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mvuent

mvuent

Void Dweller
the depth charge stuff definitely runs out of steam the farther you get into the 90s. the anarchic excitement goes away, the tropes become increasingly claustrophobic. and yet...
mvuent said:
once or twice a year, j saul kane logs on to let people in various discogs review sections know how underappreciated he and his work are by idiots like them. but… maybe he’s right? he’s largely forgotten now (hadn’t been mentioned by name on this site since 2009) but in the early days of rave he was, in his own way, as inventive and adventurous as aphex was. for example, mastering the lofi kung fu movie sample + breaks aesthetic years before wu tang clan formed.

but at first i ignored, even scorned his eon remixes, bc ian loveday is my favorite producer and i felt jsk was inconsiderately trampling over already perfect singles, flanging everything to shit etc. just to live up to his own “raucous” brand. at some point i realized i was wrong. these three remixes in particular are excellent. raucous, absolutely—but also, as usual with jsk, deceptively well constructed. (notice, for example, how the cacophonous pitchbendy feedback noise throughout the first one, seemingly out of control, appears once more in a deliberate, satisfying cadence of sorts at the very end.) top tier hardcore in spirit.








this version of worlds beyond unquestionably outdoes the original, the only other mix i’ve heard, which felt like eon waving a white flag in way, signaling he’d go no further with the bursting-with-energy sampladelic rave sound he’d been developing, retreating to the safer realm of tastefully streamlined techno (where, tbf, he actually ended up doing equally great work.)

must have been an interesting friendship. in the early 90s loveday would have been in his mid 30s and kane his early 20s, yet i get the sense it was the latter who exerted the stronger creative gravitational force, galvanizing the nicer more populist loveday into crazier territory than he would have ventured in otherwise.

...anyways one of those three is my tune of the week.
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
luka said:
its comedy music. like the avalanches.
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Hardcore does have a comedy music edge to it as well though, but in a different way.

When I first heard this I tried to mash it up with CeCe Peniston because of that demented riff. which just makes you laugh out loud and pull gargoil faces.

 
Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
Got about a thousand tabs open and dates are melding constantly into each other, everyone is on their fag break so even though I started on Sufi’s 1990 quest, by getting the dates wrong still managed to remember

 
dilbert1

dilbert1

Well-known member
Probably the best tune I’ve posted in this thread, maybe the best tune in the thread. But that’s because I’ve just heard it and it’s blowing my mind


 
dilbert1

dilbert1

Well-known member
dilbert1 said:
Probably the best tune I’ve posted in this thread, maybe the best tune in the thread. But that’s because I’ve just heard it and it’s blowing my mind


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I’m serious. Is the rap @1:00 original or taken from something? Its amazing, the cyborg chipmunk flavor to it and that clear British accent and rhyme flow. According to whosampled dot com it came straight from FZ and was pitched down to be used in this famous tune, I’d previously assumed it was from some UK hip-hop

 
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