March 3, 20214 yr I evidently have 0 self control so I ended up getting a couple of essentials on eBay that were quite cheap (Crescendo - Are You Out There + Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story) :kink: watching some 90s + 00s stuff - mostly from the Positiva label - especially hoping to get a couple that aren't on Spotify. Then I must stop for now... :lol: The Chocolate Puma one is a great choice Jade, I knew it when I was a child in the form of Follow The Leader by Nigel and Marvin, a childrens party fave back then. Such a relentless banger :music: Annoyingly there are quite a few comparatively recent inclusions I’d like but simply can’t get. Kiesza’s Hideaway for example doesn’t ever appear to have had a 12” release. That's such a shame! Hopefully it gets a RSD release one day or something.
March 3, 20214 yr Author Jade... it's a very slippery slope as I've found out this year :( ALTHOUGH I must say that Are You Out There sounds phenomenally good on wax
March 3, 20214 yr :lol: yes I can see this spiraling quite easily - I'll keep an eye on the rest of what I'm watching on eBay but vow to not add anything else for real this time and leave the rest of the experience with independent stores. I do plan to complete my Now collection eventually (so up to 35 on vinyl) so that should have me covered with a lot of early 90s anyway at least! So excited to hear that on vinyl, what a song :wub:
March 3, 20214 yr ok, so here's a thing. While going through my 12" to make my list I disregarded a few things. Mainly because I didn't think they suited this thread. And now, as part of this conversation I see Jade mention Crescendo - Are You Out There and then Dandy* comment on it. This arose my curiosity so I googled it. It turns out that it was one of the ones I ignored. :lol: A mate gave it to me and I assumed it was rubbish so I never listened to it, or knew what it was. I guess I should add the other ones I ignored Candyflip - Strawberry Fields Forever Chemicals Bothers - Galvanize (which I loath - it was a gift) Crowded House - Fingers of Love [numbered 10"] Deep Forrest - Sweet Lullaby Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well (purchased for Power Ballad Night) Fleetwood Mac - Big Love House of Love - Shine On Lady Gaga - Just Dance [mixes] Lifelike - So Electric London Beat - I've Been Thinking About You Madonna/Daft Punk - mash up (can't remember which songs) [white label] Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life [Record Store Day] x 2 Orbital - Funny Break gift Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) Skrillex - Bangarang gift T99 - Anasthasia gift Tori Amos - China Underworld - Jumbo gift UNKLE feat. Ian Brown - Be There
March 3, 20214 yr I do plan to complete my Now collection eventually (so up to 35 on vinyl) which ones do you have at the moment? On top of my Now list to get on vinyl are Now 20 & Now 17 which are always expensive when I see it online. I have Now 1, 3, 9, 10 to 16, 18 and 19. None of them cost me more than €5.
March 3, 20214 yr Author I think I personally prefer the original, the bass is better on it and it doesn't have the vocals.
March 3, 20214 yr which ones do you have at the moment? On top of my Now list to get on vinyl are Now 20 & Now 17 which are always expensive when I see it online. I have Now 1, 3, 9, 10 to 16, 18 and 19. None of them cost me more than €5. Now 1 to 22 so far! I got the first 10 to start off my collection back in 2014, one randomly at a carboot sale and picked the rest of it back up a couple of years ago - going quite slowly via eBay. Dreading the cost of the 30s :lol:
March 3, 20214 yr Author I'm now tempted to extend this topic further back in time... what do people think are the essential electronic tracks of the 80s and earlier that helped to shape electronic music? So far I've probably gone with some obvious ones but I have: Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes Ultravox - Vienna Donna Summer - I Feel Love Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Salt n Pepa - Push It Soft Cell - Tainted Love Kraftwerk are an obvious omission but haven't settled on which to get yet.
March 3, 20214 yr If we're going really far back, Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre surely? (And obviously Kraftwerk are an essential in that category!)
March 3, 20214 yr I'm now tempted to extend this topic further back in time... what do people think are the essential electronic tracks of the 80s and earlier that helped to shape electronic music? So far I've probably gone with some obvious ones but I have: Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes Ultravox - Vienna Donna Summer - I Feel Love Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Salt n Pepa - Push It Soft Cell - Tainted Love Kraftwerk are an obvious omission but haven't settled on which to get yet. Here are some of my personal favourites: The Tornados - Telstar - not by any means dance but worth mentioning as the first big electronic hit in 1962! Hot Butter - Popcorn from 1972 Underpass by John Foxx from 1980 Shannon - Give Me Tonight (yes Let The Music Play is better known and its good but I prefer Give Me Tonight) - both songs are predecessors to the acid house sound from 1984 Herbie Hancock - Rockit (and Autodrive) 1983 and Art Of Noise - Close To The Edit 1984 - early experimental sampling based tunes Herbie Hancock Autodrive in particular sounds quite house-esque Yazoo - Don't Go, Talk Talk - Today, Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling, Classix Nouveaux - Is It A Dream, and Patrick Cowley ft. Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk all from 1982. The Blancmange song is less electronic based perhaps but certainly has a dance beat to it I think. Trans X - Living On Video 1982 - that instrumental almost sounds like a precursor to eurodance in the 90'S I think. Break Machine - Street Dance from 1984 - early idea of instrumental 'drop' in place of chorus. Propaganda - Dr Mabuse from 1984 Freeez - IOU and Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again from 1983, the latter song almost like a precursor to Clean Bandit's music style I think. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy, Why , Hit That Perfect Beat - 1984-5 - the latter song very energetic sounding for the time! Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round from 1985 Sharpe and Numan - Change Your Mind - 1985 - instrumental sounds almost like 2010s deep house I think! Also Depeche Mode particularly their industrial music era from 1983 to about 1985 Edited March 3, 20214 yr by TheSnake
March 3, 20214 yr London Beat - I've Been Thinking About You I guess Londonbeat Thinking About You is house influenced, great song anyway, the vocal in it reminds me of the Fine Young Cannibals in style.
March 3, 20214 yr I only listed it because I have it. Yes I guessed that with Elaine Paige and Manic Street Preachers on the list :) Incidentally A Design For Life is one of the first songs I ever liked, it was on the music channels loads when I was a child in the late 90s. Is Skrillex - Bangarang then your most recent dance single in terms of original release date? Edited March 3, 20214 yr by TheSnake
March 4, 20214 yr But Firestarter wasn't a rave tune :( If you have Dropbox I can send you the mp3 pack, artwork and all. It only took me 4 years to make it :D Yeah drum n bass/rock I guess :) 4 years is a lot of effort, that shows more commitment than I have :lol: ! Thats very kind of you to offer that (you should get Now to do a special edition! :D ) and I appreciate it muchly :wub: , but I pretty much have them all already, just spread out a bit over Now CD's and vinyl/CD singles. If my backlog of unplayed CD's wasn't in the 100's I'd def have it to have them all in one handy place though! :dance:
March 4, 20214 yr haha, brilliant! I do love “Smack My Bitch Up”, particularly the video although I never saw it at the time for obvious reasons. I think YouTube still has it banned anyway, but personally I think it is a brilliant video because of the way that it really gets you thinking about gender stereotypes, and your own unconscious biases. Keith Flint's death really cut me up, their music really did soundtrack much of my life growing up. I remember when someone brought in “Breathe” to play in schoool on non-uniform day and being completely blown away. I hope I'm like that guy when I get older, with my enthusiasm for big breakbeats undimmed. Yes me too, I want to go clubbing when I'm 100 :lol: I was at Gran Canaria airport when I got the news about Keith Flint, which was a bit of a jolt. For me it was Firestarter, the first time I heard that one it was a total "woah!" moment and I started raving about it at work to my friends and colleagues in the Parks department (the ones into music at any rate :) ) - I once started writing a sitcom about working for the Council Parks & Recreation department in the 90's, but have left it too late to bother finishing now following Chris Pratt & co :lol:
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