Techno/House Bobbins of the past

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

On the subject of amazing club oriented dub techno, I was listening to this http://www.discogs.com/Drastic-Cycles-Of-Harmony/release/64543, which I picked up for $2 a few years ago, and it's quality stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDhyxVb0_0

Dangerous. Ignacio - Organon.

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

I had never heard Hanna (warren harris) before this week and I have been enjoying his track from 2003 "about you" a lot. I wonder if the album is good too, it doesn't seem to be for sale in mp3 format which is a shame. I wonder how much a record player would cost I don't really have room for one unfortunately but I guess I could keep it in a cupboard and bring it out when i need to digitize vinyl

Also been loving the kenny larkin mix of eddie flashin fowlkes 'deep pit' ever since I heard prosumer play it a few weeks ago

I just bought this today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbWbcHdAfOw&feature=PlayList&p=819E686D114986BB&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYhKnENx_4

Mike Dunn is the shit.

I was very satisfied when I watched Hoop Dreams a a month or two ago and heard Magic Feet in it. :)

I bought a copy of LNR - Work it to the bone, and the vocal mix that this ultra sped up noise coming out of the left channel. Does anyone know anything about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuA8h55lM0

i played a lot of British Murder Boys and Surgeon on Friday at this party and people were surprisingly into it?

and also Jurgen Paape's "Take This." which is completely unsurprising since it is A FUCKING JAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7KHNR7dEA

http://www.discogs.com/label/Cabinet+Records

this label is pretty great

This is a total bomb.

Don't know if it's strictly bobbins, but I after years, found a copy of

Spactime Continuum's Emit Ecaps and my love for this dude is just going through the roof.

Haven't heard Jonah Sharp's new material, such as his work in Reaganz, but I really should because his Spacetime Stuff is sooooo great.

Oh man, this album is amazing!