Techno/House Bobbins of the past

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I felt ILM needed a place to freely discuss techno and house without limiting to just new releases. So it can date back to Edison's recitation of the alphabet for all I care, but if you hear a great record from 5 years ago and want to discuss, then heres a place for it.

Also, I personally feel really burned out after following as much new music as I have over however long, and need to cut down, take a break, or even stop, and start listening to music without the pressure of progress. Personally, I've been fairly nostalgic for a lot of early 00's microhouse, which my dance music self grew up on (no, I'm not very old), which probably just goes to show that I've become pretty jaded.

mehlt, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh for fuck's sake, Can a moderator move this to ILM.

mehlt, Sunday, 2 March 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Excellent idea. Both ideas are excellent.

Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link

i've recently picked up some 12"s on the old forcetracks label. this one in particular is pretty good. any recommendations for other forcetracks stuff (besides luomo)?

one time, Sunday, 2 March 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm quite enjoying John Beltran lately, that very mid-90's Detroity ambient techno sound.

Also, Agaric - Virke (liebe Detail 10 from 2006) is killing me right now.

mehlt, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link

which John Beltran are you listening too? Placid Angles is awesome.

mmmm, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link

love 'Decembers Tragedy' by Beltran, mehlt's description being the reason

blueski, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link

I think Decembers Tragedy was used in the HBO series Six Feet Under.. It was cool hearing as a soundtrack.

mmmm, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Dub Taylor had a couple good/great LP's + 12"s on Force Tracks.

also check the label Raum...Musik for other pre-bobbins sounds.

Beltran's Ten Days of Blue LP on Peacefrog is classic from the first sound to the last.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link

In terms of Force Tracks MRI's All That Glitters is one I come back to cos it's pure pop. "Tied to the 80's" is from a an 80's TV theme and the dub Aaliyah cover is soo cool.

mmmm, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Heh, I was playing All That Glitters a moment ago - first Vinyl I ever owned.

I've been listening to the Beltran Stuff of Stryax Leaves, which is a really great label by the way, which are rereleases from older stuff. 'Anticipation' is wonderful, and "vienna" is beautiful little piece of classical string sampling.

mehlt, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link

Heh, I was playing All That Glitters a moment ago - first Vinyl I ever owned.

jesus.

or something, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

In my defense, I'm only 19.

mehlt, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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).

winston, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Akufen tunes on force tracks are belters.

straight, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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

mh, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

He's apparently putting out an album this year!

mehlt, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

littlewhiteearbuds, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

or something, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

blueski, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

mmmm, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

blueski, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link

second one is m4a btw

blueski, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link

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

romanthony - the wanderer (journeyman thump)

elan, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

mmmm, Sunday, 16 March 2008 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link

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

one time, Sunday, 16 March 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link

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

r1o natsume, Sunday, 16 March 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Kaliova, Sunday, 16 March 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Bodrick III, Sunday, 16 March 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

haitch, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Display Name, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

U-Haul, Monday, 17 March 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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, Monday, 17 March 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link

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

elan, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link

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

elan, Monday, 17 March 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

matt2, Monday, 17 March 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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

totally awesome

elan, Monday, 17 March 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link

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

elan, Monday, 17 March 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.....

pipecock, Monday, 17 March 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link

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, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

W i l l, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.

pipecock, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link

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, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link

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).

lou, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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

matt2, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

littlewhiteearbuds, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

matt2, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link

"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.....

pipecock, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

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?

one time, Friday, 21 March 2008 06:57 (sixteen years ago) link

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

one time, Friday, 21 March 2008 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChr_yZ5CYA

Willie Snickers - Set The Fire (1996)

saer, Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:20 (six months ago) link

Turns out its Boo Williams

saer, Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:44 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLnP_XLW5c

Lynn Lockamie - Love So Strong (Metro Dub)

Textbook delivery

saer, Friday, 26 July 2024 13:29 (six months ago) link

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

Fozbee and Bigdrum - Truth

a different textbook

saer, Sunday, 28 July 2024 15:16 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCcAA28rhwc

Snaky Snake - Wish Of Jazz (1999)

a jaunty outlook

saer, Saturday, 3 August 2024 16:02 (six months ago) link

great stuff

corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 08:33 (six months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeXEKFN-wXM

Cortex - A Winning Team (1979)

saer, Monday, 12 August 2024 15:03 (six months ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9DsybF9ok

Kamasutra - Night Walk (1994)

ambling and meandering

saer, Friday, 6 September 2024 19:01 (five months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ1p7lIk8U4

Alex Font - Randolph's (2016)

late summer shimmering from Valencia Spain

saer, Wednesday, 11 September 2024 18:26 (five months ago) link

Can't remember where I heard about this, maybe ILM, anyway I'm glad I did ...

https://stefangoldmann.bandcamp.com/album/macrospective

default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 11 September 2024 21:14 (five months ago) link

loving this Yukiyo Takabayashi EP from 1996, which as far as I can tell is her only release. she showed up on some other artists' releases doing remixes, but otherwise there's nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2McZ3nfY138

omar little, Sunday, 22 September 2024 18:06 (four months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOG5b8f1XW4

Elan - Reminiscing Avec Moi (Maria's Secret)

Woozy slow jam bobbins from 1993 on Left Coast

saer, Friday, 27 September 2024 19:54 (four months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WmM169LLjc

2 Deep - Te Adoro (Original 2 Deep Mix)

brrrreeezy

saer, Friday, 27 September 2024 20:29 (four months ago) link

Love the Callisto records but don't miss out on DKMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjt9etdGOb4

This is my fav Dana record but of course there are so many

― saer, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link

Caught a copy of this in the wild (pardon the 4 year xpost, thought this was the DKMA track posted last june. In any case, finding dana kelly records is always an occasion)

ed.b, Friday, 4 October 2024 20:57 (four months ago) link

wild planet - synethetic

Had never heard of Wild Planet, but they’ve out out albums on warp and 430 West (interesting since I can’t think of too many artists outside Michigan/US they release).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLkTVAbv3I

ed.b, Sunday, 13 October 2024 17:08 (four months ago) link

just uploaded this mystical deep house obscurity from 1995, hang in there for the piano...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0UQzGB7EIs
Stoned Cold feat. Keri Greenaway - So Determined (Deep House, UK, 1995)

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 19 October 2024 11:56 (three months ago) link

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

Fabulous Baker Boys - Oh Boy (Ramsey & Fen Remix) (1997)

a nod and a wink

saer, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link

biiiiig big big tune:

Neurotic Drum Band - Vibrate (In a White Room) (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oybsE1-WEuw

donna rouge, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 20:09 (three months ago) link

Just saw one of them at a friend's birthday party in Brooklyn. John and Elliot were pretty influential in the techno into italo-revival kind of thing back then. Elliot through the party at Plant Bar where I went to see Metro Area DJ and I met Luke from the Rapture and thus started my post-punk disco party. He also promoted bigger parties bringing Adult. and I-F. Very dot com electroclash era.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 22:50 (three months ago) link

Those were some good days! I think I saw I-F at "fun" back then.

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:03 (three months ago) link

Inspired by a random post on Reddit I've ended up working through every last 'master release' on Discogs in the broader 'Techno' genre chronologically from the very start - a mammoth and thankless OCD task but surprisingly easy to manage while working from home on a pretty much unsupervised data engineering job. I've always loved the genre and over the years built up a decent collection from circa 1998 but felt like I was missing some key stuff I'd have loved that never became 'canon'.

At this point I've just finished 1993 and have amassed a spreadsheet of about 750 absolutely amazing releases so far, a decent amount of which I've snapped up directly on Bandcamp. I've also listened to about 5 seconds of, and then skipped, realistically about 5,000 absolutely dire pop techno horrors(mainly Italian and Dutch) and a tonne of increasingly comically hard Gabba tracks. Not sure how far I'll go with the project before I go insane / get sacked / go bankrupt, or what I'll end up doing with the knowledge but it's been a joy so far. Listening to how styles evolved, seeing producers pop up and improve or change course over periods of time, encountering the Detroit / Berlin crossover in 'real time' etc. It's like going record shopping down the local dance shop all over again.

Either way, the biggest hit of the last few days has been this absolute pelter - probably not new to most of you but I somehow totally missed it:

Acid Scout - 4 Degrees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y6H0Z-mduw

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:14 (three months ago) link

Acid Scout were so good. So utterly unapologetic

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:16 (three months ago) link

Might need you to share that spreadsheet.

Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 November 2024 23:59 (three months ago) link

and a tonne of increasingly comically hard Gabba tracks

Yeah it was interesting at the time how every month the sonic boundaries in hardcore/gabber were pushed a bit further, esp at a time when Detroit-style techno and Chicago-style house (while still producing good tracks) already felt very stagnant.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 09:02 (three months ago) link

Lenny Dee has been the most interesting case for that so far - in maybe an 18 month period his releases morph from relatively mild Frankie Bones style housey breakbeat to fast as hell, ridiculously fierce walls of saturated kick drums and noise. Kind of retrospectively worried for him at this point. Who hurt you Lenny, here’s to a better 1994 lol

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 09:37 (three months ago) link

How it all felt to me as clubber + record collector in 1991-1993 was that the relatively limited sonic palette of Detroit techno + Chicago house had kickstarted a much more exciting/varied sonic landscape with Jungle in the UK, Trance in Germany & Belgium, IDM in the UK, Acid/Goa etc. That crazy hardcore/gabber one-upmanship going on in Holland (also finding an audience in NY and the UK scenes) was part of that wild everything-is-possible-what-will-they-think-of-next experience.

The rapid gentrification of Detroit/Chicago at the time as the tasteful middle-brow sound for mature discerning clubbers who were 'real underground', in-the-know, respectful of the history etc felt intensely boring to me, I guess in the same way that so many people (used to? still? not my scene tbh) dismiss backpacker/boom bap Hip-Hop. Now that I'm older I can appreciate it more, there are indeed many gems among the crud, kudos for sifting through it all.

In retrospect this wild expansionist time was really a surprisingly short period, things got codified into subgenres with strict sonic conventions very quickly.

I got off the hardcore/gabber train around 1992 when it all got a bit too fast and sonically abrasive to me to dance to or listen at home (Death/Black Metal scratched that itch much better), also the audience at the clubs quickly became way too football hooligan for me. I've checked back in occasionally over the years, I can listen to and appreciate it in small doses.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 10:39 (three months ago) link

Re: Detroit becoming ‘tasteful’ - there’s a bit in the ‘Der Klang Der Familie’ book where Thomas Fehlmann describes how whenever the Detroit guys were booked for Tresor in the very early days they would stay for a week or 2, get in Maurizio / Fehlmann’s studio and craft an EP.

Blake Baxter then mentions that, at that point, the Detroit guys were just producing on a couple Roland boxes direct to a mixer, but the Berlin guys had a room full of synths and used a PC for sequencing, which blew their minds.

Wading through all these old tracks you can pretty much spot when most of the main Detroit guys must have flown over, as their releases suddenly dip from ‘raw and funky as hell’ to a few grandiose ‘this is my magnum opus’ washes of synths and notes unlike anything previously. Thanks for nothing Thomas!

That aside, coming across ‘Sun Electric’ (another Thomas Fehlmann associated act) has been another real treat, another act I had totally slept on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ITMRG7ATk

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 11:07 (three months ago) link

Sun Electric were amazing, I was a huge fan then and now.

One of the remarkable things is that this kind of lush hi-fi atmospheric stuff was a central part of the German trance scene at the time but retrospectively post-Tiësto/Armin all that got retconned as "techno", and much of the stuff that actually was called "techno" then got airbrushed out of history as "rave" or "hardcore".

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 11:26 (three months ago) link

I can see that - there is a lot of stuff tagged as Techno in Discogs from 90-92 that your modern fan would likely shudder at. Some of the early Spanish stuff especially is absolutely dire.

Re: the German trance scene, you can also pretty much spot when key synths are released. Everyone at one point seems to have got hold of a Korg Wavestation and made an ambient album or B side at minimum 😂

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 11:43 (three months ago) link

It's a remarkable turnaround where at the time (1991-1995) the trance scene was seen as a more musically ambitious step up from overly simplistic/populist Techno bangers for pilled-up ravers (much like Jungle & atmospheric Drum & Bass).

But retroactively the whole oldschool Trance scene got airbrushed and re-labeled as Techno, to the point where you almost get banned by 20-year-old mods on Discogs for suggesting that tracks like "Acid Eiffel", "Acperience" or those old Sun Electric, Speedy J and Quazar tracks have any connection to Trance, which would've been absolutely baffling to any DJ or clubber who was in that scene.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 12:40 (three months ago) link

Definitely, you can see the German side of things rapidly splitting along the lines of notes and melodies vs sound design. Then Waveform Transmissions v1 comes along and pretty much defines what the genre ends up becoming, which where I’ve just got to :)

I only ever came across any of the proto-trance stuff on this late night weekend show on UK Channel 4 that played it over space video clips, along with Black Dog etc.

I caught the very tail end (no pun intended) of the non-shit trance era via Megadog dance tents / market stall raves / chill out areas at my first few festivals as a teen but would have loved to have caught it out in the wild properly.

On that note, this was another ‘holy shit’ moment when it popped up on Discogs after another 20 ‘James Brown is Dead’ knockoffs:

Barbarella - Barbarella (The Irresistible Force mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2a51A2eMaU

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 13:05 (three months ago) link

Some of the early Spanish stuff especially is absolutely dire.

A lot of the Spanish & Italian stuff from that time was still clunky second-rate EBM, just sped up a bit and relabeled as Techno.

Speaking of which, I was revisiting the old Technopolis/Techno Club compilations a bit back, it's really interesting to see the point where the German producers pivot from EBM to techno/trance in 1989-1991.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 13:20 (three months ago) link

Yeah the EBM > Trance pathway wasn’t something I’d really considered before.

It’s pretty wild that fucking *Laibach* of all people end up putting out some pretty hands in the air bangers at one point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49VkhI-kCTY

Also following the career arc of Torsten Fenslau from EBM to Culture Beat has been far more enjoyable than I might have admitted if I was forced to listen to all his tunes out of the context of other tunes of the era. Aged like milk obviously nowadays, but sonically he was way ahead of his dance pop peers for a bit.

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link

i think the early Torsten Fenslau tracks have aged well. "Alone It's Me" is all time. Force Legato and even Der Erdbeermund still sound good to me.

I was a huge Lenny D fan in the late 80s / early 90s. i booked him right at the point he went full on Gabba. i thought it was funny for 90 seconds and then had had enough it but the crowd loved it.

stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 18:05 (three months ago) link

Yeah it must have been wild booking people a few months in advance back then - imagine having to worry about a booking inventing a whole new genre before their gig came around 😂

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link

remembering the mighty J Saul Kane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDU0IPEcRY0

stirmonster, Monday, 18 November 2024 23:19 (two months ago) link

what??!! Very sad!

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link

As a confirmed kung-fu movie fan, Kane was involved in setting up the company Made in Hong Kong, which licensed Chinese movies, particularly those made by the Shaw Brothers. Many of these movies are examples of the heroic bloodshed genre (The Killer, A Moment of Romance). Made in Hong Kong was the first company to release Stephen Chow films on VHS in the UK.

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXEZBe6rF0

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 01:00 (two months ago) link

i think "Free-er Than Free" was my intro to JSK. I reckon i played it in every DJ set i did from '89 to 91 and got through a few copies. it still does it for me today.

stirmonster, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 01:22 (two months ago) link

It still startles today. Just so much unexpected stuff going on.

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 12:07 (two months ago) link

A new electronic beats blind test is always a cause for hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jen93Xs0YGw

ed.b, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 13:51 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

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

Keith Tucker - Face Your Fate (D. Wynn Remix) (1999)

Unexpectedly genial rework

saer, Thursday, 2 January 2025 19:05 (one month ago) link

I slept on this … so much better than the more canonized “I’ve lost control”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2rcBaFNlcU

ok (D-40), Thursday, 9 January 2025 23:09 (one month ago) link

actually the slightly shorter Ron Hardy one is more my vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHE4Cwvghc

ok (D-40), Thursday, 9 January 2025 23:57 (one month ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69KmxijbmRk

Jori Hulkkonen - Whispers (Extended Dance Version) (2001)

Clock DVLA (NickB), Monday, 10 February 2025 23:13 (three days ago) link

Plaza - “Uh Oh” (Belgium, 1990, epilaulets, euro rapping)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxtxSU6x1xY

brimstead, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:10 (two days ago) link

I think if you slowed the instrumental down it sounds like 400 blows “pressure” in an air fryer

brimstead, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:11 (two days ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2_AtMznxg

Today’s favourite discovery is ‘Psychic Media - Bio Feedback’

As far as I can tell it only ever appeared on a 1992 Profile records CD, an early Tetsu Inoue and either Nico or Masa Inamura production depending on which Discogs listing is correct. Either way, top notch ravey acid banger 👌

pronounced with an ‘umpty’ (Willl), Tuesday, 11 February 2025 15:28 (two days ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcnhGHmign8

Matthias - Insect Eaters From The Jungle (2018)

I never really clicked with this guys records but this ep of mid afternoon quips is a delight, though this is the only track to arrive at youtube

saer, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 17:24 (two days ago) link


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