Spinal Tap Set For Minimal Techno Release On Richie Hawtin’s Minus Label

Techno pioneer and perfect hair haver, Richie Hawtin, has announced that British super group Spinal Tap are set to release a minimal techno track on his Minus label.

The band who shot to fame after the 1984 documentary This is Spinal Tap are said to have reinvented themselves as techno producers and are set for a summer residency at Hawtin’s Enter clubnight in Ibiza’s super club Space. We caught up with front man David St. Hubbins to discuss the band’s new path, “Oh yeah we’ve totally reinvented ourselves. Totally. It’s almost as if we didn’t even exist this time last week.”

“To be honest we reinvent stuff all the time, just yesterday I was having a ham and cheese sandwich and I thought to myself ‘David this sandwich needs reinventing’ and then I put some mustard on it,” explained the ageing rock star, “so in a way I’ve reinvented the ham and cheese sandwich and now it’s a ham, cheese and mustard sandwich and that’s better cause there’s more things on it. You know what I mean?” he asked.

“More things isn’t always better though,” claimed St. Hubbins. “Take our new minimal techno record for example. It’s so minimal that for the first three minutes it’s just me lightly breathing into a mike. Apart from at one minute and thirty four seconds where Derek Smalls farts, we left that in cause we really wanted to capture the natural mood and earth vibes what we were feeling before the industrial one kick drum beat starts.”

“It’s going to be a massive hit, I bet all of you kids on Beretha or whatever Island it is we’re playing on are going to love it,” he added. “As always we’ll be playing with our sound system turned all the way up to eleven, not even Richie Hawtin or Sven Vader or any of those other DJs will be playing their music that loud so that means you’ll be able to hear us much better, without having to make any adjustments to your ears.”

The news of the upcoming release comes just days after it was announced that Deadmau5, who has also reinvented himself from something very irritating to something slightly less irritating, is also set for a release on Plus8, another one of Hawtin’s record labels.

We asked St. Hubbins what he thought of the prospect of working with Deadmau5 in the future, “I love it, number one rule of show business, never work with kids or animals, unless they’re dead,” he said as a matter of fact. “We learned that the hard way after all those kids and a baby elephant pissed and shit all over Nigel Tufnell’s head on the Indian version of Blue Peter, Blue Praveen.”