New Track

[River Don]

Another foray into electronic dance music.

Listen to The Rule.m4a by Neue Haus on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/1zAVpfQpvGJyWYsu9

What do yer reckon?

[GazLaz]

Nice. Different from the last one you did if the memory serves me correctly. I like the bounce. I’d like to hear it speeded up actually. It would have a bit of a “Scouse House” vibe then if that means anything to you.

[River Don]

No, nothing to do with Scouse house.

The idea was what would’ve happened if back in the day, Warp records of Sheffield had continued to release dance floor oriented music instead of moving to pure electronics listening music.

In the Warp shop they had become dismayed with the faster and faster rave scene which was blowing up. It had become less about the music and frankly more about ecstasy.

I basically tried to take a Warp style bass line (UK dance music has always been about heavy baselines and really it started in Leeds and Sheffield with the dub sound systems being mixed with the Chicago and Detroit sound)

So I dumped some RnB chords on it and came up with this. Producers in Detroit and Chicago tend to go back to jazz and blues harmony (probably the influence of the black churches) They tend to produce stuff very different to what comes out in a Europe. People like Carl Craig, Theo Parrish and Moody Man. I tend to prefer it.

What I’m missing a bit is an industrial edge like the early Warp records that was also there. The influence of Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire and Human league. That can still be heard in places like Hyperdub records in London. Check out Burial for instance.

Anyway. It’s all thought about... or it could just be a product of me trying to understand music theory better.

[River Don]

Heh,

I noticed I'm being followed on SoundCloud by a Parisian DJ collective. I suppose this means there is a slight chance it could get a play in one of their venues.

It never occurred to me before that DJs rather than digging through crates of records in shops, obviously are scouring music sites.