SMITH OR HACK?

very difficult. are any of these not good? it's too bad there was never a dedicated disco consultant release.

i'm not that into errorsmith, myself

soundhack - epic laser-tooled house trax
soundstream - laid-back outer space precision-mistake house cut-ups
errorsmith - brain melting ultra-glitch cut-ups
smith'n'hack - add soundhack to soundstream and stir for 10 minutes
mmm - laser-tooled electro-techno cut-ups
mmm/soundhack - bouillabaisse

errorsmith - patience testing ultra-glitch cut-ups

touché! i saw them play live and it was anything but patience testing (mutek 04). it's kind of like techno turned inside out.

what is the EP with the goggles on the cover? i have to dig around and find it. i think it's errorsmith

errorsmith #2

one time i tried to put the old network comp "bio rhythm - dance music with bleeps" on the disc changer but i hit the wrong button and ended up playing smith'n'hack's "tribute" instead, without realizing what i had done. totally fucked me up, i was like, "oh my god this is the best bleep'n'bass comp ever!" does that mean anything?

personally i'm partial to sound stream and smith'n'hack but i have to think about this for a while

i dunno, it might be patience testing, but it is so ultra-fetishistic (like all of these releases except errorsmith is the ne plus ultra). it's like what a whole shit-ton of industrial/EBM aspires to be except that other music strikes a pose and glowers as you while errorsmith ties you up and says, "you will like john zorn beyotch!!"

soundhack - epic laser-tooled house trax dj tools

i am partial to smith'n'hack and soundstream as well. i don't think i could pick a soundstream though because i think they are all really special. smith'n'hack was my introduction and makes an easy pick. hrm.

ysi?

does that mean anything?

sounds like an awesome happy accident to me. (although it is ripe for a deconstruction a la pick a dance music critic and imagine what they would say about the music because this happened to you. at least that's what popped into my head. like you could say something about the black-holes of musical cognitive dissonance at the edges of the sonic dance music continuum or talk about the similarities of the musical discourse vis a vis contemporary austere german rave and pre-rave british musics, etc, etc)

http://www.soundhack.de/
http://www.zentrale-mmm.de/

i like and play almost all of these. despite lacking a true anthem (like "donna", "good soul", "to our disco friends", etc), i have to say "Soundkit" is my personal favorite. the sounds, art, and track titles go together so well, and somehow it reminds me of old school Chicago house in a really great way. the one i usually play is "Ripping Chisel" but theyre all a good mix of experimental minimal and dancefloor banger.

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lol, the threads you miss when you hide polls. nobody voted for 'tribute'???

that last soundstream was easily one of the best releases of last year. picking just one from all this lot is hard though... maybe 'freakin'?

missed this one but I'd have flipped a (3 sided!) coin between "Soundkit" "Soundhack 01" and "Soundhack 02". '01' is probably the one I play the most, and has the most 'straightforward' trax so I bet that one would have been my choice I think.

Also, Soundstream did the best remix of 'See Mi Yah'

Oh My Goodness that Rhythm and Sound Remix. Heard it only like a week ago, because of sorry, you may not vote for easy lee, moving like a train or see mi yah remixes and wow.

oh yes it's crucial. i didn't like his prosumer/marat tepeli remix much though - one of the handful of things i don't care for from the smith/hack axis. (maybe it was just the wrong track to re-do, soundstream coulda done wonders with 'makes me wanna dance' off that prosumer/tepeli record i think.)

remix of herbert ftw

ooooh boy....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL-4BE_4TI0

^^^that's one of my favourite tracks of the last year.

is it last year? i thought it was brand new. amazing thing.

oh "of the last year"....

sound stream - live goes on (2008) 0

lol

yes, "of the last year" it's a few months old but still doing it.

it's brand new to me. stopped me in my tracks. these two people don't make enough music.

Serious lol at the voter turnout on this one.

thank you. no, thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygK2cAWbmBU

YESSSSS

the best disc won

the sound stream stuff all has this huge bass rumble/wallop to it. how does he do it??

"all night" especially has this massive 3D low end that just sounds so so badass

he doesn't do much press, this was good though on his thought process (if not actual nuts-n-bolts production): http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1050

One of the very few producers who I have all the solo stuff by. “Live” Goes On is probably my favourite though.

managed to catch smith-n-hack 2 for a fiver at local hole-in-the-wall techno shop near the market - only missing soundhack 2 and MMM 2 from my smith-n-hackedex at this point.