laurent garnier "crispy bacon": techno classic or bloghouse frankendance monstrosity?

which is it

o come mighty pipecock and enlighten us!

CLASSIC

do you ever feel like some people are fronting with this whole OMG I LOVE "CRISPY BACON" shit nowadays

Crispy Bacon is a bona fide copper-bottomed classic with a capital CLASSIC, with classic status gained and held long before bloghouse etc. became Defined Terms (or even, for that matter, simply terms).

overdriven, intentionally ugly noise = CHECK
quiet, quiet LOUD LOUD LOUD rock dynamics = CHECK

that song was aite but id be down for a thread about acid eiffel

this is one of my top 10 videos on youtube

whoah i haven't heard this in yeeeeeeeeeeeeeears

Classic, although it very much is to bloghouse as John the Baptist is to Jesus. Actually maybe you need to fit Vitalic in there somewhere as well.

maybe but "poney" and "la rock 01" all have that effortless italo chug. it's like a smoothly accelerating cosmic disco train ... not that far off from the rhythmic template for "i feel love".

whereas i hear "crispy bacon" as using these sort of very quiet "verses" followed by really loud "choruses". not sure who else was doing that at the time ... green velvet, maybe?

Classic, although it very much is to bloghouse as John the Baptist is to Jesus. Actually maybe you need to fit Vitalic in there somewhere as well.

― Matt DC, Friday, December 19, 2008 12:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kinda o_Oing at bloghouse being jesus in this analogy

classic!

no no no and thrice no.

though it is euro so fuck knows what pipecock will think

wife just made me turn it off. i suggest banned her

kinda o_Oing at bloghouse being jesus in this analogy

Haha yeah, I did think of that. Not really meant as a value judgement, although John the Baptist was probably more fun.

always off his head

MSTRKRFT - The Looks

techno classic for sure. I don't read it as verse/chorus though. It goes up and down but it's mostly the same old techno mixable intro/buildup/breakdown/freakout/mixable outro pattern.

crispy bacon is the father of vitalic....100 percent. way more than it is of bloghouse.

I'm fairly sure there is lots of techno that sounds like "Crispy Bacon" but I need to think about this.

I've overlooked LG's 'Flashback'

not frankendance but very french-sounding techno. it came out the same year as homework. i don't think it's correct to compare dramatic strobe-light french techno to frankendance (if i understand the term correctly from skimming that other thread) and this song sits squarely in a detroit-berlin lineage. it does have a "generic" techno signature though so the distortion unique-ifies it. it doesn't sound gratuitously cartoon-y or overdriven (and neither does early daft punk). is frankendance like the death of taste? that's not necessarily a bad thing.

"acid eiffel" = all time jam

Classic tune, and the Black Dog remix is even better. Don't know what this "bloghouse" thing is, but it can't be totally awful if "Crispy Bacon" spawned it.

You should search as much of it as possible Tuomas, I think you'd really like it.

Could you suggest me some artists to look for?

maybe but "poney" and "la rock 01" all have that effortless italo chug. it's like a smoothly accelerating cosmic disco train ... not that far off from the rhythmic template for "i feel love".

whereas i hear "crispy bacon" as using these sort of very quiet "verses" followed by really loud "choruses". not sure who else was doing that at the time ... green velvet, maybe?

I don't really hear a verse/chorus structure in "Crispy Bacon" (to me it just oscillates on and off like a 303 riff, but it's hard to find clear verses and choruses there), but sonically I think "Oscillator" and "Paperclip Man" (which came out before "Crispy Bacon") by Paperclip People are similar to it. And DJ Hell was doing similar things around the same time too, check out the Munich Machine album (though there's a clearer electro sound in Hell's production than with Garnier or PP).

quiet, quiet LOUD LOUD LOUD rock dynamics = CHECK

was going to listen til I read this line - thanks for warning moonship!