Hoover Street

love the droopy mentazms draped all over this



also this messy-on-the-dancefloor number, staggering, punchdrunk -  gloomcore screwed



and hey that little girl voice at the start even redolent of the she-toddler on that Altern-8 tune



But going back to Schoolboy Q, there's actually a tune on Oxymoron called "Hoover Street"! But there's no hoover-sounds, no Belgian/Beltram stabs on that one




B boyz on E..... i'm sure, but also everything else going as well

from lean to legal



That one reminds me a bit of New Kingdom -- mindwreck slurry

warehouse jamz

Mark Archer from Altern-8 talking to Dummy about some of his fave tunes from early 90s UK rave scene (the peg being his deejaying at Memory Box Social's  "Warehouse Raves 1988-1992. Classic: House, Techno, Acid, Detroit, Chicago, Bleeps, Breaks & Bass" at Shoreditch's The Horse & Groom tomorrow night ie. Friday June 6th)

Nice selection!

Including some tunes I never heard (or heard of) before....

Like this bleep beaut on Rham (same label what done early Guy Called Gerald_



And this very ShutUpandDance-like "mash up of James Brown, Kraftwerk and Beastie Boys"





And this housey number



Didn't recognise the title of this one but the track itself rang a bell - but then maybe that's cos its lick copied or recycled in some later tune 

a medley of tunes in tribute to the late Alexander Shulgin









+ cautionary caveat coda

it's grime up north

always liked that strand of Bassline that featured MCs like Murks and Bonez -  pretty much "garage rap" if it had never turned into grime - fast, fey-voiced raps over woogly warpbass and 4-to-the-floor.

dominic datwun  points to me a cat who kept on with that sub-style - DJ Pantha





while also doing "some  insanely 'real' grime" 

and sort of bass-line meets drum & bass



and now apparently he's prospering as a house producer under the name Arun Verone

with tracks like this

and like this: 



must say i can't hear the connection between this techy house he's doing now and what came before ....  to me  it's where the teleologic of the nuum peters out

although dom says "watch for the little 'ardcore synth strings interlude on the second build" so maybe there will be half-life and quarter-life traces still faintly detectable

but to me, the techhouse-ification of the pirates = the end of the road(z)