Just out of curiosity, how many of the "Heroin House" producers are actually involved in heroin? The answer is just none of the Hardwax crew are involved in junk.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0127/sotc.php
yet another example of why UK dance journalists and press have played the biggest role in wrecking dance music by dragging drugs into everything. I think using drug references to label dance music is just bad form, if for no other reason that it marginalizes the music.
I am a dance music snob, I see nothing wrong with that. If I hurt your feelings I must have said something that was on the money. Are you one of those people who got their BC/CR/BM/M tracks in the metal tins? ;)
― Michael Taylor, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And no, my feelings could never be 'hurt' by someone who gives a flying fuck abt what format you bought a record in. Elitism and snobbery have done far more to 'marginalise' dance music than any amount of drug references; and besides, in the UK dance music IS the mainstream. It's only the anal collectors, clinging to their white labels and exclusive remixes, that still desperately want to keep it to themselves.
― Andrew L, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
MI space rock-wise, you certainly couldn't affix an 'S' to the first Monaural 12".
― Andy, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I have indulged in my fair share of controlled substances while dancing(although it was in my younger days.) From my perspective(and this is undoubtedly a Detroit predjudice,) people who associate drugs with music are generally considered ignorant and are to be looked down upon. It is an attitude that started in the 80's when Detroit had a serious crack problem, and the real cost of drug use in the inner-city reared it's head. Among many of the older Detroit producers and music community drugs are looked down upon, and that attitude still lingers to this day. The Music Institute did not even serve liquor.
as for Monaural, no doubt, but so many of those records have dated really badly. I still break out the Windy and Carl records occasionally.
― mike taylor, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'll admit it; my intro to Porter Ricks and Maurizio were those Macro Dub compilations from '96/'97, which most purists probably view as the equivalent of '70s K-Tel corporate rock comps. Eardrum = Robin Trower, right?
You were late to the party on those Robert Johnson 78s, and I'm assuming most of us here were. Does that mean our interest in him is somehow less valid?
― Andy, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― TC, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― g, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. lost generation/post-rock (UK division) - C,O2. UK garage 1997-2001 - C,O3. hardcore/jungle/d&b 1990-1997 - C,O4. post-punk blah blah - c,o5. metal - o,s
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 April 2003 04:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
1. Early Britpop, before Coldplay broke out; in other words, back when it was still under the heavy influence of David Bowie instead of Radiohead. Not like there's anything wrong with Radiohead, but there is something wrong with Chris Martin, the wanker.
Pulp, Suede, Manic Street Preachers. (C,O)
2. Trip-hop, before people started calling it "downtempo", and it became too attached to lite-house frippery, and lost all sense of texture beyond fluffy lounge compilation fodder.
Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky. (C,0)
3. Shoegaze; I don't know quite enough about all of the bands in this genre to make categorical determinations, BUT what I've heard, I love.
Ride, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine. (C,O)
4. Synth pop, the 80s leg, not the current and dubious revival, but the dark, depthful stuff that I got teased in high school for listening to. In other words, I'm not altogether interested in whatever they're doing in Brooklyn right now.
New Order, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan. (C,O)
5. Bleak and cerebral post-punk of the late 70s/early 80s variety. White-boy music that makes you want to shake your ass and cower in an airtight fallout shelter. Simultaneously. While wearing a denim jacket with Che Guevara pins on it.
Cabaret Voltaire, Gang of Four, Shriekback. (C, 0)
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― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
1) pop (1300-current) (c,o,s)
― trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RS, Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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― danh (danh), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link