Minimal house anthems

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childrentalking

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yeah that cassy track is top.

scottish crowds are ok -- subclub is great, amazing vibe in that place. we are electric is shit -- the resident djs are awful. i've had a good time there for guests before but it's definitely been in spite of the crowd, who i've noticed tend to react the most to the tunes i dislike the most, generally...
 
sodiumnightlife

sodiumnightlife

Sweet Virginia
the resident dj on wednesday actually played some pretty good stuff i thought. sub club is great. was gonna go through tonight for jay haze but am too broke.
 
sodiumnightlife

sodiumnightlife

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nah i'm a huge snob, i had very low expectations but it was actually very enjoyable. I thought the residents were just gonna play shit electro house, any more of which I definitely don't need in my life.
 
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Smith n Hack - Space Warrior. Best House 12" this year so far by a mile. Both sides are ace. :)
 
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childrentalking

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fantastic record, but doesn't really belong on this thread. let's not tarnish smith n hack with this 'minimal' label, or it's getting even more meaningless than it already was.
 
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childrentalking

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yeah the B side is where it's at. best Italo revival track I've heard probably. not minimal in any way, shape or form though (unless anyone who's German gets called minimal nowadays!)
 
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Gabba Flamenco Crossover

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elgato said:
this is a better clip of my preferred track...

http://www.smith-n-hack.de/smith_n_hack_-_falling_star.mp3

i find it very very lush. i think it needs decent speakers / headphones and a bit of a relaxed atmosphere (or an atmosphere where you can be sucked away for a bit)
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Thanks for posting up a longer clip.

I still think it's lame though. It's not even an italo revival track, it's dull euro-house with some italo noises stuck on it.

If you want to see creative use of Italo in 2007, look at #2 in the charts :p
 
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Gabba Flamenco Crossover

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Well, I like it, but each to thier own I guess. It is a blatant Knife ripoff but I really like her voice, she sounds like Stevie Nicks.

I was taking the piss slightly, but the point is that italo is generally pretty poptastic and cheesy. That smith-n-hack is just tracky house music. You could have a popping bassline and a wah-wah guitar instead of the vocoder and the synth, and it would be funky house.

This is all my lighthearted 2c worth, I'm not gonna take a massive stand on it or anything. But I've got to say, I do keep an eye on this thread and check out the tracks y'all are hyping, and most of them are pretty 'meh' to me. I'm a washed up old git though :)

sodiumnightlife said:
nah i'm a huge snob.
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I see you and raise you, ha!
 
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sodiumnightlife

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sorry if i came across a bit harsh. I think annie did what robyn is doing now better a few years ago. Well that's fine I only want to see young, beautiful people when I go to a club playing minimal :p
 
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elgato

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Gabba Flamenco Crossover said:
I was taking the piss slightly, but the point is that italo is generally pretty poptastic and cheesy. That smith-n-hack is just tracky house music. You could have a popping bassline and a wah-wah guitar instead of the vocoder and the synth, and it would be funky house.

This is all my lighthearted 2c worth, I'm not gonna take a massive stand on it or anything. But I've got to say, I do keep an eye on this thread and check out the tracks y'all are hyping, and most of them are pretty 'meh' to me. I'm a washed up old git though :)
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yeh i wouldve said its more deep electro house if we were to be penickity, but i dont think it really matters. some italo is pretty deep though is it not? i dont know that much but from perusing the odd blog ive come across a few deep and dark ones

i dont think Falling Stars is groundbreaking, quite the opposite, and quite remarkably so given Smith n Hack's usual approach, but i think its really, really beautiful, i find it engulfing, emotive and blissful. but these things are absolutely subjective, so i can easily see how you might not feel it

it must be with a very different ear that someone of your generation listens to these tunes
 
sodiumnightlife

sodiumnightlife

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i've just heard falling stars in full length, and completely agree with elgato - it isn't innovative but DAMN is it good. It's funny, I often feel funny about listening to things that reference the past so heavily, yet this, this is just amazing. I don't know too much italo, but one song I love is Frogs in Spain by Fake.
 
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its funny because im usually quite zealous when it comes to innovation / lack of, but with this i couldn't help but love it

it may well be to do with not knowing the music its referencing too well, but whatever, it makes me feel amazing so why question it
 
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childrentalking

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Italo is generally pretty poptastic and cheesy. That smith-n-hack is just tracky house music. You could have a popping bassline and a wah-wah guitar instead of the vocoder and the synth, and it would be funky house.
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sorry but this is drivel. the track IS a synth and vocoder. if you took those away it wouldn't exist anymore? so if you had a wah wah guitar and a 'popping bassline' you'd have a totally different record that would be funky house. right
 
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