19091977 ([info]19091977) wrote,
@ 2007-03-25 11:04:00
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SHOCKER!!! THE FUTURE ALREADY HAPPENED
Before i viciously conformed to the Punk subculture (still trying to figure this all out), i was HEAVY into this stuff that was coming out of England. If you get it, you can see that this techno rave stuff has a direct lineage from Punk & at the time, was more about what Punk was supposedly about in the first place. Just take a gander at Genesis P. Orridge & all those characters... draw the lines, have a ball. Anyhow, the Prodigy made this link even more clear, but by the time they superficially indicated this with their stage act, Techno had become boring & i was more interested in Discharge & Chaos UK. Ultimately, i don't like dance culture or clubs or any of that sh*te so there was a big disconnect. The secret is, i still listen to all of this stuff & did when i was a Punk too. I remember also some uncomfortable weirdness about this music because my dad is a professional pianist & a virtuoso & this music is made with one finger using samples & computers & beep beep beep. He tolerated an AMAZING amount of it though. ha ha. Even encouraged me & me brother to try & make some big dancefloor hits, but we never had the right sound banks. Oh well.

ALTERN 8 "EVAPOR 8"


FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON "PAPUA NEW GUINEA"


THE PRODIGY "FIRE" Man, i used to be addicted to those sped-up breakbeats. Gotta love the cheesed out 3D computer graphics on this one.


THE PRODIGY "CHARLY" Oh man! This song...


HUMAN RESOURCE "Dominator"


DEE LITE "Power of Love" Love this remix!

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[info]heatherq
2007-03-25 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Bah! are you serious??! this is where my head has been all weekend! When people find out that I "used to be a raver" they ask me if I was a candy raver.. a thing that came into existence when i was getting out of the scene. "no, basically I was a gutter punk that danced all night" doesn't make sense to a lot of people.

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[info]19091977
2007-03-25 07:00 pm UTC (link)
ha ha. wicked! I have some weird theories about Punk & stuff that i could get into, because they directly pertain to this whole thing... but basically, just as the futurist electronic music world was getting into full swing, the retro, conservative & closed-minded guitar rock world came back in full, through nirvana & lessly through green day & stuff like that. From 1988-1992 though, kids had no idea what this stuff i listened to was! Weird. And yeah, once the little techno tribes started, i knew it was a lame scene. I remember going to buy records in San Francisco & trying to find acid house & 1990 type techno & the shop owners were like, "We only stock Deep House now." It made no sense. this was like 1993. Altern 8 totally mix the post-punk apocalypse with techno though too.

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[info]19091977
2007-03-25 07:02 pm UTC (link)
It's pretty obvious where i'm coming from with graphics like these...

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[info]tinyprayers
2007-03-25 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Mmm, FSOL... I had an album or two of theirs back in the day; so delicious. Now I'm wishing I still did. Orbital, FSOL, there were a couple others too. Problem with my taste is i'm too interested in too many things to ever get deeply into any one of them.

I have been trying of late to renew my engagement with my music collection- listen more deliberately to what I've got. I haven't been getting new things with nearly the speed I used to when I was living six blocks from Amoeba. I cleared out my entire ipod a couple weeks ago and only put back things I specifically wanted to emphasize- rooted out everything I've been listening to too much, lazily listening to the same things over and over. It paid off well on a roadtrip I took Friday- wonderful things are afoot in the universe of sound.

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[info]tinyprayers
2007-03-25 07:12 pm UTC (link)
Oh yes, the Orb, that was another one. Haven't got any of theirs any more either- feh.

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[info]scratchmonkey
2007-03-25 11:15 pm UTC (link)
I still do!

It's all about the following albums:

orbital - brown album
FSOL - Lifeforms
The Orb - U.F.Orb and Orb Live 93

Really, if you pick up those 3 albums, you've picked up the best of the English early-90s ambient/house/dub scene.

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[info]scratchmonkey
2007-03-25 11:16 pm UTC (link)
Shit. 4 albums.

The "where are those doctors" sample on Orb Live 93 is probably my most favorite sample ever.

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[info]tinyprayers
2007-03-26 01:48 am UTC (link)
I still have "In Sides" by Orbital for some reason... listened to it today, delightful.

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[info]lupoleboucher
2007-03-26 06:47 pm UTC (link)
I like the original from the Prodigy tune above:



Arthur Brown was the beginning of all kinds of stuff: shock rock, facepaint rock (death metal, kiss, merciful fayte), Satan metal, etc.

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