http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsnxTl2SPok
Capricorn 20hz
― Tracksuit Party, Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
""Can you s/d, c or d, rfi and generally recommend me some house/techno with african vocals or instrumentation? Thanks."
This is a huge favorite of mine: Frederic Galliano And The African Divas - Woualaï Re-Works http://www.discogs.com/release/138722
― pshrbrn, Thursday, 19 June 2008 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I just dug out this Villalobos-set: Sunrise_Event_Mamaia_18_08_2006 and the two songs that follow "Join in the chant" in part 3 are both out of this world mindblowingly good, the first one might be called Freaky/phreeky D/ beat or something similar, then the second one that starts around 6 mins which is possibly the single best thing ever I have no idea. Anyone have any clue what they are?
On another note, the Dionne - Images track that's on the recent Shed mnml ssg podcast is also the single best thing ever.
― er1end, Thursday, 19 June 2008 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
looks like monolake's hongkong finally got remastered.
― tricky, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
minus one of its best tracks...
― jng, Thursday, 19 June 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
omg, did you know that 'time reveals' got a reissue last month? no shit!
― elan, Friday, 20 June 2008 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
saw this at record store, did not cop. anybody?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 20 June 2008 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
most of those artists only appeared on that cd, according to discogs. the others are all adam douglas. you dig adam douglas? seems like that atom heart "compilation / retrospective" to me.
― elan, Friday, 20 June 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i like this deeper than space album
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 20 June 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i was ogling that cover... my desktop pic is an earthrise from the moon so i always check twice when i see that sort of stuff. what's it sound like?
― elan, Friday, 20 June 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
mmmm ... early 90s ambient?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 20 June 2008 08:16 (fifteen years ago) link
sort of in the rising high / ntone vein
can anyone explain the appeal of this outside of rarity? i mean, it's ok, nothing more...
― resolved, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.
What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?
― mehlt, Saturday, 21 June 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Lately I can't get enough of the album Seven by Dark Comedy (Kenny Larkin). I haven't heard anything else by DC but I understand he want much jazzier after this release.
It's one of those albums whose sounds, movements and concepts echo through a lot of contemporary techno. Whether they know they're tracing some of the same lines is really is mostly unimportant.
"Paranoid (Prelude To Paranoia)," "In a Room," "Solace," "Darkness," and "Without a Sound" would all sit comfortably in techno sets today.
As an aside, I watched one of the comedy videos Larkin has on his Myspace. I guess he's been out in Hollywood for a while now, possibly acting and certainly doing stand up comedy. I'll say this: I wish his comedy was as good as his music.
― littlewhiteearbuds, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, have been noticing a swell in recognition for Liaison Dangereuses, who were truly excellent.
― littlewhiteearbuds, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
-- mehlt
no, they all sound like that. IIRC a lot of it was done on fucked-up hand-me-down equipment, dubbed to cassette tape, mastered from vinyl and on top of that mastered to be murky on purpose.
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
-- resolved, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:52 (7 hours ago) Link
maybe try it louder? the club mix is just really cool spacey techno with a house vocal and the original mix is piano house that ups the energy and gives the same vocal a very different feel. obviously it's not the best record ever, or it would have been repressed earlier, but it's very good.
― elan, Saturday, 21 June 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
it's like a more sublime housefactors with vocals. the best of all larry heard worlds.
― elan, Saturday, 21 June 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
XXpost. Ahh that sucks, don't know why I didn't notice it 'till now. Reminds me of reading that original tapes for Selected Ambient Works were mangled by a cat.
― mehlt, Sunday, 22 June 2008 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
And is it me or does ILM not talk about KC Flightt enough?
― mehlt, Sunday, 22 June 2008 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone care to talk about 16B? i dug out my copy of 'sounds from another room' the other day and at least half of it still sounds really fresh. on the cover there is label proclaiming him to be britain's answer to MAW. i think this album is a bit to techy to justify that claim but there's some really emotive house music on here. it's a shame he had to turn to the dark side.
http://www.discogs.com/release/11954
― sam500, Monday, 23 June 2008 06:15 (fifteen years ago) link
You mean go prog? Wasn't he always quite prog though? He didn't switch as much as Deep Dish - in fact 16B's stuff is a lot like their two Yoshitoshi mixes. I quite like that middleground between deep house and prog, or at least the stuff from the end of the 90s anyway. Also: Hooj Choons!
16B's remix of Gus Gus's "Believe" is double classic to the max.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 June 2008 08:16 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, that remix of gus gus is very nice. i have it on an old northern exposure mix i think. i guess i've got my timelines confused. i always assumed that he started off (deep) house and went out and out prog from about 2000.
listening to 'sounds from another room' i never would have guessed that he had a penchant for progressive house (except for 'water ride' perhaps). the fact that it was released on Eye Q should have been a give away though... i wish he'd pursued that sound a little more because he had a real knack for producing soulful house music with a bit of bite.
― sam500, Monday, 23 June 2008 08:45 (fifteen years ago) link
no, i think sam500's right here. he was firmly in the glasgow underground camp when i first heard about him - although i guess you could argue there was always a strong prog element to glasgow underground?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm I guess everything i know of by him was from between 1997 and 2002 (love "Behind The Face" from that year) - so perhaps his full career reveals more of a transition than he made in that period alone.
― Tim F, Monday, 23 June 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone here have an opinion on the Micronauts? I've been listening to this album a fair bit recently, it's good IMO.
― Neil S, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Remember that Micronauts as being good.
I think I have an electro comp mixed by them, or am I imagining things?
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
This: http://www.discogs.com/release/58745
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that mix is good. They did a Mo' Wax Jive Bunny style mega-mix which I remember as being fun too...
― Neil S, Monday, 23 June 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost to mehlt: funny you should mention cuz i just picked up kc flightt "planet e" 12" friday at a flea market. good stuff.
― andrew m., Monday, 23 June 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
This is worth looking into:
http://www.discogs.com/release/37903
― Display Name, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
try the vocal version of pop, dip, and spin: http://www.discogs.com/release/40969
― elan, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
but you know, it probably works better without the vocal because then you can focus on the bassline. which is perfect.
― elan, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
from RA:
Jeff Mills and “Mad” Mike Banks are re-releasing their classic 1992 album X-102 Discovers the Rings of Saturn with four extra tracks.The original album is hailed for its spacey concept and softer approach to Detroit techno, but it has been out of print since the nineties. Now comes a refitted version with four extra tracks, and a vinyl EP of selections from the album.Jeff Mills and Mike Banks will be performing Discovers the Rings of Saturn in its entirely at this year’s Sonar Festival. No word yet on additional dates.
The original album is hailed for its spacey concept and softer approach to Detroit techno, but it has been out of print since the nineties. Now comes a refitted version with four extra tracks, and a vinyl EP of selections from the album.
Jeff Mills and Mike Banks will be performing Discovers the Rings of Saturn in its entirely at this year’s Sonar Festival. No word yet on additional dates.
is this any good? will no doubt have the detroitophiles salivating at the mouth...
― sam500, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
hmmm ... compared to other stuff of the time it's fairly dated, i'd say
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, it shows its age worse than some other stuff they did
Vahid otm.
― Display Name, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
as usual
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
yes to quote the great blunt in the ron trent thread "Dance Floor Boogie Delites" on Prescription, despite the low pressing, is a deep house tearjerker.
― blunt, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to gene farris on soma tonight ... "origins" is so deeeeeeeeeep ...
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
what was better, gene on soma or roy on peacefrog?
did i already do a "t/s: soma vs peacefrog" thread?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Like Peacefrog more than Soma easily (but I am more familiar with Peacefrog giving it an advantage)
but at same time Gene's This is my Religion is great!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the best farris is on soma yeah, esp. "get on the floor" on the mainline disco ep -but, roy davis easy win.
― blunt, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Carl Cox Vs. Kevin Saunderson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWAgKaZDwE8
― Romeo Jones, Friday, 27 June 2008 06:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TB_VDYPtjM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9A8TZhw3o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIA36Y0pzk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAQ-OuWliZ4
there are a few others, all worth checking out.
― Display Name, Friday, 27 June 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. articulate!
i realize this isn't "of the past" but can anybody speak about his "contact special" and "one man spaceship" album?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 June 2008 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember getting slammed for telling people that you wouldn't get it unless you had been to Detroit. I was specifically referring to being a room with him discussing techno. There would be a couple less blog posts on mnmlssgs if those guys did their homework. It all kind of clicks when you hear him discuss it.
One Man Spaceship has it's moments. It's a Jeff Mill's album that sounds like Jeff Mills doing a minimal techno album. It is what it is.
― Display Name, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I shouldn't dog it too much. I think the real problem is that I want to hear him mix purpose maker loops with the best parts of Every Dog Has It's Day. I can't really blame him for making a bleepy 909 album but I would love to hear some of the old samba magic from the older axis records.
He is in a tough spot. How do you keep working and progressing after 15 years worth of genre defining records?
― Display Name, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Mike i thought you had disowned your "you have to have gone to Detroit" rants:
"goddamn, what the hell was I thinking on March 27th 2003???"
― Tim F, Friday, 27 June 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link