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    Good tunes from bad samples

    paging Entirety of Hardcore 91-93.... could you report to the front desk ASAP please
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    when asmr was avant garde

    Roland got something to say.... “Writing aloud is not expressive... it is carried not by dramatic inflections, subtle stresses, sympathetic accents, but by the grain of the voice, which is an erotic mixture of timbre and language, and can therefore also be, along with diction, the substance of...
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    1992

    is that the Cheryl Lyn "woo" from "Encore" in there? chopped off, truncated, turned into a nonhuman stab at 8 mins in, much sampled e.g.
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    1993

    technically the very end of '92 - December - but feels like a 93 anthem plus this gem, thrown away on the four-track
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    1991

    I was just gonna say "snot me!!!" and suggest it was Matt, on account of the (coughs) and (regains composure) - that was a thing he used to do on his blog - these sort of visualize-me-as-real-person-at-home - coughs, ducks, winces, blushes, scratches head, that kind of thing- almost like...
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    1991

    That's a great tune - he never did anything quite as immense, that I've heard anyway.
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    1991

    I have never bothered to look up 80 Aum, the label "The Spirit" came out on From Dordrecht, which sounds pretty hardcore, but then the pictures online look rather dainty and quaint - not Rotterdam Look at its family of sub-labels! 2 Phase Records, 666 (6), 90 Aum Records, Back To Basics...
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    1991

    The remix messes with the perfection of the riff but convolutes it interestingly
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    1991

    Apologies if this has already been posted - heavy mental Dutchkore
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    the horns in UK garage

    another great example
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    Simon Reynolds

    A short term measure to get round the program that rations my internet use (I was in mid-comment when it cut out). I am writing a book - it's kind of the sequel to Rip It Up and Start Again. But only kind of. Late 80s / early 90s.
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    the horns in UK garage

    Great example
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    the horns in UK garage

    However, denting my thesis somewhat, I realized that you can hear this kind of pseudo-sax in some Masters At Work, probably those same tracks that are so foundational for UK garage. So, okay, yes, as if often the case, the Americans start something - but the Brits take it further. The...
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    the horns in UK garage

    A few more examples Nu-Birth, "Anytime", from about 2 mins in The same thin parping riff pops up in Somore, "I Refuse (what you want) (industry standard club mix)" at about 4 minutes in But here's a use of fake horn that's completely different - at 1.46 in Doolally "Straight From the...
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    the horns in UK garage

    this one at about 32 seconds in is again using the horn sound as more of a bassline-like rhythm parp however from about 2.15 in the pseudo-horn gets more active and jazzy in a kind of robotic-fixated way
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    the horns in UK garage

    however the ones i'm thinking of have more a musky sexy sort of vibe
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    the horns in UK garage

    here's a bit of a more melodic feature, but clearly a loop or sequenced pattern
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    the horns in UK garage

    from about 38 seconds in, synth horn as sort of parping rhythm vamp
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    the horns in UK garage

    What a great sound They are all done with synths, right? So much better than if they were real horns. (I know there are a few examples of real saxophone on UKG classics and sometimes it's fine - e.g. the solo in "Stone Cold") Now is this a uniquely UKG thing? I can't recall examples of it in...
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    Dylan: I just don't get it, and I never will

    The column is worth reading: PETER HITCHENS: God forgive me, I was one of the millions of young men who wanted to be Bob Dylan. Here's what the new film DOESN'T tell you Millions of young men once wanted to be Bob Dylan. God forgive me, I was one of them. Lots of them are dead now, and almost...
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