discoredia New Member
United Kingdom
71 posts Joined: Nov, 2008
Posted - 2009/11/24 : 13:32:33
If we are talking about P.A's from back in the day how about Neurotek? DJ Excel and MC Attack never failed to get the crowd going. The Bass Generator / Technotrance PA was also a personal favourite.
Best P.A? my vote would go to Human Resource who had the most ridiculous bass when playing Dominator the whole room seemed to be shaking.
And the strangest... That was a guy called The Wizard who "played" a Judgement Day. Basically this was like a live flourescent puppet show with Sven Vath style trance playing in the background. No one had a clue what to make of it to be honest.
Vitalism Advanced Member
Canada
1,707 posts Joined: Oct, 2005
Posted - 2009/11/24 : 19:30:06
i thought you were talking about the rave act - some kind of legislation the US proposed in order to make raves history basically.
ferocious New Member
United Kingdom
74 posts Joined: Nov, 2005
Posted - 2009/11/29 : 14:45:11
Re: PAs. The English scene really stopped the PAs into 1993 due to changing to darkness (darkcore) music where it was all about the underground perception. The music was supposed to be made by faceless people. Didn't fit into what they were doing.
Whereas the Scots had their own separate thing with PAs as headline attractions. You had to have a PA. The scene was band orientated and not DJ. Plus bringing in many imported PAs who would not normally PAs. Human Resource had been over literally dozens of times.
Of course Scooter was just an Ultra-Sonic tribute act. (Scooter also did not PA in England back then simply as that fast 4/4 music was not liked. People have to understand this. They only played in Scotland and Ireland.)
IMO if anything the direction of a DJ playing his own stuff / own label was by Scott Brown since he started out. But he had so many releases and a giant name, that there was little need to promote anyone else's stuff, so entirely blameless.
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Coming from Shoop! land, yes it was called bouncy techno. Any Scott Brown or Bass Generator interviews will likely have it, as does the old Energy Flash music style book. But was also called 'techno' (early days only) or more so 'hardcore' (across the board) too. eg: Brown's self-titled 'The Hardcore Anthem' is that style.
The term happy hardcore came about as the Dutch called it that (a happier version of *their* own hardcore) and the Scots then re-applied it. eg: Brown was known as the "King of Happy Hardcore" in Netherlands for his sound / amount of work and in just a massive name.
The south English stuff, which was piano jungle at that time, was contained to really parts of SE England and Midlands. Wasn't until some of them went 'all Scott Brown' did they have growth, hence they went that direction to start with. But that change also created various splits (Luna C).
Posted - 2009/11/29 : 20:33:07
Live acts? Well Leviathan's still doing his oldschool with some speedy gabberlike stuff while people in robotsuits give you something to look at :)
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