here is what i have been doing instead of posting to ilm: CDR700: 1996 (in the grand patrin tradition)

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basically i started this to convince myself that (1985 excepted) 1996 WASN'T the worst year for popular music in the last 20 years. i think i did.

CDR700: 1996

Ghostface Killah – “All I Got Is You”
De La Soul – “Stakes Is High”
Xzibit – “Paparazzi”
Redman – “Funkorama”
Nas – “If I Ruled The World”
Peshay – “On The Nile”
Dave Wallace – “Expressions”
Hidden Agenda – “Pressin’ On”
Goldie – “This Is A Bad (Source Direct Remix)”
Rome – “Intermodal”
Gastr Del Sol – “Our Exquisite Replica of ‘Eternity’”
Tortoise – “Bubble Economy (Oval Remix)”
Mouse On Mars – “Subnububus”
Ice Vs. Palace – “More Brother (Inbred Version)”
Tricky – “Tricky Kid”
Rage Against The Machine – “Bulls On Parade”
DJ Shadow – “Hardcore Instrumental Hip-Hop”
Jay-Z feat. Foxy Brown – “Ain’t No Nigga”
Fugees – “Killing Me Softly”
Ghostface Killah feat. Raekwon – “Motherless Child”
Dr. Octagon – “Blue Flowers”
Nearly God – “Poems”
Tortoise – “Djed (UNKLE Remix)”
Plug – “Tuf Rinse”
Fatboy Slim – “Punk To Funk”
Akinyele – “Put It In Your Mouth”
Kool G Rap & MOP – “Stick To Ya Gunz”
Westside Connection – “Bow Down”
Company Flow – “8 Steps To Perfection”
Ed Rush/Trace/Nico – “Mad Different Methods”
Ed Rush – “The Raven”
Third Eye Foundation – “Still Life”
Mogwai – “Ithica 27-9”
Palace – “Kid of Harith”
Flying Saucer Attack – “Sally Free & Easy”
Labradford – “Midrange”
Maurizio – “M#6”
I-Cube – “Disco Cubizm (Daft Punk Remix)”
Splash – “Babylon (Dillinja Remix)”
Swift – “Just Roll”
Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat BIG – “Get Money (Remix)”
Jay-Z – “Can’t Knock The Hustle”
Jeru Tha Damaja – “Me Or The Papes (Dillinja Remix)”
Aphrodite – “Tower of Bass”
Jeru Tha Damaja – “Ya Playin Ya’self”
GZA – “Shadowboxin”
Goodie Mob – “Cell Therapy”
Shy FX – “The Wolf”
Origin Unknown – “Truly One”
DJ Krust – “Angles”
Ghostface Killah – “Daytona 500”
Company Flow – “Vital Nerve”
Ed Rush – “Mothership”
Trace – “Squadron”
Rhythm & Sound – “Never Tell You”
Resilient – “1.2”
Porter Ricks – “Redundance 5”
Jawbox – “Desert Sea”
Monorchid – “Southern Fried Wonton”
MOP – “Welcome To Brownsville”
Ghostface Killah – “Wildflower”
Jay-Z – “Dead Presidents”
Coolio – “Gangsta’s Paradise”
Omni Trio – “Trippin’ On Broken Beats”
Tortoise – “Galapagos (Spring Heel Jack Remix)”
Stereolab – “Metronomic Underground”
Ectomorph – “Telekinesis”
Codename John – “The Warning”
Commander Tom – “Am Are Eye?”
Inferno Brothers – “Slaves To The Rave”
Alec Empire – “King of the Streets”
Fugees – “Ready Or Not (DJ Hype Remix)”
Alex Reese – “Jazzmaster (Kruder & Dorfmeister Dub)”
Pet Shop Boys – “Se A Vida E”
Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony – “Tha Crossroads”
Smashing Pumpkins – “1979”
Pulp – “Disco 2000”
Spice Girls – “Wannabe”
Weezer – “El Scorcho”
DJ Kool – “Let Me Clear My Throat”
Redman – “It’s Like That (My Big Brother)”
Chemical Brothers – “Loops of Fury”
Ghostface Killah – “Winter Warz”
Ed Rush – “Guncheck”
Luniz – “I Got 5 On It”
Busta Rhymes – “Woo-Hah!! (Got You All In Check)”
DJ Zinc – “Super Sharp Shooter”
Motorbass – “Ezio (Herbert Remix)”
Faze Action – “In The Trees”
Monolake – “Lantau”
Tortoise – “Glass Museum”
Cardigans – “Lovefool”
Boards of Canada – “Iced Cooly”
Orbital – “The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair”
Everything But The Girl – “Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)”
Tori Amos – “Professional Widow (Armand’s Star Funkin’ Trunk Mix)”
LL Cool J – “Doin It”
M.O.P. – “Dead And Gone”
Mobb Deep – “Drop a Gem On ‘Em”
East Flatbush Project – “Tried By Twelve”
Dom & Roland – “The Planets”
Photek – “The Hidden Camera”
Swans – “Helpless Child”
Lungfish – “To Whom You Were Born”
Unwound – “Unauthorized Autobiography”
Boymerang – “Still”
Nasty Habits – “Shadow Boxing”
Prodigy – “Firestarter”
Daft Punk – “Muzique”
Ginuwine – “Pony”
Tupac & Dr. Dre – “California Love”
Chemical Brothers – “Setting Sun”
Adam F – “Metropolis”
Outkast – “Elevators (Me and You)”
Quad City DJs – “C’mon and Ride It (The Train)”
Aphex Twin – “Girl/Boy Song”
St. Germaine – “Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Vocal and Dub Mixes)”
Blackstreet – “No Diggity”

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(next up, 1985)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Boymerang was '97 i thought, tho you're probably right (it's only my favourite techstep track ever so why should i know eh?)

i thought 'Girl/Boy Song' was '93/'94 (?!)

frankly a fantastic CD-R anyway and can i pleeeease have a copy?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

along with 'Kish Kash' ;)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

there are probably at least 15 tracks that could be either 95 or 97. it's really hard to match them up!

can't do any trades right now (lack of money and too many outstanding trade debts) but steve if yr on slsk, i have most of them (soon the rest) in a folder marked "1996"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(heh, i won't have my copy of kish kash until the middle of september.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

additonal faves of mine from that year:

Alcatrazz - Gimme Luv
Carl Cox - Phoebus Apollo
Carl Cox - The Player
The Bucketheads - Come And Be Gone
Basement Jaxx - Be Free
Summer Daze - Samba Magic
Adam F - Circles
Peanut Planet - Awakenings
Todd terry - Jumpin' (Rhythm Masters Pumpin' Mix)
Strect n' Vern - I'm Alive
Lisa May - The Curse Of Voodoo Ray
Faithless - Insomnia (Armand Van Helden mix)
Faithless - Salva Mea
Underworld - Born Slipp (Darren Price mix)
Underworld - Rowla
Underworld - Pearl's Girl
CJ Bolland - The Prophet
Alex Reece - Out Of Time
? - bootleg of Frankie Knuckles/Satoshi Tomiie/Robert Owens 'Tears' over Armand's remix of CJ Bolland's 'Sugar Is Sweeter'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

also...

808 State ft Louise Rhodes - Azura (either the original or the Dillinjah mix)
A Tribe Called Quest ft Faith Evans - 1nce Again
Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew
Addis Black Widow - Innocent (so naff it's good)
The Aloof - One Night Stand (Ashley Beedle mix)
Apollo 440 - Krupa
Armand Van Helden - The Funk Phenomenon
Beck - Devil's Haircut
The Beloved - Satellite
The Beloved - Ease The Pressure
Bjork - Hyperballad
Black Grape - Fatneck (Goldie mix)
Blackstreet ft Dr Dre - No Diggity
Blame & Justice - Planet Neptune
Brandy - Sittin' Up In My room
BT ft Tori Amos - Blue Skies (Delphinium Days mix)
Chemical Brothers - Buzz Tracks
D.O.S.E. ft Mark E Smith - Plug Myself In
Dave Clarke - Southside
Dave Morales & Bad Yard Club ft Crystal Waters - In De Ghetto
De La Soul - Stakes Is High
Deep Dish - Stay Gold
DJ Q - We Are One
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
DJ Supreme - Wildstyle
Echobelly - Dark Therapy
Ed Rush - Subway
Electronic - Forbidden City
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
Farley & Heller - Ultra Flava
Fluke - Atom Bomb
Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks
Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom
Gabrielle - Forget About The World (Daft Punk mix)
Galliano - Slack Hands
Genaside II - Narra Mine (Armand/Wu-Tang remixes)
Global Communication - The Way
H20 ft Billie - Nobody's Business
Hidden Agenda - Pressin' On
Huff & Puff - Help Me Make It
Lamb - God Bless
Leftfield ft Earl 16 - Release The Pressure (single mix)
Lifeforce - Kimana Tana
Lil Mo Yin Yang - Reach (Basement Jaxx mix)
Lionrock - Fire Up The Shoesaw
Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
Mark The 909 King - can U Dig It
Mask - Dictation
MC Det - Freeform Reality
Mighty Dub Katz - Just Another Groove
Moby - Bring Back My Happiness
Moloko - Dominoid
Mood II Swing - I See You Dancing
Nikita Warren - I Need You (Basement Jaxx mix)
No Doubt - Just A Girl (what can I say, it spoke to me)
Nu Yorican Soul - Mind Fluid
Pharcyde - Drop/Runnin'
Poltergeist - Vicious Circles
Propellerheads - Big Dog
Ricky Rouge - Song For Everyman
Rollo Goes Spiritual - Let This Be A Prayer
Rufige Kru - T3/Dark Metal
Salt Tank - Eugina
Space - Female Of The Species
Subliminal Cuts - Le Voie Le Soleil
Technohead - I Wanna Be A Hippy
Trancesetters - The Search
Tricky - Christiansands
Way out West - Domination

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I'm about half finished with 1997!

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

This list makes 1996 sound much more exciting than I remember it being. That, and poor Coming Up is hella-underrated by ILM but then I feel a bit Calumesque.

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

great list! 1996 was a great year for music that i loved initially but that didn't really hold up, but there's a ton of gems in there. c'mon, how bad can a year be that has Shadowboxing (GZA's) and Firestarter AND C'mon Ride It (The Train)!

I'd add
Future Sound of London- "We Have Explosive"
Snoop Dogg- "Snoop's Upside Your Head"

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what's yr username on slsk jess?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 28 August 2003 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I'd add

Belle & Sebastian - The State I Am In
Barefoot Contessa - Something Over Me
Disco Inferno - Can't See Through It
Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
Robert Forster - Loneliness

but I don't expect you would.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 28 August 2003 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed Rush – “The Raven”
Third Eye Foundation – “Still Life”
Mogwai – “Ithica 27-9”
Palace – “Kid of Harith”
Flying Saucer Attack – “Sally Free & Easy”
Labradford – “Midrange”
Maurizio – “M#6”

and

M.O.P. – “Dead And Gone”
Mobb Deep – “Drop a Gem On ‘Em”
East Flatbush Project – “Tried By Twelve”
Dom & Roland – “The Planets”
Photek – “The Hidden Camera”
Swans – “Helpless Child”
Lungfish – “To Whom You Were Born”
Unwound – “Unauthorized Autobiography”
Boymerang – “Still

...look ninesix through and through, you forget how cohesive the whole goth aesthetic of that year was - great mix strongo, but i reckon you're eightfive tape'll be even better. you can create the aesthetic yrself seeing as you weren't around to catch the canon.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

'97 would be good. Matos.

also 1998, if anyone's up for that. The late 90s are a bit of a blur for me. About all I can remember from '98 is ... *cowers* ... big beat

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

big beat was often wonderful. i've been thinking about doing '98 actually

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 28 August 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

revive for the love it deserves.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i like jess's 96 better than matos's 97. no offence, mr. matos. it isn't entirely your fault.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

[[bursts out sobbing]]

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

find me some will oldham dub from 97 and i just might reconsider

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow this is really good. ANd also helps further my "What year did any of this come out?" confusion. Didn't "Common People" come out in 1996? Or was that 1995? Or 1997? Maybe it didn't come out at all. Gah.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

95 UK. 96 US

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

OOH! I HAVE WON SOMETHING FINALLY!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm confused. Can't people listen to music and post at the same time?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Huff & Puff - Help Me Make It

Well chosen stevem, one of the classiest track ever to hit the top 40.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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