Listening Station: Going Back to the Old Skool - Idolator Comments

Listening Station: Going Back to the Old Skool

DeeJayQueue — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:35:56 EDT

The System...

Is Down.

DeeJayQueue

Listening Station: Going Back to the Old Skool

Audif Jackson Winters III — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:40:19 EDT

@nonce: Looks like both of the tracks here were on one of a few compilations of stuff like this called 'ardkore, You Know The Score. Which IIRC was one among lots of such early 2000s compilations of this kind of material, back when an easy profit could be made off of nostalgic ravers who still bought CDs.

Audif Jackson Winters III

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Audif Jackson Winters III — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:34:34 EDT

And also with the co-option of a lot of the signature sounds and effects of this style into commercial, 2 Unlimited stuff.

Audif Jackson Winters III

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Audif Jackson Winters III — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:33:35 EDT

Did this kind of stuff really offend dance purists at that time? I swear you can hear shit like this in sets by the likes of Sasha and Carl Cox from around that era. I feel like the snobbishness about this style came a bit later in the game with the advent of ambient house, and with the speeding up of this kind of track into what people usually associate with "hardcore."

Audif Jackson Winters III

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nonce — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:41:23 EDT

Ok--say, hypothetically, I was the kind of person who mostly listened to Schoenberg and Webern and Einsturzende Neubauten in the early '90s and missed out on this stuff. Where would I, hypothetically, start looking, especially if I not-very-hypothetically don't have any money?

nonce

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sweatpants — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:07:35 EDT

N.A.S.A. rewind a few years ago jogged my memory and i bought a bunch of these cds - techno had gotten so stale Im glad the new sound is getting fun again.

sweatpants