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padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

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fun fact, this was one of my first exposures to (loosely speaking) rave music

it soundtracks the club scene in Encino Man, a movie I watched about a million times as child because we had it on VHS

(imagine that, all you young folk - the horror of a time when what media you could consume was limited to what you had physical copies of)
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
my other early exposure being to rave music being a friend's older brother who'd bought the Messiah CD single that was released in the U.S.

I've always wondered why Messiah out of all the hundreds of anonymous UK ardkore acts at the time was the one that got a major label U.S. push

but whatever the reason "Thunderdome" is still 100% the fuckin jam

the video is very excellent, kitchen sink early 90s rave aesthetics meet a perfect encapsulation of a pre-Internet view of "cyberspace"

i.e. hackers straight out of William Gibson, "cybersex" (the chorus ofc references "Automatic Lover") clips from Akira

there's also also an adult version too hxc for YT with porn clips spliced in Fight Club style in re cybersex
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
what are the boundaries, roughly, of handbag house?

does it bleed over into early-mid 90s piano type of business?

I was under the impression it was more strictly a later, more thumping affair
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
padraig (u.s.) said:
my other early exposure being to rave music being a friend's older brother who'd bought the Messiah CD single that was released in the U.S.

I've always wondered why Messiah out of all the hundreds of anonymous UK ardkore acts at the time was the one that got a major label U.S. push

but whatever the reason "Thunderdome" is still 100% the fuckin jam

the video is very excellent, kitchen sink early 90s rave aesthetics meet a perfect encapsulation of a pre-Internet view of "cyberspace"

i.e. hackers straight out of William Gibson, "cybersex" (the chorus ofc references "Automatic Lover") clips from Akira

there's also also an adult version too hxc for YT with porn clips spliced in Fight Club style in re cybersex
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Messiah were ones who sampled Simple Minds 'New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84' I think.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
I loved making this playlist today.

I mean, every single track on it was fairly ubiquitous as some point in the UK between 1991-2001 (apart from maybe 'Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex' which was referencing a 1995 plot line in a now cancelled British soap called Brookside, and is therefore an essential cultural artifact, like 'Charly' or 'Sesame's Treet'). I loved all of them at the moment of their Top 20 blitzkrieg. I was a collaborator, climbing into bed with the Eurodance invaders. I have never been a snob about this sort of stuff which is good because it meant I could easily locate the power or poetry or joy in it. I had the intellectual ballast of Simon Price championing this stuff in Melody Maker if I felt the need for moral support. But that was just back-up for something felt instinctively.

It was not jouissance. It was a beauty so obvious it could easily go undetected if you'd already trained yourself in the right (wrong) way. This music was as much the soundtrack to youth and the times as all of the other records I loved at the same moment. Now it's just another history of feeling and desire. Today I had my heart in my mouth for most of those 45 records, when I wasn't pissing myself laughing or prancing around the kitchen table. Between the towering camp crap of 'Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex' and the Teutonic monument of 'Dreamer' is a wild, wide landscape of memory, emotion, passions and dreams.

Banger after banger.
 
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Corpsey

Corpsey

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"What is Love?" has 300 million plays on Spotify.

Presumably because it was a massive hit in the States, too?
 
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