Re: (313) OT - techno

2003-06-27 Thread Peter Leidy
I can't reccomend homestarrunner.com enough. those guys are brilliant. They're starting to gain a lot of popularity...I've seen 14 year old girls wearing homestar shirts. they mentioned some homestar characters in the last episode of buffy the vampire slayer...i didn't see it, a friend

Re: (313) Another Drexciya Gem: Clarence G.-Hyperspace Sound Lab

2003-06-24 Thread Peter Leidy
According to the mp3 tag it was released on Flourescent Forest Records in 1991. Does somebody have some more info about this record? And is it really James Stinson rapping on 2 tracks? Or is it (for me the unknown ) rapper Clarence G.? All the rapping is by Clarence G. - Good luck finding

Re: (313) Ulrich Schnauss

2003-06-23 Thread Peter Leidy
good. I may get lots of personal attacks for this but I do think his stuff is slightly over rated. I think the music is just a bit too nice for my particular taste. I have far away trains passing and A Strangely Isolated Place, both are good but not as good as many people make out IMHO. I

RE: (313) and now - a cheeky question (2nd re-post)

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Leidy
that's the stupid thing about revivals - it's very contrived, like the recent electro revival of the last several years. Why the fashion and focus on those years? To be into the music, why do people feel that they have to dress up in the fashion of the era it was created in? While revivals

RE: (313) Track id

2003-05-16 Thread Peter Leidy
Soul Saver is also available as a 12 on SID-006.. Great track. Anyone know the song that the main loop is sampled from? It's sped up quite a isn't that from an al green song? can't recall at the moment.. p -Original Message- From: Jussi Lehtonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: (313) Swedish Techno/ was Every Dog 4

2003-05-12 Thread Peter Leidy
If you think about it what percentage of techno from Sweden really fit's under definition #2? As for the sound becoming more formulaic maybe you could be more specific listing artist and labels other than Adam Bayer, Drumcode. My second and final post on the subject as your reply is

Re: (313) Swedish Techno/ was Every Dog 4

2003-05-10 Thread Peter Leidy
I have heard a lot of Swedish techno/tech-house that is NOT just 2-beat loops but some quite musical material. I'm surprised the Swedes get hated on so much. just a quick note on swedich techno because this topic seems to get folks talking in circles without really getting anywhere: I've

Re: (313) fix records

2003-05-02 Thread Peter Leidy
just heard some snippets from fix01 and fix02 (secret mixes and fixes vol1 and 2), an ectomorph related label that has edits and rmxs of old tracks...totally ace... anyone have any more details, are these the only releases so far etc? Yeah I heard those snippets as well. Todd Osbourne had a

RE: (313) Online record shopping

2003-03-27 Thread Peter Leidy
I have always wanted to use nuloop but the totally outrageous shipping cost makes it impossible. I have used groovetech in the past because they have great deals on shipping but if possible i would always support the independents. I find these stores have a good selection but i mostly

Re: (313) Unusual Suspects

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Leidy
Ha! Your powers have failed. I'll chalk it up overwork. :) This is a trailer for a documentary by Chip E on the origin of Chicago house. Looks nice via the list of interviewed peoples. I actually helped Chip on this project a bit while I was in Chicago last year. He has been doing freelance

Re: (313) playlists and conversations

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Leidy
tell me when you need a record's date to find it, eg you know the artist, the label, the track the ep name but you need the year to actually find it lots of times when you're trying to find a specific pressing of a record. especially when online shops do not list all the info on a given

Re: (313) from miami... tune ID request

2003-01-03 Thread Peter Leidy
I used to have it writen down somewhere but i've since lost that piece of paper.. I can't recall what song/ label/ ep this tune is from, but the lyrics have this 'from miami.. to brooklyn' Gosub - Miami to Brooklyn - Isophlux Records -p

RE: (313) books on techno: more brilliant than the sun

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Leidy
Neil Wallace: Ive always avoided this book as ive seen kodwo on a few music documentaries and he always seems to be completely up his own a$$ I attended a guest lecture by Kodwo last year at the Art Institute of Chicago. The lecture focused specifically on Herbert's Bodily Functions, the

Re: (313) Akufen party in the D

2002-10-31 Thread Peter Leidy
I think you may be referring to Dandy Jack. Luciano played first- sort of a Perlon-on-Coke sound if you ask me. It was alright, but every time it started getting good, he'd find some way to screw it up. Akufen played second, which was a letdown for me. He was pretty much playing entire tracks

Re: (313) is it all over my face

2002-10-08 Thread Peter Leidy
with the original female vocal. You can fairly easily find the reissue on West End that is the male and female vocals. I have this reissue as well as a Male vocal version on the Nuphonic Loft Compilation- correct me if i'm wrong, but the male vocal version on the Loft Comp is different

Re: [313] moodymann @ demf2000

2002-08-25 Thread Peter Leidy
05. william devaughn - be thankfull on wich album and on wich label has this been released? I have what I believe to be the original album - Be Thankful for What You've Got (the title track is the hit obviously) on Roxbury records circa 1974. The single has been re-released many

Re: [313] it´s house!

2002-08-16 Thread Peter Leidy
The vocals are indeed saying it?s house, it?s house! Well.. Ron Hardy used to play an early chicago record from 1984 with these vocals.. just a beat , little B-line.. and the vocals twisted and wrapped ... (check this mix by ron hardy.. http://www.deephousepage.com/ron5.ram, it?s about 3

RE: [313] can you post this to the 313 list... ?

2002-08-13 Thread Peter Leidy
everyone, go round to Channel four and ask for Robert Taylor and then follow him home and take what is his and make it yours cos after all There is a school of thought that once a piece of work is in the public domain it belongs to everyone. alright, i know you're joking here, but just

Re: [313] cristian vogel

2002-08-09 Thread Peter Leidy
and what is this 'no futures' board? anyplace that has vogel posting is something i want to rcheck out. cristian is one of the admins on the forum at http://www.no-future.com a lot of others on the forum from germany and europe, mostly discussing the far out stuff from the like of vogel,

[313] Tresor Club might stay open

2002-06-25 Thread Peter Leidy
Someone recently posted the thing about Tresor closing. Well looks like there's more to the story as of last week. Quoted below from no-future.com, and theres more on the Tresor site forum, but its in german :( [quote] tresor probably won't sleep that much in the next couple years... that have

Re: [313] John Tejada

2002-06-21 Thread Peter Leidy
Just noticed that @ #1 in the Groovetech Top20 is John Tejada Arian Leviste's 'Its Only Music'. Possibly because it's released on... Groovetech Records! I had assumed looking at their regular top20 lists that their label would lots of mediocre club crap, but I have been pleasantly

Re: [313] Plastic Jacket Sleeved

2002-06-14 Thread Peter Leidy
I've bought the clear plastic sleeves that fit around the outside of a cardboard sleeve from Dusty Groove in Chicago - $10 for 100 of them http://www.dustygroove.com -p On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, SOS wrote: Does anyone have a good lead/price on plastic jacket sleeves... If you can give a general

[313] Tues-6/11, Chicago, Me :)

2002-06-10 Thread Peter Leidy
brief shameless self promotion: For those in Chicago, I'll be dj'ing techno and electro tomorrow night. Free, low key, one of the few techno nights in housetown. illmeasures presents OUTLET, Tuesdays at Big Wig (Ashland and Division), Tue 6-11-02: Pete Leidy Resident Sinjin 21+ w/ID, no cover

Re: Re[2]: [313] Techno songs so good they make you cry....

2002-06-07 Thread Peter Leidy
For me it's Inspiration, the title track of the first Stasis album on Peacefrog (PF028)... shivers down my spine every time I hear it. i'll second this track, just pulled this out yesterday for the first time in months, but i think i'm gonna have to keep it out for a while.. -p

RE: [313] Re: electro is trendy

2002-06-06 Thread Peter Leidy
I would definitely advise you to aim for the lower numbers rather than higher. From around vol 6 or so they started to go slightly bad, and the latter volumes are better defined as early hip-hop than electro, imho! But volumes 1-4, and the Crucial Electro spinoff, are well worth getting, with

Re: [313] Does anyone compare to Hawtin?

2002-06-05 Thread Peter Leidy
The fact is, he played very little 140bpm boom-boom-boom Which must have been the hour-or so that I caught. Around 4:30 - 6am. I was speaking w/ a hawtin fan about his recent tendencies toward hard repetitive stuff- and they were trying to tell me that he uses the hard stuff to weed people

Re: [313] Does anyone compare to Hawtin?

2002-06-05 Thread Peter Leidy
closer to a musical amtrack. but hey, thats my rather uneducated opinion speaking on the recent parties that I rarely attend, so i should probably shut up and go back to reminiscing about the good old days or something :) On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Peter Leidy wrote: The fact is, he played very

Re: [313] Packard Building (OT, kind of)

2002-05-30 Thread Peter Leidy
I remember going there in the middle of winter with those big space heater cannons... Waiting outside in the rain to get in while Carl Craig was Yeah- I was there one time in subzero weather, but it was like 80+ degrees on the dancefloor- I stepped outside to get some air and got an instant

Re: [313] DEMF sets that you where impressed with

2002-05-29 Thread Peter Leidy
I also had an amazing time at the Cannonball party this weekend...can anyone tell me who it was who played hot on the heels of love by throbbing gristle? My night was kind of mashed together and I can't remember which That would be Carlos Burt Reynolds Souffront :) Interdimensional Trans.

Re: [313] metro times article - rant

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Leidy
props to lisa for saying what the other papers cant say due to contractual obligations or just plain stupidity. i like this quote from Dan Sordyl because it cuts to the chase of the matter: You've got to give Carol Marvin credit for making this happen against all odds. The first year they

Re: [313] if you want the theo remixes of jill scott

2002-04-27 Thread Peter Leidy
$16.99 weekend records and soap. nicest people ever, great store, great soap...I can't say enough... www.weekendrecordsandsoap.com Actually Jim only has a few copies left and all were on hold as of this morning, but is supposed to be getting in 10 more copies or so next week- just

Re: [313] strange occurence

2002-04-17 Thread Peter Leidy
i just saw anthony keadis(sp?) of the chili peppers wearing a chicks on speed t-shirt at an awards show on ESPN. let this now begin another round of techno related sightings in the major media. it was my understanding that the techno community still labels chicks on speed as electro-pop.

Re: [313] Advent/ was Woody McBride

2002-04-12 Thread Peter Leidy
According to the flyer for a party in Cedar Rapids IA this weekend, where Woody McBride, the Advent, and THomas Krome are playing (http://www.mnvibe.com/events/events/show_event.php?handle=vessels) the new basketball heros has remixes by the Advent/G Flame on it. Anyone planning on

Re: [313] two ricks

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Leidy
1 ) I heard Rick Wilhite?s contributions to the three chairs ep?s. I was just wondering on wich labels I can find some other Wilhite stuff.. He put out one or two 12s on filth- then the three chairs stuff and the Godson EP. not sure about anything else but he runs Vibes Record Store on

Re: [313] SID 6

2002-03-21 Thread Peter Leidy
While on the topic of SID, What is the deal with the one side of SID 6 (not the soul saver side) the UR track on the NSC double picture disc? i thought they were identical, but then noticed some small differences. is this just two different mixes of the same track? which came first and why the

Re: [313] nouveau electro vs. broken beat

2002-03-16 Thread Peter Leidy
My question is - did electro really ever die? and my impression was, and i only remember this because i was a teen in the '80's, that electro had come before techno (proper) and laid the foundation for techno - am i wrong about this? not so much a death- i think it just got overshadowed by

Re: [313] live vs. dj/ electropop

2002-03-16 Thread Peter Leidy
I havent been following this thread too closely- but- I know one of the big criticisms of live techno is lack of stage presence. Some would say stage presence is not required when the only goal is to get people dancing, but people inevitably have expectations and preconceived notions of what live

Re: [313] nouveau electro vs. broken beat

2002-03-15 Thread Peter Leidy
i don't understand why all the new-school electro-pop gets so much criticism but so much new-school jazz/house/breaks, broken-beat-type stuff passes the quality test. i know it all comes down to individual tastes, but it just I thought this was because new-school electro pop is crossing over

Re: [313] nouveau electro vs. broken beat

2002-03-15 Thread Peter Leidy
outside forces ? there are a lot of kids who think Orgy wrote the song Blue Monday, and while some might say - so what, music will speak for itself- this sort of misrepresentation to new audiences affects the growth potential of musical genres. this is a bit of an extreme example, and

Re: [313] The Great White Hype...was IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!

2002-03-01 Thread Peter Leidy
First of all, this is one of the most thought-provoking threads I've read in a while (nit-picking over curse words aside)- I'm glad the opinions are being voiced and I'd like to hear more from those like Laura who have a lot of direct industry experience with these issues. firing off cannons.

RE: [313] Hype, Marketing, and BS (was The Great White Hype...was IT'S ABOUT...

2002-03-01 Thread Peter Leidy
Am I tired of this debate? You're right, I am. But I'm also tired of people who whine about shit but have no idea as to how all this works. This may be a passionate life-giving hobby for some, for people like myself and Laura Gavoor, this is a passionate, life-giving career. We're

Re: [313] Electro Stuff

2002-02-21 Thread Peter Leidy
09. Hypnosis - Blade Runner (End title) Early 80s Italian band which produced synthetic disco for want of a better term. Don't know a hell of a lot to be honest. They also used to do covers of stuff like Jean Michael Jarre (Oxygen) and Vangelis (Pulstar- which is the flip side of the Blade

[313] ebay is my friend

2002-02-14 Thread Peter Leidy
sorry to the spam-haters, i'm getting rid of some house records and other goodies that have been collecting dust: Derrick Carter,Chris Nazuka,JT Donaldson, Blaze, Cajmere, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Joy Division, Residents, and more. Also selling a Korg ES-1 sampler :)

Re: [313] bootie

2002-02-08 Thread Peter Leidy
doubt you'll find any more of these new - i think clone was the only shop carrying them, they came out over a year ago and were fairly limited. if it helps any- the label was called Magic Kuts. On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Memo from Alex Bond of PricewaterhouseCoopers

Re: [313] Louie austen -Q

2002-02-03 Thread Peter Leidy
I recently heard this brilliant remix on a 2xCD of herbert remixes- but I'm not sure if this is on vinyl- I dont remember seeing it come out on Cheap. Definitely something to keep an eye out for though p On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Super Coffee Beans wrote: did herbert made a remix to this track? and

[313] record collection for sale online-hundreds of records

2001-11-27 Thread Peter Leidy
Hi All, This is the second batch of records I am selling from my collection. Please visit: http://www.cozidesign.com/records/ There are some 500 records for sale. (if you are interested, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This time there is a 10% discount over 55$ on first time orders (up

Re: [313] anti-technology

2001-10-31 Thread Peter Leidy
rebirth is a pretty useful program. with some solid compression, you can get some pretty pounding rhythms out of it, and if you're imaginative with your programming, it doesn't need to sound 'classic' anyways. I've used it before to get some interesting thumb drumming sounds out of it. And

[313] Delicious Spam you will love to eat

2001-10-30 Thread Peter Leidy
on ebay- yum, http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=pbl3include=0since=-1sort=3rows=25 (or search by user: pbl3) some of the stuff i put up: Common Factor, Theo Parrish, Rick Wade, Eddie Fowlkes, Neon Phusion, Cajmere, Jay Denham, David Morley, Air

[313] techno-Indie/ Was Khan

2001-10-23 Thread Peter Leidy
Since these threads are wandering from techno towards Indie Rock, Was wondering what you all think of the Vincent Gallo album just released on Warp. For those not familiar, he's primarily known as an Indie Film actor, he also directed/produced the movie Buffalo66. Kinda strange to see an album out

[313] sale: turntables, vestax mixer, needles and all

2001-10-21 Thread Peter Leidy
Hi all, I'm selling my dj set (i was going to go to ebay, but thought I would offer it up here first...)If you are interested, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The package includes: 1. 2 SL-1200M3D's (they are in beautiful condition since i always played out on my roommates 1200's ie.

[313] fa- 313 related ebay spam

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Leidy
all you record sellers have inspired me to do some needed collection maintenance: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsamp;userid=pbl3amp;include=0amp;since=-1amp;sort=3amp;rows=25 beltran, analog:live, firstfloor1, rick wade, carl craig, tp, sean deason,

[313] fa- 313 related ebay spam correction

2001-10-16 Thread Peter Leidy
sorry bout the bunk url ( the xtra spam), corrected link should be: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=pbl3include=0since=-1sort=3rows=25 p all you record sellers have inspired me to do some needed collection maintenance:

Re: [313] Filth/ was Theo Parrish's discog?

2001-10-15 Thread Peter Leidy
This is the 12 that came out on the (now-defunct?) UK label Filth - I've got it on now, great stuff... Speaking of filth, does anyone know whos behind the mo funk material on the label. Also any links to discogs? or recommended filth records to look for, I've got the theo parrish as well as a

Re: [313] ectomorph at the big wig review

2001-05-11 Thread Peter Leidy
carlos souffront rocked the house too with some classic and far-out techno mixed to perfection :) ectomorph was doing more new experimental stuff instead of playing the hit tunes- but it was definitely interesting and fun. p On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mark Khemma wrote: well, well, well. still

RE: [313] last chance track ID

2001-05-09 Thread Peter Leidy
Don't know who's the re-maker/re-mixer, but it's based on Munich Machine's Get On The Funk Train (Moroder track). didnt get a chance to listen to the sample - but theres a Hakan Lidbo 12 on Loaded called new standards where the a-side track is based on get on the funk train p sqrrt

more on ClearChannel

2001-05-04 Thread Peter Leidy
this caught my eye from the recent talk of SFX/ClearChannel http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel/index.html -peter

Re: [313] things that have been knocking my eardrums to the floor

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Leidy
In the same vein: having missed the Balihu releases when they first came out, I picked up pretty much the entire back catalogue when they were repressed about a month ago (?) and haven't stopped listening to them Aghh! where was i when this happened? does anybody know a good vendor in the

Re: [313] St. Germain?

2001-03-28 Thread Peter Leidy
i think the blue note label did a lot for the crazy response this album received. its been on the billboard jazz top ten for some 24 weeks, was number one for a while p On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, b.phenix wrote: st germain newest album is being sold in starbuck stores. obscure they are not.

real audio mixes up

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Leidy
hey all, i finally uploaded a couple more mixes that i recorded a while back. still in real audio, mp3 may come soon. one is strictly 313 related, the other is more house stuff. directory at http://www.umich.edu/~pbleidy/music detroit mix at http://www.umich.edu/~pbleidy/music/detroit.ram house

Re: [313] 313 T-Shirts

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Leidy
heres the designs that never happened. i think the guy that was organizing it didnt have the spare time to make it happen. anyhow, have a look and maybe someone else will be inspired to tally votes and make shirt happen: http://www.objektsynth.com/313/ -p On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Greg Malcolm wrote:

derrick may wildtime remixes

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Leidy
i picked up a bootleg copy of derrick mays wildtime remixes at gramamphone the other day. the label has no info beyond this, and i was wondering if someone could enlighten me on what and when these remixes are from. Sorry if this has already come up- i've deleted a lot of 313 mail lately ps-

trak I.D.

2000-12-21 Thread Peter Leidy
mostly OT, but it should be a pretty obvious one for an old-schooler http://www.boombox.net:8080/ramgen/xpd/scratchadelia/swift.rm From Rob Swift real video on Boombox.net- the very first track, before Rob is on the tables- This was sampled heavily by one of the tracks on the Cassius LP. ps-

Re: [313] Stewart Walker

2000-12-14 Thread Peter Leidy
Personally dont know for sure, But I've been to quite a few shows at Motor that were not advertised on their website. Most recently- got to check out Phoenicia and Richie Devine of the Schematic crew in Florida. It was a really cool live show- basically a bunch of Mac Powerbooks making twisted