DJ Slam - Into the Light
DJ Slam - Into the Light
LP - Dreams
Oh man this was a tough one to fact-check. Discogs had nothing and I had to do some detectiving. Made harder by the fact that the line sampled has been used in like a jillion different dance tracks. Ended up doing some Wayback Machine work.
So the story goes like this: in 1970, Tim Buckley released a track called Song to the Siren. In 1983, Cocteau Twins did a cover released under the banner of the This Mortal Coil project. In 1992, Messiah sampled this version for a choon called Temple of Dreams that became a big rave anthem. From there on everyone covered/remixed it. This version by LP was only ever released on mp3.com from late 1999 to mid-2001. We’re talking about this LP, for the record.
Sy & Demo - Devotion (Sy & Demo ‘98 remix)
Force & The Evolution - Raining Smiles
The Evolution was Styles and 2 guys I’ve never heard of though they seem to still be active. The whole group also recorded as Sense of Summer.
Brisk vs. Rebel Alliance - Floor Friction
1995 was right around when happy hardcore was switching from breakbeats to 4/4 kickdrums. Interestingly, this track was backed by both.
DJ Slam - Into The Night
Hey kids, did you know that before it was backed by 4/4 kickdrums, happy hardcore was backed by breakbeats? Did you know that back in the day techno songs were made with like, machines, that some engineers diagrammed up somewhere and had people wire by hand, and you had to kind of rig up or punch in lighted buttons on the front like old futures? Did you know that Fairlight, which is like mithril in cyberpunk, was a sampler and synthesizer company?
I took a course in college, “Learning Music Theory Through Digital Music Technology”. I came in a drummer and learned no music theory. The teacher was the original tester of the first Moog. He was kind of a space case and the lectures were basically whatever minutes of him going off on tangents while his assistant tried to make the computer stop crashing. The real prize of the thing was keycard access* to a lab with a rack full of MOTU crap and a Mac with ReBirth (that they actually paid for, with money!) and a sequencer that system crashed basically once a night.
* that you had to sign up for in 2 hour blocks such that I had like 2 AM on Tuesdays at one point
I’m not actually that old, it was more like I did this like the exact year it all became obsolete.