Electro-house bobbins 2005 Part 2

Anyone heard the lcd soundsystem - tribulations remixes yet? tiga and lindstrom?

Does anyone else think this year has been kind of odd, in that, for the wealth of really good tracks, there has been nothing near the amount of really big crossover type smash records. I just noticed this as I thought about sort of "emergency" records for playing at a friend's night last week, and there aren't many from this year!

"Zdarlight" is the first true "Drop The Pressure" style hit I think. Even if you look at Erol Alkan's sets, his "big" tunes are not the well known smashes they were last year.

can someone tell me if he is just taking the piss being so cheesy? He writes fat basslines that anyone can get into.. and then cheeses them up - Girls is the prime example.

Also of last year, Armand Van Helden's My My My.

But maybe i'm venturing more into pop which i guess proves your point Ronan.

and I don't know when exactly this came out, but Felix da Housecat's "Tweak" seems kinda disappointing.

Also Einmusik's "Jittery Heritage."

how come there is only one mention of 'candy girl' by quesh anywhere on ilx (by tim f, naturellement)? it's fucking amazing.

Maybe that sort of stuff isn't as big overseas as it is in Australia?? It is all huge over here (see also Bodyrockers etc.).

esp. the Scooter remix. Drumrolls! Blond dude going "YEAH!" once in awhile, E-chords. Genius.

I do like pretty much all the tranq ones but I absolutely love those 4 remixes.

Are Quesh at all like Bodyrockers?! Ew. That's not a connection I'd made at all, Bodyrockers are sleazy in a really boring, hetero, lads-mag kind of way whereas the sleaziness on 'Candy Girl' is more in the vein or Bobby O and Prince. Of course it's Bodyrockers who had the massive hit here and Quesh (who are they anyway? a person? a band?) who haven't.

See also - Paris Avenue's "I Want You", "Midas Touch", that track with the slightly high-pitched rapper ("what you gonna do, gonna fuck me up?" and "all the ladies in the block" are the bits that I can remember), and "I See Girls". All of which are better than Bodyrockers and not as good as Quesh.

Technically 2004 bobbins, but "broke-through" this year into the mainstream.

Various - Slam - Nightdrive
Label: Resist Music
Catalog#: RESISTCD54
Format: 2xCD , Mixed
Country: UK
Released: 10 Oct 2005

CD 1-01 Carl Craig Darkness
CD1-02 Luciano Octogonal
CD 1-03 Slam Genex
CD 1-04 Alex Smoke Don't See The Point
CD 1-05 Dominik Eulberg Rotbauchunken (Robag Wruhme's Bombina Bumm Remix)
    Remix - Robag Wruhme
CD 1-06 Nathan Fake Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg Dinamo Remix)
    Remix - Dominik Eulberg
CD 1-07 Slam This World (Accapella)
    Featuring - Tyrone Palmer
CD 1-08 Luci Mullet Is In The House
CD 1-09 Robert Drewek vs. Tomie Nevada Done In Two Days
CD 1-10 Marc Houle Demor
CD 1-11 Slam KIll The Pain (Marc Houle Vocal Mix)
    Remix - Marc Houle
CD 1-12 Slam KIll The Pain (Accapella)
CD 1-13 Guido Schneider and Andre Galuzzi Survivor
CD 1-14 Dub Kult On And On
CD 1-15 Perc Splashy
CD 1-16 Marc O'Tool Gear 1
CD 1-17 Mathias Schaffhäuser Coincedence (Trentemøller Remix)
    Remix - Trentemøller
CD 1-18 John Spring Strange (John Spring's 2005 Revision)
CD 1-19 Lee Van Dowski & Tsack Asem
CD 1-20 Black Strobe Nazi Trance Fuck Off (James Holden Remix)
    Remix - James Holden
CD 2-01 Mathew Jonson Gemini
CD 2-02 Model 500 Electronic
CD 2-03 ADJD Audio Mechanic
CD 2-04 John Dahlbäck & Staffan Linzatti Outside
CD 2-05 Slam Human (Vector Lovers Remix)
    Remix - Vector Lovers
CD 2-06 Hacker, The & Millimetric & David Carretta Moskow Reise (Original Version)
CD 2-07 Misc. Ballett
CD 2-08 Roman Flügel Geht's Noch? (Steve Angello vs. Who's Who Mix)
    Remix - Steve Angello , Who's Who?
CD 2-09 SaD MaFioSo Ce Que tu Cherches
CD 2-10 Hiroki Esashika Kazane
CD 2-11 Vector Lovers Suicide Android
CD 2-12 Matt Tolfrey & Craig Sylvester The Horn
CD 2-13 Funk D'Void & Phil Kieran Black Worm
CD 2-14 Adam Beyer & Henrik B The Conversation A
CD 2-15 Basteroid Rabimmel

Why would you use the "This World" a capella? Then again I guess they'd have to like it!

Funk D'Void is actually quite a funny chap, whenever I am ordering stuff from Word and Sound, every fucking release has

Lars Sandberg (Funk D'Void): "This is great, will play this at every gig."

Lars Sandberg (Funk D'Void): "Brilliant, my wife loves it, come and have a freshly baked scone"

Lars Sandberg (Funk D'Void) "Magnificent, loving the acid breakdown, did I ever tell you what a great golfer I am???"

Everybody is starting to use the same tracks on these mixcd, aren't they?

Yes, I felt the same way with the Eulberg, and even for Superpitcher's "Today" intially. I chalk up the problem as 1) we are all clued-in nerds and 2) 12" releases are much easily heard now thanks to slsk, recommendation threads like this, and better distribution outside Europe. 3) the popularity and visibility of the whole electro/micro scene has increased each year of this decade.

I mean, I remember buying those Kompakt and Perlon mixes back in 2002 or whatnot and everything was new to me. I couldn't find (or afford) most of the original vinyl releases anywhere in the U.S. Now I feel like a snob for wanting more obscure tracklistings.

I bet these mixes will look great in 2016 when we are having Electro Bobbin nostalgia, though. It will be easy to point to someone and say, "get this, it has all the hits."

Other tracks that have been getting multiple mix cd love, only counting this year:

Andre Kraml's "Safari (Holden Mix)" : 4 times
Slam's "This World" : 10 times
Steve Barnes "Cosmic Sandwich" : 4 times
Trentemoller - "Physical Fraction" & "Polar Shift" : 3 apiece
Dub Kult - "On And On (Guido Schneider's "On And On" Remix)" : 7 times (9 if we count the 2 ilxor mixes that have included it!)
Michael Mayer "Lovefood" : 4 times
Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighnomy's Polarzipper Remix): 4 times
Wighnomy Brothers - "Pele Bloss" : 5 times

I think Body Language will be the 2016 Bobbins Revival POX favourite.

Yeah, that or Fleucht und Kreucht (or maybe that one will be seen as the "yeah that's when the bobbins went into neotrance', actually isn't it time for a revival?" mix

Michael, yeah I think you're right esp the Bobbins threads together w/ SLSK has been amazing in that respect...ah remember when ah was a young fellow all tracks on the dance floor were unknown. These days it's "oh how predicatble 'I Feel Space' again" (even when you actually hear it for the first time in a club.) Yep, the 21st century.

I still think the music is great but the vocals annoy me so much. The hate for that track is addictive actually: I didn't mind the vocals at all initially, and then someone (probably here) said they were really annoying and ever since I haven't been able to hear them as anything other than really fucking annoying.

"Yeah, that or Fleucht und Kreucht (or maybe that one will be seen as the "yeah that's when the bobbins went into neotrance', actually isn't it time for a revival?" mix"

I love the Eulberg mix, but I reckon as a "Where Were You in 2005" retrospective Body Language packs more punch because a) it's tighter, b) it's more varied, and c) it covers all the necessary bases:

- the tail-end of 2004 electro-house anthemism with "Issst"
- a space-disco detour incl. "I Feel Space"
- Holden-style wipe-out
- Swag-meets-Perlon percussive house
- Mathew Jonson "deep chord" swirls
- "Mandarine Girl" as the track that tries to touch on all of these simultaneously

That said, the run of the first four tracks on the second disc of Kreucht & Fleucht feels kinda epochal to me - very "This is Ketamine House!"

What is the best kind of electrohouse singing? Some things seem to work better than others.

I'm probably alone on this but I like Chikinki for electrohouse. Also obviously that sort of F242/Ebb "YOU.WILL.DANCE.OR.DIE" thing Black Strobe do is quite effective. Also Ellen Alliens Sad Robot Queen vocals. Which neatly brings me to: You Body Is My Body (Kiki's Body Trip remix). Massive.

Aha! Suddenly I realize which track this is. :) It's the combination and as Tim says it starts to grate after awhile (also because it's everyfuckinwhere). But it isn't the theme because Lopazz 'Blood' sort of does the same thing and is amazing (esp. the Tiefschwarz rmx blabla buy DJ Hell's Acid Rocks while you're at it.)

An aside: I saw the phrase "dramaminimal" on the Villalobos Fabric thread. Why not "ketaminimal"? It trips off the tongue so sweet.

"A man lashes out in anger, so caught up in his own beliefs"

(Possibly) a Black Strobe mix album?

Saw it in, of all places, the local Best Buy today, among the ancient Crystal Method albums and THIS IS TRANCE 1998/NO THIS IS TRANCE 1998 YOU LYING FUCKER/etc. triple-CDs. The terrible packaging had me thinking it was another generic lifestyle-y compilation until I saw, well, "BLACK STROBE." Hopefully it's a real mix album and not just a selector-type comp. The tracklist:

1. Black Strobe - Intro
2. Solid Groove - This Is Sick
3. Martini Bros - Darkroom
4. Hell - Jack Your Body
5. Front 242 - Operating Tracks (Instro)
6. Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
7. DS - Like It, Like That
8. Sun God - Return 2 Saturn
9. Midfield General - Error Dub
10. Basteroid - Schicking Data Per Post
11. Bastards of Love - Wheel of Passion
12. The Customers - Furious Sail Away
13. / Boys Noize - Volta82
14. Trentemoller - Beta Boy
15. Mickey Oliver - Intensity
16. Black Strobe - Abwehr Disco
17. Huntemann - 50.1
18. Black Strobe - Deceive/Play

The other side is a DVD hosted by Smagghe & Rebotini, covering Paris' "underground hot spots." Uh...okay.

Anyone? According to Amazon, the next two are Damian Lazarus' London (yay!) and Fischerspooner's New York (*gulp*).

"The Other Side: London" is mixed by Crosstown Rebel Damian Lazarus and is more of a Back to Mine-ish style comp. Probably the only CD to have The Magic Numbers, Ada, Boom Bip, and Shriekback together.

"The Other Side: New York" is mixed by Fischerspooner and is rather style hopping. It's got Princess Superstar, Fiery Furnaces, Model 500, Broadcast, Au Pairs, and Richard Bartz rubbing heads.

Chelonis - I don't think there is a US release date

They had distro for Booka Shade, 2nd Anniversary and Body Language...it would be disappointing if the same weren't true for chelonis! And chelonis IS american!

I got in touch w someone from the label and they said an American release is planned for the Chelonis album in early '06

OMG IS COZEN JESSE SOMFAY?!?!?!?

carry on.

i love all the backing tracks - classic dahlback electro, arpeggiated synth stuff (with some 303 too) - but a the vocals are driving me crazy. and oh man the cheesy lyrics! then there's the guitars... bordering on goth-rock at times. ouch.

I will hand-deliver a CD with all the tracks on that list as well. I'll even put it in your stereo for you, you don't even have to get up.

digitalism-zdarlight
booka shade-mandarine girl
mandy vs booka shade-body language
williams-piccadilly circuits
mathias schafhauser-coincidence (trentemoller mix)
duoteque-drug queeen
matt tolfrey and craig sylvester-the horn
white rose movement-love is a number (black strobe mix)
freeform five-electromagnetic (tiefschwarz dub)
the juan maclean-give me every little thing (putsch 79 mix)
jennygoesdirty-amoreux solitaires
turntable rocker-i thought you were dead (tomboy mix)

I prefer the trentemoeller royksopp remix to coincidence by heaps.

thanks for a few of those tips - i love tomboy but don't know that track and same goes for the blackstrobe.

John Tejada - Paranoia
Trentemoller - Sunstroke
Solieb - Circus Maximus
Jesse Somfay - For One Brief Moment I Was There
Gui Boratto - Arquipelago
Solid Groove - This Is Sick

And yeah Anka I know what you mean about the Royksopp Trentemoller one, I guess I just wanted to point out one of his lesser known mixes, since I'd already started a thread about the Royksopp one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/essentialmix/tracklistings.shtml?focuswin

Also slept on, at least as far as I've seen, is Dominik Eulberg's remix of Oliver Kozetski, on Cocoon, back in July I think. Brilliant rocky tech house.

Oh yes! "Smoking Kills(?)" is terrific!

just checking out samples of the new Get Physical, by Elektrochemie, on Juno's website. It's very good

I don't know how prominent they are in the samples, but I wasn't very taken with the vocals on that record. Beware... I prefer other Thomas Schumacher tracks.

Vernis - Bubble Bath (Trentemöller Mix)
Tjark - New Days (Super Flu Mix)
most everything by cousins Dahlbäck (esp. Glasshouses EP, Stacy Stiff... and jesper's rock departure DFA 1979 and Tiga mixes. (I find the Chelonis one just too gay, but i guess that's the point))
Tahiti 80 - Big Day (Booka Shade Mix) massive
Tomas Barfod - Neon Strobe & his Malou - Wordplay remix
Tomas Andersson / Thunderpants and Andersson's mix of Trick & Kubric - Orbital Dance Machine
Patrick Chardronnet's recent Eve By Day and stuff with Afrilounge
Sebastian's mixes of Daft Punk and Revlon 9
Digitalism's mixes of Daft Punk, Munk, Tom Vek

and swede huge house turning electro:
By Now - For Sale
Goldfrapp - Number 1 (Steve Angello Mix)
recent Cirez D & Pryda are a long way from Call On Me eh?
uh, i really like Tony Senghore's Lady Sovereign mixes too.
i like the trend (i think. minimal taking ibiza. 'body language' track of the year? this is good, right?)

although i wouldn't know if any of the preceding are or will be hits, i live in a small town in the U.S., but i can hope they're successful enough to result in more and influence more quality dancing-minded musics.

does anyone else wish the madonna album sounded like the Stuart Price mixes of Needy Girl and What Else Is There?

i posted boots using Rej, Bubble Bath 'n others in the ysi thread, btw.

what else to say... this thread is the dog's balls

I love the original - must hear!

playing here:
gui boratto - arquipelago
dj koze - the gekloeppel continues
trentemoller - polar shift
telegraph - saved at sunset (o'mandy!)
jesse somfay - for one brief moment..

Freeform five - No more conversations (alter ego remix)

Also feeling the new Trapez thing, even if it is fucking insane, weird ass vocal. The feel of it is kind of Carter/Freaks I guess! Oh no what have I said!

I shit on the first 2,5 minutes of this thing, the rest is amazing though, sort of elctro bobbins Deep Purple.

I love the intro to that Black Strobe mix, partly cos it does get a bit of a wtf from the kids at our night with their smiling e faces, then it kind of kicks in and they're like "oh no!"

x post.

would love to hear that holden mix. is it out?

is that a new Holden mix of Massive Attack Tim?

Misc. should do more remixes for pop groups, it gives them bigger and better hooks around which to build their slaughteration.

it's made by people i know, so i wonder what you think

I love it! :) puts me back in the 80s only not.

Jesse Somfay and Anders Ilar full-lengths - hadn't read much on these, but both are pretty good (Ilar is actually very very good, if minimal is your thing)

Benno Blome - Transmitter (good electro-house, very minimal, sleek)

can anyone tell me about these:
Anders Ilar - Sand Ep
Kontrast - Stammtisch der Verzueiflung
Pom Pom 22
the Ferdinand Fehlers 12-inch
Padded Cell - Signal Failure

The Somfaty is nice but hard to listen all the way through. He's so unabashedly sentimental! I'd say his non-Traum stuff leans heavily on the prog-house side, so maybe that's why it hasn't gotten much discussion?

The Anders Ilar full length from this year is just a compilation of his two Audio.NL eps from last year I believe? He also had a couple EPs on Defrag and Narita this year too. None of his recent releases have shook me heavily as his Shitkatapult album Everdom which would I rate as one the best "Micro-goth" full lengths out there.

Kontrast is Justus Kohncke & ex-Closer Musik member Dirk Leyers. Haven't heard the 12" yet.

im afraid nobody knows anything about pom pom! check out his / her / their earlier releases, especially pom pom 3 through 8, its solid gold (although not really what i would call electro house)

This is pretty great, especially the remix. minimal, drugged out electro house

i don't know what i love about this track, but it's ace.

There were a few MONSTER tracks they dropped - one with a really wobbly bassline and one that was menacing in a similar way to Frank Martiniq - A Boost (Misc Remix).

If anyone has an idea of what these could be, please tell me!

Electro-house bobbins 2006

LOL at ILM-ers (including me) listening to electrohouse back then. How many of you feel that electrohouse is one of the most embarassing musical phases of your life?

why?

no way - some of the records mentioned on this thread are among my favourite music of the decade...

don't think anyone will be too ashamed, i'm not on this thread but i would probably still like the electrohouse stuff i repped for on other bobbins thread and I was never really big in to it. One thing which hasn't aged well is Booka Shade albums, Movements has about 2 good tracks on it.

ha, proved right before i even posted!

altho i guess this thread is really charting that period when balls-out electrohouse was blending into weirder/druggier k-house/mnml stuff, which was the stuff i was really into.

actually rereading this thread so much of this stuff is unimpeachable imo!

yeah there's a lot of different styles represented on this thread ... it's funny to see black strobe and cosmic sandwich on the same thread with ada and mylo

well, my mistake for not reading the thread before I stated that. i thought this thread is filled with that other kind of electrohouse.

what kind was that?

I wonder to what extent it was the rise of "minimal" as a popular term for a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread (from late 2005? Loco Dice's "Minimal Explosion" mix for Mixmag is perhaps the key moment here) that contributed to the decoupling effect which drove the remaining electro-house into much more commercial, blunt territory.

Interesting that throughought early (and perhaps all of) 2005 "black strobe and cosmic sandwich on the same thread with ada and mylo" made sense in a way it wouldn't have even a year later.

that slam mix is still great

well, stuff like john dahlback, mstrkrft, angello/ingrosso, chris lake, etc. and to stretch it a bit, ed banger/kitsune.

yeah, that stuff is bad. except steve angello, who is grate when he's doing stuff like his geht's noch mix.

the most embarrassing thing on this thread is tim saying he only kinda loves "pele bloss". i mean, what the fuck, man.

...also, Juan Atkins will have nice pension. ;) He's everywhere these days. Probably rightly so, he's the original electro-house bobbins in a way.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:11 (3 years ago)

haha, lordy

Ha, I retreated from saying that I "love it to death" - now I can't even remember what it sounds like offhand.

just skimming the thread, lots of this stuff was really good in retrospect. it seems a shame that it did de-couple like it did.

remember when kitsune was a house label?!?

actually rereading this thread so much of this stuff is unimpeachable imo!

― jesus is the man (jabba hands), Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

otm!

now I can't even remember what it sounds like offhand

it sounds like a laser of black light erasing your brains!

the death strobe from the other side of the universe

by the way, what's the general ILM take on "geht's noch"?

irritatingly great or greatly irritating, depending on my state of mind.

well, my mistake for not reading the thread before I stated that. i thought this thread is filled with that other kind of electrohouse.

like with minimal, people seize on the ultra commercial dying embers of a genre as a way to act like there was never anything of worth in the genre to begin with. and like with minimal, the term "electrohouse" was a vague description of a huge amount of varied types of music often at odds with each other. people actually forget that electrohouse in its prime actually included huge amounts of german tech...and act as if it was always eric prydz...

i mean if you make a list: "people who made/played electrohouse" you've got some fairly seasoned artists throughout