If you haven't had the pleasure yet, it could be described as the music New Order should have made when they discovered ecstasy and Ibiza... but with a cowbell! It is on the Klang Elektronik label.
I'm currently expanding my horizons and listening to their also excellent 'Transphormer' album, but I want MORE! Does anyone know anything about earlier tracks, solo projects, DJ sets? This is the thread where you help me become even more obsessed.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.kompaktkiste.de/ is a good resource to help you navigate this tangled family tree.
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
they're on this thread
Rave Tapes
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Rocker is too anthemic at the expense of rhythm and darkness, which does not work in that style for me, I am no scuzz addict, I love fluffiness but I think it's for house music.
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monkey Mooky, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link
nope, not right!! eight miles high is also roman flugel solo.
if you are searching for acid jesus, search the "radiation EP" first.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
ronan you ought to check out the lo-fi techno stuff on weatherall's old emissions audio output label. stuff like panash but also random shit like conemelt and deanne day and corridor.
similar to old sabres bangin techno, very DARK, but also very dry and lo-fi and understated and eerie and with a bit of the two lone swordsmen technical vibe too.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
love that record. to this day people run up to ask what it is.
charltonlido - i'll check out those mp3s.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I think Rocker is great - the DUH-DUH-DU-DUH-WEE-OOOOH bits are so jack-y and intense, and then when the melody hits it's an instinctive rush. It's wonderfully immediate dance music-more gut-level and instinctive than most tunes of the moment. Contrasted with the coaxing, gradual energy of current electrohouse and micro tunes, it's a big fat punch to the gut which is why I think it fits so well into so many different sets. For sure it'll be one of THE nostalgia dance records of '04 when the "Now that's what I call naughties dance" cds come out in a few years time...
Having said that, I'm listening to "Vincent van dance" and the schaffel-y one ("Nasty Dollars"?) off the album more than "Rocker" at the mo, as they have a little more variety in them and are better for home listening that way...
― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
EAO really was the shit. what became of Dave Being? a brilliant LP (and remix LP) for Space Teddy, then ... nothing. did he ever reemerge under another name?
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess one thing I love about 'Rocker' is the pop dynamic and the sense of restraint - the way the melody hook actually only gets used for less than 1/20th of the actual running time, teasing you and leaving you wanting more, reaching for the repeat button again and again.
Have to agree about the Blackstrobe mix, it just sounds really dreary.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― stirmonster, Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 1 July 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 1 July 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Don't. Head straight for "Interstate". Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 2 July 2004 04:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 2 July 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Friday, 2 July 2004 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 2 July 2004 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 16 July 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, Rocker is fantastic. Jorn said it was the closest he's ever got to the ideal punk song he wanted to record when he first started making music in his early teens.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 July 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 16 July 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
'Rocker' is forever entwined with the Simian/Justice track as Manchester's Club Suicide would always always mix the two in together while people literally jumped up and down with joy.
― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― manuel (manuel), Saturday, 22 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 27 January 2005 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Jacob (jwrigh...), January 27th, 2005.
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― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Thursday, 27 January 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Their first too albums are both good, I was just listening to them for the first time in ages. It's kinda funny that people these days know them only for "Rocker"... When I first heard "Rocker" I thought it must be by some other act called Alter Ego, because I hadn't heard anything of them since the mid-nineties. The self-titled debut is your basic trance/ambient house, it's a nice listen, but doesn't too much differ from other similar albums of the time. The second one is more interesting though, despite the silly title ("Decoding the Hacker Myth") it's not pretentious at all, it's a lovely-sounding mixture of soft, trancey synths, and elastic electro breaks. I don't think I've heard anything quite like it, I guess you could put it under the IDM label, but it's much smoother and less consciusly wanky than any British IDM/electro stuff I've heard.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 30 September 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
um, is this as awesome as it sounds??
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=4850
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
that sounds totally amazing. neither of my locals have stocked the album or the single (w/ joakim remix) yet tho.
― haitch, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i really like the house-y tracks on this like "chicken shag". parts of it remind me of the last mr. oizo album when it quit with all the brisk editing and fell into a groove. the tracks like "why not?" and "gary" i'm not so into. "thirld world food on the upper east side" is cool.
― r1o natsume, Friday, 23 November 2007 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link