Everyone who ever met Jamie will agree that he is simply the nicest guy in the neighbourhood. Before he went on tour a short time ago, he spent his last night working on the soundtrack for Colin Raffs radioshow-project which has a cast that reads like a "who is who" of international artists who chose Berin as their base of operations (I speak the part of the german scientist studying bizarre rituals in Brandenburg).
I didn't really follow Jamies early stuff and didn't care much about Supercollider when I was introduced to him a few years ago. It was his birthday and he was having a dinner-party at the Gorgonzola Club which got a little out of hand. In the end Jamie, Martin B. and myself had to carry Mr. Fall-asleep-too-much out of the place after he was standing on a chair, ranting and spilling red wine all over everybody. Well, Berlin, it's a rowdy place! A few months or years later I saw Jamies musical performance at the Hebbel theatre. It was that legendary voodoo-evening hosted by Darius James, sort of written by Mr. Raff and all the "who is who"-people played their part one way or another. Jamie was last and he killed the audience with this unbelievable sound. A genius in action! I never heard anything like that, it was the most intense noise ever produced. The audience tried to escape as fast as possible until there was nobody left except for me and some other deaf old punkrockers.

Now Mr. Lidell put out a new record on Warp Records called "Multiply" which was co-produced by Mocky, another one of those talented exiled artists who just moved to Berlin (there is a free MP3 for you at tonspion.de!). This is probably the best record coming out of Berlin this year!
Jamie has turned into a crooner and proves that he's got real soul! This aint no cheap imitation of Marvin Gaye as you might think after reading some of the reviews, this is the real shit, I guess. I play it all the time and I play it really loud until the cops come over and confiscate my stereo.