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Chapter Seven

beyond the dance

The future sound of techno, 1999–?

the record

in the order he names them

11 releases

  1. 01 rufige crukilla muffinHis debut singles on Reinforced—“Killa Muffin” and “Darkrider”—came in 1992, under the “Rufige Kru” pseudonym. single
  2. 02 rufige crudarkriderHis debut singles on Reinforced—“Killa Muffin” and “Darkrider”—came in 1992, under the “Rufige Kru” pseudonym. single
  3. 03 goldieinner city lifeCarved out of the twenty-one-minute title song “Timeless,”3 the single “Inner City Life” featured vocals by Diane Charlemagne and led the way for dozens of drum & bass/vocalist experiments. single
  4. 04 everything but the girlwalking woundedIt was the cornerstone of the alt-pop group Everything But the Girl’s evolution on their album Walking Wounded and lives on today in tracks like those from the collaborations of Nu:Tone and Natalie Williams on Hospital Records. album
  5. 05 tortoisejettyTortoise’s 1998 single “Jetty,” for example, is essentially a reworked narrative from Isotope 217’s “La Jetee.” single
  6. 06 isotope 217la jeteeTortoise’s 1998 single “Jetty,” for example, is essentially a reworked narrative from Isotope 217’s “La Jetee.” single
  7. 07 ian o’briendesert scoresWhile all of these jazz-related projects are ambitious, the most impressive still seem to be coming from studio-born projects, such as David Moufang’s loose collaboration Conjoint, all of Jonah Sharp’s work with Spacetime Continuum, and … album
  8. 08 the williams fairey brass bandacid brassA release called Acid Brass, for example, which includes techno and acid house hits from the late 1980s played by a traditional brass band, showed that that Derrick May’s classic “Strings of Life” doesn’t sound nearly as impressive on … album
  9. 09 rhythim is rhythimstrings of lifeA release called Acid Brass, for example, which includes techno and acid house hits from the late 1980s played by a traditional brass band, showed that that Derrick May’s classic “Strings of Life” doesn’t sound nearly as impressive on … single
  10. 10 robert hoodinternal empireWorking independently of one another, Bell and Hood created milestones in the so-called minimalist movement: Bell with “Losing Control” (Peacefrog)8 and Hood with his Internal Empire album (Tresor/BMG) and Minimal Nation EP (Axis) (all … album
  11. 11 robert hoodminimal nationWorking independently of one another, Bell and Hood created milestones in the so-called minimalist movement: Bell with “Losing Control” (Peacefrog)8 and Hood with his Internal Empire album (Tresor/BMG) and Minimal Nation EP (Axis) (all … album

technorebels

An unofficial reader’s listening index to Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk by Dan Sicko (Wayne State University Press, revised edition 2010).

Sicko’s book carries no discography, so every record here was found in the text itself, listed in the order he names it, each with the sentence that introduces it.

Links run YouTube searches, so they resolve in any country. Records belong to their artists and labels. Cover design and jacket artwork remain the property of their rights holders; the drawings here are original work in that idiom.

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