ok time to pick out albums from any artist that maybe is not very well known or hasnt had a good history of making good music, but they did have that one "cool" record.



Ill start...





Quarashi- "Jinx"



From what I know they are an Icelandic group and recently have broken up. There sound is a mixture of Beastive Boys and Oveerseer. Great party music and loaded with big beat jems that are just waiting to be mixed into a set. From what ive read through Wikipedia, they've had 6 total releases, one ("Jinx", the only ablum of them ive heard) that was released by an american label.



Noteable Tracks on "Jinx":



- Stick Em' Up (i think this one made it on alot of american comercials)

- Mr. Jinx

- Transparent Parents

- Xeneizes

- Fuck You Puto

Good thread.





Copyright - The Hidden World



Ostensible concept album about the highs and lows of heroin and coke addiction in Vancouver's downtown/docks. By a band who suffered the highs and lows of heroin and coke addiction in Vancouver's downtown/docks. Really should be made into a musical, I figure.



Opening half of the album features fantastic rockers with a slight psychedelic tinge. The latter half gets melodramatic and operatic. Hit single 'Rock Machine' mixed hard-alt-rock with electronics and strong vocals. 'Juliet' is bonechilling and made my 101 songs you need to hear list.



Band begun as Circle C in the early 90s and were signed by Geffen to be the next big thing. Released a hit underground record before letting drugs get the best of them. Got clean, renamed themselves and released this album before splitting up for good. Members were also associated with many other bands in the early-90's VanCity scene.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Good thread.





Copyright - The Hidden World



Ostensible concept album about the highs and lows of heroin and coke addiction in Vancouver's downtown/docks. By a band who suffered the highs and lows of heroin and coke addiction in Vancouver's downtown/docks. Really should be made into a musical, I figure.



Opening half of the album features fantastic rockers with a slight psychedelic tinge. The latter half gets melodramatic and operatic. Hit single 'Rock Machine' mixed hard-alt-rock with electronics and strong vocals. 'Juliet' is bonechilling and made my 101 songs you need to hear list.



Band begun as Circle C in the early 90s and were signed by Geffen to be the next big thing. Released a hit underground record before letting drugs get the best of them. Got clean, renamed themselves and released this album before splitting up for good. Members were also associated with many other bands in the early-90's VanCity scene.

cool, im gonna have to check this out. From your description it almost sounds like, another canadian group, "the arcade fire"....or am I off on that one?

Bosco Escribi�:

cool, im gonna have to check this out. From your description it almost sounds like, another canadian group, "the arcade fire"....or am I off on that one?

Very, very different in sound, but almost as good, in their own way.

Two Lone Swordsmen- From the Double Gone Chapel

SCSI-9- The Line of Nine

This is a tough one for me, but I have a couple.



The Golden Palominos "Pure" is a really great album, beautiful and relaxed and sprinkled with a bit o' trip hoppy beats and thick bass... this thread inspired me to pull this off the shelf and dust it off. This was in the throw-away promo bin at Tower a number of years ago. The woman's vocals are so clear, with a pureness about them. The opening track, Little Suicides, is lovely and stand out track Anything is quite smooth and seductive and there's a couple of whispery tracks that are sexy.



Another good one I've enjoyed is Happyhead's "Give Happyhead" - it's a fun little project from the ex-Shriekback. Think acid house and Madchester. This album's loads of fun, it is what is is. Fabulous is a fuckin great tune complete with Madchester type piano riff. Nice.



There's an album by a band called One Dove. They released only one album, Morning Dove White, and it was one of my favorites on 1993. I went through 2 cassette tapes, both having melted in my tape deck in my car and I cannot find a replacement cd anywhere except online. Anyway. I haven't heard it in years and would love to give this a listen again. A lovely trivia tidbit - this was produced by Andrew Weatherall, so yeah. It's good. Think Massive Attack and maybe a little Sneakerpimps with a sprinkling of Cocteau Twins. I need to get this album again, I really do.



And that's 3 right off the top of my head.

TheFlamingDead_ Escribi�:

Two Lone Swordsmen- From the Double Gone Chapel

SCSI-9- The Line of Nine

I know youve mentioned this album before, they're a Russian group, right? Gonna have to check it out

whirlygirl Escribi�:

This is a tough one for me, but I have a couple.



The Golden Palominos "Pure" is a really great album, beautiful and relaxed and sprinkled with a bit o' trip hoppy beats and thick bass... this thread inspired me to pull this off the shelf and dust it off. This was in the throw-away promo bin at Tower a number of years ago. The woman's vocals are so clear, with a pureness about them. The opening track, Little Suicides, is lovely and stand out track Anything is quite smooth and seductive and there's a couple of whispery tracks that are sexy.



Another good one I've enjoyed is Happyhead's "Give Happyhead" - it's a fun little project from the ex-Shriekback. Think acid house and Madchester. This album's loads of fun, it is what is is. Fabulous is a fuckin great tune complete with Madchester type piano riff. Nice.



There's an album by a band called One Dove. They released only one album, Morning Dove White, and it was one of my favorites on 1993. I went through 2 cassette tapes, both having melted in my tape deck in my car and I cannot find a replacement cd anywhere except online. Anyway. I haven't heard it in years and would love to give this a listen again. A lovely trivia tidbit - this was produced by Andrew Weatherall, so yeah. It's good. Think Massive Attack and maybe a little Sneakerpimps with a sprinkling of Cocteau Twins. I need to get this album again, I really do.



And that's 3 right off the top of my head.

oh nice 8) , i love slow and groovy (trip hop) sounding albums, gonna have to put them on my list, thanks!

Josh Abrahams - Sweet Distorted Holiday



In my opinion, this album is on par with the big beat Chems and Fatboy Slim albums of the same era (Dig Your Own Hole/Surrender and We've Come a Long Way/Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars). Worked perfectly as an album from start to finish, covers a huge amount of musical ground, funky as all hell and highly original throughout. Unfortunately I lost the CD and haven't been able to find it anywhere since. Anyone who's into the mid to late 90's Chems, Fatboy, Underworld, Prodigy etc. will love this album.



And yes, it's the same Josh Abrahams that did the production for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack :? It's a shame he went in that direction, although he did it extremely well.

The Wiseguys - Executive Suite (1996)

The Wiseguys - The Antidote (1998)



damn u Touch�/� or whoever u are

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Nirvana - Nevermind

Leftfield - Leftism

Radiohead - OK Computer

The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation

Daft Punk - Homework

Leftfield and Prodigy forgotten - damn :/



My personal selection is Fluke - Six Wheels on My Wagon. Such a great album it doesn't deserve to be consigned to the rubbish bin of history!

Martin2006 Escribi�:

Leftfield and Prodigy forgotten - damn :/



My personal selection is Fluke - Six Wheels on My Wagon. Such a great album it doesn't deserve to be consigned to the rubbish bin of history!

You got that 2 disc of 2 bit pie?



Got the single disc version, need the 2 disc for my Fluke collection.

Slipvin Escribi�:

Nirvana - Nevermind

Radiohead - OK Computer

eh, don't really see those two forgotten ever

Bosco Escribi�:

TheFlamingDead_ Escribi�:

Two Lone Swordsmen- From the Double Gone Chapel

SCSI-9- The Line of Nine

I know youve mentioned this album before, they're a Russian group, right? Gonna have to check it out

Yeah, they might be a bit hard to get into. I dunno. Minimal tech-house, whatever floats your boat. I happen to love it, but I'm not sure everyone will.

2 Disc version of 2 Bit Pie album is on Ebay atm:

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...:MEWA:IT&ih=005



Go get it Slipvin!

I would have said Experience instead of MFJG.



Six Wheels on My Wagon, they might have done that because it's an "older" sound.





I would say Les Rythmes Digitales - Darkdancer, just because it's a great album, but that's the only thing he has released and I think that it has already been forgotten.

I found that Darkdancer didn't really stand up to multiple plays - just too loopy and the samples get a bit irritating - still good fun on occasion though.