Who here was running a microhouse club?

[V Knid esq]

I seem to remember one of the Scottish contingent saying they were running a glitch-house clubnight... I'm trying to put together a feature for my zine about supposedly 'abstract' or 'weird' music being played in a proper rave environment, you see...

[lucid rinehead]

i think optimo have a glitchy offshoot thing, i can't remember properly but i think it was a one off that they were thinking of making a regular thing. try optimo (http://www.optimo.co.uk/)

[Dialect]

I did see a listing for a clubnight I think in London, doing MicroHouse, or clicks and cuts type stuff. It might have been in 7mag the little A5 one thats out now.

Pretty sure of that, because I thought that it was quite mad that someone was doing that.

[bitch one]

i think you may a certain pair of midgets from the east also are guilty of inflicting this stuff on the freaks in the test wheelchair lounge, with perhaps increasingly regular forays into the main dancefloor environment. in glasgow the bitches and twitch from optimo have both been into playing this stuff since its inception - hence twitch has been our guest for bitches nights twice now.

media interest appears to be growing now perhaps. i don't know cos i can't read.

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[bitch one]

oh yeah, ps

the optimo thing was called 'optimo eglitchio'

akufen played live at optimo the other week, it was very good.

we also were doing an edinburgh night called ahem , ACHTUNG HANDBAG. we may resurrect it sometime if we find a venue.

[V Knid esq]

Thanks all... I don't think it's such a peculiar thing to be playing in clubs - most "microhouse" seems to feature some pretty hefty sub-bass a la early WARP, and my experiments with mixing it in with garage and afro-house seem to manage to appeal to drugmonkeys most of the time.

[bitch one]

if we're talkin about perlon, don't really like the term microhouse myself, i think it's misleading - a lot of the stuff sounds pretty damned macro to me. pantytec especially. i prefer to call it wonky house. or crack h666se. twitch calls it whore house.

the funny thing is, because most househeads are used to house being bland and uninteresting i have a feeling they wouldn't even recognise this as house at all - they would call it techno. who cares what it's called? not me. oh i spose you do knid, you're writing about it, guess you have to call it something eh?

[V Knid esq]

well... I prefer not to have to rely on one term, so the more the merrier...

[bitch one]

ps what the fuck's afrohouse?

[lucid rinehead]

afroart etc?

[V Knid esq]

I don't know if it's a recognised genre, but I mean stuff like MAW remix of Femi Kuti, Afro-Mystik, Frederic Galliano, the things Ron Trent has done recently... deep house with live instruments and african influences... I love to mix v. organic / acoustic stuff with ultra-synthetic... Would like to hear these sort of artists remix each other e.g. Pantytec mixing Blaze and vicey versey...

On a tangent, has anyone heard an album called "Anti-NY"? I picked up a sampler 12" in a junk shop and it sounds amazing - weird punky proto-hip-hop from c.1980, involving people like Ramellzee, Jim Jarmusch, Basquiat etc; some original tracks and some remixed by modern glitchy people like Funkstorung etc...

[garrison76]

knid,
you should check out the 'disco not disco' compilations 1+2 for a similar sound to the ny thing you mentioned, i think it'd be up yr alley.

as for djs who mix the organic w/detroit, i saw recloose in sf a while back and he did a nice job. ron trent is dope too, mixing classic prescription w/basic channel. can't forget joe claussel.

d

[jamyna]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
I love to mix v. organic / acoustic stuff with ultra-synthetic...

In which case, please come and check out our live act!
I'll post some dates for the Spynaworkshop gigs coming up....