[Closed] House music suggestions please

Nice choices Bob

This will take you to a link of memate LukeVegas..

[url= http://lukevegas13.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-01-11T07_47_46-08_00 ]null[/url]

For some reason I feel like I shouldn't like this but I bloody well do.

Keep living in the 80's elf. Everyone else has moved on. If you can't appreciate MAW, you ain't really into house.

😆

That's not House music. That's not even Lift music! It's bland, insipid commercial pap. I've heard better tunes on a CD lens cleaner CD.

So far you have posted up a load of cack, where as everyone else is posting good tunes. Get a grip man

So far I've demonstrated infinitely better taste than you will ever possess. You post utter rubbish like MAW, and have the temerity to criticise [i]me[/i]? 😆

What a joker.

So far I've demonstrated infinitely better taste than you will ever possess. You post utter rubbish like MAW, and have the temerity to criticise me?

Better taste? Oh the irony. Keep living in the past grandpa. Just about everyone on the thread has posted something good...... except you.

Elf, you are a muppet of the highest order.

Now now. I didn't expect this to degenerate into a geekbitchfest! I wasn't even here to take part FFS - I was out riding my bike. How dare you have a geekbitchfest without me 🙂

Ta muchly chaps. Plenty there to keep me amused.

Not listen to them all yet but enjoying the lukevega mix

How dare you have a geekbitchfest without me

Apologies tj, the little dinosaur needed to be put back in his box with his collection of pony records that no-one wants to listen to 😆

Lets remember house music is within itself, a massive genre, so much variety, all this 'proper' house nonsense gets on my tits! 🙄

Im going to back mboy, at that end of the house music spectrum, He'd Kandi is/was a great place to look.

defected might be another brand worth checking out, they have a wide variety.

a quick browse on traxsource or beatport should start pointing you in the right direction & give you some leads on styles!

Elfinsafety - Member
You post utter rubbish like MAW, and have the temerity to criticise me?

I'm burning up with embarrassment on your behalf, any credibility you had, is gone, esp considering what you have posted, 8)

Last one from me tonight pop pickers, laters.

Elfin had credibility?

Good shout for Defected, they have put out quality stuff for years.

Hed Kandi did some good stuff in 1999-2002 and then it seemed to go downhill pretty quickly. Still like the original winter chill and Nu cool albums.

I think they were a victim of their own success and got a bit too big for their boots.

MOS bought HK around 2005 i think, so a notable change then in output. like you say, easy to go big & mainstream, when there is a shift in clubland, your left with little choice...

That's not House music. That's not even Lift music! It's bland, insipid commercial pap. I've heard better tunes on a CD lens cleaner CD.

Whilst you more often than not have a very good point to get across, if just abruptly put so it offends some, in this occasion you really don't have a bloody clue what you're talking about fella!

To diss Lil Louie Vega and Kenny Dope Gonzales openly in a discussion about House music, all I'll say is you're best off apologising for going in half cock not in full possession of the facts. These 2 guys are practically the Godfathers of House music. Whilst many spinoff house genres might have disappeared off up their own arse in a cliquey drug induced haze, stripping House Music back to its origins and it's purest form, MAW were there at the start helping shape and define the whole sound.

Just so you understand the gravitas of this, to put it into a religious perspective, you've essentially just entered a thread about Islam and said all Muslims are terrorists, and Allah blows goats!

Just so you understand like... 😉

Good shout for Defected, they have put out quality stuff for years.

Defected and Subliminal, barely used to bother even listening to a record on either of these labels back in the day, there was always at least one mix on pretty much anything that came out that I'd love and then rinse the hell out of. Plenty of Defected and Subliminal compilation CD's out there too now, well worth checking out of you haven't.

Then there is/was Darren Emerson's Underwater label, that always looked like it was becoming a rival to Defected and Subliminal, if it never quite got there. Sooooo many memories coming bak now!

Seriously TJ, mail me your address, I'll bung a load of old essential mixes and some seminal stuff on a DVD and post it up to you... There's one thing in this life I'm more passionate about than mountain biking and that's House Music, and I just love sharing my passion with people!

I'm burning up with embarrassment on your behalf, any credibility you had, is gone, esp considering what you have posted

Burn away. Feelin' Hot Hot Hot?

To diss Lil Louie Vega and Kenny Dope Gonzales openly in a discussion about House music, all I'll say is you're best off apologising for going in half cock not in full possession of the facts. These 2 guys are practically the Godfathers of House music

Pft. Bland, insipid pop music. Don't give a toss about their 'credentials'; the music they produced was formulaic, 'safe', cheesy poppy dross. Really boring. No edge, no real depth to it. Commercial crap. They remixed the likes of Debbie Gibson and Jamiroquai ffs! 😆

Sorry, but I always preferred harder, darker choons. Stuff like MAW I coon't stand. None of the clubs I went to played it. They favoured far less commercial stuff; music people actually wanted to dance to rather than stand around desperately trying to look cool...

you really don't have a bloody clue what you're talking about fella!

Listen son; I was out clubbing and raving when you were still in nappies. So don't give it. 😉

Elf, you are a muppet of the highest order.

And you keep dancing round your sparkly handbayg, girlfriend.. 😛

check out this podcast. Done by 2 back to basics residents in Leeds.

Proper house music

http://throwing-shapes.podomatic.com/

Wun....

Bugger. 😡

Anyway, I've had me E, and I love you all...

X

🙂

Some top tunes so far. I give you:

Wow - there is some serious clinging on to the past here. Seriously some of this stuff I loved in the day but now just sounds pretty... well... naff!

I've been (don't want to say clubbing) clubbing since 1995 and have danced around all sorts of places over the years and I can firmly say that music, clubs, production values have never been as good as they are now.

Thinking back to places like the hacienda which I was apparently lucky enough to go to before it shut the scene was just pretty rubbish really.

How about some sleazy down beat house:

Anyway, enjoy kids.

[i]of course this is all subjective and tastes do seem to vary![/i]

Glad we're all back in the land of music sharing rather than, as TJ put it, geekbitchfest..

"If music be the food of Lurve then fill yer boots" someone once said..

TJ thanks for the nod to me mate LukeVegas, I'll let him know he's apreciated.

On a similar vein and available in SoundCloud too is this fella (once again I can't link it cos' of work protocol sorry)

Javier Orduna. Again another EuroClubber in a deephouse stylee, one of LV's mates and has quite a following over in Spain/Germany.

Sorry, but I always preferred harder, darker choons. Stuff like MAW I coon't stand. None of the clubs I went to played it. They favoured far less commercial stuff; music people actually wanted to dance to rather than stand around desperately trying to look cool...

You must have gone to some pretty shit clubs then! Every single night i've been to where they have played kenny dope or louie vegas stuff people have been dancing all night. You stick to your too cool for school house that no one listens to anymore and I will stick to all of the classics and the great new stuff that is coming out 😛

*dances round handbag*

Time for some filth!!

Have to say that some people have a very broad definition of house music 🙄

http://itunes.apple.com/bw/podcast/darkaudio-podcast/id308030605

a lot of these are good, especially podcast 5 which is by me so i am biased.

Have to say that some people have a very broad definition of house music

So what is house music? Originally it was called house because it was the type of music played at the warehouse in Chicago.

Maybe this will help everyone:

[url= http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ ]Dance music guide[/url]

So what is house music?

I don't think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Resident advisor has a weekly podcast that is pretty good, but for quality house music probably have a listen to the "little white earbuds" one.

however my favourite podcast is "to the bone" which can be pretty funny and includes some disco and weirdness too.

Not really house but try Above and Beyond. They also do a very good weekly podcast, search for Trance Around The World on iTunes.

Can I go old Skool again,

My Fave from the 90s

I don't think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Agreed!

It's a shame house has descended into petty arguing over what belongs in what gendre and who's taste is better than who's.

Deep house and Detroit techno were where it was at for a long time but I have to admit this is more where I'm at now. Call it synthpop, electroclash, chillwave whatever I don't care, I just like good music and won't restrict myself by saying I'll only listen to post-emo nu wave electro ital glitch pop house.

I like a bit of LSG myself. Trance, Deep House? Whatever- it does it for me!

The Into The Deep album was a work of art as far as im concerned....

Thing is though, there are so many genres and sub-genres and crossovers and ting, that it's hard to know where one genre ends and another begins.

Personally, I never subscribed to the stupidity of limiting myself to one particular sound, and just went with what I thought sounded good. The beauty of being in London in the late 80s/early 90s meant that we could go to enjoy different sounds every single night (had we wanted to/could afford to/had the stamina for).

Kudos; the kind of stuff you seem to be into; well, ime clubs that played such stuff were frequented by people trying desperately to look cool, and would rarely dance for fear of getting their designer clothers grubby or sweaty...

Such lightweight stuff might be played around 10/11pm, when the clubs opened, but by the time everyone got warmed up, it had made way for some proper dance music. 😉

You must have gone to some pretty shit clubs then!

Right, of course, yeah. Ok. 😆 I've forgotten more nights out than you'll ever remember sunshine!

Tell me, how old are you? Only you sound like one of those kids who thinks Nirvana invented Rock Music...

Anyway, I'm a better dancer than you so end of argument. Now be'ave yerself...

Personally, I never subscribed to the stupidity of limiting myself to one particular sound

Yeh but TJ asked about house not "80's comedy rave acid s**t". 😉

Another one who knows nowt. ^ 🙄

So what is house music?

I don't think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Problem with this kind of parochialism is that it forgets that a whole menagerie of musical styles originated pretty much from the same sources, and the same clubs. What I love about the dance scene was that there was always someone taking things in a new direction, exploring new sounds and styles. Many of the DJs and producers who started off in the 'House' scene went on to develop their own sounds, which just meant things expanded exponentially. I liked the way for example how the likes of Carl Cox and Jeff Mills took things to harder and darker realms, without losing the soul of the music.

Kudos; the kind of stuff you seem to be into; well, ime clubs that played such stuff were frequented by people trying desperately to look cool, and would rarely dance for fear of getting their designer clothers grubby or sweaty..

That is the ironic thing munchkin, the clubs I went to no-one gave a toss about looking cool, it was all about the music and having fun. You come on here moan about other peoples tastes and then waffle on about how cool you were back in 88 and post up some old house tunes that sound shite today.

You strike me as one of those music bores that reminisces about how good the music used to be and how the drugs are shit now blah blah blah

You can take your elitist music snobbery and stick it where the sun don't shine.

TJ - if mellower is what you're after try this. Also if you haven't heard it the DJ Kicks - Erlend Oye album (Where I first heard this) - the first few tracks are quite mellow with some recognisable samples in there.

It's a shame house has descended into petty arguing over what belongs in what gendre and who's taste is better than who's.

Seems to be fairly common now. Either you get the kids who are arguing over whether it is dubstep complextro fidgit nurave tech house bollox or some music snobs who think that the only house worth listening to was back in the late 80's/early 90's and you had to be at the warehouse parties and m25 raves or you can't appreciate house.

If it sounds good that is the main thing, who cares which genre it comes under!

Erlend Oye

I wish he'd do another solo album, listening to the kings of convenience right now which is probably more folk, but equally awesome.

You come on here moan about other peoples tastes and then waffle on about how cool you were back in 88 and post up [b]some old house tunes that sound shite today[/b].

Then, right:

You can take your [b]elitist music snobbery[/b] and stick it where the sun don't shine.

😆

Whatever, girlfriend.

How old are you (again...)?

TBH all I'm doing is posting up examples of decent dance music what I've enjoyed over the years. Coas I thought others might enjoy them too. Anyone with a real appreciation for dance music will know where I'm coming from. You seem to be very narrow-minded about the whole thing. All because I criticised your choice of commercial pop music. 😆

I don't understand this thread at all.

Elf, ygm.

schrickvr6 - Member

Erlend Oye

I wish he'd do another solo album, listening to the kings of convenience right now which is probably more folk, but equally awesome.

I take it you've heard his stuff under 'The Whitest Boy Alive' also very good.

I'm getting onabit me...no, no I am really. The late 80's and 90's kinda passed me by as I rode around killing myself and played in/on the Sea. For sure I was into Muzak, but some of that there 80's stuff was just not hitting me in the kidneys enough for me to drive around the M25 looking for a few lads in dungarees and some vans and a field.. So I listened from afar..

Zoooommmm and FFWD to now and I'm happy to listen to this kinda Muzak, this time around, for me anywaysup, it's making my feet tap, making me bounce around in some Clubs, meet similar aged open minded folk who just enjoy listening to beats, kicking back and bouncing around. You/I have your own thoughts on the "enhancements" taken to trance out as it were, but the folks I've met most recent have ditched those things and just dance, and I like that.

I'm so glad we've grown up, really am. There are some very inspirational and thoughful DJ's out there still able to make your pulse race, your feet wiggle a bit and make your shoulders nod to the rythums..

Old or New, this genre or that genre, this subset or that subset bass, whatever..like.

Play it loud, bounce around, giggle like a child and make your heart beat one or two beats faster than it did when you sat in the Pub with a pint of wifebeater in your left hand.

This threads ace for showing old/new material, for giving folks like me the opportunity to hear (often for the first time) stuff and enlighten me to the ways of mixing.

No real need to get your sandals in a flip flop over it is there?

Somehow no I hadn't, today is a good day, Cheers. 😀

Talk to the hand girlfriend! 😛 Arguing over the internet with strangers is not nearly as interesting as listening to new tunes people are posting up, so I'm done.

Back to posting choons:

Not strictly house, but damm good all the same!

(this one is for you elf)

Bikebouy I have no idea what you just said but I concur.

Talk to the hand girlfriend!

😆

Miiiaaaoooww! Bitch!

In fairness maybe my earlier comments were a bit cutting. Seems to have caused a fair amount of consternation. Sorry, but I just say it how I see/hear it. A lot of the stuff posted up on this thread is really bland, boring commercial dross, imo, but I can appreciate that others might like it. It's good we're all different in our tastes and that. 😀

I'm still a better dance than youse...

No I am so shut up!

Some good recommendations here and the normal nonsense!

The new Body & Soul (15 years anniversary) cd (On Ministry of Sound) is a nice pointer to a great club and it's music style.

Other votes for Moodymann, Inland Knights, Fabric and Balance compilations.
DJs Andrew Weatherall, Laurent Garnier, Joe Clausell, Mark Farina, Kenny Dope, Mr C, Norman Jay. Too many others.

Wow zombie nation. Now that is absolute pop crap of the highest order!

Not all old school music is rubbish. I still love

And finally in no way house - more like techno/edm but a classic piece of underworld remixed brilliantly

Should also plug my little bro's new record label. He's signed to a couple of other labels but decided it's time to put out stuff on his own.

His label soubdcloud page is http://soundcloud.com/pret-a-ecouter

Old mix here:
http://soundcloud.com/ian-morbey/ian-morbey-unsung-anthems-november-2010-dj-mix

Available on beatport, juno and his older stuff is available on various other sites starting with i.

I wanna play!

Apparently something I like [i]is[/i] "house" cos it says so on Wikipedia 😀

I don't think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Oh god, this old chestnut!

I hate to use wikipedia, but here I go... [url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styles_of_house_music [/url]

Thing is though, there are so many genres and sub-genres and crossovers and ting, that it's hard to know where one genre ends and another begins.

Yeah, and I hate that too... It's always driven by people trying to be different and invent the "next best thing", but thankfully, no matter the genre, it all comes under the one all encompassing banner... "House Music"

Personally, I never subscribed to the stupidity of limiting myself to one particular sound, and just went with what I thought sounded good. The beauty of being in London in the late 80s/early 90s meant that we could go to enjoy different sounds every single night (had we wanted to/could afford to/had the stamina for).

Kudos; the kind of stuff you seem to be into; well, ime clubs that played such stuff were frequented by people trying desperately to look cool, and would rarely dance for fear of getting their designer clothers grubby or sweaty...

Such lightweight stuff might be played around 10/11pm, when the clubs opened, but by the time everyone got warmed up, it had made way for some proper dance music.

Here all you're describing is the London Phenomenon. You ever done much clubbing outside of London Elf? I've done quite a bit in London, and lots round the rest of the country, and plenty in Europe. I can say with total honesty that every night I've ever been out in London is only memorable for the amount of pretentious tossers around, the "I'm too cool to dance" crowd and the "the drugs ain't what they used to be" crowd. London is a shit place for a night out unless you're in with a crowd already, they don't like outsiders.

Seems to be fairly common now. Either you get the kids who are arguing over whether it is dubstep complextro fidgit nurave tech house bollox or some music snobs who think that the only house worth listening to was back in the late 80's/early 90's and you had to be at the warehouse parties and m25 raves or you can't appreciate house.

If it sounds good that is the main thing, who cares which genre it comes under!

BINGO! And that's why I love "House Music"... I try to stay away from using any of its sub genres when talking about it as it infuriates me that we have to, but that's kinda the problem caused by people pushing the scene in new directions which I suppose is no bad thing overall.

How old are you (again...)?

You go on about age like you're older than everyone else on here! You're still in your 30's chap, same decade as me (and probably most of the others on this thread)! 😉

the clubs I went to no-one gave a toss about looking cool, it was all about the music and having fun.

Spot on, likewise here... If I ever went anywhere that was full of people too bothered about looking cool, I'd just not go back.

You come on here moan about other peoples tastes and then waffle on about how cool you were back in 88 and post up some old house tunes that sound shite today.

If Elf was going to clubs in 88, he was a good few years underage! 😉

I've been (don't want to say clubbing) clubbing since 1995 and have danced around all sorts of places over the years and I can firmly say that music, clubs, production values have never been as good as they are now.

YES YES YES, THIS is the attitude. Good man!

Genre, schmenre (or something)
I like this stuff

**** the genres, more cowbell!!

You ever done much clubbing outside of London Elf?

Yes I have actually. Your point? 😐

I can say with total honesty that every night I've ever been out in London is only memorable for the amount of pretentious tossers around

That's a fair comment, and more than true if you go to places like MoS, Fabrik etc. Although there's loads of 'normal' music loving types there too. But venture to some of the grimier areas, and you'll find loads of great little clubs playing all sorts of great music. We used to go to the 333 Club which is on Old St; fair mix of Hoxton ****s and ordinary folk of all colours shapes and sizes. They used to play some of the most evil DnB you can imagine in the basement. Always guaranteed a good night out there. One great aspect of London clubs is that you'll get loads of tourists too so always loads of interesting fun people to meet. I can't imagine you'd get quite such a mix at the Kursal Southend...

The pretentiousness of people in places playing soft House music was just something I observed. Always felt it was a bit of a poseurs 'scene' really. Sorry, but I just find that kind of music insipid and uninspiring. The best dancers were always to be found in't techno and DnB clubs....

One of me fave club nights was Megatripolis at Heaven. Jeeze that was insane. 😯

Then there was Reclaim The Streets. Heavy duty Techno, and the added bonus of a pagga with Babylon. 🙂 Oh happy, halcyon days...

Sub Focus! Kudos, Kudos! 😀

Are you sitting comfortably?

(Turns stereo up loud. Has a boogie. Is exhausted within a minute...)

See? I knew we'd have common ground somewhere.

(Is Angelos involved in that?)

[img] ?1290434538[/img]

I'm suprised this thread got this long without somebody mentioning Tony De Vit (unless I've missed it somewhere). Some of the 'younger folk' could do with listening to some of his stuff I reckon.

dubstep complextro fidgit nurave tech house bollox

😆

Shouldnt the name of this forum just be changed to: 'Really rather good music from the 90's' ?

Shouldnt the name of this forum just be changed to: 'Really rather good music from the 90's' ?

And naughties 😆

Hmmmmm... The Orbit @ Morley

Plenty more stuff for me to listen to.

I wasn't looking for techno or rave - looking for that more mellow edge - not the wumpa wumpa music, not the obvious stuff but that mellowere edgee where house meets disco.

So - what is house music?

Try www.cosmicboogie.co.uk