FREEFORM 1990's ALTERNATIVE ALBUM POLL - THE RECKONING (TOP TEN COUNTING DOWN NOW)

20 Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure Vol. 1 (1997)
87 points
1 vote
0 first-place votes
Contributor: i am using your worlds

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foolishly I only have Northern Exposures 1 and 2. But I love them so - they're so unashamedly new age!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 21:36 (5 years ago)

also, do dj mixes count here? cos NE and NE2 are probably my most played "electronic" albums ever.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:00 (5 years ago)

i'm currently digging sasha's production and mixes (including northern exposure series with digweed) and i think it'll be hard to find stuff more gorgeous than those in the realm of dance music!

― Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr, Saturday, 6 December 2008 06:04 (1 year ago)

Hmmmm let's see......here are some classic "prog house" mixes...

Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure V.1 (2CD import, NOT the domestic version)...very well-mixed, classic melodic tunes.....no longer a representation of what is played in clubs these days, however. More of a listening album than a dancing album.

For a more current document of where house music is, I think Sander Kleinenberg's Nu Breed mix fits the bill.

― Patrick, Monday, 24 September 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)

It's ace as is the usual with Sasha. I've seen him a dozen times and he's provided a great night out every time. You peeps like to suck on M.Mayers cock but he's a shit DJ. He may have a Kompakt white label but he can't mix worth shit. Sasha is the best DJ in the world when it comes to blending tracks together. I'm not talking about his Abelton skills, but rather with vinyl and CD's. The first Northern Exposure 2CD set is probably the best DJ set ever released.

― biz, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 19:37 (4 years ago)

I believe this is the first trance-prog-house DJ set to make the poll

gonna be hilar when the winner is the one record one (1) person gave 200 points for cos they are a troll.

I was kinda hoping this poll would have some dance music and not just home listening/ambient type of electronic music, but that was unexpected! Never heard the record, so I can't comment on the music, but that sort of usually doesn't get much praise on ILX. (So I guess it makes sense that it got so high by one vote only.)

"that sort of stuff"

Yes! Okay, I haven't given a damn about trance in nigh over a decade, but I used to love that record, as well as it's follow-up.

Initially I had Cope's Peggy Suicide with 120 points, but changed it to favor a few things that - at this point - I would say aren't going to make it.

I kind of wish I'd created a few sockpuppets now

87 points
1 vote
0 first-place votes

Interesting stats

19 The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death (1997)
87 points
6 votes
0 first-place votes
Greatest contributor: Lamp

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this is my favorite rap album ever i think

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:14 (1 month ago)

maybe this is challops, but I never really dug this album as a whole. too much melodrama.

― khaled zeppelin (The Reverend), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:15 (1 month ago)

I hear you - it's extremely self-conscious to my ears, v. I'm-making-this-album but that doesn't bother me - the rapping is just so incredible, really if all the songs were about random subjects the sheer pyrotechnics would be o_0

― the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Monday, 15 March 2010 04:21 (1 month ago)

it sounds like everything on ready to die refined and sometimes perfected and all the new things that you've never heard him do before. there's the twisty storytelling tracks that build down into perfect payoffs ("nigga turned around holdin his daughter..."/"through all the excitement, they range got towed-- they double-parked by a hydrant"), the big puff/big tracks, the gully tracks, the slow jamz, whatever. it's amazing just to hear him rap-- like, he's perfect and most of the time it's just sort of in the back of your mind, like, "oh, he's good," but there're so many moments on it where it's like just .......... "this is perfect" and he can do anything.

― William Wiggins, Friday, 2 April 2004 06:10 (6 years ago)

anyway classic, impressive scope, old mobster aesthetic works wonderfully, and i like the guest appearances and the 112 hooks. i don't find him a lazy rapper either, maybe somewhat sedate in his flow but with grand menace. like an ominous simmer of a don to somebody like kool g rap's explosiveness. also i think my young friends and i were introduced to the concept of scatophilia by this album. classic.

― scissors (Honda), Friday, 2 April 2004 06:23 (6 years ago)

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:36 (1 year ago)

SOLD MORE POWDER THAN
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, also
other great punchlines.

- a hoy hoy

Initially I had Cope's Peggy Suicide with 120 points

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LOOK GUYS IT'S BIGGIE

how the hell was this not on the original poll

I see him. Never got him - his rapping still sounds comically inept to these ears.

Wow, really? He's like the only person on the Bad Boy roster who has any real concept of flow.

When did this poll happen?

Only over the course of like, two months.

Yeah, in a way I am kind embarrassed, because I thought that 87 points would end up guaranteeing it a place in the lower reaches of the countdown, but w/e

I still think this is a really great album, as is the second one. First disc starts off with a 10 minute long Orb remix and then has some FSOL. At the time it came out it seemed to me really unusual to have a "dance" cd that wasn't really club orientated. I worked in Our Price at the time and whenever I stuck this on (often) I was always gratified to see that people who I didn't expect to be into this sort of music would come and ask me about it. And I was probably guilty at the time of not thinking people could be open to music outside their usual genres, as I remember telling people I thought were middle aged (probably just my youth though - I would imagine they were younger than I am now) "the second disc might not be your sort of thing"!

I'm not from a journalism background and I am terrible at describing genres, but on the second disc, Castle Trancelot's "The Gloom" and the segue of the final three tracks Banco de Gaia to Humate & Rabbit in the Moon to Underworld still actually brings me out in a physical sweat, some sort of automatic genetic memory of chemicals that were in my system 15 years ago making themselves known again.

I'm pretty sure this is deleted now. It won't be to everyone's tastes and I when I realised it was going to end up charting quite highly I was expecting it to get hammered for being cheesy. I'm glad to see there were actually some ILX quotes for this album, I wasn't expecting that. Hope some of you give it a go and enjoy.

(Above about Northern Exposure xxxx-posts)

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:36 (1 year ago)

Dude is all about the skits, isn't he?

xxp

I am using your worlds, I used to play the follow-up albums on in-store play in Sam Goody and sold a few as a result.

I loved it when young couples and university professor looking bearded dudes would buy this!

I see him. Never got him - his rapping still sounds comically inept to these ears.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:06 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait... what?

I mean seriously... what?

You confess to actually liking britpop and yet you don't 'get' biggie?

Are you Geir going fucking awesome on a sock puppet that we just never picked up on?

IT'S ALL KICKING OFF

is sam still drunk from last night?

How can anyone hear this and not think 'greatest mc ever', let alone 'comically inept'?

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

+ bonus funniest skit ever if i'm guessing what whiney is on about

Shit just got real

Not drunk. Saying Biggie has no skills a worse crime than saying Wenger is a bit shit w/ no vision imo.

who is the darraghmac of rap?

Suge Knight?

in a lol you crazy still talking about 2pacjol out need to get over it son

i dont think "greatest mc ever", and initially i didnt really get biggie either, and then one day i listened straight through this album and it just clicked how good he is. but if youve just kinda casually listened to the hits in the background, i think its harder to see all the crazy deep shit and the sort of burbling but pitch perfect flow going on there.

How can anyone hear this and not think 'greatest mc ever', let alone 'comically inept'?

he is definitely not the greatest mc ever. I don't think he's comically inept, but in general he doesn't interest me and never did

he's not even the greatest of the fat mcs

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Yeah, it the same with me. I get that he had some talent, but what he was doing has never really clicked with me in a way some other rappers have.

(xx-post)

he's not even the greatest of the fat mcs

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 May 2010 16:27 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ok so this is just trolling, right? I can understand 'ok maybe not greatest rapper ever' but not even better than fat joe, biz markie and RAWSE?

I'd rate Big Pun above him.

E40 bitch

As far as fat rappers go.

Also: Vast Aire, Cee-Lo.

it sounds like everything on ready to die refined and sometimes perfected and all the new things that you've never heard him do before. there's the twisty storytelling tracks that build down into perfect payoffs ("nigga turned around holdin his daughter..."/"through all the excitement, they range got towed-- they double-parked by a hydrant"), the big puff/big tracks, the gully tracks, the slow jamz, whatever. it's amazing just to hear him rap-- like, he's perfect and most of the time it's just sort of in the back of your mind, like, "oh, he's good," but there're so many moments on it where it's like just .......... "this is perfect" and he can do anything.

― William Wiggins, Friday, 2 April 2004 06:10 (6 years ago)

Wiggy knows.

I'm trying to think who I think the greatest MC ever is and basically it's just reminding me that I need to go back and listen to more hip-hop.

Vast Aire? I think I need to go lie down.

he's definitely better than Fat Joe. Big Pun and Cee Lo are kinda debatable. I dunno RAWSE... Biz is an all-time great and a groundbreaker, he's kinda in a different league

lol what about Heavy D (The Overweight Lover)?

RAWSE = rick ross obv