French house & filterdisco

it starts out with rolling house breaks and, um, a bassline and an ARP, i think. but then, out of nowhere, some dude starts screaming, over a megaphone i think, and it could be black french (or not), and a police siren kicks in, and then faux scratching over the break and oh shit we're at an out-of-control rave in marseilles.

unfortunately the only people i've heard follow up on this (this is from 94 mind you) are these guys Jess & Crabbe on Fiat Lux. their track "bad trooperz" starts out with an "apocalypse now" sample over horny dancehall and ends up at kms-style hoover bass farts over helicopter beats under an actual helicopter. mad stuff, unfortunately nothing else on Fiat Lux sounds like these guys.

we're quite overdue for (this style of) jungle/house soundclash.

I want the old pansoul thing, I actually never have but it reminds me that Trax On Da Rocks 1 by Thomas Bangalter on Roule is a fantastically banging and darkish french house/techno record.

ronan i've been lurking but when the new kompakt mixes get to san diego that'll all change.

http://datraxer.free.fr/daftcrew/samples/

My friend said it was the first time in about 4 years he'd seen a DJ do something that he just had to copy, he plays it all the time now.

Altered Beast's "Release" is insane! Love it!

But, dammit, my dream to produce the first filtered-disco track from the ghost of Earth, Wind & Fire's barnburning "Can't Let Go" is now for naught.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860744494/qid=1076953694//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-7240186-3600654?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

i don't know that it's french, and it's not even really super-filtered and chopped compared to most of the stuff on thread but it's waaay disco and killer too.

Prawler - Disco
The Heartbreakers - Heartbreaker (Patric La Funk Remix)
Mylo - Otto's Journey
Mylo - Drop The Pressure
Junior Jack - Stupidisco
Savier - Sometimes
Sweet Coffee - Don't Need You
Benjamin Bates - Morning Glory
Bob Sinclar ft Jocelyn Brown - You Could Be My Lover
DJ Gregory - The Joburg Theme
Richard F ft Samantha Stock - Let The Sunshine Through
Kid Creme - Doing My Own Thing

and

Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme

seconded, of course.

are a lot of other producers doing this?? i know the eternals and jess&crabbe and some other underground guys were fooling around with john carpenter bits for a while but that didn't seem to go anywhere...

Also very nice: Olav Basoski - Fire water love EP

I actually don't believe people need vocals that much do they?

Pepe Braddock has a Candi Staton remix 12" out that is mindblowing. That man is my favorite French house remixer. Bob Sinclar is still ace.

lovely filtered discohouse...

a cute if rather pointless reversion of Daft Punk's 'teachers' namechecking the whole French dance massive

did this happen yet?

also anyone downloading it and liking it, PLEASE BUY THE RECORD! They need the cash!

did this happen yet?

nope, not to my knowledge. there was a 2-step remix of jess & crabbe's "the hell & back" by mike jay & rolexx (who??) but other than that and the streets/cassius track NOTHING.

jess & crabbe have a new EP out supposedly but i think it's more ska-influenced so i guess their new dancehall direction was abortive. the pressings of the bad trooperz and dirty silver eps (the 2nd as dr dredd & spliff shady) were really awful so i think that had something to do with the fact that they were roundly ignored ... although i did hear the housier mix of "bad trooperz" on a bunch of hard techno mixtapes sped up to +8 or something.

anyway fatboy slim just reissued 1/2 of the big booya ep with his own remixes - which suck but the pressing is like 1000x louder ... and AVH used "the big booya" on his new mix-cd so maybe that'll get these guys more exposure.

if anybody out there is looking for that mystical halfway point between the neptune's "harder better faster stronger" remix and basement jaxx's "wild dub mix" of ronnie richards' "missing you", you NEED TO DOWNLOAD THESE TRACKS.

superfunk - "lucky star (jess & crabbe remix)"
dr dredd & spliff shady - "let's get dirty"
dr dredd & spliff shady - "1200 party"

less crazy but still crucial ...

jess&crabbe "f9 riot squad"
jess&crabbe "big booya"
jess&crabbe "big booya (yard rock remix)"
jess&crabbe "the hell & back"
jess&crabbe "bad trooperz (assault and escape edit)"
jess&crabbe "first bass"
jess&crabbe "in your EER"

also the 2/3 of the 3rd tribute series ep, definitely "carnival time" but i don't know which of the other two tracks is the one with the fat subbass farts.

High spies & D'Layna - Better days (Olav Basoski reconstruction)

classic Hed Kandi stuff. Even the vocal is nice...

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

Reading this thread is like watching a 7 Up style documentary series of me being OTM

Wild to think that when this thread started Discovery was 8 months old

Discovery now older than most of the records that it sampled were at the time.

In addition to all of the nice records (most of which were new to me), there is some fun inside baseball in that Blind Test episode!