quoted 3 lines Are there any other recommendations from the peanut gallery that include>Are there any other recommendations from the peanut gallery that include
>good tracks from back then? I'd like to get a couple more... always the
>trainspotter me. :)
I'd better get this in before someone suggests Meat Beat Manifesto ;)
This 3 volume'er from Rhino is really great and is comprised of cuts (long)
unavailable anywhere else, vinyl or CD (The Pretty Tony tracks are worth the
price of admission alone!). If you're looking for the Detroit slant on all
this, get "The Origin of a Sound" (Submerge CD [www.msen.com/~submerge]),
which has all that Underground Resistance and Metroplex stuff, which for the
most part is still available on vinyl.
Check the sources like those on these discs so you can tell who's a lame-o
retro copycapitalist and who's a builder. Not that the economic and
philosophical underpinnings should affect your buying decisions, but I think
that listening to these CDs will give you a sense of the possibilities of
this musical style, in all it's dancefloor intent, that aren't being
realized in the tranced-out upbeat's DJ market these days.