cracked out house

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mms

sometimes
really loving this really cracked out house sound at the mo - stuff like audion lp , the pete grummich single and 2 am/pm record on spectral - villalobos last one etc - stuff from word and sound outta germany really slimey grungy slow stuff
anyone else feeling it ?
 
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vache

Well-known member
The new Dandy Jack album on Perlon is in this vein and quite excellent. "Arabs in the Dessert" is an astounding track.
 
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tate

Brown Sugar
mms said:
really loving this really cracked out house sound at the mo - stuff like audion lp , the pete grummich single and 2 am/pm record on spectral - villalobos last one etc - stuff from word and sound outta germany really slimey grungy slow stuff
anyone else feeling it ?
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not sure if it's what you have in mind, but techno journalist/Dj Philip Sherburne has been talking about "ketamine house" for a bit now. Article here. Was surprised at how well the classical guitar worked in Villa-Lobos' Hireklon, btw. Excellent note selection there too
 
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Buick6

too punk to drunk
Never heard of any of this shit, but you've got me *curious*. So I do a search on 'Audion' and find (not sure if its the same outfit) they have traxx titled 'your place or mine' and 'tittyfuck'...

Great to see that the sexy/porno themes are coming back to house - whether its straight/gay/bi or try - in fact more porngraphically GAY dance music would prolly work real good right now.

Have any of you droids heard of HONEYSMACK..he kinda invented cracked-out house.
 
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tryptych

waiting for a time
Interesting... strange that people are referring to "crackhouse" which would make me think urban, paranoid, dystopian and "ketamine house" which makes me think biomechanical, euphoric psychedelia. Better have a listen...
 
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dominic

Beast of Burden
Buick6 said:
Great to see that the sexy/porno themes are coming back to house - whether its straight/gay/bi or try - in fact more porngraphically GAY dance music would prolly work real good right now.
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i've plugged this stuff once before, but i'll do it again

first, g. rizo on codek records

second, superstars of love -- straight outta st louis

third, in flagranti -- also on codek
 
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jack

Well-known member
It's kind of 'progressive''s revenge. I'm not sure I sure I buy the ILM arugument that german house is now a pretty elaglitarian affair - micro and electro houses kind of merging into one general Good House Music crossroads. It seems more the soundscapers' reaction to the 2001-2003 *critical buzz words* cold, raw, sexual electro-house trend.

Audion 'kisses' kicks arse though
 
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simon silverdollar

Guest
it's all about dominik eulberg. his tracks and his mixes = weird house valhalla [sorry!]
 
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mms

sometimes
no its not the dominick ulberg style or dandy jack which is more elastic than anything else , ulberg is great - very strange ace music i know those records that philip sherburne is talking about but this is more like 3 tracks on one side of vinyl or one really long track - absolutley filthy and industrial style with filthy bass work going on, and nasty noise coming in and out, maybe its just a few records on spectral ghostly but they're certainly ghostly !
These seem intended to confuse and hurt a little - in the same way that nouturn did !
 
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Tim F

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Haven't heard those specific tracks but if it's Grummich and Audion... sounds like some kind of Post-Knartz affair ("Knartz" being German sawtooth techno)? Slowing it down strikes me as something of a "new beat" manouevre which might work really well...
 
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kingofcars

Well-known member
knarz = thomas heckmann's moniker for grungey ebm-inspired techno, right? lots of nitzer ebb covers and shouty german vocals, w/ heavy grating basslines (a bunch of this stuff has been re-released recently). the new grummich stuff definitely seems in that vein, as well as that brian aneurysm record on spectral...i don't think the tempos are particularly slower, although it could be really great to hear some of this stuff drop to 110-115 bpm...
the audion stuff almost seems to recall mentasm-y rave and early tweaked-out robert armani-styled stuff, to me...grummich is grinding, visceral...audion seems more ecstatic....

on a possibly semi-tangential note, what do people here think of the recent sun god/hieroglyphic being releases? while maybe not as textured as the other artists mentioned, the recent sun god stuff feels really brillaintly unhinged to me...raw analog freak-outs that constantly seem on the verge of falling completely apart...same goes for the recent releases on muzique, by sun god and steve poindexter....
 
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mms

sometimes
well the 2 am/pm one is the grungiest overall - real heaviness that space that mover records have with the grinding lack og musicality that industrial techno has
 
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fe7affe

New member
judging from this thread, "cracked out house" is what continental europeans refer to as "minimal techno" these days
 
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simon silverdollar

Guest
from MMS's description of this newly-coined phrase:

"absolutley filthy and industrial style with filthy bass work going on, and nasty noise coming in and out"

i think he's more talking about a sub-style/recent trend within minimal techno.
 
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turtles

in the sea
for grungy techno, you definitely have to check out motiivi:tuntematon - 1939, which sherburne's been going on about for awhile. pure sludge techno.

also on a slightly older, slightly different tip, wolgang voigt did a lot of great dirty, grungy techno under his freiland moniker/label back in the late 90s. oh also some of the stuff by Heib, like "Diana dies tonight" which is on...speicher 18.

at least this is what i think of given your description mms, though i've only heard bits of the audion stuff. will have to check out the grummich and 2 am/pm.
 
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mms

sometimes
simon silverdollar said:
from MMS's description of this newly-coined phrase:

"absolutley filthy and industrial style with filthy bass work going on, and nasty noise coming in and out"

i think he's more talking about a sub-style/recent trend within minimal techno.
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yeah its sort of maximal techno
 
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