80's-90's MEMORIES
80's-90's MEMORIES
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- Morning_star19
The LTJ Bukem brought back memories of this.
- Yes again.MrT
- Strange for me. LTJB never really figured on my radar. It was all about Roni Size for me. A shame I never got to see him live.detritus
- yes!Krassy
- This tune got me into music. Move it to this day.scruffics
- This was one of the first DNB records I ever bought.section_014
- *lovescruffics
- Found the 12'' single in a charity shop last year. Was well chuffedscruffics
- Saw them perform live at Coachella. Ace!Krassy
- leave roni size out of this!docpoz
- I spun the fuck out of Reprazent and Underworld's Beaucoup Fish back then.DRIFTMONKEY
- I feel oldMrT
- Mr Size is playing New Forms live in Margate at the end of August!dee-dubs
- Continuity17
That clicky Morse Code-like interference that would come over your cheap computer speakers just a second before the mobile phone on the desk started to ring.
- https://freesound.or…Continuity
- +1OBBTKN
- I remember taking a train in the late 90s and hearing this on my Walkman.Chimp
- I even bought some clip on ferret rings to shield my wires and that didn't work.fooler
- Mad, forgot about that sound!mort_
- Wasn’t there some really cheesy house track that used that sound in it?dee-dubs
- https://youtu.be/xph…dee-dubs
- I remember that interference just a couple years ago...and I thought it was just aliens trying to communicate with me.utopian
- My car at the time was a 1985 ford and it that sound was so fucking loud in the car stereo hahaha.nb
- Krassy16
- Gave this a good run a few weeks ago after 20 years or so. Still holds upsausages
- +++Krassy
- First saw the ad for this album on the back of a CMJ magazine. Went out and got it and the rest is historyHijoDMaite
- tis indeed a proper classichans_glib
- https://www.youtube.…ideaist
- classic albumdee-dubs
- woman come a dance me tuff me tuffjagara
- I had this on minidisc.CyBrainX
- mort_14
- I wonder if he still lurks here?fooler
- Did he have an account? I was here back in the day (2000) but don't recall.mort_
- https://www.qbn.com/…
lurking since 99uan - Wait.. flash doesn't even work inside the way back machine anymore? https://web.archive.…cherub
- He once offered a dvd with all his flash toys on it so you could run them on your local drive but like a stupid I didn't buy it.cherub
- I have that Cherub :-) still use them occasionally for background anims with new symbol librariesPhanLo
- Dope! yeah the reason they gave for releasing the DVD is so you could look at the source code. I think it would be interesting to see the way the chaos servercherub
- was set up.cherub
- The Trent Reznor of FlashDaveO
- #kiokenfolifeprophetone
- I had one of the hard drives, bought it from him in his hotel room at Flash Forward 2001 in NYC. Tossed it years ago. :(mg33
- I’ve still got his PS drive, in fact saw it last week when I was rooting through a box full of my old data cdroms, scsi cables, serial adaptersprophetone
- Still remenber when kioken was on CNN and the room i was in while watching itGuyFawkes
- Was the site design by Brett Bash ?i_was
- nah Bret was just 2 advanced for PraystationGuyFawkes
- @GuyFawkes, I remember that CNN feature on Kioken.CyBrainX
- helloeatbreathedrive18
- BlablaSimonFFM
- What’s this?scarabin
- ClassicRamanisky2
- La Linea!zarkonite
- uhmmmm, lah...renderedred
- I thought of this:
https://www.youtube.…SimonFFM - https://www.youtube.…Bindegal
- Wow awesome find. I loved watching these as a kid.desmo
- Danish10
- Sigh. It's ... it's beautiful.
That flat equaliser, though.Continuity - Why not a double casette deck?Elwin74
- As a child I was mesmerized by the hi-fi stereo rack system.utopian
- i can hear the glass' vibrato now :)kaiyohtee
- We had this exact thing growing upfyoucher1
- I remember when that Zeppelin box set dropped. Box sets were all the ragestoplying
- Fire up all the components, you could heat a village in Siberia in January.Akagiyama
- Sweetinstrmntl
- @Elwin - the higher-end cassette decks never had 2 (you would have two dedicated units, not try to make it all-in-one, which would lower the quality)formed
- I'm remembering lots of smooth knob action too. Nice.MrT
- Ive got some smooth knob action going with your momcannonball1978
- Kenwood ftw! Probably not the best but thats what we had and it looked coolSquiddy
- soft ejectzardoz
- my dad still has a beast of a pioneer system in the garage with huge wharfedale speakers. all still working, just too BIGmicrokorg
- Sigh. It's ... it's beautiful.
- Krassy12
- Oh boymort_
- Was just playing this in the car. Sadly, I haven't cared for much from them since "Dig Your Own Hole".section_014
- Yeah sadly, the only good music the Chemical Brothers made were the Exit Planet Dust LP and the Loops of Fury EP. Half of the Dig Your Own Hole LP was meh.Krassy
- I was working for virgin when this came out. I remember doing ads for it. Man, that was a looooong time ago.Gnash
- ^ awesomeKrassy
- had to change their name from dust brothers because the Beastie Boys collaborators were already using it stateside thus exit planet dust._niko
- sorry for the bennsplanation lol_niko
- I still have the CD at my parents house.Chimp
- Great album and feel same as you Krassy in terms of listening to their stuff. But they do pretty awesome live shows, seen them at festivals many times.microkorg
- Surrender was their best for me.MrT
- @microkorg ah yes, their live shows are awesome!!Krassy
- ^ I'm not going to disagree there!MrT
- I knew a guy who toured with them for a bit in the 90's. He was a support act DJ.
One time he'd finished hi set and was in the dressing room when one of the...PhanLo - Top 10 music videos of all time (IMO): https://www.youtube.…ideaist
- ...Chemical Brothers showed up even though he could hear the music being played out live. The guy didn't know where he was and my mate had to walk him back to..PhanLo
- ...the stage. He said the tour was great fun, just a lot of crazy partying.PhanLo
- one of my best concert experience was a full on Chemical Brothers party with random rain and thunderssted
- I still get goosebumps listening to elektrobank.sted
- Wearing the CB T-shirt in office. Right this moment!adrok
- ^ !Krassy
- yup yupmoldero
- Continuity4
- I remember exactly where I was when I learned about this, and I remember crying.Nairn
- I was home at lunch from school, expressly to watch the launch (as I always did) on TV. My mum and I just sat there with our jaws dropped.Continuity
- I remember this, just thinking those people are now in atomic pieces.shapesalad
- It's horrid to think they likely survived the explosion and spent literal minutes hurtling towards the ground, powerlessly knowing they were doomed.Nairn
- I remember asking my parents why they didn’t use escape pods to leave the space shuttle. They then had to explain that it wasn’t like in films.Chimp
- hard, cold realization of sudden death as a childBeeswax
- I was home sick from school this day, sitting on the couch watching the Price is Right around 11:30 when they interrupted with the news, it was horrible.elahon
- I was 12, in class we watched it, ill never forget it.YakuZoku
- More people have died in Ukraine in the past few weeks than in that one moment. Let's not forget that.shapesalad
- I don't really have any memories of seeing this on the news. I do remember the joke that was all round the school the next day...microkorg
- What does N.A.S.A stand for?microkorg
- Need
Another
Seven
Astronautsmicrokorg - Elementary school classroom live on tv and they had made a big deal to make sure they stopped class to watch.monospaced
- I remember that joke microYakuZoku
- Naked teen bullies paused in their violent corrections of their imagining me queer—three red pubes—relative to their massive black bush, and shrugged.tbgoodwillie
- NASA: Never A Straight Answerutopian
- Of course, I remember this, too. I remember the crowd watching before take off. And hoping it won’t explode when repeatedly seeing the footage.SimonFFM
- We watched it live on tv at school.instrmntl
- http://www.conflicts…instrmntl
- I was a fourth grade kid in New Hampshire at the time... Christa McAuliffe taught 2 towns over. She meant the world to us local kids... it was crushing. :(PonyBoy
- @tbgoodwillie ..um, what?garbage
- I had spent moths working on a cut away illustration of the shuttle. I finished it that day.lemmy_k
- The crew was still alive when it exploded. They died on impact when the capsule crashed on the ocean.NBQ00
- @lemmy still got it?garbage
- Q: Why does NASA drink Pepsi?
A: Because they can't get 7UP
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That was a primary school joke at the time :-(PhanLo - Watched it live with other classmates. All students and teachers were crying. Left a mark to this day.dibec
- They made my school perform a song and dance routine about this for an assembly of our parents and teachers. We kids didn’t give a shit but they were in tearsscarabin
- Krassy18
- Tricky, Massive Attack and all that was fire in the 90s... used to have the Rebirth of Cool comps on vinyl... so much progress in music that decadecanoe
- ^ all of that Bristol scene, so good...MrT
- I still rock tricky often.ArmandoEstrada
- ha, I just created a booty playlist and added a lot of tricky and massive attackBeeswax
- ^ shareKrassy
- SteveJobs12
- The moment when Mark became Maria.Chimp
- Somebody call a lawyer.palimpsest
- many a summer spent making a ramp.shapesalad
- My neighbor's dad built us a ramp. It was a 4x5 sheet of plywood set at a 40 degree angle. So much shit was eaten.garbage
- That's a decent little kicker. We used wood scraps and cinder blocks.aliastime
- My best mate lived on a farm and we built an shit epic ramp with oil drums and planks. Took my sis's bike, small so therefore = a bmx, and snapped it in half.MrT
- My dad was a highly motivated carpenter, i was a very lucky kid, RIP dad.GuyFawkes
- Jumped over tires. One time not far enough and the tire bounced me off evilly.SimonFFM
- We took our launch ramp - about 3 footer - and brought it right down to the dock of a lake I lived by. On Mothers Day one year, we took an old beater bike...stoplying
- and absolutely soared into the water. It was so much funstoplying
- on a back laneway in Burnley, Lancashire there is still a plastic washing line with my teeth marks in it - coz i jumped that 5 brick ramp !_me_
- 1983 !_me_
- I stole some wood from a next door neighbor and build a ramp. We'd jump over garbage cans. 6 was the record.CyBrainX
- Bluejam11
- oh yesfadein11
- art college memoriesBluejam
- they always dried up on me..hydro74
- 90:10 time cleaning, time drawing shitmaikel
- yes yes!! I spent a small fortune on Rotring stuffdee-dubs
- these pens work great on vellumimbecile
- @hydro74 - like yo'bitches?
YO.
CASHBACK.Nairn - I always found these weird to use, you had to hold the pen at a 90º angle for it to work correctly or you'd just end up with streaks and scratching the paper_niko
- Loved them, still using 0,2, 0,4 and 0,8mm. Fun for dismantling and cleaning. Done all my old comics using them... Oh, memories!OBBTKN
- Shit yes!I I remember them! So good for drawing and tech drawings.sab
- Still using itGabriel
- Ramanisky211
- https://www.youtube.…koma_
- that bassline! ace!Krassy
- @koma lol yes!!!Squiddy
- AWESOMEMrT
- Unforgettable live show in Chicago. Storm knocked out power. Crew came out with flashlights to shine on band. Played rest of show acoustic with silent crowdtoemaas
- when I saw them they all had neon glow stick lines all over their worker suits. It was crazy. Also saw them open for Radiohead.fooler
- I saw them open for Radiohead at the Hollywood bowl 2001promoting 'Hot Shots II'Leigh
- I was in/lucky enough to be at their last UK gig at Shepherd’s Bush. We’re all that old, it seems.MrT
- from my (original) neck of the woods. friends of friends.microkorg
- @MrT I had tickets to their last ever gig, but it sold out and they added a show. So I was at their penultimate gig.Wolfboy
- They were absolute magic Live. Bowery Ballroom and Irving Plaza.MrAbominable
- saw them at glasto in 2000, incredible show. i've met steve mason a few times more recently, must feel like a curse to release a new record every year andkingsteven
- be judged by your first 3 EPs. but the mythology and hype surrounding them at the time etched these tracks so hard.kingsteven
- I bought The Three EPs 20th anniversary on vinyl and it came on 4 EPs.fooler
- Hell yeah so many fans! If you've not heard, their Radio 1 Breezeblock mix from 2001 is an absolute belter. https://www.youtube.…MrT
- ^ new to me. thanks!MrAbominable
- MrT15
- ++koma_
- +Wordsworth
- ❤❤❤PhanLo
- video restorations are odd - looks like it could have been filmed yesterday while yesterday some kids are making a video look like it was filmed in the 90skingsteven
- This whole album was great.
in fact im gonna put it on now!woowahesque - One of my favorites from this aera. Together with the La Haine Soundtrack. https://www.youtube.…Longcopylover
- Love the original from Serge Gainsbourg:
https://www.youtube.…stoplying
- mort_11
- +1Krassy
- Loved this album... And their second one toocruddlebub
- +2MrT
- Fantastic album, still listen to it. I saw them do it live a few years back. it was a lovely evening.fadein11
- Had it on yesterdayburnt
- yesBluejam
- +3sted
- Still have this one on CDRamanisky2
- This album changed my life!HijoDMaite
- I first learned of it from an advert on the back of the CMJ Magazine.HijoDMaite
- I've had this on in the kitchen a lot recently - turns out my partner (a foreigner) who loves Portishead had never heard of them. So she has now, repeatedly.detritus
- Been a while!canoe
- +4oey
- They are playing a live version of the whole album at Womad this year. I'll be front row!Hayzilla
- Yeah, but you'll also be at Womad, so swings and roundabouts...detritus
- Ramanisky211
- Wow :)Wordsworth
- That and Kai PowertoolsNBQ00
- Warez App(z)...
*nostalgia overload*ideaist - PoserRamanisky2
- Poser was so ahead of it's time for cel shadingPhanLo
- i remember a guy at college bringing in print outs of his Bryce stuff. Pretty cool for that eraPhanLo
- kai's power tools Bryce
wow... Signs your getting old threadnbq - @NBQ you just nuked my memory with KPT. I can still hear my dad giving me the "downloading is illegal" speech.garbage
- Ouch!OBBTKN
- < This - on a Quadra630 !_me_
- I actually knew Kai when I was a kid and these tools came out. Wowmonospaced
- mort_12
- I can't imagine anyone watching it more.Chimp
- the kids today love gossip, fake reality shows and really bad music.utopian
- I don't even know anymore on which channel they are on my tv.Longcopylover
- R.i.p.StoicLevels
- Yeah man talk about a nosedive out of relevance.cannonball1978
- "Gossip" is cool band. Don't know about
"Fake Reality Show" or "Really Bad Music". Sound promising ...adrok - Used to be a big source of inspiration... e.g. when I watched Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time.SimonFFM
- Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer video really sticks out in my memory from watching MTV on Saturday mornings.mort_
- A-Ha : Take On MeAkagiyama
- MTV was always awful. A video channel could have been brilliant and it was when they did 120 Minutes but that was a fraction of a percent compared to...CyBrainX
- 3 Pat Benetar videos per hour. They had to make it a top 40 format, putting another stranglehold on creativity in the music business.CyBrainX
- mort_14
- simple minds and damned in the same tape?!oey_oey
- Love it. That was exactly what everyone had. Stray Cats....loldkoblesky
- I still have one with LUSH on one side and Ministry on another.fooler
- Monkees and The Clash on the same tape too! Fearless.mort_
- <3Gnash
- RADcannonball1978
- The first tape I personally copied was Roxette’s “Look Sharp”. I remember I thought I had to be silent during the cloning, or my voice could get recorded.maquito
- ULTRAVOX!Krassy
- kaiyohtee15
- The singer and band members are around 61 years old now. Signs your getting oldNBQ00
- what a jam.Ramanisky2
- I have entered the chat.cannonball1978
- No bye, no aloha...whatthefunk
- Love this song.elahon
- Awwwooooooo...kaiyohtee
- Danish10
- Yeahscarabin
- Honestly haven’t seen any since the 80s. Fuckin weird.monospaced
- Why is that? Because people pick up after their dogs now?_niko
- Because dog food companies don't feed dogs sawdust filler anymore.fooler
- dog eggsthumb_screws
- Its from eating bones, calciumdrgs
- The cause was commercial dog food that was rich in beef and bone meal which had a high calcium content.jagara
- what drgs saidjagara
- dog poop expert.
but very true. have not seen white dog poop for ages lolpango - https://i.makeagif.c…aslip
- what drgs saidYakuZoku
- Just take a look in the mirror mono!hotroddy
- Excuse me?monospaced
- i dunno... seem like he's mad at you for something.pango
- what drgs saiddrgs
- lol monoYakuZoku
- Love you homieYakuZoku
- imbecile12
- ❤️Wordsworth
- Tower of PowerRamanisky2
- Remember the wiring required to have all this work? I do.Ramanisky2
- I had that mega CD changer at the bottom..it held 300 CDs! Only recently had to throw away cos wasn't working anymore.dee-dubs
- Also.. who puts a VHS player in their hifi setup?dee-dubs
- In 1995, the Star Wars trilogy became the first THX certified VHS release.imbecile
- Add an equally sizes speakers on each side and its a wrap.islandbridge
- Wait, which one is the laser disc player?Akagiyama
- 3rd from the bottom?imbecile
- Oh yeah that looks like it!Akagiyama
- the remote controls would be an impressive spread for this stack. i had the DAT and MD and still have that turntable somewherekingsteven
- And you could spin a shwarma meat pole next to this with all the heat it gives off.Akagiyama
- My JVC receiver was badass. Wish I could rebuy it.cherub