Futuremanic trax (3 of ?)

 

"this is the future crusade"

on the label Things To Come Records

from the same camp 

This I always misremember as "Dark Future"

Sticking to the theme 

Changing the vibe (and the label) completely - 

PFM = Progressive Future Music

And yet another vibe

"j'ai peur" ( transmissions du côté obscur)

at least i think that's what she's saying

darkside en Francais

this one is a beaut - ruff yet smooth



less smooth prototype



smoother alternate mix



somehow the works of D.O.P.E. have bypassed me until this point








excellent stuff


postscript 4/15

according to Original Chills in comment, the "j'ai peur" sample is sourced in this Belgian techno track



from 1991 so that's proto-darkside that's very proto then

(although a lot of acid house was proto-darkside, so perhaps more accurate to say that darkside is a flavour, a strand, running right through the stick of Brighton rock that is housetechnorave)

dan the man

Danny inventing the LG / GL aquasound four years ahead of schedule



well he already done it five years ahead of schedule, which is why they named the album after the track no doubt



nothing if not fixated, Mr Bukem



a remake of an unreleased track from 93 with a terribly misconceived title



listen to these next two, though, and what became so clearly a cul de sac in disappointing actuality, seems - for a moment - like an infinite expanse of possibility stretching out like a shimmering horizon, still

never registered the (Happy Raw) part of the title before!



the greatest d&B tune ever? certainly the greatest smooth-but-ruff



the beats on that are like... being beaten up by butterflies

best bongos ever

best breathiness ever

and of course it had to fade out like that - gesturing at infinity


runners up in the ruff with da smoov stakes:

adam f, "circles"
omni trio, "soul freestyle"
omni trio, "the elemental"
peshay, "vocal tune"
pfm, "one and only"
dave wallace, "expressions"
dave wallace,  "waves"

who else?


this one i disregarded at the time but it is not bad at all





the problem is that the sheer surprise of "Atlantis" and "Music" -  especially with the former,  its calm and oceanic immersiveness was like an ambush of gentleness when it would slip into the mix in '93  - became lost when you had a whole set of that sound, or album of that sound... when all the Bukem-a-likes / Bukem-lites came long, making washed-out watercolours in the mold of the Master

the contrast effect gone

that said, one of the best D&B deejay gigs i ever heard was Bukem in NYC playing a whole set of GL/LG material, blended seamlessly into a shimmering amorphous wall of homogenous bliss - really just like one long mega-track

yeehar