tangerinedream
Density of Sound
Ladies and Gentleman I give you my three year old 'obscure old indie bands' thread. 
90's Nostalgia Thread
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Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
90s nostalgia
At the beginning of the 90s I was into:
Industrial/EBM - Front 242, Frontline Assembly, KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb, Devotion Records (Revolting Cocks, 1000 Homo DJs, Excessive Force, Acid Horse), Ministry.
On-U: Dub Syndicate, African Headcharge
Then around easter 93 I stumbled into a Tribal Energy free party at Cooltan in Brixton and it was like a road to Nazareth conversion to dance music for me.
The line up to the Midi Circus tour in June 93 sums up the music from that time: Orbital, the Aphex Twin, Drum Club, Eat Static, Spooky, System 7 and Underworld. All on one night
I started going to Final Frontier at Club UK pretty regularly and got more into techno - generally acid in one room, Detroit style in the other. Seeing Rob Hood, Plastikman and Jeff Mills all on one night at Tribal Gathering 95 sealed which type of techno I preferred.
Then there was DnB: Engineers Without Fears, DJ Crystal, Tom & Jerry, Renegade type stuff got me into it. I sort of went through phases of being into it then not being into it after that as the styles varied and progressed.
I moved to Sheffield and got into the Deep House scene up there: DiY, Smokescreen, Toko records. There was also a bit of a speed garage scene up there - more bassy than the soulful London stuff.
Moving back to London for the very end of the 90s I started listening to the pirate stations and got into UK garage when the sound turned to 2-step.
Britpop? That totally passed me by.
At the beginning of the 90s I was into:
Industrial/EBM - Front 242, Frontline Assembly, KMFDM, Nitzer Ebb, Devotion Records (Revolting Cocks, 1000 Homo DJs, Excessive Force, Acid Horse), Ministry.
On-U: Dub Syndicate, African Headcharge
Then around easter 93 I stumbled into a Tribal Energy free party at Cooltan in Brixton and it was like a road to Nazareth conversion to dance music for me.
The line up to the Midi Circus tour in June 93 sums up the music from that time: Orbital, the Aphex Twin, Drum Club, Eat Static, Spooky, System 7 and Underworld. All on one night
I started going to Final Frontier at Club UK pretty regularly and got more into techno - generally acid in one room, Detroit style in the other. Seeing Rob Hood, Plastikman and Jeff Mills all on one night at Tribal Gathering 95 sealed which type of techno I preferred.
Then there was DnB: Engineers Without Fears, DJ Crystal, Tom & Jerry, Renegade type stuff got me into it. I sort of went through phases of being into it then not being into it after that as the styles varied and progressed.
I moved to Sheffield and got into the Deep House scene up there: DiY, Smokescreen, Toko records. There was also a bit of a speed garage scene up there - more bassy than the soulful London stuff.
Moving back to London for the very end of the 90s I started listening to the pirate stations and got into UK garage when the sound turned to 2-step.
Britpop? That totally passed me by.
agreed. a footnote in musical history at best... and yet it's all that gets talked about in 90's retrospective type things.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
agreed. a footnote in musical history at best... and yet it's all that gets talked about in 90's retrospective type things.
well, cos it was a meeja invention so therefore the meeja remeber it. The lumpen proles remember what the meeja remember and we're all at war with euroasia or wherever it was...
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
agreed. a footnote in musical history at best... and yet it's all that gets talked about in 90's retrospective type things.
Maybe because that was what the 'mainstream' was concerned with. The effort to build up a struggle of titans as Oasis and Blur went head to head and people wondered if Damon and his girlfriend would last. But I suppose it was ever thus - and the interesting stuff takes place off radar.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
I was pretty much out of step musically - got into Grunge in the mid 90s when it was already a dead genre, then after a few years progressed to indie-rock (pavement, sebadoh, pixies, throwing muses, guided by voices etc) - before starting to appreciate hippity-hop towards the end of the decade (J5, cyprus hill) ... it wasn't really until the year 2000 (and the discovery of those lil' beans) I truly opened my ears to other things musically ... (DnB being the first 
)
)bouncer_the_dog
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Surely its the citizens that have britpop remembered for them by the ministry, whereas the proles can happily continue to listen to Take That even now... I liked Britpop but it didn't stop me from liking other stuff too! (not Take That though)
tangerinedream
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bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
hope lies with take that
I might have to re think this...
what about The Levellers?
tangerinedream
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skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
For me (aged 8 in 1990, and 18 by 2000) the nineties WAS my decade.
In the begining, it was all about Guns N Roses closely then followed by Nirvana and my metal/grunge phase in 93/94/95. Everything from Machine Head and Slayer to Pearl Jam and Blind Melon was my music of choice.
Metal lost me around 1995ish. I can remember it well even, it was about the time Korn became the next big thing and Sepultura released 'Roots' and I didn't particularly think much of either. I started getting more into Oasis, Radiohead and Kula Shakur anyway and the rest of the Britpop stuff..from then on indie was my thing and metal seemed very uncool and and I hated the new big bands like Marylin Manson etc. Around the same time, my apreciation of dance music got stronger and I started listening to mix tapes from sasha, carl cox, graeme park etc... I got as many of them as I could and then when Cream Vol. 1 came out and they released the first Essential Mix CD - it was cemented.
Jungle/DNB was pretty important for me and I pretty much liked it from the begining. Goldie's Timeless is still in my Top 10 albums ever. As is LTJ Bukem's Logical Progession. I used to love coming to London and tuning into the pirate stations hearing this stuff for the first time. In Wiltshire there was nothing like it.
Stragely I also got into very MOR bands in the nineties like Seal, Del Amitri, Roachford, which led to me looking back a bit and discovering a wealth of music from before my time (Prince, Stones, Floyd, Police etc). I think that was more my Dad's influence though tu I'm glad I took it all on board because I listened to and collected some great guitar music.
It wasn't until I started on the dance biscuits though that I REALLY got the old skool rave tunes.
No form of music has ever lost me though. I still love metal as much as I love DNB or MOR or House music. It just has to be good init. Anything that makes you move is all good imho.
In the begining, it was all about Guns N Roses closely then followed by Nirvana and my metal/grunge phase in 93/94/95. Everything from Machine Head and Slayer to Pearl Jam and Blind Melon was my music of choice.
Metal lost me around 1995ish. I can remember it well even, it was about the time Korn became the next big thing and Sepultura released 'Roots' and I didn't particularly think much of either. I started getting more into Oasis, Radiohead and Kula Shakur anyway and the rest of the Britpop stuff..from then on indie was my thing and metal seemed very uncool and and I hated the new big bands like Marylin Manson etc. Around the same time, my apreciation of dance music got stronger and I started listening to mix tapes from sasha, carl cox, graeme park etc... I got as many of them as I could and then when Cream Vol. 1 came out and they released the first Essential Mix CD - it was cemented.
Jungle/DNB was pretty important for me and I pretty much liked it from the begining. Goldie's Timeless is still in my Top 10 albums ever. As is LTJ Bukem's Logical Progession. I used to love coming to London and tuning into the pirate stations hearing this stuff for the first time. In Wiltshire there was nothing like it.
Stragely I also got into very MOR bands in the nineties like Seal, Del Amitri, Roachford, which led to me looking back a bit and discovering a wealth of music from before my time (Prince, Stones, Floyd, Police etc). I think that was more my Dad's influence though tu I'm glad I took it all on board because I listened to and collected some great guitar music.
It wasn't until I started on the dance biscuits though that I REALLY got the old skool rave tunes.
No form of music has ever lost me though. I still love metal as much as I love DNB or MOR or House music. It just has to be good init. Anything that makes you move is all good imho.
Apathy
Roll us yer cap Grandad!!
bleep n bass and house, then r&s style belgium stuff and UK ardkore (still at school all that, so it was all about mixtapes and pirates and sunset 102fm)..... left school and it was all about Megadog partys techno dave angel, liberators, billy nasty etc etc mainly
corporate whore
oh, thought you were dead
Early 90s was mostly Creation - Honey's Dead, Giant Steps, Bandwagonesque, Screamadelica, Copper Blue.
Got into bleeps soon afterwards - Orbital, Banco de Gaia, The Orb, System 7 and that.
The Prodigy loomed fairly large, IIRC, as did the Bukem/Goldie D&B thing.
All seems a very long time ago.
Got into bleeps soon afterwards - Orbital, Banco de Gaia, The Orb, System 7 and that.
The Prodigy loomed fairly large, IIRC, as did the Bukem/Goldie D&B thing.
All seems a very long time ago.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
That was mid 80's surely
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Like all decades (in recent times anyway) there was a lot happening.
From my point of view it started with the tail end of Gaye Bykers, Ozrics, RDF, Back to the Planet et al, digi dub stuff like Zion Train, the fluffy ambience of the Orb and Banco, acid trance, techno, raves and free parties and later d&b. With a steady flow of reggae and dub throughout.
I've probably missed big parts but my memory of that decade aint that great for some reason
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
it was all about Megadog partys techno dave angel, liberators, billy nasty etc etc mainly
Ahhh, them there Megadogs were the business.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
The '91-94 hardcore scene, probably the most creative period for British Music in the last 25yrs. Just you wait they'll be queuing up the serious books and tv docs in a few years just like they did with 70s dub. Jungle was the result and equivalent to splitting a musical atom. The amount of records released in the period is staggering and the gradual advancement of rhythms/grooves/basslines is a wonder to behold.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
In some ways I always thought of Jungle as representing a failure, a failure of 'Hardcore' to be truly inclusive.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
you what????
you do know the proper hip hop heads ala Chuck D see Jungle/dubstep as the natural progression/evolution of hip hop dontcha?
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
you what????
you do know the proper hip hop heads ala Chuck D see Jungle/dubstep as the natural progression/evolution of hip hop dontcha?
No wonder Hip Hop is fucked!!!
not that that actually means anything...you what????
you do know the proper hip hop heads ala Chuck D see Jungle/dubstep as the natural progression/evolution of hip hop dontcha?
agree about early 90s hardcore btw - only really got into it properly recently, but the breadth of the genre is quite amazing at times (as indeed is the brutal simplicity at other times...)
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
No wonder Hip Hop is fucked!!!
oh yeah, forgot you don't have much of a clue and/or are still a spotty oink init!
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
oh yeah, forgot you don't have much of a clue and/or are still a spotty oink init!
Read my tagline numbnuts.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
this^^
one of the most inclusive 'scenes' i been involved in
Read my tagline numbnuts.
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