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Back in the 90s there used to occasionally be this amazing show on radio 1 that played 100% christian dance music.

The dj would play loads of gospel-y garage in the vein of basement boys, todd edwards, big moses etc. But also slightly naff christian lite-rave sounds. There would be a mix of 3-4 tracks and then a break when the dj would talk about the tracks he'd just played and quote a bit of scripture.

Thing was, I was pretty deep into US garage at the time and I'd never heard half the tracks he would play. And reading that christian rock thread made me wonder if there was some sort of christian house underground bubbling away or something, with like teetotall dance parties or something.

Does anyone know much about this as a scene or genre or anything? Or remember the show I'm talking about?

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 08:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

i do know that this does exist and they do have alcohol free raves and stuff. I lived with christians, and i did get to hear christian hip hop (bad.).

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 08:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Look into the Soundmen on Wax label.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 08:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

back in the day they used to call me the Rave Vicar.

Now they don't.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 10:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

there was a great christian house track on fluxblog a while ago
it was a larry levan remix of some children's choir i think
it was kind of creepy but good nonetheless

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

Is there any such thing as Christian death metal?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

there was a great christian house track on fluxblog a while ago
it was a larry levan remix of some children's choir i think
it was kind of creepy but good nonetheless

it's the levan mix of the joubert singer's 'stand on the word'. i'm putting it out on a compilation in a month or so.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

uh... moby?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

http://www.planetjesus.org/

― Xii (Xii), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes, there's christian death metal. such as

Mortification
Faithbomb
Corpse
Frank's Enemy
Ultimatum
Slamcat
Vomitorial Corpulence (grind, and they sucked when I last heard them)
Noizgate
Amnos

all of whom I just listed suck big nuts, though, altho supposedly Mortification were good at one point

― uh (eetface), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

this is fucking wack. only in america. last bastian of religions nutters

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tooth & Nail had a cluster of Christian death metal acts amongst their punkier bands. I never figured out what was particularly Christian about any of them, except that Embodyment had a kickass t-shirt of Jesus on the cross looking pained. It was Gibson's Passion ten years early.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:05 (9 years ago) Permalink

There was a good Gospel House track on the last Norman Jay Good Times compilation: "Praisin' His Name" by Jasper Street Co. Offhand, I believe it was a recent Basement Boys production

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

looking at the martinez bros. myspace, they first thank 'our lord and savior jesus christ.' whatevs, but are there any folks out there RIGHT NOW who are injecting xian themes into house or techno? just curious.

― the table is the table, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

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― Dom Passantino, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_O%27Clock_Service

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

I dunno if this guy's currently doing anything, but I like "Sea Breeze" by the Dance House Children, and Joy Electric was apparently pretty influential.

― dr. phil, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

JUSTICE to thread! Totally godded up, they are. Hell, their album title is just a cross: †

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

Terrence Parker has specialized in "inspirational" gospel house and keeps mixes available from streaming from his website.

― blunt, Friday, 4 May 2007 16:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

Underground Ministries featuring Kenny Bobien - "I Shall Not Be Moved" is the greatest gospel house tune of them all

― Jah Q Areas, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Joy Electric is still putting out records, each one sounding exactly like the one before it -- though apparently people who are super synth gearheads love him because he does things that only people who know how to operate those machines can truly appreciate (that sounds dismissive - it's not meant to be).

a group called deitiphobia put out a record called fear of god in the early 90s that was a pretty great primitive industrial record.

― smash your phonograph in half, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Green Velvet/Cajmere has gone pious in a pretty big way, at least according to his myspace. It's hard to take anything he says seriously, but I believe he's not just joking around with it.

― sous les paves, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

― the table is the table, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

"law of grace" by soulcapsule.

― creme1, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

the kenny bobien isn't bad. it's a little weird at points, cuz it's just soulful deep house love songs, then all of a sudden you're like, "wait, he's singing to jesus."

― the table is the table, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah, pretty much anything by thomas melchior is under suspicion of being religious

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― lfam, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

and he's never taken any drugs

― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Neuton was also the meeting place for Zip and Baby Ford, Perlon's resident elder statesman of minimal. After handing him promos of the label's first two releases, Zip told Ford, "I think maybe I will send you a demo soon." Zip laughs at the memory, but his precociousness paid off: Ford released the demo on his label Pal SL, and soon he and Zip would work together on the first of many collaborations for the label. It was through Ford that Thomas Melchior came on board as well. "I think they needed some weed," recalls Melchior, but in addition to green buds he ended up contributing to Perlon 15, Windowshopping, which featured the results of Zip and Ford's initial collaboration.

ORLY

― lfam, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

well, melchior does it more in his sounds than in his vocals. 'solomon's prayer'? i mean, i'd go to church if that was playin.

yo kenny bobien is myspace friends with bryan mcknight! *swoons*

― the table is the table, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

his myspace page is great. so earnest.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

okay, my statement wasn't good up there. i mean, solomon's prayer gets its religious tone from the vocal samples, but that is different than having discrete live vocals over beats.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Green Velvet/Cajmere has gone pious in a pretty big way, at least according to his myspace. It's hard to take anything he says seriously, but I believe he's not just joking around with it.

-- sous les paves, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:23 (2 days ago)

he did produce that track "the preacher" which featured some pretty righteous sounding preaching. but of course I always took it as just a product of the typical green velvet humour.

I reckon it wouldn't be difficult at all to write christian house, I mean just take any self referential house lyrics (e.g. "in the beginning there was a groove" or "I will take you to the mountaintop and there the whole world will see the glorious right of this nation that is house") and replace words with the appropriate Christian ones.

― mehlt, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

lil louis - blackout
!!

― lfam, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

Roy Davis Jr. - "Gabriel" as well as most of the album "Traxx From the Nile" are spiritually inspired. This is straight up dope Chicago house!

From a Ubiquity bio:
âIâve had to learn different ways to communicate about my religious beliefs through music without being too preachy. I sit back and think about how people might want to talk to me if I had no faith. Sometimes you canât hold back, and sometimes you can. I just need to know that when I leave this place I did the best job I could."

― DJ Logan5, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

God is love! Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more...

― Dan I., Wednesday, 23 May 2007 00:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

5 years pass...

I found a ton of what looks like gospel house on Spotify....any intelligent updates on this?

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

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