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Nexus 21 - Real Love(Obsession) [1990] Just digging through my old CDs. Found this old one from Network Records 1990. ‘Real Love’ by Nexus 21.
Quite a nice old skool cut. Nice strings.File Download (5:31 min / 13 MB)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
140 House Beat from meI made a cheesy (but happy) little house beat last night, as usual very basic & simple – but it was fun to do & more or less made itself.
Made in Logic 9 using mostly preset sounds (with loads of processing) & a couple of bass noises that remind me of ‘speed garage’. I also rewire Ableton to Logic so that its quick & easy to bounce loops into a project.
Although the bass sounds quite loud it doesn’t hit hard on a sub – doesn’t matter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wicked man in Madenabena!DJ Dextrous & Rude Boy Keith – Wicked
Here’s one from the golden age of Jungle, 1994 to be precise. It comes from an EP called “The Kings of the Jungle Part One” on Suburban Base, but at the time I had this track on a mixtape bought from a man with a suitcase full of tapes outside Brixon tube station with nothing written on it except “Noodles – Razor Jungle Dub”.
The tune kicks off with the familiar “Ring the Alarm” reggae bassli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Completely awesomeTune Yards – “Lions”
Am at a bit of a loss selecting the genre categories on this one, so I’ve just gone for “completely awesome”.
The Tune Yards- Merrill Garbus.
Kind of hard to describe, so you’ll just have to listen to it. Drums, bass, vocals- she has the most incredibly dynamic range, a voice of amazing subtlety and power- and of course, ukelele’s.
Not usual fare for DC but I stumbled across this on the weekend, and I’ve bee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Really creepy electroInstra:mental – “Voyeur”
Been out a while but only just crossed my ears- and shortly after my turntables. This is an understated, sinister, belter of a tune.
The duo behind it- Alex Green and Damon Kirkham- have been producing quality electronic music for a good long while now, and have a bunch of strings to their musical bows, releasing electro, acid, dnb and non-classifiable things that get filed under “post dubstep” (whatever that is) going by a variety ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Samooo - WreckdBassline.
ahem…
How is everyone?
I’ve been buried knee deep in fatherhood and work.
Glad to report Hurricane Irene wasn’t angry with us here in Brooklyn.
Remix by Samooo on G.A.M.M. an extremely reliable label…
G.A.M.M Myspace ::
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Curious HardcoreHaute Control – Dream Series
A couple of tracks here from the rare-as-rocking-horse “Future Stylin’ E.P.” from 1993 (only 24 people have a copy on Discogs, 113 want it, including me, and Hard To Find Records haven’t had a copy in since 2001).
Dream Series is an odd track, it’s hardcore but not quite as we know it… The combination of crisp breakbeats and heavy bass with really quirky samples and synths reminds me very much of the Wagon Christ so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Sound Of The Future in 1993Haute Control – Future Stylin’
Future Stylin’ (as you might guess) is the opening track from the “Future Stylin’ E.P.” and is much more straight up hardcore than Dream Series, probably picked for the A-side as it would more instantly appeal to DJs. The opening bars of mellow piano soon give in to the high-pitched synth hook and a wicked breakbeat that varies beautifully throughout the track.
The super-crisp and intricately crafted beats mark this out ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
I-I-I-I-I-I-I'm Back!Chubb Rock with Howie Tee – Ya Bad Chubbs (Crib Mix)
It’s been a while I know, but enjoying this with the sunshine blazing I felt compelled to share it with any of our dear readers who still pass by occasionally just to check if we’ve shut down altogether yet.
It’s a jam from back in 1989, a pretty straightforward rip of Raze’s unmistakable Break 4 Love beat (at least I think that’s where it originated…) with some great funky synth, a liberal sm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
something specialsSuspicious Stench – “Ghost Town”
V quick post while I have 5 mins
Came across this the other day and it’s been straining the speakers in me car ever since- a dubstep rework of Ghost Town by the Specials.
The nice fellas from Suspicious Stench have also kindly made available a free album (linked below) with further fatness:
“as even arseholes like us can be nice, we think everyone should follow this trend, so therefore by downoading this album you are le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
New Order anticipate the Vickers Commission by 30 yearsNew Order – ICB
Apologies for such a long time since my previous posting… only just getting back into some semblance of normal work/life balance after working flat out for about 6 months.
It was this week’s publication of the interim report from the Independent Commission on Banking, chaired by Sir John Vickers, that spurred me into posting action after a long layoff. I realised that the acronym for the commission, “ICB”, was the same as a song off New Ord ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2-Step to heavenM-Dubs ft Richie Dan – “Over Here (Sugar Shack Break Funk Mix)”
Classic bit of UK Garage here from producer and occasional Radio 1 DJ Albert Doku, aka Ras Kwame, aka M Dubs.
Big tune in ‘98, still sounding good today and still putting out fresh releases
Been putting a spring in my step for the new season, so thought I’d share …
:)
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2:30 MinutesPopulous – Bottom 01
Here is a nice ambient slice from ‘Populous’. The LP is called ‘Quipo’ from 2002. I love this tune despite it being so short….nice dope beat, guitars, glitches & I read somewhere that the other sample is a clarinet….anyway sounds nice to my ears. Production is crisp.
If you are going to purchase one of his records, I would probably get ‘Queue for Love’ (2005) as overall its a better LP than ‘Quipo’ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Lil' More Dance ManiaLil’ Louis – The Original Video Clash
How to describe this early (1988) release on Dance Mania? A few things spring to mind:
Raw as fuck
Completely insane
Way ahead of it’s time
Is it house? Is it techno? Or is it actually just some fucked up bleeping and crashing shit?
Somehow the bangs crashes and bleeps, although pretty jarring on first listen, hang together and become catchy. To my ear the massive kicks and abrasive bleeps here make it a very early precursor t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dance Mania (2)jammin gerald – “pump that shit up”
Next up, Jammin the House Gerald!
And oh boy, what an exciting track :)
Gerald’s still rockin it:
gerald at discogs ::
this release ::
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Dance Mania (1)dj milton – “late nite creep”
A brace of beauties for Saturday night, from Chicago’s prolific Dance Mania label.
The label started out in the mid eighties and pioneered early chicago house and acid house sounds, and in the early nineties went on to become the primo producer of the ghetto house sound, featuring all the key players like DJ Deeon Slugo and DJ Funk (who went on to buy the label in 2005). Pretty much all the best harder-edged artists from Chicago ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Murcof - RostroJust having a look at some old recovered MP3s that I previously lost…..just came across this one. Its very minimal ambient techno….Murcof uses samples of Orchestral Instruments alot – this track is no exception.
This track is ‘Rostro’ from the 2005 LP Remembranza.
Amazing production skills here for sure.
Very nice tune – glad I found it !!
Buy Remembranza from Amazon
Enjoy. T-pot.File Download (8:22 min / 11 MB)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rewind and come againOriginal Rockers- “Sexy Selector”
We’ve had this one before at DC (see link below from Squeaker), but it’s just so good, it’ll certainly stand a re-up.
It was originally released in 1993, and posted here in 2007 when it was a nice blast from the past
Since then, the whole dubstep thing has blown up, and it sounds like it could’ve been made this week.
(or as the Double K may well point out- it sounds better than almost anything that was released th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Rewind and come againOriginal Rockers- “Sexy Selector”
We’ve had this one before at DC (see link below from Squeaker), but it’s just so good, it’ll certainly stand a re-up.
It was originally released in 1993, and posted here in 2007 when it was a nice blast from the past
Since then, the whole dubstep thing has blown up, and it sounds like it could’ve been made this week.
(or as the Double K may well point out- it sounds better than almost anything that was released th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
leetle peegslittle dragon- “blinking pigs”
Lovely little tune here, from Swedish outfit little dragon.
This quote from their website bio captures the effect- to begin with it sounds quite lame and twee, but as it goes on, it grows on you until you realise it’s really quite good:
“From the city of Gothenburg grew the birth of tiny creature- its breath full of fire, passion, death and dreams.
It lived in a fantasy called the electric forest.
This forest was thick with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
New Year Soul (3)Mayer Hawthorne- “The Ills”
Completing (belatedly) the trio of soul for 2011, is this new school number from Stonesthrow’s Mayer Hawthorne.
Born and raised in Michigan, his sound is rooted in Motown soul. With his falsetto vocals and multiple-instrumental talents, he’s part Smokey, part Curtis and part Stevie, but although he’s real old school, and draws from the same well, he’s got his own style and sensibility too.
I strongly recommend gettin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bassline like it's 1993 [1]Skanna – Nightstalker
Nightstalker is taken from Skanna’s well-named The Future EP on the awesome Whitehouse Records. I say well-named because the sounds of the forward-thinking hardcore you find on there wouldn’t be amiss on much later records. In fact the bleeps on here really remind me of the hook in DJ Mujava’s Township Funk that devastated dancefloors just a couple of years ago.
But anyway, these postings are mainly about the BASS, which in this track is a h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bassline like it's 1993 [2]Legal Offence – Burnin’ Up (Piano Mix)
Next up in our duo of 1993 bass-heavy tracks is this gem on Deep 7 Records. It’s much more of a straightforward hardcore banger than Night Stalker, and the intro includes a lot of ravey stabs that might make it sound dated to some ears. OK, OK, granted it does sound a little dated, but just wait for it: when the bassline drops (the first time is at about 1.12 in), it is absolutely MASSIVE!
I also like how this “Piano Mix ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Put The Kettel OnHere is a nice track from Kettels’ LP ‘Volleyed Iron’. Nice ambient vibes with a staccato 303 baseline, nice strings and a variety of distorted noises up in the higher end of the frequency range. Run all this through a lovely reverb and there it is !!!!
Go out and buy the album, its only £110 on amazon.co.uk !! Although ‘Myam James 2’ is a brilliant LP available for download at £6.99 – well worth a look. Here’s a link;
http://www.amazo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Another Pete Rock Sample
So Alboy, you think you can out Pete Rock me eh?...eh?
Actually I’m sure you can, to be honest today “digging” tends to be done mostly on-line around here. Was mooching through turntable lab’s daily arrivals section and found this. The original sample from Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s great “I got a love”.File Download (2:29 min / 6 MB)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Bass'n'Bleeps
Mind of Kane – Frequency
Some deep, deep bass-and-bleeps techno here for you from back in 1990. There are obvious similarities to LFO’s LFO... I suspect that this track was inspired by LFO (I’d say it’s an homage rather than a rip-off), but as both records were released the same year it could be the other way round, who knows who heard which track first?File Download (4:03 min / 5 MB)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
New Year Soul (2)Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens – “What Have You Done, My Brother?”
Not much time to write, but wanted to whack this up to keep to my new year’s “once a week, minimum” posting resolution.
Fortunately, this track from Alabama-born gospel veteran Naomi Shelton speaks rousingly for itself- and the pedigree of the artists involved, some of whom performed in the early days with James Brown and Wilson Pickett, is fully evident.
Daptone Records have si ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
New Year Soul (1)Superlatives – “Don’t know how (to say ‘I love you’)”
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
It seems I have the honour of opening DC for 2011 with the first in a triptych of soulful earfuls that have been keeping me feeling toasty and warm in recent months.
This first one took me a good few years to track down- I heard it first on an amazing mix Pete Rock did on Radio 1 world service about 5 years ago, where he just played his favourite breaks, and as you would expect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
An Analogue Treat
The Aphex Twin – Analogue Bubblebath
It’s like the old saying about buses… you wait and wait for one to come along and then two turn up at the same time.
And for this one we’re going way back… to 1991, way before “The Twin” became a household name (well, in selected households at least), and an absolute beauty of a track taken from his very first release on Exeter’s Mighty Force records. (There were a few re-issues in 1993-94, following t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Do you GU?Glenn Underground – Real Space
No apologies this time – we’re busy people here, goddammit and you’ll take what few morsels we can find time to upload with good grace.
Having said that, we’ll try to up the posting rate come the New Year because it really has been shocking of late.
So, just in time for Christmas, here’s a great house number from back in 1993, taken from one of the prolific Glenn Underground’s earliest releases – the Future ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
New Track from me; 'Techmp'Here is a track i made yesterday. Its extremely simple; made in one sitting and checked on the car sub today, sounded OK. Iv stacked several string instruments on top of each other with some simple but hopefully heavy bass.
I attempted some obvious chord changes but that just didnt work for some reason, the sounds choosen seemed to ‘sing’ in just a few places so i left it at that…...iv left in some resonant problems & stuff in the strings aswell so as not to leave be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Happy birthday!The White Stripes – “We’re going to be friends”
A short post to mark the happy and blessed occasion of the birth of our second baby daughter last Friday morning.
She weighed in at 9lb 10oz, but Mrs Alboy made short work of the labour, putting in a champion performance once again.
We’re all just settling in and getting to know the not-so-little one. Havent got as far as a name yet, but it’ll come…
In the meantime, please enjoy this sweet dedi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Aaron Carl- RIP
aaron carl- “hateful (UR Mix)”
Sad news that after a brief fight with pancreatic cancer, outstanding Detroit house and techno producer Aaron Carl died on Thursday.
Mentored in composition and production in the mid-nineties by Mad Mike Banks, he went on to create stand out house tracks and founded Wallshaker music.
Another great artist whose life and potential has been cut short by cancer- a sad loss to his friends and family and the world.
“For years, I’ve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
This one goes out to the Pope: welcome to our 3rd world countryBTSM – (We’ll Arrest You) When You Step Off The Plane
A little something topical for the kids now… those of you not on the Richard Branson space program probably know that the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope, is visiting the UK over the next few days.
Last month, three members of the Burning Lodge immersion composition group entered a rehearsal studio in Bermondsey to record a selection of freeform jams, sonic experiments and in-jokes. In other words it wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Timeless ambient technoSun Electric – Sarotti
I haven’t posted for ages – been ridiculously busy, but am beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel now, so I have been scouring emusic for some long-lost R&S classics and was very pleased to find this.
Sun Electric were a duo from Berlin (Tom Thiel and Max Loderbauer) who became friends with The Orb and Thomas Fehlmann after releasing a 12” single called “O’Locco” in 1990. That particular track has since gone ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ode to Croissant NeufBon Iver- “Flume”
Myself and P Rice, accompanied by a number of friends and families, had the pleasure of attending the rather lovely Croissant Neuf festival in the lush valleys of Monmouthshire in Wales the weekend before last.
Croissant Neuf is an off-shoot of the longest running area at Glastonbury (besides the main Pyramid stage), and is a solar powered and chilled zone they have apparently been running since the 60’s. Unlike it’s mothership festival, it thr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Rediscovered GrooveNew Grooves – 2 A.M.
This is a tune that I’ve loved for years and years but only just found out what it is. I know it intimately from an amazing Jon Da Silva tape from the Hacienda that got caned round my way back in 1992. If you’ve been keeping up with the comments on here you’ll know I recently read Peter Hook’s “The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club”, where after all these years I finally found a track list for the tape (and also discovered that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Great Boo's Up
Boo Williams- “midnight express”
Apologies to our regular listeners for inactivity at DC- no posts here for a month, shocking indolence from me and our reduced roster of co-bloggers.
To make some small amends, here is a gem of a track from Boo Williams on the mighty Relief Records label
Born and raised on Chicago’s south side, Boo Williams’ career as DJ/producer, began back when house music was still creating an identity for itself. He was raised on a healt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
To the MaxGil Scott Heron vs DJ Asparagus- “Your Daddy Loves You”
A further tribute to the youngest addition to Dilated Choonz, young Max Shooter- this one perhaps more up Squeaker’s alley than the ruffness from Double K…
A smooth jazz house edit of Gil Scott Heron’s your daddy loves you by Stockholm’s DJ Asparagus. In this case a moving message of love to Gil’s young daughter, but I’m sure the sentiment applies to the Max Daddy n’all
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Gimme an M!Tom & Jerry – MAXi(mun) Style
This is a post (actually 3 posts) in our long-running occasional series of tunes dedicated to the new offspring of Dilated Choonz crew members. This time it is the fecund loins of Tommy Squeaker that we’re celebrating, as he and his good lady were recently blessed with a baby boy, Max.
Squeaker steadfastly refuses to acknowledge the superiority of Jungle over other musical forms, despite the existence of tunes like this one by Tom & Jer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gimme an A!Ordinary People – Baby You Make My Heart Sing
Here’s a tune I’ve been meaning to post for a while now, and this seems like an opportune moment for it, due to the Oooooohoooo Baby You Know You Make My Heart Sing! vocal that probably captures pretty much how our man Squeaker feels about little Max at the moment (I’m guessing he feels it minus the pounding, tuff-as-hell garage beat in the background though!)
The main man in Ordinary People is Jason Kaye, who, like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gimme an X!
Space – Jupiter
And finally, something I know the Squeaker loves dearly but may not have had out in a while… something to help shattered new parents relax, and if they’re lucky it might even help send little Max off to sleep.
Space is probably the best ambient house record ever made. To listen to it is to journey across the Solar System, at times experiencing true beauty and at times being afraid, very afraid. This part of the journey – Jupiter – comes fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
You Have - In Your Big ShortsFrank Sidebottom – Guess Who’s Been on Match of the Day
I was devestated by the news this week that Chris Sievey, the creator of one of the greatest ever musical performers – Frank Sidebottom – had died of cancer aged only 54.
One of the first conversations I had with Alboy was discussing Frank’s set at Reading Festival 1991 which I only saw part of I am ashamed to say, but it was wonderful. And this track used to come up a lot in casual conversation.
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Something I have been working on recentlyBrother Typewriter – Hushed Tones in The Recording Industry (edit)
This is just a little thing I was working on last month with the Burning Lodge immersion composition group.
I miss the old days of 1970s vinyl when you could get albums which had one track on each side, normally about 17 or 18 minutes long. So I did an album like that.
“Hushed tones…” starts off a bit Floyd and then goes into something a bit like the 70s Tangerine Dream. When the sequencers were prim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
electro tune made with reason 4 & rebirthez folks, here is a track lurking on my HD. Quite an odd tune…. the vocal was taken from an xbox360 game. I ran the mix through a decent multi-band compressor afterwards.File Download (4:37 min / 9 MB)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiiime...Soul Clap remix- “Al Naafiysh (The Soul)”
One for all the original B-Boys and B-Girls in the virtual house
We had Hashim’s 1983 original here way back in Jan 2006- this is fresh for 2010, a new-funk rework with live instrumentation and scratching, courtesy of Berlin’s Soul Clap crew.
Like the El Michels Affair Wu-Tang re-works, am loving this rejuvenation of classic, digitally sequenced tracks through good old fashioned analogue musicianship.
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And Just Because......we haven’t had any PURE RUFFNESS like this on here for absolutely aaaaaaaaages…
Edcase – Untitled (Ed’s Venture EP Side A)
From an obscure 1993 white label, this is a Darkside tune from those amazing few months that saw the evolution of hardcore into jungle proper, when no two tunes sounded the same and literally anything went. The tune kicks off with some crazy chopped breakbeats that gradually fall into an almost military-style 4/4 march and stomp right alon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Another Choon for the Sun
Alex Neri – The Wizard
Here’s some lush summery Italian House (see picture) from 1992, kicking off with a no-nonsense big club bassline the percussion creeps in with some nice cowbell and the tune progresses at quite a pace with large splashes of funky guitar, nice ambience, flutey bits and plenty of breakdowns and build ups. It’s an absolute belter of a tune and no mistake.
Alex Neri has been a player in the Italian house scene for years and produced the stone-cold c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Campaign tracks (3)For the Liberal Democrats:
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
I was stuck for one to put up for the Lib Dems for some time: possible candidates included Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck In The Middle With You” (Nick Clegg would particularly like the line “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”) and anything by Yellow Magic Orchestra.
But the Lib Dem posters I’ve been seeing around (zilcho in my constituency of Witham, but squi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |