Never thought we’d hear from the mysterious White Town again. As a chubby, Indian, ex-Marxist, Jyoti Mishra was an unlikely candidate for hitmaker in 1997. But his gender-bending synth-pop gem “Your Woman” — which sampled a haunting, sixty-five-year-old trumpet sample from Lew Stone — became a college radio staple. For a few months at least. He was swiftly dropped by EMI and has been doing god-knows-what for the last ten years.
Now forty, Mishra has a new single, and … it’s not bad. He’s dropped the beats for hand-claps, and the politics for lovey-dovey poetry, but I dig the twee B&S/Russian Futurists vibe.
These days Mishra tends more towards anarcho-syndicalism, but still believes “Marx has the only sensible analysis of society and economics,” according to his blog. Interesting guy. Weird to think even White Town blogs about Mel Gibson and that Liquids On A Plane Boinger.
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Close yr damn tags, Scottyboy!
i’ve been thinking about whatever happened to white town for ages!!
thank you:)
There’s a name I haven’t heard for a while. What about Space…what happened to them?
I’ve been meaning to DL this song forever, and now I finally did. Thanks.
college radio staple? more like mtv/normal radio staple for a minute.
What’s weird about that record was that the rest of the album was rather fey guitar indie pop. The band was signed to Parasol! Total fluke.
hey, and speaking of anarch-syndicalist pop music from the northern part of the united kingdom… whatever happened to that woman from chumbawumba after her eye fell out in italy? anyone?
Her eye fell out?
White Town “Your Woman” / Kool & Gang “Celebration” are the only 2 songs on shuffle when you’re in hell
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seriously this is my least favorite song of all time on alternative radio
and what college radio station did you mean?KROQ ? because they played this to death back in the day … sorry if i dashed your dreams about how edgy your college station was but this was all over regular radio
the album your woman is on is a lost classic.
White Town’s Women in Technology was pretty unlike “Your Woman,” but there were some decent moments of Momus-lite-ism, like “The Function of the Orgasm.” Not a great album, though, and I don’t have high hopes for this song you just posted, which I haven’t listened to yet– I just wanted to say “Momus-lite-ism.”
Surprise!! It’s crap. Sounds like a Spinal Tap reunion attempt.
Y107 was THE alternative radio statio of the late ’90′s, offering “Modern Rock of the ’80′s and 90′s”, with diverse music which was an excellent counterpart to KROQ’s tired-out playlist of whatever MTV thinks is cool at the moment.
my favorite part of “women in technology” was that he put the whole thing together using an atari st (
) adding to the unlikely hit factor.the new song reminds me of The Lucksmiths.
Woman In Technology is a lost classic. Understated and often beautiful. I’d love to see a comeback.