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Not everyone understands House Music...

the Fool

06:01 / 06.05.02

Barbelith seems to be home to the alternarock electrogoth shoegaze guitar thang, and I was just wondering if many barbelithers were house music lovers. Deep house, sleazy US house. DJ Sneak, Derrick Carter, Luke Solomon, Joey Negro, Junior Vasquez, Herbert, Miguel Miggs etc...

Do you like your beats sugar coated sexy with extra special yum?

Knight's Move

11:11 / 06.05.02

Actually, more a early Belgian with silly acid house man. Really a techno lover from minimalist Detroit like Derrick May and Jeff Mills, through to vicious earbleed acid techno from people like Dave the Drummer and OD404. I do still notice the preponderance of guitars about these parts though.

Oh, and I used to really like Happy Hardcore but now I try to aviod it...

the Fool

21:57 / 06.05.02

I seem to be evolving out of techno myself. I still love my detroitish stuff, but I like things deeper and fluffier these days.

No star here laces

08:03 / 07.05.02

I spent about seven years as a full on deep house evangelist. My floors were covered in crates filled with releases on King St, Cajual, Guidance and DiY. My walkman rotated mixes by Mark Farina, Gene Farris, Derrick Carter and Jeno. I painstakingly researched where all those disco samples came from and complained to everyone that they didn't understand the music properly and not all house music sounded like the crap in the charts and on the Ministry cds.

And then I got bored.

House was fantastic but the life has gone out of it for me, the cultural momentum isn't there anymore. There's no excitement in the music anymore, just craft.

The Natural Way

08:11 / 07.05.02

Kind of know what Lyra means, but just when I think 'I'm bored - no more house now...' I hear a tune that makes me go 'Aaaaaahhhh'. House music was my first love - all the greasy rockgoths can kiss my rarce.

the Fool

21:46 / 08.05.02

House was fantastic but the life has gone out of it for me, the cultural momentum isn't there anymore. There's no excitement in the music anymore, just craft.

What do you listen to now? What gets you on the dancefloor to boogie? Or do you not boogie anymore?

No star here laces

07:30 / 09.05.02

Hip hop.

Techno, weirdly enough, after ages of hating it. Jungle still does it. UK Garage. Just not house, particularly.

Though I am playing a DJ set of house on friday, but it'll be a lot of old stuff, mixed in with some new bits and pieces by the likes of Akufen, Mandrake and Milton Jackson.

The Natural Way

08:00 / 09.05.02

I guess my tastes have always been more technoey than housey - I still remember Force Legato's 'System' w/ big love, I had a fondness for nu beat, and those Biorhythm albums...mmmmmm. But I've always dug the deep house vibe - in fact, it's what I'd recommend to those who think they don't like house music (which normally equals "I've never heard anything except for Ministry of Sound comps).

Sax

12:09 / 09.05.02

My guilty secret is still Goa trance. Don't listen to much house these days, or much techno for that matter, but still light a candle every night in praise of Orbital.

the Fool

01:42 / 10.05.02

Techno, weirdly enough, after ages of hating it. Jungle still does it. UK Garage. Just not house, particularly.

At least you didn't say 'progressive', my god I hate that word. Techno's a funny creature, init? Down here in Melb:Aust techno seems to be vanishing, replaced by crap 'progressive' trance and NuNRG. yuk.

But all is good. Derrick Carter will be here at the end of May. Much happiness will follow...

The Natural Way

07:55 / 10.05.02

Most "electroclash" is just techno dressed up in a new, fun, media-friendly package. I quite like the way my fave music's got its sights firmly set on the top 20 - techno's been about for years, but its rarely enjoyed the kind of coverage/sales its getting at the moment. Lyra, you, a dance purist, how can you have ever hated techno? I mean, in the beginning it was pretty much impossible to differentiate between loads of techno and house; the lines are still really blurry, sometimes.

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