modern dance music

I was just thinking recently that the electronic/synth pop scene in the 80's and early 90's was surely dance music's golden age. I have tried to listen to some of the more contemporary styles, but it just seems so boring compared with the sort of instant euphoria of the likes of the Order, PSB's, Erasure and the rave scene that came after this. Anyone know where good music is to be found, other than the sort of dreary new rave that is doing the rounds at the moment?

Go to MySpace. There's a lot of disco happy bands.

Barneys Shorts wrote: I was just thinking recently that the electronic/synth pop scene in the 80's and early 90's was surely dance music's golden age. I have tried to listen to some of the more contemporary styles, but it just seems so boring compared with the sort of instant euphoria of the likes of the Order, PSB's, Erasure and the rave scene that came after this. Anyone know where good music is to be found, other than the sort of dreary new rave that is doing the rounds at the moment?

http://www.globalunderground.co.uk

Go out and buy the Simian Mobile Disco album if you haven't got it already. It's ace.

They are shite in the same vein as the CURE

Try also Cosmicity, you can buy their albums on Amazon. It's one of so called second new wave of 2000s.

Daft Punk!!

DIGI MIKE don't yer know wrote: They are shite in the same vein as the CURE

Why do you have such a vendetta against the Cure? Are you afraid that Robert Smith might give you a lap dance?

Barneys Shorts wrote: I was just thinking recently that the electronic/synth pop scene in the 80's and early 90's was surely dance music's golden age. I have tried to listen to some of the more contemporary styles, but it just seems so boring compared with the sort of instant euphoria of the likes of the Order, PSB's, Erasure and the rave scene that came after this. Anyone know where good music is to be found, other than the sort of dreary new rave that is doing the rounds at the moment?

A couple of recent releases I'd recomend are Digitalism's Idealism or Slam's Human Response and as Al said LCD are quite relevant in this regard as well. Cheers!

A couple of recent releases I'd recomend are Digitalism's Idealism or Slam's Human Response and as Al said LCD are quite relevant in this regard as well. Cheers!

Although, by no means new Olive's "Extra Virgin" is ace and not just a bunch of the same beats over and over....

I think dance music has gotten so much better without all that bullshit of pretending to write "songs" and having a band personality/image and trying to be pop music at the same time. Plus dance music post 80s or so actually has decent bass now since the 80s... and bass is so cool, who cares if there is a song when there is cool bass and some cool snares.

Face it, you are just stuck with preconceptions of what the music should sound like. Just listen to Erasure then, if that is what you like, they change beats with the years while sounding exactly the same (bland and annoying in my opinion, but whatever)

LCD Soundsystem is great, but I doubt that somebody who likes Pet Shop Boys and Erasure would care for them much.

pumped full of drugs wrote: Plus dance music post 80s or so actually has decent bass now since the 80s... and bass is so cool, who cares if there is a song when there is cool bass and some cool snares.

Indeed, the funny thing is that so many 80s dance acts and producers were influenced by the 70s dub, yet the bass in their tracks wasn't even profound. It came in by the late-90s. No wonder even Brian Wilson has recently remixed old Beach Boys tracks where he gave the bass its real deep sound.

Some time in the 90's I picked up a Frankie Goes to Hollywood remix album. It contained some modern mixes, and the original Relax Sex mix and Two Tribes Carnage mix. It was EMBASRRASING how much meatier and sonicaly wonderful the original mixes sounded compared to the thin, reedy and tickytacky sounding modern ones. The irony being that the modern ones were using the De rigour kit (808 909 etc) whereas the originals were using stuff totally shunned by dance producers (Drumulator, Linndrum, Fairlight, PPG, JX8p)....and Irony is taken to the point of high carbon steely (baldrick gag for you there) when one considers that the obligatory dance machines I refer to above actually came out at the same time as FGTH.

I'm REALLY out of touch with all music. It happened about 7-8 years ago, somehow, too much work with music stopped me listening to anything but NO, Orbital and The Orb, though as far as dance is concerned this was at least partly a conscious decision designed to minimize accidental thieving. Since then, I've stumbled onto music in mates houses and stuff but that's all. I must check out the bands mentioned here, altough the youtube one there is ruined by yet another pointless fucking vocal.

there is a diffrence in two groups mentioned here - ERASURE is gay/camp/disco/pop music.early CURE is deep/goth/thoughtful/ground breaking/early indie music

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: HUH???

Jeff, he's saying that the Cure aren't dance music, which they aren't.

remember that Robert Smith and a Junior Jack made a dance single called Da Hype in 2004

Doctor? wrote: Some time in the 90's I picked up a Frankie Goes to Hollywood remix album. It contained some modern mixes, and the original Relax Sex mix and Two Tribes Carnage mix. It was EMBASRRASING how much meatier and sonicaly wonderful the original mixes sounded compared to the thin, reedy and tickytacky sounding modern ones. The irony being that the modern ones were using the De rigour kit (808 909 etc) whereas the originals were using stuff totally shunned by dance producers (Drumulator, Linndrum, Fairlight, PPG, JX8p)....and Irony is taken to the point of high carbon steely (baldrick gag for you there) when one considers that the obligatory dance machines I refer to above actually came out at the same time as FGTH.

I'm REALLY out of touch with all music. It happened about 7-8 years ago, somehow, too much work with music stopped me listening to anything but NO, Orbital and The Orb, though as far as dance is concerned this was at least partly a conscious decision designed to minimize accidental thieving. Since then, I've stumbled onto music in mates houses and stuff but that's all. I must check out the bands mentioned here, altough the youtube one there is ruined by yet another pointless fucking vocal.

Did any of you notice that a lot of new cds and many remasters of old cds really sound "muddy" without much range where everything seems LOUD?

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

Andrès wrote: remember that Robert Smith and a Junior Jack made a dance single called Da Hype in 2004

He's also worked with The ChemBros....oh wait...they aren't dance artists...they're BIG BEAT...

are you serious??..never heard something about that..what did they do??

"Did any of you notice that a lot of new cds and many remasters of old cds really sound "muddy" without much range where everything seems LOUD?"

What really is odd/ironic is how recorded music products have gotten WORSE in most ways soundwise with technology, with no real improvement on the horizon. Consumers don't know/don't care. I'll still take my iPod thou.

pumped full of drugs wrote: "Did any of you notice that a lot of new cds and many remasters of old cds really sound "muddy" without much range where everything seems LOUD?"

What really is odd/ironic is how recorded music products have gotten WORSE in most ways soundwise with technology, with no real improvement on the horizon. Consumers don't know/don't care. I'll still take my iPod thou.

It's because people record themselves nowadays on their homecomputers, hence the quality. The era of echochambers has long gone.

BonoShed wrote:

Doctor? wrote: Some time in the 90's I picked up a Frankie Goes to Hollywood remix album. It contained some modern mixes, and the original Relax Sex mix and Two Tribes Carnage mix. It was EMBASRRASING how much meatier and sonicaly wonderful the original mixes sounded compared to the thin, reedy and tickytacky sounding modern ones. The irony being that the modern ones were using the De rigour kit (808 909 etc) whereas the originals were using stuff totally shunned by dance producers (Drumulator, Linndrum, Fairlight, PPG, JX8p)....and Irony is taken to the point of high carbon steely (baldrick gag for you there) when one considers that the obligatory dance machines I refer to above actually came out at the same time as FGTH.

I'm REALLY out of touch with all music. It happened about 7-8 years ago, somehow, too much work with music stopped me listening to anything but NO, Orbital and The Orb, though as far as dance is concerned this was at least partly a conscious decision designed to minimize accidental thieving. Since then, I've stumbled onto music in mates houses and stuff but that's all. I must check out the bands mentioned here, altough the youtube one there is ruined by yet another pointless fucking vocal.

Did any of you notice that a lot of new cds and many remasters of old cds really sound "muddy" without much range where everything seems LOUD?

Thanks. Very interesting.

Indeed!