the use of piano in dance music, rfi, s/d, taxonomize

the europhonic house piano thred is just too small for how good the combination of killer piano + dancing is--plus dr. ronan, esq., professor emeritus of house music, thinks that all the dfa piano revival is not 'house piano' as such and more 'disco piano'

heres the thing: house piano, disco piano, trance piano, whatever, i dont care, i just want to dance to a fuckin piano. hit me up. recommendations, multi-post histories, graphs, liveblogging: if it has to do with pianos, and dance music, it belongs here

sti... ahem, betty botox's extended edit of 'going back to my roots' by richie havens is pretty crucial on the more disco-flavoured side of things.

'happy house' is a live band trying to play 'do it now' by dubtribe more than it's 'disco piano', imo.

ctrl-f "Clubbed to Death"

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if we are including electric piano, "everything is love" by mighty clouds of joy is a must (the black cock edit too)

amazing voice over in that one ^

er, that's meant to be "weekend" by phreek. maybe too obvious, but it's always the first thing that comes into mind when someone says the words "piano" and "breakdown". pisses on every single tasteful weak ass dfa endorsed £145-designer-t-shirt pianodisco track from a very great height

^^^kdjizzle. maybe a little too RAW for your thread

i almost posted that phreek track too, but realized that the piano part is emphasized a lot more in phantom slasher's edits "skull volley" and "tripod" (which i think are the same)

can't find it online unfortunately but the a-side of this:

http://www.discogs.com/Heaven-Earth-Space-And-Time-Prescription-Every-Night/release/16078

is such an incredible track

xp

soul capsule law of grace

only youtube of it i can find is from efdemin playin it at sonar, i imagine sound quality may be gash. He played it i saw him at weekend over the summer at about 9am on a friday morning (god bless you berlin) and i nearly burst into tears on the dancefloor. Spent ages trying to get hold of it but about £100 any time i saw it. i was absolutely ecstatic earlier on this year when i realised all the soul capsule tracks were collected on a CD which comes with the special edition of the first melchior productions album

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favourite new(ish) piano track is wookies gallium which got a pretty shady vocal cut this year

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ugh what a mess

"law of grace" is beautiful. you can stream it at imeem:

http://www.imeem.com/people/zfMFj_s/music/rpNnXA_s/soul_capsule_prod_law_of_grace/

would love a vinyl copy

which reminds me, "love was" from the first melchior prod has some good europhoric pianos. really need to get a copy of that aspect music cd

here's another good one on prescription

was law of grace a crazy short run? or is it so expensive just because its fantastic and on that villalobos takataka comp?

for that chris rea driving home for xmas vibe

not great sound quality but still necessary

If we're talking Henrik Schwarz then surely we should be talking about (the second half of) his remix of Alton Miller's "Clouds Are Gone" (sadly not on youtube)!

more of that raw shit ya'll:

Obv. there's lot of UK funky that sounds like a ruffer version of "La Esquina" - stuff like D-Malice's "Visions", Seany B's "Stomper" etc. This is the vocal version of Wookie's "Gallium", "Fallin' Again" (nothing "shady" about it at all BTW!):

I tried to find that Tim...

We had a thread where we tried to trace the genealogy of house piano, but it didn't get very far:

House Piano

yesss thank u guys

damn is there a frankie knuckles remix that doesnt use a piano somewhere?

of anything, i mean

soon im going to start this same thread... for strings!!

hella awesome thread; my suggestion missed the point, obv

i wanted to start this same thread but for guitar solos after listening to harvey's ministry of sound mix almost every day in 2007 (on a shitty real audio rip natch, if anyone has mp3s i would be eternally grateful!)

Haha I was in a band for about five minutes at university and we did a live version of Get Get Down, that piano really brings back memories. I think this came out of drunkenly trying to count the number of times he says 'down' in that record.

Also following on from Tim's post, I am a big fan of this:

Heard this (and this specific version of it too) at about 9am at a totally debaucherous dance party about nine years ago, and on a pill. It changed my life:

the song that lily allen's "knock em out" samples: "big chief" by professor longhair:

Yeah that Maleka tune is fabulous. I refrained from suggesting Crazy Cousinz tracks only because they're actually very subtle in their use of piano - more tinkly than stabby. Even in this one it's only the breakdown that really pushes that sound. But it's not a flaw: it's more like, we've got tricks to spare!

treva whateva - "singalong" - the opening track of mr scruff's insane breezeblock mix for radio 1 -

http://www.last.fm/music/Treva+Whateva/_/Singalong

there's another great "down down down down down" house tune from maybe 92 or so that got remixed a million times, with harmonies on the chorus going "doooowwn" and a male singer going "ya got ta be! down down down down down down! (down down down down down down)"

it's an electric piano on the song, but hey

I never much liked Kylie's "Spinning Around", but when I saw her live she added the piano from CeCe Peniston's "Finally" and it was instant fabulousness. This isn't even quite as amazing as the version I saw but you should still check it:

The finest song of 1995:

sometimes i think "finally" is the greatest song that has ever been written

albertracks (a.k.a. albert cabrera) - "salsa"

http://www.last.fm/music/Albertracks

N-Trance, ha jesus...that brings back a weird memory.

the definitive version of 'set u free' has to be the 7-minute long extended one w/STORM NOISES

So happy I decided to work from home today!

This is still the definitive piano house tune for me.

laughing light of plenty - "the rose" has some pretty great piano.. as a taxonomic matter i'd say it falls into the category of "mood setter" though, a la "love love love" by low motion disco, rather than "this is the part where you jump around"

xpost that is awesome

BIZNIZZ:

more spokoistvia - "vrindavan"

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Future-East/release/877598

not 4/4 but still piano-fabulous

OMG Matt that FPI Project track is amazing. Plus it appears to be the track that Pepe Bradock sampled for the vocals on (the amazing) "Atom Funk".

God, don't even get me started on Law Of Grace. . .

I NEED a copy on vinyl, but believe me, they don't come cheap.