Dan got this message recently from a work friend. Unbelievable – an early Glitch track, a collaboration with Lenny Dee on an early 1993 Industrial Strength Records release, was used by the US Marines during wartime!! Like the techno fife and drum corps!
So, I just checked out your link at Defective Records. You are not going to believe this. I am still in shock. I was in the US Marine Corps as a ground combat officer from the mid-80’s through the 90’s… was a challenging era – Grenada, Panama, Gulf War, Djibouti, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afghanistan… As a matter of tradition and intimidation, many of our tanks, artillery pieces, and armored vehicles (mine was an LAV-25 (Light, Amphibious Vehicle) were nicknamed by the Marines who served in them. “The Reaper,” “Widowmaker,” “The Fourth Horseman,” “Lunatic Fringe”… You get the idea.
Our vehicles were also equipped with loud speakers and PA systems for communication, crowd instructions, combat commands, etc. Once the element of surprise was lost to the enemy, many vehicles used their speakers and PA systems in the attack — Apocalypse Now “Ride (not Flight) of the Valkyries” style. Think of the all-out speed of a coordinated ground attack. “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war!” Imagine the insufferable heat, the choking dust, the soaking sweat, the noxious smoke, and the unbearable fear… Every human physiologic and perceptive sense on heightened edge…
Now think of one of the most played tunes blaring loudly across field or desert — ‘War Path’ by Glitch.