(Acid House Re-Mix)
B2 Heat It Up
B2 Heat It Up
(Instrumental Mix)
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1988. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Heat It Up (1988)
Fancy a bit of quality English hip house? Twin sisters did the rap, while the musicians who went on to form the Fine Young Cannibals were in charge of the beats. Fine so far, but it was Kevin Saunderson dropping the track in acid that truly made this a classic.
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Selected tracks by The KLF
A little while ago I posited that Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond might rightly be considered as true pioneers of electronic trance. For the most part, The KLF owned all the rights to their own music, publishing it through their label KLF Communications. According to Discogs, in May 1992, they officially ended their music careers to pursue new artistic endeavours; they also deleted their entire catalogue of releases. I've checked Beatport and Juno and there was no KLF to purchase, so it seems that the two remain committed to art over profit.
"3am Eternal (Pure Trance Version)" (1989) is taken from the excellent Warehouse Raves 4 compilation - it's also got the Pure Trance Original of "What Time Is Love?" and a heap of other hard to find goodies (I'll probably post that too at some point). It's quite blissful, with a laid back vocal and a hypnotic groove. A few years later, it too got a stadium update leading to commercial chart success - The KLF had embraced cheese once more.
Cauty and Drummond didn't leave the underground altogether though, at the end of 1990 they reverted to a previous moniker, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, and put out the apocalyptic techno of "It's Grim Up North" in a limited release of 350 single-sided 12 inches on grey vinyl. No label text, no obvious artist identification - just a plain grey inner label.
In Melbourne, only one person had it - Mr Terry "H2O" Ho, and he DJed at the massively influential Maze underground night at The Commerce Club.
People waited all night to hear The Grey Record and embrace it's locomotive techno as it stormed out of the speakers and through the smoke machine across the dancefloor and into our shattered minds. It too got remixed and re-released (with new vocal and an awful guitar break), but the original was by far the best.
I thought I would post a few select tracks only - there are extensive tribute site here and here and both have plenty of downloads available if you want to delve further...
First of all, "What Time Is Love?" in its two best forms - "Original Pure Trance" (1988) and "Live At Trancentral" (1990). I've said it before, but the Pure Trance mix is just so way ahead of its time that I can only think of one other track to compare it with, Humanoid's "Stakker" - both from England, both released in '88, both completely rewriting the dance floor template, both glorious mind fuck inducers.
The original mix of "What Time Is Love?" is very bare, has a slow tempo and a haunting sci-fi bassline fusing its melody and subtle kick drum. A Dr Who-like 'ooooooohhh' runs throughout to massive effect.
In 1990, the boys updated their tune (with a bit of help from others such as New York's Lenny Dee), totally transforming it into a high energy rave monster that pioneered the transfer of stadium rock excess to dance music. Everyone from The Prodigy to Underworld and 2 Unlimited took notice.
Discogs
"3am Eternal (Pure Trance Version)" (1989) is taken from the excellent Warehouse Raves 4 compilation - it's also got the Pure Trance Original of "What Time Is Love?" and a heap of other hard to find goodies (I'll probably post that too at some point). It's quite blissful, with a laid back vocal and a hypnotic groove. A few years later, it too got a stadium update leading to commercial chart success - The KLF had embraced cheese once more.
Cauty and Drummond didn't leave the underground altogether though, at the end of 1990 they reverted to a previous moniker, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, and put out the apocalyptic techno of "It's Grim Up North" in a limited release of 350 single-sided 12 inches on grey vinyl. No label text, no obvious artist identification - just a plain grey inner label.
In Melbourne, only one person had it - Mr Terry "H2O" Ho, and he DJed at the massively influential Maze underground night at The Commerce Club.
People waited all night to hear The Grey Record and embrace it's locomotive techno as it stormed out of the speakers and through the smoke machine across the dancefloor and into our shattered minds. It too got remixed and re-released (with new vocal and an awful guitar break), but the original was by far the best.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Timelords - The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) (1988)
Recently I found a html version of this classic text online. I've saved it as a text file (so as to delete all those embedded adverts) and encourage you to take a look. It's not exactly a magnum opus - only 36 pages when printed out onto A4 paper, and it took en easy 3 lunch breaks to read.
Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed. Very well written, intelligent, humorous and enlightening.
For those not in the know, The Timelords are King Boy D and Rockman Rock, also known as Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty - but you might know them better as The KLF. Cauty was also half of The Orb (with Dr Alex Patterson). They produced one of the greatest ever rave techno tracks in "What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)", and also some of the worst pop dance ever with "Kylie Said To Jason" and "Justified & Ancient" featuring Tammy Wynette. These guys are geniuses - of real artistic merit, and not afraid to take the piss - hence "Justified & Ancient" I suspect.
Apart from their pop sensibilities, the KLF probably launched the ambient dance movement with the "Chill Out" album - which even 20 years on is still fucking brilliant; I also submit that they helped define what proper trance music is with their original pure trance mix of "What Time Is Love?". Released in 1988, it is a serious piece of blissed out mind fuck - way ahead of any of the Belgium/German New Beat of the time.
I don't think any of their catalogue is still commercially available so I might post a few of their choice cuts later.
Anyway, in 1988 Drummond and Cauty got a #1 in the UK pop charts with "Doctoring The Tardis", which basically laid parts of the Dr Who theme over the rhythm and beats of "Blockbuster" by Sweet and "Rock & Roll, Part 2" by Gary Glitter - both glam-rock hits.
I would never rate this as anything more than a lager friendly mashup (I remember getting down to it at an underage nightclub when it was released; yes, it's a sad memory), but it was one of the first success stories of blatant audio sampling as creative endeavour. The duo claimed it had been a conscious effort to make a pop hit, and wrote a manual on how they did it - with a money back guarantee that anyone else could do it too. At least one band claimed to have made a #1 following it - Edelweiss' "Bring Me Edelweiss" - it is a truly dire piece of turd, and it sold 5,000,000 units. Go figure.
How did they do it?
How can you do it?
Read the book - even now it's still relevant, and a great insight into the act of musical creation and of the music business in general.
Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed. Very well written, intelligent, humorous and enlightening.
For those not in the know, The Timelords are King Boy D and Rockman Rock, also known as Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty - but you might know them better as The KLF. Cauty was also half of The Orb (with Dr Alex Patterson). They produced one of the greatest ever rave techno tracks in "What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)", and also some of the worst pop dance ever with "Kylie Said To Jason" and "Justified & Ancient" featuring Tammy Wynette. These guys are geniuses - of real artistic merit, and not afraid to take the piss - hence "Justified & Ancient" I suspect.
Apart from their pop sensibilities, the KLF probably launched the ambient dance movement with the "Chill Out" album - which even 20 years on is still fucking brilliant; I also submit that they helped define what proper trance music is with their original pure trance mix of "What Time Is Love?". Released in 1988, it is a serious piece of blissed out mind fuck - way ahead of any of the Belgium/German New Beat of the time.
I don't think any of their catalogue is still commercially available so I might post a few of their choice cuts later.
Anyway, in 1988 Drummond and Cauty got a #1 in the UK pop charts with "Doctoring The Tardis", which basically laid parts of the Dr Who theme over the rhythm and beats of "Blockbuster" by Sweet and "Rock & Roll, Part 2" by Gary Glitter - both glam-rock hits.
I would never rate this as anything more than a lager friendly mashup (I remember getting down to it at an underage nightclub when it was released; yes, it's a sad memory), but it was one of the first success stories of blatant audio sampling as creative endeavour. The duo claimed it had been a conscious effort to make a pop hit, and wrote a manual on how they did it - with a money back guarantee that anyone else could do it too. At least one band claimed to have made a #1 following it - Edelweiss' "Bring Me Edelweiss" - it is a truly dire piece of turd, and it sold 5,000,000 units. Go figure.
How did they do it?
How can you do it?
Read the book - even now it's still relevant, and a great insight into the act of musical creation and of the music business in general.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tyree Cooper - supa dupa 80s house producer
Along with Fast Eddie, Tyree was king of the late 80s Chicago acid house and hip house sound. Both guys were probably a bit more commercial than other cohorts such as Adonis or Mike Dunn, but they were also more successful, so there you go.
According to Discogs, by 1987 acid house was already beginning to sound played out to Tyree - it was after all over 2 years since the release of Phuture's "Acid Tracks". So his contribution to the acid sound, made on a borrowed TB303, was intended to signal that acid was over. It may well have died out as quickly as it had been born if it stayed in US clubs, but it was in late 87 that the UK caught on to the whole house sound and discovered just how fucking good acid sounded on e... "Acid Over" became a hit.
Tyree though was more comfortable with the growing fusion of rap and house - hip house; most of his 80s discography is embedded in it one way or another. Together with rapper Kool Rock Steady he created 1988's monster smash "Turn Up The Bass", rivaling Fast Eddie's "Yo Yo Get Funky" as the definitive American hip house tune.
Discogs
A1 Acid Over (Tyree's Mix)
A2 Acid Over (Union Jack Mix)
B1 Acid Over (Original Mix)
B2 Acid Over (Piano Mix)
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
Discogs
A1 Turn Up The Bass (Hip Hop Remix)
B1 Turn Up The Bass (Original Mix)
B2 Turn Up The Bass (7" Edit)
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
According to Discogs, by 1987 acid house was already beginning to sound played out to Tyree - it was after all over 2 years since the release of Phuture's "Acid Tracks". So his contribution to the acid sound, made on a borrowed TB303, was intended to signal that acid was over. It may well have died out as quickly as it had been born if it stayed in US clubs, but it was in late 87 that the UK caught on to the whole house sound and discovered just how fucking good acid sounded on e... "Acid Over" became a hit.
Tyree though was more comfortable with the growing fusion of rap and house - hip house; most of his 80s discography is embedded in it one way or another. Together with rapper Kool Rock Steady he created 1988's monster smash "Turn Up The Bass", rivaling Fast Eddie's "Yo Yo Get Funky" as the definitive American hip house tune.
A1 Acid Over (Tyree's Mix)
A2 Acid Over (Union Jack Mix)
B1 Acid Over (Original Mix)
B2 Acid Over (Piano Mix)
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
A1 Turn Up The Bass (Hip Hop Remix)
B1 Turn Up The Bass (Original Mix)
B2 Turn Up The Bass (7" Edit)
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ...mediafire
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Mr. Lee - Acid Fantaslee (1988)
Hardcore Chicago acid house. I think I like the original "Pump Up Chicago" more than this acid version of it ("... London"), but all tracks are excellent. Maroko's comments on Discogs provide better coverage of the tracks than I could, but best bet is to listen to them for yourself. Taken from my original vinyl copy - not a repress. Not sure which has the better quality.
Discogs
A1
A2
B1
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ... mediafire
A1
A2
B1
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ... mediafire
Plez - Can't Stop (1988)
Echoing cries and a haunting soundscape give way to a bum-bum-bum rhythm in this tribal house monster that just keeps going and building before the male vox of "oh, oh, I can't stop" provides release. Good acapella mixing tools too.
Discogs
A1 Can't Stop (Acid Rainforest Mix)
A2 Can't Stop (Acapella 1)
A3 Can't Stop (Acapella 2)
B1 Can't Stop (DMR Zone Mix)
B2 Miss Thang
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ... mediafire
A1 Can't Stop (Acid Rainforest Mix)
A2 Can't Stop (Acapella 1)
A3 Can't Stop (Acapella 2)
B1 Can't Stop (DMR Zone Mix)
B2 Miss Thang
Vinyl Rip _ 320kbps MP3 ... mediafire
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