Ultravod
Dan the Illuminator- Western Massachusetts, USA
- Joined on September 14, 2002
- http://testtone.net
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Updated for late 2021: I'm still a grouchy Yankee. I'm still an electronic music snob. I'm now so old an hopelessly unhip that I haven't foggiest idea what the current genres of electronic dance music are. Given how awful they sound, I can't say I'm sorry.
Do NOT bother me about Discogs related issues.
To put things in Warhammer 40,000 terms, I am one of Discogs' Necron Overlords, asleep in my Tomb World. Don't attempt to wake me unless it's something cataclysmic. I am likely to view you as a pesky Nurgling that's about to be squished by a Reaver Titan.
Kidding/not kidding at all. As long time user and former moderator on Discogs, I take a dim view with how this site has been run for the last dozen+ years. I have had records stolen from me because of Discogs staff. I'm not here to grind axes, but I'm also not here to kiss asses.
2009 Saturnine DJ mix is still the biggest project I've ever done. Go here and download it in your choice of formats.
Requests for records in my collection or CDRs/mp3s will be mercilessly ignored.
Mixlr live stream every Friday night 10PM-Midnight Eastern (GMT-600)
Mixlr showreel with archived shows.
Mixcloud page.
YouTube channel.
Soundcloud page.
last.fm profile.
I've successfully done business with the following oggers:
tilted
TIM
djbrian
thegreg
flosi79
simplygrooves
Do NOT bother me about Discogs related issues.
To put things in Warhammer 40,000 terms, I am one of Discogs' Necron Overlords, asleep in my Tomb World. Don't attempt to wake me unless it's something cataclysmic. I am likely to view you as a pesky Nurgling that's about to be squished by a Reaver Titan.
Kidding/not kidding at all. As long time user and former moderator on Discogs, I take a dim view with how this site has been run for the last dozen+ years. I have had records stolen from me because of Discogs staff. I'm not here to grind axes, but I'm also not here to kiss asses.
2009 Saturnine DJ mix is still the biggest project I've ever done. Go here and download it in your choice of formats.
Requests for records in my collection or CDRs/mp3s will be mercilessly ignored.
Mixlr live stream every Friday night 10PM-Midnight Eastern (GMT-600)
Mixlr showreel with archived shows.
Mixcloud page.
YouTube channel.
Soundcloud page.
last.fm profile.
I've successfully done business with the following oggers:
tilted
TIM
djbrian
thegreg
flosi79
simplygrooves
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This is a proper oldskool jam, made additionally famous by the Quadromania Mix being featured prominently in the nightclub scene of The Bad Lieutenant.
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This statement isn't wrong, but more specifically "Let's Get High" is played at the end of the nightclub scene and for a relatively short amount of screen time. For most of the scene, the song playing is The Ya Ya's - Looove, specifically the Quadromania Mix.
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People have been waiting 28 years for a vinyl release of this, the second greatest ambient album of the 1990s (bested only by Biosphere - Substrata.) This is momentous moment for ambient fans and vinyl junkies.
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"Real McCoy" was a not insubstantial anthem among DNB circles in the mid 00s. There's been some longstanding confusion as to what the sampled vocals are actually saying. I've seen wild guesses like "come get my medicine in, oh boy" "come to my ganja...
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Tim Cain, the mastermind behind the original 1997 Fallout retro-futuristic post apocalyptic role playing game said in an interview that he...
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A significant release for two reasons: It launched the career of Keep Shelly in Athens, and the opening track. Running Out Of You is of course an absolute classic that will prove to be a timeless piece of music. Over a decade later it's one of the...
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This somewhat obscure release is one sense the first proper long player from Keep Shelly in Athens. It collects a bunch of early songs with founding singer Sarah P. Ignoring any differences in sound quality between the vinyl versions, the are a...
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Keep Shelly In Athens were on a roll in 2011. Our Own Dream is significantly more consistent than their other efforts from the early 2010s. It's quite possibly the strongest EP they released before 2013's At Home (the only full length album with...
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An early KSIA release from the Sarah P era, and an absolutely essential one ...for exactly one song on it. The stunning remix of Solar Bears' "Cub" is arguably still KSIA's greatest work. It's such a departure from the original that it is effectively...
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To paraphrase Harvey Dent, you either die as Pork Recordings, or you live long enough to see yourself become Ninja Tune.
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A copy sold for over $8000 in 2020: https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/white-whale-vinyl-iron-maidens-ultra-rare-twilight-zone-brown-mispresst
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This an 800lb gorilla of a release that precious few people know about. It's produced heavily (if not entirely) with an E-Mu SP-1200 sampling drum machiner. The SP-1200 was beloved by beat producers in the late 80s and early 90s for its 26KHz sample...
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I found this album in a used record shop for $15 in the very early 00s. I bought it on a whim, mostly because I liked the cover art so much. Ironically I almost didn't buy it because I thought it was too expensive. Little did I know what I had...
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"Wires" is a sublime piece of downtempo breaks. Gorgeous analogue pads, a burbling acid synth under miles of reverb and almost IDM-like percussion make for a gorgeous slice of mid-90s bliss. What elevates Wires to greatness is the dialog sampled...
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Every one of these mixes is unimaginably terrible, except for the Lanfranchi & Farina mix. The other five mixes all make excessive use of ear bleeding "electro" noises and utterly irritating sample stuttering. They are so actively bad, one wonders if...
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Such a guilty pleasure for me. This track follows the then-ubiquitous trance formula to a T, and adds some truly questionable spoken vocals on top of it. For some reason this dubious combination works far better than it has any right to do. Reminds me...
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I've been listening to Morcheeba for over a decade at this point, and I've always enjoyed their music. It's smooth, groovy trip hop, and makes for delicious ear candy. That said, it's never carried much emotional impact for me. No one's going...
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Quite a strange release here. Purported to be a DJ mix, it's hardly mixed at all. Each track stands on its own, with only slight crossfading at the end. The track selection is fairly incongruous, and not in a clever, juxtaposed way. I have no idea...
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I am by no means an expert in German, but "Lecker Mädche" roughly translates to "Licking Girl." It follows then that track B1 contains the spoken sample "Give me head / Until I'm dead" continually looped throughout it. Krämer & Pogadl have visited...
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To those unhip to drum n bass parlance, the terminology of the genre can seem rather odd and obscure. While there isn't a dnb glossary printed on the label of this release, the A-side will clear up at least one junglist definition: it is the...
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Quite a mixed bag here, really. "Need You Tonight" is not awful, but is ultimately forgettable. "Bad Girls" is one of the most painfully annoying dnb tracks I had the misfortune to hear in 'aught four. "Do you know that bad girls have to listen to...
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The poster boys for the liquid funk sub-(sub)genre of drum n bass. Their songs (at least the good ones) aren't so much "formulaic" as they "follow the exact same blueprint." This, however, is not a bad thing. These guys essentially make house music...
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One of the most soul-stirringly beautiful albums I've ever heard. I highly recommend listening to it with a really _good_ pair of headphones. The half hour plus opening track is a challenge even for deadicated ambient-heads, but anyone who sits...
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A classic release for three reasons: tracks 2, 7 & 8. Deep Dive Corp's "Relaxer" is by far the best thing about their _Blackmail Recordings_ album. Spooky, creepy, ethereal downtempo with a massive bassline. "wave upon wave carried me over, beyond...
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Funky filtered bassline, and brilliant use of an Audio Two "Top Billin'" sample. It's no secret why Data picked this one up.
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The Wipe is amazingly beautiful and exceedingly painful at the same time. Not merely a track, it's a miniature piece of performance art. To be done right, the audience should be wincing from ear-shredding treble while being unable to stop moving...
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This possibly the only production by Sasha I like. In truth, most of the credit is due to his studio techs for dailing in the perfect reverb and effects, and tweaking things to perfection. I like Expander, but for me the Baja is the real gem here. ...
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"A four piece Maskanda band from Zululand that grew from the ashes of a band called M'Shoza - three members of which were gunned down in one of South Africa's less publicised atrocities - Skeleton exemplify the philosophy of 'optimism from adversity'....
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Like a lost Tangerine Dream album, only better. Dave Bessell, Gary Stout, Ed Buller, and Flood (who's produced U2 and Nine Inch Nails) cling tightly to their vintage keyboards and make them click, howl, sweep, and pulse with nothing less than...
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An odd release in many ways, containing some absolute gems (Carnival Da Casa, Dem Dem, Music), and some real chunder (Don't You Want Me). It shows just how ahead of the curve Hooj was on the "progressive" sound. Several of the songs were extracted...
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When it came out in 1996, I loved the Oakey & Ozzy full-on trance mix. Its phantasmagoria and hyperactivity matched my youthful exuberance on the dancefloor. Listening to it some seven years later, I find it has not aged well at all. Some dance...
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This record is yet another case of a completely uninspiring track that is turned into a massive track by a deft remixer. The original mix is vaugely bleepy and pseudo-tribal, but spends far too much time noodling about and never *goes* anywhere. The...
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Drivenchild was a project by Steve Porter and Aaryn Blane when Steve still lived in Amherst, MA.
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Truth be told, the Deadbeats aren't much to write home about. Their sample-and-cycle pseudo downtempo comes across as a "chilled" take on Armand Van Helden's _Sampleslaya_ That is, the more obnoxious bits of hip hop looped ad nauseum. "Got It Goin'...
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Funky techno-with-jungle-basslines in the style of Adam Beyer's Mr. Sliff project.
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The original is, more or less, a textbook example of everything that is wrong with trance. Blippy, uninteresting percussion, overbearing pretentious build ups, and a gag-inducing string patch. However, Sander K's mix is gritty, funky and deeply...
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The Dub Pistols generally ebody everything that is insipid, lame and wrong with big beat, and "Official Chemical" is no exception. That said, Eric Kupper's Deep Dub mix is amazingly effective. He wisely removes all but a few key lines from the...
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Instantly recognizable. Possibly the greatest single moment of the "intelligent" drum n' bass movement.
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I own over 100 OL 12"s (not including this one, sadly), and I am fairly sure at this point that this is Mr. Lieb's crowning achievment. Epic, orchestral trance, miles deep and full of emotion.
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