Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
House is just the most despised form of dance music isn't it? It's so easy to sneer cos it's the commercial backbone of the industry; just product. All the feeling is supposed to have been leached out of it. The ardkore continuum we all love represents a kind of divorce from house; certainly I don't detect a great love of the genre among Dissenssians. And why should you? It's all formulaic dross isn't it?
Well, no, and even when it's formulaic, boshing nonsense, house can still transport. Over the last month or so I've become obsessed with the idea of disco-derivative House being the ultimate pagan music. A while back I did a mix of fairly meditative Industrial music; my kind of House music springs from the same impulses. I've written more about how this aspect of house can be applied here.
I suspect House music's critical stock has never been lower. It therefore seems to me to be the best possible time to reappraise it. Hence this mix, titled Tense Nervous House Music. It's an antidote to turgid false-positive handbag while still being capable of slamming hard. Taking its inspiration from the darker end of "real disco" -- Tope and Brewster's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was a big influence on this mix -- it attempts to redefine the term "funky house" in the best possible way.
Tense Nervous House Music: http://www.grievousangel.net/TenseNervousHouseMusic.mp3
Right click and save as please (option or control click on the Mac) rather than playing straight from the link if possible please. I haven't got time to ZIP it right now.
45 minutes 7 seconds
192K mp3
62Mb
Tracklisting:
David Byrne and Brian Eno: Jezebel Spirit
Norma Jean Bell / Moodymann: I’m the Baddest Bitch
KenLou: The Bounce
Jedi Knights: One for MAW
Deep Dish: Stranded (Danny Tenaglia’s GrooveJet Dubby Edit)
Deep Dish: Stranded (BT Vs DD: Grievous Angel’s 777 Edit)
Shaboom: Bessie (DJ Sneak mix)
Dajae: Day by Day (Grievous Angel Edit)
King Unique: Hell
Mongobonix: Mas Pito
Q Burns’ Abstract Message: Innocent (King Britt vocal mix)
Enjoy
Well, no, and even when it's formulaic, boshing nonsense, house can still transport. Over the last month or so I've become obsessed with the idea of disco-derivative House being the ultimate pagan music. A while back I did a mix of fairly meditative Industrial music; my kind of House music springs from the same impulses. I've written more about how this aspect of house can be applied here.
I suspect House music's critical stock has never been lower. It therefore seems to me to be the best possible time to reappraise it. Hence this mix, titled Tense Nervous House Music. It's an antidote to turgid false-positive handbag while still being capable of slamming hard. Taking its inspiration from the darker end of "real disco" -- Tope and Brewster's Last Night a DJ Saved My Life was a big influence on this mix -- it attempts to redefine the term "funky house" in the best possible way.
Tense Nervous House Music: http://www.grievousangel.net/TenseNervousHouseMusic.mp3
Right click and save as please (option or control click on the Mac) rather than playing straight from the link if possible please. I haven't got time to ZIP it right now.
45 minutes 7 seconds
192K mp3
62Mb
Tracklisting:
David Byrne and Brian Eno: Jezebel Spirit
Norma Jean Bell / Moodymann: I’m the Baddest Bitch
KenLou: The Bounce
Jedi Knights: One for MAW
Deep Dish: Stranded (Danny Tenaglia’s GrooveJet Dubby Edit)
Deep Dish: Stranded (BT Vs DD: Grievous Angel’s 777 Edit)
Shaboom: Bessie (DJ Sneak mix)
Dajae: Day by Day (Grievous Angel Edit)
King Unique: Hell
Mongobonix: Mas Pito
Q Burns’ Abstract Message: Innocent (King Britt vocal mix)
Enjoy