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Me thinks, this was somehow the geographically distant cousin of trip hop, a bit rouger maybe. Very 1990s til early 00s and US-East coast-y. Main label Wordsound. I quite liked this stuff.

A genre that has some people bitching about bc its audience was at least partly working class can't be all that bad. Nu Skul Breakz however was indeed shit.

This one was also a top ten hit in Germany in 1987 by Sven Väth. Yes, the very same Sven Väth who is still DJing to this day.

This one was a number one hit in germany for a few weeks in 1989. Quite EBM-influneced. I think done by a project located in Frankfurt

Well, thirdform asked for it, I think it got the potential for a fun thread. Qustion is, when could you start talking about "Eurodance"? - as a distinct mainstream - "genre" Eurodance was most certainly a 1990s thing. But lots of elements could be found way earlier, like mid 80s chart success...

Yeah, I might start a Eurodance thread as well. However, my threads aren't motivated by nostalgia. It's rather for historical/archival purpose.

No I don't think so, "Music for the Jilted Generation" was still very much preceived as "uk breakbeat" - hardcore/proto-jungle of sorts - at least that's my teenage-self remembering it when it came out. The track "Poison" though was proto-big beat without a doubt. I personally think Big Beat...

Another episode of my 90s hypes series, this time - "Big Beat". I frankly admit, I never was a big fan nor did I follow "Big Beat" all that much. At the time Big Beat was quite a hype, namley mid-late 90s I was still very much into techno, jungle, gabba. Gotta also admit, I liked some of the...

yeah, this stuff will always stay relatively expensive also on CD, just due to the fact of scarcity

Also a good point. Flea markets, charity shops. It seems a lot of people don't bother putting stuff on discogs sales sub pages or ebay, it's too much hassle, so they give away bulks of discs to charity sales and the likes. Just to get the stuff outta their homes quick.

Indeed. Depends on what you're looking for. But generally, with a few exceptions, prices are ridiculously slow these days for second hand CDs and DVDs, also computer games.

That's the big claim of neoliberalism. It's their "sales pitch": everyone has the same chance of success, and that's guaranteed by law. And the salemsmen of neoliberalism always will find some "from rags to riches" to supposedly support these claims. But, as evidence has shown, the neoliberal...

CDs and DVDs are swamping the second hand markets and online selling platforms like mad for very little money. It's tempting to stock up collections with next-to-nothing money.

It's definitely a few sinister figures' wet dream to see a time - not so distant in the future - when you can't buy a fuckin ice-cream-cone anymore without using your damn smartphone. Actually an act of blatant absurdism - something so easy-to-do-in-the-past will need a hyper-complicated...

And then there's another thing. I read the comments to this article in the post, the consensus appeared people were mostly lamenting there has something gone which forums had provided but social media isn't able to deliver. Yet most people stay on social media, like a lot of friends you met on...

I am superbly oldfashioned, I actually consider paying cash these days almost an act of resistance. When exchanging coins for goods of several kinds I always pay hommage to the lydian king croesus.

Yes, (anti) social media has killed long-ish online conversation by conditioning people to expect what social media does - the constant "feed" thing of a stream of pictures, sounds, short messages without a focus really, totally ephemeral. It's like immediate obilivion. On long-going forums you...

One of the absolute best of the best. Sheer aural beauty. Early '96 vibes to the fullest

As background music you could use this:

You should make one of these youtube answer vids