Need more microhouse

v/a - hypercity mixed by andrew weatherall
dan bell - the button down mind of dan bell
dan bell - the button down mind strikes back
v/a - superlongevity 2
m mayer - immer
triple r - friends
v/a - kompakt total 2-4

single artist albums:

mri - all that glitters
luomo - vocalcity
closer musik - after love

Herbert - Bodily Functions
Akufen - My Way
Soft Pink Truth - Do You Party?

closer musik - "one, two, three (no gravity)"
luomo - "class"
superpitcher - "tomorrow"
m. mayer - "love is stronger than pride"
crane ak - "daisy love"
codec & flexor - "crazy girls"
borneo & sporenburg - "boys in shorts"
kaito - "air rider"
quarks - "i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)"
ricardo villalobos - "dexter"

01. envoy - leave this world behind
02. maas - san narciso
03. percy x - -3 (bloodsugar mix)
04. maas - juan is the teacher
05. envoy - dark manouevres
06. slam - dark forces (claude young mix)
07. maas - look at me now, falling (i:cube simple mix)
08. maas - another saturday night (swag mix)
09. envoy - emotional
10. funk d'void - herbie on rhodes (ian pooley mix)
11. envoy - sexdrive (high sexdrive mix)
12. common factor - rise
13. e.b.e - distant

this is a cd i made when i was researching ewan pearson's (maas) back catalog for my infinitely delayed proto-microhouse-mix. it starts out in a smoother, more detroit-oriented vein and ends up sort of bouncy and progressive. anyway, not exactly microhouse in the current sense of the word but vaguely affiliated. actually not so far off the mark from the last third of the smallville mix, and interesting to see how pearson's sound fits into the soma scene (all these tracks are from soma) and how that sound has evolved, how it flirts with microhouse without ever really "going there".

cool. I still reckon the last 3 tracks on Smallville are the best example of this stuff I've heard in the mix.

Mathew Jonson - Typerope (not really new, but worth a listen if you somehow haven't heard this yet!) (ITISWHATITIS)
Luciano - Amael (Cadenza)
Pablo Bolivar - Next Player (Regular)
Pura - Sangre (Casa del Puente)

Not really micro but worth a mention too is:

Directions - Busted Trees Carl Craig Rmx (Diaspora)

These are all 12's so I dunno how easy they are to track down online.

Mind you I've gone off Pearson slightly recently, think of this years new hot things I am that bit more into Black Strobe/Ivan Smagghe.

http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/archives/001592.html

This one off Shelborne's blog is ace for the Superpitcher remix of Ghost Caldron alone.

Its short too about 36 minutes so the download shouldn't kill you.
A good and often overlooked album is also the full length from Benjamin Wild "With Compliments" I got it for a fiver too.

If so, then definitely "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" and "Mit Dir."

1. John Spring - Do You Like That? (Urgent and key! Second last track on this Koivikko mix)
2. Martini Bros - Boy/Girl
3. Markus Nikolai - Superstar
4. Wighnomy Bros - Bodyrock
5. Metope & Ada - Lifedriver
6. A Rocket In Dub - Rocket No. 3
7. Bodo Edsel - Discount Baby
8. Jeff Bennett - Swapping (or "Last Breath")
9. Hombre Ojo - Manejando un Carrito Rapidito por Santiago
10. Thomas Fehlmann - Gratis

glasgow invented microhouse mixtape
01. envoy - leave this world behind
02. maas - san narciso
03. percy x - -3 (bloodsugar mix)
04. maas - juan is the teacher
05. envoy - dark manouevres
06. slam - dark forces (claude young mix)
07. maas - look at me now, falling (i:cube simple mix)
08. maas - another saturday night (swag mix)
09. envoy - emotional
10. funk d'void - herbie on rhodes (ian pooley mix)
11. envoy - sexdrive (high sexdrive mix)
12. common factor - rise
13. e.b.e - distant

Geez soma has fallen off in the last few years, haven't they? all that stuff there is 100% classic (herbie on rhodes, dark forces, and dark manouevres being my faves of that group) but I can hardly bring myself to buy any of their recent output. Was Funk d'Void scoring such a big hit with 'diabla' the turning point/death knell?

I House U - Marco Passarani (Peacefrog)
Oh No! Not Another Washing Machine (Freaks Live Redo) - Freaks (Wash House)
Alain Brito - Lucien-n-Luciano (Peacefrog)
Same - Dani Siciliano (Likes… album, !K7)
ShutUp, Dance, Smile - Håkan Lidbo (Morris/Audio)
Mirrorball - Luomo (luomomusic.com)
Okoubaka - Steve Bug (Poker Flat Recordings Volume 3: Five Years of Poker Flat Recordings album, Poker Flat)

Anyhow, I would second recommendations of recent stuff on the Festplatten label. Also Poker Flat, Seventh City, Logistic, probably Herberts Soundslike label (although I haven't been listening to those), Luciano has been way popular recently - someone mentioned his Cadenza label - but they've only had a few releases, he's shown up on a handful of other labels too. Farben is excellent but more mellow, and also some of the other stuff on the Klang/Ongaku labels, some of the Background releases..

Sorry, I know you wanted specific releases, but I figure peoples varying tastes, you may be better off w/ a starting point, and then just listening to different releases.

all of this is old and i probably mention the same shit all the time, but these are good records. I think I may have put some of them on the tapes I sent you a year ago.

Ooh - don't know that one but Thomas Melchior is the shit. Formerly half of Vulva (releases on Reflective and Rephlex), and currently part of Baby Ford's "Ifach Collective" - he is always doing cool deep and moody stuff - I'll have to check the one you cited :)

there was a thread on it but after a few more listens it's only working for me in intervals. namely the less minimal parts like when that oliver hacke track bubbles up from a cauldron and really consumes and invigorates everything.

akufen quebec nightclub doublepack also on perlon

if you got both of those you are on a good solid footing but there are many other perlon tracks worth hunting down too.

also get captain comatose stuff on playhouse

Like Isolee's Rest meets Human League but from Swiss/Chile.

(Description subject to change: I'm only on track 3)

Also:

Zorn "The City's Collapsing, But Not Tonight"

12 Alcove Mikael Weill

I can't believe Michael Wells is making microhouse with a German alias!

Tangentially speaking, judging by its lukewarm reception, is it fair to say I can remove Selection 2 from my quarterly list of "three imports to purchase" without missing much? Is the disfavor shown thus far a result of its stray from pure microhouse toward its second half? Or is it just an average mix?

I was drawn to this thread primarily by its title and secondarily because an Internet-based mail order shoppe failed to fill my order (and I've since cancelled it outright). My order consisted of:

Triple R's Selection 2
Angel Molina's Pasada Professional
and CiM's Do NOt Multiply Models

I certainly don't lack a list of substitutes (particularly as I acquired Pasada Professional via eBay). Assuming I stick with CiM and remove Selection 2 - especially if its the general consensus one of the following would be a more valuable listen: do any of these find personal favor with any of you?

Matthias Tanzmann's Moon Harbour Flights: Volume.Two
John Tejada's mix of Poker Flat Vol. 3
Playhouse's Famous When Dead Vol. 3

I can safely say I am far more micro-housed now, since I started this thread.

It's like Microgothhouse

There's the microhouse of Villalobos mixes and then there's the microhouse of Mayer mixes and yet third, there's the microhouse of Daniel Bell's mixes. Although all three share labels and artists, all three have decidely different focuses (Villalobos -> the clickin' and cuttin' variety, Mayer -> the melancholic pop variety and Bell -> the stomp but click variety).

Has someone delineated microhouse's (apparent) subgenres already? I ask primarily because I rarely enjoy mixes ala 'Lobos, but dedicate an inordinate amount of time fruitlessly searching for mixes of Mayer and Bell's ilk.

Most of the labels putting things out at the moment are not doing the compilation thing on CD at the moment. Music Krause with Metabombman and Robag Wruhme are putting things out at the moment. Other than Areal (which seems so hit and miss it is almost tragic), it has slowed quite a bit at the moment.

(The first ain't bad at all, just a little tougher to track down [at a reasonable price].)

Bell and Mayer's works embody a more immediate likability that Villalobos' DJ work lacks. That is to say, Villalobos' selection is more challenging.

Perhaps it's time I re-evaluate Taka Taka and Love Family Trax? Maybe they just need more time or different setting (thus far I've almost exclusively listened to his mixes on my iPod)?

y'know, i'm finding the "final scratch" (or similar) mixes i've heard underwhelming. de9, scion arrange and process ... uh, i know i've heard others ... am i just missing the good stuff? is the brinkmann mix all that?

i bought this 12 on karloff at the weekend by frivolous and it's kinda tasteful too, well i s'pose there's less glitch and more house. but it is so great and i have been playing it nonstop since i bought it. lots of interesting samples and b-lines appearing out of nowhere. does anyone know anything else on karloff worth checking out?

THE BLACK RABBIT WHOREHOUSE VOLUME 1

-- stirmonster (jd_twitc...), May 11th, 2004 4:18 PM.

(From Micro-goth)

Well that took a while...