mri and luomo - where do I go from there for disco-dub-house?

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Where should I go to find more stuff like this? - I'm thinking dancefloor-oriented micro/tech/whatever house with a really warm dub edge, and perhaps a little bit of disco in there.

Prime examples: Luomo- 'Tessio' ; MRI - 'Tied To the 80s'etc ; Junkie Sartre and Hexaquart - pretty much anything ; Billy Dalessandro - 'Free Spirit'; a lot of The Modernist material; most D Diggler releases; ANtonelli ELectr. - 'DUb DIsco' (obviously enough); Botella and Berardi; or indeed anything with a Rhythm and Sound/Basic Channel x French filter disco thang goin' on (for want of a more precise equation)

Tho' I like the contemplative stuff coming out of Germany nd elsewhere, I'm really disappointed as so many tech/micro house associated acts, after one or two dancefloor outings seem to veer towards the home-listening, glitchy kind of thing. All good, but what about the uptempo ,blissful, transcendent side of 21st century dub-house? Where exactly is the production line/ historical lineage here, as opposed to the one-off dancefloor smashes?

― dubaholic, Saturday, 2 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The MicroHouse Thread
Sasha
Michael Mayer - "Immer"
MRI - All That Glitters
Kompakt: Search und Destroy

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 2 November 2002 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

luomo is awesome...

but i don't think of it as very dub, and I thught MRI "all that glitters"
was a bit too smooth or polished, or.... dunno , a little heartless..

not dub but I like it lately, Safety Scissors - parts Water

― dsico (dsico), Monday, 4 November 2002 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The New Swayzak record is very good and broadly in this vein, I believe.

― Clarke B., Monday, 4 November 2002 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

ACTUAL dub house = 'Never Tell You' by Rhythm & Sound ft Tikiman

also Rockers Hi Fi's 'Push Push' and even Gary Clail's 'Human Nature' - oh and there's always The Orb's first two albums of course

― blueski, Monday, 4 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dubaholic, hie the hence to Poker Flat Recordings, specifically their Volume II compilation, and extra specifically anything by Jeff Bennet - the absolute apotheosis of this style.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 November 2002 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the markus nikolai album, while not really "dub", is fantastic, and very much uptempo, blissful, transcendent.

― ch. (synkro), Monday, 4 November 2002 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a complete neophyte here so this might be an obvious or wrong suggestion but have you tried the Digital Disco compilation? The MRI and Luomo tracks are fantastic and the rest sounds very much like what you're after. There is a dub association here, though it may be very subjective, both forms are stretching and tweaking an established genre to find the gaps and rhythms you'd never heard before. And also both at their worst are lazy stoner bollocks.

Luomo's a genius, I only recently got Vocalcity and it's astonishing, soulful house like you've never heard before. The vocals and bass are superficially pure old-school ("Are you Frankie Knuckles in disguise?") and there are few new sounds in between, but he turns it into something else entirely. You might still be able to get "The Present Lover" on gabba, and you really, really should.

Distraction 1:
I've got a sudden urge to listen to Electribe 101. Is this relevant?

Distraction 2:
I was listening to one of Guerilla's Dub House Disco series on the way home today. This isn't relevant, it's ancient proto-prog that I've got a bit of nostalgic affection for.

― Mike (mratford), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Distraction 1:
I've got a sudden urge to listen to Electribe 101. Is this relevant?

No, it wasn't, but very enjoyable.

― Mike (mratford), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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