[dave]

Bling bling

[underground]

Yo, all has it's moments dood. You is forgetting funk though- where did all that Hip Hop get it's inspiration? I can rock a dancefloor as well as the next selecta with my collection of heavy breaks and raw vocal wickedness

[dave]

I is feelin' dat Underground, I is feelin' dat.

Notice i left out R'n B and pop, cos i don't consider it to be dance, unlike Galaxy 105 unfortunately.........

[dave]

Get somma dees in ya gills:

[underground]

Is dese choons, like, bangin' den guy? I never heard none a dat in me hood...

[Bubba]

With the Underground on this one....most of them have their place.

I've cast my vote for techno, and no, I don't mean 2 Unlimited and I don't mean Gabba, I mean good funky techno - Carl Craig, Blake Baxter, Mills, all that Detroit stuff, some of the Scandinavian, etc. Qualidy mate!

But...... I've got heaps of vinyl which is mainly house and techno, but a fair lot of drum & bass, not many Speed Garidge (though I loved that early stuff), a fair bit of ambient, some Aphexy twisted stuff, some hip-hop, a load of old skool happy hardcore (from me ravin' days), gabba, etc. I like it all sometimes, depends on my mood.

My only reservations are about Trance/Hard House. Hmmmmm.... now I've got a load of trance records, from when it was popular the first time round, before I realised it was boring and crap - just don't do it for me, and Hard House, although bearing many similarities to some of the early post-rave style techno, just doesn't do it for me either coz what I've heard isn't as good and is completely soulless. I like the description of Trance - "music for white boys with no movement below the waist" - heh heh, hope I haven't offended anyone. Oops - Dave, are those.....Hard House choons you've shown us there! Die, infidel !!

It's got to have the funk, be it house, techno, or whatever.

[dave]

I know what you mean about trance though, it was great till all the chart shit happened like Darude and all that Public Domain/Ian Van Daal crap. Same with hard house to an extent, only that never got as popular.

I like a load of the older german style trance, and the trance/techno like on that old Carl Cox compilation The Fact. Yes the pictures i posted are fast trancy hard-house style hoovery stuff, but its really good and unique, check it out on www.tinrib.com. Also if anyone remembers the Sound Of The Hoover compilation then you know what kicks ass.

As for real hard house you can't knock Rotherhams own Tidy Trax, who are also the original Jive Bunny guys.

Also if you want an excellent kind of techno/trance/evil industrial crossover go for Lab4.

[Bubba]

I've got quite a lot of the early German trance, stuff on Bonzai, etc. Some of them are classics, like "First Rebirth", etc but the whole genre quickly got swamped by boring copycat stuff that had no individuality. A lot of people just jumped on the bandwagon and diluted it down to crap. A mate of mine knew some techno producers in Leeds who used to release their early, sub-standard tracks around this time as they knew that they'd sell and there was cash to be made.

The same thing happened to minimal techno to a certain extent. A vibrant techno scene got diluted by a whole slew of "minimal" tracks that weren't clever in the way that Robert Hood/Mills minimal tracks where, but where just a dull drum pattern looped for four minutes.

Part of the problem (perhaps) with electronic music is that as it becomes easier and cheaper to produce a record, more crap gets produced and you have to dig much harder to find the gems. The hideous poppy trance stuff that gets a lot of airplay on the big stations at the moment is just horrible - dance music completely commercialised.

That said, I should listen to the Tinrib stuff before dismissing it. Bought a couple of Tidy Trax tunes but it's all a bit soulless for me. Getting back into Detroit Techno again now - UR/Red Planet/etc.

[dave]

Aye, the "BestOfTinrib96-02" mp3 is worth a listen, its good for what ails ya.

[Bubba]

Well I was going to look for this, but then got distracted looking for Derrick May mixes. Why can't I get broadband  

One thing I downloaded recently was Louis Vega's OneWorld mix for R1 - lurvely stuff - summer music....there's a snippet of it on the JDSlap vid.

[dobbin]

Sven Vath and Billy Nasty this week at the Orbit club kids... Doors are at 8pm heres the set times:

MAIN ROOM
20.00 - 21.30     MARK TURNER
21.30 - 23.00     BILLY NASTY
23.00 - 02.00     SVEN VATH

2ND ROOM         Electrix records special
20.30 - 22.30     DARREN BROOKE
22.30 - 00.30     TRANSPARENT SOUND
00.30 - 02.00     BILLY NASTY

Electro sets from Billy nasty later, velly velly good ja?

[Bubba]

Mark Turner is a wicked DJ - his sets in the chillout room are brilliant - eclectica scratched up in the hot, steamy and seedy lounge  :D