Kris Menace and/or Lifelike

Alan Braxe & Kris Menace - Lumberjack

ahhh i'll have to search that out, I think I've only heard Discopolis (on the Rub N Tug Fabric)

Kris Menace sounds like a drum 'n' bass name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DdqFxi4bKU

Air - Mer du Japon (Kris Menace mix)

This is outrageously great.

yeah I love that track

Lifelike's 'My Precious Diamond' (based on Fox The Fox ala Michael Mayer's 'Amanda') still a fave

'Lumberjack' grew on me a lot the last couple of months but I liked it anyway - rushy.

French house & filterdisco

"voyage" from last year is pretty good.

search: Lifelike remixes of Geyster's "Under the Fuse of Love" and Ercola feat. Annie's "Follow Me".

on a similar old school french house tip, check out Puzique's slammin' "Don't Go" (about to become a club smash, apparently).

theres a KC Creosote remix by that Kris Menace bloke posted on a blog not too far away from here.
unfortunately, the version provided seemed to be cut off at the end.
still you can't complain when you dont pay really.

mark e: luv that jjackson thing.

wowee. i can't watch that discopolis video at work.

mark e: luv that jjackson thing.

sorry gr8080, tis another 'mark e'.
my lawyers have contacted him, but so far to no avail.

discopolis = one of the best songs of the last couple yrs i think

These guys can be so hit or miss, but I do enjoy their comfort filter disco muchly when they are on.

iiii don't know about this stuff. i checked out the stars on 33 thing on their myspace a while ago and had to shut it off. the idris muhammad original is so gorgeous i couldn't deal with just that bit of vocal looped over and over with a big dumb house beat added to it. and i don't even always hate that kind of music!

discopolis is okay i guess. voyage is mr master's dog in the night looped over and over. i haven't bothered to check out the newer items.

how is discopolis any different than ibiza trance hits 33?

or is that hip now? the whole nu balearic thing and all? not that i know what's hip in dance music circles. i haven't bought a record past '86 in years.

'discopolis' and '...music in your heart' are both really fantastic, something about a lot of the other kris menace productions rubs me the wrong way for some reason though and i can't work out why.

vicarious bliss 'theme from vicarious bliss' (lifelike goes to disco mix) <- this is good.

search:
of course discopolis and i feel music... and also
lifelike - the cult, high on, obsession, waves
nu-matic - in the morning (lifelike mix)
kris menace - jupiter
unai - blissful burden (kris menace mix)
roman salzger & lifelike: radio 84
lifelike - running out (roman salzger mix)

and trilogyy - apocolypse rock (menace, serge santiago, someone else i can't remember

they are often pretty bland/dull but at their best (and their best is pretty damn huge and godlike) it's peak level shit.

jaxon is right it's all trance played at cool cosmic speed

i mean, relatively

discopolis = one of the best songs of the last couple yrs i think

-- deej, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Really?

how is discopolis any different than ibiza trance hits 33?

Apart from beats, sonics, tempo, melody and not being trance, you mean?

That Discopolis video is so pervy I'm surprised the record didn't make #1 in 33 countries.

my searches would be: discopolis, blissful burden rmx, overpowered rmx. i'm on the fence re the air rmx.

Tracks Appear On:
Azuli Presents: Miami 2006 (2xCD) Discopolis (Original Mix) Azuli Records 2006
Es Vive Ibiza 2006 (3xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Fierce Angel Records 2006
Ibiza - The Sound Of Renaissance Vol. 3 (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Renaissance 2006
Summadayze (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... EQ Recordings 2006
Summer Sessions 2006 (CD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Milk & Sugar Recordings 2006
Cream Ibiza 07 (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... New State Recordings 2007

haha, i was just coming here to post about how trancey discopolis actually is!

it just uses a french house sound palette & eq tricks. does anyone rate any of the discopolis remixes?

the like the drums on the braxe mix

also cf. the bridge from dennis parker's "like an eagle" (or other similar disco tracks) with the main synth lead in "discopolis"

Lumberjack is fantastic, by the way.

does anyone rate any of the discopolis remixes?

The Hundred Birds "Bestless" ("beatless"?) one is unaccountably pretty, albeit probably not so much when it comes to the dancing. I kinda think that's why I like it so much, though - the original was such an unimpeachable dancefloor monster that most of the other remixes (esp. the relatively-beloved Chris Lake one) suffer by comparison. The Hundred Birds one manages to sidestep the whole argument quite adroitly while remaining a genuinely stunning track.

that lumberjack track is four minutes of needless expository navelgazing bullshit covering up two minutes of rich nougat-y amazingness

-- ^@^, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Tracks Appear On:
Azuli Presents: Miami 2006 (2xCD) Discopolis (Original Mix) Azuli Records 2006
Es Vive Ibiza 2006 (3xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Fierce Angel Records 2006
Ibiza - The Sound Of Renaissance Vol. 3 (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Renaissance 2006
Summadayze (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... EQ Recordings 2006
Summer Sessions 2006 (CD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... Milk & Sugar Recordings 2006
Cream Ibiza 07 (2xCD) Discopolis (Chris Lake... New State Recordings 2007

-- jaxon, Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

could it be considered a crossover hit?

its much more subtle than most current trance.

it also sounds much more like disco

i mean i havent listened to too much trance so maybe i'm misunderstanding what that shit sounds like, but i've never heard a trance song that has a bassline like that

a lot of trance (not necessarily progressive/tech house) is built around huge basslines/drops.

subtle??? yeah as subtle as yr steely dan polls. ;-)

first of all, the chris lake mix is weak-ass

ok there are big trance riffs and arpeggios all over this stuff but the tempo is completely house as are the basslines. are them thin white duke mixes of starsailor, texas, etc. ibiza too?

"apocolypse rock", y'all, it's the big synth horn riff from "it's a war" mercilessly pummeling into your skull

are them thin white duke mixes of starsailor, texas, etc. ibiza too?

i would say yes, even more so, but two years ago obv.

new kris menace side project!

http://www.myspace.com/motormouthstuttgart

'revenge' is, no pun intended, sweet.

daaamn did he do a better remix than moby's 'ooh yeah' this year?

3xCD comp coming up soon!
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10247

CD1
01. Discopolis (w/ Lifelike)
02. Fairlight pt.1 & pt.2 (w/Fred Falke)
03. Jupiter
04. Lumberjack (w/ Alan Braxe)
05. Artificial (w/ Felix Da Housecat)
06. Stereophonic (w/ Spooky)
07. Voyage
08. Metropolis
09. Invaders (w/ Hexstatic)
10. Idiosyncrasy
11. Steamroller
12. Snapshot
13. Scaler

CD2
01. Sensuality
02. Micropacer
03. Borderline
04. Affinity
05. Poesie
06. Lightning
07. Challenger (w/ Douze)
08. Midnight
09. Dreamsequence
10. Enamoured (w / Fred Falke)
11. Cybernatic
12. Vanity
13. Electricity (w/ Fred Falke)

CD3
01. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (Kris Menace Remix)
02. Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Kris Menace Remix)
03. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (Kris Menace Remix)
04. Air - Mer Du Japon (Kris Menace Remix)
05. Winona - Without You (Kris Menace Remix)
06. The Presets - My People (Kris Menace Remix)
07. Robbie Williams - She's Madonna (Kris Menace Remix)
08. Felix Da Housecat - Something 4 Porno (Kris Menace Remix)
09. Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Kris Menace Remix)
10. Moby - Oh Yeah (Kris Menace Remix)
11. Underworld - Ring Road (Kris Menace Remix)

sweet

that looks amazing

nice to have nearly all of it in one place.

and trilogyy - apocolypse rock (menace, serge santiago, someone else i can't remember

i pulled this one out of the pile recently, it's a bit better than i remember - big chunky bassline. tip!

Does anyone live somewhere sunny and have a back garden with a pool where we can drink cocktails and invite girls along and play that compilation in its entirety?

this comp is so fantastic... matt dc otm!
too bad no appearance of "i feel music in your heart" but there is more than enough gold here to make up for it

more search:
disco boys - "hey saint peter" (menace & adam remix)
i usually don't like this kind of "somebody's watching me" geico remix crap, but this hooked me maybe due to menace bias.. it's kind of like "radio fireworks" by surkin.. i just think menace's productions are so full-bodied..loaded with fireworks and a big bottom end.

heartache - "numb" (kris menace remix)
another huge awesome riff for when you burn out the 3cds

i repeat babedad's recommendations above; lifelike leans more on the crydamoure-ish filterdisco tip but the electrifying tranced-out "ADVENTURE/HIGH ON" is still the best for beating the shit out of aliens or chasing after shoplifters

Metronomy - "Heartbreaker (Kris Menace Remix)" is an excellent remix of one of my favorite songs from 2008.

yeah that metronomy remix is brilliant, also worth searching out the instrumental, just as powerful without vocals

on a similar old school french house tip, check out Puzique's slammin' "Don't Go" (about to become a club smash, apparently).

― Mind Taker, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:55 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cant believe how old this is. dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDw3GeRKQc

Hey stardude. You're probably the best person to ask. I'm trying to remember a possibly French house/techno pop video where a crew of teenagers drive along the countryside in a beater and just have a gay ol' time. Anyone? It's a really nice nostalgic type video.

u mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpCcNdhy5w
????

<3 <3 <3

DEEJ! YES. that's totally it. i woulda asked you if you were on AIM, but hadn't seen u. it reminds me of this terrible emo pop video i saw recently that's totally ripping off ryan mcginley and is just too much blech (can't remember it right now, luckily)

from 2002, so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTghhEsFipI