Handbaggin!
Jan. 15th, 2003 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiI'd forgotten how much I enjoy handbag techno as background doof.
Especially for coding.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, handbag techno is the generic, StrongBad [0] style techno, with lots of bass, hihatmchicks, snare rushes, and even more predictable 8 or 16 bar dropouts that build back up (via aforementioned snare rushes and repetition of vocal samples) until they peak and go back to ... the same predicatable bass and hi-hat mchick.
If you don't know techno, it's what you think of as techno, if you do, it's the last thing you'll listen to. Cookie cutter doof. And it's great for just tuning out and cutting code. If I want to *listen* to music, then Juno, Messiah, or Utah Saints are my poison. If I want to code, then ... whatever this CD is is my poison.
but I can't for the life of me remember where I got "handbag techno" from. It's almost certainly a Lisa phrase, and therefore almost certainly a reference to Oxford St, and some memorable nights playing with the queens. Unless it's an Alex phrase, from roughly the same era, in which case it wuold be a refeence to Dome, the gay club behind Chevron. Either way, it's that trashy doof you got in gay bars in the mid-late 90s. Great stuff. Complete ear candy, but great stuff. I'm having flashbacks.
Does this revoke my goth cred?
sol.
[0] I can't seem to find a direct link. Try here, under downloads->Music . To truly appreciate the music, you need to read the email that goes with it - trawl around under Strong Bad's email.
Morgan may have a link to it somewhere on his lj, or be able to point us at the actual email.
Especially for coding.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, handbag techno is the generic, StrongBad [0] style techno, with lots of bass, hihatmchicks, snare rushes, and even more predictable 8 or 16 bar dropouts that build back up (via aforementioned snare rushes and repetition of vocal samples) until they peak and go back to ... the same predicatable bass and hi-hat mchick.
If you don't know techno, it's what you think of as techno, if you do, it's the last thing you'll listen to. Cookie cutter doof. And it's great for just tuning out and cutting code. If I want to *listen* to music, then Juno, Messiah, or Utah Saints are my poison. If I want to code, then ... whatever this CD is is my poison.
but I can't for the life of me remember where I got "handbag techno" from. It's almost certainly a Lisa phrase, and therefore almost certainly a reference to Oxford St, and some memorable nights playing with the queens. Unless it's an Alex phrase, from roughly the same era, in which case it wuold be a refeence to Dome, the gay club behind Chevron. Either way, it's that trashy doof you got in gay bars in the mid-late 90s. Great stuff. Complete ear candy, but great stuff. I'm having flashbacks.
Does this revoke my goth cred?
sol.
[0] I can't seem to find a direct link. Try here, under downloads->Music . To truly appreciate the music, you need to read the email that goes with it - trawl around under Strong Bad's email.
Morgan may have a link to it somewhere on his lj, or be able to point us at the actual email.
Ah, google.
Date: 2003-01-14 08:25 pm (UTC)70s disco influenced house; DJs: JPW, TWA.(1)
Handbag = cheesed up house with squeely vocals. (6)
Yup, pretty much what I had in mind.
Though I think I'm inclined to lump in anything that isn't actively jungle or industrial.
sol.
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The link you seek
Date: 2003-01-14 10:37 pm (UTC)Re: The link you seek
Date: 2003-01-14 11:43 pm (UTC)It's eery, but half the stuff I'm listening to at the moemnt sounds *just* like that.
Not the words, obviously, but if you sub in amorphous electronic woop noises for the words, that's this track!
Why am I doing this to my brain?
sol.
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Handbag
Date: 2003-01-15 02:38 am (UTC)Music to swing your handbag to.
The sort of shit badly dressed girls dance around their handbags to at clubs in places like the casino.
I have many cds full of this shite. I shall play some.
More handbag than handbag.
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Date: 2003-01-15 02:40 am (UTC)http://www.clubqbh.com.au/
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Date: 2003-01-15 06:02 am (UTC)Who loves you ...
Date: 2003-01-15 02:36 pm (UTC)I seem to have misplaced my CD of it, though, so I must repurchase it.
And I should poke neef about borrowing his U.S. release copy.
But yes, that Messiah.
sol.
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Re: Who loves you ...
Date: 2003-01-15 10:14 pm (UTC)Now, the scary question - got any Guru Josh?