I'm intrigued by this microhouse stuff

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I don't really know what it is, though. What are some good examples of the genre that I might find on Limewire?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

michael mayer - peel session OR immer

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

You should look up some of the microhouse threads on ILM. They are very informative.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

limewire will not serve you well for microhouse, I'm afraid.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, Immer is great!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I can't find any of that stuff. Thanks anyway.

I've heard some glitch. Is it similar?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

not really, no

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

does glitch make you want to take your shirt off?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I've started growing man breasts. Nothing makes me want to take my shirt off.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Microhouse is also gym music, if you want it to be.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

you have peel session adam?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

yes I do, want it?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

yes please! swop of some sort? will arrange via e-mail.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I have it at home, but I can send tonight. I have your new address.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I have it, jed_, if you want it.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I also have it. Everyone has it but you, jed. Ha ha.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

(I will bring a copy tomorrow if you like)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i have it, i just want it from adam.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost - thats much easier thanks alba. thanks cozen and adam too.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

bring me a copy too, alba.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I am hurt

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha - could bring me that a copy of that 'The Way Things Work' film?

I was talking to a friend the other night and she said she couldn't get into microhouse, though she'd tried. I said "You must at least like schaffel!" and she said "Well yes, but that's not microhouse". She knows more about things than I do, so I didn't protest, but was she right. I always thought of schaffel as a subset of microhouse. Well, maybe not Rachel Stevens and Goldfrapp, but you know what I mean.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I've found some stuff Limewire calls clickhouse. Is that it?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Der Lauf Der Dinge, yes.

Adam, come to Glasgow for tomorrow.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

miyazaki hating love-in old soul motherfuckers.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

angels on yr body!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Dance genre classification is like some kind of arcane torture.

xpost-I wish. Glasgow (or my idea of it, I've never been) is exactly where I feel like being right now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

miyazaki hating love-in old soul motherfuckers.

oh WHO could this be about?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

you're wife won't mind.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

devils on yr soul!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I have never gotten more stick for anything in my life. Can a man not just be indifferent to Spirited Away in peace???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

"YOUR" AGH!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah i just even know if i do hate it , i was just bored and baffled by it.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I love you both.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Am I wrong in thinking that Weatherall's Hypercity mix was like the big bang of this? I know it was for me. I'd heard some stuff kind of like it (Damon Wild, Readymade) but it wasn't until that mix that I even imagined a whole set with nothing but that kind of feel to it.

Anyway here are some of the past threads, I just whomped the word "microhouse" into the thread title field, in the search area (the search link is at the bottom of the page). Be sure to check out the two Kompakt threads.

Need more microhouse
The MicroHouse Thread
This music you call microhouse....
another fine microhouse/minimal/whatever mix cd
can you bitches stop saying Microhouse?!

TS: Microhouse - Clicky/Poppy vs. Smooth/Gliding

Has downtempo led people to think differently about house? Will microhouse?

Kompakt: Search und Destroy
Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Zwei

Areal Records - search n destroy

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. I should've done that myself, really, but I love to have you people cater to my every whim.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I believe Hypercity is referred to as the first microhouse mix. I think it's a bit overrated, though.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

For me, it was either The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell or Herbert's Let's All Make Mistakes (both 2000) -- I can't remember which one I heard first.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Andy beat me to the punch there. I'd rank Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell as one of the first brilliant microhouse mixes...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)

this is also a very strong early microhouse mix. it's pretty much the pre-hypercity hypercity.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Luomo was the beginning for me, although in retrospect Luomo is well out of the microhouse mainstream.

Force Tracks gets about 1/1000 the time of Kompakt on this board - not totally unjustified, I guess, but maybe the ratio should be more like 1/500 or something.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Jinx!

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right, and to answer the thread-opening question, Vocalcity STAT.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Force Tracks gets less time around here because it dropped the ball and now has presumably folded. There was a *lot* of thread time devoted to Hypercity, the second MRI album, the second Luomo, album, Digital Disco.

I get the sense that Force Tracks had this great idea - "let's go full-fledged disco!" and then after the first Digital Disco comp didn't really know what to do with it. Luomo did, but "The Present Lover" sticks out like a sore thumb on that comp anyway.

Luckily this particular project has been picked up in other sections of the microhouse and actual-house community.

But yeah, my first real intro was Hypercity, helped by a simultaneous acquisition of Hakan Lidbo's Tech-Couture - it was at that point that I realised this was a full-fledged genre and not just isolated flashes (Herbert, Isolee etc.).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)

is deep house a spent force now? maybe a whole other thread.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd reservedly say yes - all of the best sorta deep house music these days seems to be incorporating micro/electro influences or punk/funk influences of moving towards Theo Parrish/Moodyman. Certainly labels like Naked Music are no longer the power houses they were, and the deep house aesthetic by itself appears objectively (as opposed to just subjectively) tired.

I tend to think that what the DJs who work at the snobby house record stores big up is a good barometer - at all the locals in Melbourne it's the Get Physical comp all the way, although I'm not sure if this is related to some sort of distribution deal.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Am I wrong in thinking that Weatherall's Hypercity mix was like the big bang of this?

that's a joke right? it had been about years before that snoozefest of a mix (mostly down to force tracks being about the dullest label ever) came out. i mean, did anyone really rate that? i love weatherall but really, does he need to be given credit for everything?

― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

He did invent jazz.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Sir Andrew Weatherall of Slough

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Nine O'Clock Drop was responsible for the 00s post punk revival

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Tiny Reminders kick started the 00s electro-techno comeback

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Is there a microhouse track called 'The Test' or possibly by someone called The Test?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago)

yadda yadda. i guess weatherall is just fast at getting the comps out. the post punk revival was well under way by the point 9 o'clock drop er, dropped.

alba - there is a proto micro(drone)house track from about '92 (there are actually so many proto microhouse trax from '91 and'92 that it's ridiculous) called 'the wipe' by teste. maybe that's the one yr after.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Mike Ink was the big bang! You're right, Hy[ercity is snoozy but i like to snooze sometimes. I never listen to it anymore, though. I have Tetsu Inoue for that..

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, twitch. Actually, you (or possibly someone else - (I didn't know what you looked like then) played whatever it was at the last BRWH. I asked what it was, and you showed me the record. I thought it said 'The test', but I wouldn't trust my memory for that night at all. It was a long shot that I'd got it right...

Thanks anyway!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago)

me and alba are going bunny tomorrow!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago)

haha AVH's "Flowerz" is protomicrohouse!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago)

MATOS OTM

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Herbert once mixed into "Show Me Love" by Robin S in NYC and I almost started crying. so that too.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago)

I mean take the diva away and hello Total 5!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago)

I think RJG and Cozen are heading down the warren too. People will talk.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago)

any mp3s on web? :(

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago)

right click on http://s92616629.onlinehome.us/barkingspider1.mp3

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago)

yay

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

it's a lengthy mix by occasional ILXor Philip Sherburne. not entirely micro but it'll give you the idea.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

not necessarily micro, but Philip's "Creepshow" mix is also excellent.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago)

alba - i'll try and play 'the wipe' tomorrow night and you can tell me if it's the same record. whatever, do say hello, it's always nice to put faces to nom de plumes.

― stirmonster, Friday, 17 September 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

been listening alot to that TRIPLE-R mix "Freinds" incredible. Oxtongue's "Delight" is a swoon.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Metabo Man!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Friends is one of my ten favorite albums, period.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago)

I play Friends and Immer over and over again. Like a weirdo.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Jed, have you heard MetaboMan's mix of "August Macke"? Would you like to?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago)

aren't they fucking GREAT, scott?! I am SO glad you like them! (and have you heard that new Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats comp? I think you'll like that one too)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago)

it's brand new to me and sounds up to the minute but it, what, 2 years old? (i can copy this for u alba)

xxp

yes please adam, hit me.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago)

(adam u got the change of address email i sent this week?)

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I love the Favela thing! I posted something about it the other day. Some of it reminds me of my beloved Baltimore house stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago)

"(and have you heard that new Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats comp? I think you'll like that one too)"

I've seen this in the shops. This is all the recommendation I need I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

that favela booty comp is fab.

i heard gilles eterson was really into metaboman and musik krause but whenever i've tuned in (which is rarely), i've never heard him play anything remotely like that.

― stirmonster, Friday, 17 September 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago)

Tim, you will definitely dig it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:25 (twenty years ago)

the only record I love more than Favela this year is U.S.E.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Tim will lose his mind.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago)

I'd go back to talking about microhouse but the unfortunate truth is that I can't keep up w/it--or anything, lately. I get sent a lot of stuff, there's ACRES to keep up with, I'm missing out on dozens of good CDs, help!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

'the wipe' by teste

indeed! we can blame microhouse on the 3am synaptic mix by hawtin.

iirc force tracks/inc called their stuff click techno or click house before microhouse was coined.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

hang on there's two favela comps out at the moment. the one i have is austrian. is that the same one?

― stirmonster, Friday, 17 September 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago)

This is the second thread I've started which has turned into gibberish. The first was to do with a computer problem.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago)

"Tim will lose his mind. "

Ooh now I am excited. Maybe I will be fiscally irresponsible and buy this today.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago)

the one I'm talking about is on Essay, a German label.

Tim: do it. you deserve it.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago)

its become great, wooden.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm in this horrible cycle at the moment of working about thirty hours a week and not going to my classes, then spending all my money on CDs to make me feel better. Grr this stupid job manning the phones at a plaintiff law firm and its depression-inducing side effects! I've been so bummed out by stories of workplace injuries and child sexual assault that I've bought heaps lately - including Gretchen which was inspired by you as well Matos and is tops!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 September 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago)

german / austrian. they're all the same!

― stirmonster, Friday, 17 September 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago)

"Tim, you will definitely dig it."

"Tim will lose his mind."

Matos and Seward, I kiss you simultaneously.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 18 September 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago)

"Friends" really is amazing, it's the best night-driving mix ever

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 September 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago)

i must have left my player on repeat last night and i woke up this morning to the "perfect lovers" remix on immer. i thought i was hallucinating.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago)

i don't think i've ever thought about my microhouse all time top 10, so i'll think about it now and post the results.

(in no strict order:)

superpitcher - tomorrow
oxtongue - delight
jurgen paape - so weit wie noch nie
komeit - 3 hours (t. raumschmiere mix)
closer music - maria
m. mayer - amanda
dj westbam ft nena - oldschool baby (piano mix)
m83 - run into flowers (jackson remix) (if it counts)
superpitcher - heroin
kaito - saturday and sunday

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)

That's such a Mitch list! (he said approvingly)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

It made me go and listen to "Amanda".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

much as i love, nay adore 'old school baby', i don't think by any stretch of the imagination it could be deemed microhouse.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago)

really? it fits in so seamlessly on fabric 13, and it feels quite intimate, cozy even. you can replace it with "dexter" or "departures" if you want.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

it does it does! i'm just being pedantic. ignore me.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

well, while we're being pedantic then, i suppose my post shouldn't have implied that intimacy and coziness work as microhouse qualifiers.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago)

if were being pedantic, the only microhouse tune in yr list is oxtongue.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

great choices though

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

not even paape?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago)

not even paape because it's a pop song before it's anything else.

ilm in general has a much broader definition of microhouse than i do though.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 18 September 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago)

likewise. it's about the only genre where i'm a total facist. i wouldn't even call 95% of kompakt releases microhouse.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Superpitcher's microhouse. I understand now.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

This is prompting me to dig out Immer again. Only heard it the once, I admit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

completely agree twitch...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Can we have a tricky disco/stirmonster top 10 of proper microhouse?

(good to meet you properly last night, twitch - I had a great night)

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I heard. : P

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago)

it will have to wait until tomorrow, but i can even give you a downloadable demonstration alba (have to leave to go to a very important first birthday party!)

i've never even tried to think of a microhouse top ten, but as a general rule, i would say remove the emphasis on kompakt and place it on perlon and you'd have a much better handle on the aesthetic. i bet andy k could come up with a bad ass microhouse top ten. i will try to think of one...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 18 September 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

New Crackhaus album is terrific.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

doesnt it bother you guys (especially after many threads here on ilm outlining many of the distictions) to categorize everything as microhouse instead of minimal house?

― twelve, Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

When ignorance isn't bliss: That Rauschen 15 mix was at the local used disc shoppe for ages and I didn't dig deep enough to note the label and at the time (years ago) didn't recognize any of the artists.

Should I be sad I only remember flipping past it (rather than purchasing it for the measly dollars they asked)?

― nader (nader), Saturday, 18 September 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Also terrific: new album from Peter M. Kersten AKA Sten (and AKA Lawrence).

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Is Matos making notes?

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Please do not ask me to what extent any of this is microhouse, minimal house or even minimal techno, thank you.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

i would say remove the emphasis on kompakt and place it on perlon and you'd have a much better handle on the aesthetic.

I would really like to see a top ten based on this idea, actually. Andy K to thread!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago)

And yes, I do see what you mean about Perlon. But surely Immer and the first couple of Totals are pretty micro? Do I get to mention Areal again?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:01 (twenty years ago)

I would really like to see a top ten based on this idea

I know you didn't ask me but I got seven:

1. Akufen - Quebec Nightclub
2. Jabberjaw - She's Got Legs
3. Horror Inc. - A Dream Within a Dream
4. Soulphiction Presents Manmadescience - Get it Right (Manmadescience Mix)
5. Dandy Jack and the Latin Lava - El Gigolo Andino
6. Horror Inc. - A Dream Within a Dream
7. Jabberjaw - Orphan Object

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago)

That's really six, yes.

― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Am I right in assuming that you're using a Mac, Wooden? Scrap Limewire and get Poisoned, it's a much better OSX P2P. If you're on a PC, fuck a Limewire, get Soulseek and you'll never have trouble finding anything ever again.

It took me about 4 months using Limewire to finally get Michael Mayer's Immer and Fabric 13, but they're certainly worth it (especially Immer, which was less immediate than Fabric 13 but my fav. in the long run.) ILM has tons of informative threads on microhouse already so definitely search the archives.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I just did a top ten of more properly micro-ish stuff and then wondered if it would get discounted too cos it's all very poppy:

1. Luomo - Synkro
2. Markus Nikolai - Superstar
3. Moloko - Sing It Back (Herbert's Tasteful Dub)
4. Hombre Ojo - Manejando Un Carrito Rapidito Por Santiaguito
5. Mathew Jonson - Typerope
6. Isolee - Can't Sleep All Night
7. Random Inc - Meets Anton Qubikov @ Moscovia
8. Konrad Black & Selfparttwo - Busting Down The Door With A Shotgun
9. Luciano - Indio Muerto
10. Thomas Brinkmann - Karin

(that's only for today though)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 19 September 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago)

1. isolee - beau mot plague
2. pantytec - alabaster
3. villalobos - 808 the bassqueen
4. farben - says 'love to love you, baby'
5. mri - human patterns
6. pile - 1 of those days
7. luciano & phil quenum - orange mistake
8. jurgen paape - triumph
9. hombre ojo - la musica
10. studio 1 - gelb

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 September 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha Jess I could just have easily made that list in the alternative!

I love Hombre Ojo so much. I wish Nikolai did more tracks under that moniker. Actually I wish he did more stuff period.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago)

i really wish i hadn't left superlongevity in olympia. maybe i should download a new copy (i mean, i paid for it once already...)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 19 September 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

i was thinking up a top ten but i am too tired. but, i would say jess and JoB's list of tracks are 100% what i think of microhouse as being. i don't know most of tim's tracks so can't coment (although i LOVE hombre ojo) i would so have also put 'quebec nightclub' at no.1. for me, it's thee defining record of the genre. but, despite being purist about what is microhouse, i'm certainly not purist when i dj it and ultimately all the stuff that gets labelled microhouse on hear is simply just great music.

good to meet you too alba!

― stirmonster, Sunday, 19 September 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago)

My Top Six was Perlon only, I thought that was what Adam was after.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago)

ok, here is a mix that i did. the first three tracks are classic examples of microhouse. the fourth may be a pinnacle of pop microhouse!

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

nader, i just spotted some copies of that mix at half.com...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago)

nb: the mix i link to above is 156MB so i guess it's out of the question if you're on dialup.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:13 (twenty years ago)

digital summer!

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

xpost |start|

nader, i just spotted some copies of that mix at half.com...

Oddly enough: the selfsame, aforementioned used disc shoppe is selling the "like new" version. Guess they moved it from their bricks and mortar warehouse to their online inventory.

xpost |end|

― nader (nader), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

tricky, I'll take that mix thanks.:)

Does anyone else other than me like Immer more than Friends?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

To be honest, these genre labels drive me nuts, but those are some great lists above, with a nice handful of tracks I have yet to hear.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

so what should i call all this stuff that i like? micropop?

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Nooooooooooooo!

*pulls hair out until bald*

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

m, i don't know. i tend to think of a lot of that stuff as deep techno although "deep" has some exclusionary connotations that i don't like.

hope you like the mix adam. i dedicated it to all of the ilm folks into dance music...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago)

"Does anyone else other than me like Immer more than Friends?"

I do, but it's pretty close.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Here's a Microhouse sampler I made in June '03 that I still listen to all the time (I still think these would be my favorite microhouse traxxx).

1. Closer Musik - Maria
2. MRI - Tied to the 80s
3. Autobianchi - All Around (Everybody's Kissing)
4. Decomposed Subsonic - Blaue Lowen
5. Hakan Lidbo - More Facts
6. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage
7. Crane AK - Polsterplanet
8. Mathias Schaffhauser - Hey Little Girl (Blue mix)
9. A Rocket in Dub - Rocket No. 3
10. Superpitcher - Tomorrow
11. Juergen Paape - So Weit Wi Noch
12. Akufen - Little Hop of Horror

(79:02)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Is Jürgen Paape insufficiently prolific for a full-length?

"Mit Dir" and "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" remain all-time favorites, but with a so-so shrug in Superpitcher's general direction (and "challenging" Kompakt full-lengths in general) - should I be careful what I wish for?

― nader (nader), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Closer Musik - Maria
yes!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago)

"Is Jürgen Paape insufficiently prolific for a full-length?"

I believe Philip's Kompakt article in XLR8R mentioned that Paape had switched to focusing on running the Kompakt record shop, which I assume means that his productions are on the backburner.

I'm pretty excited about the Mikkel Metal full length coming out on Echocord. He's also working on a full length for Kompakt...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Twitch and the others regarding the small percentage of microhouse between all of these labels, Kompakt especially. Somehow the term has developed into a way of grouping all of the labels together (even ones that are 1% microhouse at most), regardless of micro/macro-ness. I've no gripes with this (it's hardly as bastardized [thus far, knock wood] as 'industrial,' you know?), although I admit there's some sort of perverse glee in referring to specific tracks as 'proper microhouse' (Terry Farley-like... I say we reclaim that word 'proper'). Besides, it's getting harder and harder to draw the line -- just look at all of the hyrbidized stuff pouring out these days that falls somewhere between Mathew Jonson and Metro Area (B-side of the Toro 12" on My Best Friend, Einmusik's "Wave Scanner" [which also sounds more like Superpitcher's "Happines" than either of the "Happiness" remixes!], a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting now). Plus, didn't our friend Philip list a Theo Parrish track in his Wire microhouse report?

My ten non-Kompakt favorites (for now) are:

Akufen - Quebec Nightclub
Audision - First Contact
Farben - Live at the Sahara Tahoe, 1973
Isolée - Beau Mot Plage
Mathew Jonson - Typerope
Sami Koivikko - Kut Pulatin
Lawrence - Spark*
Luomo - Class
MRI - To Be Honest
Todd Sines - Skin

My heart so happy to see the Konrad Black track on Tim's list.

*Why is this on regular Ghostly instead of Ghostly Benelux, I mean Spectral Sound?

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago)

As I think I said in one of the threads linked above, Immer is Joy Division and Friends is New Order -- therefore I prefer Immer.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)

You can't love both? Heathen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago)

New Sami Koivikko mix online at http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~sakoivik/

Orange Border / 83min 00s
http://otitsun.oulu.fi/~sakoivik/mixtapes/orange_border.mp3

1. Popnebo: "Monsters Make Love To(k)night" Traum
2. Gringo Grinder: "Lovers And Lesser Men" Onitor
3. Jackmate: "Do San" Philpot
4. Mathew Jonson: "Folding Space" Sub Static
5. M. Rahn: "Cobra Boy" Trapez
6. Apoll: "Popschicht" Tongut
7. Misc.: "The Magic Number" Sender
8. P. Lauer: "Starkweather Swing" Punkt Music
9. Le Dust Sucker: "Mr. Ingum" Plong!
10. James Cotton: "Bizarre Carnival" Spectral Sound
11. 2 Dollar Egg: "Naxos / B1" Nummer
12. John Spring: "Schokolada" Sub Static
13. Frivolous: "Song Of The Kwaning Bird" Karloff
14. Jeff Samuel: "Lya" Trapez
15. Los Hermanos: "Guidance" Los Hermanos
16. Baby Ford: "Not So Bad" Perlon
17. Ricardo vs. Jay: "Cactus Love" Contexterrior
18. Hansen + DJ Daniel: "Trapezltd. 11 / B1" Trapez
19. Karri O: "Cricket X" X-Rust

The other 3 are still online for those that missed these excellent mixes the first time round.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Hmm! Must download tonight...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

yes that tracklist looks excellent...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Sami's too kind.

― nader (nader), Monday, 20 September 2004 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin hell why eighty-three minutes long though? He's such an iPod fascist! And I say that as someone who owns an iPod (only it's broken right now, hence my bitching).

But yeah, the guy's mixes are amazing.

Andy, I got the Konrad Black track off of Funk D'void's iMix for Cocoon (which is half really ace, half a bit boring). It's wonderful!

An alternate list (in play-order):

Metaboman - Easy Woman (Robag Wruhme Mix)
Matthew Dear - Dog Days
Lawrence - Gilbert
Jan Jelenik avec the Exposures - if's and's and but's
Akufen - The Unexpected Guest
Pantytec - You Are So '99
Cabanne - Dtc02
Rene Breitbarth - Aquaplanning
Decomposed Subsonic - Last Flight
Codebase - Seek & Destroy (Stewart Walker Mix)
Morane - Think Away
Gabriel Ananda - Schaulkeldren
The Aphorism - Warmer Regen

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:22 (twenty years ago)

i have put a micro(esque) mix up on my server if anyone wants to hear it. sorry for the lo fi ness but i wanted to keep the file size down. you can get it here

here's the tracklisting. er, it gets a bit cheesy towards the end. i can't help myself!

philippe cam - unicef christmas card (traum)
farben - beautone (klang)
hombre ojo - manejando un carrito (perlon)
the rip off artist - bear down (vertical form)
robag wruhme - worktabular (music krause)
sparky - autoconform (oscarr)
misc. - wireless (sender)
i wolf - fallin (lo soul mix) (klein)
jd twitch - the agony is the xtc (no label)
jd twitch - shapeshifters fill me with dread (no label)
cabaret voltaire - nag nag nag (akufen mix) (mute)
ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

― stirmonster, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago)

hmmm, there seems to be something up with the server. i'll try and fix it.

― stirmonster, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

why can't people just call it tech house?

― stomp (+dancefloor), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

'cos 'tech-house' brings me out in hives and sends me to zzzzzzzzzzzz.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago)

shapeshifters fill me with dread! haha!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

too hip 4 tech house

― stomp (+dancefloor), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Where the hell is all the love for baby ford and melchoir productions?

That double cd melchoir released is the shit maybe a little more house than micro but it is excellent!

I recently got a copy of the first Villalobos mix cd callled Love family Trax and that is quite sweet as well.

Not quite as poppy as some of the stuff listed above but surely worth some love.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago)

check my mix hector!

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

The new Losoul record on Playhouse sounds much more like "proper microhouse" than I expected it to be.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)

on sherburne's barkingspider mix, whats the very last track? from about 34mins in but not the doomy big panes of glass one that i assume is contriva vs superpitcher

― candour floss (mwah), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

just noticed this! did you get your server problems sorted out twitch?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i listened v briefly, but that new koivikko sounds super!!

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

i've got too much stuff on it tricky. i'll clear some stuff off and try re uploading. will report back.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

how is the new Losoul?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

when you get used to the vocals, it's pretty good.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I really liked that ubiquitous deep house track they had the name of which escapes me, was it called "Rise"?

I'm guessing the album's a bit less traditional than that? Still will have to check it out.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

just got a look at your mix tricky and it looks tasty.
Will update once I get a good listen.

I am starting to gravitate more towards this style as opposed to the Kompakt poppy oriended stuff. Its taken me ages to get into Speicher as well.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

ronan, i think the tune you're referring to is called "lies". i love the new losoul single (it's in my mix too).

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

ok, tht's the mix online. it's 26mb.

philippe cam - unicef christmas card (traum)
farben - beautone (klang)
hombre ojo - manejando un carrito (perlon)
the rip off artist - bear down (vertical form)
robag wruhme - worktabular (music krause)
the truffle club - autoconform (oscarr)
misc. - wireless (sender)
i wolf - fallin (lo soul mix) (klein)
jd twitch - the agony is the xtc (no label)
jd twitch - shapeshifters fill me with dread (no label)
cabaret voltaire - nag nag nag (akufen mix) (mute)
ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

your tracks are goth house!

great mix, i would love to have a better quality copy...the last track is inspired, especially the "moments in love" bit.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

once a goth, always a goth i guess. i could burn it onto cd and send you it if you like?

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago)

cool, i just sent you an email. don't you have something official coming out too?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

If anyone's looking for a sequel to "Dog Days", track down Rub's "Who Said That" (available on the new Music For Freaks mix) IMMEDIATELY. The following track on that, Eclat & Prudo's "Calafuria Uber Alles" is in the same vein and pretty grand also. But "Who Said This" is really awesome - so dense but so funky! Tricksy snare action ahoy!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

... Ha, turns out "Who Said That" is actually two years old, so I guess it's a prequel to "Dog Days".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago)

haha Tim I've been playing "Who Said That" to death at work recently. the vocal is so good!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

listening to Kompakt Total 3, liking the non vocal guitar parts on "Tomorrow"

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I listened to Total 3 again the other day and it was even better then I remembered. Best Kompakt CD ever, next to Immer, for me.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

so much of this stuff is unknown to me - downloaded the mixes (bless this 1-2meg work line...

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

60 minute mix (60mb). on the more bouncy end of the microhouse spectrum.

1. S.I. Futures - We Are Not A Rock Band (Buckfunk 3000 remix)
2. Human League - All I Ever Wanted (Alter Ego remix)
3. Depeche Mode - I Feel Love (Thomas Brinkmann remix)
4. John Tejada and Arian Leviste - Syntax Free
5. Auch - Tomorrow Goodbye (Ricardo Villalobos remix)
6. Akufen - Brown Hawaii
7. Geoff White and Sutekh - Delay 06
8. Thomas Brinkmann - Susi (2)
9. Hakan Lidbo - mitt/verkligheten
10. Thomas Fehlmann - Whistle
11. Sensual Physics - Staubfunk
12. M.R.I. - Nightclubbing At Home

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

the last tune in that mix is one of my favorites ever - the title alone is excellent. i like how this thread kind of turned into a bunch of mix sharing.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

ive linked this on some ohter thraed already but this live set here is prety good.

― :|, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Is there a full cd of stuff by the modernist that is worth getting? that track on the kolnkompakt1 cd, "apple electronics", does something really cool to my brain. i'm not sure what exactly, but it's sorta pleasant.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

"Kangmei" (from last year) is the better of the two Modernist LPs I have heard (the other one being "Explosion"). I'm counting on the Triola LP to be Burger's best full length yet, though.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

NB. Triola is more ambienty.

I love Kangmei but I think his tracks sound best as one-offs - "Abi '81", "All Around (Everybody's Kissing)", "Men of Many Sayings" and his remix of Kohncke's "Weiche Zaune" all literally jump out at you from the compilations they're on due to the sparkling, diamond-cut distinctiveness of his sound. Playing his tracks back to back undercuts that a bit.

The Modernista tracks are great too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago)

This is true, Tim! On that KolnKompakt cd, his track really exists in its own jarring universe.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Scott do you have the Total comps?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I have 3 & 4 & 5.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 October 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)

You'd probably also like "Retrospector" which Burger did as Modernista 90. It's the last track on Christian Sprenger's Schlank & Tief, which is about two thirds Kompakt-style aceness.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

There are beats on most of the Triola LP tracks. (Very much a driving record.) Nice to hear a new full-length ambient techno record with no relationship to Boards of Canada or indie rock.

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 2 October 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago)

More detals plz Andy!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Nice to hear a new full-length ambient techno record with no relationship to Boards of Canada or indie rock.

seconded!

has burger/ink's las vegas gotten any ilm-love? if not, it should. i would def. file it under "stuff by the modernist that is worth getting". also, the pop-up series he did with antonelli electr is worth checking. it's exactly what you'd expect from a collab between the two ie. light poppy impeccable trance techno. probably impossible to find on vinyl, but slsk-able. actually i just checked and the kompakt shop has them in stock.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 2 October 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

i really like what i've heard of las vegas. i've seen jess give it some love here.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 2 October 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago)

i love it too - but what's it got to do with the modernist (whoever that is?).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Burger half of Burger/Ink = J. Burger = Modernist. Las Vegas IS very excellent, "Twelve Miles High" especially. (Ink = Wolfgang Voigt.)

Triola LP: Some old tracks appear as they were before. Others (AG Penthouse in particular) remixed. Actually some of it reminds me of certain tracks from Las Vegas. No Modernist-style prickly stuff -- it's all smoothed out, tranquil and ultra-melodic.

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

ah ok cheers. [las vegas] really should have been on the 90's album poll list if there were any justice.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

(if anyone downloaded my mix before september 22, you may want to re-download. about 13 minutes in it was full of unintentional glitchy artifacts. i fixed it about 10 days ago, but i forgot to post about it here. thanks go to ned for reminding me. i will be putting a couple more mixes up soon.)

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

ive linked this on some ohter thraed already but this live set here is prety good.
― :|, Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:46 PM (

zvukbroda did some great stuff around this time, pity the link is dead

― saer, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:11 (ten years ago)

limewire will not serve you well for microhouse, I'm afraid.
― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:12 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Kettenkarussell (DJ duo Herr Koreander/Konstantin & Leafar Legov) have an album out on Giegling: "Easy Listening" - http://www.juno.co.uk/products/kettenkarussell-easy-listening/539827-01/

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