Can You Feel It vs. The Final Frontier

Can You Feel It vs. The Final Frontier

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Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Mr Fingers by a country mile for me. Must admit I've never really 'got' underground resistance though that is obviously a good track.

Gonna be an annoying twat and say you should have included Todd Terry Can You Party for the full Chicago/Detroit/New York showdown. (And yes I know Heard was from Atlanta before anyone says anything).
 
Benny Bunter

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That Jackson 5 intro is the kind of thing that unites Chicago and Detroit, you could easily imagine it being played on the electrifying mojo and blowing minds in Detroit, as well as Chicago and NY. Not just for the vocal sample but the "UFOs landing" synths
 
Benny Bunter

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If you like 'Can You Feel It' then you'll probably like 'The Theory'.
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Yeah I see what you mean with the baseline and that. I actually like both those tracks you posted better than the one in the OG post.

I think it's more the whole po faced earnest presentation rather than the music, which is obviously often great, which puts me off UR a bit. Tbh I only really, really love Detroit and Chicago when it's put through the NY blender and becomes rave music, but we've already had that thread and I won't hijack this one any more.
 
Benny Bunter

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I don't know if this really right, but I kind of see UR in techno as the equivalent of Metalheadz in jungle/dnb
 
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I like the world building aspect of UR and Drexciya in particular as well as the tunes, really captures the imagination.

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It can be quite solitary, alienating music, I suppose - at least in comparison to house. There's a bedroom nerdiness to the mythology, the invitation to really burrow into stuff.
 
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Benny B said:
I don't know if this really right, but I kind of see UR in techno as the equivalent of Metalheadz in jungle/dnb
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The Metalheadz thing kind of makes sense to me, although I don't know that UR ever had the fashionable, hipster sort of appeal that Metalheadz did in their heyday; can't imagine Bjork and Bowie popping over to Detroit.
 
Benny Bunter

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Yeah but Bjork and Bowie etc clicked on to electronic dance music later in the mid to late 90s, a few years on, when it had already crossed over into the mainstream
 
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Benny B said:
I think it's more the whole po faced earnest presentation rather than the music, which is obviously often great, which puts me off UR a bit.
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I made a thread about this a few years ago, although I didn't and don't think it detracts from UR's thing. I used them as an example of it working in comparison to something like cheesy black metal,

Why the long face?

What makes an artist po-faced? Why does seriousness work for some and not others? UR or Drexciya can come off as somewhat stern and humourless but it doesn't detract from the music at all whereas the same qualities in say a black metal band may just come off as laughable and make the whole...
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Benny Bunter

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Very, very good music but I'd still stick with Mr Fingers in a poll. It's a bit of a triggering nostallgic childhood thing for me - though I might not have actually heard it when it came out, its fingerprints, if you'l excuse the pun, are all over the sort of stuff I first heard on the radio and my older sister's tapes in the late 80s/ early 90s way more than Detroit techno ever was.

Like I feel I've always known Can you feel it since forever, whereas the pure Detroit stuff doesn't really have an equivalent, apart from maybe strings of life, in terms of what I heard in the UK at the time

That's maybe just me though
 
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