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The Technotic Times
July, 1997
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It's 100 degrees in the shade!!!

Hello again!

It's me, Linda Leigh/L3, with the fully air-conditioned July edition of...

The TECHNOTIC TIMES!!!

Ahhhh....So it's the 'dog days of Summer' and as tempting it is to simply idle away the time and beat the heat by lounging under the gentle spray of the gardening hose, Mint Julep in hand, I must persevere on! For there are wonderful parties to experience and fabulous new music to explore.

SUMMER DOLDRUMS, NOT!
Hey! Isn't this the time of year when things are normally slow and all?

Hmph! Not this year! Jeeze, I guess cause things are 'heating up' regarding interest in electronic music, all the 'machinery' surrounding it is working overtime. Not that I mind that little bit of seasonal slowdown that usually comes around now and the Christmas/New Years holidays, cause it's a time to regroup - to clean up, catch up and clean out... I catch up with gems I may have missed, re-new friendships with some old faves and expand my artistic horizons a bit more preparing for the Fall and it's pursuant flurry of activity.

FLOOR FILLERS...
Oh Baby, and such good music is being pumped out, it's making me crazy!

Stop it!!! Only kidding. What's good right now? Lots of good house thanks to the Guidance and Classic labels...some really dancefloor friendly fodder on Jus Trax ('Pain in my Brain' OwCh!)...There's D&B aplenty of the head-nodding variety going around, and watch out for that Valve loosening up some nasty Jungly darkness..........Happy Hardcore is getting lots of votes but not a lot of play.......TechHouse is reigning high on the dancefloor for sure with lots of interesting and stomping releases!

THEN AND NOW
Hey, I read something interesting in Streetsound magazine, it was saying how the Detroit's minimal yet driving style of Techno was big right now. Well, that's pretty interesting, cause I've been leaning toward a heavily Detroit-influenced feel myself the past several months, and have just as of this past week started moving to a more weird beard trip hop versus banging mental complicated head twister sort of sound...why? Well, just before I read the Streetsound thing, I was listening to some of my old mixtapes from 93-94, and was struck by the changes in a lot of the types of music I've been choosing lately....For example, I liked to use 1 particular song at the end of my mixes that I dubbed 'the happy song', for the way it made me feel.

It was a beautiful piece of bubbly acidic trance - man! I was almost shocked to feel the difference. So many of the tunes out now are tightly fitted pieces of a puzzle, rather than individual, more 'epic' pieces as from the past years.........There are the exceptions of course, 'songs' that are easily identified by the masses, and it is these that I would imagine Mr. Big is looking for.....but it is these same pieces that may stand out too much in a certain type of set, one that is based more on that 'puzzling' journey, when the art of the Dj is to distract the dancer into a trance of letting go...this is the music of those producers who understand the art of the Dj and the culture of the dance.

IN PRINT
And speaking of magazines, well, it's 'hog heaven' now-a-days...there's the most excellent (but getting suspiciously slick) Muzik magazine, the popular and jocular Jockey Slut, and the wondrous yet still smelly-and-we-like-it Magic Feet...Yep, they're all out of the UK. In the USA, XLR8R and Retina are excellent smaller, often free, zines, and there are lots more like Massive, Skreem and Activate. Yeah, I sometimes still glance at DJ or Mixmag, but I like the attitude of the more independents!

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GET ON YER FEET!
And speaking of attitude, what gives with the no dancing attitude at parties?! Me, and lots of people like me demand to know the answer...ArGh!

It gets very frustrating.....Hey You! Even if you're there at the party for some other reason other than letting loose and having a good time dancing it up, at least TRY to bop along to the beat a bit...believe me, you'll feel better for it! ;-> We are all of us part of the vibe.

ON DISK
Congrats are due to Swim UK for signing with World Domination and good luck with the 'Water Communication' Swim sampler CD.........................Hooray 4 Hardkiss & their new deal with Sony, it's a good thing for more of you to experience the Hardkiss Sound, you'll like it!

SPACED OUT
By the way, you want some trippy visuals - I got yer trippy visuals.....curl up on a comfy thing with music of choice, a nice beverage and perhaps with yer feet up, lazily perusing a book or magazine, or even with blank paper and pen in hand, and tune in some of that space coverage stuff, especially if you get that station with 'all NASA, all the time', you'll know it when you see it, it's basically steady shots of the control center where it looks like they're all watching the paint on the walls dry.....and occasionally you can watch someone eat soup....count the times in an hour someone picks their nose!

NMS DAZE
And I still 'miss' going to New York City near the end of July for the annual New Music Seminar pilgrimage...having a blast despite the heat!

There are So many 'music conference' thingees popping up, and lots of them sound good, and I guess if you're an A&R type from a mega-bucks label and you can afford hopping around to all of them and staying over a few days and checking out the assorted talent looking for rare gems, well then that's all fine and good for you...And if you have a more narrow scope of interest, say, in Dance Music, well, you have a lot of options open....but, if you are interested in and are stimulated by the widest array of music & talent, then mourning the passing of the NMS concept is in order.

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Playlists for the month - June 18-July 16, 1997 *************************************************************************************

*Playlists are compiled from new releases & promos used for 'These Technotic times' (formerly known as 'The TYME Project) on WTSR 91.3 TCNJ and the 3 International Internet Multicast Radio programmes on Netcast's Submerge channel weekly. Both the College and the Internet programmes are broken up into 3 areas-> Techno, Funky, and Trippy. The WTSR show is broadcast on Sunday nights from 9pm to midnight, The Submerge shows are each 1 hour in length and each of the 3 are transmitted weekly as per a schedule available on the technotica.com website at times favorable to several time zones.

Techno type stuff (A.T.M.)
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V/A - DEFINE THE SONIC GROOVE 2X12 LP - SONIC GROOVE
TIVOLI TRAX - S.T. - MULTIPLEX
THE HOSTILE - AMBUSH - UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
SMOG BLANKET - CHUGGERNAUT - CLUSTER
MARCO CAROLA - COSMIC - 1000
CARL CRAIG - MORE SONGS ABOUT FOOD, ETC - PLANET E
BROMMAGE - BROMMAGE DUB - SVEK
2000 AND ONE - GALAXY CHILD - 100% PURE
SUBHEAD - WE'RE ON EIGHT - SUBHEAD
STAFFAN SODERMAN & COMATONE - COLD FUSION - ANALOG
SCHATRAXX VOL 10 2X12
RELOAD...THE THIRD BASE - V/A - RELOAD
NAPALM - 10 - NAPALM
ETERNAL TERROR - VIOLENT
DJ BIZZ & SENSORIUM - ACID BURN EP - CHEMICAL MINDED
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - THE ROTTEN REMIXES
BURGER TOM - SOAK - PARTY ROCK
BRYAN NEVER - DARK ROOMS EP - PSYCHOACTIVE
ALGORHYTHME - POSITHROB II

Trippy/Experimental/Ambient(Head-Set)
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MINDPHASEONE - A WAVE LENGTH AWAY - ULTRAMODERN
OVERSEER - HIT THE TARMAC EP - SOUNDCLASH
FINK - ORGAN GRINDER - N TONE
FIBRE - SUB AQUATIC MEMORIES - TONE CASUALTIES
T POWER - WAVEFORM - AIRBAG RECORDS
V/A - WATER COMMUNICATION - SWIM
CYLOB - DIOF 97 - REPHLEX
SCALA - SLIDE EP - TOO PURE
BOCHEM WELT - DESKTOP ROBOTICS 2X12 LP - REPHLEX
BALLET MECHANIQUE - BORRENBORGS 12 EP 2 - EEVOLUTE
KUMO - KAMINARI - AIRBAG RECORDS

Funky/Jungle/House (Bassment Beats)
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WAMBONIX - WAMBONIX EP - JUS TRAX
UNKOWN - UNKNOWN EP - AUDIO COUTURE
SOUVENIR - VARIOUS EP - DONNA LEE
POP ROCKS - PURPLE JELLY - ACID PURPLE
OUTSIDER - TRAX FOR GHETTO BLASTERS - JUS TRAX
NOTTURNO - AFTER HOURS EP - MELT
MARK GRANT - SPIRT OF THE BLACK GHOST - GUIDANCE
KID KOALA - SCRATCH HAPPY LAND - NINJA TUNE
DEPTH CHARGE - DISKO VIXEN 2X12" - DC RECORDINGS
CRAZY PENIS - THE WAY WE SWING - PAPER
WIDE RECEIVER - GET COMPLETLY CAINED - WOLF
THE SONAR CIRCLE - REINFORCED
THE RIGHTEOUS MEN - ARMS INSIDE - KIFF
SYNDICATE OF LAW - CODER FUNK - GUN RECORDS
STREETSWEEPER - R U ON THE RUN? - EYE Q
SPY-FI - CAMEL WALK - PSSSST
PRIMITIVE URGES - VOL 4 - SWAG
MR. BARTH - HIGH SOCIETY - SVEK
KEROSENE - POSITIVE EP - HARD HANDS
KEITH MANIAC & CHRIS BRANN - EXORCISM - SOUNDS
DJ APOLLO - PROPER ETIQETTE - PARTY ROCK
DILLINJA&LEMON D - VIOLENT - VALVE

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I'd like to extend my sincere Thanks for all the great feedback I've been receiving on behalf of 'The Technotic Times'! It looks like there's gonna be some real interesting things going on here, like an expanded review section and some Very Special guest contributors coming up in the future!

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Peace,

Linda Leigh/L3

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