I'm not quite sure where this record
fits into that goal, but this
is certainly
a record
from
those earlier years. By contemporary
standards, its a bit laughable. And, if I'm honest, even in
1999 it wasn't much
more. The key track from the EP
is Lisa Lashes' offering, Looking Good. This was a central
track from
the first wave of vinyl releases which
pushed Hard House further from the underground
and closer to
commercialism.
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| Roland - Alpha Juno 1 |
The entire EP is dominated by the
Roland Alpha Juno. Even if you know nothing about synths, by
listening to this record and reading the above sentence, you'll know
that the Alpha Juno is responsible for 'that' sound – the hoover.
Hard House had a thing for hoovers.
Starting out as a bit of harmless
fun, it
quickly became fetishised to
an morbidly sickening state. Imagine what
it might be like to watch the 28th
consecutive season
of Big Brother, for 52 hours non-stop...without sleep.
The relationship between Hard
House and hoovers is now apparent.
The irony of all
this was that most
people were already sick to death of the sound by the late 90s. The
Alpha Juno was already feeling
fatigued
from the hoovering it was forced to do on all those Rave, Happy
Hardcore and Gabba tracks before
Hard House was but a twinkle
it its parent-genre's eyes.
Ok, so I've
probably cheapened myself and
my record collection just that tiny bit by succumbing
to the sickly sweet charm of this
EP, but the innocent enthusiasm of the young 15 year old record
collector was stirred from the subconscious by the discovery of a
£1.99 near-mint
copy.
'Mon
the hoover! (As they used to say back in the day.)
Tidy Girls EP
[Tidy Trax : TIDY123T]
(1999)
Oxfam, Oxford: £1.99
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Very good.
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