manic pixie donkey kongWhat's that? What's in there?
I'm going to be working through as many of these as I can stomach over the next month. From my initial inspection it seems that everything is published in Canada, and I am wondering if CanCon laws apply to the contents of publications because there are a lot of nobodies on here who happen to be canadian, like this guy: https://blankcanvas-labs.ca/about
J. Falcon - A Wonderful Message (Relaxo Mix)
I think there just weren't any big acts in the genre at the time since it was so new. There aren't very many names repeated across these compilations
Now listening to this one, a hip-hop compilation. first track at least is pretty good and I recognize a few names on it
oh hey the track with that sample that goes "before makin records the hood was my savior" is on here. I recognize it from the congo natty jungle classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4GQ5H0lkc
Congo Natty Junglist
Goddamn this song is good. Soul pride is a great break I should try using it more
I'm slicker this year, I'm slicker this year
Digable Planets - 9th Wonder (Blackitolism)
This is so much better than the american pop techno of the same era that makes up most of the other tapes I got
Intense - The Doctor 🇬🇧
Oh yeah this one also rocks
1993 _ N-Trance - Solar Power
Hooooly shit dude I'm gonna play the shit out of this one
Bass Bumpers - Don't Fight The Feeling (Album Version)
oh man it's actually all hits on here. and the tape plays really well and sounds good. you certainly wouldn't tell from the case
WHAT. these guys did also did rhythm is a dancer and then CRAZY FROG??
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@Aleums thats a release from a major label (Polygram) and it appears the cassette album was produced specially for Canada..
I remember the major labels went through a big stage of jumping on the house/rave bandwagon in from late 1980s and to some extent kept on with it (although they did commercialise the sound somewhat for mainstream radio airplay)
@vfrmedia yep, all of the tapes I in the lot I got recently were produced in canada. polygram/polytel and Quality mostly. I wish I had imports, I'm sure they would be better quality overall, but there's some great stuff that made its way onto these comps anyway, if a little late. I think they're really interesting as pieces of history
@vfrmedia a lot of it is radio/pop dance hits rather than anything you would actually have heard in the clubs. that's the case with all tapes unfortunately, the format as a whole is mostly commercial music. a LOT of garbage across all genres... sifting through it isn't always the most fun. but it makes all the gems I find that much sweeter
@Aleums even in West Germany (where much early House / Eurodance is from) the scene remained more underground until mid 90s, especially in more middle class areas (which remained quite socially conservative and religious)
You might be thinking "hang on, Wall came down in 1989 and Germany reunited in 1990!" - which it *did*, but there were still many social/economic/cultural divisions (Mauer im Kopf = "wall in head") and rave subculture thrived in areas where authorities weren't as able to keep a lid on things (such as Berlin and surrounding East/West border areas)
Rave music was only really accepted in mainstream European culture *after* breweries had managed to claw back control of nightlife by encouraging drinking alcohol again rather than folk taking MDMA