DJ Hell:ElectronicBody HouseMusic

ronan, have you got the luike slater double cd mix thingy? any good?

i love that. can i use it?

have a look at www.dangerhere.com

I see The New Preskriptions Of Dr.Lektroluv is getting a UK release soon. That's great too, tho' you'll probably have a few of the tracks already.

Link to tracklist for Futurism 2 please?

Shit it's actually not a bad tracklist! Still couldn't be arsed really, it's a green box in case you were wondering, GREEN!

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(not that this is so bad, but it's odd how our tastes change...)

I had some sort of minimal stuff quite early I think!

I think it was when it was called microhouse. Something like 'why would i listen to microhouse when I could listen to house?' Which is mostly pretty reasonable.

Yeah it's odd how things have changed/not changed - 2002 was the high-water mark of both microhouse and electroclash, and all that's really happened since then is that all the sonic influences have slopped back and forth like water in a bucket - so now you get the same sonic influences in a different configuration (although things are more continuous and less extreme - definitely less rockish at the electro end).

I'd argue that things have got more rockish on the electro end! We have the endless Justice/Erol/Simian indie remix crap now! This stuff seems to have much more of a rocky(or maybe more accurately indie)attitude than electroclash ever did, even down to the people consuming it and the way they dance.

I suspect in London, maybe NY, that indie rock dance thing still thrives but over here anyone I know who likes indie definitely does not like Erol Alkan or Justice.

I find it weird playing at our night, I am always conscious that we started off an electroclash, slightly eclectic type night, but the good tunes now are so much more track type things than the string of anthems you had in 2004, there are still anthems but it's much more subtle, I sometimes worry this will scare people away but I think maybe dance music has got popular enough again that people are back in a loop of going out every week and so they're more predisposed to the return of harsher weirder noises and less rock influence.

We recently moved to a different venue with a better soundsystem and it's a relief cos seemingly more technoey and minimal stuff actually works there unlike our old place where it'd be like you were warming up if you played Gui Boratto. I still play some Digitalism stuff, Linus Loves occasionally does something good, but all the other really big stuff is this ultra catchy techno and then I guess the more electroey minimal stuff.

I do think the whole rockdance punkfunk thing is pretty dead in its nouveau form but then I never really respected that anyway, apart from one or two acts.

Our Disco also seems home to this sort of stuff, as well as playing out old dance classics (I heard Rez there last time. Sounded ace!)

Anyway, the DJ Hell comp is still ace. I didn't get a copy till the end of last year. Sounds mostly fresh to me.

I guess the others might play it though. I don't get it myself, it just seems like halfway to everything.

x-post makes sense

I think the halfwayness of this stuff is what appeals to a lot of people - c.f. its popularity with student DJs (Jamie's point about midrange and shitty soundsystems probably comes in there too).

Vahid, is this the thread where you tell me exactly what "boompty" means? I'm pretty sure I know, but only by reverse engineering from its contextual surrounds.