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Global Underground:James Lavelle
- not that impressed, cd2 is dominated by what appears to be...microhouse! bloody boring tho, but the Layo & Bushwacka tracks on disc 1 are far better, nice to hear Leftfield's 'Dusted' and the mix of Brownie's 'F.E.A.R.' too

Various - Electric Stew
Hit and miss but features some real gems across the board - 'Black Mercedes' is my curious introduction to A.R.E. Weapons who i thought were more of a edgy punk/emo hybrid except here they sound like glitchcore psychopaths psyched out on crystal meth. Sieg Uber Die Sonne's 'I'm Not A Sound' is a pleasant if macabre plodder while 'Rippin Kittin' always sounds better shoving Peaches off the stage as it does here. the 'electroclash' mood dominates proceedings with the closing 'Pray For A Star' providing a surreal and deeply haunting climax. disc 2 is the comedown mix with Siobahn Fahey of all people setting the scene, and i'm pleasantly surprised by the B-52s 'Deep Sleep' which disregards Talking Heads mentalism in favour of sombre Dead Can Dance folk...Turin Brakes and Simian both sound predictably niiiiiiiiice, now i'm nearly at the end and Nick Drake's 'Cello Song' has taken a firm grip and wont let go...just Ghost, the Doves and their mighty 'Sea Song' and Polly Jean left to go - this is all promising stuff and i hope there's another volume soon. i found the 'dancefloor' disc a bit too sullen, dark and disinteresting tho, i really dont need to hear 8 minutes of 'Sunglasses At Night' for the thousandth time after all...

also bought:

Rough Trade: Electronica 01
Cassette Boy - The Parker Tapes (I'm worried this is going to be my album of the year)

and in the HMV sale
all 3 Fatboy Slim albums
Doves - Lost Souls
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet

which pretty much doubles the amount of CDs i've bought this year

anyone else have any musings on their latest purchases?

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I just bought Alex Chilton's Feudalist Tart on cassette for $1! It's pretty dumbed down stuff- easy to get melodies, dopey lyrics. But I like it like that. Not so bad.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

In preparation for the Clinic show last Friday nite (which was fanbloodytastic) I bought their first two albums. The 3 EPs are great all the way through; "Monkey On Your Back" is pure pop narcotic. Internal Wrangler has some great moments but it's a bit short and feels like an EP with a smattering of 90-second songs thrown in. (I'm still not disappointed with Walking With Thee.)

― Nate Patrin, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Global Underground [...] bloody boring tho
Nearly all GU compilations are bloody boring, that's the whole idea behind the series...

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, that ARE Weapons song is like what you hear in yr head after being stabbed on a wet dirty grey pavement down Chancery Lane. Check out 'Street Gang', it sounds like he's wanking over young men in shiny black leather jackets, nice.
I recently dl DJ/Rupture 'Goldteeththief', you may have heard it...
Oh, and the new Slum Village album is wack as fack.
Whereas Knifehandchop 'Hooked On Ebonics' 7" is Ffff-ing gabbatronic hardcore mentalism with a skronky bleepline WAY cooler than any electroclash twat in clothes worn by mainly gay men about 17 yrs ago (oooh how futuristic 'lads'). that's a recommendation by-the-by.
and finally got to hear that DJ Assault album with like 98 songs on it, that's totally acesome with a capital FUCK YEH!!!
phew, bought the new 'pusher yesterday but haven't listened to it yet, guy in ruff trade said it's 'pretty shite really' so i'm not too excited really. END

― Sans Fah, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

thats odd, i forgot to mention 'Pray For A Star' was by Felix Da Housekat...is this guy on the edge of futuristic soulful house music like no other or what?

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

But like i keep telling everyone; how much further can he teeter over this edge before falling into the sexless realms of handbag house?

― Sans Fah, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where (Dark, dense, claustrophobic, texturally stunning, I likes very much indeed.)

Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher (the live CD is great, but on the first disc he just isn't trying half the time, as usual)

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (not sure if it lives up to its billing, but very nice nonetheless)

Various - The Braindance Coincidence (Rephlex compilation from a year ago, bought from Fopp for a fiver - marvellous)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

sexless handbag house? hmmmm...i was tempted to start an S/D thread on 'handbag house' - immediate examples ranging from Hed Boys 'Girls & Boys' or Stretch n' Vern's 'I'm Alive' to Strike's 'U Sure Do' (which i always detested) - Felix is a world away from that i feel

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Handbag house is far from sexless - furry bra tops = phwoar!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i highly recommend the My Computer album. i also bought a couple of Lemonheads albums that I'd had on cassette but lost. They're ace, obv, cos I'd hardly have re-bought them otherwise. My brother got the Polyponic Spree (good) and Beck (ok). Thursday is wage day, I have a list of bands that I'd like to get albums by. At the top: Posies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Underworld, Bedhead, Acetone.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't find Total 3 as easy to get into as Immer. Immer should be the record to convert microhouse unbelievers, not Total 3. It's more powerful, more dubby, more dancey, every track's a winner. And 'Flying Far' is godlike (or Shieldslike?) shoegazer house.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Keith - 'Total 3' is the starter because a) 'Immer' only came out relatively recently and is less easy to find, and b) some people find it difficult to listen to seventy odd minutes of non-stop microhouse (though 'Immer' is thankfully one of the least 'samey' mixes around). That said, 'Total 3' is more of a grower than a shower - so stick with it - and I do agree with you that 'Immer' is the best thing - tied with 'Vocalcity' perhaps - that the German house scene has produced.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i still think total 3 has the three best vocal tracks the kompakt stable have (yet) produced.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds rubbish. Which, incidentally, it is.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

There are a few very good Global Underground mixes, Deep Dish, both Emerson ones, the Tenaglia ones which I've recently heard.

The Lavelle mix looked very good and I was very tempted to spend 25 euro which I really needed on it. Blueski, is there alot of breakbeat on it? My memory is that it had alot of stuff by Meat Katie and Rennie Pilgrim and that crowd.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i expected more breakbeat but the plodding 4/4 throughout disc 2 doesnt seem to change at all - even with Dead Pres' 'Hip Hop' - i may need to listen closer tho...give it a listen in-store if you can...the first disc is pretty cool tho and makes me wanna get the Layo & Bushwacka album now, the Sasha track had a nice electro-breakbeat feel too i seem to recall...definitely more breaks on disc 1, with disc 2 running with the current trend for minimal 4/4 grooves

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

'Total 3' is more of a grower than a shower - so stick with it

Well I did say "I didn't find Total 3 as easy to get into" = past tense = it took about 5 listens rather than 2. I love it now, though the really minimal stuff not so much.

Seriously, even my punk friend who hates most things you can dance to wants a burn of Immer after one listen! Then again I did skip track 2 and a few other minimal ones when I played it to him.

some people find it difficult to listen to seventy odd minutes of non-stop microhouse
Idunno I think maybe just Immer's greatness and power and the lack of things that people don't seem to like about Total 3 should win people over. Anyone who digs any ambient stuff should be able to get into it.

anyway Tim or any other Melbournians if you see Vocal City for sale anywhere tell me!

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you tried Synaesthesia yet?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

There are a few very good Global Underground mixes, Deep Dish, both Emerson ones, the Tenaglia ones which I've recently heard.

I've heard one of the Darren Emerson ones (Singapore) and the Deep Dish, and I thought both were snoozers. Don't get me wrong, I can see they're well mixed and well produced and all, and it's a nice aural background for home listening, but I can think of many other DJs that can spin a far more "danceable" set of progressive trance.

And speaking of progressive breaks, does Hybrid have any mix CD's out? Their livesets are amazing...

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

yes i've been to Synaesthesia many times
thanks anyway Jim :)

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

i still think total 3 has the three best vocal tracks the kompakt stable have (yet) produced.

You must love Jurgen Paape's "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" as much as I do. Holy cow what a song.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

keith you can buy vocalcity online at chaosmusic - it's a bit pricey @ $30.95 but if you buy lots of stuff there you get free shipping + 10% off

< /chaos sales rep >

i guess gaslight might be worth a try too if chaos has it

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never seen Vocalcity cheaper than $30 except when I bought it for $28 :-)

I agree with Jess's statement re: Total 3 and vocal tracks. Keith if you don't feel the minimalist tracks on Total 3 that much then try Total 4 (no I haven't seen a cd copy in Australia yet either) - it's almost total Kompakt-pop.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 17 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"So Weit Wie Noch Nie" is indeed amazing, probably my fave on there. I assume it samples an old song, no? Has anyone heard it? And does anyone know what the lyrics mean?

Actually Total 3 is totally growing on me - it's only that one with the glitch that goes out of time with the beat that still doesn't do much more than make me go "hmm interesting".

Thanks for the tips, peoples!

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm I love the Deep Dish Moscow one. Is Emerson Singapore the one with French Kiss on it?

I wouldn't call either progressive trance so much as progressive house. But this may be due to my trance phobia ; )

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone got the 2cd luke slater mix? any good? i saw an oliver bondzio one from 2000 in boston the other day, but i didnt have any spare money. anyone heard that?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that the Luke Slater thing from a while ago? I think I've heard it, if it's the one with the absolutely psychotically insane squealing voice remix of La La Land on it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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