Techno/House Bobbins of the past

got a link? i can't find that on djhistory...

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36501

oh fantastic!

wow. that's terrific. thanks for sharing the link.

I remember one of the booklets that came with those early 90s Volume compilations had a humourous article about origins of different electronic music genres, and the entry for "techno" read something like, "created while composing the soundtrack for the Original Dr Who series". I guess they weren't too far off.

And of course the Dr. Who Theme is responsible for the B side on this. Which is surprisingly like you'd imagine it to sound like.

Delia Derbyshire making loops on 4 reel to reel tapedecks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDX_CS3NsTk

From her obiturary: "What we are doing now is not important for itself, but one day someone might be interested enough to carry things forwards and create something wonderful on these foundations."

After all these years I finally fucking bought a copy of Concept 1.

-- mehlt, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:20 (3 days ago) Link

How was I to know there were TWO different versions of this, and alas, I got the richie one not the brinkmann one I wanted :( Had I known I'd have gotten the remaster which has them both anyways.

In other news, after seeing Mossa's live set at Mutek, I spent weeks trying to find out what this track was (in awe of the fact that in 08 he could make such a great sounding 90's pop-house epic). Only yesterday I discovered it was in fact produced by Louis Vega in '93. What relevance this has, I don't know, but I've been listening to it since.

* great 90's pop-house sounding

xpost. Not to mention this CD is in good need of a remaster.

How was I to know there were TWO different versions of this, and alas, I got the richie one not the brinkmann one I wanted :( Had I known I'd have gotten the remaster which has them both anyways

the brinkmann one is quite boring.

if i had to pick one to keep, i'd keep hawtin's

that deep inside is a barbara tucker vocal i believe

that song would be great even if it didn't have the drums - the bassline and vocals would suffice

Yep, that Hardrive is a classic mehlt. I'm sure you've discovered this by now, but it was repressed last year: http://www.discogs.com/release/992839

Hmmmn.

How about this?

must buy or passable?

I've listened to the Carl Craig remix, which is good, albeit could benefit from being shortened by about 40-50% or so.

MUST BUY

Oh, I fucking BOUGHT the Deep Inside remix 12" and it was kind of ill, and on a drunken night, it got mixed up in all my friend's records, and I haven't been able to find it! Such a bummer.

Also, bought Playboy's "In Da Jungle" on vinyl-- should be arriving in the mail soon. Excited about that one.

is that the one that goes "deep deep in the jungle ... the drums"

I got the remix of it off your blog, yeah, it's a certified banger.

xxpost: will do.

yeah moonship, that one.

Playboy just arrived, and it is some of the heaviest shit I've heard in a while. The original is floor-shaking, and the 'Outside Expedition' mix is totally wild tribal techno. Also, the Modwheel Safari remix that I posted from the blog just goes into a locked groove of birds and animals at the end. Excellent.

/MUST BUY

-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, July 21, 2008 12:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

Very good call!

Also, found that Hardrive 12" yesterday-- "Stormy Weather" remix of "Deep Inside" is awesome, deep and techy...other two? not so much.

Hooray. I found myself a copy of this today. So that's something for me.
Also, the record store had a copy of promised land by Joe Smooth in, but it was the album and not the 12" single (with full length mix of namesake track), but it was a bit too $ for me, alas.

Also can I get a S/D on what for lack of a more descriptive term I will call 'monologue house'. Not just vocal (read proper singing and rhyming and all, or hip-house). Stuff in the vein of Le Roi and Roland Clarke - Get Deep. Old or new. *I heard a track out a few weeks ago that was great, but can't at all remember how it went, a guy with a kind of slurry delivery not too unlike eric sermon, said something about brooklyn, and at some point answered a cell phone (which I guess means probably from 00's) and laughed.
Anyone have an idea what that track is?

Armando--"Don't take it", has an awesome female vocal monologue thing about how "this is the eighties" and women can be whatever they want and don't have to let men walk all over them.

^^^^^^^^^ yeah this is great. i heard it at gramaphone the other day have and have never been so mad at myself for being out of a job

(its expensive)

This is also very worth your while, and likely much cheaper:

http://www.discogs.com/release/1137957

I also picked up a boot with a pretty killer re-edit of Downfall last weekend. I don't have a discogs link at the moment.

that's the record they're talking about. it's for sale for less than $10 on that site.

gramaphone is overcharging >:(

a better armando monologue track is "world unknown (md house mixx)", from the land of confusion remix record.

Thanks!

Armando has seriously been just kicking my ass in the last few weeks.

It is a shame he dies so young, he was only 26. No one really works a 707 like he does, the only guy who took it further was Larry Heard.

i went through my armando discovery period beginning last year this time and he spent like nine months as my absolute favorite house producer. you should definitely check out this hip-house track he did as the chicago bad boy. like most hip-house, the mc is no rakim allah, but it's got a MURDEROUS bassline that everyone will rock to, and then the synthesizer begins... house music all night long!

house music all night long (armando's club mix) feat. gershon jackson: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wmj78l

A few more Monologue House Picks:

Bobby Kondors - The Poem
Project 86 - Legends
Marshall Jefferson vs Noosa Heads - Mushrooms (Salt City Orchestra Mix)
Derrick Carter - Where U At? (and it's various versions/derivations)

armando's music is criminally hard to find though. he made 4 lps for trax in the 90s that are out of print and offline. as far as i can tell, they're only available on some dodgy russian mp3 sites, if you have a credit card you don't mind canceling immediately after use. if not, you might be able to find the trax classix cd sampler on slsk. there is still a whole lot of his catalogue that i'm still searching after though.

Shackleton feat. Jackson del Rey "Next to Nothing" has a pretty good monologue, although it's not that far in the past and isn't house music. It's a creepy song though.

romanthony - the wanderer

Sweet Pussy Pauline is one of the ultimate house monologues. Josh Wink's version of that track is a killer (can't seem to find it on discogs unfortunately).

I am loving this right now:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1021610

Thanks for putting up that Armando track. I am loving the bit nicked from the Wee Papa Girl Rappers.

which bit is that?

oh from heat it up, "it's like that, yeah!" thanks youtube.

i should have guessed

i have an obvious track id request. i've heard it out scads of times, it's a classic. begins acid house, breaks down into a voice repeating 'ecstasy, ecstasy... ecstasy, ecstasy', then goes into repetetive, tuneful synth strings... eventually back to acid, repeat structure ad infinitum. anyone??

joey beltram, energy flash?

duh, yep. my ailing brain

Anyone know the last tracks (the last 2 main ones, I guess) on "Detroit is Jacking! The Techno! Megamix" on the New Dance Sound of Detroit comp.

There's audio here. I'm guessing the high pitched string line and the vocals are from different tracks.

Record shopping in Ann Arbor I picked up Audio Werner's "OnandOn," the second set of "Lovelee Dae" remixes and this early Ongaku record, with Fluegel, Heiko Schäfer and Pascal FEOS on it: http://www.discogs.com/release/87514

Does anyone else own Part II of "Lovelee Dae" remixes? For some reason the labels on my records are black, not red as they're depicted on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/6226 Anyone else?