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A brief musical history of Garage

empath — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:06:00 -0800

In the waning days of the Disco era, Larry Levan crafted a new style of dance music, which, like House music in Chicago, came to be named after the nightclub where it was most played, the Paradise Garage. Garage music may have started with disco, but over the decades, it's evolved in some surprising ways: The first Garage records were mostly extended remixes of disco records: Roberta Flack - Loving You Is Such An Easy Thing To Do MFSB - Love Is The Message Lolleata Halloway - Love Sensation Eventually Larry's taste for deep, soulful tracks inspired local music producers to make tracks just for Paradise Garage and the classic Garage sound was born: Wish - Nice and Soft Mahogany - Ride On the Rhythm Over time, the sound got picked by Club Zanzibar in New Jersey where it picked up influences from the new House music coming out of the Warehouse in Chicago and by the early 90s had evolved into the sound that also became known as Deep House: Underground Solution - Luv Dancin Odyssey - Feel My Love Butch Quick - Higher Garage continued to develop and crossed over into the UK, where it began being played at raves in the UK and then back in the US, where the influence of ecstasy caused the DJs to begin pitching the records up and looking for slightly harder and "druggy" records and speed Garage was born: Todd Edwards - Push The Love Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Mix) Industry Standard - So More (I refuse) The speed of the records continued to increase until they went over 135bpm, where something like a phase shift happened -- the 4 to the floor beat became too hard to dance to at that speed, so they started dropping every other beat and in the late 90s(after picking up some R&B and Drum & Bass influences) 2-Step Garage was born: DJ Zinc - 138 Trek Artful Dodger - Rewind MJ Cole - Sincere Azzido de Bass - Dooms Night (Stanton Warriors remix) Dreem Teem - Buddy X 99 2-step garage had massive mainstream success in the early 2000s, but after a backlash it went back underground where a new sound started percolating in London's urban clubs. The sounds got darker, more bass-heavy, dirtier. 2-Step started crossing over with London's hip-hop sub-genre - grime. And finally, some producers decided to drop 2-step's 140 BPM tempo down by half to 70bpm so it would mix with hip-hop, and Dubstep was born: La Roux - In for the Kill (Skream Remix) Plastic Man - White Gloves Rusko - Cockney Thug TC - Where's My Money (Caspa Remix) Mala - Alicia That's a hell of a long way from the Paradise Garage. (apologies in advance if I got some of the details wrong -- this was never really my scene, so I'm not an expert)

It's made of people!

Halloween Jack — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:06:15 -0800

The Humanthesizer. Calvin Harris is promoting his new single by using a type of skin-safe conductive ink to "play" his song with the assistance of, ah, several assistants. One might question as to whether this is a new type of musical instrument or something else entirely.

Forget about this," she says, "it's for interest only."

le morte de bea arthur — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:54:47 -0800

A recently uncovered musical experiment by Delia Derbyshire predicted the sound of modern dance music three decades before it became fashionable. Derbyshire (1937 - 2001) is best-known for her long-uncredited contribution to the Doctor Who theme. After her death in 2001 a set of 267 tapes were found in her attic, and among them was this oddly prescient gem. Wikipedia article on Derbyshire. Previously and more previously.

Reach For the Lasers

empath — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:42:51 -0800

The bastard offspring of New Age, Techno, Industrial and Acid House, trance is one of the most popular and most maligned musical genres of the 21st century. Trance can be bombastic or delicate, psychedelic or rock and roll, spacey or deep, euphoric or dark, commercial or underground, lush or funky, melodic or monotone, hard or laid back. You can try making some yourself with this toy, or go in depth with this tutorial. You can find it online, but if you want to really experience it, you need to hear it at a club.

Music Blog Round-up

empath — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:16:29 -0800

Like free music? Like Blogs? Try putting them together: To start, search Hype Machine and Elbo.ws to find music you like. Then start following the links and blog-rolls, and before you know it, you'll have dozens of blogs just begging to give you songs to download. If you like indy dance music like I do, here are some blogs to get you started: Digital Eargasm, Missing Toof, Palms Out Sounds, These Rocks Pop, Kiss Atlanta, Resonator Magazine, Fluo Kids, Discobelle, Disconap

Travis Castillo's electronic music DJ and live PA archive.

loquacious — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:07:02 -0800

A massive collection of live DJ and PA sets of electronic music sorted by year and genre. Enjoy.
(Coral Cache link. Please use this to help archive and propagate the files.)

And my beat goes boom... tschak!

loquacious — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:45:02 -0800

WaxDJ.com - an excellent source for free downloads and streams of original electronic music mixes of all sorts, from seasoned pros to beginning bedroom amatuers, all told numbering in the hundreds or thousands. My current brand new favorite is the very diverse and well-versed Detriot/Chicago techno stylings of DJ Rubsilent. Recomended mix: Future Funk 23: (Direct MP3 link) (Streaming mp3 link) But don't let me divert you - search for your favorite local DJ or browse for new ones.

See You On the Other Side

empath — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:07:57 -0800

Mark Spoon , best known as half of German trance duo Jam & Spoon, was found dead today, apparently of a heart attack at age 41. Jam and Spoon aren't well known in the mainstream, but they almost single handedly invented the dance music genre today known as "Progressive Trance" with their early 90s singles "Stella" and "Age of Love" (Short MP3 samples).

Orbital - The Box - REMEMBER EARTH CLEARLY

ab'd al'Hazred — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:33:39 -0800

The Box [low-fi mid-nineties MPEG-1; music here]

Last Night an LJ saved my life.

empath — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:32:16 -0800

Traditionally, (video) a DJ uses two turntables, but recently a series of new products has challenged the primacy of vinyl. While local record shops have been closing left and right, online stores have begun offering digital downloads. One digital-only outlet recently sold their 1,000,000th mp3. And now, a new store has taken the DJ completely out of the equation by making mix cds on demand.

don't rely on this

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:18:22 -0800

just get yourself high [lo siento para el Player Real]

Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:22:38 -0800

Gloria Estefan and Mylo [warning: eighties]

HELLO N00BS

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:49:44 -0800

I find Paris's Radio ABF the perfect background noise, with an optional 256kb/s stream. It's electronica.

mmmmmmmmmm...........

sgt.serenity — Sat, 01 May 2004 19:30:51 -0800

"touch my tra-la-la" - Mefi falls in love with Günther.

I have a what!?!

beatnik808 — Fri, 23 May 2003 13:00:06 -0800

I have a what!?! And now ladies and gentlemen, here is our first candidate for the most annoying song of this summer.

WMC 2003

cmicali — Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:38:58 -0800

The 2003 Winter Music Conference is now one month away. During the conference you will be able to attend the main conference, the 2003 DanceStar USA awards show, the huge ULTRA 5 Music Festival, and countless other parties during the week. Everyone influential having anything to do with dance music will be there for 5 days of endless pool parties, late night clubbing, networking, and general debauchery. If you need to know what will be going on, you should already be on the Miami Master List, the definitive guide.