io organic industrialism on 15/3/2006 at 19:43

---

Armand Van Helden - he's just excellent. really steppy, funky house stuff. his style has evolved a lot of times over the years but he is a great DJ, good artist, and amazing remixer. check out any of his "speed garage" remixes from the 1998-1999 era and you will be impressed. most commonly available is the remix of sneaker pimps' "spin spin sugar", but i'm particularly fond of his speed garage mix of Goldie's song "digital" (because Goldie is also amazing... you should check him out)

DJ Dan - artist & dj - very hard house, this shit will mash you up

Kaskade - artist - check out their album .... really soulful, funky house

DJ Sneak - not sure if he's still around but back in the day he used to play some great filter disco stuff

Eric Morillo - great all around house DJ

ATB - great artist and great DJ. really beautiful trance tracks. i've lately been listening to his commercially released dj mixes... almost every day for the past month!

Basement Jaxx - artist & dj - no comment neccessary. they are simply amazing. funky as hell. although i don't really like their newer stuff... check out their 1st two albums, or even some of their older stuff from before they had an album out

Chicane - artist - a little more mellow than the others i've mentioned, but really beautiful music, and still definitely classifiable as dance .... "behind the sun" is an absolute classic. "easy to assemble" is a great album too.

if you're looking to get into something a little more cheesy (but ultimately more musical), i'd recommend:

DJ Sammy - artist - yes, he's cheese as hell. everybody has heard the "heaven" remix... but seriously, check out some of his songs on the new album - "long way to go", "follow my star", "lbby haba"

Lasgo - artist :D :D :D check out the song "deep in your heart"

Milk Inc - artist ...... well maybe i've ventured too far into cheese land :joke:


i'm a funky house/disco DJ.. i'll probably be recording a new set and putting it online for download in the next couple weeks, if anybody's interested i can post a link here... just drop me a PM if you're interested :)

SD on 15/3/2006 at 20:18

---

Yeah, it was so everywhere that you'd probably find that track on compilations alongside such monstrosities as Macarena and Las Ketchup, and I don't think young TTK would thank you if he picked one of those up :p.

But I will forgive you since you are named after one of my favourite house anthems of the early 90s :D.

Let's get back to the original post:


Okay, "house, trance, techno, dance" spans a huuuuge range of music; Bonnie Tyler and Sepultura are both "rock" and that's a similar kind of variation we're dealing with here :).

But it's clear from this comment:

that you're not looking for anything like IDM (so-called "Intelligent Dance Music", aka music you can't actually dance to) so can everyone who mentioned stuff like Autechre plz get out of thred kthx.

Now I ain't familiar with Arash, but Benassi I do know, and that's more at the harder, funkier, trancier, electro end. As well as his solo stuff, you should look out for the tracks he recorded with his cousin as the Benassi Brothers.

Other artists/remixers roughly in this vein I think you might like: Mauro Picotto, Paul van Dyk, Timo Maas, Armand van Helden, Ferry Corsten, JDS, Green Velvet.

Some albums I can recommend off the top of my head: Deep Dish - Junk Science, BT - Ima, Laurent Garnier - 30, Baby Doc & Jon The Dentist - In Worship Of False Idols, Way Out West - Way Out West. All of these are at least a few years old though, mainly because I am hideously out of touch with the modern scene ;).

It's tough to outright recommend artists for a couple of reasons, however - namely, that quality of output is highly variable, even when you're dealing with highly respected artists (oh god mousse t horny horny horny why), and you can add to that the fact that the bigger names are prone to switching genres at the drop of a hat to show how versatile and talented they are hello Josh Wink no I don't want to listen to your poetry give me the fucking techno. I'd personally be more inclined to recommend compilation albums or specific record labels.

You should certainly track down any of the Super Discount compilations, some of the Ministry Of Sound compilations are decent too (but watch out for the cack). Try seeking out any of the Cream compilations, particularly ones from the 1990s.

Now it is an absolute given that you are going to love some of the stuff I have recommended, and hate the rest of it. This is why (http://www.juno.co.uk/) Juno is your friend. Thousands and thousands of MP3 samples you can listen to before you buy anything. If you can't find anything you like there, then I'm a Dutchman.

PS one track I am going to mention: Freak Power - New Direction (Way Out West remix) - if you do not feel the need to dance to this record, you are not human. That is all.

PPS good calls io organic on DJ Sneak and Eric Morillo... :thumb:

Fuegan on 16/3/2006 at 00:07

---

The Gabriel & Dresden remix is the famous remix (and rightly so, it's superb) but the original was pretty good too (from the album Intensify).

Good call on Astral Projection too, "Back From Hell" is a really good track despite not being on any of their albums. I can't really decide whether they're Goa or Psy, but that's the pretentious nature of the genre continuously shifting their sub-genre definitions. Or having them in the first place, really.

Shug on 16/3/2006 at 01:02

---

The Cat Empire actually made it out of Australia? Blimey

TheGreatGodPan on 17/3/2006 at 18:08

---

I suggest (http://inm.necrobation.org/fan%20stuff.htm) Impaled Northern Moonforest. Who needs machines that go "ping" when you've got an acoustic guitar to play, and knees to slap?