― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
In retrospect it's bizarre how much overlap there was between the Warp artist roster and early trance compilations.
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Even some of early Juno Reactor sounds more like decent techno than terrible psy.
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I got all of these from a DJ History Forum thread btw, if anyone wants to point me at more it'd be appreciated.
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
The line between "progressive house" and "breakbeat hardcore" was really slippery back then, funny since Simon popularized both labels.
― pattern loader, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
What this music was initially : acid house with dub basslines, is entirely my thing. What it turned into: Sasha and Digweed crap, is entirely not.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh none of this stuff is very good actually, let it rest in the dustbin of history
― the late great, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
well that's not entirely true, i got a soft spot for JBO
― the late great, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
in general it's too corny sounding though, you might as well put on like utah saints or whatever and have actual cheese whiz out of the can as opposed to like a fake-fancy grocery store cheese log
― the late great, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't listen to other stuff right now, but i will say that those holy ghost inc records are truly wicked
― spacemindy, Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's sort of right between what's tolerable and what's a little too cheesy, but a couple of those Holy Ghost tracks are indeed pretty good.
And I like that RAC track quite a bit, reminds me of the nicer end of electrobreaks. More of my sordid past effecting my taste, I guess.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Things were happening in a very similar manner on the West Coast at the same time.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I had to list off the early trance that I actually like it would be: The Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, and Jam and Spoon, the Coil tracks that flirted with trance.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
The West Coast stuff strays too far into hippie Burner territory, and the UK stuff ended up with the late 90s prog hegemony.
Still I've got this feeling there's some stuff worth digging up, if only to satisfy my curiosity.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like everything that lead up to the Dutch scene, New Beat and Balearic mixed from what I can tell. And then rave hits and everything drops off a cliff.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Its a Derrick May track, with samples! I think I bought this one for 50 cents.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is Mr. Shakir, apparently it got some play at the Loft, so did those Holy Ghost tracks.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, did rave music ever twist techno into some strange shapes.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I honestly don't know what this is, it's Move D but I'd say its definitely more in line with Mouse on Mar's Vulvaland or early minimal techno.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm looking for stuff that is legitimately trance inducing.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is Plaid and Jonah Sharp, Reflective was a really strange label.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think Mike Banks would beat me up if I compared his music to progressive house.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bOVBQHKk0lU#!
OK, I think my love of the Black Dog is showing through here.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
And I'm going to sleep.
― pattern loader, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dunno how well it fits here, but early 90s housey trance is my thing, I practically grew up with that shit:
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
This was an utter classic back then:
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
As well as this one:
I think a lot of this stuff has aged much better than cheesy UK hardcore from the same era; "Sacred Cycles", for example, still sounds sublime.
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Then there's Air Liquide, of course - my favourite 90s electronic act of them all:
This shit still sounds majestic!
― Tuomas, Friday, 30 March 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love this song!
― scott seward, Monday, 23 April 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Air Liquide seems to be right up there with PWOG for that weird Euro rave techno feel. Stuff where I'm not sure if its IDM or trance or what exactly.
― pattern loader, Monday, 23 April 2012 04:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, between 1992 and 1995 AL released stuff ranging from banging acid techno to cosmic trance to weird breakbeat excursions (like the track that sample Cypress Hill) to straight beatless ambient, sometimes on the same record. I'd recommend acquiring pretty much anything they released in that period, it's all good. Or if you want just one record, The Increased Difficulty Of Concentration comp is a good overall look to to their sound; it's neatly divided between a dance and a non-dance disc. In the late 90s they went electro though, IMO their post-'95 material is decent but mostly forgettable.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink