spiral tribe - the good bits
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They get really offended when us more inclined to chicago and detroit (or hardcore, even) spell it 'acid tekno.' They can't face the fact that their music has nothing to do with (for example) Mike Dearborne/djax and is in fact endless hardfloor rip offs, an idea hardfloor had in fact abandoned by around 95 or so.
I've said this before but as much as people want to deny it, there has always been a twiddly hippie trancey dimension to punk subcultures.
Techno purists don't need to suck on some wannabe hard house. This is real acid bitch!
IdleRich
IdleRich
Some cool tunes tipped in this thread. I need to listen properly in more detail. This is gonna piss you off I'm afraid but I thought that, to name one that grabbed me straight away, the Diesel M tune is something I could play to Portuguese hipsters, except I would pitch it down by about thirty percent. Sorry.
The Roland Caspar just before it is also good. And this leads me to suspect that there are others I will dig when I have a chance to go through the others
The Roland Caspar just before it is also good. And this leads me to suspect that there are others I will dig when I have a chance to go through the others
No don't! do a jeff mills, spin back the 125 tune and then go full tilt into 170, then spin back into 125
IdleRich
IdleRich
You'll just have to hope they don't seek redress for that offence. Imagine a nightmarish scenario in which they brought their financial might to bear on you, some kind of vindictive multi-million pence lawsuit.
nah they're too busy contracting STIs
IdleRich
IdleRich
I definitely do do things like that (or just turn off the turntable so it slowly grinds to a halt) when I want to change-up the tempo but it's not so much the issue of mixing it, I just liked it pitched down.
oh right. Well you might like the latest show I did. pitched a load of chicago/detroit gear to 105 bpm or so.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Nice one, I will check it out cos I've been with people all these last few days and I haven't been able to really listen to stuff without interrupting whatever they are doing. But gonna head home in a minute and listen through this thread, then that mix. I liked that Turkish one too I should say.
But yeah I just do - not particularly originally - enjoy the strange effect you can sometimes get by slowing things a lot. That Diesel M one was YouTube and I meant to slow it by 25% but first I actually accidentally slowed it TO 25% ie by 75% which was a different kind of weird again, exacerbated by the crudeness of however YT does it.
But yeah I just do - not particularly originally - enjoy the strange effect you can sometimes get by slowing things a lot. That Diesel M one was YouTube and I meant to slow it by 25% but first I actually accidentally slowed it TO 25% ie by 75% which was a different kind of weird again, exacerbated by the crudeness of however YT does it.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Oooh... as promised finally making time to listen through this thread, build up to Thirdform's mix... not a good start. I guess you warned me... but not enough.
IdleRich
IdleRich
i mostly experienced the freeparty thing from a distance (had maybe the best night of my life at a spirals party held
at prague's cibulka, helped out with one of their shows in the US), but having been heavily into the crusty/squatter thing prior
to becoming obsessed with dance music, it spoke to me in a way no other rave subculture did.
liked their aesthetic, thought Network 23 was a pretty good label, and loved a lot of the music i associated with the
scene (90s frenchcore + breakcore, mostly), tho i agree that most of the actual Spiral Tribe branded stuff is almost
comically bad, especially this recentish "reunion" release:
here are a couple of my favorite ketno junts:
this mix was also big for me, once upon a time:
always thought explore toi had a uniquely schizophrenic energy i've never seen elsewhere in dance:
Explore Toi
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venerable SFO crew who still do good work, and don't receive half the credit they deserve:
S.P.A.Z
www.spaz.org
I dig that Ice Age one, you could say the beat is kinda plodding but all the stuff around it more than makes up for that.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Love these
I have a lot of this kinda stuff. will post some more up here.
DJ HMC - Freakin'
Woody Mcbride - Greg Metzker.
Like a Tim - Dicka War
some of the grungiest acid ever made, spirals don't know shit.
Neil Landstrumm - Squeeze
X-crash - Mirror Obsession
DJ ESP - Wet Dirt
Def need to pitch this one down but you will get something seriously grungey.
Maximum Peak - Overload
Even Chris Liberator said this record hugely influenced him. Played by Dave Angel and some of the more techno orientated pirates like chillin fm. Might have gotten played by Warlock on Pulse actually!
imo he ripped this record off and based a career on it but never came close to this lysergic dark Dutch brainfuck but that is that.
and of course
Having more to do with neubauten type industrial intensity than techno proper.
Walker - DJ.ungle fever 001 - proper paranoid acid.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I enjoyed as much as I heard but was not at all what I was expecting
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Noble but failed attempt to separate the crusty hippie vibe from the good stuff. Good thread.
fixed.