From: jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car)
Subject: exist dance
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:48:46 GMT


A brief history of Exist Dance

Exist Dance Records is a label from los angeles run by two guys - mike and
tom.  they started putting out records just for the hell of it and haven't
really given much thought to distribution or a masterplan, so their stuff
can be hard to come by.  shame, cos most of their stuff is absolutely
brilliant.  hard to pigeonhole as they try out every genre that tickles
their fancy at least once.

They like to play with the vinyl medium - some of the records have lock
grooves, music in the run out grooves, wide gaps in the middle of tracks
with inscriptions, etc...  it can be quite fun to take an ED release and see
what they've packed into it.

Here's a quick run down of what they've released so far:

ED001 - details are a bit sketchy cos we've only got a blue label
version.  side A has two tracks, both slow and hip hop oriented.  side
B has a remix of A1.

ED002 - Tranquility Bass
A1 - They Came In Peace
B1 - They Came In Peace (Lunar Dub)
B2 - Lucifaze
B3 - Lucid Beats

this one is amazing.  A1 is a slow, acoustic bass oriented number.  B1
is an incredible dub bass version of A1.  possibly my favorite ED
track.  B2 is also very good, and B3 is just the beat from B2.

ED003 - our copy is a white label so I don't know the track names.
A1 - a sort of generic housey piece
A2 - ambient water splashes and some documentary narrator voice
B1 - remix of A1
B2 - hard kickin track with a lot of sampled ragga shouts

ED004 - High Lonesome Sound System
A1 - We're Go (Stage 1)
A2 - We're Go (Stage 2)
A3 - We're Go (Stage 3)
B1 - Testimonial
B2 - Psychic Dreaming

The "We're Go" suite is a very long collection of tracks held together
by samples from the astronauts saying "we're go."  It starts off bassy
and hyper, gets all mellow in the middle, and kicks back in for stage
3.  The two b side tracks are more of the buzzy bass/house stuff that
ED loves.

ED005 - Eden Transmission
A1 - I'm So High
A2 - I'm So High (Ubud Mix)
B1 - Transmission: Maya
B2 - Powertrance

ED goes trance.  The two mixes on the a-side are run together for
a continuous non stop brain melting trance.  The song uses pulsating
bass, star trek transporter sounds and a woman gasping "i'm so high".
Incredible.  I don't care for the Ubud mix which has too much melody.
I prefer the single note attack of the first mix.  The b side tracks
are more fine trance workout although nothing can top the godlike A
side.

ED006 - Odyssey 2000
A1 - The Odyssey (Nebula Mix)
A2 - The Odyssey (Terra Firma Mix)
B1 - Hop on Pop
B2 - Hop on Pop (dub)

The first ED track not by Tom & Mike.  Unfortunately, it's not as good as
their stuff, being rather more straightforward harder (but fortunately not
hardcore) techno.  The A side uses buzzy bass and battlestar galactica cylon
voices, the B side just uses buzzy bass.  Not bad, not great.

ED007 - Voodoo Transmission
A1 - Voodoo Fire
A2 - Crazy Jane
B1 - Sword Of Blue Flame Over America
B2 - Sword Of Blue Flame Over Islam

A1 is incredible!  Imagine Kraftwerk with tribal beats and brain
ripping bass.  Sorta like detroit techno gone to the UK on holiday
and come back with pectoral implants.  Or something.  Features a
pounding energy building tribal break that will turn your dancefloor
into a screaming pile of twisted human wreckage.  A2 is sort of a
remix of A1 with some random female vocalizings over the top - not as
good.  B2 and B2 are an interesting tribal techno take but they pale
in comparison to A1.

ED008 - High Lonesome Sound System
A1 - Waiting for the Lights
A2 - Waiting for the Lights (Mandalay Mix)
B1 - Waiting for the Lights (Thai Mix)
B2 - Waiting for Champion Sound

A1 and A2 are rather standard housey techno tracks.  B1 mixes it up
into a more appealing package, with more detailed percussion.  B2
throws in the ragga guy from ED003.

ED009 will be out sometime soon.  They've completed the track and
they're just waiting for some more money to come in so they can press
it.  A remix of it will be featured on issue 10 of Twitch...

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Jon Drukman (God's personal DJ)                 uunet!sco!jondr   jondr@sco.com
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