Friday night. What better than some relentless techno/house monotony to get the weekend rolling.
Heard this for the first time at 5:10pm today and it’s on the blog before 8pm!
Simple but effective. And relentless.
I have found that playing this at ear splitting volume with the bass up high is likely to achieve optimum listening. First, my neighbours, and, now, the police appear to disagree …. See you in court buddy.
My discovery of Beatport over Christmas has turned up quite a few new “all time” favourites. Check here and here for recent posts.
Here’s another. Simple bass and drum machine with a killer sample as if from the halcyon days of Trax Records/DJ International/Chicago House late 80s heaven. Admirably relentless.
Afficionados will spot that the sample is Tupac Shakur (2Pac) from his “Fortune and Fame” interview (no, me neither).
Since discovering Beatport at the tail end of last year (check here), I’ve been getting back up to speed with the wonderful world of Deep House.
Originating in the classic Trax/DJ International world of Chicago in the late 1980s (with Marshall Jefferson and Larry Heard as the godfathers) , there are now a bewildering number of releases every week.
To be frank, the technology has made it too simple for incompetent purveyors of formulaic nonsense to release their noodlings. In the world of t’internet, trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff is ever harder.
Beatport is a great help in identifying the good stuff and here is a classic example. Martin Zeyss is the latest in a long line of classic German producers and Maya Jane Coles is one of the hottest remixers of current times. A killer tune.
Just reposted, Marshall Jefferson’s “Time Marches On” from 1987 is one of the founding documents of “deep house” and one of the greatest records of all time - check here for conclusive proof.
Deep House remains one of the loves of my life and this track retains the affection.
A sublime deep house remix/edit of the Minnie Riperton classic from her “Adventures in Paradise” LP of 1975. The original is a wonderful record but this remix just soars.
Ms Riperton is best known for her wonderful “Lovin’ You” single; less well known is that she died of breast cancer aged 31 in 1979.
Roky Erickson was a founding member and frontman of the wonderful 13th Floor Elevators – one of the classic 1960s psychedelic bands.
He was subject to several bouts of involuntary electroconvulsive therapy following one occasion where he “started speaking nonsense ….” and a second when he ended up in a hospital for the Criminally Insane after pleading not guilty to the possession of marijuana on the grounds of insanity …
A sobering lesson for all of us on the dangers of speaking nonsense.
Roky has released a number of solo LPs over the last 30 years and then teamed up last year with Okkervil River who acted as his backing band. Superb track from the “True Love Cast Out All Evil” LP.
LP version then a very rough solo acoustic version from the superb “You’re Gonna Miss Me” documentary.
Stumbled upon this on the latest compilation from the wonderful Kompakt Records from Cologne – their “Total” series of compilations is a treasure trove for anyone who likes 20th Century minimal techno type stuff.
Not quite sure why this appeals so. On many levels it is pretty generic but there is something there that hits the spot …
Gui Boratto has the great honour of becoming the first Brazilian techno producer to appear on this blog. Stay tuned to find out if there will be more ….
Perfect post for a Sunday morning following a great party last night that involved the classic combination of Cluedo, croquet and table tennis ….. (try and explain that to the young people of today).
We left while others were still looking for the Reverend Green who fell off the board and is somewhere in the garden with the lead piping.
The Kieran Hebden (previously of Fridge) led Four Tet have stuck to a brand of electronica that has always appealed even if it has never quite hit the heights of, say, Aphex Twin. But this track gets pretty close.
This is for my friend who is a Bolton fan (though born in Stoke ….). Only became aware of this track via his good offices and counts as the only decent song not done by The Cure that Robert Smith sings on. Turns out that it is a cover of a track by the hitherto forgotten Platinum Blonde released in 1983. Frankly very confusing. Get home and have a glass of wine chum!
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