Techno/House Bobbins of the past

I couldn't tell you to be honest. I don't own any of the Bango records.

It is so easy to find digital versions of old dance vinyl that you might as well dig around for the whole catalog and figure out what you want. Fragile was a good label, definitely worth looking into.

Retroactive was pretty bananas label as well. A lot of it is rare as hens teeth and super expensive, but it is really good. Carl Craig ran it with Damon Booker before Carl split to run Planet E. The Placid Angles record is dope early John Beltran shit, Carl Craig's stuff was good, Mark Kichen's record was dope, and the Inertia record was some of Gerald Simpson's best deep techno stuff.

I posted it up thread, but if you are into the early breakbeat stuff that wasn't corny, you might want to look into this record:

http://www.discogs.com/Intelligent-Communication-Principles-Of-Motion-EP/release/98217

It is still stupid cheap because nobody knows what it is yet, but it is really good. It is one of those records that is just waiting to be dropped by the right name and it will be worth a lot more. I think when ambient house comes back it will be fashionable again.

yeah well obviously i could spend hours upon hours researching labels on youtube and buying records on discogs, that's pretty much all i do anyway. and obviously i've already looked into fragile records. just wanted to talk about some music i've been feeling lately

it's amazing how easy youtube makes it to buy records now. however, i spent a good couple of hours today in some record shops and only came away with one record - somehow i kept thinking "best leave that and check it out on youtube first"

Where are you shopping for records?

RA Poll Top 100 tracks of the 00s: a youtube playlist.

Bobbins ahoy.

I love those psychofuk records - but what is the story behind them? is it true that sean deason produced them and then someone ripped him off and released them as psychofuk? one of the releases sounded really like deason's 'the shit..'

i've been revisiting the Kompakt back catalog. for some reason, "Take This" is EXACTLY what i want to hear all the time right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzsiF_pEY4

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/london/lecture-videos/marshall_jefferson_traxback

Got Kerri Chandler - The Thing For Linda EP for about $2 a few weeks back. Just got around to listening to it.

Excellent!

― EDB, Friday, January 29, 2010 2:26 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I should reiterate, this is an absolute monster of a record, sets a standard for exactly what a 4 track (house) EP should be and do.

Also, the first CD of Frictionalism is down, and it's like there's a party in my ears and everyone's invited. Thank goodness for Rush Hour and its relevance for early 20's ignoranti like myself.

re: Kerri Chandler - The Thing For Linda EP

it is great! in my experience, Kerri seldom misses. i played the jazz sample track from that 12" at my last DJ night.

saw danny wang play this last night and it was so awesome i handed danny my cell phone to type what the track was.

http://clone.nl/item12429.html

wtf at dixon's "edit" of "the wanderer". so tacky

i've just discovered this since it's got reissued. what can i say, a perfect house LP if there ever was one. http://www.discogs.com/Virgo-Virgo/master/85697

Dixon's edit of Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li is fantastic though.

still unreleased though, eh?

i think it came out on a white label. easy enough to find online. the mp3 is all i need.

the innervisions shop had a 12" with the lykke li track on one side and 'the wanderer' on the other.

'the wanderer' itself got reissued last month, get that instead!!

how is it tacky? it doesn't sound all that different from most of the og mixes.

the drum programming is bad. the vocals are unedited, i think.

i thought it was okay before the percussion came in. nvm

http://www.prontocabo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/richie_hawtin.jpg

for-those-who-like-to-groove-04-04-1992

Long Ago – A relic
R-Tyme R-theme
Model 500- Sounds of stereo metroplex
Terrace - In motion
Carl Craig - From beyond
Speedy J – Pullover
Public Energy – Three o three
Robert Armani – Invasion
Steve Pointdexter – Work that mother ****er
Ramirez – La musika tremenda
Jam & Spoon – My first fantastic f.f.
The Mover – Nightflight
Suburban Knight - The groove
Paradise Deep Groove - I love
Nu Dimensions – Rare air
Gijs V-Room - Sonic jungle

reissued this month and highly, highly recommended:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2010/rh-tx1lp.jpg

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7218

you stole my limelight :(

i've just discovered this since it's got reissued. what can i say, a perfect house LP if there ever was one. http://www.discogs.com/Virgo-Virgo/master/85697

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 15 March 2010 23:12 (Yesterday) Bookmark

soz, Durrrr - didn't check up thread....

kidding, bro..

I have never heard of Virgo but am a HUGE fan of late 80's/early 90's house. Totally looking forward to checking this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXiB7OQOYJ0

recent out on vinyl/cd

Bombay, 1982: Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and invented house music along the way!

Sounds like it could have come out on hyperdub.

how is it tacky? it doesn't sound all that different from most of the og mixes.

― elan, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i think it's pretty trite to put "the wanderer" over the top of a martin buttrich track and release it and get paid for it. especially as there are already plenty perfectly good club mixes. i know this is hardly unheard of in house and techno music

i guess it's the fact that people are buying it that annoys me. it typifies the lazy conformity that seems to pervade much of european dj culture at the moment

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just heard this track for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MN16f00v9A

!!!

I have serious doubts about the Ragas reissue. Kudos to the producer is that is really from 1982 but I am skeptical.

xpost: did you see Geeta Dyal's blog post/research into the Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat release? she found the original sleeve (which i like better)

http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/art/synthesizing.jpg

http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/2010/04/thoughts-on-10-ragas-to-a-disco-beat/

I don't think it sounds that different from other proto techno/house stuff from the early 80s and late 70s (like E2-E4 or "Rock Groove Machine" by the J.B.'s) that it should be considered a fake. The only suspicious bit is that he seems to have discovered the acid sound in TB-303 way before DJ Pierre & co, but since they came up with it by just fiddling with the machine, it's not inconceivable someone else discovered it and put it on record before them.

spot on Tuomas.

I'll admit, I was ecstatic when I found out about this a week ago, especially as it seems like the obvious sideways move that would have occurred amongst the composers working within Bollywood's disco obesssion in the early 1980s.

Checkout this Nazia Hassan (produced by Biddhu) track, also from 1982, which is a solid, faithful rework of Moroder/Summer's I Feel Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ead-K_q5QNs&feature=related

There's a whole bunch of these tracks I've been slowly collecting - each playing with the imported disco-sound (someday, I'll write a piece on my Hiniditalo obsession); so no surprise that disco in India when detached from the song/vocal-led form gave way to tracky house/acid - just like elsewhere.

Thanks for the blog link. Glad to hear it's not a hoax. I enjoyed listening to it this weekend.

cheers, thanks for linking to my blog post (that's "dayal" by the way, not "dyal")

i just wrote a second long essay about '10 Ragas to a Disco Beat', which you can read here. it incorporates the youtube video right up above!

http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/2010/04/further-thoughts-on-ten-ragas-to-a-disco-beat/

While we're talking about proto acid house, check out this tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udS9seorVz4

It's from 1979, so obviously it doesn't have an 303, but the way the squelchy, modulating synth is played throughout the whole song certainly sounds like what acid house producers did with the 303 later on. The album this is on (Groove Machine by The J.B.'s) has a proto house vibe all over: it's all about the steady 4/4 beat and relentless groove, and the vocals and horns on it just repeat the same short lines over and over again, without variation, as if they were samples. (I assume that in some cases they actually are samples, i.e. they just recorded one bit and looped it over and over with whathever technology producers were using back then.) When I first heard that record I couldn't believe it was from 1979. So I was wondering, besides being the godfathers of funk and rap, should we credit James Brown and The J.B.'s for laying the seeds for house too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsJf5ZVVXw

would anyone kindly do a s&d for missile records?

mehlt, did you ever find a copy of "law of grace"? currently $299 on discogs :X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-R46Vr-Tso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpuYZzWIO0k

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/_abc/_p/pp008cd.jpg

so sick

also, just scored a few purpose maker records for cheap, "the dancer" especially is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4ds6M9ukY&feature=player_embedded#!

Heh, I got that Angie is a Shoplifter LP for like $2 back in January, incidentally along with some super cheap purpose maker records as well (well, ok, one purpose maker and 3 axis records).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmK_VesZ8CI&feature=related

the levon vincent RA podcast is awesome

just got this for a pound at the exchange -- b-side is amazing club orientated dub techno

http://www.discogs.com/JSZeiter-Switch-Motion_Sickness/release/237632