Acid Electro Pop revival

rivetrenuck

Well-known member
I have been rinsing Missy Kittins - On The Road and Felix Da Housecats Excursions!

I would really like to hear more n more. Too bad these expired almost immediately after they were born. although some bands are still releasing albums like Ladytron.

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Just stunning!

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IdleRich

IdleRich
Passion is one of my all time favourite tunes. Bobby Orlando was a strange guy but a good producer.
Surely a whole fuck-ton of this stuff came out in the early-ish noughties - all the Gigolo stuff such as Vitalic etc fits with this doesn't it?
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Go on Rich! Passion is one the genius tunes of all time.

I associate Kittin etc with electroclash and going to Nag Nag Nag in London. I always liked Emerge by Fischerspooner - in fact I think it's great - even though they were maligned and hyped to death. Still works now. Weird record, and better for it.

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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Miss Kittin was the only good thing I saw in Sonar the year I went. The mobile phone service had totally collapsed/was impossible to get which was deeply frustrating cos the place was fucking packed and it was really easy to lose people, and she came on and went
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, before we take off, please fasten your seat belts and turn off your mobile phones"
and the whole place just erupted.

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IdleRich

IdleRich
Ha - I think there is a surprising(?) overlap in our musical tastes at time Sloane... I definitely reckon Emerge still stands up even if it got absolutely CANED in every club in London every day for about two years. They kept on re-releasing it trying to get a big hit but somehow it never sold any outside of Shoreditch. Great tune though for me. I think I prefer the original to the Dave Clarke mix although that kinda made it more effective for a straight up techno crowd.
I used to like this one a lot... though maybe it was a different mix I had... lost the twelve-inch somehow anyway so I can't check.

 

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
Passion! Builds and builds and then the vocal drops. Mix it with a bit of Gino Soccio :)

MoS signed Fischerspooner for silly money on the back of Emerge but they never got past that record did they?

The first Futurism compilation (pink one) on City Rockers was my gateway into all this and still stands up as a really good overview and I had a cdr of this nag nag nag mix from 2004 that is probably floating around online now. Some of the best nights dancing until it all went a bit too indie, ed banger stuff took over and the Daft Punk hagiography started eight years too late.


 

craner

Beast of Burden
'Stock Exchange' by Kittin & Hacker was a great, hilarious record. Good lyrics, perfect delivery; exactly right for the time (I thought, then). The first American Gigolo compilation was very good, as well.

I was listening to these records on the weekend, funnily enough (Vitalic mostly, via Youtube) and noticed that a lot of it still exists in one form or another, but has not really moved very far in 10 years. Kittin & Hacker have just released a new record, if you’re still interested.

I also noticed startling off-spring, a breed of hyper 80s revivalism by outfits called Miami Heat 1984, College, Lazerhawke, Kavinsky, Futurecop!, Noir Deco. It’s all slushy and evocative vintage electro, sort of like backing music for arcade games or budget action movies. There’s a lot of it on Youtube, where fans paste together video collages from clips of Miami Vice, Scarface, Pretty In Pink, Less Than Zero, fitness videos, pictures of Lamborghinis and Vectors, mock airbrush graphics, etc.

I’m taking a wild guess in saying that those responsible have no memory or experience of the actual 80s, and yet cannot decide between themselves which year was more definitive or iconic: ‘84, ‘86, or ‘88. They seem to take a stance somewhere between cynical/blank ridicule and sheer joy and indulgence in the sounds and styles they are recycling.

It’s a totally different thing from Electroclash which had clear roots in techno and house. I suspect it’s made by guys in bedrooms and indie renegades rather than European club kids, although I could be wrong: apparently College are from Paris and their music was used in Drive. It could just be a gauche devolvement in hipster electro: Shoreditch with the conceptual artists and fashion hags excised. I have no idea.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps

Saw her and Chili Gonzales at 93'E about ten years ago. Just so much fun.
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
"I also noticed startling off-spring, a breed of hyper 80s revivalism by outfits called Miami Heat 1984, College, Lazerhawke, Kavinsky, Futurecop!, Noir Deco. It’s all slushy and evocative vintage electro, sort of like backing music for arcade games or budget action movies. There’s a lot of it on Youtube, where fans paste together video collages from clips of Miami Vice, Scarface, Pretty In Pink, Less Than Zero, fitness videos, pictures of Lamborghinis and Vectors, mock airbrush graphics, etc.
I’m taking a wild guess in saying that those responsible have no memory or experience of the actual 80s, and yet cannot decide between themselves which year was more definitive or iconic: ‘84, ‘86, or ‘88. They seem to take a stance somewhere between cynical/blank ridicule and sheer joy and indulgence in the sounds and styles they are recycling.
It’s a totally different thing from Electroclash which had clear roots in techno and house. I suspect it’s made by guys in bedrooms and indie renegades rather than European club kids, although I could be wrong: apparently College are from Paris and their music was used in Drive. It could just be a gauche devolvement in hipster electro: Shoreditch with the conceptual artists and fashion hags excised. I have no idea."
Yeah, seen a lot of this stuff while flicking through youtube looking for a slightly different sound... the Miami Vice/To Live and Die in LA sound is a lot more popular than the stuff I was looking for. Powerglove is one band I came across, maybe with a (eighties) computer game aesthetic mixed in. A lot of this stuff is too polite for me but every now and again it clicks. In other words most of it is rubbish and some of it isn't. Like everything else.
 

rivetrenuck

Well-known member
I like kittin and hackers new stuff but it feels like its lost its dirtyness. If that makes any sense.

But Dave Clarkes World Service CDs are brilliant! I wonder if he has made several other mixes with the same sound. And not really digging the whole computer game sound.

Love Fischerspooner! they have some really fantastic video, but for some reason they have remade the Emerge video, I wonder if can look up the old video.

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Leo

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fischerspooner were pretty cool, started out as an art project doing performance art in galleries, then grew into an actual full-fledged music venture. i know someone who worked at emi/capitol at the time, said when electroclash was becoming the hip thing they signed them and gave a pretty big push in the states. they ended up selling about 3,000 units and had a ton of returns still sitting in the warehouse when he left a few years later.

does this thread also cover all the Italians Do It Better artists, like glass candy, desire, chromatics, johnny jewel (who did the original unreleased soundtrack to "drive", later released as a 2cd as "symmetry"), etc.? love that stuff.
 

rivetrenuck

Well-known member
it covers anything with the same sound and aesthetic! thanks for the recommend need to look these up:cool:

any good releases by the Italians do it better crew? perhaps even a good mix CD or set?


yes i wonder many times myself why fischerspooner are not better known. Some of the good bands just fall thru the crack i suppose. Perhaps too strange for the mainstream.


Glass Candy remind me of this track but less 2stepy

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and even this came to mind. i dont mean to go off topic or rather off sound, but

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IdleRich

IdleRich
Not really the same style but I think I prefer the original of Kaltes Klares Wasser to the Chicks on Speed version.


I went to Nag Nag Nag sometimes. One of the djs was called Phil OK or something which I thought was pretty good.
I remember liking this one which is a cover of Fear by Easy Going (who was one of the guys out of Goblin) although I didn't know that at the time.

 
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