trophyshy 7084 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 anyone into minimal stuff? Do you like Basic Channel? Scion Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks is a great compilation if you like deep, dubby, minimal techno. Admittedly it's not the catchiest name for an album. Relatedly, Extrawelt, here is a recent full set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35568 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Never heard of them but I'll check them out, cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 anyone into minimal stuff? Do you like Basic Channel? Scion Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks is a great compilation if you like deep, dubby, minimal techno. Admittedly it's not the catchiest name for an album. don't know it. investigating now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Anyone see Grimes on Jools Holland the other night? Loved it, although not sure about the forehead thing.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aea0WMx8e7E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Mate made this: http://soundcloud.com/blanca/blanca-afterlife its lush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Anybody listened to this? It's fucking excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Well, this has just blown my mind: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35568 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 don't know it. investigating now Did you ever check out Basic Channel / Scion, Dan? Anyway, in a similar vein, has anyone heard any DeepChord? Especially their most recent stuff. I've actually invested in some stuff produced this decade /. century of late. Groundbreaking for me, I know. Been listening to a lot of deep house of late too. Especially mid/late 90s stuff. DJ Sneak, Angel Moraes, that type of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Did you ever check out Basic Channel / Scion, Dan? Anyway, in a similar vein, has anyone heard any DeepChord? Especially their most recent stuff. I've actually invested in some stuff produced this decade /. century of late. Groundbreaking for me, I know. Been listening to a lot of deep house of late too. Especially mid/late 90s stuff. DJ Sneak, Angel Moraes, that type of shit. What about Shakatak fucker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Drugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Did you ever check out Basic Channel / Scion, Dan? Anyway, in a similar vein, has anyone heard any DeepChord? Especially their most recent stuff. I've actually invested in some stuff produced this decade /. century of late. Groundbreaking for me, I know. Been listening to a lot of deep house of late too. Especially mid/late 90s stuff. DJ Sneak, Angel Moraes, that type of shit. basic channel i like. stripped back, nice. i've been getting into half time dnb of late - even a bit of dubstep .... who'd a thunk it? i'll post some bits and piece now. a lot of which i;m sure will not be for everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 balloons by lynx. sounds amazing on a loud rig http://soundcloud.com/djlynx/lynx-balloons-sample-pack-demo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 half time dnb. love this sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35568 Posted November 15, 2012 Share Posted November 15, 2012 That's basically just like 90s trip-hop unless I'm missing something. Quite like it though. And Dan, it's an oldie but a goodie but you'd probably like the Creative Drum and Bass double CD. The Dr S Gachet mix has a nice, chilled out jazzy vibe (but has enough going on in the drum beats so as not to get dull). The DJ SS one is good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 i missed those mixes first time around alex but will investigate. the whole half time drum n bass thing is causing a bit of fuss in london at the moment. last dnb night i went to they were mixing it up with regular tempo dnb. it's basically dnb minus half of the drums so it sounds like half of the tempo.i think a lot of dnb producers had their head turned by dubstep and started making tunes with a similar vibe but meet somewhere in the middle of the two genres. dbridge is a pioneer of this sound. you should check out some of his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/convexindustries/002-dbridge-presents-velvit-a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35568 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 (edited) Well they say there's nothing new under the sun I'll have a listen though, ta. Edit: Quite like that but it is like Detroit Techno and people influenced by that, like Dave Angel. Nothing that new or different. Dave Angel has a new-ish album out actually and it's a return to the lush synths and jazz influenced techno of his early work, before he got all commercial with that shit 'tech-funk' sound (I suppose we've all got to pay the mortgage). Edited November 16, 2012 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Anybody listened to this? It's fucking excellent. Going to see these next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 a friday afternoon classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wYZ9hS0zc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 scary to think this tune is 21 years old like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooner 243 Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 just saw an advert for the local community radio station, thinking about joining and having a jungle/DNB night, got this on at the moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8NaRnco01g&feature=related takes me back to my heyday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22142 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 just saw an advert for the local community radio station, thinking about joining and having a jungle/DNB night, got this on at the moment [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8NaRnco01g&feature=related[/media] takes me back to my heyday selecta! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 In today's guardian..... r Fri 23 November 2012 Back in the mid-90s, an act from the record label I ran at the time was selected to appear on Top of the Pops. But when we went to meet the American duo at Heathrow, neither of them got off the plane: they had decided to stay at home. Eventually, we hired two actors to play the role of DJ and keyboard player. They looked the part and no one seemed to notice. I was reminded of this episode yesterday when reading that DJ Calvin Harris has threatened legal action against the BBC for quoting him in a Radio 1 Newsbeat programme in which he appears to endorse prerecorded DJ sets. Like wrestling in the 1970s, there's always been an element of knowing subterfuge in dance music. Since much of the alchemy of the 12-inch mix is often down to one person and a bunch of machines, it does not always translate well to live performance. The real magic is when a skilled DJ and a box of records – or laptop or memory stick, as it increasingly is today – take those solitary studio moments and turn them into something communal and occasionally transcendental, with the assistance of a packed dancefloor. But where there's brass there's muck and the latest mania for EDM (an acronym for electronic dance music) in the US has brought with it a whole new set of rules. EDM has effectively bypassed the club culture on which house and techno were founded and gone straight for the stadiums and festival jugular. Judging by the many clips on YouTube, its stars have taken their cues from rock stars rather than the clubbers who helped to create dance culture around the skill of DJs such as Frankie Knuckles. This new breed of star DJ is not content to be hidden away in a booth with a tiny slit, like Junior Vasquez was at New York's seminal Sound Factory. Instead they mosh and crowd surf (DJ Steve Aoki was hospitalised after an incident involving a trampoline last week: he's clearly no Nils Lofgren) from their elevated stage, while the crowd look on, shuffling and whooping. Worse still, some of them are alleged to perform to the kind of pre-mixed sets that have caused the Calvin Harris controversy. Prerecording sets is a curious phenomenon, because it's the live interaction between DJ and dancefloor where the real fun occurs. Without the ability to change the mood, change the tempo, change the style, you're nothing more than a jukebox that needs a toilet break every so often. It's what makes DJing more elastic and versatile than, say, a rock band, whose members are tied to their audience by the songs they know and have rehearsed. Good DJs have the world of recorded music at their disposal. Half the pleasure of playing is to seamlessly go from an Underground Resistance tune into a Queen B-side before anyone realises what's happening. Prerecording misses the point entirely. Like the trend towards ghostwritten tracks (as documented in the latest issue of Mixmag), it's all part of the same culture that has grown up around, but not truly connected to, the roots of club culture. Two seasons ago, I spent a night checking out all the big clubs in Ibiza and was struck by how surprisingly dull a lot of it is these days. Tiesto's performance at Privilege looked like 10,000 people waiting for the world's largest bus to arrive. Those supernatural nights where the DJ appears to be communicating personally with each member of the dancefloor were nowhere to be seen. What marks out these events is how little interaction there is between DJ and audience. The audience consumes rather than participates, foregoing any form of empathetic experience in favour of bland ingestion (and usually faithfully documented by the cancerous presence of a thousand camera phones held aloft). A great DJ can coax you into places you didn't know you wanted to go until you get there. It's what marks them out from a ninny with too many tattoos playing a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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