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hugopal cubic 22 - night in motion.
Ravesignal 3 - Horsepower.
Praga Khan - Injected with a Poison.

      [deleted] Absolutely, everyone stopped making it after around 2001, and quickly jumped ship to tech house and mnml when they realised they were just making [paul van dyk without breakdowns.

      Everyone stopped making disco at the start of the 80s, doesn’t mean it had “failed” either.

      Tech house and minimal also both died much quicker than prog had when people realised they were just making dull music.

      “Paul van Dyk without breakdowns” isn’t really a diss either, PvD had some excellent moments in the 90s. Long breakdowns also get in the way of dancing, while supposedly you are claiming to be an advocate of ‘dance’ music.

      [deleted] The Dutch and German cheese merchants had more integrity in this regard than the south coast numpties.

      The Dutch and German cheese merchants briefly jumped on the electroclash fad as well, before mostly abandoning any kind of dancefloor sensibility in the pursuit of pop crossovers / radio play, together with generic stadium filler. Don’t see how that has any more to do with “integrity”.

            I haven’t listened to any of them but i imagine some of those garage videos to be real treats for the ears

              seanc80 lol at you giving them the time of day. I see Dave or Alistair post a YT music clip, I S to the werve, big time.

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                mike ink and walker - Church of the Poisoned Mind

                which is obvs a reference to this.

                [deleted] that Praga Khan track is cheese.

                Ravesignal 3 is good but sounds both the most ‘techno’ and the least ‘pop’ of the lot.

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                    hugopal

                    Everyone stopped making disco at the start of the 80s, doesn’t mean it had “failed” either.

                    No they didn’t.

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                      hugopal

                      The Dutch and German cheese merchants briefly jumped on the electroclash fad as well, before mostly abandoning any kind of dancefloor sensibility in the pursuit of pop crossovers / radio play, together with generic stadium filler. Don’t see how that has any more to do with “integrity”.

                      Exactly! thanks for proving my point. They were pop, and logically followed the path they embarked on.

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                          hugopal

                          “Paul van Dyk without breakdowns” isn’t really a diss either, PvD had some excellent moments in the 90s.

                          No he didn’t, music strictly for EDL goons. But still preferable to centrist long kesh stronger prog house types because he was at least honest.

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                              hugopal

                              Tech house and minimal also both died much quicker than prog had when people realised they were just making dull music.

                              Is that why Digweed still plays kompakt, Pig and Dan, etc whilst he will never play all the Armin Van Buuren and Transa Dross he was playing in ’97? Great argument my main man!

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                                  hugopal

                                  Ravesignal 3 is good but sounds both the most ‘techno’ and the least ‘pop’ of the lot.

                                  well, it got played on daytime radio, along with quadrophenia.

                                  The same can’t be said for West on 27th.

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                                      Along_the_Wire it’s ok boss, I have your divorce nicely arranged. You’ll soon be a contented man, suffering much less from old man butthurt syndrome. Just give it a week.

                                          alistair

                                          Would have been an interesting remix, I’m sure, but sadly not.

                                            [deleted] Exactly! thanks for proving my point. They were pop, and logically followed the path they embarked on.

                                            How were they pop? They certainly didn’t start out making pop.

                                            How is Armin ‘Virgo’ pop?!?!

                                            Also, how is this pop?!

                                            ‘For An Angel’ was also an 8 minute long, basically instrumental club track which was a hit because it was a cracking tune, not because it was wanting to be pop music.