Techno/House Bobbins of the past

Oh for fuck's sake, Can a moderator move this to ILM.

Excellent idea. Both ideas are excellent.

i've recently picked up some 12"s on the old forcetracks label. this one in particular is pretty good. any recommendations for other forcetracks stuff (besides luomo)?

I'm quite enjoying John Beltran lately, that very mid-90's Detroity ambient techno sound.

Also, Agaric - Virke (liebe Detail 10 from 2006) is killing me right now.

which John Beltran are you listening too? Placid Angles is awesome.

love 'Decembers Tragedy' by Beltran, mehlt's description being the reason

I think Decembers Tragedy was used in the HBO series Six Feet Under.. It was cool hearing as a soundtrack.

Dub Taylor had a couple good/great LP's + 12"s on Force Tracks.

also check the label Raum...Musik for other pre-bobbins sounds.

Beltran's Ten Days of Blue LP on Peacefrog is classic from the first sound to the last.

In terms of Force Tracks MRI's All That Glitters is one I come back to cos it's pure pop. "Tied to the 80's" is from a an 80's TV theme and the dub Aaliyah cover is soo cool.

Heh, I was playing All That Glitters a moment ago - first Vinyl I ever owned.

I've been listening to the Beltran Stuff of Stryax Leaves, which is a really great label by the way, which are rereleases from older stuff. 'Anticipation' is wonderful, and "vienna" is beautiful little piece of classical string sampling.

Heh, I was playing All That Glitters a moment ago - first Vinyl I ever owned.

jesus.

In my defense, I'm only 19.

All That Glitters, I still come back to that one too. Esp. side 1 and YEA the aaliyah tribute!

Speaking of Force, I want to rep for the Star You Star Me album (esp. "Perfect Day" and "Sweet Things", which are mighty swoonful).

Akufen tunes on force tracks are belters.

Akufen! That guy disappeared off the grid for the last couple years as far as releases have gone, right?

He's apparently putting out an album this year!

I don't know why, but I found the MRI album to be really irritating with a few exceptions. I still need to hear the Mathias Schaffhäuser and Crank AK stuff on FT.

In my defense, I'm only 19.

heh i wasn't zinging , you just made me feel old and useless. i have and love the 'all that glitters' double vinyl btw, esp the title track.

Tied To The 80s is a gorgeous track - I heard it via gareth via spencer chow but I'm not sure I heard any other MRI.

Crane A.K.'s Pink Eyed Pony seems fairly typical of the Force Tracks roster to me. Deep, dubby, bouncy, clicky. More minimal than Dub Taylor, a bit too polite?

a couple of v old classics i recently encountered:

Jesse Saunders - On And On
good electro-boogie/house crossover but you could make a good case for this as first house track ever maybe (released in 84 but maybe first recorded in 83)

Farley Jackmaster Funk - Jackin The Trax
to hear it you'd believe hercules & love affair have been basing much of their sound on this one track. great house with that macabre synth hook seemingly taking its cue from italo and electro from a few years earlier.

second one is m4a btw

i also put this on the prescription thread: http://www.sendspace.com/file/85v4yg

romanthony - the wanderer (journeyman thump)

I saw the Ladomat 100 compilation in a charity shop today, listening to it now the pre-Kompakt quirkyness seems so great. I think I should hunt down more of this stuff.

the only thing on Ladomat 2000 i've heard is this, which i like. what else is worth checking for?

this is all-time top 10 luv 4eva material: http://www.discogs.com/release/49178

This Ladomat 2000 is all-time top 10 too - http://www.discogs.com/release/17353

Bobbins galore: http://www.youtube.com/user/HouseMasterz

hardwax appears to have copies of moodymann's ultra-classic 'dem young sconies' 12". a repress, perhaps?? in any case, can't rate this one highly enough.

I would be real surprised if Dem Young Sconies was an OP. That record makes you wonder what would have happened if KDJ had decided to concentrate on techno. That record hasn't left my crate in years.

Model 500 'Starlight' is still a favorite of mine. Play doubles of that late at night. The recent Echospace/Deepchord remixes are alright, but the original holds up just fine. Others I still love, Ken Iishi 'Overlap (Mark Broom mix)', Joey Beltram 'Energy Flash', Burger/Ink 'Las Vegas', Axis' lp on Guidance, Moodyman 'Forevermore', Jay Dee 'Plastic Dreams' must still be making them money, i see new remixes of that every year. Then, play Irresistable Force's 'Flying High' over some djax to kick out the jams.

Yeah that's weird about "Dem Young Sconies" appearing at Hardwax. Do they sell bootleg stuff? I mean there is always the chance that Planet E re-pressed it I suppose, but I would think they would've used one of the Planet E Classics labels or something rather than the original label like they're showing on the Hardwax site.

hardwax sold the sharevari repress, which was rumored to be a bootleg, so who knows?

i'm all for bootlegs of shit that never gets repressed, though (like sharevari).

True and the "Sharevari" boot just feels very different from a bootleg of an active label that has even been re-pressing some of it's "Classics." No judgement in these statements (I got both the "Sharevari" and "U Can Dance If U Want 2" bootlegs) just wondering.

i didn't know there was a bootleg of "u can dance"

totally awesome

but i'm still waiting for the "moody trax" boot

"Yeah that's weird about "Dem Young Sconies" appearing at Hardwax. Do they sell bootleg stuff? I mean there is always the chance that Planet E re-pressed it I suppose, but I would think they would've used one of the Planet E Classics labels or something rather than the original label like they're showing on the Hardwax site.

-- matt2"

a bunch of DYS 12" appeared at the Planet E booth at DEMF 06 (i think it was) along with the original Designer Music 4 track EP. DYS was $5, DM was $15. i got em both as each was amongst my most wanted Planet E's.....

All the more proof that it's really unacceptable that I've never made it to DEMF. I keep trying to convince my wife that it would be a great vacation.

is this the right place to ask about forever sweet-- namely, is anything else they did as perfect as "bleed"? does other ladomat stuff sound similar?

"All the more proof that it's really unacceptable that I've never made it to DEMF. I keep trying to convince my wife that it would be a great vacation.

-- matt2"

it is a great vacation. i bring my wife and my younger sister with me every year. at least 20 of my friends go up every year from pittsburgh as well, not even counting all the people i know from around the world who show up. its as good of a time as you can have if you like dance music.

That'd be the problem. Wifey loves dancing but doesn't like "dance music." It only takes about 30 seconds of any synthetic beat of the thump-thump-thump-thump-this-is-going-to-be-a-dance-song variety and my wife gets extreme anxiety. She loves Depeche Mode and plenty of early 90's poppier house stuff but can't stomach a moment of "true" techno, even something as gorgeous as "R-Theme" or "Dominas." I know, it doesn't make sense to me either.

My bf and I went for the first time last year and hope to make it a tradition. He is not into dance music/music in general as much as I am, but he's willing to indulge me and has family in Michigan so it works out. It is our one chance each year to hear this music in its "proper" setting (i.e. not between a pair of headphones or blasting from my car).

Yeah, I'm pretty much asked to keep the beats in my headphones.

I really, really want to go to DEMF again this year but it overlaps with a 2 week Germany trip. I guess that balances out.

Just got this one yesterday: http://www.discogs.com/release/4982

The locked groove on the A side is perfect. I let it play for 10 or 15 minutes yesterday.

"That'd be the problem. Wifey loves dancing but doesn't like "dance music." It only takes about 30 seconds of any synthetic beat of the thump-thump-thump-thump-this-is-going-to-be-a-dance-song variety and my wife gets extreme anxiety. She loves Depeche Mode and plenty of early 90's poppier house stuff but can't stomach a moment of "true" techno, even something as gorgeous as "R-Theme" or "Dominas." I know, it doesn't make sense to me either.

-- matt2"

man, that sucks. get her some good drugs and take her there, maybe she'll have a religious experience and you can all live happily ever after ;)

on the other hand, you could just go by yourself! there are lots of friendly techno nerds there.....

got a few things today. soul center III which is pretty cool, very unique sounding.

also got this psi performer remixes and am just listening to it now. has anyone heard the album?

and should i go back to the shop and pick up Sten - Leaving The Frantic for $6?

Plot twist, there was no bus

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

Grey - Billy Smiles too Much (2004)

Very much in the spirit of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg8o-VJEfPw

Merrick Brown - swizzlestick

oh duh, it’s the same label, that’s why

I still jam this fairly frequently, and right now it's giving me beautiful nostalgic 2000s vibes

The Rice Twins - For Penny And Alexis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3EYn0TE1Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7L4qc4WlkQ

Dillinger & Capone - Trysting Fields

Any opinions on this? It's just been reissued. By the way, I MADE THIS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUVng2_-SwU

Jewellery - 'Voices'

Classic sound! Love those hats, congrats on the reissue.

Cheers, thanks

I think they were 909 hihat samples in the S950, and pitched up. I'll have to try that again. I often adjust the pitch of bass drums and snares, but for some reason (stupidity, probably) it doesn't usually occur to me to alter the pitch of hihats and I just fiddle with the EQ instead.

What a track!! Thanks for this

https://soundcloud.com/young-ouin-ouin/unknown-artist-unknown-title-1989

Unknown record at Raydon Airfield, Suffolk 1989. Looks to be part of a liveset but no one seems to know who

got this slice of bliss for a quid today, definitely one for the flotation tank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynf0hpcJM0E
Yantra - The Birth Of Stars (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNzjYDYr-o

Big Ang vs Re:Mad-e - Find a Groove (2004)

Big Ang celebrating the Europa win, James Mad-e Maddison chipping in with the assist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmIMPM3_lNU

Digging into the Aqua boogie catalog has been a goal of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLCU4ZvBDSw

JT Company – Don't Deal With Us (1990)

route one top bins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kzSUvMCT_8

Universal Tongues feat. DKMA - Let Me Go (2000)

Never knew who this was until came across by chance but it should have been obvious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95g379sdm2Q

Electric Choc – Shock The Beat (Piano Mix)

top bins again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6YVqw_DFkA

Freefall Featuring Psychotropic - Sofa Surfing

tucked away on a b side, an insidious teatime wander down wandering lane

Facebook reminded me that I posted this one about 13 years ago. Still a banger, true deep house classic imho.

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

That does totally bang

Found this very rude-basslined number, plucked from the midpoint between early 00s south london tech house and early 00s south london proto-dubstep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ognlIlbKbc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSn9s0jJ_do

Atlantic Fusion - Oh Yeah (1996)

that's right

xp to ed.b, a few years back primitive recs offered their whole (?) discography for a deep discount on bandcamp and i took advantage of the sale. that one is listed as DRUMPRINTS SAMPLER ONE - A.

good stuff!

Oof, forgot to list the name and didn’t realize the vid didn’t list it. Very curious who the unknown artist is, though. All the Primitive records I’ve found have been great, too.

Posted on a dedicated thread I made 17+ years ago, but I want to note that Pounding Grooves made some astonishingly good "free rave crusty acid techno" (lol) back in the day. I love this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgAXv2bzOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7yXaWMtPco

Radical Chic - In DA Shadows (Terry Francis Remix)

route one football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITyo35jNzI

Deeper Cut - Feel It Club Mix (1994)

I didn't realize this came back out last year with 2024 remixes, the original keeps the rustic English charm though

found some records in the back of a closet, this track is really gorgeous imho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-9vyKEe4mc

also hadn’t heard this dub in forever, it’s great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m2jFmdZqmc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzTJNMid1zY

Smallage - Together

the trequartista finds the space

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

DJ Central & Soft Armour - Deliberate Fun (2017)

raucous and drowsy

Aarhus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nPtotD-FOg

Sonic Repo– Shake Me Down (Happy Larry & Rapino Bros Club Remix)

home counties italo jupiter jazz

also worked later on Lesley Garretts contribution to the Diana Princess Of Wales Tribute

Love that one! And speaking of space jazz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ9k_08JCPw

Vince Watson - Jazz Satellite

'99, but also released under his Orange Project alias the year prior.

love Vince Watson, never understood why he is not more lauded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKr2USgwDQ

DJ's Friend - Silver Surfing (1994)

early dazzler from Damon Rochefort, later screenwriter for ITV's mancuncian deep house documentary Coronation Street

^^sick

One hell of a varied career tbf. Acid house version of Don't Believe the Hype > Nomad - Devotion > Michelle Gayle etc > screenwriter for Birds Of A Feather > Corrie.

This one of his came up on a deep dive into stuff tagged as 'Techno' on Discogs, don't think it ever got its own release but I'm a big fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-eIwk7t4Zk

lego jazz, this one is great! The all dayers at the rovers return must have been legendary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br1PGOiJAcY

Dennis DeSantis - On The Gripping Hand (Paul's Losing His Grip Mix) (2004)

festive outlook into view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYl70A4VwU

Off-Shore ‎- I Can't Take The Power

The vocal isn't a straight lift, first part "I can't take" from Class Actions Weekend, rest from Jocelyn Brown

Big fan of how Umek used that sample in the early 00’s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36KO_XIz8-Y

didn’t realize that about the vocal lift! one of my fave piano house tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V3xrckUZYE

Dark & Moody – Volume 1

the nights are drawing in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7P8wwsIaN8

Real Cool - U Know, U Know (2012)

I came across this fleeting light-hearted ditty from Malmo recently and was very glad to have done so, u know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsxVP--ppk4

Syko & Mak - Recognition (Econ-Omix)

Hertford vs Hitchin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9t9Dk1Dtz8

Tony G - Tony's Song (1988)

Odd mix of jaunty and creepy, I think i prefer without the Al Pacino samples (or recreations according to some on discogs) but the instrumental isn't online