Posts Tagged ‘house’
Thursday, August 1st, 2013
After his huge summer 2012 anthem Inspector Norse Todd Terje proves that he has more hooks than B&Q with another insanely catchy piece of house music. I’m a huge sucker for a catchy piano line and this one is destroying me right now.
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
Skream with yet more disco house remix action. His Duke Dumont remix was massive and now that he’s supposedly no longer making dubstep it would appear he’s fully embraced a more classic boogie style and I’m certainly not complaining.
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
This track turned up on a a playlist of South African house tracks that a mate sent me the other day. There were a couple of names I recognised there (Black Coffee, Ralf Gum) but on the whole they were all completely new to me and were all great. I’d been hearing for a long time that SA is turning out some top house music and have loved everything I’ve heard in the past few years but it was nice to check out some of it from someone who is actually from the area. Needless to say it didn’t disappoint and this one in particular caught my ear. Blissfully simple and catchy.
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
I might have been young but when this was on TV (around 1990/91) but my older cousin lived at my place at the time and being 18 or so she was out clubbing a fair bit and was well into dance music. She was responsible for getting me into a lot of this stuff and we’d always watch Dance Energy on TV whenever it came on (Friday nights, I think?) It’s odd to think that this was on BBC2 back then, not sure they’d put anything like this on any more.
I always used to love the bit when they’d stick some tunes on and film the audience dancing. I’d try and do the moves at home, with mixed succes (my running man was pretty on point) and always wished I had all the cool trainers & clothes that the people on the show had. Watching the videos now I was expecting everything to look far worse and dated than it actually does. Some of the fashion is obviously terrible, although much of it is what some people actually wear nowadays, but I didn’t cringe too much at all.
The show regularly had lots of awesome tunes on it. Loads of hardcore (that I won’t bother posting here) but also plenty of decent underground stuff from the time. I never remembered what any of the tunes were at the time but I reckon this was probably the first time I’d heard much of the stuff that I’d later get into in a much bigger way.
Big house beats from Joey Negro
Total confusion!
Some Hijack on a UK hip hop tip. The guy who raps second would later resurface as the Unknown MC (ha!)
The show was always a welcome break from Top of the Pops and a reminder that there was actually decent “youth” programming on UK TV at one point. Not sure the same can be said now!
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
Locked Groove’s started his own label and this is the first release. Vinyl only and in your shops today. The A-side is cool but it’s the flip that it’s all about. Killer pianos and one that I can certainly see will make many sweaty, pilled up rave casualties reach down and rip the shirts from their bodies in one swift move. That is, of course, if it doesn’t get all stuck to them because of the perspiration. Gross. Them, not the tune.
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