Techno/House Bobbins of the past

I remember liking it but it was years ago.

On the more disco side, Turn The Beat Around is good, also Love Saves The Day...I don't really remember either as it's been years, but I don't remember hating either! And Mel Cheren's autobiography "My Life and the Paradise Garage" is a pretty essential disco story.

i don't think anybody's ever written a book on techno i've really enjoyed but i've only read techno rebels, altered states, energy flash and dj-culture

possibly i should just write my own at some point

wanted to find the superior "zagzig jazz" mix of this but this is the best i could do. still, awesome tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvYZ_LS6-HM

I tried asking on the 90s poll noms thread, and now it's too late for that, but can anyone i.d. the first few tracks on this mix for me?

http://www.modernmusicsf.com/audio/mixes/ScottHenry_FeverVol6_SideB.mp3

I found this incomplete tracklisting using the archive.org's wayback machine, but there really aren't many people talking about scott henry tapes on the internet these days.

volume 6

0:00 - 4:00 ???
4:00 - 8:00 ??? "he's gotta step down or step aside"
8:00 - 13:00 ???
13:00 - 18:35 lip reed 1 black label/white label 1 sided no info
18:35 - 22:30 ???(samples say "this is dope" and "you are now rockin with the best")
22:30 - 28:00 discfunktional - free - moonshine
28:00 - 33:00 slacker - scared (the lonely traveller) - loaded
33:00 - 37:15 e.t.i. and graeme - babyrise/blue dreamers - oboro records
37:15 - 41:35 FSOL - we have explosive - astralwerks
41:35 - end prodigy - narcotic suite: skylined - ???

no idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVB7w_TVFyI

I don't think I'd heard this Kerri Chandler until the other week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AKux14MUM

That Vandal 'Unraveled' track is incredible.

Loving the deep trancey vibes of the Tata Box Inhibitors record posted a couple of months back.

this is familiar to all but i'm blasting it right now and damn if it doesn't sound better than any "berghain techno" of the last 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUF5wECcdbg

i wouldn't compare the two really, don't see a major connection.

i love that dreamer g record, chewshabadoo, meant to post it here last week actually, heard jus ed play it a few years back. it is hilarious and great.

I've never managed to get into Berghain techno, but can you really compare the Craig with that sound?
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On a different tangent, I was very happy to find out someone had edited the AVH mix of Kim English 'Nite Life' and removed the ravey stabs which always seemed to detract from the sensual, rolling nature of the rest of the track:

http://soundcloud.com/homeroespinosa/kim-english-nitelife-avh-vs

xp i didn't really mean to compare the two except to say that carl craig sounds as good now as he did back then

"berghain techno" being shorthand for the kind of techno i really, really like right now

that said, if you take the melodic synths out and just leave drums and bass you could have a norman nodge track

its not so different in construction from what is probably my favorite techno track of the last five years, "native rhythm electric"

Cheers Ronan! My housemate DJ'd it out at a party the other week and it blew my mind. The vocal and those off-beat kicks bring a huge grin to my face.

If that Nodge track reminds me of anything, it's like an austere version of Crispy Bacon.

that too!

excellent call on crispy bacon chewshabadoo!!

i never thought i cared much for stefan robbers but this track is killing me these days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkH49kiNIQk

<3 <3 <3 the artwork too

that said, if you take the melodic synths out and just leave drums and bass you could have a norman nodge track

It's been ages since I listened to the 4 My Peepz EP, but isn't there another track on it that does exactly this? (I.e. takes away the synths and leaves just the drums and bass?) Though IIRC it wasn't particularly memorable.

By biggest problem with Paperclip People isn't the use of high-pitched synth sounds per se, but that they sometimes sound oddly weak. Like the synth riff that begins "The Climax"... How could CC come up with something so feeble, when the drums and bass on that material is so kicking?

you bring feeble all the time

I guess there's this thing called dynamics. Also, those types of synth strings are very classic techno.

On a different tangent, I was very happy to find out someone had edited the AVH mix of Kim English 'Nite Life' and removed the ravey stabs which always seemed to detract from the sensual, rolling nature of the rest of the track:

http://soundcloud.com/homeroespinosa/kim-english-nitelife-avh-vs

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, September 16, 2012 8:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I imagine it'd fit nicely into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b9bsy5SiWA

Sure, but there are many classic techno tracks where they pack much more punch than in "The Climax"... And there's a difference between dynamics and just sounding weak, in my opinion. The second synth in "The Climax", the higher-pitched one that plays the main melody, has a nice dynamic with bass and drums, but the opening riff just sounds lame. Especially since the track starts with it playing a cappella, so you're attention is drawn to its lameness.

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It's usually preferable for a dance track to build up in my opinion, as it then works with the previous track as an evolving blend. I wouldn't say it sounds 'weak' though: muffled and murky perhaps - but I like sounds like that; The glossiness of Carl Craig's "Sunglasses Techno" of the last 10 years is a big turn off for my ears.

ahh that dreamer g is SO GOOD

if there's a better record to blare when you're cleaning your flat i've yet to find it

Gs Louise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY-fNVHOpjQ

yeah g flame is one of the dudes from the advent doing housier stuff? his kick drum / bassline production is like the epitome of PUMPIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRQMFuIT4Y

those little spinbacks!

the tiny lfo filter sweeps at 0:14, 0:40 etc

dude was a genius

loving this stuff atm.

re the other g, this little item on mr. g from ugh mixmag makes me want to toss everything, get a mpc and a mixer and pound it out.
http://ow.ly/i/TkW2/original

or finesse shit out, as the case may be

I am sorry about posting about this in the thread because it it neither techno nor bobbins really but that new fred judd electronics without tears reissue or w/e is amazing

If you like that Dreamer G song you will like this other early 1990s Kerri Chandler production:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61WSQ5IM6tM

If we're talking about Mr G:

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

^^total classic

that remix of the mike grant is all time +_+

never heard anyone play it out until this year tho (zip)

fairly sure it's been heard in my living room

Haha.

if we're talking classic kerri, this is the first one i heard and it blew me away as a 16 year old kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WRW_6Yjjg

Apropos of nothing, I've made a playlist on youtube featuring almost all of the tracks from Chain Reaction's vinyl releases. Some tracks aren't on yt so I've obviously been unable to include them.

Link to playlist - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBCZbbilck97qLXcdKVY1ORX8Wk7Ss-Hg&feature=mh_lolz

List of missing tracks

shed - relish dub
monolake - magenta II
resilient - 1.2
resilient - 2
porter ricks - nautical dub (tidal mix)
vainquer - erosion 2
continuous mode - direct out (mode 1)
continuous mode - direct out (mode 2)
substance - relish (wildlife reshape)
fluxion - atlos
hallucinator - sethos
matrix - fMatrix - Blue Film #2
fluxion - Stream I
hallucinator - frontier
hallucinator - reverie (edit II)

Kept hearing this from time to time but didn't find out what it was until the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDq8R1JBmOk

Re the Grampa track above. Someone should put together a mix of the best 'Lately Bass' preset tracks.

Some of my favourite KCs are his collaborations with YC, such as:

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

lately bass, is that what you call that bumping new jersey bass sound? greatest example of which is this, all-time house top 10 material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO8uJHMs68Y

nice feeling contributing towards a bucolic environment

Choice track choice.

That's the one, the prest was based on the bass sound in Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately", and found on the great second-hand value Yamaha TX81Z.

*the preset*

had never heard that one above... great tune