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One of their best
Urban75 Album of the Year 1993
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The live album version is decent too.
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Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion Live
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Spandex
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The Justice League Of Zion - Discoverers/Discoverers pt2: Dubwise
Two albums, in Vocal and Dub versions, of electronic reggae/dub produced by and featuring vocals from Bim Sherman. On-U followers will recognise the line up: Style Scott, Skip MacDonald, Akabu, plus there's a young Talvin Singh before anyone knew who he was. Seems to be hard to find on YouTube - I was looking for the dub version of Sharks, which is amazing, but couldn't see it anywhere.
I did find the vocal and dub versions of Beyond the Barrier:
But the dub version of Madness gives a better flavour of the dub versions:
Two albums, in Vocal and Dub versions, of electronic reggae/dub produced by and featuring vocals from Bim Sherman. On-U followers will recognise the line up: Style Scott, Skip MacDonald, Akabu, plus there's a young Talvin Singh before anyone knew who he was. Seems to be hard to find on YouTube - I was looking for the dub version of Sharks, which is amazing, but couldn't see it anywhere.
I did find the vocal and dub versions of Beyond the Barrier:
But the dub version of Madness gives a better flavour of the dub versions:
Ooh, good shout. I hadn't realised that was 1993.
RainbowTown
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Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest. A glorious mix of funk, hip hop, soul and a whole lot more. And lyrically as street-smart as anything else heard in hip-hop. Brilliant album. Up there with De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising.
However, I'd also pick Bjork's Debut as well. The first flowering of her wonderful, singular creative brilliance that's just grown better and better as the years have gone by. What an artist she is. I love her.
However, I'd also pick Bjork's Debut as well. The first flowering of her wonderful, singular creative brilliance that's just grown better and better as the years have gone by. What an artist she is. I love her.
hitmouse
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Another big year for black metal, Darkthrone did Under A Funeral Moon which I'm just listening to for the first time now, apparently they reckon it's the most pure black metal album they ever did:
From a glance at the rym lists seems like it's also a big year for death metal, but I don't care about that as much.
From a glance at the rym lists seems like it's also a big year for death metal, but I don't care about that as much.
hitmouse
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On one hand, Eyehategod is an absolutely terrible name for a band; on the other hand, I reckon Take As Needed For Pain is a really good name for an album, and also on that same other hand, it's a very solid album, great nihilistic messy druggy selfhating sludge:
hitmouse
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Noted experts in making friends and influencing people Born Against released Battle Hymns of the Race War, probably the best non-Bikini Kill punk album of the year:
I heard they're a bunch of spoiled little rich kids who need to get their asses kicked.
I heard they're a bunch of spoiled little rich kids who need to get their asses kicked.
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hitmouse
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Superchunk have been on my "should probably get around to listening to them one day" list for a while, reckon I'll try forming an opinion on their album soon.
Steel Icarus
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I only liked Regret off that tbh
Steel Icarus
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Good call, some of that is brilliant. It's dated a bit and it's too long but the ambition was superb
ska invita
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loads of great hip hop albums in 93 - amazing year on that front.... Black Moon deserve highlighting
its like a mix of the smooth jazz and funk production of a Tribe album but with street tough ('hardcore') lyrics without being ott...has a few bonafide classic tunes that were huge on the scene that year (Who Got da Props, Buck Em Down, I Got Cha Opin, How Many Emcee's) ....The album is strong but its the standout tracks that really make it - very influential too
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And The Coup I only came across thanks to Urban, i think thanks to that 9/11 pre-empting album cover
.... This is the debut..... Discogs describes them as 'Communist-influenced, socially conscious hip-hop group from Oakland, California' . The beats are alright but its the lyrics that really make this
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Lords of the Underground is a great hardcore LP too
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....but...
its like a mix of the smooth jazz and funk production of a Tribe album but with street tough ('hardcore') lyrics without being ott...has a few bonafide classic tunes that were huge on the scene that year (Who Got da Props, Buck Em Down, I Got Cha Opin, How Many Emcee's) ....The album is strong but its the standout tracks that really make it - very influential too
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
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And The Coup I only came across thanks to Urban, i think thanks to that 9/11 pre-empting album cover
.... This is the debut..... Discogs describes them as 'Communist-influenced, socially conscious hip-hop group from Oakland, California' . The beats are alright but its the lyrics that really make this
The Coup - Kill My Landlord
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Lords of the Underground is a great hardcore LP too
Lords Of The Underground - Here Come The Lords
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ska invita
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But Ive just realised this is 1993
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For me and my mates this was THE album in 1993 - the hiphop album to put on and smoke to - at a gentle push its my favourite rap record of all time...sounds like hyperbole but I have it down as a masterpiece - killer east coast beats, great range of voices including a young Busta Rhymes, original flows, some deeper conceptual moments, never any cringey lyrics, above all having it, neck breaking bangers back to back to back from start to finish, i wouldnt skip a track, all in that classic 1993 big crew sound...have played it so much and it still smashes it ...
...i think coming from 93 jungle this just had an energy and highness about it that kind of matched....could be said to have cult status because it splits opinion though looking online over the years people who love it love it in a big way and it was basically slept on... probably will end up #1 on my list...if you love hiphop and dont know it its worth a try in case you do click with it...
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Leaders Of The New School - T.I.M.E. (The Inner Mind's Eye)
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...i think coming from 93 jungle this just had an energy and highness about it that kind of matched....could be said to have cult status because it splits opinion though looking online over the years people who love it love it in a big way and it was basically slept on... probably will end up #1 on my list...if you love hiphop and dont know it its worth a try in case you do click with it...
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loads of great hip hop albums in 93 - amazing year on that front.... Black Moon deserve highlighting
its like a mix of the smooth jazz and funk production of a Tribe album but with street tough ('hardcore') lyrics without being ott...has a few bonafide classic tunes that were huge on the scene that year (Who Got da Props, Buck Em Down, I Got Cha Opin, How Many Emcee's) ....The album is strong but its the standout tracks that really make it - very influential too
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
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And The Coup I only came across thanks to Urban, i think thanks to that 9/11 pre-empting album cover
.... This is the debut..... Discogs describes them as 'Communist-influenced, socially conscious hip-hop group from Oakland, California' . The beats are alright but its the lyrics that really make this
The Coup - Kill My Landlord
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Lords of the Underground is a great hardcore LP too
....but...Lords Of The Underground - Here Come The Lords
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I didn't realise Kill My Landlord was that old. Good shout.
Fez909
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Robert Hood releaed his first* album, Waveform Transmissions 2, as The Vision. I think it's a bit dated and was never really a fan, though I appreciate it as a blueprint for what was to come from him. Tresor re-released it this year, which was a surprise. I guess some people rate it more highly.
This is my favourite from it:
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*I think it's Hood's first album. The Vol 2 in the name refers to the series of albums - Jeff Mills did Volumes 1 and 3. Don't think there were any others.
This is my favourite from it:
The Vision - Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
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*I think it's Hood's first album. The Vol 2 in the name refers to the series of albums - Jeff Mills did Volumes 1 and 3. Don't think there were any others.
Fez909
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Aha, apparently Vol 1 was released this year, too. Now that's a proper album. Furious, noisey, and brilliant. A blistering, relentless sonic assault. A masterpiece.
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Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
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A few places say it was 1992 eg RYM says June '92, this DJ Mag article says 1992.
How Jeff Mills' 'Waveform Vol. 1' started a new era of techno
Released in 1992, Jeff Mills' 'Waveform Transmission Vol. 1' was forged from wrought steel, repetition, funk, and filth. Here, Ben Cardew takes a deep dive into the legacy of 'Waveform Transmission Vol. 1' to explore how the LP birthed a new vision of techno
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Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Dance music in general, and import stuff like detroit techno in particular, didn't have big official release dates like some major label act where heavily trailed records appeared on the New Release! stand at the front of every Our Price in the land on the same day. They trickled into small dance shops, tracks built reputations through club play, you found them when you found them. Because of this detroit techno records had a bit of a reputation as 'mysterious' at the time. It's no surprise that a record that was first pressed in 92 took until 93 to find its way into people's conciousness, leading to vagueness over exactly when it was released.
Steel Icarus
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Robert Hood releaed his first* album, Waveform Transmissions 2, as The Vision. I think it's a bit dated and was never really a fan, though I appreciate it as a blueprint for what was to come from him. Tresor re-released it this year, which was a surprise. I guess some people rate it more highly.
This is my favourite from it:
The Vision - Waveform Transmission Vol. 2
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*I think it's Hood's first album. The Vol 2 in the name refers to the series of albums - Jeff Mills did Volumes 1 and 3. Don't think there were any others.
I probably should check out more Robert Hood, I've got a couple of later 12 inches - well, digitally ("The Path", "Greatest Dancer") - and like them very much when I'm in the mood.
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It came out on Tresor from Germany, european label releases didn't seem as hard to come by as US imports, eg all the Belgian stuff was never a problem to obtain, maybe I was spoilt as I got my vinyl in central London record shops. It was no sleeper hit, Colins Favor & Dale played it on Kiss when was released and you couldn't go to any techno party without hearing Changes Of Life. Be interested to see why Discogs think it was 1993.
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Fez909
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Here's some favourites of mine:
And so many more.
I don't like much he's released recently - it's very well produced, but it feels like something's been lost. Same as his newer Floorplan stuff. Not really feeling it.
Minimal Nation is a classic, and a good starting point if you're going on a deep dive, and the Nighttime World releases are his most album-sounding albums, if that makes sense.
Fez909
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I listened to this a lot in the early 2000s, but haven't gone back to it for ages. Will give it another listen today. It matches the weather nicely I feel
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Guru - Jazzmatazz (Volume 1)
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Fez909
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Soichi Terada apparently released this in '93, but I only became aware of it relatively recently when Rush Hour rereleased some of his EPs and albums. It's lovely house music, that sounds old, but definitely not dated. Very playful, almost like Drexciya if they made funky house tunes. Guaranteed head bopping!
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Soichi Terada + Shinichiro Yokota - Far East Recording
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Fez909
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Detroit electro perfection from Aux 88. Nuff said.
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Aux 88 - Bass Magnetic
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Talking of electro, I noticed that the second Cybotron album came out in 1993. Had a quick listen through it last night and can't say I liked it, will give it another try though.
Can't see any Juan Atkins credits for it, seems all Rik Davis.
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Can't see any Juan Atkins credits for it, seems all Rik Davis.
Cybotron - Empathy
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