― jess, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I agree - hence "harder to see" rather than "missing". I certainly don't think it is in any way a bad thing; the dancefloor tracks tend to be my favourites, and furthermore I'd hate to try to enforce some division between dancefloor and non-dancefloor, as if microhouse is too good to shake yer booty to (more booty- shakin' please!)
the interesting thing - or hopefully the interesting thing - will be seeing how the programming advances of the last four-six years are integrated into an environment which could very easily trample the details into submission.
You may be slightly under-estimating (or I might be over- estimating) the ability to perceive detail (and the potential delicacy of detail) on the dancefloor. Even without drugs most of my really emotional experiences on the dancefloor have been caused by the sudden sensation of a hundred doors opening as I begin to suddenly discern the brilliance of the interlocking minute particles that make up the music.
― Tim, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
it's interesting to track the press mentions of this "sound" as it developed. the january 2000 issue of the wire has an interview with matt herbert and rob young's epochal (for me anyway) "glitch" essay. in the herbert article (by kodwo eshun) there's repeated mention of "minimal" and "minutae" but no neologisms as such. in the glitch essay however, young uses both the phrase "crack house" to describe artists like theo parrish, jurgen paape, and cristian vogel (super_collider is definitely a missing link in the m-house lineage), as well as "microfunk" to talk about snd, autechre, and monolake. (but then he goes on to talk about some banal kim cascone deal with music that probably was never there to begin with.)
i can tell i'm obsessed with this "genre" because i'm hearing it everywhere: today in the car i was listening to the "live" version of "sex machine" from james brown's album of the same name. there's a point somewhere in the middle where the band drops out but the groove keeps going, augmented by an occasional scratch of guitar and of course jb's vocal yelps which could easily be glitched up samples. it's 2 minutes that's so klang/perlon/kompakt it's scary.
― Clarke B., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Jess I will respond to your wise comments when I get back from uni.
― Tim, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
(*unless of course tim is just channelling my grandmother, who wouldn't stoop to saying "ass" or "acre" and would merely say "don't be wise." to which we would sniggeringly thing, does that mean we can be stupid? did you know she once called filene's basement [us clothing store] felini's basement. i'd love to see what was in felini's basement. did i mention i'm also drunk. i love you all.)
The etomology game is a fun one, perhaps with this particular strand of music more than others due to the fact that microhouse represents an implosion rather than an explosion. Which is not to say its creative horizon has narrowed - quite the opposite - but rather that most of the artists involved have come from such different directions, and it's only been over quite some time that they've come to be considered as part of the one "scene". So what's been interesting is how the terms used have become progressively vaguer ("microhouse" being the epitome of this) as they've had to expand to cope with the incoming traffic.
I like "crack-house", but only if it's posited as being the end of a certain spectrum (Perlon?), the other end of which is "smack- house" (eg. the post-Basic Channel woozy stuff you get on Kompakt).
― Tim, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Clarke B., Monday, 4 November 2002 07:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
tune in via the webhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/
banging epic prog dance !!!!!!!!!!
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link
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― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 June 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
fuck this track playing now is good ! it has weird spiral sounds and epic house trippy tip
what is it?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
the album 'airdrawn dagger' flits between leftfield/orbital and er, mike oldfield, but its generally okay (if it had come out a year or two earlier than it had it wouldve done better and been more popular)
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― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
01. Mathew Dekay - Beautiful Monday02. ID03. Ulrich Schnauss - ID04. Panoptic - Surface05. ID06. Maurice & Noble – Hoochie Koochie Man07. Amber - Anyway (Steve Porter Remix 2)08. Timo Maas - Unite09. ID10. P.Diddy feat. Kelis - Lets Get Ill (Deep Dish Remix)11. ID12. Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floors (Junkie Xl Dub)13. Bjork - ID14. ID15. Junkie XL - Red Pill, Blue Pill (Main Mix)16. Nirvana vs Adam Freeland - Smells Like Teen Sprit 200317. Sasha vs Underworld - Cowpander (Junkie XL Edit)
I'm listening to it right now, three minutes in - some of my favourite tracks of the moment to look forward to (Amber, Dave Gahan, Nirvana).
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 27 June 2003 10:48 (twenty years ago) link
And re: Airdrawndagger - judging from the shitload of great Junkie XL remixes/singles (the prog ones, not the big beat ones) in the last few months, I've come to the conclusion that mr. Tom Holkenberg was responsible for all the good stuff there (Cloud Cuckoo et al).
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 27 June 2003 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson, Friday, 27 June 2003 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 14 December 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
Xpander report Sasha will release an album: Involver as part of the Global Underground compilation series.
This is an album of exclusively recorded remixes/ recreations by Sasha from other artists [Felix Da Housecat, Ulrich Schnauss, Grand National etc] tracks.
Sasha - Involver tracklisting
01 GRAND NATIONAL - TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES02 SHPONGLE - DORSET PERCEPTION03 PETTER - THESE DAYS04 UNKLE - WHAT ARE YOU TO ME?05 THE YOUNGSTERS - SMILE06 SPOOKY - BELONG07 UNKLE - IN A STATE08 LOSTEP - BURMA09 FELIX DA HOUSECAT - WATCHING CARS GO BY10 ULRICH SCHNAUSS - ON MY OWN
Xpander also have a new interview with Sasha
Billboard report this album will be released on June 22nd [in the US] by Global Underground.
In the UK, Sasha - Involver has a release date of June 14th.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
*i think*
― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Saturday, 11 November 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Found my 2 disc Northern Exposure: Expeditions in a box and drove around listening to it for a couple days. It’s good! It prompted me to buy his Global Underground 13: Ibiza mix when I spotted it for 3 bux the other day and it’s probably even better for being a bit less trancey.
I don’t know what he’s up to these days; his old chum Digweed put out a four hour album several years ago which was vv good. Both these guys are better than Oakenfold as far as the trance Mt Rushmore types go, I listened to Tranceport recently and the cheese factor was wild.
― omar little, Friday, 17 March 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
i still have a lot of time for his 2cd set of remixes/film soundtrack.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1307527-Sasha-The-emFire-Collection-Mixed-Unmixed-Remixed
― mark e, Friday, 17 March 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
Didn’t know about this one, but the trance folks haven’t received much press post-GU glory days, they fell outta style twenty years ago. Tho I feel like there are so many artists inspired by that sound coming up now. The best of that bunch I’ve heard is Long Island Sound.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 March 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link