Archive | July, 2017

Euro Hard To Beat!

Some absolutely beautiful records came out of the early days of dance music culture in the late 80s – mid 90s (some call it Rave) and have transcended through the years to still make perfect sense today. An innocence in delivery combined with not stuffing the life out of proceedings created these perfectly frozen in time moments, that many have imitated but rarely bettered over the years. The majority of these great recordings were born out of Belgium, Germany and Italy on hardware set ups with fairly limited computing situations, meaning sequencing on the fly, fiddly synth & sampler work created certain restrictions but also meant the elements you put in had to count! Here’s five still good to go and ONE that went under the knife by us…

A Certain Type Of Sleaze…

Below are some tracks I think embody a certain type of sound, a sound I adore and look for in other records. It’s a sound I can only really describe as sleaze. This sound isn’t celebrating the campness and escapism of Hi NRG or Italo – it sits somewhere else, just down a bit in the cheap seats. It’s a seedy sound of broken hearts, base lines, cheap drum machines… and yes, sex. Desperation and dancing. Below are some classics and a BB EDIT thrown in, for the more adventurous DJ to play out at their local.

Finally a cheeky little cover of Male Stripper by Clinic.

Chicago, Chicago!!!

Another free edit HERE and our inspiration behind it! I love Chicago house music, it is and always will be the true essence of what house music really is – naive, camp, raw, often acidic and essentially about a feeling over flashy production techniques. Sadly a lot of house got completely bastardised and polished to death over the years but on a plus point it has kept the originals and the people who carry the torch as relevant as ever. Here are just five from a list of hundreds we love…