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Music Shit / Re: Electronic/"Dance" music thread

« on: May 03, 2016, 11:59:26 AM »

I've been really into Pete Shelley's solo 12" singles lately. He did some proto-house/post-disco type singles that are really great: Witness The Change, On Your Own, Telephone Operator and of course Homosapian. Check 'em out if you're unfamiliar.

Love that deep synth bass line in Telephone Operator. Would have thought Witness the Change was mid 80's New Order if I were hearing it out of context, not just cause of the bass playing...

Which brings me to my next question: can anyone trace the origin of that bass style... I'm specifically thinking of the melodic, usually chorus effected bass lines you find in most New Order, a lot of goth, cold wave, etc. etc. etc. Maybe the electronic music thread isn't the best place to ask this, but it's everywhere and I know Peter Hook didn't air hump it into existence.

Also:

I know Chrome dabbled in this world for a bit.

Tell me more! I'm still stuck in the 70's with Chrome.

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Music Shit / Re: Electronic/"Dance" music thread

« on: May 02, 2016, 10:19:01 AM »

Picked up the Patrick Cowley "Menergy" 12", definitely hit the high NRG spot the few times I spun it this weekend.

Anyone heard the Cowley reissue that Dark Entries did recently? I'm thinking it's more focused on his minimal synth/porn soundtrack stuff than the big dance tracks.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Booji Boys - rocknroll punk from halifax

« on: May 02, 2016, 10:15:44 AM »

I've listened to it, it's good.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 24, 2016, 01:11:40 PM »

Tan - Musik CIty

Former Columbus head now based in Nashville releases a bad ass synthpop album influenced by italo disco and hi-nrg. Really, really good sexy synthesized pop music! Highly recommended.

https://tanus.bandcamp.com/

I like it.

I also like that Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee link I clicked the other day. Listened to the whole thing immediately - times when it sounded like Ron House fronting Tony William's Lifetime. Looking forward to hearing it again.

Been listening to the Poison Girls a lot on the walks to and from work. Probably gonna try and get my hands on at least one of those Water Wing reissues when the next paycheck rolls around.

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Music Shit / Re: PRINCE DEAD

« on: April 21, 2016, 10:14:17 AM »

Wow.

After many years of just thinking he was a cool dude his music hit my life quite hard just this past fall. Really went ape shit for Purple Rain, 1999, Controversy, etc, as people do. Felt good to be alive. I'm clearly past the age of not caring when people die. 

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Music Shit / Re: Electronic/"Dance" music thread

« on: April 15, 2016, 08:39:49 AM »

Here we go though. Everyone is familiar with Technotronic, but did y'all know that before there was a female MC on that track it was originally a Belgian New Beat banger? Drop this one if you like fire.
 
The Pro 24's - Technotronic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2bg2n1QWg

Actually Technotronic's version is pretty sick too.

I love that lady's voice. Could listen to Rockin Over the Beat for at least an hour at a time. And I almost have...between all the remixes, etc. esp. the Sumner mix. This instrumental track is dope though.

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Music Shit / Re: The Lavender Flu (Chris from The Hunches new project)

« on: April 13, 2016, 10:26:20 AM »

anyone in Canada distroing this?

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Music Shit / Re: Things you first heard about on records.

« on: April 01, 2016, 12:26:23 PM »

eip eiteews, wtf is yr avatar a picture of?

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Music Shit / Re: R.I.P Andrew Loomis

« on: March 09, 2016, 02:15:01 PM »

fucking shit!!!

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 28, 2016, 12:03:26 PM »

i haven't heard a p.s.f. I haven't loved, but I've only listened to a handful. get the comps, I think they're only on cd anyways and very affordable. avoid the keiji heino/fushitsusha if it's straight ahead rnr yr lookin for. maybe save it for when yr ready to drop the beat and really freak the fuck out. actually there's quite a few psf bands like that - beware! (or not I happen to love that shit). anyways as far as I know it's the golden era of absurdly loud guitars and thus holds a very dear place in my heart, especially denudes.

but besides from a few pagans tracks I don't think I've heard a guitar all week...just been fixated on kanye west! haha he's the true mother fucker of popular culture. little bits of chris carter to supplement the 'life of pablo' overdose. now I feel like I gotta catch up on the rap game of the last ten years... which is about how long ago I stopped paying attention to it. if anyone's got some favs rap em off.

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Music Shit / Re: Fanzines

« on: February 07, 2016, 08:13:54 AM »

finally read NEONS 2 the other day... ordered it when it came out and then lost it in the mess I guess (no explanation). always great work from r. gordon. more legit diversity of perspectives than most human-friendly zines I've read, top notch narrative, just a fuckin high quality piece of paper... hope another issue comes out soon!

ah distort... first found this when I was 19 at an indie rock music festival, just a few months after listening to the sex pistols for the first time and reading the KBD field guide on termbo. and I never looked back (well maybe a few times just to be sure I actually hated that shit)! part of the whole coming of age paradigm shift for me for sure haha. wrote DX last year to tell him that. pretty sure I came off as a sad 15 year old jerkin off to sears catalogues and CNN newscasters; wouldn't be far off from the truth.   

so I guess what I'm saying is, I enjoy scene-centric press like NUTs and COD and straight up fan guide stuff like Savage Damage, but what I really dig are the ones that tie those things together with a personal spin, especially when it's ruthlessly honest like NEONS and to some extent DISTORT. have only read one issue of NGL.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 07, 2016, 07:50:05 AM »

marvin gaye "what's going on" been playing pretty relentlessly in my house. sometimes I listen to this and it sounds boring as fuck, other times it sounds like the greatest jam I've ever heard. right now I'm feeling the latter. all I have to ask is one thing: "what's happenin my man?" and also let's save all the children. 

saw some Yes/Prog discussion a bit earlier; not a big fan of their studio records but "yessongs" is pretty fuckin dope if I remember correctly. more ferocious than the studio stuff. rick walkman makes me laff though.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Lemmy

« on: January 12, 2016, 08:35:43 AM »

yes lem specifically says in the doc that he does not recommend his lifestyle cause it has led to the death of so many of his friends. I truly believe that he was a biological anomaly in many ways (it was mentioned at the memorial by someone that they never in the twenty or whatever years they knew him saw him get even so much as a sniffle from a cold), or at least he was built to last in a way that many people are not. what I've taken away from it is... do whatever you want. its actually guys like him that helped me to let go of the "drink till you black out" mentality that my older brothers imparted on me at a young age. which is kind of ironic is it not??

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Lemmy

« on: January 07, 2016, 05:46:42 PM »

not to outshine the paul bley thread, rip to him as well.

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Music Shit / Re: RIP Lemmy

« on: January 07, 2016, 05:45:17 PM »

memorial service live-streaming this saturday:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/lemmy_kilmisters_memorial_service_to_be_live_streamed_this_saturday

let us drink or take some pills or chain smoke or just tilt our necks up at an awkwardly high angle in honour of this freshly dead man.