How well do you know your club classics?

July 9, 2022 9:35 AM

Telekom Electronic Beats has been running an entertaining series since 2019: six well-known DJs and producers compete to identify the artist and title of 10 classic tracks in their genre, by sound alone. Watch as they listen and guess along! Blind Test: Club Classics • 90s Techno #1 • 80s EBM / Industrial • 90s House Music • 90s Drum ’n’ Bass / Jungle • 90s Techno #2 • 2000s Dubstep • 90s Techno #3 • 90s US House • 80s Electro • 80s Dance Tracks • 90s Trance • 90s Techno #04 • 90s House #02 • 90s Hardcore / Gabber • 90s Jungle • 90s Jungle Blind Test Prequel Exchange • 1995-2000 UK Garage • 90s Trance #2 • 2000s Techno • The Ultimate Techno Blind Test • 2000s Techno #2 • 2000s Liquid Drum ’n’ Bass • 90s Gabber #2 • Drum Machines
posted by mubba (22 comments total)

I saved this for you all https://everynoise.com/
posted by robbyrobs at 1:34 PM on July 9, 2022 [4 favorites]

https://music.ishkur.com/ has been evolving for 22 years.
(Zoom in, and click)
The latest iteration is expansive, and loads much faster than the old Flash versions!
posted by Penumbra at 2:39 PM on July 9, 2022 [4 favorites]

I saved this for you all https://everynoise.com/
This just gave me a bunch of leads for genre names for sound I liked. Thanks
posted by Dr. Twist at 5:08 PM on July 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

I love these. The Drum Machines one was a hoot!

I will be eternally grateful to Telekom Electronic Beats for introducing me to Martin Stimming and his work. His enthusiasm for things like the Arturia Microfreak is infectious: I bought one after watching his review and hearing him use it in this Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Session and I only wish for more hours in each day to play with it. Also shoutout to Cercle because how cool is this?
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 5:34 PM on July 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

Psytrance and Goa trance, mid-late 90s
posted by are-coral-made at 5:58 PM on July 9, 2022 [2 favorites]

90s hardcore / gabber - all ten tracks are recognizable as the smell of people smoking pcp in front of a strobe light
posted by FatherDagon at 6:48 PM on July 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

This is what my Napster client sounded like in the late '90s. Great post!
posted by chinesefood at 8:23 PM on July 9, 2022

I could remember very few of these tracks, but something about the tactile nature of playing vinyl really helps with memory.

If the track was one I happened to own, as soon as the needle hit the record, I could remember the artist (but not the title), the label, it’s position on my record shelf even if I haven’t played it in the last 20 years, the groove that the beat kicks in on, when I bought it, the store I bought it at, and sometimes the price.

Craziness. Thanks for this post.
posted by rajbot at 10:07 PM on July 9, 2022 [3 favorites]

I don't care what anyone thinks about the Gabber editions, the sheer unalloyed delight of Lenny Dee at some of those tunes is brilliant.
posted by prismatic7 at 10:17 PM on July 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

This is fantastic, absolutely made my day! Thank you!
(also penumbra-love that link!)
posted by newpotato at 3:46 AM on July 10, 2022

Now I need playlists of those 90’s techno tracks! I couldn’t identify them, but I remember the artists and labels from my college radio days. I’m pretty sure all of that vinyl is still buried in the station’s stacks.

I definitely knew the Mescalinium United track in the EBM video. It completely blew my mind when the station first got it. Nothing goes harder.
posted by schoolgirl report at 6:15 AM on July 10, 2022

I was thinking about how to compose an Ask about continuing my gabber education after being introduced to speedcore. Thanks for this, mubba.
posted by Selena777 at 7:08 AM on July 10, 2022

(spoiler warning) Unofficial Spotify playlist collecting (most of) the songs played
posted by GenericUser at 7:33 AM on July 10, 2022 [3 favorites]

I would be so bad at this. I’m an erstwhile dj and all the time I hear a song on Rinse FM and think “this sounds familiar somehow” and Shazam it, to find I own it on vinyl and have played it out a lot
posted by thedaniel at 7:57 AM on July 10, 2022 [2 favorites]

Got a lovely surprise when I clicked the 80s/Industrial video. Phase Fatale, AKA Hayden Payne, is an old friend of mine!
posted by SansPoint at 8:23 AM on July 10, 2022

Classics, classics.
posted by ead at 10:40 AM on July 10, 2022

I love watching musicians geek out and stan other musicians. Lotta love going around.
posted by gwint at 10:59 AM on July 10, 2022

This is fun! Didn't get more than I thought I would in some places, got more than I thought I would in others.
posted by rhizome at 1:04 AM on July 11, 2022

I love this. One thing I would say about this type of link is that people always seem to post those sites that have all those different microgenres.

I think one thing that's true about electronic music now is that there's less of that genre splitting than there was.

There's now drum and bass, techno, house, bass music and really not much more - at least in terms of club music.
posted by treblekicker at 3:01 AM on July 11, 2022

The "Ultimate Techno Blind Test" one is masterful.
posted by zog at 4:24 AM on July 11, 2022

Back in the day, I didn't have time for anything other than jungle, but I'm appreciating the house & UK garage more now. You can definitely still miss me with the gabber though.
posted by juv3nal at 4:41 PM on July 12, 2022

I don't care what anyone thinks about the Gabber editions

don't get me wrong, I was around those strobe lights too. I still have people ask me if my stereo is broken when Disciples of Annihilation comes on in my shuffle and I have to explain that no, that's just the sound of EXTREEEEEEME TERRRORRRRRRRRR
posted by FatherDagon at 1:12 PM on July 13, 2022