Best rave band?

[DrRingDing]

The House Crew are a glaring omission!

They are very good but they didn't play many PA's.

 

[pagan]

Why no EAT STATIC????

The best dance band since 1991 - still going strong!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Static

http://www.eatstatic.co.uk/

 

[chico enrico]

my boss is off to see them in wales this week i think

Jesus! What on earth sort of company do you work for? Magic Mushrooms PLC?

 

[chico enrico]

Why no EAT STATIC????

Because they're trance.

And trance is shit.

 

[ouchmonkey]

Why no EAT STATIC????

The best dance band since 1991 - still going strong!

Absolute toss.
They played in the tent next to us at Endorse It! this year.
Every time I went outside they appeared to be playing exactly the same tune.
Did have the brain on stage though.

This was on the second night, and there had apparently been noise complaints about the stage they were on. Unperturbed, they played so loud that we had to keep turning stuff up next door. If any of you went to see Phil Hartnoll on the last night and wondered why it was so quiet, then I guess you have Eat Static to thank for that.

 

[JTG]

Absolute toss.
They played in the tent next to us at Endorse It! this year.
Every time I went outside they appeared to be playing exactly the same tune.
Did have the brain on stage though.

This was on the second night, and there had apparently been noise complaints about the stage they were on. Unperturbed, they played so loud that we had to keep turning stuff up next door. If any of you went to see Phil Hartnoll on the last night and wondered why it was so quiet, then I guess you have Eat Static to thank for that.

I seem to remember I was trying to talk to you with eatstatic in the background. they were shit.

 

[killer b]

why are some people claiming orbital weren't a rave band? have they actually listened to the stuff they were producing in the days of rave?

i have a record of altern8 playing live in the carpark of shelleys. it's ace.

 

[magneze]

Orbital

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

Jesus! What on earth sort of company do you work for? Magic Mushrooms PLC?

I know! Its mad innit!

totally straight company tho - most of the engineers are coke headz!

 

[ChrisFilter]

Prodigy live, as per the poll question, but Underworld all over as per the thread title.

 

[souljacker]

What no Ragga Twins?

The best I ever saw at a rave would be N-Joi, Bizarre Inc and Colaboy.

 

[ouchmonkey]

I seem to remember I was trying to talk to you with eatstatic in the background. they were shit.

Yeah, mostly we talked about the fact they were so shit

 

[ozzie]

I seem to remember I was trying to talk to you with eatstatic in the background. they were shit.

I enjoyed them.

I was off me chump mind.

 

[JTG]

yeah, I went on at length about how dnb etc does actually go somewhere and does something, whereas psytrance just sort of weebles along with its one idea and is generally shit.

I was right off my toof at this point and I still thought they were utter cack.

 

[jonH]

At the moment I want to see protoculture and uberzone

 

[Apathy]

have to say prodigy they always put on a top show

orbital and underworld provided 2 of my best nights out ever, but they have also been a bit shit too on other times ive seen them

seen loads of top bands play live at the old manchester megadog nights god i miss those days

 

[Apathy]

also;

eboman x100000

supported the prodigy back in around 1996, they fookin rocked

 

[DrRingDing]

What no Ragga Twins?

No, no Ragga Twins.

 

[top_biller]

No, no Ragga Twins.

Ragga Twins are not d'bout?

 

[Taxamo Welf]

the chems, underworld, orbital and leftfield are not really rave bands like the others...

i'll only really know thrm from mid 90's onwards, but underworld are a techno act surely?

PS Praga Khan, what a name.

 

[DrRingDing]

Ragga Twins are not d'bout?

 

[DrRingDing]

PS Praga Khan, what a name.

...and I'd say the most talented ot of the lot too.

 

[jusali]

the chems, underworld, orbital and leftfield are not really rave bands like the others...

i'll only really know thrm from mid 90's onwards, but underworld are a techno act surely?

Totally agree! Rave was Rave, breakbeat hardcore madness.
The chems, underworld, orbital and leftfield above were just a backlash against rave if anything for your music snobberists

 

[DrRingDing]

Err Orbital were very mch a ''rave'' band.

 

[jusali]

Err Orbital were very mch a ''rave'' band.

For the chillout room maybe

 

[Spandex]

Err Orbital were very mch a ''rave'' band.

That's true, but when 'rave' splintered into numerous sub-genres after 91/92ish Orbital, Leftfield, etc moved into a different direction (megadog/crusty/free-festi raves) rather than the 'ardcore/jungle direction that other rave acts went down. While all sorts was played at raves in 1990, Slipmat & Lime would've been unlikely to turn up on the same bill as Orbital or Underworld by '93.

I 'spose people's definitions will depend on when they got into raves and what they were into.

 

[top_biller]

Yep, have to agree. Orbital were a rave band.

Their name alone is evidence of that.

Chime is a rave anthem.

 

[top_biller]

...and I'd say the most talented ot of the lot too.

Injected With A Poison is a timeless classic.

 

[MysteryGuest]

well I voted orbital but the two times i saw underworld (in 93 and 96) they were excruciatingly brilliant, it has to be said.

 

[MysteryGuest]

Lab 4? they just stood there looking hard playing DATs, and they got really shit after about 2001

God I saw them at Tyssen Street (prolibly at *ahem* pendragon ) in 97 or so - very full-on cheesytastic acid/trance stuff. I think I've still got their 'witchdoctor' 12" knocking about somehwere in the more arcane reaches of my dusty record collection... again