opinions on Bad Co?

[Macc]

BC = FAIL

hmmm....

never a huge fan - although i've picked up a few bits and pieces over the years (mainly for nostalgic purposes, because i used to hang out with this english guy who absolutely battered every single BC / RAM / Virus / Hardware tune at the time... )

about the only bad company 12" i ever liked enough to actually buy and still regularly dig out is the one they had on dsci4 "coma" / "spraycan" - really unusual bleepy dubby minimal thing, with a really "techno" arrangement to it - ten years on and it hasn't aged a day imo, and much as "the nine" sounded like a party in a can at the time you can't say the same about it now....

as an aside note, in te brief period when i was mc-ing quite regularly at this wee jumpup night i used to physically cringe every single bloody time some dj would try and tease "the nine" in and double-drop it with something... that's a lot of cringing...

The Nine and The Pulse played a major role in getting me into dnb. I think I have everything they did as BC (or daft logo) up to Shot Down on Safari which i didn't bother with. Don't play much of it now tbh, but like Tyranny i'd say Coma & Spraycan probably get played most regularly these days. BC will always have a place in my heart though! Did Aisle 13 ever get released?

They were brilliant for a point in time.
Not the type of D&B I love, but I did really enjoy many tunes.
Flashback
The Pulse
Mass Hysteria (probably my fave BC track, works so well with Valley Of The Shadows)

etc etc

Shame they had a 1000 clones, and everything went dark, formuliac, and then they broke the mode by doing tunes like Snowcats.

Although The Hornet is a good tune, there, I said it.

Hmmmm Bad Company?

I guess i do like them but i don't think there as amazing as alot of folk make out.

Colonies FTW on INside the Machine - the rest of which leaves me pretty cold.

Bought (and sold) the Book of the bad series and probably shouldn't have.

I like The Pulse and Planet Dust.

I don't mourn their passing though.

All a bit meh and very mediocre.

Shame they had a 1000 clones, and everything went dark, formuliac, and then they broke the mode by doing tunes like Snowcats.

so dang true

Colonies FTW on INside the Machine - the rest of which leaves me pretty cold.

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magical song, their stuff was great. Sci fi at it's finest.

Did Aisle 13 ever get released?

yeah, D-Bridge put it out on Exit, I believe.

hmmm....

that's a lot of cringing...

yes indeed it would be a lot of cringing

how did the Nine become "that tune" to be teased with and double dropped?

double dropping in general can be so sweet, but why do it with that ONE tune when you KNOW(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) it's been done like that 1000 times before

it's all about "Breathe."

anything else from them i can't really listen to for too long.

j

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hmmm....

that's a lot of cringing...

yes indeed it would be a lot of cringing

how did the nine become "that tune" to be teased with and double dropped?

double dropping in general can be so sweet, but why do it with that one tune when you know(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) it's been done like that 1000 times before

because thats what being differents all about, being so different that you actually are the same as everyone else

im off to play some golf

Re: Planet Dust, the intro's rather nice. Can't be bothered to play the rest of it though.

hmmm....

that's a lot of cringing...

yes indeed it would be a lot of cringing

how did the Nine become "that tune" to be teased with and double dropped?

double dropping in general can be so sweet, but why do it with that ONE tune when you KNOW(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) it's been done like that 1000 times before

in fairness - i eventually concluded that it's a little bit like the way scratch dj's use a generally very limited set of classic and instantly recognisable scratch samples ("fffffresh" and "ah yeah" for example) - it sort of puts you on a level playing field and the challenge is to do something different with the sounds you have available - for a crushingly simple tune i certainly heard it done in a wide variety of very different ways (with varying results it must be said)...

were amazing back in the day....

one of the names who really got me hooked into D&B big time

along with ed rush & optical, jonny L & Dom & Roland

i also have lots of their old stuff....although i never play them now, i could never bring myself to sell them.....

I'm not too sure of the chronolgy of it, but you have Absolute Zero & Subphonics - The Fugitive on RH012 around 98, and then Fresh & Vegas - Mekon on Breakbeat Culture (which has Stealth on the flip - all 4 of them).

The Nine is just a combination of both of those tracks really.

here is a mix i did a few years back of my favs
http://www.virb.com/olcyrus

i might have to check out this mix cause i'm really unfamiliar with the bc stuff. they kinda hit stage just as i departed.

do iiiiitttt :0

i did it i flicked through it so far, cant say anything jumped out and grabbed me, at all.

i plan to have a proper listen to it though and give a more formulated opinion soon!

i think i am familiar with this bc sound, i did hear from others blasting it out, as none of it was too 'unfamilar' to me

i loved that tune with ferice 'dream theif '

colonies is the one

my fave bc toons in this mix

hades aka script presents :
all bad company mix


colonies
champion sound remix
sentient
hornet
nitrous
snowcat
brain scan
4 days
the pulse
bullet time
torpedo
womb
the fear
rush hour
china cup
refuge
silicon dawn

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8jv50p3ga2o

colonies

pure scifi-dnb-sound on this one

as always, dope mix mr hades!

Don't forget Jellyfish by BC & Matrix
actually whole Fear EP is very good imo, but Jellyfish is timeless

the mix is huge

had to ffwd past torpedo tho