Conspiracy Of Noise - Chicks With Dicks And Splatter Flicks (1993 Creation)

...and finally the Conspiracy Of Noise. I clearly remember that when i first played Chicks With Dicks And Splatter Flicks promo, i thought the disc was mispressed. Get it if you wonder why, because in case of this album, why seems to be the crucial question.

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Love Corporation - Intelligentsia (1994 Creation)

Three years after the hit single Gimme Some Love Ed Ball released the second and last album of his dancefloor-oriented project Love Corporation. Intelligentsia is much more complex than the first album Lovers, from jazzy intro/outro Translucent / Translucence to the single Cathedrals Of Glitter (shameless but groovy The X Files theme pastiche). Fans of mid-90's electronica won't be disappointed.

Request: There's also extremely rare remix collection Dance Stance. I used to have it but now i can't find it, so please, if you got it, share it. Thanks!

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Teenage Filmstars - Star (1992 Creation)

It's really hard to take the first Teenage Filmstars album seriously. Most of all it's a reflexive response to the flood of Creation Records' notorious shoegazer acts like My Bloody Valentine and The Telescopes. Take a crazy psychedelic trip on heavily effected guitars flavoured with some nice ambient textures and lush vocals. It's the artisan nature of Mr. Ball that brought us an instant MBV album. Just add water.

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The Times - Alternative Commercial Crossover (1993 Creation)

In their 12 years history The Times released more than dozen indie guitar pop oriented albums. Alternative Commercial Crossover is diferent. The influence of relatively successful rave project Love Corporation is audible in many tracks including Lundi Bleu (a cover version of New Order's Blue Monday; here remixed by The Grid) and Finnegan's Break (featuring raggamuffin Tippa Irie). Other memorable moments are Baby Girl (which seems to be a dub version of Scritti Politti's The Sweetest Girl, the original version is available here) and How Honest Are Pearl Jam?

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E is for Edward

The best indie label ever, Andy McGhee's Creation Records, hosted some of the oddest personae of the UK indie scene including Bill Drummond, Nikki Sudden and Momus, to name a few. No wonder it was also a home to many projects created (and then destroyed) by Edward Ball, the man who helped Patrick McGoohan escape. In the following posts we will take a short trip through long career of this true indie enfant terrible, We will explore The Times' last album, then lift off mit der Teenage Filmstars, later we'll join The Love Corporation and in the end we'll deconspire the Conspiracy Of Noise, if i'll have the guts to listen to their album once more.

VA Soma 00:50 (1996 Soma Quality Recordings)

Glasgow's Soma Quality Recordings (founded in 1991) is one of the lonest-running techno labels with great roster including acts like Funk D'Void or Slam. This compilation is their 50th release from 1996 and contains all kinds of electronic music from flat beat techno to trip hop.

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VA Beyond The Machines (1993 Infonet)

The Infonet label saga continues with first real label compilation showcasing what used to be called ambient techno back then. Contains some real killers like Sulphuric's Better Come Together and two tracks from Infonet's best known artists Bandulu (today known as Space DJz). This is INF002.

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VA Dub House Disco 2000 (1993 Guerilla)

Volume 2 of three classic compilations released on William Orbit's famous Guerilla label packed in fancy cover by tDR™. Twelve dancefloor fillers including The Drum Club remixed by Orbital, React 2 Rhythm remixed by Justin Robertson, and Spooky remixed by Underworld.

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Coldcut - Timber Remixes EP2 (1998 Ninja Tune)

Second remix EP of Timber includes original version and remixes by As One (Kirk Degiorgio), Bundy K. Brown, Journeyman and swedish Lucky People Center. Also included is the video by artisan guerilla Hexstatic and you can download it in the same pack as the EP1 videos.

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Coldcut - Timber Remixes EP1 (1998 Ninja Tune)

Timber comes from 1998 Ninja Tune album Let Us Play; the first Coldcut release after some 5 years (not mentioning their alter ego DJ Food). This EP includes five versions including remixes by drum and bass enfant terrible Clifford Gilberto and swedish producer Jonah Quant plus two versions of great cut-and-paste videoclip. I ripped the videos separately and you can download them in the original file format.

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Coldcut - Dreamer CDS (1993)

This housey single comes from the forgotten album Philosophy released on Arista and later also on Coldcut's own label Ninja Tune. Perhaps the only memorable track from this pre-Ninja era is Sign which found it's way to many trip hop compilations.

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VA 313 Detroit (1992 Infonet)

Infonet was short-lived techno/trance sub-label of Creation Records. Although it is best known for releses by Reload, Bandulu and other UK acts, this compilation covers the Detroit techno scene of 1992 and contains many great and otherwise unreleased tracks by Kenny Larkin, Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes and many others (full tracklist here). For record collectors: this is INF001 and i will post most of the Infonet CDs soon.

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VA Ethnotechno - Sonic Anthropology Volume I (1994 Wax Trax!)

Wax Trax! was Chicago based company best known for electronic/industrial acts like Ministry. Ethnotechno seems to be their attempt to jump the rave train and introduce a bunch of mostly european techno/trance projects into the hungry US market. Contains 11 cool tracks (tracklist here) plus great tDR™ cover.

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VA Datura Stramonium - The State of E-Motion (1995 EFA Medien Promo)

The State of E-Motion was a serie of in-store play compilations released by distribution company EFA during the 90's. As usual it contains material from EFA-distributed labels including Word Sound, Beyond, Source, Different Drummer, Mille Plateaux, Tresor, Disco B and many others. The tracklist is huge and you can check it here. I think it was the last volume containing full tracks, the follow-ups were just blended 2-minute snipets.

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A Reminiscent Drive - Given EP (1997 F-Communication)

The third blue EP for today is one of four EP's by great french electronic solitaire Jay Alanski AKA A Reminiscent Drive. The serie was released as a prequel to his debut album Mercy Street on Laurent Garnier's label F-Communication in 1997. I think i'm going to find this labum and post it sometimes soon because it's one of the the best electronic albums of the 90's.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Prayer & Salvation Remix EP (1998 Ninja Tune)

Second remix EP of Sakamoto's 1998 album Discord contains reworks by Ashley Beedle, The Cinematic Orchestra's J Swinscoe, Fink, Pan Sonic, Andrea Parker and Oval.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - Anger & Grief Remix EP (1998 Ninja Tune)

Neoclassical experimentator and former japanese electropop star Ryuichi Sakamoto meets London record label Ninja Tune. Contains remixes by Amon Tobin, Talvin Singh, Chocolate Weasel and others.

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