologist. When it came to using the science of rock as a source of musical inspiration, he was in exalted company.
Video courtesy of Cloud4mations music.
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