"Give Me All Your" [mp3 removed]
Launching a short run of blog posts on a house music theme. This one is Sidstation samples played with a mangled commercial vocal and some "phat" synth lines.
Day: February 18, 2008
"New Monuments (House Mix)"
"New Monuments (House Mix)" [mp3 removed]
Have been working on this for about a week. The soundtrack for the "New Monuments" video is a spinoff mix from this. It's essentially the "Sidbeats 2" track posted previously with some lush house pads but it took a lot of work to get those two to jibe. The grooves are kind of stop and start (by design) so it's not a true house tune.
"Microminihouse"
"Microminihouse" [mp3 removed]
This was done in the Limelight Reaktor instrument. I might use it for something else but it feels complete (if terse) like this.
More Unidentified Rave Tracks
As a hobby have been digitizing my cassette tapes of early '90s house music, originally spun live on Dallas's "Edge Club" radio show by DJ Jeff K and guest DJs from the international rave scene (DJ Icey, Utah Saints, DIY Crew, etc). The cassettes were made during the year or two before I moved to NY. Occasionally put up posts asking if anyone can identify the tracks (I had no set list) and have not gotten any response. This means either that they are impossibly obscure or the ultimate niche interest in a world teeming with ultimate niche interests.
Undeterred, here are two clips made over the weekend:
Unknown Early '90s Dance Track A1: [mp3 removed]
This is straight up acid house, with a 303 and possibly a 909 because the hats sound like samples, and there's some backwards drum hits (the 808 was all live synthesis). It's very subtle and hypnotic--at the point this track was done, acid had had been around for a few years; it was minimal because the producer knew exactly what could be left out. There's no flash. Much of the impact derives from the single note Rhodes stab and the lonely churchbell/trainwhistle sound in the background.
Unknown Early '90s Dance Track A2: [mp3 removed]
Bizarre--it sounds like a whole soccer stadium full of people going "AAAA-AAAH," out of which emerges a sweet, John Barry-esque piano melody (as Simon Reynolds once described the orchestral interludes in Acen's "Trip to the Moon.") This could only have been done in England.
