Erics Weekly Choice Cuts

[EricScrooge]

This won't be to everyones taste at all - but there might be a small market for it, so i will give it a go and see since i eat, sleep and consume dance music for a living.

I will stick in here some of my fave artists/albums/tracks out at the moment together with a wee link to a snippet.

An antidote to all the pop shite that everyone seems to be chatting about.

Agree with what you're saying Eric. I do partly think it did get shit for a while, but also maybe many a person who'd been dancing through the 90s just got a bit tired of it all and the fact that music needed to move on.

Also I think all these genres were just sort of pigeonholed - you went to a club and you would get one branch of dance music all night, with all DJs trying to achieve the same sound as each other. And if you were at a prog house night, well no, of course you couldnt play a tune with a breakbeat or anything. How boring it got!

I think what revived it for me was the whole bootleg/mashup thing, rock meets dance / electro - where people are just playing MUSIC, variety, sets that go through different styles and ups and downs.

And while the bootleg thing has maybe died down now, what is left is people making more interesting sounds than before IMO. Although I am fully aware that the trance and hard house scenes for example are still alive and well and simply recruiting new younger folk all the time.

Trance, hard house, hardcore chavvy shite and funky house are the demon genres though.

They haven't offered anything new for years and it is impossible to tell when listening to them whether the music was made last week or last decade.

There just seems to be no innovation there at all. They just seem to stick to certain preconceptions and templates of what each track should sound like.

I don't listen to any of that stuff at all.

It's nice to see a variety of different genres being played in a lot more clubs now - but it is a media myth again that this is a new thing. It has just become trendy is all - it was always there.

To suggest that us dance fans only listened to dance and nothing else, and suddenly started listening to rock stuff just becasue the NME made a name for it annoyed me immensely.

There has always been a lot of crossover throughout history.

ah yes, hardcore. Funky house

I have to admit i was sucked in by goa/psytrance for a while but i saw the error of my ways a long time ago now!

Yeah - i did get into the Goa Trance for a bit too. Never played it out - just listened to it. Got boring in a short while though.

The Ministry Of Sound type funky/electro house just makes me laugh.

Especially the obligatory videos.

"What kind of angle are we going for the video guys?"

"How about a jerky camera filming some scantily clad female dancers writhing about against some day-glo backgrounds?"

"What - like the last eighteen we did? Put no effort or thought into it whatsoever?"

"Yep - basically"

"Yeah - sounds good. We can ogle them for three days whilst directing it and make frequent rips to the loos to relief ourselves"

Nob ends.

eric can expand my knowledge then as im a funky house hardcore fan but on same hand i like drum and bass garage trance opera rock and indie so im always up for anything for my ipod

This is excellent, Essa!! A 'themed' thread for each Mn-er....

FWIW, my nephew was a techno-thrash dj a couple of years ago, but has 'matured' into dubstep, and produces his own tunes - has had a couple of nights to himself in Manchester clubs. He's at a colleage in Huddersfield doing a music degree of sorts. He has a producers name which I forget at mo., but he is well known round his home town.

Soo...no 70s stuff then, really?

Dressed up - i'm not too familiar with some of those types of music ('Opera Rock'???), but if you like d'n'b and garage you may like these two.

FabricLive 35 - Marcus Intalex.

FabricLive 37 - Caspa & Rusko

The Marcus Intalex one is one of the best d'n'b albums this year, and the Caspa & Rusko i have mentioned earlier as being the latest Dubstep mix out for Xmas. Most d'n'b heads love a bit of dubstep also as it has the same two-step vibe and soulful influences - albeit more ragga influenced.

There is a wee write-up of the albums in those links and a few sound clips to listen to as well.

No 70's stuff i'm afraid Dee.

I have just started down the production road as well. Having my first proper release shortly i hope.

I've had so many years of playing other peoples music, i just had to have a go myself.

Never realised how bloody hard it is though - or how skilled some of these guys are when you compare your own basic stuff next to their masterpieces.

It's great fun learning though and i am enjoying every minute of it.

sorry eric rock, opera i meant lol as in i listen to everything lol

Thank God - i have been trying to find out about this 'rock opera' stuff that i haven't heard of for the past few days and have come up blank so far.

Phew.

Panic over.

(Didn't sound enticing anyway to be honest........)

bat out of hell and most of meatloaf stuff is regarded as rock opera lol

Yuk.

i used to have a crazy girl friend that was into him.

Thanks for the bad memories!

gofd i am so desperate to not revise i even read this tho my eyes glazed over totally lolol

chatted up a guy on tinernet that was into all this techno stuff and the film the wickerman

got onto this fantsay about willow and sex

but sadly after exchanging lots of mails i just couldn't face the techno bit

What is the Wickerman all about anyway?

It's one of these classic films i haven't seen yet.

Didn't realise it had fetish potential.

I'm odd because I dislike most dance music and yet find myself oddly drawn to odd tracks like William Orbit's "Adagio" and "Age of Love" and "Groove is in the Heart". And some of the stuff Peelie used to play, like Laika.

I have no idea how good/shit these are perceived as being in the dance music inner circle.

I genuinely have no radar for this kind of thing. I can tell a good pop record from a bad one, and a good rock record from a bad one, but when it comes to dance I can't tell the difference between soulless manufactured pap and a bangin' chooooon.

It's the same with any music, art, or any area of culture really.

There is always the accessible, popular and non-offensive strains, but if you delve deeper because of an interest in it, you can find a whole underground culture that thrives on delivering the more specialised and innovative stuff for a smaller but more passionate market.

i love adagio sends me into some weird trance like frenzy i find it very calming

That scene with Britt Ekland banging on the walls (steady... literally banging, with her hands) is very sexy isn't it. QUite a disturbing film.

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_5zxrXq9OwM

The music for that scene ('Willow Song' I think it's called), is beautiful but very creepy. There's a great version by Autour De Lucie and Shack called 'Island', but I can't find a link to it. Loads of people have covered it. Here's the original anyway.

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ILbWTvT5xvc&feature=related

OK - stuff i have been playing this week.

[[http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF294001-01-01-01.mp3 Wollion Harada - 'Metropoliton Fulltime (Tigerskin Remix)]
A jacking slab of tech house with a creepy breakdown.

Onur Ozer - 'Red Cabaret' (2000 And One Remix)
Some old school toms with a soaring synth sweep lurking.

Slam - 'Azure' (Radioslave Remix)
Is there no stopping the one man Brighton remix machine that is Radioslave? Obviously not, going by this latest rework of Glasgow's finest exports Slam. Even moving to Berlin to work on his LP has not stopped him from his punishing remixing duties.

16B's latest album 'Like 3 Ears And 1 Eye' was released as a free covermount CD with DJMag a few weeks ago and it is really growing on me. It starts off rather perky with some tech-house tuneful numbers with his trademark simple style stamped all over them, but then gets down and dirty near the end with some epic sounding deep and tuneful techno. Very tasty stuff and good on the man for giving it away free when he could so easily have sold this at full price.

He has been with us for a number of years now and i started following him in the mid 90's with his remixes delivering the goods with some really deep proggy vibes. Since then he has released his deep house album 'How To Live A Hundred Years' to critical acclaim a few years ago but has been quieter and concentrating on his DJing instead. Good to see him back on form.

Wollion Harada - 'Metropoliton Fulltime (Tigerskin Remix)

Sorry - first link messed up.

eww this thread title reminds me of half cooked lamb chops

Yeah - not the best title in the world is it?

It was just me trying to sound all cool and ending up sounding like a nob.

haha

or dog food.

Yeah - alright.

I get the picture ladies.

(this is when i want a damned edit function )