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Ambrose, the name is in caps, and yeah, maybe the "R"s are backwards. I'll check it when I get home.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

The vibe of the Superpitcher remix of "Hi Freaks" is such a specific Superpitcher vibe that it almost seems a waste of time to suggest anyone else, but:

Phantom Ghost - Nothing Is Written (Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher Mix)
Raz O'Hara - This' A Beautiful Day (Mathias Schaffhauser Mix)
Quarks - Du Entkommst Mir Nicht (Lawrence Remix)
Chelonis R. Jones - I Don't Know
RJ Project - What Colour Is Love (Red Jerry's Monkeyhouse Mix)
Alexander Kowalski - Lock Me Up (Sascha Funke Mix)
Dennis Desantis - Promotion of Vice (Alexander Kowalski Mix)
Carsten Jost - Uccellini
Gus Gus - Remembrance (neuromantic avant la lettre)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Dextro - Do You Need Help

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

this is lots of stuff I've never heard of

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

gunna be sad on the way to work this week!!

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Larkin: Tedra

― nocure, Monday, 21 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Also:

Extrawelt - Zu Fuss
Miss Kittin - Happy Violentine
Plastikman - I Don't Know
Villalobos - Easy Lee
Dopplereffekt - Myon-Neutrino
Laurent Garnier - Go To Sleep
GusGus - Detention

Ah, don't cry little robot boy, everything is going to be alright once we reboot your mom. :(

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

red planet - Journey To The Martian Polar Cap

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Journey To The Martian Polar Cap

YESSS!!!

Alex Smoke - I Don't See The Point

in fact Slam's Nightdrive cd1 is 77 minutes worth of this stuff (okay I'll stop mentioning that thing now.)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

you know, for sleepy kissers

nice and slow

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

here come the planes

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I love how this is like the tenth time we have done this thread but no one seems to get tired of it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I think last time it was "techno tracks that make you cry", but I'm not sure if there's such a big difference.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Aril Brikha - Deeparture in Time

― earlnash, Monday, 21 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Top 100 - Tearjerking Techno.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

and here's another: c90: tears on the dancefloor

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

and i always forget to mention Garnier's (as Choice) 'Acid Eiffel', even though there is no more melancholic an epic in existence.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Underground Resistance: "Illuminator" and "Journey of the Dragons"

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Murcof "Remembranza"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

luciano "funk excursion"
dntel "(this is) the dream of evan & chan (superpitcher kompakt mix)"

― w cowper, Monday, 21 November 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Recommend me some really morose dance music.
100 House/Club Tracks Tragic Enough to Put Goths in Ecstasy
Top 100 - Tearjerking Techno.
Micro-goth
c90: tears on the dancefloor
Classic dance/electronic records that are melancholic (*sobs*)!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I 2nd "The Illuminator" as probably the saddest (and on of the best) techno records of all time. Thanks for these lists!!

― Telegram Sam, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

the b-sides on this old heiko laux 12 are gorgeous. And sad.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

norken - spring themes

― Philippe (Philippe), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

the dense sleep between dreams

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

In that case: Carl Craig - Just Another Day E.P.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Derrick May-Beyond the Dance (Cult Mix)
Ghost Cauldron-Ambient Skit (Superpitcher's Ambient Mix)
Lawrence-Swap
Dublee-Cliff
Luciano-Octagonal

And a really good and slightly different one, like italo-rock-techno

Jennygoesdirty-Amoreux Solitaires (Aswefall Mix)

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Jesse Somfay - "For One Brief Moment I Was There" = gray, spiralling sadness

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

You could say that about most of Somfay's material, too.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

i wish that i could kiss sadly to this music. but no one i know finds it beautiful, sad or anything really. well, no girls. not one girl anyway.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Poor Ambrose!

You'll have to think of her while you listen tearfully...

Anyway wanted to add:

Light In Darkness - YMO
Computerlove - Kraftwerk
Desire - 69
Electric Bedroom - Alter Ego
These Days - Petter

There was also a track on Movin' Melodies from 1995 that from memory had a very sad anthemic melody over a kind of HiNRG rhythm but I don't know its name...

― Telegram Sam, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

more 69- Microlovr. basically Carl Craig is the king of this.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Amborse, girls like funky house! :-P

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

people! start ysi:ing! NOW!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

ysi me sadness

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

rain in the grocer's window

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

hi freaks, hi

HI FREAK... HI FREAKS

hi freaks; HI

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

no, girls like indie it seems. well, bands with "the...." in the title. i can count the number of girls i know who like any sort of dance music on one hand.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

maybe in other countries, ambrose?

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

you know, the better ones

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

better countries, I mean

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

time to admit the reason I started the thread was for a tape for a girl?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

"I am become ILM, destroyer of girls"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Well then you better use techno Smiths covers :)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah like on the erlend oye dj kicks mix. i think thats the nearest im gonna get to a happy medium.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

you have little faith in my lady, michael f gill

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

anyway

the dark end of the street (superpitcher rmx.)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

deviated a little off them at places, to taste

CD1 the soft sleep between dreams

lawrence, "spark"
ada, "each & everyone (blindhouse)"
isolée, "beau mot plage"
ghost cauldron, "are you conscious? (superpitcher rmx.)"
ricardo villalobos, "easy lee"
m83, "teen angst (luciano rmx)"
argy, "love dose (luciano rmx)"
tocotronic, "hi freaks (superpitcher beautiful freaks rmx)"
2raumwohnung, "spiel mit (akustik version)"

CD2 I never thought I'd get to these points in my life

chelonis r jones, "I don't know"
isolée, "schrapnell" (it was all getting a little too morbid)
closer musik, "one two three (no gravity)"
m83, "don't save us from flames (superpitcher rmx)"
luomo, "tessio"
ghost cauldron, "ambient skit (superpitcher's ambient mix)"
ada, "maps"

yeah we heard all these lots of times long ago but not everyone has... but remember the first time you heard it? say maybe inhaling a knuckle of smoke or listing down the high street - didn't you just love it?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

*off theme

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

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i checked out a bunch on youtube and felt the same as ledge, it's really nice but felt a little too slick or hotel lounge-y for me.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:39 (eleven years ago)

i often don't understand what you are looking for in electronic music, J

― (曇り) (clouds), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:48 (eleven years ago)

anyway "the night will last forever" is one of my favorite winter albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk6iJvEFgwk

― (曇り) (clouds), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:52 (eleven years ago)

i just have a real weird relationship with four-on-the-floor dance music, i don't listen to much of it. lush & pretty is good, but the stuff that really clicks tends to feel 'raw' and tactile in some way.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:56 (eleven years ago)

Lawrence is so good in the winter.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:07 (eleven years ago)

maybe it's the house basslines that undercut the staring-off-into-the-distance vibes for me

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:13 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Roman Flügel - Planet Zorg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XevP-6ym-c

The title somehow doesn't suit this track.

― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:32 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

Roman Flügel's whole album is a treat, hadn't heard it till last week, addicted now.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 11:51 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQjs9GYP7U

― theBlackSheep, Monday, 4 May 2020 14:24 (six years ago)

four weeks pass...

I don’t know if this is the right thread for this kind of thing... but this Boreal track is all I want to listen to right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMNlCYLDkhE

similar suggestions welcome

― brimstead, Monday, 1 June 2020 03:26 (six years ago)

How about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyrzxJQd9c

― Evan, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:10 (six years ago)

nice! ty

― brimstead, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:28 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmWvlsL6VOE

― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 15 June 2020 15:53 (five years ago)

At the gates of dawn

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

― dow, Monday, 15 June 2020 19:26 (five years ago)

"the red line" is literally the best dub techno track ever

― clouds, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:03 (five years ago)

yes it is

― Evan, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:17 (five years ago)

the like/dislike ratio on that red line YT is impossible

― lukas, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:47 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjVHj8ipydE

― oder doch?, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:36 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Ric y Martin, “Teiwass”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzN_bCXSQV0

it’s always so good when Ricardo’s latent Depecheness emerges so explicitly like this

― missingNO, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:35 (four years ago)

sorry for consecutive postings but this Dandy Jack / Sonja Moonear track is wonderfully forlorn dusky street lamp vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRi9y0gezoA

― missingNO, Sunday, 19 September 2021 07:46 (four years ago)

I...really don't get the "soft" or "sad" from the Dandy Jack track. At all.

― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 20 September 2021 15:48 (four years ago)

this track is for me the definition of soft, sad techno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOTA3siUl8

― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:27 (four years ago)

I...really don't get the "soft" or "sad" from the Dandy Jack track. At all.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:48 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sounds very melancholy to me in a wistful, pensive, James Stinson interstate truck driving at night kind of way but whatever I’m heavily depressed so

― missingNO, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:16 (four years ago)

maybe not so soft but i hear the melancholy in it for sure. the synth lead does fade in and out like street lamps floating by on a highway

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 21 September 2021 14:29 (four years ago)

how about this one, "Niji" by Denki Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqT8t6OSNrM

very Orbital-esque, almost like a direct sequel to "Halycon". it's one of their most popular tracks though amusingly enough they never did anything like it again

― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 15:13 (four years ago)

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