What does that even mean?
It means that house got more weirded out, it wasn't solely (never was tbh) about trying to use electronic technology to replicate real instruments. if you want that get real instruments. obviously as you said chicago house is not one monolith but the djs would mix up the hip house with the acid with the vocal with disco sampling with the perculator stuff.
The names Glenn Underground, Boo Williams, Cajmere, Mr Fingers mean anything to you? You're cancelling your own cred by making these statements. Chicago house is not one thing.
Think you missed my point there. those records would be played around 130-135 bpm, hard and fast by house standards, loads of crossfader cuts, just listen to any gemini set from the late 90s. Same with DJ Sneak. very bumpy and to the point. it's not european techno is it, it isn't going to go that fast!
]you mean, uh, me? I was basically talking about LWE and a few other reliable blogs and mags from back then, also a bunch of forums were buzzing and then midtown won best album of the decade etc. maybe that's not good enough?
Yeah I mean the LWE/mnmlssgs/xlr8r types, not you in particular. people too afraid to go to a garage night where champagne is being flaunted, only when future garage got invented could they breathe a sigh of relief, finally a safe space for me and my scruffy clothes.
Her sound is nowhere near edgy. The only reason the NYC career matters is she was there from the start and knows her shit. This often equals a good dj. Most crowds don't give a fuck and we know that.
Most crowds don't give a fuck because they are generally mates with the djs, promoters, other promoters, or friends of promoters/djs. the internet has minimised that divide to a huge degree. Hypothetically of course, do you really think I'm going to go up to barty in a club (sorry for singling you out m8) and shout at him brandishing a bottle informing him that he played the most atrocious set that he should be hung, drawn and quartered am I? am I? I mean, I don't take no shit from anyone, but even that's a bit too far for me to go public in a club like that, my psychic ego would never survive. Otherwise many of my mates on the down low have told me in private how crap and boring so and so's set is.
I think you missed the point with that particular line from the midtown intro. She's saying it became cookie cutter, formulaic, predictable. one of the titans of the scene sold out. you don't think she's saying strictly rhythm introduced vocals to house, do you?
The names Glenn Underground, Boo Williams, Cajmere, Mr Fingers, DJ Sneak, DJ Rush, Ron Trent, Chez Damier, the whole guideance records posse, nightclub records, lectrolove, 8ball records, Derrick Carter, Spencer Kincy, Octave One, Kenny Dickson jr, Theo Parrish, Mike Huckaby, even Mad Mike's housier stuff, dj pierre's wild pitch mixes, (hell even Danny Tenaglia and the heller and farley boys in the UK) etc etc etc and I could keep going on mean anything to her? She's cancelling his own cred by making these statements. House is not one thing.
If anything, the 90s was the golden age for house proper as opposed to the formation of house/techno in the 80s where it was hard(er) to distinguish between the two.
Imagine that, some people like different things to you
Sure, but it's like dnb producers wanting to make their music sound organic with synths. I mean, cool with me, just seems to be a waste of technology. set up a live funk band or something i dunno. that being said there are gradiants. ltj's warmer organic style was good until the end of 96 but then too many people thought that was the way to do proper music (oh no, we can't be doing with those yobbo chipmunks and speeded up ragga chatter at all.)
who gives a shit? And yeah, sprinkles is most definitely conceptronica, but done with class and skill.
I don't, but I don't buy into her or the dance music medias narritive.
