2004's Electro-House Classics

I always took the Dur-Dur-Durrr mix along with erotic discourse as the time when it became who could play the most extreme breakdown, which lead to an arms race in harder and harder stuff. (like romal flugels Geht's Nocht)

this is fairly wild in its innaccuracy, i'd say chronologically as well as the rest.

i mean

1. that remix sounds nothing like the flugel track.
2. the flugel track predates it by how long...a year? possibly longer, maybe even 2 years?
3. there is no breakdown in geht's nocht as far as i recall.
4. erotic discourse from another time as well.

Thanks to this thread I've ordered the first 2 Areal compilation mixes. I've also spent the morning playing P Sherburne's Schaffel mix. Hopefully I will be able to give my say on the death of this music when I'm sober. It will undoubtably mention Ricardo Villalobos...

"Rocker" not "Geht's Nocht" was the start of the harder/faster arms race but it wasn't really a race at that point.

No, that race didn't start until "Rocker" was playing in almost every Australian hairdressers. And even then I think it kicked off two separate races - harder/faster & cartoon/noisier.

for Ned

Bobbins 2004 'No Permission Asked' Spotify Playlist

Some 18 years on, I still enjoy the Freeform Reform Dub of “Strangest Things” so much. Listening back I was startled to realise that they wait precisely six minutes before allowing the chorus refrain to play out in full. For such an archetypal maximalist anthem it’s secretly a masterclass in restraint and pacing, each exciting new vista simultaneously an oblique circumvention.