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― StanM, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The Jon Carter one was a Select tape too, it was an abrdidged version of the Heavenly Social mix, but still ace.
― Neil S, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's a little gift for you:
Emmanuel Top - Spherique
This is possibly the best tune he's ever done; they guy is simply a master of buildup and release.
― Tuomas, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Just blasted the youngsters in the office with this. It was met with approving nods and fitted in quite well with the Juke that they're currently playing.
― Doran, Friday, 19 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice that youngsters can appreciate some old shit!
― Tuomas, Friday, 19 March 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
His final (?) record Mars was ace (the Kai Tracid rmx too). Anyone know what he's been up to since '03?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently he put a new track called "Idéalisme" on his Facebook fanpage last month, you can listen to it there:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emmanuel-Top/40068385381?ref=nf&v=wall
Sounds nice, though kinda predictably Emmanuel Top.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, on his Twitter page he says he's looking for someone to design the look for his new album, so apparently something is cooking up.
I'd never before heard this particular track he released as "Krankehaus", holy shit what a tune!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaRvHVCAg4
Does anyone do hard trance like this anymore? I haven't paid much attention to the trance scene ever since Goa and pop trance took over and (in my opinion) kinda ruined it.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link & the news!
― StanM, Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Hard/acid trance never went away. This one is a few years old but I love it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJnwJPMWPk
― Siegbran, Sunday, 21 March 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
It was but it was Select I think - pretty sure I still have it. Near the start of the tape there is some odd ass sample of a woman ranting at some US politician struggling to retain his composure (this is probably really famous idk)
That's the one!
side A of the Select tape from 1995:
Sweet!
But this: http://www.supermoving.co.uk/JDJJR.html is even sweeter. Side A and B. The latter features what I remember JR describing at the time as "honest trance" (Humate's 3.1), which sums it up pretty well I think.
What a great fucking mix.
― smn, Sunday, 21 March 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Generation is a huge record. Possibly my favourite acid trak.
Sounds brilliant in the context of Donato Dozzy's ssgs mix (Part 2, approx 10 mins in): donato dozzy live @ labyrinth 2008
― sam500, Monday, 22 March 2010 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
no mention of "lobotomie" yet?? i thought it was his biggest record
i love how the kick drum just disappears for the last what, like three minutes of it, and the acid squiggles just ratchet up and UP AND UP AND UP and i presume the DJ is supposed to be bringing in the next track to explode into efflorescence when the beeps become unmanageable
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 22 March 2010 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think "Acid Phase" is his biggest record, on Last.fm it has five times as many plays as the second most popular tune, which is "Turkish Bazar". "Lobotomie" is great too, though.
Did you know that the weird bit of poetry ("the music was new, black, polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night") sampled in "Turkish Bazar" is actually by Jim Morrison? I never would've guessed it, but one day I googled the words and found out it's from some odd spoken-word poetry album of his.
― Tuomas, Monday, 22 March 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone know what he's been up to since '03?
He's always been quite an enterpreneur. He has been running his publishing company (Editions Top, Tourcoing) and then in 2008 he bought a club just over the border in Mouscron (Belgium) which is now called Barocca. But it's quite hard to keep track of the man, maybe some of this is just unsubstantiated rumors.
― StanM, Monday, 22 March 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
By the way, before it was remade into Seven Days And One Week there was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=252Wqn7RdoM
― StanM, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
More classic early stuff:
Plexus - Auto Shutter (1992 - Roger Samyn, Bruno Sanchioni, Emmanuel Top)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3oHe2N5k-M
Brainwave - How Do You Feel (1992 - Roger Samyn, Bruno Sanchioni, Emmanuel Top)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OUeuDkdgH8
― StanM, Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
!?http://twitter.com/emmanueltop/status/11350947082
― StanM, Friday, 2 April 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ilm is a treasure
― j., Thursday, 10 January 2019 04:17 (five years ago) link
Generation is a huge record. Possibly my favourite acid trak.Sounds brilliant in the context of Donato Dozzy's ssgs mix (Part 2, approx 10 mins in): donato dozzy live @ labyrinth 2008― sam500
― sam500
I still stand by this.
― millmeister, Thursday, 10 January 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link