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mms

sometimes
Benny B said:
Ive got Tronik House's 'Straight Outta Hell' on Network, and the sticker on the front calls it 'Detroit Breakcore'. And there's a 2 bad mice remix...

Don't know what Kevin Saunderson thought of 'ardkore though. The standard opinion seems to be that the original Detroit guys hated it and saw it as a bastardisation of real techno, Derrick May being the most quoted example. (im thinking of Simon Reynolds here)

What I'd like to know is: What other Detroit techno records/producers gave a nod to 'ardkore? I'm sure there must be some.
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well as i said he did the kms compilation
' journey thru hardcore' for us audiences, so he couldn't have hated it that much.
also model 500 did some hardcore ish tracks.
early ur is pretty hardcoreish too
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Cheers. Just thought I'd ask because i'm too young to have been around at the time, and the received wisdom seems to be that the Detroit producers thought British hardcore was awful. Always seemed a bit suspect to me.
 
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Ory

warp drive
Benny B said:
What I'd like to know is: What other Detroit techno records/producers gave a nod to 'ardkore? I'm sure there must be some.
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Jeff Mills came from an industrial background, so his early sound was pretty "hardcore", though I don't know if it relates to UK hardcore specifically. It's got those big, buzzy synths anyway.

http://www.discogs.com/release/88441 "Sonic Destroyer"
http://www.discogs.com/release/2121 "The Punisher"

Then there's Juan Atkins' breakbeat techno..

http://www.discogs.com/release/18060

pretty 'ardkore I'd say.. but then it was also designed to show people what "real techno" is, so make of it what you wish.
 
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Shonx

Shallow House
Punisher's a good tune. I thought Jeff Mills was from more of a hip hop background, didn't he used to be the Wizard years back before all this techno shenanigans
 
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mms

sometimes
Ory said:
Jeff Mills came from an industrial background, so his early sound was pretty "hardcore", though I don't know if it relates to UK hardcore specifically. It's got those big, buzzy synths anyway.

http://www.discogs.com/release/88441 "Sonic Destroyer"
http://www.discogs.com/release/2121 "The Punisher"

Then there's Juan Atkins' breakbeat techno..

http://www.discogs.com/release/18060

pretty 'ardkore I'd say.. but then it was also designed to show people what "real techno" is, so make of it what you wish.
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yep jeff mills final cut was a housier sound, more harcdcore
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Final+Cut
that take me away record is a vocal rave classic

about as ravey as you can get!
 
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Ory

warp drive
Shonx said:
I thought Jeff Mills was from more of a hip hop background, didn't he used to be the Wizard years back before all this techno shenanigans
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that too. but I've read that industrial was a big influence on him, which can definitely be heard in his tunes.
 
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reactiv.cd

New member
hucks said:
Did Alex Reece use the Reese in Pulp Fiction? That's what I (evidently incorrectly) always understood it to mean in a d'n'b context.
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I'm sure it's not. It's a sample from an old MC Solaar track:
Pulp Fiction:
It's a little hard to tell with the youtube audio compression but if you listen to a higher quality version it's pretty apparent (at least to my ears) that he nicks the open part of the Solaar bassline at 3:55


edit: For my money, the quintessential reese tune in dnb is Renegade - Terrorist: Think a lot of people just sampled it out of this one.
 
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michael

Bring out the vacuum
reactiv.cd said:
I'm sure it's not. It's a sample from an old MC Solaar track:
Pulp Fiction:
It's a little hard to tell with the youtube audio compression but if you listen to a higher quality version it's pretty apparent (at least to my ears) that he nicks the open part of the Solaar bassline at 3:55
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Ha, yeah think you've got it. If not, it's the same approach - sample a full track, but then muffle it right down so it's almost entirely the bass note coming through. Quite different sound from the reese bass idea - a synth with two oscillators, one tuned sharp of the note, the other flat.
 
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Client Eastwood

Well-known member
Shonx said:
Punisher's a good tune. I thought Jeff Mills was from more of a hip hop background, didn't he used to be the Wizard years back before all this techno shenanigans
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Dont know if he was a pure hip hop dj but his stlye was oure hip hop. Lots of cuts, scratches and the occasional spin backs, Ive heard a couple of mixes featuring a lot of hip (hop) house and the Cookie Crew : )
 
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mms

sometimes
whats the true meaning of bubblers as in uk bubblers and bubbling - reggae slang that seems to be very uk, does it basically mean having a nice time feeling a bit caned?
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
I think so, but then people 'bubble on the version' and girls bubble like soup in a pot (though that's a JA tune, obv). Could it be to do with having a laugh? As in jovial party tunes, not serious ones?
 
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