Another class bit of action from the hitman stable.
Pete hitman waterman and michaela strachan visit a cheesy meat market with blokes in ties watching dancers in pants.
A simple formula to be sure, but highly entertaining.
Here we have people dancing in their pants to Technotronic. We still play pump up the jam on occasions.
DOWNLOAD: Dadcast 10 – Big Daddy Techno
Here is the massive list of trackage:
System 01 – Drugs Work [Tresor]
DJ Valium – Running In October [
Tobias Schmidt – Wagging Tail [Tresor]
Digital Princezz – ?? [Mutter]
Dave Tarrida – Terminally Yours [Tresor]
Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track (Luke Slater remix) [Missile]
E Dancer – Pump The Move [KMS]
Michael Forshaw – Work That Body [Chan n Mikes]
Chris Sattinger – Fun In The Murky [Subvoice]
C J Bolland – Horsepower [R & S]
N-Joi – Mindflux [Deconstruction]
Frankie Bones – Work That Shit 2001 [Ghetto Technics]
Cari Lekebush – Filterfitta [Hybrid]
Dr Walker & Electro Atomu – In Bed With J Burger [Djungle Fever]
The Stalker – Blast [Slamdunk]
JB3 – Folklift (Luke Slater’s Filtered Remix) [Novamute]
Neil Landstrumm – Praline Horse [Tresor]
Jamie Lidell – Sonlysom(o)ney [Sativae]
Si Begg – Sound Equipment [Sativae]
Subhead – Pselphyorrialice [Sativae]
Robert Armani – Chicago Calling [ACV]
The Pump Panel – Ego Acid [Missile]
Choice – Acid Eiffel [Fragile]
Abe Duque & Blake Baxter – What Happened? [Abe Duque Records]
MORE DADCASTS
Dadcast 1 – Cosmic Winter Discomix by Dempsey
Dadcast 2 – Dad House by Durkit
Dadcast 3 – Fear Of Dads by Techno Dads
Dadcast 4 – I Love Techno Dads by Hektor Ruiez
Dadcast 5 – Voodoo House Mix by Techno Dads
Dadcast 6 – Ambient Dads by Techno Dads
Dadcast 7 – Jack In Your Trance Face by Techno Dads
As a recently anointed Techno Dad himself, DJ, producer, blogger, renowned beard wearer, label runner and all round electronic good egg Paul Reset has been doing the duties on the 1s and 2s for many years round The Hood. The Hood, meaning Glasgow. (Who on Earth calls Glasgow The Hood? Ed)
Although initially attracted only by the beard, we were well impressed by the quality of this, the latest mix featuring in a series of impressive beards, err I mean mixes. It sounds so utterly hi-fi, it makes us want to be a bit more careful with our own dodgy digital habits. And the tunes ain’t half bad either. Running the gamut from very new crispy stuff like Drums of Death and Minilogue, to Old Fart Rezerection posse favourites NJoi and Awesome 3.
Get it in your earholes over here: Paul Reset – Beardism 7.
So then we had a quick bit of Dad Chat while we were at it.
Techno Dads: Ok, beardism. Where is your beard at today?
Paul Reset: beard is in semi full flow at the moment cheers – I keep it to a nice 2 on the old trimmer
Techno Dads: do you find being a dad interferes with your beardy tendencies
Paul: totally – and with FIFA playing also
Techno Dads: Let’s get the Mumsnet questions out the way. what’s your favourite biscuit?
Paul: Toffypop, no question. biscuit, toffee and chocolate – what else do you need.
Techno Dads: any dad tips?
Paul: carry a pillow everywhere
Techno Dads: Top 3 dad dancing tunes?
Paul: DJ’s Unite – Volume 1, Rhythm Quest – Closer To All Your Dreams, Hue & Cry – Labour of Love
Techno Dads: You big cheeser! So you used to be a Drum n bass DJ – in the words of Blake Baxter – drum n bass – what happened?
Paul: I got older and the crowds got younger. And it got shiter
Techno Dads: ok – you’ve got a label and stuff give me your plugs.
Paul: check out phuturelabs.com – electronic music blog, label, radio show – all good shit! Loads more mixes from me at paulreset.com and I’ve also got another wee blog for randomness at fairlyrandom.co.uk
Techno Dads: cool. so you might be able to explain dubstep to us – what is it for?
Paul: these days – mostly for these people
Techno Dads: oof. OK semi serious question. Do you think the good old clubbing days really were better like all these old skool blogs/youtube comments would have you believe? or is it just rose-tinted nostalgia?
Paul: I think it’s mostly just nostalgia although people seem to be more concerned about taking photos, filming and tweeting from events these days, only need to watch the Boiler Room for 2 minutes to see that. No-one dancing, it’s like a bomb went off in a hipster factory.
Techno Dads: yes good point. i think there is something inherently wrong in desperately wanting to record everything on your little screen rather than just be in the moment, they are thinking about all the kudos theyll get on tweetbook, rather than just getting mashed up to the max.
Techno Dads: Some things are much better nowadays tho…do you think being able to find every tune you want instantly has a down side?
Paul: shit yeah. There’s no hunt and reward. Although I love the fact that MP3s take up no physical space especially with a bairn on the go…one downside of the whole thing which is also an upside I reckon is the ease of distribution.
Techno Dads: it’s great being able to find all those tunes. i remember getting eclipse tapes and having zero idea what records they were. and no way to find em.
Paul: yeah me too – was Helter Skelter tapes for me and the awesomeness of finding tunes you’ve been after for ages
Techno Dads: yeah – the underground cult thing has sort of disappeared. it sounds kinda elitist but its not just that – it’s also making tunes special. less disposable. And whats your feeling about free music – you been giving music away on your label.
Paul: it’s a complicated one really – I think it’s the best way for new producers to get their profile up quickly if done properly and also good for more established producers to give the odd tune away now and again as a wee thank you type thing. I can understand why some people are against it as they feel it devalues the material but I disagree. Some people are REALLY against it and I just don’t really understand why. People are gonna get their music for free anyway and there’s nothing they can really do about it so why not embrace it?
Techno Dads: I guess the thing that worries me is – if it gets really hard for a producer to pay bills – then they cant be a full time producer.
Paul: yeah and the whole “gigs pay the bills” thing only really works if you’re doing it full time, and of course it’s not every one that gets to that stage, but ya know – some of the best music to ever be released was made by people who were also holding down 4 jobs and with a lot of those kinda people, their music turned shite when they made it a full time job – they were more concerned about making money to survive so had to conform to certain things.
Techno Dads: solomon burke used to sell burgers at his gigs…
Paul: some new producers should try that. Screw the merch, gimme a slice of pizza.
A stinky pile of wedding cheese yesterday
The day every DJ dreads has finally come: someone has asked you to play at their wedding. The question is, how do you deal with it?
Some simply refuse point blank. Rude, but probably wise. Others take the plunge and treat it like a normal gig. This can work, depending on the crowd, but it’s risky, and you’re going to have a battle on your hands fending off furious requests for Black Eyed Peas . It can be quite shocking how angry Cheryl Cole fans get when you tell them you dont have any Cheryl Cole. And they will not believe you either.
Other DJs fully embrace the wedding schtick and do what is expected. It can pay well – much better than proper techno DJing. But it’s degrading. It’s a lot like being a sex worker. Sometimes you have to put up with a dirty old man who hasn’t had a bath in weeks. This is what it feels like to play David Guetta tunes.
There are moments of hilarity, such as the time a young lady asked us ‘Have you no got anything funky?’ while we were playing James Brown.
And if you’re based around Glasgow it means witnessing The Slosh – a strangely beautiful line-dancing tradition from the 70s carried out exclusively by middle aged women that resembles a David Lynch dream sequence.
Another solution to the wedding problem is to take the middle ground – the Third Way – remain true to your priniciples, but play stuff that people might recognise. This is what Techno Dad Production Unit (aka Dave from Glasgow’s Marcia Blaine) has done here. Quality cheese. None of your bright orange processed slices. Maybe the odd touch of Dairylea in places.
LISTEN to Dadcast 9: Production Unit – Mature Cheddar on Mixcloud
DOWNLOAD Dadcast 9: Production Unit – Mature Cheddar
Tracklist:
1 – Intro
2 – Hell Interface – Midas Touch
3 – Spanky Wilson – Sunshine Of Your Love
3 – Inner City – Good Life
4 – Adamski – Killer
5 – Johnny Dangerous – King Of Clubs
6 – Tuff Little Unit – Join The Future
7 – Mujava – Township Funk
8 – Underground Resistance – Mississippi Mutants
9 – Dee-lite – Groove Is In The Heart
10 – Prince – When Doves Cry
11 – Two Of A Kind – Like This
12 – Orbital – Chime (edit)
13 – Innerzone Orchestra – Bug In The Bass Bin
14 – 808 State – Pacific State
15 – S’Express – Theme From S’Express
16 – New Order – Blue Monday
17 – Nexus 21 – Self Hypnosis
18 – Joe Smooth – Promised Land
19 – Drexciya – Bang Bang
20 – Akufen – skidoos
21 – Sesame Street – Grover Discusses Marriage With Jessie
22 – Madonna – Music (acapella)
23 – Dinah Washington – Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby (Rae & Christian Mix)
24 – Salt N Pepa – Push it
25 – Man 2 Man vs Man Parrish – Male Stripper
26 – Kraftwerk – Numbers
27 – Richard Wagner – Bridal Chorus from ‘Lohengrin’
28 – Janet Jackson vs Liquid – Janet Is Liquid
29 – Snoop/Justin vs Cylob – Flicksigns
30 – Aux 88 – Direct Drive
31 – SL2 – Bassquake
32 – Dj Rolando – Jaguar
33 – Michael Jackson – Beat It
34 – Jonny L – Hurt You So
35 – SL2 – On A Ragga Tip
36 – Blame – 2 Bad Mice Take You
37 – Horsepower – Bolt
We found this Youtube clip of Terry Farley and Audrey Weatherspoon (hair by Timotei) talking about setting up the Boy’s Own label, which grew out of their football-and-acid-house fanzine around 1990.
Some of these tunes are seriously dated (Weatherall sure loved his bongos didn’t he?) but with a wide-eyed innocence pretty much absent from music now – of course there was a lot of idealism around in 1990, as everyone said good riddance to Thatcher and gave each other hugs.
An amusing moment, given Weatherall’s imminent shaving off of his hair and consequent descent into all things Sabresonic, is when he says he’s not into techno and the ‘heavy house scene’:
The more we think about it, the more Dads wonder why on Earth there isn’t any half-decent, reasonably intelligent music TV in the UK. There is all the backward looking archive based stuff on BBC Four, but where is the TV covering what’s happening now? Perhaps that’s rich coming from this blog. But believe it or not we like to think we are vaguely interested in current stuff, despite having a massive collection of old records and an unhealthy fascination for early 90s Youtube clips.
The received wisdom is that music TV gets poor ratings, especially cos it’s aimed at young people who supposedly don’t watch the box any more cos they’re too busy bluetoothing David Guetta ringtones to each other or watching porn.
But the BBC is meant to be public service – meaning sometimes they should just do things because they need to be done. Joolz bloody Holland playing boogie woogie over everything is doing the public a major disservice. And it’s not just the underground that is getting no coverage – the disappearance of Top Of The Pops means a lot of pop music isn’t getting archived at all on TV. I guess Youtube is filling the gap to an extent. Thank you Google.
Anyway back in 1990 there was Snub TV. They would make little intelligent pieces about things that were happening in yoof culture, interview decent bands. The funny thing is this kind of TV is very cheap to make. It looks it too. Wacky camera angles ahoy.
One of the things that really annoyed us Techno Dads back in the day was the weird BPM arms race that occurred from 1992 onwards in rave music. You actually got numpties making 300bpm gabba records, while Scotland went resolutely into happy hardcore territory. The annoying thing was a lot of the sounds were excellent, really extreme boundary-pushing angry music, especially in the Belgian and Dutch proto-gabba records. But too damned fast.
An obvious move is simply to slow all the tracks down, which is exactly what Radio Soulwax have done here. At 115 bpm the music has a bit of space for the noises to breathe in. There’s something weirdly hypnotic about watching young gabba heads dancing in slow motion at dad speed. Soulwax say that at the time they hated these kind of hoover-tastic dark rave tunes, but they have since realised the error of their ways.
If you’re wondering where that hoover noise comes from, look no further than this post..
A vacuum cleaner yesterday, sounding nothing like an Alpha Juno 2
This is Belgium Part Two: Cherry Moon On Valium from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.
Luke Slater - he's got more hair than you
Massive respect to Luke Slater for, like Richie Hawtin, having more hair now than he did in the 90s.
Appropriately enough this is one of the all time classic wind in your hair techno tunes. Perhaps Mr Slater has grown his hair so he can stand in a breeze allowing it to flow out behind him dramatically like that Scottish history bloke off the telly, while he contemplates creating this epic single he released in 1998 on Novamute.
Hats off to him for out-Detroiting Carl Craig and Mad Mike with a beautiful set of yearning chords that go on forever, mourning a lost love perhaps…for nostalgic dads, it’s one of those tunes that can be used to look fondly back on the past through rose-tinted techno specs contemplating how comparitively sane and mundane their current life is.
Luke has a current pounding new album out as Planetary Assault Systems on top techno club Berghain’s Ostgut Ton label, and he is still busily plying his beats around the globe.
Another example of the early breakbeat/jungle/reggae/rave/hiphop crossover, with a bit of wide-eyed ecstatic-idealism in the vocals, and some very dated but nice gated pads, this record from 1991 (that year again) has the distinction of containing the craziest rave MCing ever committed to vinyl.
He kicks in around the 4 minute mark after the tune drops to just bass.
Killerman Archer is his name. He is the angriest ragamuffin in history, and he just keeps getting angrier. He sounds like his head is going to explode by the end. Amazing.
The standard dance music TV appearance in 1992 involved pretending to play a keyboard in a bomber jacket while a lady in a bra threw arm shapes. The Orb took to mainstream pop music TV wearing white boiler suits, sitting beneath a laser playing chess. Classic ambient dad non-dancing.
The Blue Room came out in the long hot summer of 92. Featuring a Jah Wobble dub bassline and alien abduction schtick, it was The Orb at the height of their ambient house powers – if you saw them live around this time you know that’s true. The Blue Room was the longest single ever made – the CD release clocked in at just under 40 minutes. And somehow it never got boring.
They toured with DJ Lewis (where he now? anyone?) and their huge light show and sound system inspired more than a few religious experiences during a legendary gig at the Glasgow Barrowlands. (I was there. Incidentally I also saw them at Calton Studios in Edinburgh roughly a year before at the tail end of 1991. That was a crazy gig too).
DOWNLOAD: DADCAST 8 – ACOUSTIC DADS
Download only I’m afraid, until I sort out my hosting.
In honour of the great acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch, who died this week, we donned a cardigan and dug around in our collection for folky acoustic guitar type music.
It transpires that there’s quite a lot of good stuff there.
So as well as a couple of Bert’s most famous recordings, we have live tracks from John Fahey and Richie Havens, plus Jansch’s compadre Davy Graham; psychedelic prog folk from Roy Harper; our favourite Nick Drake tune; a bit of Ry Cooder’s Paris, Texas score (the soundtrack is the main reason why people love that film) – and because we are chronically unable to follow rules, even self-imposed ones, we finish with a truly jaw-dropping bit of harp-jazz from Alice Coltrane, followed by John Martyn’s epically somnolent Small Hours, which features an electric guitar.
AH BUT! the huge reverb you hear in that track was created by recording the sound of his amp blasting over a loch (you can even hear geese honking at points), making it one of the most resolutely acoustic effects ever committed to tape.
MORE DADCASTS
TRACKLIST
Bert Jansch – Reynardine
Richie Havens – Freedom (Live at Woodstock)
Davey Graham – She Moves Through The Fair
Roy Harper – One Man Rock and Roll Band
Nick Drake – Road
John Fahey – Funeral Song For Mississippi John Hurt (Live in Tasmania)
Bert Jansch – Angi
Davey Graham – Leaving Blues
Ry Cooder – She’s Leaving The Bank
Alice Coltrane – Journey
John Martyn – Small Hours
All filler no killer - 100% dadcore. Honesty pays no bills.
Where did it come from, that mad noise?
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Mike Ink demonstrates his excellent hair
Hudson Mohawke's dad rapping with cheerleaders outside Greggs
Mach On & On cuts out, causing an epic outbreak of dad dancing in Chicago
Rent-a-celeb mongs it up with the Mondays in 1990 New York
Nothing is more embarrassing than a dad on crack
When techno went glam
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