[Fingers of a Martyr]

okay don't have a clue about these genres but i wanna download sum decent stuff. any recomendations? anything thats sort of like old school prodigy (start the dance etc)

[Bubba]

Tricky one really - there weren't really many other "bands" around at that time, apart from people like Shades of Rhythm, N-Joi, etc - most other stuff was put out by producers or as just one-offs, many as white labels with no sample clearance etc.

If you want authentic stuff you're best downloading some of the better live tapes.

Are you on Soulseek? I'm sharing quite a few old-skool tapes on there though I did lose a lot recently due to a hard drive crash.

[Fingers of a Martyr]

yep got meself souled up :wink:

[Bubba]

I'll PM you my ID

[Fingers of a Martyr]

spot on.

[conn]

for dance bands i'd go faithless, underworld and orbital. don't really know anything about rave

[Bubba]

Yeah, but none of them are like old Prodigy stuff....

Faithless annoy the shit out of me too  :wink:

[LJ]

Try some Leftfield (leftism or rythem and stealth), or some of the James Lavelle mixes (Barcelona or Romania), not really prodigy style but good dancy shit none the less

Am a fan of faithless and also people like chemical brothers, but thats going more indie, but if you do fancy the old indie dance kinda thing you cant beat some of the Primal Scream stuff, particularly screamadelica and exterminator

[underground]

Surely Altern8 were one of the seminal 'rave bands'  :?:

[Bubba]

Aye, Altern-8 - I've got some of that on my share I think.

[dave]

for old skool rave/dance stuff a good start is to try and get hold of the Ratpack Vs. Blackmarket compilation. Although done recently (1998ish) the first CD is Ratpack (emerson allen and lipmaster mark) and is good old skool shit with badass london MCing over the top. the second CD is more D&Bish but still good.

another good compilation that good to get hold of is the essential old skool hardcore one.

also if you can get hold of any SL2 tracks, or any of the old XL recordings First Chapter/Chapter 2/Third chapter compilations but they are hard to get on CD.

also try and get Carl Cox - The Fact (only the original, not Fact II, its all good hard trance/techno).

If you wanna know owt just ask.

[Fingers of a Martyr]

spot on dave. u on soulseek?

[dave]

yeah i'm on right now as "ultraflava".

i;ve got that ratpack old skool thing on there, i've also got a top buzz fantasia NYE 1991 mix that is good. I'll leave my machine on over night.

[Bubba]

You've got a scary amount of Queen on that share - sort of like a schizo gangsta/poodle rocker thing going down  

[Bubba]

I can't think of that much other stuff in the Prodigy breakbeats and guitars vein really.

Fingers, give the stuff you like now, you might like some of the harder dance stuff - good quality real techno - people like Dave Clarke might appeal.

[hongkongstuey]

I can't think of that much other stuff in the Prodigy breakbeats and guitars vein really.

Dirt by Death in Vegas springs to mind for the guitar inclusion - some of their stuff is genius whilst others are just plain damn strange

[conn]

Faithless annoy the shit out of me too  :wink:

how can you say that man, maxi jazz is the coolest man alive! (with the exception of steve davis)

[erm, sam]

I assume you are joking with that Maxi (priest) Jass comment. Faithless are absolute SHITE. Their original conceit "I can't get no sleep" was excelent ,though at a time when it was not at all cutting edge. Since then they have done nothign except get more and more and MORE tedious. It isn't dance music. If you are dancing to this, it is time to go home and get some sleep. Faithless's only strong point is that in anotherwise dancemental evening, a Faithless tune would give you an opportunity to fill up your water bottle or something.

[dave]

I think the faithless thing was that everyone liked insomnia, and then for eveything after that no-on had the guts to say to them "look this stuff is dogshit".

[Bubba]

I'm sorry, but even Imsomnia is shite - dated old-skool breakdowns from a previous era, and shit talk-rapping over the top.

They're wank.

Fill a water-bottle? I'd go home.

[account_inactive]

I'd think I would be out of the door if I heard that tune.

What about the chemical bruvs (dust brothers)?.  I know there stuff has turned into pop pants but the exit planet dust stuff is still top.

Anything to stop this young one listening to metal  :rocker2:

My love for you is ticking clock :rocker:

[dave]

the first 2 chemical buthaz albums are the bomb, exit plant dust, that EP (loops of fury, what a track!) and Dig your own hole, i fucking love that shit. the albums after that are shit - again they got big and famous and dissapeared up their own arses, and instead of producing  heavy aggressive dope beats they stated churning out shite happy-clappy hippy fatboyslim-esque pop-beat dogshit. I've got both the newer albumcs (surrender and come with us) and i can honestly say i've only listened to surrender about a dozen tiems, and even then only for the sigles, and come with us about twice if that. what a crock.

[account_inactive]

I think the expession you are looking for is 'big beat'































or shite

[dave]

dunno if anyone else has herd it but theres a good chemical brother remix of prodigy's  Voodoo People - thats dope!

[Fingers of a Martyr]

emo, dylan, its called muthafuckin emo, not metal :wink:  :roll:

[Fiend]

For seriously hi-energy shit IE DRUM N BASS, I recommend going here: http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/listen/listen-djmixes.html

[underground]

emo, dylan, its called muthafuckin emo, not metal :wink:  :roll:

Isn't emo a little red toy straight outta sesame street? What's it mean fingers?

I thought 'Come with us' by the chems was great the first time I heard it, for the first 4 or 5 tracks, then it ruins everything by turning to utter dogg shite.. Why oh why do they insist on having these insipid tracks with 'guest' vocalists who are generally whoever is en-vogue at the time?

Oh, is it because the pop fans will be more likely to buy the singles?  :roll:

[Fingers of a Martyr]

its short for 'emotional hardcore' underground.
yeah, i know its wank name for a genre :roll:  but its good shit. check the conspiracy thread page 5 or 6 for some recomendations. :wink:

[underground]

its short for 'emotional hardcore' underground.
yeah, i know its wank name for a genre :roll:  but its good shit. check the conspiracy thread page 5 or 6 for some recomendations. :wink:

I heard Taking Back Sunday t'other night. I'd heard it a few times but didn't know who it was. Proper bo  

[Fingers of a Martyr]

nicely done underground. but the best shizzle has gotta F.F.A.F. if perfection was a song it would be Escape Artists Never Die. :wink: