I'm intrigued by this microhouse stuff

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I don't really know what it is, though. What are some good examples of the genre that I might find on Limewire?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

michael mayer - peel session OR immer

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago)

You should look up some of the microhouse threads on ILM. They are very informative.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

limewire will not serve you well for microhouse, I'm afraid.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

But yeah, Immer is great!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I can't find any of that stuff. Thanks anyway.

I've heard some glitch. Is it similar?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

not really, no

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

does glitch make you want to take your shirt off?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I've started growing man breasts. Nothing makes me want to take my shirt off.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Microhouse is also gym music, if you want it to be.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

you have peel session adam?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

yes I do, want it?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

yes please! swop of some sort? will arrange via e-mail.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I have it at home, but I can send tonight. I have your new address.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I have it, jed_, if you want it.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I also have it. Everyone has it but you, jed. Ha ha.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

(I will bring a copy tomorrow if you like)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i have it, i just want it from adam.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost - thats much easier thanks alba. thanks cozen and adam too.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

bring me a copy too, alba.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I am hurt

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha - could bring me that a copy of that 'The Way Things Work' film?

I was talking to a friend the other night and she said she couldn't get into microhouse, though she'd tried. I said "You must at least like schaffel!" and she said "Well yes, but that's not microhouse". She knows more about things than I do, so I didn't protest, but was she right. I always thought of schaffel as a subset of microhouse. Well, maybe not Rachel Stevens and Goldfrapp, but you know what I mean.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Ok, I've found some stuff Limewire calls clickhouse. Is that it?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Der Lauf Der Dinge, yes.

Adam, come to Glasgow for tomorrow.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago)

miyazaki hating love-in old soul motherfuckers.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

angels on yr body!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Dance genre classification is like some kind of arcane torture.

xpost-I wish. Glasgow (or my idea of it, I've never been) is exactly where I feel like being right now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

miyazaki hating love-in old soul motherfuckers.

oh WHO could this be about?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

you're wife won't mind.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

devils on yr soul!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago)

I have never gotten more stick for anything in my life. Can a man not just be indifferent to Spirited Away in peace???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

"YOUR" AGH!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah i just even know if i do hate it , i was just bored and baffled by it.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I love you both.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Am I wrong in thinking that Weatherall's Hypercity mix was like the big bang of this? I know it was for me. I'd heard some stuff kind of like it (Damon Wild, Readymade) but it wasn't until that mix that I even imagined a whole set with nothing but that kind of feel to it.

Anyway here are some of the past threads, I just whomped the word "microhouse" into the thread title field, in the search area (the search link is at the bottom of the page). Be sure to check out the two Kompakt threads.

Need more microhouse
The MicroHouse Thread
This music you call microhouse....
another fine microhouse/minimal/whatever mix cd
can you bitches stop saying Microhouse?!

TS: Microhouse - Clicky/Poppy vs. Smooth/Gliding

Has downtempo led people to think differently about house? Will microhouse?

Kompakt: Search und Destroy
Kompakt: Search und Destroy - Teil Zwei

Areal Records - search n destroy

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. I should've done that myself, really, but I love to have you people cater to my every whim.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I believe Hypercity is referred to as the first microhouse mix. I think it's a bit overrated, though.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

For me, it was either The Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell or Herbert's Let's All Make Mistakes (both 2000) -- I can't remember which one I heard first.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Andy beat me to the punch there. I'd rank Button Down Mind of Daniel Bell as one of the first brilliant microhouse mixes...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)

this is also a very strong early microhouse mix. it's pretty much the pre-hypercity hypercity.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Luomo was the beginning for me, although in retrospect Luomo is well out of the microhouse mainstream.

Force Tracks gets about 1/1000 the time of Kompakt on this board - not totally unjustified, I guess, but maybe the ratio should be more like 1/500 or something.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Jinx!

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right, and to answer the thread-opening question, Vocalcity STAT.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 September 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Force Tracks gets less time around here because it dropped the ball and now has presumably folded. There was a *lot* of thread time devoted to Hypercity, the second MRI album, the second Luomo, album, Digital Disco.

I get the sense that Force Tracks had this great idea - "let's go full-fledged disco!" and then after the first Digital Disco comp didn't really know what to do with it. Luomo did, but "The Present Lover" sticks out like a sore thumb on that comp anyway.

Luckily this particular project has been picked up in other sections of the microhouse and actual-house community.

But yeah, my first real intro was Hypercity, helped by a simultaneous acquisition of Hakan Lidbo's Tech-Couture - it was at that point that I realised this was a full-fledged genre and not just isolated flashes (Herbert, Isolee etc.).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)

is deep house a spent force now? maybe a whole other thread.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I'd reservedly say yes - all of the best sorta deep house music these days seems to be incorporating micro/electro influences or punk/funk influences of moving towards Theo Parrish/Moodyman. Certainly labels like Naked Music are no longer the power houses they were, and the deep house aesthetic by itself appears objectively (as opposed to just subjectively) tired.

I tend to think that what the DJs who work at the snobby house record stores big up is a good barometer - at all the locals in Melbourne it's the Get Physical comp all the way, although I'm not sure if this is related to some sort of distribution deal.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Am I wrong in thinking that Weatherall's Hypercity mix was like the big bang of this?

that's a joke right? it had been about years before that snoozefest of a mix (mostly down to force tracks being about the dullest label ever) came out. i mean, did anyone really rate that? i love weatherall but really, does he need to be given credit for everything?

― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

He did invent jazz.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Sir Andrew Weatherall of Slough

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Nine O'Clock Drop was responsible for the 00s post punk revival

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 16 September 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago)

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i have put a micro(esque) mix up on my server if anyone wants to hear it. sorry for the lo fi ness but i wanted to keep the file size down. you can get it here

here's the tracklisting. er, it gets a bit cheesy towards the end. i can't help myself!

philippe cam - unicef christmas card (traum)
farben - beautone (klang)
hombre ojo - manejando un carrito (perlon)
the rip off artist - bear down (vertical form)
robag wruhme - worktabular (music krause)
sparky - autoconform (oscarr)
misc. - wireless (sender)
i wolf - fallin (lo soul mix) (klein)
jd twitch - the agony is the xtc (no label)
jd twitch - shapeshifters fill me with dread (no label)
cabaret voltaire - nag nag nag (akufen mix) (mute)
ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

― stirmonster, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago)

hmmm, there seems to be something up with the server. i'll try and fix it.

― stirmonster, Monday, 20 September 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

why can't people just call it tech house?

― stomp (+dancefloor), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

'cos 'tech-house' brings me out in hives and sends me to zzzzzzzzzzzz.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago)

shapeshifters fill me with dread! haha!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

too hip 4 tech house

― stomp (+dancefloor), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Where the hell is all the love for baby ford and melchoir productions?

That double cd melchoir released is the shit maybe a little more house than micro but it is excellent!

I recently got a copy of the first Villalobos mix cd callled Love family Trax and that is quite sweet as well.

Not quite as poppy as some of the stuff listed above but surely worth some love.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago)

check my mix hector!

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

The new Losoul record on Playhouse sounds much more like "proper microhouse" than I expected it to be.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)

on sherburne's barkingspider mix, whats the very last track? from about 34mins in but not the doomy big panes of glass one that i assume is contriva vs superpitcher

― candour floss (mwah), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

just noticed this! did you get your server problems sorted out twitch?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i listened v briefly, but that new koivikko sounds super!!

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

i've got too much stuff on it tricky. i'll clear some stuff off and try re uploading. will report back.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

how is the new Losoul?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago)

when you get used to the vocals, it's pretty good.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I really liked that ubiquitous deep house track they had the name of which escapes me, was it called "Rise"?

I'm guessing the album's a bit less traditional than that? Still will have to check it out.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

just got a look at your mix tricky and it looks tasty.
Will update once I get a good listen.

I am starting to gravitate more towards this style as opposed to the Kompakt poppy oriended stuff. Its taken me ages to get into Speicher as well.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

ronan, i think the tune you're referring to is called "lies". i love the new losoul single (it's in my mix too).

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago)

ok, tht's the mix online. it's 26mb.

philippe cam - unicef christmas card (traum)
farben - beautone (klang)
hombre ojo - manejando un carrito (perlon)
the rip off artist - bear down (vertical form)
robag wruhme - worktabular (music krause)
the truffle club - autoconform (oscarr)
misc. - wireless (sender)
i wolf - fallin (lo soul mix) (klein)
jd twitch - the agony is the xtc (no label)
jd twitch - shapeshifters fill me with dread (no label)
cabaret voltaire - nag nag nag (akufen mix) (mute)
ricardo villalolobos / chris issak - wicked dexter

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

your tracks are goth house!

great mix, i would love to have a better quality copy...the last track is inspired, especially the "moments in love" bit.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago)

once a goth, always a goth i guess. i could burn it onto cd and send you it if you like?

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago)

cool, i just sent you an email. don't you have something official coming out too?

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

If anyone's looking for a sequel to "Dog Days", track down Rub's "Who Said That" (available on the new Music For Freaks mix) IMMEDIATELY. The following track on that, Eclat & Prudo's "Calafuria Uber Alles" is in the same vein and pretty grand also. But "Who Said This" is really awesome - so dense but so funky! Tricksy snare action ahoy!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

... Ha, turns out "Who Said That" is actually two years old, so I guess it's a prequel to "Dog Days".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago)

haha Tim I've been playing "Who Said That" to death at work recently. the vocal is so good!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago)

listening to Kompakt Total 3, liking the non vocal guitar parts on "Tomorrow"

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I listened to Total 3 again the other day and it was even better then I remembered. Best Kompakt CD ever, next to Immer, for me.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

so much of this stuff is unknown to me - downloaded the mixes (bless this 1-2meg work line...

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

60 minute mix (60mb). on the more bouncy end of the microhouse spectrum.

1. S.I. Futures - We Are Not A Rock Band (Buckfunk 3000 remix)
2. Human League - All I Ever Wanted (Alter Ego remix)
3. Depeche Mode - I Feel Love (Thomas Brinkmann remix)
4. John Tejada and Arian Leviste - Syntax Free
5. Auch - Tomorrow Goodbye (Ricardo Villalobos remix)
6. Akufen - Brown Hawaii
7. Geoff White and Sutekh - Delay 06
8. Thomas Brinkmann - Susi (2)
9. Hakan Lidbo - mitt/verkligheten
10. Thomas Fehlmann - Whistle
11. Sensual Physics - Staubfunk
12. M.R.I. - Nightclubbing At Home

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago)

the last tune in that mix is one of my favorites ever - the title alone is excellent. i like how this thread kind of turned into a bunch of mix sharing.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

ive linked this on some ohter thraed already but this live set here is prety good.

― :|, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Is there a full cd of stuff by the modernist that is worth getting? that track on the kolnkompakt1 cd, "apple electronics", does something really cool to my brain. i'm not sure what exactly, but it's sorta pleasant.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

"Kangmei" (from last year) is the better of the two Modernist LPs I have heard (the other one being "Explosion"). I'm counting on the Triola LP to be Burger's best full length yet, though.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 1 October 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

NB. Triola is more ambienty.

I love Kangmei but I think his tracks sound best as one-offs - "Abi '81", "All Around (Everybody's Kissing)", "Men of Many Sayings" and his remix of Kohncke's "Weiche Zaune" all literally jump out at you from the compilations they're on due to the sparkling, diamond-cut distinctiveness of his sound. Playing his tracks back to back undercuts that a bit.

The Modernista tracks are great too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 1 October 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago)

This is true, Tim! On that KolnKompakt cd, his track really exists in its own jarring universe.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Scott do you have the Total comps?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I have 3 & 4 & 5.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 2 October 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)

You'd probably also like "Retrospector" which Burger did as Modernista 90. It's the last track on Christian Sprenger's Schlank & Tief, which is about two thirds Kompakt-style aceness.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

There are beats on most of the Triola LP tracks. (Very much a driving record.) Nice to hear a new full-length ambient techno record with no relationship to Boards of Canada or indie rock.

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 2 October 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago)

More detals plz Andy!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 2 October 2004 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Nice to hear a new full-length ambient techno record with no relationship to Boards of Canada or indie rock.

seconded!

has burger/ink's las vegas gotten any ilm-love? if not, it should. i would def. file it under "stuff by the modernist that is worth getting". also, the pop-up series he did with antonelli electr is worth checking. it's exactly what you'd expect from a collab between the two ie. light poppy impeccable trance techno. probably impossible to find on vinyl, but slsk-able. actually i just checked and the kompakt shop has them in stock.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Saturday, 2 October 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

i really like what i've heard of las vegas. i've seen jess give it some love here.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 2 October 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago)

i love it too - but what's it got to do with the modernist (whoever that is?).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Burger half of Burger/Ink = J. Burger = Modernist. Las Vegas IS very excellent, "Twelve Miles High" especially. (Ink = Wolfgang Voigt.)

Triola LP: Some old tracks appear as they were before. Others (AG Penthouse in particular) remixed. Actually some of it reminds me of certain tracks from Las Vegas. No Modernist-style prickly stuff -- it's all smoothed out, tranquil and ultra-melodic.

― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

ah ok cheers. [las vegas] really should have been on the 90's album poll list if there were any justice.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

(if anyone downloaded my mix before september 22, you may want to re-download. about 13 minutes in it was full of unintentional glitchy artifacts. i fixed it about 10 days ago, but i forgot to post about it here. thanks go to ned for reminding me. i will be putting a couple more mixes up soon.)

― tricky disco (disco stu), Sunday, 3 October 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

ive linked this on some ohter thraed already but this live set here is prety good.
― :|, Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:46 PM (

zvukbroda did some great stuff around this time, pity the link is dead

― saer, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:11 (ten years ago)

limewire will not serve you well for microhouse, I'm afraid.
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