Move My Body, easily. That Orbital tune's pants.
seeing blissblogger's lone silent, loyal vote for chime in the face of the youths' contempt for it is making me want to have a change of heart on it. anyone know of any sets on youtube etc. where its used effectively?
no it just kills the momentum of any set. maybe a back to 88-89 set but they always play numero uno as well which i am sick of.
I don’t particularly like either of them, but im getting a faint euphoric thing from chine, whereas the altern-8 just completely falls flat.
The drums are a big problem. Breakbeats in hardcore act as rocket fuel; they propel the music through spacetime at a million miles a second. The break in this is all infantile and clumsy; it has the same air of naïveté and innocence you get in a lot of rap from the time. It sounds like a toy monkey playing toy drums. The 4x4 underneath the break is a bit clunky, it slows it all down too. The track sounds like blue balls; hardcore without the hard. It fails to live up to what it’s trying to do.
I like Altern-8 but their tunes are pretty clumsy - their japery (standing for Parliament, using the 4 year old daughter of their label boss to recite E-monster slang, etc etc) at the time puts them a notch ahead of Messiah and Utah Saints, who are even more clumsy.
"Chime" though - sublime. The cascading main riff. The gibbering 303s. The use of the Onedin Theme as stirring orchestral stab. Tingletastic.
The British "Strings of Life", as someone said.
They have a bunch of great tunes, Orbital - "Halycon (and on)", "Belfast" - and they are the rare thing, a techno act that is great live and is also genuinely live.