Techno/House Bobbins of the past

In fact the Cesaria Evora remix album is almost all top-class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsnxTl2SPok

Capricorn 20hz

""Can you s/d, c or d, rfi and generally recommend me some house/techno with african vocals or instrumentation? Thanks."

This is a huge favorite of mine:
Frederic Galliano And The African Divas - Woualaï Re-Works
http://www.discogs.com/release/138722

I just dug out this Villalobos-set: Sunrise_Event_Mamaia_18_08_2006 and the two songs that follow "Join in the chant" in part 3 are both out of this world mindblowingly good, the first one might be called Freaky/phreeky D/ beat or something similar, then the second one that starts around 6 mins which is possibly the single best thing ever I have no idea. Anyone have any clue what they are?

On another note, the Dionne - Images track that's on the recent Shed mnml ssg podcast is also the single best thing ever.

looks like monolake's hongkong finally got remastered.

minus one of its best tracks...

omg, did you know that 'time reveals' got a reissue last month? no shit!

saw this at record store, did not cop. anybody?

most of those artists only appeared on that cd, according to discogs. the others are all adam douglas. you dig adam douglas? seems like that atom heart "compilation / retrospective" to me.

i like this deeper than space album

i was ogling that cover... my desktop pic is an earthrise from the moon so i always check twice when i see that sort of stuff. what's it sound like?

mmmm ... early 90s ambient?

sort of in the rising high / ntone vein

omg, did you know that 'time reveals' got a reissue last month? no shit!

can anyone explain the appeal of this outside of rarity? i mean, it's ok, nothing more...

So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.

What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?

Lately I can't get enough of the album Seven by Dark Comedy (Kenny Larkin). I haven't heard anything else by DC but I understand he want much jazzier after this release.

It's one of those albums whose sounds, movements and concepts echo through a lot of contemporary techno. Whether they know they're tracing some of the same lines is really is mostly unimportant.

"Paranoid (Prelude To Paranoia)," "In a Room," "Solace," "Darkness," and "Without a Sound" would all sit comfortably in techno sets today.

As an aside, I watched one of the comedy videos Larkin has on his Myspace. I guess he's been out in Hollywood for a while now, possibly acting and certainly doing stand up comedy. I'll say this: I wish his comedy was as good as his music.

Also, have been noticing a swell in recognition for Liaison Dangereuses, who were truly excellent.

So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.

What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?

-- mehlt

no, they all sound like that. IIRC a lot of it was done on fucked-up hand-me-down equipment, dubbed to cassette tape, mastered from vinyl and on top of that mastered to be murky on purpose.

can anyone explain the appeal of this outside of rarity? i mean, it's ok, nothing more...

-- resolved, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:52 (7 hours ago) Link

maybe try it louder? the club mix is just really cool spacey techno with a house vocal and the original mix is piano house that ups the energy and gives the same vocal a very different feel. obviously it's not the best record ever, or it would have been repressed earlier, but it's very good.

it's like a more sublime housefactors with vocals. the best of all larry heard worlds.

XXpost. Ahh that sucks, don't know why I didn't notice it 'till now. Reminds me of reading that original tapes for Selected Ambient Works were mangled by a cat.

And is it me or does ILM not talk about KC Flightt enough?

anyone care to talk about 16B? i dug out my copy of 'sounds from another room' the other day and at least half of it still sounds really fresh. on the cover there is label proclaiming him to be britain's answer to MAW. i think this album is a bit to techy to justify that claim but there's some really emotive house music on here. it's a shame he had to turn to the dark side.

http://www.discogs.com/release/11954

You mean go prog? Wasn't he always quite prog though? He didn't switch as much as Deep Dish - in fact 16B's stuff is a lot like their two Yoshitoshi mixes. I quite like that middleground between deep house and prog, or at least the stuff from the end of the 90s anyway. Also: Hooj Choons!

16B's remix of Gus Gus's "Believe" is double classic to the max.

yes, that remix of gus gus is very nice. i have it on an old northern exposure mix i think. i guess i've got my timelines confused. i always assumed that he started off (deep) house and went out and out prog from about 2000.

listening to 'sounds from another room' i never would have guessed that he had a penchant for progressive house (except for 'water ride' perhaps). the fact that it was released on Eye Q should have been a give away though... i wish he'd pursued that sound a little more because he had a real knack for producing soulful house music with a bit of bite.

no, i think sam500's right here. he was firmly in the glasgow underground camp when i first heard about him - although i guess you could argue there was always a strong prog element to glasgow underground?

Hmm I guess everything i know of by him was from between 1997 and 2002 (love "Behind The Face" from that year) - so perhaps his full career reveals more of a transition than he made in that period alone.

Does anyone here have an opinion on the Micronauts? I've been listening to this album a fair bit recently, it's good IMO.

Remember that Micronauts as being good.

I think I have an electro comp mixed by them, or am I imagining things?

This: http://www.discogs.com/release/58745

yeah that mix is good. They did a Mo' Wax Jive Bunny style mega-mix which I remember as being fun too...

xpost to mehlt: funny you should mention cuz i just picked up kc flightt "planet e" 12" friday at a flea market. good stuff.

This is worth looking into:

http://www.discogs.com/release/37903

try the vocal version of pop, dip, and spin: http://www.discogs.com/release/40969

but you know, it probably works better without the vocal because then you can focus on the bassline. which is perfect.

from RA:

Jeff Mills and “Mad” Mike Banks are re-releasing their classic 1992 album X-102 Discovers the Rings of Saturn with four extra tracks.

The original album is hailed for its spacey concept and softer approach to Detroit techno, but it has been out of print since the nineties. Now comes a refitted version with four extra tracks, and a vinyl EP of selections from the album.

Jeff Mills and Mike Banks will be performing Discovers the Rings of Saturn in its entirely at this year’s Sonar Festival. No word yet on additional dates.

is this any good? will no doubt have the detroitophiles salivating at the mouth...

hmmm ... compared to other stuff of the time it's fairly dated, i'd say

i mean, it shows its age worse than some other stuff they did

Vahid otm.

as usual

yes to quote the great blunt in the ron trent thread "Dance Floor Boogie Delites" on Prescription, despite the low pressing, is a deep house tearjerker.

listening to gene farris on soma tonight ... "origins" is so deeeeeeeeeep ...

what was better, gene on soma or roy on peacefrog?

did i already do a "t/s: soma vs peacefrog" thread?

Like Peacefrog more than Soma easily (but I am more familiar with Peacefrog giving it an advantage)

but at same time Gene's This is my Religion is great!

the best farris is on soma yeah, esp. "get on the floor" on the mainline disco ep -but, roy davis easy win.

Carl Cox Vs. Kevin Saunderson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWAgKaZDwE8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TB_VDYPtjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9A8TZhw3o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIA36Y0pzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAQ-OuWliZ4

there are a few others, all worth checking out.

wow. articulate!

i realize this isn't "of the past" but can anybody speak about his "contact special" and "one man spaceship" album?

I remember getting slammed for telling people that you wouldn't get it unless you had been to Detroit. I was specifically referring to being a room with him discussing techno. There would be a couple less blog posts on mnmlssgs if those guys did their homework. It all kind of clicks when you hear him discuss it.

One Man Spaceship has it's moments. It's a Jeff Mill's album that sounds like Jeff Mills doing a minimal techno album. It is what it is.

I shouldn't dog it too much. I think the real problem is that I want to hear him mix purpose maker loops with the best parts of Every Dog Has It's Day. I can't really blame him for making a bleepy 909 album but I would love to hear some of the old samba magic from the older axis records.

He is in a tough spot. How do you keep working and progressing after 15 years worth of genre defining records?