Techno/House Bobbins of the past

In my defense, I'm only 19.

All That Glitters, I still come back to that one too. Esp. side 1 and YEA the aaliyah tribute!

Speaking of Force, I want to rep for the Star You Star Me album (esp. "Perfect Day" and "Sweet Things", which are mighty swoonful).

Akufen tunes on force tracks are belters.

Akufen! That guy disappeared off the grid for the last couple years as far as releases have gone, right?

He's apparently putting out an album this year!

I don't know why, but I found the MRI album to be really irritating with a few exceptions. I still need to hear the Mathias Schaffhäuser and Crank AK stuff on FT.

In my defense, I'm only 19.

heh i wasn't zinging , you just made me feel old and useless. i have and love the 'all that glitters' double vinyl btw, esp the title track.

Tied To The 80s is a gorgeous track - I heard it via gareth via spencer chow but I'm not sure I heard any other MRI.

Crane A.K.'s Pink Eyed Pony seems fairly typical of the Force Tracks roster to me. Deep, dubby, bouncy, clicky. More minimal than Dub Taylor, a bit too polite?

a couple of v old classics i recently encountered:

Jesse Saunders - On And On
good electro-boogie/house crossover but you could make a good case for this as first house track ever maybe (released in 84 but maybe first recorded in 83)

Farley Jackmaster Funk - Jackin The Trax
to hear it you'd believe hercules & love affair have been basing much of their sound on this one track. great house with that macabre synth hook seemingly taking its cue from italo and electro from a few years earlier.

second one is m4a btw

i also put this on the prescription thread: http://www.sendspace.com/file/85v4yg

romanthony - the wanderer (journeyman thump)

I saw the Ladomat 100 compilation in a charity shop today, listening to it now the pre-Kompakt quirkyness seems so great. I think I should hunt down more of this stuff.

the only thing on Ladomat 2000 i've heard is this, which i like. what else is worth checking for?

this is all-time top 10 luv 4eva material: http://www.discogs.com/release/49178

This Ladomat 2000 is all-time top 10 too - http://www.discogs.com/release/17353

Bobbins galore: http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseMasterz

hardwax appears to have copies of moodymann's ultra-classic 'dem young sconies' 12". a repress, perhaps?? in any case, can't rate this one highly enough.

I would be real surprised if Dem Young Sconies was an OP. That record makes you wonder what would have happened if KDJ had decided to concentrate on techno. That record hasn't left my crate in years.

Model 500 'Starlight' is still a favorite of mine. Play doubles of that late at night. The recent Echospace/Deepchord remixes are alright, but the original holds up just fine. Others I still love, Ken Iishi 'Overlap (Mark Broom mix)', Joey Beltram 'Energy Flash', Burger/Ink 'Las Vegas', Axis' lp on Guidance, Moodyman 'Forevermore', Jay Dee 'Plastic Dreams' must still be making them money, i see new remixes of that every year. Then, play Irresistable Force's 'Flying High' over some djax to kick out the jams.

Yeah that's weird about "Dem Young Sconies" appearing at Hardwax. Do they sell bootleg stuff? I mean there is always the chance that Planet E re-pressed it I suppose, but I would think they would've used one of the Planet E Classics labels or something rather than the original label like they're showing on the Hardwax site.

hardwax sold the sharevari repress, which was rumored to be a bootleg, so who knows?

i'm all for bootlegs of shit that never gets repressed, though (like sharevari).

True and the "Sharevari" boot just feels very different from a bootleg of an active label that has even been re-pressing some of it's "Classics." No judgement in these statements (I got both the "Sharevari" and "U Can Dance If U Want 2" bootlegs) just wondering.

i didn't know there was a bootleg of "u can dance"

totally awesome

but i'm still waiting for the "moody trax" boot

"Yeah that's weird about "Dem Young Sconies" appearing at Hardwax. Do they sell bootleg stuff? I mean there is always the chance that Planet E re-pressed it I suppose, but I would think they would've used one of the Planet E Classics labels or something rather than the original label like they're showing on the Hardwax site.

-- matt2"

a bunch of DYS 12" appeared at the Planet E booth at DEMF 06 (i think it was) along with the original Designer Music 4 track EP. DYS was $5, DM was $15. i got em both as each was amongst my most wanted Planet E's.....

All the more proof that it's really unacceptable that I've never made it to DEMF. I keep trying to convince my wife that it would be a great vacation.

is this the right place to ask about forever sweet-- namely, is anything else they did as perfect as "bleed"? does other ladomat stuff sound similar?

"All the more proof that it's really unacceptable that I've never made it to DEMF. I keep trying to convince my wife that it would be a great vacation.

-- matt2"

it is a great vacation. i bring my wife and my younger sister with me every year. at least 20 of my friends go up every year from pittsburgh as well, not even counting all the people i know from around the world who show up. its as good of a time as you can have if you like dance music.

That'd be the problem. Wifey loves dancing but doesn't like "dance music." It only takes about 30 seconds of any synthetic beat of the thump-thump-thump-thump-this-is-going-to-be-a-dance-song variety and my wife gets extreme anxiety. She loves Depeche Mode and plenty of early 90's poppier house stuff but can't stomach a moment of "true" techno, even something as gorgeous as "R-Theme" or "Dominas." I know, it doesn't make sense to me either.

My bf and I went for the first time last year and hope to make it a tradition. He is not into dance music/music in general as much as I am, but he's willing to indulge me and has family in Michigan so it works out. It is our one chance each year to hear this music in its "proper" setting (i.e. not between a pair of headphones or blasting from my car).

Yeah, I'm pretty much asked to keep the beats in my headphones.

I really, really want to go to DEMF again this year but it overlaps with a 2 week Germany trip. I guess that balances out.

Just got this one yesterday: http://www.discogs.com/release/4982

The locked groove on the A side is perfect. I let it play for 10 or 15 minutes yesterday.

"That'd be the problem. Wifey loves dancing but doesn't like "dance music." It only takes about 30 seconds of any synthetic beat of the thump-thump-thump-thump-this-is-going-to-be-a-dance-song variety and my wife gets extreme anxiety. She loves Depeche Mode and plenty of early 90's poppier house stuff but can't stomach a moment of "true" techno, even something as gorgeous as "R-Theme" or "Dominas." I know, it doesn't make sense to me either.

-- matt2"

man, that sucks. get her some good drugs and take her there, maybe she'll have a religious experience and you can all live happily ever after ;)

on the other hand, you could just go by yourself! there are lots of friendly techno nerds there.....

got a few things today. soul center III which is pretty cool, very unique sounding.

also got this psi performer remixes and am just listening to it now. has anyone heard the album?

and should i go back to the shop and pick up Sten - Leaving The Frantic for $6?

also got this psi performer remixes and am just listening to it now. has anyone heard the album?

-- one time

nice one. i used to love the john tejada mix on that comp. unfortunately the cd is back in my home country :(

uh, that psi performer is ... sort of boring ...

the really excellent rother ambient albums are elixir of life and magic diner

excellent driving on freeway during foggy nights music

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=296320337796677090

this is surely the greatest house track of all time

it's wonderful woozy stuff certainly tho i always think the "i could have saved myself so much money..." line undermines it by bringing the lols.

Picked this up the other day.
http://www.discogs.com/release/2374

the mix of '151' on that is so raw. is the rest of it as good!

That looks oh so nice Display Name.

got this today, awesome techno released 13 years ago(!) by colin newman's label.

would like to hear that, i liked the Varley tracks i heard on the 'Avanti' LP

I did a nice playlist some of you may like here:

http://www.viva-radio.com/pyjamarama

the one called Synthetic Emotions

G-Man/Gez Varley ftw.

Larry de Kat - Cheap Knob Gags (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9AH91f3xZQ

Throw another log on the early-00s uk tech house repress fire:
Haris - Fourtrack ep
https://soundcloud.com/subwax-bcn-distribution/shimmy001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS9i9KBroBw

Spectral - Touch Somebody (Seduction Remix)

top speed down country lane

One of my best friends uploaded this rare little self-released 12" to his Soundcloud. There's an unfortunate crackle, but the track is really wonderful Burrell style goodness.
https://soundcloud.com/hidingplaceplace/geo-one-no-kill-unknown-late-90s-nj-experimental-dance-12?

I feel like I've heard this before! Though it seems unlikely from the description, it is familiar though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F79ryEtVrKo

Melodious Myles - Dungeon Terror (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rNUNKqX1g

Richard Bartz - Holographic 2 (1999)

Always loved this but never knew what it was until earlier this year when I came across it randomly. I don't remember liking any other Bartz records I'd heard, but this is route one sassy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8UaH5dQ5I

Shaun Imrei - Leeds, Leeds, Leeds (1992)

Melancholic slow burner with an uncredited vocal cameo from Peter Drury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBwh1ipvLu8

Maas - Enemy News

(Ewan Pearson, 1996)

Heard this banger last night. I feel like the label, sub_static, hasn’t aged especially well since the microhouse days, but this track is just on another level

John Spring - Strange (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dxRKLul3lw

That is a classic from that mid 2000s period in my view. It might be worth looking at Sub Static again, particularly at the Thibideau brothers/ Repair records and the MIA ones which were popular here at the time. John Spring put out two great 12s last year also.

Being from Toronto, the Thibideau bros are underground heroes in my books. I have one of their sub static records that I like. But yeah, might have to get past the associations with all the plink-plonky stuff they put out and take a more serious look.

I'm not particularly tuned into the Thibideau world but The Fading Future from last year was good. Little bit of a slow burner

A second foray from Shaun Imrei, vocals don't sound like Peter Drury this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9otfWvqTCk

Shaun Imrei - Dance with me

Some fav Thibideau tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1FAqElMDY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngzTckIedOg

"Archenar" is nice. I also like "Autobus," under Matt's Coordinates alias:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRtytiDuFI

And I don't mean this at all as a put-down, but my favorite record with Matt is probably Daniel Lui's side of their split "Surface" EP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QXLiFZO37w

There is an old Villalobos mix that lays this underneath the acapella of Brothers' Vibe's "El Baile." Absolutely fantastic.

I've not heard Autobus before, thats great! Really reminds me of something but lost to the ether

Looove Chair Records. But that’s me being nostalgic about late 90s Toronto techno that was before my time, and so source of much fascination.

This is an underrated record I love, even if it’s basically carl craig fanfic. I always see used copies on sale for peanuts, whereas it took me years to find an affordable copy of the (imo not as great) “big smoke nights 2”, which was v valuable for awhile because villalobos was playing it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRMz6Rv8htY

A little more breakbeat than techno/house bobbins, but my youtube algo recommended this and it slams, really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09C7MLOUFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmBE1vFcA8

Omer & Crooks - Time Rock

third round proper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pYDipWjRdY

Vera & Federico Molinari play and discuss records that influenced them.

I love the story of how they both had the Mitell record (around 30 minutes in) but didn't know that the other one also had it because they always played the same cuts from the opposite sides of the record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLS3KeRuY6w

Eric Kupper Presents K-Scope - Planet K from the above talk. Never heard this before, genial times

Yes! I was also previously unfamiliar with but quite taken by that one.
The flute is reminiscent of “The Whistle Song,” which checks out since Eric was the primary producer of the Frankie Knuckles track!

Titonton & Fabrice - Chimay Shimmy on Refraction Vol. 1, 2002 (I like that the “Refraction Vol 2.” came out in 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhq27Te9Ds

The gem on that kupper record is “katerpillar” imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyhkJDCUL5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oCXIClVYw

On 1 Crew - The Shuffle

England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBTma-ZKC1U

Schmoov! - Destination (2001)

Chris Rea has so much time on the ball its like he's on the beach

nice, that is very schmoov indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0o_PRaHEQ

Greg Greene - I'll Be There (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQpHCs5OkpI

Before Moses - Dreams Can Come True

outrageous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S10OOUaupiY

Károly Cserepes - Álommalom (2008)

well it's not as bobbin as I had expected but certainly an enjoyable little trip, thx saer

That's really special!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY6fU7fXj5Y

The Inspiring Sound Sauce - Skippy (1996)

Wow, beautiful stuff right there

Been thinking a lot about how DJs today are going in this trance/progressive house/SF/West Coast techno vibe and how I feel about it. Some of it is pleasantly nostalgic for me, while a lot of it I absolutely hate. This song is incredibly beautiful to me. I just went through a lot of other stuff by these folks and mostly wasn't feeling it.

I've always felt there are genres that I love and go deep and wide with and am less critical, and others where I'm happy to just pick a few standouts and see if I can't make it work within other contexts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQOUlCVfss
Bjørn Svin - Mand over bord

Kotai and Baby Ford with an urgent message but I can't find my pen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vOTj_j57hk

Midnight Caller - Third Kind (2000)