blaze: overrated or what?

"lovelee dae"
"my beat"
"fantasy"
"we are one"
"most precious love"
"if you should need a friend"

are gold, but they've rounded that out by filling up 8-9 albums worth of dross, right?

i mean, prove me wrong, point me in the right direction, etc

yeah that's a pretty opinionated title for a s&d thread. care to define dross in this particular case? those gospel & soul influences not lining up w/yr gritty ghetto fantasies?

also search: "sapporo", "elevation", "found love", "how deep is your love", "when I fall in love", "what we need is love"... from a quick & not 100% informed look at 21st century releases, there are 15 more years.

destroy: the odd bland techno version, a few remixes produced on autopilot like that "new" björk thing- now that's what I call dross.

blaze deliver an awesome live experience as well, book them for a dj gig and they'll play keyboards + sing on top. fund the entire orchestra and god knows what happens!

"get up" from the 25 years later album was an earlyish soul/house track i fell in love with. "moonwalk" from the blaze tracks ep released on nuphonic is nice and deep and was featured on garnier's laboratoire mix. their shelter mixes of mondo grosso's "star suite" are epic and great, a vocal with monday michiru's poetry for the hippies and an instrumentalish for the headz. all worth checking.

and the first collabs with louie vega up until & esp. "sunshine" = classic!

"jess & crabbe: do they even exist?" thread coming soon to a forum near you

I'll always stand by the vinyl version of 25 Years later, freed from those irritating "dramatic interludes" on the CD version, and "So Special" in particular... but since then? Patchy at best.

I don't have their phase II stuff from 1988 : (
I have the "funky people" originals&remixes : )

dj crabbe did all of the handstyles on the crydamoure labels

but it looks like they formed some kind of screamo / no wave band? casualties of electroclash.

dross means boring. i don't know what my "gritty ghetto fantasy" is but "if you should need a friend" ain't it, so please don't try to play that pseudo-race card here.

i actually wanted to do a "king street: overrated or what" but then i figured i'd just focus in on the main offenders.

also considering t/s: roy davis jr vs blaze but not sure if that made sense or not.

never been big on king st. (too many MOR vocals) except for the kerri chandler but they're looking good right now with several vega comps, ferrer at his best exposure & roland clark on the up who's been there from the start if not thanks to them.

no xeno

OK, so my dj partner plays "My Beat" and I hate it (hi Josh!). It sounds like Def Poetry Jam (although the music is good).

he plays the derrick carter remix

Sounds right.

ha ha poetry

more like spoken turd, amirite

you're not wrong

the music's lovely though, maybe i should have put that in "quotation marks".

whatcha gonna do?
why can't we live together?

both awesome

as well as if you should need a friend

but king street is really overrated. i almost always pass on their stuff.

also, paradise

"albums"?

i dig out the 'basic blaze' lp from time to time:

http://www.discogs.com/release/2081

some of it is quite trancey (in a deep US house kind of way).

anyway, i like these guys for the most part.

there is a copy of blaze: the instrumentals project at the local store, USED for SIXTEEN DOLLARS.

talk about overrated!!

that is dumb. i don't think they have continued to make good music throughout their career. but their early stuff for quark records and movin' records is classic garage in the slower colonel abrams style (as opposed to the kerri chandler style).

oh and i forgot:
PHASE II - REACHIN'

one of my favorite house songs ever! so uplifting.

that PRICE is dumb, is what i meant, in case it wasn't clear. i don't imagine it will sell at that price.

but like, i bought the repress of Whatcha Gonna Do new for $8 in the fall! talk about underrated!

i would have paid ten, maybe eleven bucks for that. so i think they are dinosaurs who should make room for younger producers but i will always love blaze.

Reachin' is one of those special songs with drum fills that somehow manage to be emotional... i've heard it from chez damier and colonel abrams. i don't really understand it.

lol htought this was bout jus blaze

that took a while. hmm they are dinosaurs who should make room for younger producers? I don't know that they're standing in anyone's way

That Instrumentals Project thing linked upthread has spectacularly bad song titles. Celestine Prophecy being the worst offender.

you're right blunt. it was just bluster.

they have a track called "the yoga song" LOL

just visited a friend who began schooling me on blaze old & new. actually ahead of their time on several fronts, because of the way they integrated/cherry-picked disco, afro, soul and house production elements. I'll try to recall some highlights...

at any rate, 90% shit it ain't

first I thought it would sound dated but phase II and the early stuff on quark is remarkably fresh mid/late 90's house, and it's not silly or cheesy like a lot of releases were back then.

and then these cats released an album on motown in their early 20's. even the engineers clapped along.

then they largely helped establish the partly unfuckwithable shelter club record label.
I forgot to mention two of my fave blaze joints up there: the impossibly happy and breezy "breathe" and "lovely" (a simple acoustic guitar).

so the answer is vahid: wrong or what?

well it's a blaze thread at least, dude just don't like (being) nice is all

search! kc flightt "let's get jazzy"

...for some original hip house that puts todd terry to shame. also thisrecent white label remixes doublepack if only for the deliberately paced, anthemic remix of "fantasy" which never strays too far from the earth, wind & fire original.

we are talking about JOSH MILAN & KEVIN HEDGE

desperately seeking googlers

yeah, cause blaze are superstars

give it time.

I'd echo most of blunt's picks. I also like the Natural Blaze and Spiritually Speaking albums a lot, even if the latter can get indulgent. "Do You Remember House" is hilarious if you think of it as their version of "Losing My Edge".

Their comp of Playhouse productions was only available on Japanese import I believe, but it's very solid.

Also search: Wishing You Were Here (vocal and or dub), So Special, All That I Should Know

Their comp of Playhouse productions
I was just checking that online. listen here

"moonwalk" on that is another good 'un

d00dz i only start these threads because i want to be proven wrong

we're only joshing ya!

shit "moonwalk" was already mentioned sorry. here, have yourself a "directions" I haven't even heard yet but which has all the markings of a sound investment, on claussell's label.

i'm actually not super-impressed with "moonwalk". it's nice but it doesn't stand head-and-shoulders above, say, your average late-90s british deep house track (whereas "my beat" and "lovelee dae" ...)

Lovelee Dae (Original)
Lovelee Dae (Radio Edit)
Lovelee Dae (20:20 Vision Main Mix)
Lovelee Dae (20:20 Vision Accapella)
Lovelee Dae (Beloved Surge Mix)
Lovelee Dae (Beloved Vocal Rmx)
Lovelee Dae (Carl Craig's 70 Degrees and Sunny Mix)
Lovelee Dae (Eight Miles High Mix)
Lovelee Dae (Eight Miles High Dub)
Lovelee Dae (Freaks Radioactive Dub)
Lovelee Dae (Freestyle Man Reconstruction)
Lovelee Dae (Friends Experiment Remix)
Lovelee Dae (Isolee remix)
Lovelee Dae (LoSoul Rest In Respect Mix)
Lovelee Dae (Pépé Bradock's Mix) (6:04)
Lovelee Dae (Swag's Primitive Dub)

your average euro deep house track does not feature inspired instrumental solos on top- mostly loops/gimmicks. or standard & flatly delivered moves. does the combined display of emotion & musicianship completely get over your head?

I mean you've learned to forget the brutal/banality of electronic music kick drums, you can semi-ignore the background strings, bass as well and feel someone playing their heart out to you!

are we talking about the same "moonwalk"?

the same one that's the worst song on nuphonic 01?

okay time to go dancing have fun guys

have fun

young'n

;)

it's an instrumental hence the extended soloing, great keys, mellow on the attack. admittedly v basic backdrop

good god that nuphonic comp is not exactly filler! best tracks on it are still US imports however.

"found love" is completely unfuckwithable. sounding so nice in this tropical sunshine, they seem to have endless good vibes to spread!

Reachin' is one of those special songs with drum fills that somehow manage to be emotional...

Yes, I know exactly what you mean - the electronic toms rolling at various points, and the extended snare roll that introduces the first verse. Wonderful record.

i miss moonship journey 2 baja ;_;

i'm actually not super-impressed with "moonwalk". it's nice but it doesn't stand head-and-shoulders above, say, your average late-90s british deep house track (whereas "my beat" and "lovelee dae" ...)

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