date,artist,title,link,caption,plays,lovers,comments 2015-09-21,"Valerie Dore","The Night",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ssUKt76-c,"Since ThisIsMyJam is closing shop in five days time, I thought I'd go out with one of my all time favourite italo tracks. One part word salad, one part deeply evocative groove.",3,"hsmagnet, deepdisco", 2015-09-14,"Headman/Robi Insinna feat. Brassica",Work,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkaaVEX_mk,"Old skool EBM is still a fresh sound and here's a new track as proof of that.",2,"Chichibio, hsmagnet", 2015-09-07,"Hot Dad","Sasha Banks Entrance Theme",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUO3mRJy5j8,"Weird-Twitter-esque synthwave NXT revolution entrance theme for The Boss. So much zeitgeist, countdown to thisismyjam shutdown but keeping it fresh to the end of days.",7,"hsmagnet, deepdisco, Chichibio","culturalfatwa: ""did some body put LSD in my monster(s) energy drink...""" 2015-09-01,MGMT,"This Must be the Place (Talking Heads)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTiFNQBRwwU,"A young MGMT just jamming outside of their uni campus, playing to random passersby, hitting a bunch of bum notes. But fuck, this is the sort of thing that warms my heart.",8,"culturalfatwa, deepdisco, daftmonk","daftmonk: ""That is amazing! Thanks for jamming.""" 2015-08-24,"Face Culler",Unlamenting,http://soundcloud.com/faceculler/unlamenting,"The best new ""IDM"" for ages... This cut's a huge slice of rave + acid + juke + breakcore, but the whole album is exemplary - check it out: https://occultresearch.bandcamp.com/album/lostlands",3,daftmonk, 2015-08-17,"Ralph Brown","Live set @ Fuckparade 2014 After Party",http://soundcloud.com/ralph-brown-extratone/ralph-brown-live-fuckparade-2014-after-party-kiliberlin-682014,"An hour and a half of gabber so fast it just becomes a noise (""extratone"" as the genre is called). People thought this genre was a joke but five odd years on and it's still going strong (-:",14,"andrewharris, culturalfatwa, ZenPyramid","culturalfatwa: ""I enjoyed the first 3 minutes but I was feeling a bit sleepy - gabba is great fun though...""" 2015-08-10,"Huey Lewis & The News","The Power Of Love (12"" Extended Version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh5aPGnb854,"More of what's great in the 12"" cut - a bit less powerpoppy (not that I don't love the powerpop too) and more funky synth grooves (-:",4,, 2015-08-03,"Andre Rieu with DJ Ötzi","Live at Schönbrunn Vienna 2006",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOXNaEBrXCY,"Wrong on so many levels, so big and so loud, so kitsch it hurts, so geopolitically dubious. The concept of ""guilty pleasures"" is rubbish (not embarassed to admit I unironically love Rebecca Black) but I actually feel unclean for loving this as much as I do.",2,, 2015-07-28,Laibach,"Opus Dei",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9lObWclFQ,"I always dug Laibach on CD but it wasn't until I saw the videos that it really clicked what genius was at work.",2,"SpaceGoatJr, corcorankelly", 2015-07-02,"George McCrae","Rock Your Baby",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzxeBykMOuk,"OK, this is one you really need to see the video for - a sociologically fascinating insight into historical constructions of masculinity and an hypnotically compelling dance number...",11,"AndrewSmith2, psyclopstrees, pauseliveaction, tpjdavies, carolelh, deepdisco", 2015-06-25,"Kids In The Hall","Daves I Know",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1chLj1fro,"Ridiculous earworm... Incidentally, people don't seem to be called Dave these days (seems like David is the done thing), what's up with that?",9,"philipnareike, nessi_vanessi, deepdisco, ZenPyramid","ZenPyramid: ""...i know about three million. i've always call them 'The Dave Continuum'. With apologies to Q...""" 2015-06-19,"D Train","Something's On Your Mind",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwdN4nMzwDU,"Loving this groove, but also for some reason I've totally fallen in love with the sound of horrible 80s electric piano and cheap digital synths recently (-:",8,"jackattackme, deepdisco", 2015-05-26,Hauschka,"Boiler Room In Stereo",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsvlJgtAgY,"Turns out Boiler Room isn't all just hipster numpties standing around behind a deep house DJ in a Berlin basement... Instead, how about a wonderful piece of prepared piano live jam (-:",7,"MyBlueElephant, pez, andrewharris, deepdisco","deepdisco: ""really enjoying this""" 2015-05-19,Carola,Invincible,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFu5y0nP-RQ,"Sweden at Eurovision 2006 - 2nd place. It's not the greatest or weirdest entry, but something about it just feels so Eurovision to me. Counting down till ESC 2015 (-:",4,"Avante, philipnareike","philipnareike: ""#ESCWeek""; philipnareike: ""@Avante Is Carola a friend of yours? :)""; Avante: ""@philipnareike Nope, but a friend of mine is her sons tenniscoach. Does that count?""; Avante: ""@philipnareike @iivix I might add that she's over the top ESC royalty in Sweden. Ever since ""Främling"" in 1983 (finished 3rd in the big thing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0tY2ucBNo She was 16 at the time and my very first idol - her first album was also my first. :D""; philipnareike: ""@Avante Yes, it counts! You know ESC Royalty!! Wow!! :D""" 2015-05-12,S'Express,"Hey Music Lover (The Glass Cut)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFLMfrbjSM,"I'm not saying this is the world's greatest track, but it's a fascinatingly bizarre bit of musical history that Philip Glass once remixed S'Express.",11,deepdisco, 2015-05-05,KiNK,"The Roots of Techno",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaNycq6UDA,"Just a very nice slice of glitchy electro-acidy IDM.",8,, 2015-04-27,Caribou,"Your Love Will Set You Free (C2's Set U Free remix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYQuljq53o,"lovely Carl Craig remix that shows how much you can do with some great vocals, simple synths, kick+clap+hi-hats.",6,"ZenPyramid, deepdisco", 2015-04-20,"Lush 7 & Zomar","Pick A Pipe",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18JKJU7v_E,"This was a WEPLAYMUSIC fav of mine from 2008. It seems like yesterday but also a lifetime ago. Ironically, I googled to see if I could find out more about this track but the first result that isn't a Russian priate MP3 site is my own mix (-:",9,, 2015-04-13,"Wild Culture","With You",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrtbAeZR0MI,"I seem to be listening to a lot of house like this recently... Anyway, I'm digging this sound - big solid bass groove, piano stabs, floating vocals. I think it's piano stabs that make it (-:",8,, 2015-04-07,"Eiskalte Engel","Mach mich nicht an, Mann",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7_v62SL0w,"Just a very catchy bit of German new wave. There's a nice Flemming Dalum extended cut / italo-y remix out now if you dig this groove: http://mond-musik.de/",7,nessi_vanessi, 2015-03-31,"J. J. Fad featuring DJ Yella and The Arabian Prince","Be Good Ta Me",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osq_ux_m_LA,"It's my jam for this week - catchy early 90s breaks and bouncy bass, produced by the least remembered member of N.W.A. (that's Arabian Prince, not DJ Yella).",5,"roamin, daftmonk", 2015-03-24,"Tangerine Dream","The Dream Is Always The Same (Risky Business soundtrack)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5aRgOk_dnU,"If you watch the very misleading trailer for Risky Business (http://goo.gl/PFvwmY) you might think it's a lighthearted Ferris Bueller style farce. Well think again - it's actually a dreamlike psycho-sexual coming of age drama staring Tom Cruise as a dead-eyed future yuppie and probably sociopath (who accidently starts his own brothel, yes that's the actual plot), all scored by none other than Tangerine Dream. An extraordinarily revealing document of the 80s zeitgeist... with a great soundtrack.",14,"ifjuly, clementix, roamin, IFTFOM, deepdisco","iivix: ""All the Tangerine Dream soundtrack if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ2OE_Vodgw""; clementix: ""Love on a Real Train is such a great track!""" 2015-03-17,"Mr. Flagio","Take A Chance",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mrxjPLHtV0,"There's a lot of classics in the genre, but I'm going to say that this is probably the single greatest italo disco track of all time.",12,deepdisco, 2015-03-10,"The Poetic Painter M","Marie's Transcendance (Chicago Skyway Rework #1)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WpZmhrO48,"Forget the ridiculous artist and track name that makes this sound like some prog-disco re-edit, this is actually a thoroughly solid bit of melodic minimal techno with one of those great riffs that bounces around a bit of delay to great dynamic effect.",10,"ifjuly, roamin, revolution", 2015-03-03,TM404,202/303/303/606/SY1/TG33,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSORlY5pq8,"Very tasty bit of dub acid... If you're a music tech nerd and are into this thing, the gear list is in the title (-:",14,"Chichibio, roamin", 2015-02-24,"Alien Hand","Like a vandal",https://alienhand.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-vandal,"Raving like it's '91 with a killer cut of breakbeat hardcore that's fresh out just this week. Check out the whole EP if you like this one (-: https://alienhand.bandcamp.com/album/better-luck-next-time",11,"philipnareike, roamin", 2015-02-17,"Carly Rae Jepsen","Call Me Maybe (Hrdvision Remix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwjmPRiChGk,"Probably not what you're expecting - CRJ's vocals twisted into an abstract vocoder synth line, over Was Dog a Doughnut? electro with a big rumbling bassline. All kinds of awesome.",7,"ZenPyramid, culturalfatwa, Chichibio","Chichibio: ""This is mad genius.""" 2015-02-10,Ixvo-Exvo,"Construct Yourself (EP mini-mix)",http://soundcloud.com/ixvo/ixvo-exvo-construct-yourself-minimix,"Yes, it's a shameless plug for my own debut EP...! Four tracks of electro-funk body music inspired by late 80s Cabaret Voltaire, Nitzer Ebb, and a little Hot on the Heels of Love... a genre failing crossover between EBM and whatever you call the sound of cheap chiptuney synths and vocoders... Well, it's my groove and I hope you dig it too (-: Check out the EP itself here: https://tiburonirecords.bandcamp.com/album/construct-yourself-in-body-music",17,"IFTFOM, Chichibio, philipnareike, roamin, ndreasa, occ","Chichibio: ""Bravo! I really jams around the 8:30 mark. And here's to self-promotion too!""; IFTFOM: ""Paging @ndreasa to this one""; iivix: ""Thanks for the support everyone (-: Releasing music often feels like shouting into the wind, so I'm always happy to know that someone out there is listening and digging... @Chichibio @IFTFOM @philipnareike @roamin @ndreasa @occ""" 2015-02-03,Monolake,Xor,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eui0pHTAtg,"So much techno seems so deep and dark these days, not entirely my thing but I'll embrace it when it gets a great bit of glitchy melody like this.",11,"darkcircles, shulakombe, ZenPyramid, hearingthings, occ, roamin", 2015-01-27,"Cabaret Voltaire","Trouble (Won't Stop)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBWFHOGCf0,"This is probably my all time favourite bassline - compellingly monotonous, relentless, breaking into occasional funk, the rhythm of urbanity. A big influence on my own tracks.",12,"Axol, stetroit, roamin", 2015-01-12,"Hans Berg","Tucan Fever",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvLKH0D3f_E,"Warm melodic minimal with an up/off-beat vibe will always be my jam. This is great example, just wish I could find more tracks like this (-:",9,"psyclopstrees, ZenPyramid, roamin, ndreasa", 2015-01-05,"Emmanuel Lewis AKA Webster","""City Connection"" (シティコネクション, Shity Konekushon)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeEOvhOr7ag,"Here's an offbeat earworm to kick off 2015... American ""child"" TV star (really a little person unfortunately infantalised for our entertainment, think Gary Coleman but even more childlike) with a great piece of late 70s disco funk, sung in fake kiddy voice and half Japanese / half English.",14,"lynn200, rossanapiccini, roamin, deepdisco","deepdisco: ""(ó_ò)""; lynn200: ""awww,love.""" 2014-12-16,"Gabriel Ananda","Let It in and Let It Out",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivbhWeSJbHw,"Lost in nostalgia the other day, I was thinking, why doesn't anyone make beautiful, atmospheric, melodic techno like Gabriel Ananda used to...? Then I check out the man himself on Soundcloud - he's still on the case (-: One of my all time fav producers renewing my love for this music once again.",8,"roamin, flaneur, daftmonk", 2014-12-09,Moderat,"Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)",http://hypem.com/item/24e88,"It's a slow build, wait for the full melodic bass to kick in at 2:50 because it's huge (: Big atmosphere, big groove, and a little elephant in there too because melodic tech house = elephants in 2014.",15,"rossanapiccini, deepdisco, daftmonk, roamin", 2014-12-01,ASC,Polemic,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra01H6b-z6s,"Drum'n'bass has got pretty odd recently if slow-mo 85bpm 4/4 acid counts... Regardless, this is a top track, dark and techy with a big groove - a hat tip to TEA for heads-up on a great sound. http://www.teaandtechno.net/interviews/tea-with-geoff-presha/",18,"gemma, ZenPyramid, roamin, ndreasa, IFTFOM", 2014-11-16,Fischerspooner,Emerge,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo9A4s-6xA,"I dunno, there's a stupid amount of great tracks around right now and post millennium dance music was in a bit of a lull but there was some real magic back in 2003.",20,"junkycosmonaut, animalscones, daftmonk, erocket, Sponster, roamin, flaneur, ZenPyramid","ZenPyramid: "".....choooooooooooooon!""; animalscones: ""This is one of those times where love means proper love.""" 2014-10-30,"Jon Convex","Losing Time",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol4kqOZUV54,"Jon Convex has a stack of great tracks but this is my fav today - deep and dark house, electro meets techstep in a very now sound.",7,"daftmonk, roamin, blushift01", 2014-10-13,"Gui Boratto","Too Late (Original Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjdq73JDEUQ,"Not going to write 100 words on this - it's just a great dance music.",7,roamin, 2014-10-06,Newcleus,"Cyborg Dance",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDJZ6scVFao,"It's an electro classic with a slap bass bassline and vocoders, i.e. the sound that I could choose as my jam until the end of time (-:",14,"SwedishForSize, ZenPyramid, roamin, milesrumine, deepdisco, Axol", 2014-09-29,"Rex The Dog","Do You Feel What I Feel (feat. Jamie McDermott) (Rex The Dog Pratersauna Remix)",http://hypem.com/item/1x0db,"OK, I'm a bit gutted that I can only jam a 2 minute preview version, because Rex the Dog doing hi-nrg complete with Bronski Beat falsetto is obviously something I'm going to really dig.",12,"helen23, roamin, daftmonk", 2014-09-23,"James Horner","Sneakers (main theme)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PCUVlfaVU,"I haven't seen it in 15 years, so I bet the film hasn't aged well (and it wasn't great at the time), but I always love the soundtrack for some reason - one of those films where the music alone really provided the (unearned) gravitas.",11,"roamin, denizenofdreams", 2014-09-16,"Kate Bush","(Ultra Slow) Wuthering Heights",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXhtJ9BTJA,"It's ultra slow shimmering ambient lushness and lovely.",13,"spaceoddities, DIL23, roamin, GeorgeSandison, invernessred, d0minic, daftmonk","GeorgeSandison: ""@roamin will get a kick out of this.""; roamin: ""Thanks, @GeorgeSandison, could be a tad slower :) Hello, @iivix""; GeorgeSandison: ""@roamin - Ha! It's already over half an hour! Major bonus points for the video as well, Ms Bush pulls some cracking expressions.""; iivix: ""@GeorgeSandison @roamin - I did think the ""ultra slow"" thing was a bit over, but there's something about the crystaline quality here that really works (-:""; DIL23: ""BRILLIANT! :)""" 2014-09-08,XXXY,"Got Me So",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7jRFKxDso,"It's a big track but it's the bass running up an arpeggio in the first bar of the bassline that really makes this sweet, the sort of thing that shouldn't work but actually sounds top.",14,"IFTFOM, ndreasa", 2014-09-01,Joe,"Club Scared",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5-ufO3GYtQ,"It's minimal, glitchy, tribal, techy, and dark... with a ridiculous bit of spoken word on top and cartoony sound effects. Honestly no idea what ""Joe"" was going for here but I think I love it.",9,, 2014-08-26,Lone,"Crystal Caverns 1991",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGISErs3hRM,"I don't think it's a contradiction to call this a state-of-the-art throwback rave anthem... Great party tune with the slight cognitive dissonance of hearing two eras at once.",6,"daftmonk, ndreasa", 2014-08-18,"In Flagranti",Headrush,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_D1sCXHUA,"On the one hand, it's straight up jacking house with a bit of an italo vibe... On the other, it's hot and sleazy disco, a proper late night groove with all the best people on the dancefloor.",6,"rossanapiccini, IFTFOM", 2014-08-11,"Anthony Rother",Traumzeitreise,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEkZ2MCsDgM,"A big slice of cosmic minimal from the reliably top Anthony Rother.",18,"rossanapiccini, bluetapes, ndreasa, deepdisco", 2014-08-04,DrumTalk,Airbourne,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prvhv5LZcko,"Raw and dirty: one part jack + one part italo... London rediscovering the I-F led sound of electro as per Viewlexx / Clone / Creme etc.",16,"daftmonk, bluetapes", 2014-07-28,CFO$,"#Mmmgorgeous (feat. Tyler Breeze)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEVpGxxwC4,"WWE NXT is basically the fake-hipster version of WWE while still mainstream rasslin and not real indie, so an electroclash theme done in horrible EDM style makes a lot of sense when you think about it (especially for a poser heel). Works on so many levels. #meta-trash.",4,, 2014-07-22,"The Persuader","A Hymn to Him",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz4mpr3tGiY,"A big melodic techno track (from Jesper Dahlbäck) with no kick and no bass. It never drops but that's the beauty of it, just hi-hats and ambience - use it as a big breakdown or just tool style with another percussive track. Love it.",10,daftmonk, 2014-07-14,"Dapayk & Padberg","Silent Fireworks (Marek Hemmann remix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzn8XyPWSFM,"Lovely poppy techno that feels a bit like 90s OMD if they discovered Kompakt style minimal.",4,"ndreasa, ZenPyramid", 2014-07-07,"Ivory D'Or",Flashback,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPGPUK4xgWE,"Deep and dark disco with a big bassline. Very tasty, just needs to be a longer cut on YouTube because this one is over just when it's getting going (:",11,"davecann, ndreasa, deepdisco, shme, gemma, invernessred", 2014-06-30,"Jack Dixon",Heirloom,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OvCanp-7UU,"Bassline (: That's all I've got to say about this one.",12,"ndreasa, deidradawn8", 2014-06-23,"Felix Jaehn","Sommer Am Meer (Wolfgang Lohr Remix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vFF9juFus,"Very summer, very house, with a deep groove that keeps on going.",5,daftmonk, 2014-06-16,"Claude VonStroke","Can't Wait",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ge02pyFK0,"Great track all round but ultimately for me it's about the inspirational bass - warm and rolling, deep and melodic, laid back but still jumping (:",16,"ndreasa, deepdisco, ZenPyramid, Chichibio, chiquiscalderon","culturalfatwa: ""you summed it up pretty much exactly - also he somehow snuck a little sunshine in the grooves which always helps""" 2014-06-09,"Roman Flügel","More & More & More",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkERg2lLCY,"Great bit of throwback jacking house with an chipper little upbeat melody very reminiscent of Man 2 Man meets Man Parrish - Male Stripper (i.e. love it or hate it, but I love it).",14,"Chichibio, psyclopstrees", 2014-06-02,Lunivers,"Happy Route",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4Q45LNgAQ,"So I'm sure this slice of lovely Knife-ish electro-pop / minimal will appear soundtracking twee TV adverts very soon and everyone will get sick of it, but right now it's a fresh top banana.",4,, 2014-05-27,Arkist,Rendezvous,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRQrp9vFSQ,"So 4/4 will always be my first love, but when there's a great broken beat that rolls with the groove with such a lush deep and techy vibe, well I'm going to dig that too (:",9,"Axol, ZenPyramid, culturalfatwa","culturalfatwa: ""me too!""" 2014-05-20,"Daniel Avery","Water Jump (Album Version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMnzopy0Iw,"Takes a while to get going (synth strings + 4/4 only kick in at the half way mark) but it's freaking awesome. In fact, the whole Drone Logic album is top and well worth checking - for me it feels like the pulse of 90s album prog house with a bang up to date twist of washed out electronica. Lovely (:",10,"gemma, andrewharris, ZenPyramid, IFTFOM","gemma: ""Fav album from last year!""" 2014-05-14,Ore,"Four Pins",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VAtuv6SmE,"OK, I'm not going to be stuck in the past forever - here's some seriously tasty rolling+glitchy techno that's bang up to date and makes me wanna DJ again (:",8,"DIL23, ZenPyramid", 2014-05-08,"Ital Tek","Hyper Real",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhsq4QeOgM,"A hectic juke melody over a big trap bass and some washed out chords. So much zeitgeist but the potential to be a timeless classic (:",4,, 2014-05-02,"Marshall Jefferson","Open Your Eyes",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IyJe4e01lw,"I'm still endlessly inspired by classic house (:",8,"d0minic, daftmonk, deepdisco","d0minic: ""CLASSIQUE!""" 2014-04-22,"Jon Hopkins","Open Eye Signal",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04ILDXe3QE,"If you're a fan of Four Tet, Nathan Fake, Max Cooper, Isolee, etc. you probably already dig Jon Hopkin's recent stuff, but if not, check it out because it's awesome.",8,"ddmf, GeorgeSandison, gemma, ZenPyramid", 2014-04-14,"Rhythm Controll","My House (Long Version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPYPu4fjZs,"""In the beginning there was jack"" - but did you know that in the beginning there was this track, the first cut to use the Chuck Roberts speech, before Fingers Inc? Not quite the classic but still top.",14,"deepdisco, ZenPyramid, culturalfatwa, IFTFOM, psyclopstrees", 2014-04-07,"808 State","Flow Coma",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpcb70Npp50,"Classic acid house (:",8,"ddmf, daftmonk, davecann, philipnareike, nessi_vanessi, Gummi","philipnareike: ""You said it...Classic indeed..""" 2014-03-31,"Edwin Astley","Danger Man Themes",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTU9O9LRZo4,"The best of the ITC spy series - very stylish through and through, including all the soundtracks (even the bizarrely incongruous rocking and rolling ""Secret Agent Man"" on the American version).",4,"deepdisco, twentythree","iivix: ""Oh, they missed the best one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6jYfJgj-o""; twentythree: ""EXCELLENT!""" 2014-03-24,SubVision,"Theme From Farscape",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRRB6q8hxc,"Can't believe that Farscape (AKA the greatest space opera of all time) is 15 years old already. Anyway, just remembered how awesome the theme is - completely alien and off the wall, just like great sci-fi should be.",7,"culturalfatwa, pjcj, twentythree","pjcj: ""Now I want to go and watch it again ...""" 2014-03-18,Clank,"Funk Me",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr5ZUGhkt84,"Just another one of my top 10 1990s 50p 12""s",6,daftmonk, 2014-03-10,Tomcraft,"Loneliness (Klub Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F56mIioq2uM,"I'm sure there are endless remixes, but this is the version I know and love from under the lasers at Turnmills.",9,"yojames, daftmonk", 2014-03-03,"Underground Resistance",Transition,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52q-K7HKumI,"Make your transition (away from ""EDM"" and towards real dance music --> disco + house + techno).",6,"daftmonk, culturalfatwa","culturalfatwa: ""Applauds! (mind you saw UR playing as a 'band' a few years ago and it was slightly cabaret light though still enjoyed it!""" 2014-02-24,"Soft Cell + Floppy Music","Tainted Love (on floppy disc drives - with the real Marc Almond on vocals)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QByS2UdrTt8,"It's the real Marc Almond recording new vocals over the the floppy disk drive version - what's not to love (:",5,"IFTFOM, edisg", 2014-02-17,"Overweight Pooch","Hip House Party",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVrVGod_UKM,"Every so often it seems like house, pop, and hip-hop converge and create a unified terrain of top 40+4/4 dance rap. Always less the sum of its parts but I still dig it... Very tempted to start collecting old hip house 12""s (if nothing else it would be cost effective, seeing as the average price I've seen is 50p).",10,"Chichibio, daftmonk, culturalfatwa","culturalfatwa: ""we need a hip house rebirth!""; iivix: ""@culturalfatwa I think it's more interesting to see which dance genres haven't been revived compared to the majority that have been - the ugly ducklings of dance, e.g. hip-house, big beat, freestyle...""; culturalfatwa: ""Ugly duckling no way - hip house was the bomb - I guess nearest thing would be UK funky with a good MC these days!""" 2014-02-10,"Skinny Puppy",Assimilate,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYC5VFuiblU,"All the 1990s industrial rock giants were better before they picked up guitars (:",14,"mattorganic, deepdisco, IFTFOM, twentythree", 2014-02-02,Sunscreem,"Perfect Motion (Boys Own mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MG2J0CJnP4,"I think every form of dance music was perfected by 1992 - we've just been repeating the same tropes ever since.. That said, I freaking love dance music and if we're still spinning the same sound in another 22 years I'm very OK with that (:",13,"culturalfatwa, labracoon, christ, davecann","culturalfatwa: ""100% agree with both statements - nice mix of that particular tune too - I think this would have grazed off the bottom of the charts back in the day!""" 2014-01-27,"Paul Woolford","Untitled (Call Out Your Name)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_14fhwl7ik,"OK, so the original cut of this track is better, a proper dance groove with without the extra vocal vamping, and this video is really freaking stupid (in a very charming way), such an idiotic choice for a classy dance track. I'm torn - I love the music, I love the video, the two shouldn't go together but fuck it (:",9,ZenPyramid,"ZenPyramid: ""...lolwft!""" 2014-01-18,"Belbury Poly","Summer Round",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGW05V7nCOQ,"Apparently when all in music is retro-historicism, the authentic act is to manufacturer false historical narratives (see http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/the-trouble-with-contemporary-music-criticism?page=show)... I don't buy that but I do dig the result.",9,hackneymarshman, 2014-01-02,BT,"Loving You More (BT's Primordial Sound 12"" Vocal Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFsUx1-Ih2s,"Another gem from the 25p selection, back when ""epic"" meant something other than just ""awesome drop"" - how provocative does a 13 minute trance track (complete with internal movements and flow) become in the era of 3 minute ""EDM""? :)",9,"d0minic, daftmonk", 2013-12-27,"Nitzer Ebb",Murderous,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJqJK-h8V_I,"Relentless EBM amd timelessly great dance music. In retrospect this owes a huge debt to Divine's Native Love (classic hi-nrg as produced by Bobby Orlando) but I wouldn't realise that till a lot later on.",4,"spaceoddities, nessi_vanessi", 2013-12-19,"2 Unlimited","No Limit",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM5W7Xn7FiA,"Just heard this blasting out of the office Spotify. Thank you anonymous office rave hero for reminding me how top this is (:",6,"christ, spaceoddities, davecann, deepdisco, philipnareike","philipnareike: ""Classic #DutchClassics""" 2013-12-05,Kuva,"Isn't It Time (Dave Morales Euro Club Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCX8vm0MYtI,"Bought a huge stack of 25p mid-90s house 12""s the other day, just to get a feel for what was going down around then. Found this lovely bit of vocal house - warm melodies and a lush hook, proto-trance that would mix nicely into a late 00s neo-trance set.",6,"SparkiOne, psyclopstrees, daftmonk", 2013-11-25,"Hot Natured featuring The Egyptian Lover","Isis (Magic Carpet Ride)",http://soundcloud.com/hotnatured/hot-natured-isis-magic-carpet,"Loving this weird bit of nu disco kitsch. Not loving that WMG block embedding the original YouTube - I'm trying to promote the track for you :P (Then again, the video adds a rather sinister feel to the track - in my head I was picturing the scene from Bernard and the Genie).",17,"corcorankelly, nessi_vanessi, flaneur, culturalfatwa, ZenPyramid, daftmonk, gemma","iivix: ""Music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMQkQG9-U0""; ZenPyramid: ""...yeah, i just got a load of 'WMG don't want this video played on this website, why don't you listen to it on uTube?' bullshit. Had to go to vimeo in the end. Did you ever align your utube and googlePus accounts? i really can't bring myself to suck that much google cock, tbh. i may never leave another comment on utube again. Not that it seems to matter any more, that site pisses me off constantly these days...""; iivix: ""@ZenPyramid Yeah, I've even resisted setting up Google+. At the moment I am using three different Google and gmail accounts in an attempt to keep them from data tracking all the aspects of my life into one entity but I know that's a lost cause in the long run.""; ZenPyramid: ""...is your real name registered, or can you hold that fig leaf up still? Not that it does a lot of good, ultimately...""; iivix: ""@ZenPyramid One ""work"" account under my real name, but the main one that I use for everything else doesn't have my name attached. As someone from the early(ish) days of the net, it always surprises me how quickly people came to associate their ""real name"" with their online identity.""; culturalfatwa: ""Eygptian lover must surely be slowing a little at this juncture""; nessi_vanessi: ""MYSTIC PYRAMID. I love how Egyptian Lover is basically just doing his thing.""; ZenPyramid: ""...ikr!? First thing i thought was 'gosh, i can't have my real name on the internet, i may as well run around without my clothes on!' Glad to see i was right. To this day, if you google my real name, you get loads of hits for an ancestor of mine, and nothing for me. The perfect smoke screen...""" 2013-11-18,"Scritti Politti","Perfect Way (Way Perfect mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9pwhj1WtgU,"Just rediscovered this perfect electro-funk pop jam. Jerky bassline, stabbing synths, maximal composition - I think this is the secret influence on all the skweee I've made... Also, everyone loves the huge sound of 1970s analogue synths, but what about all those lovely 80s digitals - so many nice woody bass tones, glistening piano chimes, crystaline pads (:",11,"rossanapiccini, invernessred, Axol, spaceoddities","Axol: ""Excellent - thanks""; invernessred: ""Wonderful. Inspired me to dig out album.""" 2013-11-10,"Global Communication",14:31,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNmFlRd7EFw,"Timelessly beautiful, and showcasing a second sense of ""ambient"" - not as background music but as a space that surrounds the listener, not pretty wallpaper but a fluffy blanket of sound, perfect for the early nights (:",12,"GarethAPearce, ZenPyramid, IFTFOM, rossanapiccini","IFTFOM: ""Paging @DoctorBeans""" 2013-11-04,"Prasanth Akurathi","Somebody To Live For",http://prasanthakurathi.bandcamp.com/track/somebody-to-live-for,"Just listen and enjoy.",10,,"iivix: """"Sorry, no related jams. This one must be very special!"" - you said it, this is something very special indeed.""; deathmtn: ""Brutal!""" 2013-10-28,"Patrice Wilson",Happy,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8wZbqTww0,"Confirming everything you already know about the outsider pop genius that produced Rebecca Black's Friday. Knowingly naive, post-ironic super catchy (over)autotuned bubblegum pop, dadaist in its repetition as meaning ebbs away into empty phonemes and the inane becomes sublime.",11,ges, 2013-10-15,"Connie Case","Get Down",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8paEMdVgU,"Late disco = proto-house, an intersection that I love (:",12,"hackneymarshman, deathmtn, deepdisco, psyclopstrees, GarethAPearce", 2013-10-06,"Who Cares?","Doctor In Distress",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phl5R-Ttj1w,"That weird intersection of legendary northern soul DJ and hi-nrg producer Ian Levine and his obsession with Doctor Who, manifested in a novelty charity record with guest spots from all the great hi-nrg singers demonstrating that a track can be far far less than the sum of its parts... Levine: ""It was an absolute balls-up fiasco. ... It almost ruined me."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_in_Distress_%28song%29",17,"Gummi, philipnareike, daftmonk","iivix: ""Not only does it have parts from hi-nrg legends Earlene Bentley, Miquel Brown, Phyllis Nelson, and Hazell Dean, kitsch icons David Van Day from Dollar and Bobby G from Bucks Fizz, Colin Baker and assorted Doctor Who regulars, plus a few randoms from b-list bands like Matt Bianco and Freeez amongst others, but it's also got now extremely respected film composer Hans Zimmer on keyboards.""; daftmonk: ""Well, that's different...""; philipnareike: ""What a collection of contributors.That really is beyond dreadful...yet it has something....""; philipnareike: ""@Astromonkey Do you remember this atrocity? :)""; Astromonkey: ""@philipnareike Not from the time, I'd stopped watching Who long before this was organised, but I've since seen it on ""Trial of A Timelord"" DVD. It is awful. Fun to spot who's who in the video though :)""" 2013-09-28,Ylvis,"The Fox",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE,"Might as well contribute to the inevitable virality of this earworming pop weapon. Anyway, it's a silly question for anyone who lives in urban London, since we all clearly know what noise foxes make - that distinctive plaintive mewling and shrieking that they bust out at 3am that sounds like a scene from Law and Order: Special Victims Unit being played at full volume.",14,,"ZenPyramid: ""...hmmm, dude clearly has never met the stinking mangy flea ridden creatures that pass for foxes in London. Yes, the pleasant sound of foxes fucking in some dingy alleyway in Streatham, always inspires me to try an make some crappy pop rip-off of The Mighty Boosh's 'Mod Wolf' song. Yet somehow i never get round to it...""; ZenPyramid: ""...i guess he did better than me, then? ho ho ho...""; dondorstrecords: ""great chorus which sadly doesn't match the rest of the song.""" 2013-09-18,"The Blackout Crew","Put A Donk On It",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58,"Donk bass is the anti-wub, no pretensions of cool, just simple minded fun (: ""Put a donk on it"" should be extended to all things... ""Filling in a tax return? Put a donk on it!"" ...""Going for a picnic? Put a donk on it!"" ...""Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason? Put a donk on it!"" ... ""A poodle? Put a donk on it!"" ... etc.",13,"ZenPyramid, corcorankelly, daftmonk, GarethAPearce","GarethAPearce: ""Come on Wigan Pier!""" 2013-09-10,Ninetoes,Finder,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hC5ZmmCldc,"What can I say, except this is my jam and what a jam it is (: I've heard this in a million mixes already, but it just doesn't get old...",16,"andrewharris, daftmonk, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""Yes, it's not totally original, if you prefer the authentic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoVQCaYIL8 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQWtYIN4nM""" 2013-09-03,Raffi,Bananaphone,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha-UrZV_aWQ,"Just remembered how much I love Bananaphone (:",11,"GarethAPearce, countryboy","countryboy: ""The man is a genius!""; GarethAPearce: ""What on earth?! This is fantatsic.""" 2013-08-26,Daedelus,"DJ set (Live on KEXP)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zIvFYQWig,"Will the grid controller be remember as this decade's Technics 1200 or our keytar? Great jam either way.",12,, 2013-08-18,"The Winstons","Amen Brother",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM,"Yep, the cut that was responsible for several thousand breakbeat tracks from hip-hop to hardcore rave, drum'n'bass to breakcore, and beyond. Hands up who's actually listened to the original all the way through?",16,"psyclopstrees, ZenPyramid, PhilPhil, daftmonk, Hooch, shitsterbauer, corcorankelly","daftmonk: ""The most sampled song of all time? Lovely to hear more than the 1:30-ish part of it.""" 2013-08-03,"The Pointer Sisters","Sesame Street's Pinball Number Count",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBAMQhtjEk,"Sesame Street from when I was a kid, before Elmo, was psychedelic, funky, and so so disco (: Apparently this classic earworm is by the Pointer Sisters, but I only found that out a minute ago.",10,"deathmtn, sarahmainville, mindlessones, rangefinder, corcorankelly, psyclopstrees", 2013-07-28,Cascada,"Evacuate the Dancefloor (Unplugged version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G925ayI7vIs,"Cheesy eurodance in an unplugged acoustic version - powerful performance and surprisingly charming. Then again I freaking love Cascada anyway... By the way, following is a better acoustic version but German youtube vids always have crappy rights restrictions that mean I can't share directly --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsfB5AUvQUg",16,"owtytrof, corcorankelly", 2013-07-21,Lisa,"Sex Dance",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4p4Q8UsUtY,"I just can't get enough hi-nrg (: Great video too, especially if you're nostalgic for Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga - I'm pretty sure they just pointed the camera at the screen while drawing stuff and cycling colours.",14,"spaceoddities, corcorankelly", 2013-07-15,"Toto Coelo","Girls' Night Out (12"" version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-A9yz2-iqg,"Just a great eighties electro-funk-pop jam that I found on vinyl for 25p.",16,"mindlessones, sarahmainville, deepdisco, deathmtn","GarethAPearce: ""Some nice sounds in this, though the lyrics are agonising. Always wondered why they made 12"" cuts of songs like these. I can see 12"" versions of dance tracks being used to mix between records, but would you even try and do it with something like this?""" 2013-07-09,"Easy Going",Fear,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvGdutwtDA,"Whatever ""easy going fear"" is supposed to be, it's awesome - #cosmic #disco as proto #italo with an unstoppable groove.",18,"daftmonk, culturalfatwa, nessi_vanessi, Chichibio, deepdisco, corcorankelly","culturalfatwa: ""Absolutely Gorgeous!""" 2013-07-01,"Clan of Xymox","Stranger (long version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXKEkm66lQ,"Dark wave is a great genre --> moody + electronic + dancefloor friendly (: Basically I love all the ""dark dance"" genres of the 80s, e.g. dark wave, cold wave, ebm, new beat...",13,"r_sparrow, deepdisco, niyan, corcorankelly", 2013-06-24,"Funk D'Void",Astroboy,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu_IdAygaRM,"Been meaning to jam this for a few weeks now - a very tasty bit of neo-italo tech-house (: Makes me miss those DJing days, me and Simon behind the decks, only about 20 people in the crowd up for raving at 3am on a Thursday night, but what a vibe.",17,"d0minic, deepdisco", 2013-06-17,Atom™,"Stop (Imperialist Pop)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlIeKi72j5U,"Atom TM was the highlight of Sonar for me, and I hate to say it, but his vital take on electro made Kraftwerk seem limp and irrelevant by comparison. Uwe Schmidt, aka Atom TM, aka Atom Heart, aka Señor Coconut (and around 60+ other aliases), you're awesome!",14,"HappyJoeLucky, r_sparrow, CaptainJam, meredithdidit, culturalfatwa, corcorankelly, d0minic","culturalfatwa: ""Stormer I'll have to watch out for his stuff!""" 2013-06-09,"Richard Harvey","Theme from Terrahawks (12"" version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1XLbiISm0,"Nostalgia is overrated, but 80s kids TV programmes really did have awesome soundtracks.",11,"projectmoonbase, ndreasa, deepdisco", 2013-06-03,Kreayshawn,"Gucci Gucci",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4,"Kreayshawn is like what 2NE1 would be doing if they were real californian hip-hop and not manufactured k-pop (:",9,"thestooshie, Tagical, corcorankelly", 2013-05-26,"Krista Siegfrids","Marry Me (Eurovision 2013 - Finland)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdU02F9lT2g,"Yes, Eurovision has been and gone, but I'm not going to get ""uh oh a ding dong"" out of my head for a while yet. Kitsch pop perfection but somehow finishing even lower than the UK, no idea why. #eurovision #finland",5,corcorankelly, 2013-05-19,Cezar,"It's My life (Eurovision 2013 - Romania)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV3xp5ZXSYA,"Eurovision at its high camp finest. Scored surprisingly well, sadly too much solid competition this year for something so leftfield but I'm going to be playing this one till Eurovision 2014 (:",17,"projectmoonbase, tomukann, nessi_vanessi, philipnareike, Gummi, m-jam, corcorankelly","forsblad: ""This is hilarous!""; Gummi: ""Absolutely batshit crazy.""; philipnareike: ""This was definate one of my favourites from this year. Yep, it did quite well too""; philipnareike: ""#eurovisionsongcontest""; philipnareike: ""@marksatchwill""; nessi_vanessi: ""Romania really were robbed!""" 2013-05-13,"Clams Casino","I'm God (P-80 Footwork Refix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdY0Jt15h7I,"Chillwave juketronica, such zeitgeisty goodness.",12,"corcorankelly, ges, Lililololaure, philipnareike", 2013-05-02,"Pepsi & Shirlie","Heart Ache",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZikkIgkPOY,"Funny how tastes change - I used to hate Stock Aitken Waterman pop but now I love them as dance producers (:",8,"corcorankelly, roamin", 2013-04-23,Lusine,"Two Dots",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTX1PN-8il8,"Super lush vocal electronica (: One of those artists I just keep coming back to whenever the sun comes out",12,"daftmonk, Malladoi, culturalfatwa, deepdisco, corcorankelly, roamin", 2013-04-17,"Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa","Moja Dola",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajtRNsYmm_U,"Just a random discovery (:",14,"ZenPyramid, roamin, corcorankelly, Sylvestrian, deathmtn", 2013-04-11,"Reggie Watts","If You're Fucking, You're Fucking",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vftIGU8-uqs,"What you need to know (:",21,"corcorankelly, pez, kenobicommaben, roamin, AlicejustMay","AlicejustMay: ""That's my hair in the morning.""; d0minic: ""Well I'm glad he's cleared that up""" 2013-04-05,"Roul & Doors","Melody in Harmony",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVvep7l52k,"Can't get enough of the huge hook in this one, shameless big-room-peak-time-crowd-pleasing trance (:",15,"roamin, corcorankelly","iivix: ""Kinda leaves me wanting another build in it listened to in isolation, but it's a DJ friendly track where you can drop another tune straight after the last build, works great in the mix (:""" 2013-03-25,"Kim Wilde","Kids in America",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_lJvGFzcAU,"One part Kraftwerk, one part Blondie, what's not to love?",21,"nadia, daftmonk, spaceoddities, pabloldias, stereoGrover, culturalfatwa, Utrenja, plinythemidlkid, corcorankelly, roamin, IFTFOM, Lililololaure, twentythree","iivix: ""Oh dear, I've lapsed back into the eighties again, so many great tracks, I just can't escape""; twentythree: ""I LOVE this track, I put it on my iPod yesterday. The keyboard sound reminds me of your bass keyboard. I always had a bit of a fantasy of us doing a really rocking cover of it with a live drummer and a singer""" 2013-03-17,"The Shamen","Move Any Mountain",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjnzxtZ6Qg,"I promised myself I wouldn't be stuck in 80s dance music this year... But now I'm stuck in the 90s (:",12,"culturalfatwa, daftmonk, corcorankelly, roamin", 2013-03-10,"Front 242","Modern Angel",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajk7CqbImY,"Haven't heard this in 15 years - I owned it on tape, long since lost. Not classic 242 but still great.",21,"hiiri, r_sparrow, d0minic, daftmonk, shme, corcorankelly, roamin", 2013-03-02,"Michael Jackson","Beat It (major scaled version by MajorVsMinor)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHsjFdsd5lA,"An unnerving wrongness from a mirror universe... I may actually prefer this version though.",31,"Lupotron, deathmtn, wellredheadmc, ZenPyramid, twentythree, Hooch, deepdisco, IFTFOM, corcorankelly, roamin","ZenPyramid: ""...so wrong it's wrong...""; culturalfatwa: ""I heard this was teh version Quincy loved but the record company sat on it - also who's the squeeky vocalist - I here him on many quincy jones productions - he's mighty irritating...""" 2013-02-23,"Daniele Petronelli","Ground Zero (No-Logik's Room Main Mix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoU9_HH2sy4,"Another one that got a lot of spins at WEPLAYMUSIC - just love that melody (:",20,"dadwhowrites, daftmonk, corcorankelly, roamin", 2013-02-16,Solee,Zebra,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y033lxNjhvQ,"Hey, someone wanna throw a party with some decks? Because I wanna spin a set of big melodic minimal (:",14,"corcorankelly, roamin, r_sparrow, ZenPyramid", 2013-02-06,"Red Robin & Jakob Hilden",Snapdragon,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3nYIdZi_nQ,"I still dig contemporary minimal techno but I can't help thinking it was better five years ago",20,"DIL23, daftmonk, roamin, corcorankelly, culturalfatwa, plinythemidlkid, denizenofdreams, ZenPyramid", 2013-01-31,Orbital,"Halcyon + On + On",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV-hSgL1R74,"Utopian / rave.",18,"culturalfatwa, r_sparrow, daftmonk, roamin, thestooshie, corcorankelly, labracoon, dutchzaphod", 2013-01-25,"Neon Jung","Delirium Tremens",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00WgjRoxMS0,"Erm, what genre is this anyway? Deep / bassline / neorave something, whatever, it's a great dance track (:",19,"daftmonk, twentythree, deepdisco, d0minic, Chichibio, Hooch", 2013-01-19,Pandora,"Trust Me",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19Pv0uEb9I,"They will always be a place in my heart for 90s eurodance! Check the vid for full effect.",24,"psyclopstrees, thestooshie", 2013-01-12,"Luke Slater","Stars And Heroes",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H2L7mUsz1o,"This is when he sold out techno for europop, but I love it. Chiptune from 2002, retro or ahead of its time?",12,"spaceoddities, daftmonk, corcorankelly, Hooch","iivix: ""A weird one really, not electoclash, too early to be electro-house or nu disco, too late for the 1990s eighties revival per Les Rythmes Digitales, no wonder no-one knew what to make of it.""" 2013-01-04,"David Bowie","Let's Dance (Album Version)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af6jOq0dWqo,"Is it bad to admit that I like 80s Bowie the best? (yes, still 80% 80s for my jams for 2013 I guess!)",10,"Gummi, mindlessones, d0minic, daftmonk, r_sparrow, Hooch, thestooshie, dutchzaphod, corcorankelly", 2012-12-29,Siriusmo,Discosau,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStj_DoBRrU,"Oddball nu disco / electro house, with a bassline that's top banana.",14,"hackneymarshman, dirtydoodad, ZenPyramid, deepdisco, roamin","ZenPyramid: ""...siriusly banana...""" 2012-12-24,"Senor Tonto","Hooray for Santy Claus",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRXZ3gqqXec,Hooray!,13,"thefamilyghost, waynechapman44, roamin, ZenPyramid","ZenPyramid: ""...genius! Merry Christmas...""; iivix: ""@ZenPyramid cheers dude, have a great one!""" 2012-12-20,"Digital Dream Baby","Walking In The Air",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXhEUQB0Fjc,"1991 proto-trip-hop / dub, Peter Auty vocals (as in the original Snowman film, not the later phony Aled Jones)",16,"rangefinder, daftmonk, roamin, christ, ZenPyramid", 2012-12-16,"Çetin Alp & The Short Waves",Opera,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq64xw9tE2M,"Three of my current obsessions - Turkish pop, Eurovision, and opera - all combined in one classic nul-pointer",12,"rangefinder, spaceoddities, roamin, edisg","iivix: ""Currently readinng Tim Moore's exploring the nul-pointers, highly recommended if you like that sort of thing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nul-Points-Tim-Moore/dp/0099492970""; rangefinder: ""My goodness. Definitely unique!""" 2012-12-10,"Alexander Rybak",Fairytale,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiH4BFTELME,"Unironic love for this track. Ironic love for Rybak / Ryback (WWE) ambiguity http://youtu.be/LNyBuPqgd4g",30,"philipnareike, roamin, culturalfatwa, ndreasa","ndreasa: ""Possibly the best thing to come out of Eurovision ever.""; culturalfatwa: ""BONKERS""" 2012-12-04,Boytronic,You,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjOjLv195A4,"Great bit of synthpop but also EBM-ish, italo, and reminds me of classic Clans of Xymox too :)",22,"vorbis, deepdisco, IFTFOM, Lupotron, Lililololaure, roamin", 2012-11-27,TC,"Do You Rock?",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUPoMXGdWw,"Bass music in convergence",19,"handsome, sarahmainville, Lupotron, roamin, deathmtn, daftmonk, dirtydoodad, IFTFOM", 2012-11-18,Teapacks,"Push the Button",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKbpjw3_EZM,"Israel's entry to the 2007 Eurovision... Satirical klezmer-metal-grime-pop. Truly terrible, truly awesome.",11,"Lupotron, roamin, d0minic","iivix: ""And yes, this is a song about nuclear annihilation (between Iran and Israel, wonder who is supposed to be the aggressor?)... And if you think the change in genres between the verses and the chorus is jarring, wait for the breaks'n'bass hebrew rap breakdown in the middle...""" 2012-11-12,"Ozan Doğulu","Dağılmak İstiyorum",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bJnxsvcuZI,"Don't know much about Turkish dance-pop (T-pop?) but heard this on a random net radio station and love it.",18,"culturalfatwa, Lupotron, d0minic, roamin", 2012-11-06,"Microbot Melodies",Elitechnique,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBodZvnqGrs,"Think I must have dropped this nu-italo classic in every set from 2006 to 2010, but still love it (:",29,"daftmonk, GeorgeSandison, ndreasa, deepdisco, roamin, Lupotron", 2012-10-29,Rockwell,"Reverse Engineering",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LoUnvRM9ig,"Reverse stylee but this is played forwards. The 12"" also has all the printing backwards & it plays inside out.",18,"Lupotron, roamin, deathmtn", 2012-10-22,Wet,"That's The Game",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbbaOflB6g,"Italo in a synthpop style, with proto-Detroit acidic bass. No surprises I like this one (:",30,"jwmcglone, daftmonk, Lupotron, d0minic, roamin, ndreasa, IFTFOM", 2012-10-15,"DJ Rolando AKA The Aztec Mystic",Jaguar,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UFKA1nWH38,"Truely timeless minimal Detroit techno, could be from 1992, still sounds fresh today (actually from 2000).",24,"r_sparrow, occ, culturalfatwa, nessi_vanessi, philipnareike, _ralph, Lupotron, d0minic, roamin","iivix: ""Other versions: Jeff Mills remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIrjUEg7_iU Derick May remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMlCnf3pRwE Octave One remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xyejj5mNYM Mad Mike remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv3gM6tXILQ E-Type cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1flrjjA6E A Hundred Birds live band cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BCFcJtZ4U Sébastien Léger cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyD6_VH4Qr0 ""; iivix: ""Julian The Angel cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsi964Xs1rY Cor Finjeman cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXqwEY-iNQ Guilian Ross cover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqK4RWs_vr0 and there's millions of versions on youtube credited to Carl Cox, which is odd because I don't think he's done a cover version but I guess he likes playing it a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQAwUoW6BW0""; _ralph: ""Haha amazing rundown of the covers!""; iivix: ""@_ralph Cheers dude, they're not all great (Léger version is probably my favourite) but it's interesting to see how many there are (:""" 2012-10-07,"Mari Kimura","Gemini Subharmonics",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTt5u681so,"Avant garde violin, playing below its normal range using subharmonics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Kimura",19,"daftmonk, Lupotron, deepdisco, roamin, mindlessones, ZenPyramid, d0minic, philipnareike","philipnareike: ""Hey man.... that is geil!!""; iivix: ""Here's more Mari Kimura - Playing with a reactive robot guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzL75a_dD8 ... Augmented violin with adaptive backing track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf7IxTD19eg ... Some clever live resampling violin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXRKGObBb0 ... Violin with interactive graphics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfGCwKN6VY ... And some straight up virtuoso playing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_WPIYmK8Q (50 minutes with explanation of subharmonics at start)""; iivix: ""@philipnareike hahaha, yeah, slightly different :)""; culturalfatwa: ""lovely sound""; GarethAPearce: ""Sounds like a there's a flute accompaniment occasionally - very interesting! Cheers iivix!""" 2012-09-30,"Bruce & Bongo",Geil,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_P3uwRiimo,"Haunted by this horrible ohrwurm. Unknown in the UK but I imagine this was a 80s ski-pop anthem in Europe.",31,"daftmonk, nessi_vanessi, roamin, Lupotron, yojames, nadia, GeorgeSandison, dondorstrecords, philipnareike, Chichibio","iivix: ""It gets better (or worse)... The 90s euro-dance mix complete with dubious rap section http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFciczArXMc ... And a recent trashy euro-trance version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwPqTQUKa9A ... Wanna do a dubstep mix...""; philipnareike: ""Excrutiatingly painful but entertaining....they just don't make 'em like that anymore""; philipnareike: ""Oh hell........I need help.....I think I'm a 'geil' addict now........it must be the mullets.........""; dondorstrecords: ""seriously geiler scheiß!""; yojames: ""oh man""; Lupotron: ""Haha this is geil (great)""; nessi_vanessi: ""Wow, that's amazing.""; daftmonk: ""Where is this song been all my life? Amazing. A bit ""Rock Me Amadeus"" isn't it?""; iivix: ""@discomonk total rip-off of Amadeus more like :)""" 2012-09-24,"Orange Caramel (오렌지캬라멜)","Lipstick (립스틱)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z9R57maGvc,"What will be the next k-pop track to go viral, if any? I dunno but I love this one, especially the video :)",31,"nadia, hachigram, culturalfatwa, roamin, ZenPyramid, ges, Lupotron, plinythemidlkid, philipnareike","plinythemidlkid: ""So addictive!""; Lupotron: ""@ges yo watch this!""; ZenPyramid: ""...any K-Pop song can go viral at any time, it's the nature of the beast. Incredible production values, highly creative competitive industry, plenty of cash, and some damned sexy people, the only problem is the sheer wealth of material...""; ZenPyramid: ""...oh, surprise surprise, my favorites number 23...""; iivix: ""@ZenPyramid Hahaha, I noticed that too :)""; culturalfatwa: ""Appalling - I love it!""; plinythemidlkid: ""Must.... Stop... Waking... Up... With... This... On... Brain... I don't speak any Korean whatsoever and yet I'm still singing along as if I have a clue.""; iivix: ""@plinythemidlkid hahaha, you can click through to the youtube version and turn on captions if you want to see the translation (it's pretty much what you'd expect). Personally I'm with you, singing along with the universal language of pop, half convincing myself that I must be fluent in Korean by now :)""; plinythemidlkid: ""It's such a great way to learn another language! Damn sight easier than night school and learning vocab.""" 2012-09-16,"The Prodigy",Fire,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1U0qvtQnE8,"Top track which turned 20 years old last week. I guess I'm old :( But then again breakbeat rave never dies :)",19,"culturalfatwa, roamin, Lupotron, plinythemidlkid, daftmonk, philipnareike, dutchzaphod","iivix: ""And the album version which also rocks (and I guess is more well known): http://youtu.be/DQa1BsHpXlE Experience is definitely the best Prodigy album, Jilted Generation is also top, but frankly it's all downhill from there, sorry Liam, guess that's what happens when you'd rather be a rock band than a ""band"" that lists two dancers as members :P""; ZenPyramid: ""...twenty years. Gosh, how time has flown. Love the rant, though Prodigy was always just Liam with a buncha people up front getting the audience hyped. i thought there was a little friction there once, but i forget / don't care any more. i rate Jilted a tiny bit more, but that's because i like the darker edge, and the remorseless danceability of it, but you can't knock Experience, pivotal work...""; ZenPyramid: ""...love this version, btw. Was it the radio edit? And agreed about the downhill slope, though i rather like the bit they did for The Matrix. Very fitting...""; plinythemidlkid: ""@iivix @ZenPyramid Time and place, people, time and place. Full Throttle ( http://youtu.be/UrCWy2hK5yM ) off Jilted has been belting out of my car a lot in recent weeks, but it's the only one I really enjoy at the mo from that album. Must revisit Experience; agree - it and Jilted are The Two. I didn't bother buying Fat of the Land (does that sound a bit rave hipster?)""" 2012-09-09,"Peter Schilling","Major Tom",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt-R5hj_lWM,"Top Neue Deutsche Welle... And a reminder that Breaking Bad rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugY6HNLOCo",14,"dondorstrecords, GarethAPearce, spaceoddities, Lupotron, heathercurtis, nadia, roamin, Gummi, philipnareike","iivix: ""The scene itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiE7vWmzp4 God I love how many details they put into that karaoke video. Black comedy at its best.""; Gummi: ""Just another reminder that I have to watch Breaking Bad. And the german version is actually superior :)""; iivix: ""@Gummi Yep, agreed that the German version is cooler, plus if I'm not mistaken there's also a longer version in English which is better too. But this is the version from Gale's karaoke :)""" 2012-09-02,Chicago,"Street Player",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_trFuBGPQho,"90s house music made me loathe both house & disco. Buckethead's The Bomb was the worst. But this is top.",34,"GeorgeSandison, nessi_vanessi, leejohnson, heathercurtis, roamin, catbarrett, daftmonk, mindlessones, flexesque, dutchzaphod, philipnareike, d0minic","philipnareike: ""Horny!""; dutchzaphod: ""Chicago 13 from which this tune stems is often considered an unpopular release among Chicago's catalog, both critically and with fans. But I find this song not too bad. It's better than a lot of crappy records that were put out at that time!""; iivix: ""@dutchzaphod I know nothing about Chicago - what are their best albums do you think?""; dutchzaphod: ""In my opinion: Chicago Transit Authority, and then the later albums VI, VII and X. But there are some good compilation albums around, just try one! Two nice ones are: 'Chicago IX' and 'Greatest Hits, Volume II'""; philipnareike: ""@iivix I know absolutely nothing about Chicago too, but I know the track '25 or 6 to 4' is fantastic. I think its from 1970.""; iivix: ""@philipnareike Neat, I'll check it out :)""; leejohnson: ""Not as good as the Cetera era (Peter, not Kenny), but still good to listen to.""; iivix: ""@dutchzaphod Thanks for the heads-up, I'm going to have a look out for the vinyl when I next hit the second hand record shops :)""; dutchzaphod: ""@philipnareike ""From Wikipedia: Chicago is the second album by Chicago-based rock band Chicago. It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled debut album the previous year."" And it is on this (second) album that you will find '25 or 6 to 4' which is indeed a classic!""; dutchzaphod: ""@leejohnson I take it that you mean by 'Cetera era"" the period upto and including Chicag XI (1977). Cetera left Chicago around 1985 but most of the songs after 1979 are not worth listening to (in my opinion of course) :)""; leejohnson: ""@dutchzaphod Generally, when Peter Cetera was either playing with them, writing for them or writing with them, they were better all round. I know Kenny Cetera was also a member at one stage, but I know little about him.""; philipnareike: ""@dutchzaphod Thanks for the info. I may even check out some other songs by them""" 2012-08-26,"English Evenings","Tear You Down",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCtyNyTThIU,"Epic hi-nrg / synthpop crossover. Didn't do well originally but sounds like a forgotten classic.",17,"roamin, nessi_vanessi, dutchzaphod", 2012-08-20,"Klaus Doldinger","Theme From Das Boot",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC03c9rUzDs,"Hexstatic (or was it DJ Food?) did a great booty bass mash-up version of this, but the original is the best.",20,"philipnareike, roamin, d0minic, daftmonk","iivix: ""Hmm, the mash-up wasn't this one, because it's awful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwc0shJ2aYc""" 2012-08-12,Pisces,"Take Me Higher",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-oAsWVrKM,"Classic house from 1989 with everything good - uplifting rave strings, jacking bass, acid synth, big vocals (:",22,"roamin, Lupotron, deepdisco, mindlessones","deepdisco: ""Bassline borrowed from ""Love in C Minor"" by Cerrone, and I think I can hear a bit of Bohannon's ""Let's Start The Dance"" in there as well""; iivix: ""@deepdisco Good spot :) I also recognise that bassline from some later italo disco track but totally forgotten which one...""" 2012-08-04,"Max Cooper",Symphonica,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQupgULMmBo,"Another WEPLAYMUSIC favourite, master of warm & woozy melodic techno, glitchy as you like but always banging",24,"Lupotron, dutchzaphod, twentythree, plinythemidlkid, roamin, blushift01, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""And if you like this, here some mixes by Max: http://www.weplaymusic.co.uk/2009/11/wpm023-max-cooper-live/ http://www.weplaymusic.co.uk/2010/03/wpm034-max-cooper-part1/ http://www.weplaymusic.co.uk/2010/03/wpm034-max-cooper-part2/ http://www.weplaymusic.co.uk/2010/07/wpm041-xircus/""" 2012-07-28,"Claude VonStroke","Vocal Chords",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dkaAjqoLJw,"This was a WEPLAYMUSIC favourite back in 2010, such a great track to drop into a DJ set :)",31,"GeorgeSandison, LeonTrembath, daftmonk, Gummi, roamin, deepdisco, Chichibio, philipnareike, occ","GeorgeSandison: ""@GarethAPearce - your listeny-bits are required for some satiated wallowing for 6mins 56secs.""" 2012-07-21,"Komar & Melamid","The Most Unwanted Song",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCtDO7OcRM,"Jingoistic opera rapping cowboy oompah bagpipes http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/",10,"roamin, deepdisco, d0minic","iivix: ""That's only part 1... All three parts in a playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31293550CE2271E3""; iivix: ""I unironically love this. ""; iivix: ""The most wanted track by comparison is really pretty painful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg""; deepdisco: ""science!""" 2012-07-15,Fresh,"Summer in the City",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixoIZ3BWKo,"Bought this 12"" for 50p, expected kitsch synthpop, discovered an awesome driving bassline, like camp EBM :)",36,"spaceoddities, mayfairtheatre, roamin, psyclopstrees", 2012-07-09,Taffy,"I Love My Radio",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibKXZHb9hxw,"Hi-NRG done in an italo style. Radio friendly pop that rocks the dancefloor, one of the all time classics (:",19,"daftmonk, Lupotron, spaceoddities, deepdisco, GeorgeSandison", 2012-07-03,"Sunny Hill","Midnight Circus",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjBHPvYW3Gk,"Burlesque gypsy swing K-pop, also reminiscent of Madness. I guess this is the ""alt"" end of Korean girl bands",30,"hachigram, roamin, d0minic, ZenPyramid, Gummi","Gummi: ""Fun. Reminds me a bit of Matt Bianco (remember them?) and similar bands. Which is funny, as I'm pretty sure these girls have never heard of them:)""; Lililololaure: ""This is very 'Kylie', yep, pretty fun, slightly (well more than that really :P) vacant. ""; iivix: ""@Gummi The girls probably don't listen to Matt Bianco, but it would surprise me if their producers do (: @Lililololaure K-pop, vacant?! Never! :P""; d0minic: ""They could teach the West a few things about how to make great POP again. ""; iivix: ""@LadyGulag Yep, for years I thought that I didn't like contemporary pop music, but then I realised that the pop music I'd heard recently just wasn't very good (: I think it helps that the K-pop lineage is essentially italo --> hi-nrg / eurobeat --> J-pop --> K-pop, skipping all the guitar band tropes that drag western pop down""" 2012-06-27,"Synthi & Gert",Ghostman,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKtzHMzCOI0,"Another slice of vocoder heaven... Discovered via the awesome Overfitting Disco http://overfitted.ddcr.biz/",25,"roamin, philipnareike, d0minic, ZenPyramid, Gummi, thefamilyghost", 2012-06-21,"Dream Continuum","B Free",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BkOlkXq8h8,"Glowsticks at the ready... 21st century rave music.",19,"daftmonk, mindlessones, ZenPyramid","mindlessones: ""It's really a piece of footwork, isn't it? ""; iivix: ""@mindlessones yep, that juke and footwork sound is infused into everything these days it seems. But it seems to have given the British IDM / dance music scene a good kick up the arse, so it's all good :)""; mindlessones: ""Oh yeah, it's everywhere and, as you say, that's a very good thing.""" 2012-06-15,Cajmere,Percolator,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVTvzqIHiNk,"It's that time... time for the percolator.",15,"PattyB1125, thefamilyghost, deepdisco, ZenPyramid", 2012-06-08,"Jay Shepheard","...The Party's Upstairs",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXSDJQIf1js,"Lovely melodic deep house... Pretending that it's summer despite the drizzle outside",28,"GeorgeSandison, flexesque, deepdisco, denizenofdreams, thefamilyghost, psyclopstrees, roamin, hackneymarshman","iivix: ""@The_Real_Hollis Pretty much everything Jay does is awesome like this, I have a stack of his 12""s and they all rock :)""; denizenofdreams: ""Excellent jam!!""" 2012-06-03,"Yusuf Islam","A is for Allah",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-GOHa5-YQ,"Formerly Cat Stevens, of course. Lovely song and educational too.",39,"ZenPyramid, philipnareike, nadia, psyclopstrees", 2012-05-28,"Reggie Watts","Fuck Shit Stack",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bLFO4ZV0i4,"Po-mo sweary beatbox hiphop fuck shit stack. Now with video.",24,"deathmtn, GarethAPearce, foddering, GeorgeSandison, deepdisco, thefamilyghost, christ","iivix: ""http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABm7DuBwJd8 Kinda like Bill Bailey crossed with Beardyman crossed with Goodiepal. And if you don't know who that last one is, well, perhaps I'll jam some of his madness next.""" 2012-05-28,"Reggie Watts","Fuck Shit Stack",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CipTw1QGJSI,"Po-mo sweary beatbox hiphop fuck shit stack.",1,, 2012-05-25,"London Boys","Harlem Desire",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aofSEVUbA80,"Achingly camp & catchy hi-nrg pop, awesome vid... HQ audio version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdozokUlrQQ",19,Murich,"iivix: ""Seriously going to adopt that dance as my own to honour these unsung idols (RIP)... I guess that's the progression: Cosmic disco (respectable) --> Italo disco (cheesy) --> hi-nrg (camp) --> eurobeat (unspeakable Stock Aitken Waterman) --> Eurovision... Speaking of which - hooray for Eurovision! Shame I don't have a TV anymore...""" 2012-05-21,"Michael Boddicker","Buckaroo Banzai - End credits",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo,"Rewatched this recently and was reminded of two things - 1) The soundtrack is great, 2) The end credits rock",26,"spaceoddities, roamin, ZenPyramid, nadia","12pt9: ""WTF is this? Homoerotic Doctor Who?""; iivix: ""@12pt9 Doctor Who is the homoerotic Doctor Who, but that aside it's not a bad description of Buckeroo Banzai either""; 12pt9: ""@iivix Sold!""; spaceoddities: ""haaa... childhood memories...""" 2012-05-14,"Jeremy Schmidt","Beyond The Black Rainbow [official trailer]",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWF0bBKhe6o,"Newish film with the eerie vibe of Scanners / Altered States /Andromeda Strain, and the best soundtrack EVER",40,"GeorgeSandison, Gummi, blushift01, dondorstrecords, roamin, denizenofdreams, 12pt9, deepdisco, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""@zenpyramid I reckon this could be your cup of tea. ""; iivix: ""This is my new favourite film. More soundtrack / trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKdWj9-VMzs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCHXpSEtOU Don't read the idiots spoiling it in the YouTube comments, just track down a copy and watch it, preferable late night and sleep deprived for the full effect :) ""; ZenPyramid: ""...i'm not even gonna watch more than the first thirty seconds of the trailer, cos that's how much i hate spoilers. [note to alt.self: i must be the only person in multiverse hasn't seen a Prometheus trailer] And, damn! Does that dude look like my old Latin teacher, or what! If he had darker hair and looked a bit more vampiric, it'd be spot on...""; iivix: ""@zenpyramid I'm with you on spoilers, especially with modern trailers. I watched this film knowing nothing other than the title and I think that was the optimum experience :)""; ZenPyramid: ""@12pt9 ...we're having a cinematic jam today, fer sure...""; deepdisco: ""this looks/sounds amazing""; 12pt9: ""Just… wow…""; ZenPyramid: ""...well, i finally got round to watching it, can't say i was too impressed. Starts like the best film ever, the atmosphere, the music, the general overall freakishness, etc. I enjoyed the story, photography was spot on, but, (and it's a big but) there were some major rifts in the film that kill it dead (eventually). The story raises many interesting questions, especially concerning the relations ship between the two main characters that it never attempts to answer, net result, characters have...""; ZenPyramid: ""...no apparent motivation, and become increasingly two dimensional as the film progresses. Terrible acting, lead female part is awfully cast, nothing 80's about her. Lead male is okay whilst restrained, cos you always feel there's something waiting to break free. However when it does it's a hackneyed, tedious drool unoriginal transformation, and from that point on the film disappears so far up it's own arse it suffocates to death within minutes! Writer/director clearly writes himself into a...""; ZenPyramid: ""...corner, i mean, wtf was that at the end? He finds her (obviously, yawn), and threatens her (obviously, yawn) and she kills him with her freaky powers (obviously, yawn), but by making him fall over and bang his head on a rock! wtf! i sat through two hours of increasingly shallow pretentious waffle for an ironic off the cuff 'fuck you for watching' comment? She even giggles, as if to underline the fact that everyone realised what an horrific abortion the film had become, and the jokes on you...""; ZenPyramid: ""...for being fool enough to still be paying attention! Bah, humbug. Pity, it starts so well. I loved the trip back to '66, and the whole 'Altered States' drug thing. But why'd he kill Ella's mum? Is he the father? Who was the mum? Why is she so important? Why do the dugs work? What's the older dude's connection? There's a much better film in here somewhere, it just needed two different actors, and someone to take the script from it's creator, re-write it, and give it to someone who actually...""; ZenPyramid: ""...can direct. It might have stood a chance. It would have been quite good, in fact. Which is a pity, cos i really liked elements of it, i think that's why i'm actually quite disappointed, cos it could have been good, but they fucked it. Twats. To sum up, should have been made in the eighty's, might have been 'bad being good' instead of 'good being bad'! But thank you for the recommendation, i'm always up for a bit of freaky, however it pans out in the end! love and respect, zp.x :)""; iivix: ""@zenpyramid I can't disagree with your analysis at all, it's definitely two dimensional at best, it's definitely a mess, it defintely loses its way towards the end, and it definitely lapses into the modern horror cliches, and the ending is the very definition of a sudden anti-climax... But, it's an homage to those types of films from the eighties, so I don't mind the nonsensical plotting, the nod to modern horror cliches, and even the anti climatic ending is appropriate considering how many of the films it's borrowing from end on a ""shocking"" anti climax. I guess overall I just loved the vibe, loved the soundtrack, loved the wonky charm of the thing, so much that I really forgive it's failings :) """ 2012-05-13,"Minnie And The Pau-Pau","I Love The Penguin",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqSsIwSbUvw,"Oddball funky italo - heard it on radio (Overfitting Disco - top!) recently & it's been stuck in my head since",8,hachigram, 2012-05-07,Lützenkirchen,"3 Tage Wach",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWkH2zNwApM,"Going through some of my stacks of vinyl, rediscovering some classics. And yes, more vocoders!",14,"robyn, ceallaighhells, deepdisco", 2012-05-06,"Nyam Nyam",Fate/Hate,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAu2rPhCuYY,"Factory Records also-rans 7/7. Seven picks but there are a load more, some more worth checking out than others",8,,"iivix: ""Apparently the singer went on to be editor of Mojo, make of that what you will.""" 2012-05-05,"Stockholm Monsters","Fairy Tales",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0db8SPsi-k,"Factory Records also-rans 6/7. Architypical also-ran - stack of singles and gigs, some big ideas, but no hits",9,daftmonk, 2012-05-04,"Quando Quango","Atom Rock",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZ-OwxIcMQ,"Factory Records also-rans 5/7. 80s synthpop dance group of Mike Pickering (Haçienda DJ / T-Coy / M People).",13,"ozric73, elfachonmemo, hachigram, hackneymarshman, deepdisco", 2012-05-03,"Minny Pops",Time,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUEvJV9iEw,"Factory Records also-rans 4/7. Rather dig this - they were via Factory Benelux hence the Euro new wave sound",9,"denizenofdreams, robyn", 2012-05-02,Abecedarians,"Smiling Monarchs",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmCD1eCG5Q,"Factory Records also-rans 3/7. Synthpop production from Bernard Sumner (hence the New Order b-side feel)",7,"ZenPyramid, GeorgeSandison, twentythree", 2012-05-01,"Crawling Chaos",Suck,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvulgUizLiI,"Factory Records also-rans 2/7. A footnote in history, but they do have a website http://crawlingchaos.co.uk",7,,"12pt9: ""One whispered Crawling Chaos was an Ian Curtis project. Which wasn't true unfortunately.""" 2012-04-30,"Section 25","Looking From a Hilltop",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJARoQ_1y8,"Factory Records - known for New Order & Happy Mondays, but what about the also-rans? I'm doing one a day. 1/7",12,"daftmonk, denizenofdreams, mindlessones, 12pt9, ZenPyramid, twentythree","iivix: ""This track rocks, but expect some dodgy stuff this week - they're also-rans for a reason :)""; iivix: ""Also I'm going to break my strictly one-track-a-week rule since everyone else seems to update daily.""; ZenPyramid: ""...horray!""; daftmonk: ""I support themes. Indeed this does rock.""" 2012-04-25,T-Coy,Carino,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A7oRn46RQg,"Anonymous Latin/acid house anthem - by Haçienda DJ Mike Pickering & Simon Topping from A Certain Ratio",14,"psyclopstrees, mindlessones","iivix: ""With pianist Ritchie Close... As discovered when reading Shadow Players - The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice, essential reading for crate diggers :)""; psyclopstrees: ""classic""" 2012-04-19,"Gay Cat Park","I'm a Vocoder",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4NpVvjeQo,"Another vocoder disco classic. I could fill my Jam quota just with vocoder tracks, I love them that much",20,"dondorstrecords, christ, ZenPyramid, mindlessones, deepdisco, iaingstewart","iivix: ""Wait for the vocals, they take an absurd length of time to arrive :)""; mindlessones: ""I have a thing for vocoders too. It's alright, you're among friends""; ZenPyramid: ""...wtf, you can't ask the internet generation to wait! They have no idea what you're talking about...""" 2012-04-13,Transvolta,"Disco Computer",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NETuCMeQds8,"Cosmic disco + vocoders, you can't go wrong... The disco computer really was the sound of the future :)",49,"GarethAPearce, robyn, davecann, ThomasGoetschi, sarahmainville, christ, daftmonk, ippi, flaneur, IFTFOM, deathmtn, deepdisco, 12pt9, twentythree, mindlessones","AlicejustMay: ""...and now we've got Songify.""" 2012-04-07,Photocall,"Silver Clouds (Dexter Remix)",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UOzQ9MoKLQ,"Big Flat Beat bass + vocoders + lush female chorus. Anthem crossover between proper electro & electro house.",18,"dondorstrecords, kmellis, ZenPyramid", 2012-04-01,"Miryo ft Rude Paper",Revenger,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW50guX_Qog,"K-pop - dubstep. Kpopstep, I guess. Still loving big synths + autotuned Korean pop :)",20,, 2012-03-26,Eric,"Who's Your Boyfriend",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bs2PVQSlW8,"Ramping up the camp, on a hi-nrg roll :) ...Updated to add: Produced by legendary producer Bobby Orlando.",20,"Murich, daftmonk","daftmonk: ""This is a Bobby O jam if I recall. A touch camp...""; iivix: ""Yes, it's definitely a Bobby O number, on ""O"" Records. I love the Bobby O stuff, got a whole stack of 12""s by him in my record bag (:""" 2012-03-19,"Man Parrish",Heatstroke,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYdfRsIB8c,"I love hi-nrg, I love electro, I love vocoders.",39,"hackneymarshman, daftmonk, ZenPyramid, kicking_k, mindlessones, deepdisco","12pt9: ""Been listening to this Man Parrish all week now :D""; mindlessones: ""I can't believe I don't know this tune. It's excellent. I think I might listen to Man Parrish all week too.""; iivix: ""@mindlessones @12pt9 I think more people think Man Parrish = electro (Hip Hop Be Bop - also awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENjL2FA-o8Q) than hi-nrg, but I love his hi-nrg stuff. """ 2012-03-13,"N. Sokolov","Safari ",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdgKHa2KbI,"Soviet space disco. An exercise routine - scary Russian commands barked mid-track.",29,"rembrandt, christ, TimothyRyan, mindlessones, GeorgeSandison, GarethAPearce, Chichibio, deepdisco, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""Yet again ThisIsMyJam chokes over cut and pasting non-western text :( Anyways, @zenpyramid, more Soviet goodness for you (:""; ZenPyramid: ""...paging @deepdisco""; ZenPyramid: ""...paging @discomonk""; ZenPyramid: ""@metabrew ...well, if you insist. Disco...?""; deepdisco: ""@ZenPyramid excellent, thank you!""; iivix: ""I've broken the description by using cyrillic, so I'll try putting the artist name here instead: Н. Соколов - Сафари ""; iivix: ""Can't even edit the description now :( Anyways, great track.""; Chichibio: ""Uncanny! My flatmate just bought this record from Discogs and has been playing it nonstop for the past week. Fantastic track - just wish there was an instrumental version too...""; iivix: ""@chichibio Dude, the vocals are all part of the fun (: For me the main problem with this track is that it's too short, but I found an extended edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbohqFF2DrM ""; Chichibio: ""@iivix Oh, don't get me wrong, the vocals are amazing! It's just that the track is so great on its own... Anyway, thanks for the extended edit - my flatmate will squeal!""; GarethAPearce: ""Fantastic, love that cycling analogue organ background. Reminds me of the start of many Vitalic tracks, for some reason. Nice one @iivix!""" 2012-03-08,"Modern Romance","Queen of the Rapping Scene",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsyDvzhaMk,"Awesome francophile punk-funk disco with pop proto-rap that beats Blondie's. Plus vintage TOTP footage!",19,"ozric73, deathmtn, Chichibio","iivix: ""And if you're not bothered about the TOTP video, you can hear it in better quality and an extended 12"" cut here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MxRw7jKMM""" 2012-03-05,"Bobby Davenport","Time Has Come Today",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACY6wTjKps,"Wait for it to kick in... Huge skweeeling synths in this italo classic. You might recognise it as a cover.",11,"ZenPyramid, mayfairtheatre", 2012-02-29,Sparks,"Dick Around",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxULTFknss0,"Epic three minute rock opera. Insanely detailed, it rocks out, and there are memetic cats in the video.",25,"heathercurtis, 12pt9, mayfairtheatre, hachigram, owtytrof, DIL23, spaceoddities, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""@zenpyramid this one is for you, it's Sparks doing their thing but somehow also capturing some of that internet era madness too I think.""; ZenPyramid: ""...lol, as they say, as i didn't see your comment till after i'd finished staring in rapt joy and wonder at the video...""; owtytrof: ""Wow. Just... wow.""; 12pt9: ""Verboten to watch this vid in Germany. Verdammt!""" 2012-02-24,Cuverville,"Slata Mechouia",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOCaj8HVIs,"We call it Skweee! From French dudes Cuverville, and I love it so much I made it the A of the pink DV 7"" :)",13,"ZenPyramid, hachigram","iivix: ""Nice to see that the tracks from Dee Vee Skweee are out there and being uploaded to YT by fans... Shame no one wanted to upload my track yet :(""; iivix: ""You can download Dee Vee Skweee from http://www.digitalvomit.com/dvr075 and I still have some sevens left, give me a shout if you want them :)""" 2012-02-18,Jellybean,"The Mexican",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PqEnlrlJv4,"Anthem, simple as. Latin freestyle / electro from 1984. A cover version and covered multiple times itself.",22,ZenPyramid,"ZenPyramid: ""...d'you know where that guitar/synth sample comes from? The really obvious one that's the theme running through it. I feel i should know it....""; iivix: ""It's not a sample, it's a cover version, of Babe Ruth's The Mexican http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiDV743PzA - but the original has been sampled all over, plus there are other covers, like this rave era one by Orange Lemon (Todd Terry) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOeBOh9Hvwo""; iivix: ""Apparently the original is from the Few Dollars More soundtrack.""; ZenPyramid: ""...aye, that's the one, the Babe Ruth 'original'. Looking through the comments, i think i may have heard it as part of the Dirtchamber sessions. Memorable lick. Yeah, i spotted the Ennio Morricone sample (cover) but at the end. Didn't realise the guitar licks are from the beginning of the original Western theme. Silly me. Should have spotted that. Guess it's been so well distributed by now, it's like that perennial sci-fi problem, where DID humans really originate...?""" 2012-02-11,이디오테잎,"Even Floor",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD5ptvu4nNg,"Korean synthpunk band Idiotape. Big analogue synths, live drums, awesome but apparently unknown outside Korea?",14,"DIL23, ges, ZenPyramid, twentythree, deathmtn","iivix: ""Incidentally, the Korean name literally breaks the website, I had to put it in five times before it worked.""; twentythree: ""This is freaking fantastic!""; ZenPyramid: ""...aye, just re-liked it so it's back to the top of my (gargantuan and hideously bloated) page of current joys, where it belongs...""; ZenPyramid: ""...oh, and it's not K-pop, even more win...!""; iivix: ""It's not K-pop, but I did find it on YesAsia while browsing K-pop... http://www.yesasia.com/global/idiotape-11111101-normal-edition/1025660896-0-0-0-en/info.html""; twentythree: ""trying to find somewhere to buy the cd, this stuff is really good""; _ralph: ""@iivix hey, when you say 'breaks the website' my heart fails a little bit. What happened and what do you think we can do to fix it? ""; iivix: ""Hi _ralph! Basically when I submitted the track it didn't come up with the correct artist name, so I copy and pasted the Korean characters from the original YouTube title into the name field. But the Korean characters got added to the track name instead. On clicking edit again, there were three text fields instead of two, only one was a tiny square box (I assume the actual artist field). I tried cancel and edit a few times but that just ended up with multiple tiny boxes, very odd. ""; iivix: ""Eventually I copy pasted again into the last tiny square and it worked, updating artist name. It seems fine now. ""; iivix: ""This is on Firefox 10.0.1 on XP.""; twentythree: ""Found a download of the album, its cracking also.""" 2012-02-06,"16 Bit","Where Are You?",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOhzvRKkbMI,"Prototype Belgian New Beat? Or dark and minimal euro synthpop? Awesome either way, plus bonus absurd video.",9,"JensDietrich, twentythree, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""Couldn't resist linking to the video version, but there's an extended cut with better audio here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwSKFcKBdmA""" 2012-02-02,"Logic System",Unit,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVbJDAwI0E,"Early italo electro sounding a bit like Telex meets the theme from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Epic.",8,"JensDietrich, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""And a more upbeat cover here, more danceable but still classic italo. Not sure which version I prefer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiyHbGk4Dmw""; ZenPyramid: ""@zef ...italo electro, sir...?""; ZenPyramid: ""...prefer this version, can't stand that generic drum beat at the start of the other, bor-ring, etc...""; iivix: ""As a DJ, I've come to love those sections, so useful for mixing.""; ZenPyramid: ""...yeah, maybe that's just it, it's too obvious. Useful, but obvious, i mean, when i'm dancing, i know there's a fucking beat there, you don't have to point it out 120 time a minute. Like listening to a metronome masturbating. God, i'm on one today, i think i might be 'coming up' on the weekend... *rantrantrant""" 2012-01-28,Turisas,Rasputin,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0,"Viking power metal cover of the Boney M eurodisco classic - it really shouldn't work but it kicks arse",7,"JensDietrich, ZenPyramid","iivix: ""The best thing about this is it that it somehow retains the original campy disco feel while piling on the swordswinging metal. I really want battle-metal-disco to be a real genre.""; ZenPyramid: ""HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUH! HUAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!""; ZenPyramid: ""@deathmtn @AlexanderVelky ...the right cup of tea...?""; deathmtn: ""Nutty! @ZenPyramid, it reminds of that Star Wars disco thing.""; deathmtn: ""Oh, also, Finntroll!""; iivix: ""Finntroll are great, and probably a little more respectable in metal circles than Turisas, who I guess aren't that far from Lordi in the greater scale of things. """ 2012-01-23,"Living Colour","Cult Of Personality",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0,"Marking out for CM Punk (he's a wrestler, this is his entrance music). But also awesome funky/power pop-rock.",5,twentythree,"iivix: ""So many wrestler themes these days are just generic nu metal - this is the most epic entrance since Hulk Hogan using Rick Derringer's Real American http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiYdUe36_Q""; iivix: ""I'm also partial to Shawn Michael's last theme, another 80s throwback. Such an anchronism towards the last part of his career, but that just made it all the better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKDtBx3__E """ 2012-01-17,Roska,Abrupt,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wekSI7P8eJQ,"Roska gets techy - UK funky (worst genre name ever) meets Claude VonStroke minimal, def one for my DJ set",12,"dataevent, ZenPyramid","ZenPyramid: ""...immense...""; ZenPyramid: ""@Matt_Muir ...and this. This one's 'UK Funky', allegedly...""" 2012-01-11,"Hyuna Kim","Bubble Pop!",http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9CALKOvAI,"K-pop so cute it makes me want to puke.",9,"jesusgollonet, ZenPyramid","ZenPyramid: ""...wotcha! Long time no see. K-pop. Nice. Big in Japan, apparently....""; ZenPyramid: ""...ooo-err, it's got a dubstep bit! The clash between it and the bubble pop theme is truly the most horrendous thing i've heard all week, thank you...""; iivix: ""Yeah, I love the dubstep breakdown, very surreal.""; ZenPyramid: ""...actually, on further listening, i have decided that the whole song is so terrifying that all we can do now is pray the DPRK end this madness once and for all... http://youtu.be/B6bpG9GSYm0"""