Let's Not Push Things Forward

 

A celebrated remix of The Streets's "Turn the Page"

What its existence would seem to demonstrate, though, is inability to turn the page of this particular book of history. 

(What you'd want, really, is not even a new chapter, but a whole new volume).

But this is Overmono whose debut album Good Lies was hailed by the Guardian as “UK rave history... distilled to perfection” 

I'm trying to think who would've been the equivalent in rock  - when this stage of "history" getting  "distilled to perfection" would have got underway..

Oasis seems too obvious, and also belated... I feel like the process was well underway by the mid-Eighties.

You'd probably have to wind it back to earlier in the (re)Creation arc - to Primal Scream

All that said, listening to Good Lies for the first time, I'm enjoying it. There's cleverness, there's craft, it's made up out of or in reference to things I already reverence... but the echoes, allusions and twists are subtly done. In a certain sense, what's not to like?  

I was always a bit more vulnerable to the appeal of "record collection rock" than I would have liked. I couldn't quite ever be as stern about it as Mark Fisher. 

Still, it's an odd thing  - given that the foundational principle of the culture is F-FWD - to listen to this 

Apart from the overall sound quality -  clean and crisp in a 2023 upgraded sort of way - there is nothing about this track that would sound out of place in 2000. It sounds like Groove Chronicles.  

I mean, maybe the wibbly synth wouldn't have been there but it could have been, if GC had wanted it to be. 

Surging styles become settled styles.

Bit like how groups operating today can be described as - can describe themselves as - "postpunk". 

It's a stable, if not utterly static, form - akin to the blues, or folk. 

yet already flashbacking in 2009 to 2004?

This "Dubstep Heritage" series only got to two episodes!

mashing up history

check the slogan on the label of this version of the original Jem 77 tune -
"Proper Bloodclaart Pirate Radio Bizness"




this other recent Rave 2 the Grave tune is better than the Jem 77/Cubic 22 one I think



of course there were tracks that were effectively mash-ups  -  aka rip-offs - happening in real-time back in the old skool days. i can't think of any examples off the top, but there were quite a few that were composites of existing killer tunes.

This Mickeybeam75 chappie is slinging this kind of thing up there, along with a lot of high-quality uploads of original-era tunes

this one - not a mash up but a new-old tune -  is quite devastating, beats and bass-wise. really like it




Here's the whole Wetman  EP on Vivid



Funny title

This is an earlier EP by Wetman

the revenant rush

this is my fave tune off the Pearsall new-old skool mix in the previous post 

uncanny  - a simulacrum so faithful and precise it's like time travel



but  that tune is 7 years old in itself  so to hear it now is to truly get lost in the atemporal zones innit

this one also good not quite as a rushgasmic



another wicked one from the Frenzy Journey EP



snips n clips from the whole EP



another (and in fact the only other) EP on KHK Records - Sample Case











the label was based in Finland!

Yell-O-Phase, the label founder, carries on with releases on labels with names like Paranoid, Switchblade Digital, Ravenoyz Recordings  (that one's based in the Canary Islands!) and Raveskool Recordings

each one of which could be a rabbit hole into a micro-universe of retrorave

but i got things to do today, and perhaps (as much as I've enjoyed listening to these Thumps and Bumps and Yell-O-Phase tunes) possibly better things to do with my life

or do I?

aunterlogikal ardkore

From an LP entitled "Ghost Systems Rave" !












Clouds, seemingly not to be confused with the Finnish "bass music" outfit

retrorave - Living In the Past by Manix

news that Manix are releasing an album of "new-old" hardcore entitled Living In the Past has got me all confused

as the author of Retromania, I deplore it

as the author of Energy Flash, I adore it

blurb from the website: "A return to the original sound of Hardcore/Jungle Rave from one of the leading artist at Reinforced Records. Produced by Marc Mac of 4hero, this stunning 10 track album is full of the same energy and style that made Manix so crucial to DJs and Ravers of the era.   Packed with all new original fresh tunes but still sounding like a lost recording from 1993, anthemic pianos, big bass lines and breaks." 



sounds sweet 'n' ruff though doesn't it?

(via Blog to the Old Skool)

'auntological 'ardcore?

their maker Sam Purcell (of Blank Mind Records), interviewed here, says: 

"I’m really obsessive about dance music, and yknow I kinda want to hear everything! It had become an addiction, I would access a certain period or style for the first time and get all hyped – and then when I’ve binged on that I’ll just move on and get into something else… All this eventually led me backwards towards hardcore, which was a really pivotal time in shaping electronic music in the UK – …And, that music just completely hit the sweet spot yknow. I was hooked, it’s such a rich tapestry to tap into. I was listening to Fabio & Dr S Gachet sets, discovering Moving shadow, Production House – tonnes of stuff. I loved the immediacy of the music, the functional rhythms, cheesy sped up samples, the weird FX – the rush. You can hear how everyone was so pilled up, and it’s a really interesting pocket of time which is kind of lost on my generation. I was really inspired, I love the wide eyed sincerity of it all and that feeds into the tracks for sure. There’s also an element of lament, looking back on a time when music was such a different thing. Raves really were pilgrimages, and you would have to listen in to the radio show, or dig through crates or go to raves in order to hear this music you love so much – and that effort makes the music a much more personal and rewarding thing. You might hear a track just one time, and that memory – informed by the context, your mood that moment, that soundsystem all constitute that experience, and it’s special."

he further says of current conditions of listening: "the concerns I have is that we can become saturated from over listening as we are constantly faced with so much choice and instant access. The problem with this is that I think it means that we are often listening to music on a lower level, or more impatiently – also it means that music becomes closely connected with screen and website type interfaces. Personally speaking, I listen to music in a more impatient way when I am listening via the internet or iTunes – due to cyber interfaces, e.g. timelines, tabbed browsing etc. Accordingly it’s had a positive influence in allowing people to discover music that you would otherwise be unaware of, and I have it to thank for discovering the music that has brought about the first two releases. Distinctions between eras and contexts are kind of blurring, Kodwo Eshun used the term ‘intimate distance’ to describe this – and I think it’s a really nice term, we feel very closely connected to things which maybe geographically or temporally are far removed. So, as with most things it’s a bit of a double edged sword that you need to be able to navigate. You need to impose limits as to not get overwhelmed by all the information"

more tunes under his DANCE moniker are in this realnice mix of his presented at Inhabit

INHABIT MIX 020 %u2013 DANCE by Inhabit-Online on Mixcloud

RetroRave!

the template, sonically / vibeologically, could be this (not so much the video though)