The 'What Song Are You Listening To Now' Thread

[Unionjack 7,531]

@Vesper Some crackers there mate,

Never got into the whole techno scene. Went from the All Sayers back to the All Nighters then came Shoom, The Wag, Heaven etc and the amazing  M25 Orbital parties.

I got invited by the promotors of this quite hip club (Phonox) up the road from me next Saturday night. Think hes just creeping round me for some clippings off my tomato plants but he gave me a flash drive with what they play on a Saturday and have to say it sounds fresh. Nice bit funkiness going on.

No real vids only short clips but heres an hour warm up sopot of the main Sat night Dj Esa.

 

 

[sully 7]

Just bought True Meanings by The Modfather himself Paul Weller, a lot slower than his other stuff but still really good......

[Vesper 30,083]

2 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

@Vesper Some crackers there mate,

Never got into the whole techno scene. Went from the All Sayers back to the All Nighters then came Shoom, The Wag, Heaven etc and the amazing  M25 Orbital parties.

I got invited by the promotors of this quite hip club (Phonox) up the road from me next Saturday night. Think hes just creeping round me for some clippings off my tomato plants but he gave me a flash drive with what they play on a Saturday and have to say it sounds fresh. Nice bit funkiness going on.

No real vids only short clips but heres an hour warm up sopot of the main Sat night Dj Esa.

 

 

Well, techno is such a broad term, lol. I dont even know if I have posted any real techno on here. I just adore a whole variety of underground dance music, especially the late 1990's to late 2000's. Having a DJ brother 20 plus years older than me growing up helped a lot!!! We are also lucky, as (after Berlin) we live in the best techno clubbing city in Europe, the Swedish scene is AMAZING. I shall post some more Swedish stuff (I already put up the uber commercial Eric Prydz) My 'serious' techno friends hate stuff like Swedish House Mafia, Prydz, etc, but I looooove to just sometime go out with wifey and dance to upfront, Ministry of Sound commercial type stuffs, lolol.

[Vesper 30,083]

15 minutes ago, sully said:

Just bought True Meanings by The Modfather himself Paul Weller, a lot slower than his other stuff but still really good......

LOVE Weller and the Jam

[Vesper 30,083]

Sander Kleinenberg - Essential Mix 10.06.2001 (BBC Essential Mix Of The Year)

superb turn of the millennium example of a WC tech house DJ at top of his game

 

[00:00] 01. Essential Mix - Intro
[00:25] 02. Tijuana vs. Oneiro - Groove Is In The Air (Simon's Sweepapella) vs. Shhh! (Circles & Circles Of Sorrow)
[01:49] 03. Altocamet vs. Oneiro - Pasion Descalza (Swayzak's Vocal Mix 1) vs. Shhh! (Circles & Circles Of Sorrow)
[07:24] 04. Lexicon Avenue vs. Lunic - From Dusk Till Dawn (Mix One) vs. Somebody Said Groove (Accapella)
[18:59] 05. PMT - Deeper Water (Sander Kleinenberg's Caffeine Remix)
[26:57] 06. Sunkissed - Round Trip (Steve Porter Mix)
[34:01] 07. Marcello Castelli - Sonar
[40:35] 08. Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia's Labor Of Love Dub)
[50:10] 09. Christian Hornbostel vs. Snake River Conspiracy vs. Anterra - Back To The Music (Tough & Twisted Mix) vs. How Soon Is Now? (Prince Quick Mix's Tripapella) vs. Distance
[56:54] 10. Seth Lawrence - Future Sound Of Amherst (Starecase Remix)
[1:03:06] 11. Mike Vandenberg - Blue Bayou
[1:07:48] 12. Sander Kleinenberg - My Lexicon (Cass & Slide Remix)
[1:16:26] 13. Luigi - Creation (Blackwatch's Eastend Mix)
[1:21:22] 14. Dan Robbins - D.B.D (Chanting In The Dark) (Madam's Tribal Auditorium Mix)
[1:29:45] 15. Fluke - Bullet (Cannonball)
[1:35:47] 16. Chamber - Big & Bouncy
[1:42:43] 17. Van Bellen - 20/20 (Saints & Sinners Incensed Remix)
[1:52:05] 18. Fluke - My Spine
[1:57:33] 19. Tijuana - Groove Is In The Air (Simon's Sweepapella)
[1:58:32] 20. Cass & Slide - All The Freaks

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

@sully I'm gussing as your 1st game was 79 nyou might have got to see The Jam yeah?

Must have seen them 25 times or more. Followed them across Europe for awhile on their Trans Global Unity tour.

Nearly always finshed with this. Probably the tightest 3 piece theres been I know of.

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

30 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Sander Kleinenberg - Essential Mix 10.06.2001 (BBC Essential Mix Of The Year)

superb turn of the millennium example of a WC tech house DJ at top of his game

 

[00:00] 01. Essential Mix - Intro
[00:25] 02. Tijuana vs. Oneiro - Groove Is In The Air (Simon's Sweepapella) vs. Shhh! (Circles & Circles Of Sorrow)
[01:49] 03. Altocamet vs. Oneiro - Pasion Descalza (Swayzak's Vocal Mix 1) vs. Shhh! (Circles & Circles Of Sorrow)
[07:24] 04. Lexicon Avenue vs. Lunic - From Dusk Till Dawn (Mix One) vs. Somebody Said Groove (Accapella)
[18:59] 05. PMT - Deeper Water (Sander Kleinenberg's Caffeine Remix)
[26:57] 06. Sunkissed - Round Trip (Steve Porter Mix)
[34:01] 07. Marcello Castelli - Sonar
[40:35] 08. Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved (Danny Tenaglia's Labor Of Love Dub)
[50:10] 09. Christian Hornbostel vs. Snake River Conspiracy vs. Anterra - Back To The Music (Tough & Twisted Mix) vs. How Soon Is Now? (Prince Quick Mix's Tripapella) vs. Distance
[56:54] 10. Seth Lawrence - Future Sound Of Amherst (Starecase Remix)
[1:03:06] 11. Mike Vandenberg - Blue Bayou
[1:07:48] 12. Sander Kleinenberg - My Lexicon (Cass & Slide Remix)
[1:16:26] 13. Luigi - Creation (Blackwatch's Eastend Mix)
[1:21:22] 14. Dan Robbins - D.B.D (Chanting In The Dark) (Madam's Tribal Auditorium Mix)
[1:29:45] 15. Fluke - Bullet (Cannonball)
[1:35:47] 16. Chamber - Big & Bouncy
[1:42:43] 17. Van Bellen - 20/20 (Saints & Sinners Incensed Remix)
[1:52:05] 18. Fluke - My Spine
[1:57:33] 19. Tijuana - Groove Is In The Air (Simon's Sweepapella)
[1:58:32] 20. Cass & Slide - All The Freaks

 

I'll give this a listen when I'm ummm in the right frame of mind!

 

You got any of yer bruvs stuff for a listen?

 

This is the only Swedish house I've come across

 

 

[Vesper 30,083]

1 hour ago, Unionjack said:

@Vesper Some crackers there mate,

 the amazing  M25 Orbital parties.

Thirty years ago, Britain gave the world rave culture

On the eve of a three-part Sky Arts documentary about acid house, we celebrate the proud British history of getting off your face in a field

Arthur House

12 August 2017

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/thirty-years-ago-britain-invented-acid-house/

Sorted for E’s and whizz: revellers at a Tribal Dance rave, M25 Orbital, East Grinstead, August 1989

 

In 1988–9, British youth culture underwent the biggest revolution since the 1960s. The music was acid house, the drug: Ecstasy. Together they created the Second Summer of Love — a euphoric high that lasted a year and a half and engulfed Britain’s youth in a hedonistic haze of peace, love and unity. At the end of a decade marked by social division and unemployment, acid house transcended class and race, town and country, north and south. Amid the smoke and lasers, an entire generation came up together.

How did it happen? The story starts in Ibiza, which by the mid-1980s had outgrown its roots as a hippie commune and was attracting beautiful people from all over the world. The island’s carefree, all-night parties and eclectic music impressed a young DJ called Paul Oakenfold on his first visit in 1985. Oakenfold was determined to bring this blissed-out scene back to rainy London, with its exclusive dress codes and judgmental door policies. Although his first experiment at a Balearic club failed, another trip to Ibiza in 1987 convinced him to try again. ‘I brought a few friends over for my birthday and 30 years later we’re still talking about it,’ he says.

Oakenfold and his friend Danny Ramp-ling each started Balearic nights in London in the autumn of 1987. The Future and Shoom were wildly popular, not least because they coincided with the first major influx of Ecstasy into Britain. ‘The drugs were better than any before or since,’ says James Delingpole, an early convert. ‘Everyone was loved up in a way that subsequent generations haven’t experienced.’ The empathy-enhancing properties of Ecstasy saw people from all walks of life become best friends for the night. After years of beating each other senseless on the terraces, even football casuals were putting aside their differences and ‘getting right on one, matey’.

Noticing that their baggy-clothed, pilled-up patrons wanted to dance to repetitive beats, the Balearic DJs started playing more of the new acid-house records coming out of Chicago. The ‘acid’ in the name referred not to LSD, but to Phuture’s ‘Acid Tracks’, a record whose hypnotic, squelchy Roland TB-303 bass sound set the blueprint for the genre. ‘House’ was already the established term for Chicago’s own brand of electronic music, characterised by a 4/4 beat and syncopated hi-hat (say ‘boots, cats, boots, cats’ out loud and you’ll get the idea). It had initially found an audience around 1984 among the African-American and gay communities at Chicago clubs such as the Warehouse, or ‘house’ for short.

 

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[Vesper 30,083]

On 06/02/2019 at 11:46 AM, Unionjack said:

I'll give this a listen when I'm ummm in the right frame of mind!

 

You got any of yer bruvs stuff for a listen?

 

This is the only Swedish house I've come across

 

 

I have never put up anymore of his stuff after I put up an OLD late 80's set from the World (lower east side club in NYC) and also one from Limelight in London (near Cambridge Circus) and the cunts from Limelight (Peter Gatien's barristers) did a DMCA takedown and threaten to sue me, and 2 weeks later so did the holders of the World's evergreen copyrights, and also some of the music right's holders in it (stupid me used his notes and made a playlist, you know how anal I am about documentation, lolol).

My brother has been dead now for almost 20 years (next April). I idolised him growing up, he would always bring me the coolest little shit from all over the world when he would come home to visit my parents. He left me over 10,000 vinyl records, they are in storage in London still.

[Unionjack 7,531]

2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Thirty years ago, Britain gave the world rave culture

On the eve of a three-part Sky Arts documentary about acid house, we celebrate the proud British history of getting off your face in a field

Arthur House

12 August 2017

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/thirty-years-ago-britain-invented-acid-house/

Sorted for E’s and whizz: revellers at a Tribal Dance rave, M25 Orbital, East Grinstead, August 1989

 

In 1988–9, British youth culture underwent the biggest revolution since the 1960s. The music was acid house, the drug: Ecstasy. Together they created the Second Summer of Love — a euphoric high that lasted a year and a half and engulfed Britain’s youth in a hedonistic haze of peace, love and unity. At the end of a decade marked by social division and unemployment, acid house transcended class and race, town and country, north and south. Amid the smoke and lasers, an entire generation came up together.

How did it happen? The story starts in Ibiza, which by the mid-1980s had outgrown its roots as a hippie commune and was attracting beautiful people from all over the world. The island’s carefree, all-night parties and eclectic music impressed a young DJ called Paul Oakenfold on his first visit in 1985. Oakenfold was determined to bring this blissed-out scene back to rainy London, with its exclusive dress codes and judgmental door policies. Although his first experiment at a Balearic club failed, another trip to Ibiza in 1987 convinced him to try again. ‘I brought a few friends over for my birthday and 30 years later we’re still talking about it,’ he says.

Oakenfold and his friend Danny Ramp-ling each started Balearic nights in London in the autumn of 1987. The Future and Shoom were wildly popular, not least because they coincided with the first major influx of Ecstasy into Britain. ‘The drugs were better than any before or since,’ says James Delingpole, an early convert. ‘Everyone was loved up in a way that subsequent generations haven’t experienced.’ The empathy-enhancing properties of Ecstasy saw people from all walks of life become best friends for the night. After years of beating each other senseless on the terraces, even football casuals were putting aside their differences and ‘getting right on one, matey’.

Noticing that their baggy-clothed, pilled-up patrons wanted to dance to repetitive beats, the Balearic DJs started playing more of the new acid-house records coming out of Chicago. The ‘acid’ in the name referred not to LSD, but to Phuture’s ‘Acid Tracks’, a record whose hypnotic, squelchy Roland TB-303 bass sound set the blueprint for the genre. ‘House’ was already the established term for Chicago’s own brand of electronic music, characterised by a 4/4 beat and syncopated hi-hat (say ‘boots, cats, boots, cats’ out loud and you’ll get the idea). It had initially found an audience around 1984 among the African-American and gay communities at Chicago clubs such as the Warehouse, or ‘house’ for short.

 

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Really were legendary nights, A real feeling of oneness!! Only ever saw a handful of fights and considering the numbers of peeps and the states we used to get in I find it amazing. Was only when some ouytsder came along trying to riip peeps off with hookey gear and they would be escorted out with a lump or 3 and their money confiscated.

What was great about raves were it let peeps who didn't have a ounce of ryhm in their bodies get wide eyed and legless and make them think they were great dancers and nobody else gave a shit whether they could or couldn't lol

Luckily I never had to keep ringing a number all night and joining convoys miles long but I never met anyone who cared about it.

The full moon paries we have in Goa have that same vibe to them but with people there from all over the world having it. A great sight.

 

Still gibes me tingles watching it.

 

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

21 minutes ago, Vesper said:

My brother has been dead now for almost 20 years

Sorry mate

I know how that one goes only too well.

You --- Anal!!! ---- Nooooooo mate never!!

Shame his tunes are not being appreciated and played.

People get at me for not Djing or selling my collection to someone who would. But I;m just a complete hoarder as far as my records go and it would hurt me to do it.

I had to sell 1/2 of my 1st collection to help my old dear out with her mortgage which at the time needed to be done. But I spent every penny I made for a long time on them and when others were selling up I bought their collections off them/ I estimated a short ti,e back Ibe got 17,000 45s and Ive got some set up rounf the flat instead of ornaments or pieces of art.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Sometimes this needs to be blasted