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any fans of this late 80s/early 90s synth pop band? recently picked up a couple of their records (1) "your wild life" -- top balearic house track -- came out in 1990 -- have always loved this track but never knew who it was til now -- absolutely gorgeous -- i like the wet-and-wild mix best --...

amazing list! most of the stuff i don't know, naturally here's my two cents . . . . (1) very pleased to see on the list = the scientist -- bee remixes -- top top top record -- excellent choice -- very psychedelic and highly danceable! Ragga Twins -- yes! -- though i think rum & black and...

as an icon she's brilliant, but what do people rate by her??? i have "nightclubbing" album and like it, but can't say that i'd actually play anything off it at a party have heard and passed on some of her late 70s material used to have "slave to the rhythm" album, but sold it off b/c overly...

don't get me wrong, i share your sentiments -- as i suppose all of "us" do -- though i'm not sure if this is true of all genres (true imo for dance music, though, as i'm not nearly so moved by anything in dance music post-93 as before) but getting back to 65-95 (or 63-85), maybe the advent of...

$3 bin at A1 finds . . . . Nature Boy's Ruff Disco Volume 1 -- this is Milo Johnson, founding member of Wild Bunch -- came out in 1992 -- standout track is "under me" -- it's on Black Label, a sublabel of E-Legal UBQ Project Volume II -- "When I Fell in Love" remixes -- but contains the...

i'm not against the strike -- as i stated, i'd like to see more unions go on strike, more people organize boycotts and i certainly prefer the transit union to the mta merely cynical about their motives, that's all

the kandisky quote is great and what k-punk has to say about nostalgia seems valid but isn't it also possible that pop music and pop consciousness moved too quickly from 1965 to 1995 -- i.e., that the rate of change was somehow false and *unsustainable* isn't it possible that not enough...

i'd have to go with the Digeridoo release on R&S UK, not the original b/c the R&S UK has "Analogue Bubblebath" -- which is the track that i bought it for the other stuff on the record is too full-on acid-techno for me -- "errr, too teenager-ish" -- "too lumpen" -- that's probably what i...

doesn't seem calculated to win the sympathy and support of the public, does it? and in general, people have less sympathy for transit workers on strike than any others at the same time, i'd like to see more strikes and boycotts by workers -- and certainly transit workers are well positioned to...

by the way, some of my all-time favorite records are just outside the bounds of new beat d-shake's "yaaaah" -- 1990 -- way too fast to count as new beat, but the bad motherfucker bassline and the "yaaaah" conveys the will-to-perversion of new beat taken to the max gto's "why do men have...

greyhouse is a classic -- you'll know it when you hear it -- though you might say it's not new beat, but house??? as for the concrete beat record, i'm not sure if i want to stand behind the recommendation -- played it last night after mentioning it here, and it seemed pretty boring -- too...

yeah, well it's kinda hard to draw lines!!! -- i suppose my thinking is that if it's from belgium and on subway/target/r&s and b/w 87 and 89, then it's new beat -- regardless of sound but i suppose for the core new beat sound, then it's erotic dissidents and early lords of acid and anything...

also, for a new beat/hip house hybrid = grey house's "new beats the house" -- on r & s -- 1989 and for a very early heavy techno sound -- which genre i don't go in for -- but here's an exception, played pitched down to -8, the instrumental version = the concrete beat "it's not the way do it" --...

digital vamp -- you can take my body -- r & s

that's only if you accept reynolds' position without reservation and it's only (or mainly) if you make "sonic innovation" the central criterion for judging dance music and dance scenes or rather, his argument in fact had two prongs -- the hardcore continuum as (A) the most sonically innovative...

also, the critic must keep his distance from particular scenes -- his relationship to music is private and intellectual so whereas the scenester is reluctant to leave a scene where he has so many friends and emotional investments (unless he tires of his friends and the same old faces), the...

nothing terribly obscure here, but for $1 each at sattelite -- MI 7 -- Rockin Down the House -- w/ 4 mixes -- Chill 1991 Members of the House -- Reach for the Love -- w/ 4 mixes by UR -- Shockwave 1991

first, reynolds gets paid to be a trend-spotter -- i.e., it's an unavoidable occupational hazard for music critics (unless you're a small-time critic writing for a narrow publication) second, reynolds spots better trends than his competition -- i.e., he's got better taste in music than any...

i've got my money on trinidad and tobago

so maybe people have the wrong set of expectations when they judge grime against the uk dance explosion of 90/93 or the punk-to-funk explosion of 77/83 i.e., a slow cultivation of the subterranean soil, not a pop explosion i.e., maybe grime will simply take its place alongside reggae...