Haircut house - S/D

Destroy: the continued popularity of shit hed kandi compilations, which are surely still a big part of haircut house

It has soundtracked many occasions of me trying not perve on guys I mildly dislike.

i really am struggling to draw lines between 'four to the floor', 'drop the pressure' and 'du what you du', it would never have occurred to me to triangulate these and make a genre out of them.

erm 'candy girl' like you said on the other thread?

lindstrom rmx of 'tribulations'?

"zdarlight" tho for sure.

it's going to make me sad when I end up having played every record on this thread at some point.

"You Gonna Want Me" definitely though!

ha ha x-post!!!

Simian Mobile Disco and Digitalism are haircut house. Trentemoller and Gabriel Ananda, even at their most rocky and boshing, are not.

Tiga is to haircut house as John The Baptist was to Jesus.

well jocks doesn't really make sense in a british context but i know what tim means and they really really do listen to this stuff, you know - that hed kandi type stuff is everywhere.

what age are you, lex?

the Braxe mix of Test Icicles (moshtastic)

xpost to me

Other suggestions:
Justice Vs Simian-Never Be Alone
Anything by Rex the Dog

Controversial choice:
Switch-This Is Sick

Surely it's only a matter of time until someone posts here going "B-b-b-ut all this stuff is great!!!!"

x-post jed otm, jocks DO listen to house music.

captain comatose i guess!

Tiga - Move My Body (Boys Noize Remix)

Inaya Day - The Glamorest Life
Inaya Day - Nasty Girl
Mind Electric - Dirty Cash (Money Talks)
Bad Cabbage - You're Rude (Get Fucked)
Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child
Moguai - U Know Y
Tube & Berger - Gerideau

I love about half of this stuff and dislike the other half. It's absolutely massive in Australia.

Lex you're still getting it wrong actually - too stylish!

Or am i getting too crass now?

what age are you, lex?

23. all the jocks at my uni listened to razorlight and oasis.

Lex you're still getting it wrong actually - too stylish!

but i still do not see how 'my my my' and 'never be alone' and 'drop the pressure' are in the same genre! they are so different!

Ponihoax-Budapest??? No, jesus Lex, that's like suggesting Joanna Newsome in a "Death Metal POX" thread. Think of music for people who have that weird shaven head fucked up hairline and a sort of mullet placed on top of it.

I'm not sure about that Tiga/Boys Noize one, but I suppose Boys Noize merit a track on this thread, possibly, and that's the most apt one. It's not quite house enough tho in my opinion.

I actually think Claude Vonstroke "The Whistler" has a kind of hairdresser house feel to it, mostly cos it's like "FUNKY", tho it's not an outright HH tune.

x-post no not too crass these are PERFECT, hahaha

Never Be Alone and Drop The Pressure aren't that different. Haven't knowingly heard My My My.

Also Lex you have no idea how peoples taste works, imagine everybodys taste as a huge venn diagram, with "Drop The Pressure" being on the very outermost point, towards "electro", of these peoples tastes.

Oh jesus x-post I am about to own this thread, have any of you heard the following?

DAVID GUETTA VS THE EGG TOCADISCO MIX-LOVE DON'T WALK AWAY (or something)

my harem listen to minimal and indie-dance! i know what indie-dance is.

me: weetabix/minimal house

This is because you cannot grow hair like Russell Brand.

Search: Astudio ft. Polina - S.O.S. (original and remixes)
Gaelle - Give It Back (Putsch 79 'Lektro Remix)

Destroy: Rogue Traders. On sight.

Laugh at: Misch Masch ft. Lois - Speechless (the 'woohs' in the introduction never fail to amuse me).

you might as well say "it's a spectrum running from black dice to sandi thom" such is the extent of that spectrum and the total disparity of the stuff at one end of it from the other

You cant win

LOCK THREAD anytime this song comes up

you sound like an idm snob dismissing early basic channel!

=(

i guess i am just shocked by the normative attitude so many people are taking towards haircut house. it's the equivalent of when people say "god i HATE reggaeton, every song has the SAME stupid beat", without even evaluating the strengths that the reggaeton producer is trying to play up and the priorities of the reggaeton fans.

i posted audio links to like a dozen haircut house tracks that i thought were GREAT examples of post-braxe/falke commercial house and people completely ignored it ...

anyway, what's the point of actually talking about songs when we could be going on like true idiots about "the triumph of style over substance" and "the masses"?

Like straightforward techstep tracks made using live sounding drum samples or (worse) live drummers - it would be better to just give in and use "To Shape The Future" sound mechanical noises!

but when you say "sampled guitars" / "snotty vocals" ... this sounds more like sander kleinberg or freeform five?

Most of the stuff you're talking about sounds much more obviously house-proper, albeit with electro components, a la the first half of the Mei Lwun mix. Haircut House is more like the last few tracks on the Mei Lwun mix.

I can't believe no-one said "omg registered ratty to thread" already

To take this further, I think it's at least partly about dance producers attempting to establish some distance between themselves and (what they conceive as being) conventional dance music. Rogue Traders called their new album Here Come The Drums (after the line in "Voodoo Child") and there's a sense in which "drums" here is important, this notion of drums vs beats.

Actually one of the more extreme examples of this I can think of is Basement Jaxx's "Plug It In", which hardly sounds like house anymore. Compare and contrast with "Get Me Off" and (most of) "Where's Your Head At", both of which derive a lot of their force from heavy(handed) use of house percussion.

It just occurred to me that Jess's surprise re my description of the haircut house-listening law student's attire must stem from him thinking I meant "thong" as in Sisqo rather than "thong" as in John Kerry.

Plug in for a charge of Electro therapy

The rumours were false: clubland is not dead. It was just resting. To be fair, the sort of bacchanalian nightclub that would probably see P.Diddy pronounce it "a bit much" did dwindle, replaced by identikit dancetarias playing pop trance and filled with hard-faced blokes and women who looked like they had put on blusher with the vigour of someone brushing a horse.

Elsewhere, it was all "The Strokes this" and "NME that" and "oh, you still listen to dance music do you?" Guitar based rock was the hot ticket and gig-going became the new clubbing.

Now, I LIKE incredibly loud, raucous sounds. Don't get me wrong. I watched Big Brother and I once dated a woman with two children. But this was a sad time as dance music, the most vibrant youth culture since punk (and which lasted 10 times as long) appeared to be withering on the vine.

Or was it? Slowly, from about March this year, coming out of the annual dance industry jamboree that is the Miami Winter Music Conference, a sound emerged that caught the ear of tastemaker DJs, producers and, crucially, punters. It had funk, it had bass and it had immediate appeal across different dance music tribes. It's called electro and it's the sound of summer.

The appeal of this dirty, bassy sound ranges from cool London pirate stations such as Passion FM through to the Hed Kandi-style funky house disco-pubs where tanned young chaps and girls in short skirts slug Bacardi Breezers by the bucketful. Not since rave has a sound been so universally popular, with traditional House DJs such as Eric Morillo playing the same records as the darkest "grime" DJs. Listen to the Tocadisco mix of The Egg's Walking Away or Mandy's Body language or anything on the German Kompakt label and you will see why dance music has pulled itself out of the doldrums. Electro is the sound of now and it's brilliant.

[Stuff about where to hear this exciting new sound omitted]

The dance floor has been invigorated. Go seek out some electro-shock therapy.

COMEDY.

REVIVE!

How do people think Haircut House, the scene, has changed in the last two and a bit years?

It strikes me that the distance I once perceived b/w "Haircut House" and "indieclash" has shrunk remarkably - I could totally imagine hearing "This Boy's In Love" and "Hearts On Fire" at those BBQs now. i really must stop and pay attention next time i'm at uni.

Whereas I don't think Rogue Traders would get a look in now (poss. exception of "What You're On", which is more like a "Chase The Sun" throwback anyway).

Dirty South and Vandalism really are the pits though, possibly the worst that music gets in 2008. I had to rewrite a review of a Vandalism single I did for the local street press cos my editor thought it came across like I had a personal (non-music) grudge.

But what I really came on here to say is: LADY GAGA. Uniting Haircut House and US Stargate R&B so I don't have to. Only I don't like her AT ALL. She is the ugly face of the 2008 4X4 & Autotune consensus. Catherine likes her though and I trust Catherine when it comes to sorting the Haircut wheat from the chaff (see upthread) so maybe this is just me?

What are the big Haircut House tunes of the last twelve months or so eh

that track sampling Boom Crash Opera's "The Best Thing" (strictly an Oz ting)
Vandalism "Smash Disco" - awful, a true nadir
The Potbelleez "Don't Hold Back" - a classic albeit overplayed
Fedde De Grand throughout 2007
Axwell "I Found U" wotta tune
that remix/mash-up of Robin S's "Show Me Love"

Haha I saw this band at a festival in Portugal and thought of this thread.

this is still the most baffling thread ever

yeah kings of leon kind of are haircut music aren't they? or the killers!

I actually think some of those JLC remixes of the Killers would fit well as haircut house, tho obv they aren't the exact gear grinding sound itself.

haircut house canon anyone?

eric prydz-call on me=god

fedde le grande-put your hands up for detroit=jesus

that remix of steve bug's remix of the freaks with the terrible vocal=the holy spirit

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2008/thecountandsinden-beeper.jpg

Elephant in room 2008.

i love 'beeper'!! but it has nothing to do with eg 'call on me'.

gigantic menacing elephant...devouring all other elephants in room.

and lex don't say this has nothing to do with "call on me"

if you squint a lot, yes, but then i presume everyone's eyes are totally screwed anyway from the contortions of trying to look at all the songs mentioned on this thread through the same prism

im way intrigued by this thread because it seems like the american fan base of 'haircut house' is v. different from what it seems to be in australia/the uk

I'm not sure what Ronan's giant menacing elephant is. Is it Utah Saints - Something Good 2008?

i presume it's 'wearing my rolex' though can i just take a moment to say how much i hate youtube embeds, they totally kill my computer

sorry lex. i'll buy you a beer.

it is indeed "wearing my rolex"

can we fit arto mwambe's new one on this thread? please germans everyone make this music and we can shout from the rooftops that a new cheesey shit trendy vacuous hype driven empty wonderful genre has been born and nobody is "getting their dues"

Thanks to this thread I now have Calvin Harris going "I get all the girls I get all the girls" over and over and over in my head.

is there any instrumental HH? the original 'Yeah Yeah' maybe (apart from the vocoder bit and the 'wooo!')

"It strikes me that the distance I once perceived b/w "Haircut House" and "indieclash" has shrunk remarkably"

this is just an australian thing, i'm guessing? i dunno, over here in Croatia haircut house usually gets played in mainstream clubs alongside more trad Freemasons-type house, while the indieclash crowd may dance to some fidget or blog house - but nothing much further on the house spectrum. as for the rest of the Europe/world, don't know really, but if i was to judge by various mp3 blogs i sometimes visit, i'd say that indieclashers don't have much interest in haircut house except a Laidback Luke remix here and there, wjile the mersh house dudes are more likely to dip into, say, Deadmau5 or Adam K & Soha-style trancey progressive than indieclash.

since i don't go much to mainstream clubs, i don't know what the big hits are over here (other than the obvious ones, "Let Me Think About It", "I Found U", etc), so i can only recommend some stuff i've enjoyed this year:

<a href=";>Klaas - The Way (At Night Mix)</a>
ok, this one might be too funky & liquid for this thread, as opposed to Klaas' usual big synths+big guitar breakdowns template which he's still flogging to death and which i'm increasingly annoyed by (though, to be fair, i like <a href=";>this one</a> alot), but it's great and deserves to be heard, so there you go!

<a href=";>Dave Spoon feat. Lisa Maffia - Bad Girl (At Night)</a>
can't deny it, i'm a sucker for build-ups with swelling buzzsaw riffs like this one. (also: <a href=";>Guetta & Garraud's Kylie rmx</a>

<a href=";>Michael Mind - Don't Walk Away</a>
bit of an acquired taste, this one: while the main bouncy synth/bass hook is immediately enjoyable, the rocky intermezzos sound like Michael Cretu (ie, the Enigma guy) doing Linkin Park! i, of course, have the stomach for it, but if you don't, the Sunloverz (ie, Michael Mind + some other guy) remix of Whigfield's "Think of You" does the same thing, minus the rocky bits.

<a href=";>Remi Nicole - Rock n Roll (Soul Seekerz Edit)</a>
as far as Bodyrox ripoffs go, this beats the hell out of all the crap that Wideboys have been churning out on an almost daily basis recently.

totally agree on Dirty South and Vandalism, though i'll admit to not minding Vandalism's "spank da nun" rmx of Happy Clappers' "I Believe". by-the-book banging electro house + by-the-book banging piano house + big drop feat. a SNARE ROLL = obvious but it works.

uh... sorry about that! i'll try once more, this time with the new formating in mind

Klaas - The Way (At Night Mix)
love this, although it admittedly might be too, hm... funky, swinging, liquid for this thread? as opposed to Klaas' usual big synths+big guitar breakdowns template, which he's still flogging to death and which i'm increasingly annoyed by... though, to be fair, i like this one too:

Dave Spoon feat. Lisa Maffia - Bad Girl (At Night)
can't deny it, i'm a sucker for build-ups with swelling buzzsaw riffs like this one. also, Guetta & Garraud's Kylie rmx on a similar tip:

Michael Mind - Don't Walk Away
bit of an acquired taste, this one: while the main bouncy synth/bass hook is immediately enjoyable, the rocky intermezzos sound like Michael Cretu (ie, the Enigma guy) doing Linkin Park! i, of course, have the stomach for it, but if you don't, the Sunloverz (ie, Michael Mind + some other guy) remix of Whigfield's "Think of You" does the same thing, minus the rocky bits.

Remi Nicole - Rock n Roll (Soul Seekerz Edit)
as far as Bodyrox ripoffs go, this beats the hell out of all the crap that Wideboys have been churning out on (almost literally!) daily basis recently.

totally agree on Dirty South and Vandalism, though i'll admit to not minding Vandalism's "spank da nun" rmx of Happy Clappers' "I Believe". by-the-book banging electro house + by-the-book banging piano house + big drop feat. a SNARE ROLL = obvious but it works.

kylie / guetta & garraud:

michael mind:

remi nicole / soul seekerz: