Early Nineties Dance!

i am given to understanding that i can, for want of a better phrase, move any mountain, and that you may bang it to the beat of the drum. i thank you.

Darling, come here, f@ck me up the .....

Ach, none of you were treated to my wonderful a capella rendition of the booming 303 that Ed was playing in his car last night. Very accurate if I may say so myself.

OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM- chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish OOOOM-chish

That Inspector Morse episode was directed by Danny Boyle.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned that the singer for La Bouche ("Sweet Dreams", "Be My Lover") passed away a couple of weeks ago.

Boom tish boom tish boom tish boomboomboom tish.

those "total dance" compilation commercials on late night uhf will never be the same...

not too relevant here (but less so than anywhere else), but does anyone else recall the Temple of Dreams by Messiah. an ace tune with a sample from the Running Man, but its main vocal loop was "Did I dream I dreamed about you". and though that's obviously the same as the lyric from that This Mortal Coil song, it equally obviously wasn't actually a sample from it.

Did they want to sample it and were blocked so got some bird to just sing that bit, or what? i.e. a coincidence, or something MORE sinister?

Let Us Now Praise Anonymous Female Vocalists. Like that lass standing in for Martha Wash in those C&C Music Factory videos. Didn't she actually record her own music & stuff?

Not that this really has anything to do with this, but I managed to catch the beginning of _Cool As Ice_ a while back (yes, this be the Vanilla Ice film vehicle), and the intro credit sequence featured Ice vandalizing the mic while NAOMI CAMPBELL provided backup vocals. Ah, yes.

Alan: Oh! I remember that song, but I never knew what it was called.

Messiah were rather fab, though they did a not too great cover of "i feel love" too -- certainly not as good as the best ever (as proved by science) cover of it by CURVE!

That new Kosheen song is fantastic E music. It's got that little cheesey bit that rocks. And at the moment my personal favourite is Harlot by Felix Da Housecat. Best ever is Higher State of Consciousness though. I've worried about heart failure any time it's come on when I'm off my face.

Which Kosheen song is that Ronan? I'm interviewing them tomorrow and could use ammunition.

Kosheen Releases a new version of Catch - that moves them away from the drum n bass of slip & slide (suicide) to a sort of Hi energy dance ala Sunscreem. [Tim, Ask them if they were fans of Sunscreem in the early 90s.]

I was a bit pissed off by the Kosheen album actually. I loved "Hide U" last year and I thought "Slip & Slide (Suicide)" was fantastic - finally someone had perfected the art of combining the jerky robotic repetitive drum & bass style of recent years with a full-on song in a manner that actually worked. And then the album was all Dido meets... yes, indeed, Sunscreem! But more Dido than Sunscreem, sadly.

Confession Time.

I went to an Old Skool night last Friday, with all my friends.

Confession #2

I loved it. Oh yes the club had smileys everywhere and all these idiots had soothers in their mouths, but fuck it, it was brilliant. The music wasn't too cheesey but still cheesey enough.

AGE OF LOVE. Eh......yes they played Age of Love. Also that Bedrock song "For what you Dream of" (which I suspect may not be old skool). Chime by Orbital and loads more stuff I can't remember. It was fantastic. I hate the idea of old skool, and I hate contributing to it becoming the next big thing and going down the road of "chill out". (You know chill out has got too big, when articles saying chill out has got too big get too big). Anyway I hate all the above, but still it was such a fun night.

So yeah DV pull your smiley t shirts out again or something.

Come on guys!! Get with it - youre talking about early nineties dance and didnt mention Orbital or Age of Love until the end!??! 1988 - 1995(ish) where the BEST years of music. Ever. Period. Think Oribtal, think Bomb The Bass, think Rhythm King Records...REAL DANCE MUSIC - whether techno or house - REAL melody. Im not gonna sit here and wish music could go back - BUT! I always manage to throw in a classic or two in my DJ sets and always will!! I was 15 in 1988 and bore witness to the whole acid house (commercial) phenomonon - but speak to any of my hard house/nu NRG (read: CRAP) friends: Who the hell is KRUSH? D-Mob?? ...

― Greg, Tuesday, 26 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

REAL melody

Yeah, those goddamn fake melodies these days, lemme tell ya. It always burns me when I see that they're not organically grown in the sun and protected by ladybugs from aphids!

Yeah good one ed...youre so clever. Fuck you.

Easy, tiger.

Who the hell waits three months to come up with a reply like that?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!