Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era: Classicism or Dudism?

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I don't know why this occurred to me while listening to Shriekback, but anyway. Were these turntable freaks the toast of the rave/hardcore era or what? Everybody's got a least one Loop Da Loop joint which completely blows them away; mine is "Breaks The Unbreakable" but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel the power of "Far Out" and "Peace and Lovism".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

"Far Out" is CLASSIC especially because it's the easiest/coolest thing to bang out on a piano.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 21 October 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm unaware of anything they did other than 'Far Out' and 'Peace & Loveism' - how much other stuff have they done?

― blueski, Monday, 21 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

They did a mini-album called Flowers In My Garden which is treasurable.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 21 October 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know the full catalogue. Ever since the P2P file-sharing revolution, I've been discovering tracks of theirs that I never knew existed at the time. A Suburban Base discography can be browsed here.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

TOTALLY SEARCH "Calm Downizm"!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 21 October 2002 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeh, i remember 'Flowers In My Garden' vaguely...i'll get back on the case with the mighty Sub Base in due - course

― blueski, Monday, 21 October 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Calm Downizm" is completely mental and wonderful, much like everything else they did. There is a parallel universe where Loop Da Loop are the pop darlings and The Prodigy are the cult underground die-hard choice (imagine all of the positive things would be saying about The Prodigy if their mythos ended after _Experience_; imagine Kool Keith working with Sonz!!!!!).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 20:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm surprised the SOnz didnt take more of an Omni Trio turn after the rave era...that guy has released about 4 or 5 bloody albums you know

― blueski, Monday, 21 October 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Droppin Science (same guy, Danny Breaks) is great too

― Ben Williams, Monday, 21 October 2002 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, "droppin science 1" (and "2") are great.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I knew he was recording under another name, but I couldn't remember what it was. Yeah, Droppin Science is MINT.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

danny breaks' new album vibrations is, for my money, the best drum & bass album since new forms. the man is certainly consistent.

― ryan, Monday, 21 October 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Breaks the Unbreakable" seconded for damn sure; thanks for that dicog link, Dan!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

only heard far out and peace & loveism. both classic of course. the track on the energy flash cd is kind od mediocre though. the rmx of peace&loveism are good, but not as good as the original

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i like 'Freedomism' - b-side of 'peace and loveism'

― blueski, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I must hear the Sonz album - Urgent & Key.

What I always liked about Danny Breaks is how, through all his transformations, he was always more frisky and off-kilter than everybody else. Even his jazz-fusiony stuff circa '96 ("Astrologickal", "The Bear") is deliciously unbalanced. The new album sounds interesting - what's it like?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I tried 3-4 times but couldn't get past the first 4 tracks or so. Way too much "vibes"

― Ben Williams, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

vibrations is frisky and off-kilter in full effect. especially frisky - the percussion's got just that right balance of live drum flava and programmed intricacy; it's great. i actually soak up the 'vibes' on this album .. perhaps it's from being immersed in po-faced drum & bass (of both mainstream and leftfield varieties) for so long. the vibraphones and skratches and wibbly-wobbly basslines come off as fresh. i also find it interesting that the melodics cut just as sharply as the percussion. "astral vibes" is pure summer bizness.

― ryan, Wednesday, 23 October 2002 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

I have been running through all of the tracks on Spotify toay and I have to say that I underrated the queasy major-key paranoia of "What the..." for YEARS

― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)

also I basically love this stuff just as much as I did when I first heard it

― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:18 (nine years ago)

Need to relisten for sure. Been too long.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:27 (nine years ago)

There was a massive resurgence of hardcore on UK pirate radio ca.. what 2002-3 or so?

Perhaps it's time.... again

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:33 (nine years ago)

Does anybody know what chords are being played on the piano at the beginning of "Far Out"? Top tune!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 2 December 2016 22:13 (nine years ago)

it's a bunch of major thirds (with a passing fifth) centered around G:

G/B - A/C (A/E) - F/A (F/C) G/B (repeat)

― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 22:27 (nine years ago)

I'd never realised it before, but the weird chopped-up choral sample in this tune seems to be from the same source as the sample in Jam & Spoon's "Odyssey to Anyoona". Does anyone know that the original recording is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMKfdqxoWi0

― Tuomas, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:47 (nine years ago)

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