dance album of the year (non-techno/drumnbass/hardcore/speed garage edition)

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

'the little ginger club kid' by tim deluxe.

selves ?

― piscesboy, Friday, 7 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

oh dear oh dear, basement jaxx or richard x i guess.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

with an honorable mention to audio bullys

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

great year for dance music

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

poor year for house, very poor but then it's a very mix and match year singles wise

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

across the board

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

poor year for BRITISH and AMERICAN house maybe...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

BUT WHAT OTHER NATION MAKES HOUSE MUSIC!!!!!????!!!????!!!!????

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

je suis déçu

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

that combostars record is obscene dude, I'm just listening to it now, it's ridiculous!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

germans finns, french, italians, australians... were you joking ronan?

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

er.........

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course it's good, my recommendations are always mint. < /conceited bastard >

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

indeed.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

there wasn't a *big* crossover house-y album all year am i right ?

what's happened ?

there'll be a f*ck off huge house revival suddenly in about 6 years where people will look back and be in *disbelief* that house took a simultaneous quality/crossover-potential nosedive. it'll be like when it suddenly dawned on everyone that disco was the best music ever.

come on house !!

― piscesboy, Friday, 7 November 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

god that sounds like the best thing ever

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

the quality of French house/disco over the last 18 months has been excellent and rivals the '97-'99 first wave

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

tell us more about the latest french house!

also, has anyone heard the I:Cube/Rza collab?

― Philippe, Friday, 7 November 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

*notes time and place of first recorded use of the term 'speed garage' since 1999*

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah how many speed garage albums were released this year?

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

how many speed garage were released period?

― disco stu (disco stu), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

that's speed garage albums

― disco stu (disco stu), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I think what's quite apparent at the moment is that all the interesting stuff is happening at the points where house becomes something else - electro, micro, Jaxx etc. Certainly my favourite comps this year (Le Future Le Funk, the Errol Alkan and Cassius muzik ones) have tended to take this line.

The Freaks album would be a second-divison contender if there were more stunners like "Where Were You When The Lights Went Out" and a bit less joking around.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 8 November 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f972/f97258o8oly.jpg

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 8 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know, I really hoped this'd be a thread about Becky Baeling. But no such luck. (Though actually, dance album of the year, obviously, is Justin Timberlake's album, even though it came out LAST year. But if pressed, I could make an argument for Brooks and Dunn, too. And somebody should probably mention the Ying Yang Twins here, as well.)

― chuck, Saturday, 8 November 2003 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to mention ZZ Top and the Deadly Snakes and so on (and okay, Pimp Daddy Nash, though maybe people consider him techno, I have no idea.)

― chuck, Saturday, 8 November 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're thinking along those lines, the Kelis album could yet trump all, but I'm going for Kish Kash here.

I mean, I think CrydaWaves II is still the best single CD I have bought by anyone this year, but I'm not sure if it counts.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 8 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can dance to it, it counts. That's what "dance music" MEANS.

― chuck, Saturday, 8 November 2003 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim otm, but as much as I love Pearson and the Cassius mix or even the Alkan mix I find electro-house doesn't really hit me in the heart the same way as french house or traditional house for want of a better phrase. In some sense it's too clever, and great as it is, the noises are more intricate than intensely catchy.

I just can't imagine ever really really loving electro-house, it still feels a quirky trend rather than a new thing to be devoted to. I mean I do love Pearson, though I guess I prefer Lu Cont if only for the fact that his remixes seem to have depth in a more cartoon or romantic sense.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think anything could hit me in my heart as much as the Pearson remix of "Perspex Sex". But I sort of take your point. What I would like to see is electro-house and the e-motive pseudo-French house of Cosmos/Linus Loves/Space Cowboy converge into a rainbow-coloured celebration of multi-coloured pop-house swathed in the melted-bling production techniques of French House, but with really big eighties/electro hooks. Maybe the secret of all the great vaguely-house tracks of the last year or two has been what they've done with the treble end, the way they've learnt the impact of a hook that's not just taken from disco. (the only way for French House especially to move forward is to become almost entirely post-disco; the enthusiasm with which ultra-melodic eighties pop especially has recently been embraced (see Discovery, "The Terrace/Stand Back", "I Would Die 4 U") has been a fantastic development)

I want records like "Perspex Sex" and Annie's "The Greatest Hit" and "The Terrace" and "Take Me With You" and the Moonbootica remix of "Tessio" and "I Would Die 4 U" and "The Present Lover" and Psycho Radio's "In The Underground" and etc. etc. to all talk to eachother and learn from eachother.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's bound to happen really, at the moment it's in a kind of weird lull (not a major lull) where people are waiting for someone to do that or something else new I think.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Brooks and Dunn? Dance music? But they....but it..... http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/basic2/confused.gif http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/basic2/explode.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i quite like the Sam Obernik vocals on 'Stand Back (The Terrace)' now

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Brooks and Dunn? Dance music? But they....but it.....

As Chuck says, if ya can dance to it, it counts. He dances to it, that's reason enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

So if you can rock to it, is it rock music?

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Sunday, 9 November 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.