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Hey Everybody -

I've been using Live for a while and browsing the forums but never posted. Anyways - I love four on the floor house music and I've been trying to make some (highly amateur) lately, but I really don't know much about it. I want to know/hear more - SO, what's your favorite electronic music with a four on the floor beat?

PS - I've been listening to Vitalic, "OK Cowboy" a lot. It rules. Can I get a witness??????

"In the beginning there was Jack
Jack Had a groove and that groove was House
One day Jack shouted "Let there be House"
And house music was born "

My suggestion is you go back as in way back to the death of disco.
Take a good look at what was being played in underground black night clubs and the underground gay scene of NewYork and Chicago and work your way up.
If you don't you'll be kicking yourself at how many great tracks you'll miss out on.
Marshall Jefferson , Steve Silk Hurley , DJPierre etc ....actually I could go on forever here .
The UK connection where house was more mainstream in popularity etc.
Too many artists to list myself but some of the best NightClubing years of my life where between 85 and 94.
I still feel the soulful and uplifting vibe of house is still best found in the majority of oldskool material (not always but as a rule of thumb).
Though Todd Terry can still weave the odd subliminal piece of magic every now and then.
Not up on alot of modern house or club music anymore though.
I could however list a swag of tracks that still put a smile on my face too this day.
Infact so many of them bring back great memories and the faces of people who have since past away , laughter, tears, joy and dispair.
It was quite literally the soundtrack to the best and the worst years of my life all at the same time.
Sorry can't think about it without getting sentimental or a tad emotional .
That said learn your history and work your way up too present day.
You'd be amazed at how out there alot of this shit was for the late 80's.
Especially when compared to mainstream radio.
It really was something that sounded and felt totally new.
It was equal parts euphoric and exhillerating also (I never got into the whole "E" thing myself) - didn't need to I always found the music was enough to take me there.
Maybe it was the enthusiasm of youth .... too this day I haven't heard tunes that can still move me like they used too (and still do when I hear them).
Bit hard to verbalise but good house like good techno is the proverbial shit.
It transcends everyday life's mundanity in so many ways.

FaX-01 wrote:"In the beginning there was Jack
Jack Had a groove and that groove was House
One day Jack shouted "Let there be House"
And house music was born "

My suggestion is you go back as in way back to the death of disco.
Take a good look at what was being played in underground black night clubs and the underground gay scene of NewYork and Chicago and work your way up.
If you don't you'll be kicking yourself at how many great tracks you'll miss out on.
Marshall Jefferson , Steve Silk Hurley , DJPierre etc ....actually I could go on forever here .
The UK connection where house was more mainstream in popularity etc.
Too many artists to list myself but some of the best NightClubing years of my life where between 85 and 94.
I still feel the soulful and uplifting vibe of house is still best found in the majority of oldskool material (not always but as a rule of thumb).
Though Todd Terry can still weave the odd subliminal piece of magic every now and then.
Not up on alot of modern house or club music anymore though.
I could however list a swag of tracks that still put a smile on my face too this day.
Infact so many of them bring back great memories and the faces of people who have since past away , laughter, tears, joy and dispair.
It was quite literally the soundtrack to the best and the worst years of my life all at the same time.
Sorry can't think about it without getting sentimental or a tad emotional .
That said learn your history and work your way up too present day.
You'd be amazed at how out there alot of this shit was for the late 80's.
Especially when compared to mainstream radio.
It really was something that sounded and felt totally new.
It was equal parts euphoric and exhillerating also (I never got into the whole "E" thing myself) - didn't need to I always found the music was enough to take me there.
Maybe it was the enthusiasm of youth .... too this day I haven't heard tunes that can still move me like they used too (and still do when I hear them).
Bit hard to verbalise but good house like good techno is the proverbial shit.
It transcends everyday life's mundanity in so many ways.

wow.. great answer!

Fax-01 what an answer that just about sums it up. There are some later and modern house goings-on that are still worth checking out. I always felt that in that mid-90s clubby-druggy-breakbeat house sound, Deee-lite dropped the biggest most infectious bomb these ears have ever heard, probably what got me really really into house -- "Dewdrops In the Garden" not as much pop impact as "World Clique" but for some reason very very timely, really fused w/ my experiences then. Today some artists are still going strong - MAW, Freaks, Derrick Carter, ... MAW is a big big deal, memories ... but, yeah, hard to really say the current house output is as bold as the earlier tracks. Some really advanced sounding stuff today, though, with technology really making its influence ... Luomo, Isolee ...

FaX-01 wrote:"In the beginning there was Jack
Jack Had a groove and that groove was House
One day Jack shouted "Let there be House"
And house music was born "

WORD!
great post yo.
I was at a buddy's place tonight listening to an ancient mixtape
with some nice Relief Records kinda stuff on it....
I'll never get sick of that oldschool sound.
Hot For You, Can You Party, House Nation, Break 4 Love,
Can't Stop, Hideaway....etc, ad nauseum
House Music Will Never Die!
at least not for us nostalgic Old Fool fuckers

I recommend to listen to all of Matthew Herbert's incarnations: Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radioboy, and Matthew Herbert.

Some great new House comes from Farben, Akufen

FORMAT wrote:I recommend to listen to all of Matthew Herbert's incarnations: Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radioboy, and Matthew Herbert.

Some great new House comes from Farben, Akufen

i love the minimal house sound of today !! not quite house but 100%

check out cabanne and dan bell!!
poker flat, perlon, trapez could go on forever

cant forget DETROIT with the old school house as well! lots of timeless jams out there

mike holiday wrote:

FORMAT wrote:I recommend to listen to all of Matthew Herbert's incarnations: Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, Radioboy, and Matthew Herbert.

Some great new House comes from Farben, Akufen

i love the minimal house sound of today !! not quite house but 100%

check out cabanne and dan bell!!
poker flat, perlon, trapez could go on forever

cant forget DETROIT with the old school house as well! lots of timeless jams out there

and clicky stuff on Mille Plateaux