New Rave. The return of electronics to the forefront?

Hot Shit are terrible, as are Client and most of those other bands out right now.

Better than all combined, even if disbanded: Add N to X

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Hot Shit are terrible, as are Client

I'm going to be daring and slightly disagree with the man with the hat and stick, and say i think Hot Chip are ace. Client are lovely , just not musically IMHO, yet.

Still, Oakenfold is still active. Does that just slide to DJs though. '90s were so much of Virus and Grace..

Burt Reynolds wrote:

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Hot Shit are terrible, as are Client

I'm going to be daring and slightly disagree with the man with the hat and stick, and say i think Hot Chip are ace. Client are lovely , just not musically IMHO, yet.

Well... honestly, i like Client because they're hot, which really helps. The effect? In turn you will like their music. If their not that gorgeous, or if their male, honestly, their music is so-so compared to the others.

Indeed!

Dudes, check out her tongue in their 2007 single "Zerox Machine" (Client):

BOiiiNG!!!

Indeed!

Has the club/ house/ electronic culture ever disappeared, since it went multi-cultural in the late 80s? I think it will always be part of youth culture, sure it surges in waves just like everything else. Just got a retro acid album from Luke Vibert a couple of weeks ago, electronic can recycle past culture just the same as rock.

LCD Soundsystem has been around at least 5 years, hella cool stuff with an excellent second album

Hmmm. Based on that youtube, I guess I don't like Client.

Ah well. I think I'll live. :p

Burt Reynolds wrote: Watching Glastonbury on TV last weekend, I noticed heavy over-usage of the term 'New Rave' by the presenters. It sounds like a vast umbrella term invented by the NME, admittedly some months ago, but does it have any substance? Are we on the cusp of a 'New Rave' wave?

So far I've heard the likes of The Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Client, and probably others, all thrown under this 'convenient' term. Is this just a reaction to boredom with guitar music or a genuine movement with the likes of The Chems and sleeping Hartnoll Brothers as its overlords?

Discuss. I for one hope it kicks off big time. Dusting off the glow-sticks as we speak. PHAT!

No matter how you call or define it, it's TECHNO at its best!

BillONdollar wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: Watching Glastonbury on TV last weekend, I noticed heavy over-usage of the term 'New Rave' by the presenters. It sounds like a vast umbrella term invented by the NME, admittedly some months ago, but does it have any substance? Are we on the cusp of a 'New Rave' wave?

So far I've heard the likes of The Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Client, and probably others, all thrown under this 'convenient' term. Is this just a reaction to boredom with guitar music or a genuine movement with the likes of The Chems and sleeping Hartnoll Brothers as its overlords?

Discuss. I for one hope it kicks off big time. Dusting off the glow-sticks as we speak. PHAT!

No matter how you call or define it, it's TECHNO at its best!

i would hardly call any of those bands "techno"

Sub-Cultured wrote: Dudes, check out her tongue in their 2007 single "Zerox Machine" (Client):

BOiiiNG!!!

Indeed!

That's a pretty good cover.

though the original is still way better....but she is alot hotter than adam ant

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Better than all combined, even if disbanded: Add N to X

Now they were were great... Ladytron are ok, not too fussed about any of the other groups mentioned... or the label New Rave for that matter...

Snorri xxx

I do like a bit of Cut Copy now and then.

One more Aussie effort. Gerling

No offense NOOLigan dude, but I find that crappy!

Indeed!

New rave just the press trying to think of a term for bands that have a slightly different sound to the mainstream. There so fuckin lazy, interpol are the new... editors are the new....

Knobheads!

Snorrimon wrote:

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Better than all combined, even if disbanded: Add N to X

Now they were were great... Ladytron are ok, not too fussed about any of the other groups mentioned... or the label New Rave for that matter...

Snorri xxx

for the boys

WOW!!!

Thanks, your holiness. That was the coolest video that anyone has posted here, EVER!

BOIIING!!!

Indeed!

Sub-Cultured wrote: WOW!!!

Thanks, your holiness. That was the coolest video that anyone has posted here, EVER!

BOIIING!!!

Indeed!

would be better if it was one of their better songs, like Revenge of the Black Regent, a single track that kicks the shit out of basically all the other bands mentioned above. listenable

Burt Reynolds wrote: The Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Client

[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: The Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Client

The master of good music speaks. Sorry if none of them were gigging when you were born, Jack ( a requirement for your record collection).

Shed Peel wrote: Hmmm. Based on that youtube, I guess I don't like Client.

Ah well. I think I'll live. :p

Well... i told you if they weren't hot, i wouldn't like them too. Anyway, here's one of their better, cooler, and hotter tracks, "In It For The Money." But mind you, the video of what his holiness posted (Add N to (X)) is far superior than any videos i've watched here! I love the lyrics of this song.

Indeed!

I dunno Client leave me cold. Their music sounds flat and repetitive. They don't have good voices and sorry I don't think they are hot. Mentioning sex and sticking tongues out sexy does not make.

JMHO.

GlasVegas wrote: The majority of my favourite tunes fall within the very broad church that is "electronica" but hardly any of these tunes have ever been played "live". When your Kevin Saunderson's and Juan Atkins' were changing the musical landscape forever they weren't even thinking about playing the stuff live. They were just thinking about creating amazing music.

Well put Glas! Can't be arsed with all this hype about 'Nu Rave' or whatever but a recent hidden gem which has gone under the NME's radar is Slam's Human Response album. I'm already impressed with Stuart and Orde's past work and the output of their Soma label and again they've come up with the goods in the terms of a quality electro/techno soundtrack which acknowledges dance floor, House and Detroit Techno roots yet has a contemporary and fresh feel to it. Been playing Human Response for the last few days and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes progressive electronic dance music. Cheers!

Alan Paul Kitching wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: The majority of my favourite tunes fall within the very broad church that is "electronica" but hardly any of these tunes have ever been played "live". When your Kevin Saunderson's and Juan Atkins' were changing the musical landscape forever they weren't even thinking about playing the stuff live. They were just thinking about creating amazing music.

Well put Glas! Can't be arsed with all this hype about 'Nu Rave' or whatever but a recent hidden gem which has gone under the NME's radar is Slam's Human Response album. I'm already impressed with Stuart and Orde's past work and the output of their Soma label and again they've come up with the goods in the terms of a quality electro/techno soundtrack which acknowledges dance floor, House and Detroit Techno roots yet has a contemporary and fresh feel to it. Been playing Human Response for the last few days and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes progressive electronic dance music. Cheers!

Stuart and Orde are legends round these parts. Been the talk of the town since the late 80's and they're still at the forefront of electronica almost twenty years later albeit on a truly global scale.

One of my claim's to fame is that I sat in on loads of sessions for Slam's debut album "Headstates" and lent them my SH101. It was recorded in my mate's studio down in Yorkhill in 95 and I used to help out during nightime sessions in return for a few hours free studio time. Hardly any samples used on that record, they used to bring down loads of vintage gear, TR 909,808, 303, Juno 106, Prophecy to name just a few, but the one bit of kit they didn't have was an SH101..... I'd bought one off a church organist for £40 the year before!

I've just bought a new shaver, bringing electronics to the forefront of my beardy mush.

Sounds better than the fucking Klaxons, too.

GlasVegas wrote:

Alan Paul Kitching wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: The majority of my favourite tunes fall within the very broad church that is "electronica" but hardly any of these tunes have ever been played "live". When your Kevin Saunderson's and Juan Atkins' were changing the musical landscape forever they weren't even thinking about playing the stuff live. They were just thinking about creating amazing music.

Well put Glas! Can't be arsed with all this hype about 'Nu Rave' or whatever but a recent hidden gem which has gone under the NME's radar is Slam's Human Response album. I'm already impressed with Stuart and Orde's past work and the output of their Soma label and again they've come up with the goods in the terms of a quality electro/techno soundtrack which acknowledges dance floor, House and Detroit Techno roots yet has a contemporary and fresh feel to it. Been playing Human Response for the last few days and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes progressive electronic dance music. Cheers!

Stuart and Orde are legends round these parts. Been the talk of the town since the late 80's and they're still at the forefront of electronica almost twenty years later albeit on a truly global scale.

One of my claim's to fame is that I sat in on loads of sessions for Slam's debut album "Headstates" and lent them my SH101. It was recorded in my mate's studio down in Yorkhill in 95 and I used to help out during nightime sessions in return for a few hours free studio time. Hardly any samples used on that record, they used to bring down loads of vintage gear, TR 909,808, 303, Juno 106, Prophecy to name just a few, but the one bit of kit they didn't have was an SH101..... I'd bought one off a church organist for £40 the year before!

Actually I thought Human Response had a hint of Headstates to it but with some new ideas and sounds thrown into the mix rather repeating they've done before - quite hard considering how good that and Alien Radio and Year Zero were. It sounds very original compared to much of the electronic/dance stuff that is around at the moment and I'd defy anyone who could come up with anything that's better at the moment. Glas do you still keep in touch with them these days as it must have been interesting being involved the sessions for Headstates. BTW did the SH101 have all 'church organ' sounds pre-programmed in it when you got hold of it LOL! Cheers!

APK, it was nodding terms only with the guys. I DJ'd loads myself back then, on the same bill as them on a few ocassions, and they were mine and just about everyone else's inspiration. I just stayed quiet in the studio, routing cables, backing up disks and yes, making lots of tea! This was the last recording they did before opening up their own Soma studios so it was a great thrill to have been witness to it.

The SH101 story was a cracker. A church organist (seriously!) had advertised it in the Classifieds of the Evening Times clearly having no clue to it's real value. He was asking £50 or nearest offer when it was worth somewhere in the region of about £400. I got in there quick, went round to see it straight away, offered him £40 and he took it! Practically unused with all instruction manuals. I didn't feel bad though cos it was a Proddy church he played for.

GlasVegas wrote: The SH101 story was a cracker. A church organist (seriously!) had advertised it in the Classifieds of the Evening Times clearly having no clue to it's real value. He was asking £50 or nearest offer when it was worth somewhere in the region of about £400. I got in there quick, went round to see it straight away, offered him £40 and he took it! Practically unused with all instruction manuals. I didn't feel bad though cos it was a Proddy church he played for.

The idea of a Orange Lodge band with a SH101 is hillarious! just perfect for the marching season! Still a nice bit of business there, Glas cheers mate!

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