I do think there are many parallels in tracks we are hearing from the likes of Mageeka, Hard House Banton, Fingaprint, Tadow, Lil Silva, NB Funky, Sami Sanchez, Altered Natives, DJ Naughty, Agent X and even Zinc and some of the Chicago\Detriot tracks of the first house era (86-90) and I would not be surprised to hear a lot of the older tracks re-emerge ( to what would be a new audience) and played alongside the tracks of today- To my ears the common factor is FUNK, the groove
To elaborate on the above I'll start with an honorable mention for these original UK pioneers - Don't sleep on their productions some KILLER tracks to be found from
A Guy Called Gerald
Nightmares on wax
The Forgemeasters
LFO
Unique 3
Original Clique
T-Coy
Nexus 21
Baby Ford
No Smoke
100hz
B12
Tru Funk
Groove
Here is some Original UK pressure even the mayday remix couldn't surpass this imo.Timeless classic tune 22 years old
And this is beyond words- one of the rawest dance records to ever come out of the UK
Future Past- Nebula Variation
Onto some roots and Detroit Techno House(after all this was their take on the house that they had heard in the warehouse in Chicago...)- these are a good starting point
For LPs (Vinyls should be cheap as chips) these are worth checking
Techno the dance sound of Detroit (Ten)
The Relics LP there are 2 versions one on Buzz and one on DFC
The innovator Vinyl boxset or CD
The 313 LP (Infonet)
Techno 1
Techno 2
Blake Baxter- When we used to play, Crimes of the heart, Sexuality
Heres when we used to play
Rhythm is Rhythm – the dance, stop move it Nude Photo ,It is what it is, KAOS, Feel Surreal, Freestyle, Spaced out ,MS6
This is good
Off the same 12
What Mayday did to it is what is, here is nothing short of remarkable- I never tire of this
one more from Mayday
Kevin Saunderson Reese and Santonio – The Sound, How to play our music, Groovin without a doubt Reese Rock to the beat, Just want another chance, The groove that won’t stop, forcefield, bounce your body to the box, Reese- Baseline
Kevin Saunderson is possibly the most versatile Detroit producer from Reese to Inner City to Edancer to eseer all different but all very Detroit. By the way Jovonn has released a track based on Just want another chance..
Here are 2 all time Kevin Master Reese Saunderson killers
Also check out the Plus 8 label
Kenny Larkin- rubbernotes,
I never really rated Technarchy but the b-side tracks are mindblowing-
Cybersonik Melody 928
Cybersonik Carousel
States Of Mind Altair IV.1
here them here.. scroll down to the one for sale with the player next to it, the frist track is technarchy (which was quite big) but its the ones after that do it for me
Here are a couple of Detroit style tracks out of Europe
Max404 May the force be with Us not on youtube but its very similar to this
Ismistik -Flow Charts forgot how good this is..
Re: Techno -> UKG ... UKG -> Techno
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:34 am
by djshiva
fda: awesome post, man! droppin' some history there!
Re: Techno -> UKG ... UKG -> Techno
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:41 am
by fda
djshiva wrote:fda: awesome post, man! droppin' some history there! :)
Thanks Djshiva- It's great that some of these tunes (and there are of course many many more) are being rediscovered by a new audience.
As good as a lot of the UK Garage was (especially Tuff Jam) it was for the most part a take on the New York\New Jersey Sounds from producers like MAW, Smack etc but I think this new wave is produdcing music that is a lot wider than UK Garage ever was.
