Rune RK

 

This is where I am from - PRT 1

 
I know a lot of you guys are fairly “fresh” to the house and techno scene, so I figured I would take some time out to explain why, and how I got in to all this.

 

I want to post some tracks for you guys, that just blew my mind away, when I first heard them.

 

So. I first got into house music around 92-93. at the time I had been djing at my local youth club (Thomas p Hejle) in Copenhagen, and the first contact I had with electronic music was pump up the jam, by technotronic.

 

At the time I was very much in to hip hop music. It was pure epmd, das efx, de la soul, jungle brothers, fu schnickens, and so on. I was producing on my amiga 500 and writing for some local talent.

 

At the time, there was this radio program called ‘lige på og hårdt’ (straight up and raw)

 

This dj called Eazicut, would play a lot of hip hop tracks, but he would also cover some house and techno tracks. At the beginning I just didnt get the house stuff. I mean it was gay, and what not.

 

That was until I heard this track

 

Dj Pierre - What is Housemusic

 

It just freaked me out. It had funk and soul, but it was still ruff sounding, and had that hip hop minimalism to it. It sounded like a dj premier production, just a bit faster.

 

Then I heard this track

 

South st Players - Who keeps changing your mind (Dobre Dub mix)

 

After that I decided to go to my first rave. I remember showing up in my hip hop gear, with my nerdy friend. We just danced for 9 hours straight, and I couldn’t walk for 2 days after. The energy was just so compelling, I couldnt believe it.

 

That night I just started to hunger for this music, but I couldnt afford any records. I decided to make the music I loved, and that night, I stopped producing hip hop beats, and made my first “techno track”
 

This is where I am from - PRT 2

So after experimenting with my amiga for a while, I still couldnt really figure out what sound rocked my boat.

 

I was a teenager, and I really liked banging and hard music. I went to some gabba raves, and checked out some trance events, but none of it was really for me. It was all just too daft somehow.

 

I would spend nearly every day after school in my local record shop maximum overload. The owner, a Chilean guy called Marcel, found me pretty annoying, especially since I didn’t have any money for records.

 

Hippie parents, and no job, ment I had about 5 euros a week in allowance.

 

Not much to start a record collection:-)

 

Anyways. I would hang out, and listen to records all day long, and one day I stumbled across this record.

 

 

It was from an album called Minimal Nation by Robert Hood, and it just had this magic sound to it.

 

For me this was, and still is the true essence of minimalism. Just repetative energetic loops, that forces the listeners imagination to develop melodies around it.

 

I was completely mesmerized by this minimal movement, and I spent my Christmas money on all the Robert Hood records I could get a hold of.

 

Here are a few more tracks from the time that made a huge impact on me.

 

 

After some time of really digging these uptempo tracks, I discovered this record by Richie Hawtin. It is to this date one of my absolute favorite records, and I still play it whenever I can.

 

It also led me back to a more funky sound. that I will tell you all about in prt 3