softcore dance

[Murphy]

Although it goes without saying that the black dog completely bossed this style when they went there. still give this album a listen at least 3 times a year. probably the best techno album ever, precisely because none of it is exactly orthodox detroit techno, even the stuff with the most detroity cords.

you wouldn’t hear this at Ritzy though, if you factor out the 15 pints come on then oh no I love you really mate bs mixed with student fusion the realm disintegrates, agree it contains inherently monstrous war crimes

Mixmaster Morris end of set tracks are more like some of your last picks, tipping into Weatherall

 

[thirdform]

spotted

heard at an after party and yes it is hideous indie gimp but on a few doves you dismiss the instinct to punch its face in

oh on a few garys I remember bopping my head to riva - stringer. Even though it's a dirty talk rip off, note for note.

 

[Murphy]

Eg impossible to avoid at times, cluster bomb Stourbridge

 

[Murphy]

It being a World Cup year

 

[thirdform]

you wouldn’t hear this at Ritzy though, if you factor out the 15 pints come on then oh no I love you really mate bs mixed with student fusion the realm disintegrates, agree it contains inherently monstrous war crimes

Mixmaster Morris end of set tracks are more like some of your last picks, tipping into Weatherall

15 pints with russian pingers does the trick though, proper spiralling vortex.

 

[Murphy]

 

[Murphy]

15 pints with russian pingers does the trick though, proper spiralling vortex.

the English can’t drink, it’s true

 

[thirdform]

I kind of like Mixmaster morris's proggy stoner noodlings to be fair. he might be a bit of a stuck up weirdo who coined the term 'intelligent techno' (puke) but you can't tell me this doesn't zap all the euphoria synapses.



8 AM bliss.

 

[thirdform]

proper beanbag music.

 

[thirdform]

even if you find out the next day the cat had pissed on the other side of it.

 

[thirdform]

gangnam style at 8 am is pretty traumatic though. if you want to have a bad trip, do that. never thought a bog standard pop dance song could do that, but it did one nyd. maybe cos i hadn't had anything but two pastries for three days though, who knows. everything just sounded lower in pitch.

Not so much a bad trip comprising bad hallucinations (I was still sort of euphoric) so much as everything being so amplified in my perceived volume and whenever glasses were swapped about I thought they were being smashed. basically unable to sleep. a strange, strange afters.

 

[thirdform]

anyway this is the ultimate softcore deep house tune.



such a warm bassline.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Took until the early 2000s for Oakenfold to produce his masterwork, softcore dance meeting its match in softcore nu-metal-adjacent radio rock:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

The icy Canadian cousin to all this, Len (of Steal My Sunshine fame)'s first album is a masterpiece of late shoegaze blended with suburban white rap aesthetics and a softcore rhythmic undercarriage:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Whitley Bay's finest:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

and another Geordie burnout trip:

 

[bassbeyondreason]

The other side of that 12Tone record is a proper bleep-into-Belgium headbanger.

 

[Murphy]

precursor territory

 

[droid]

 

[thirdform]

that is a nice idea. i think this stuff I'm talking about actually fits better the Finney coinage - because the softness in the hardcore/jungle/UK garage is woven inextricably with the tuffness - you'll have a gorgeous lover's rock or soul vocal and then some raspy murder-him-gon-kill-im type ragga vocal but also a bit of orchestration from a film soundtrack or jazz fusion but then ruff breaks and bass Although there is a lighter dolphin-y smooth grooving kind of thread through the nuum as well.

pfm - one and only, incredible softcore nuum. the best, really. just the way that bass undulates is pendulum perfection. of course that dopey brexitbrain cunt Luka will hate it. 😂