Various Artists

Music For The Radical Xenomaniacs Vol. 3 (Hedonistic Highlights From The Lowlands 1990 - 1999)

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• 01 The Connection Machine - Echoes From Tau Ceti
• 02 Direct Movement - Natural Chemistry
• 03 Paradise 3001 - Surfin The Cuban Waves
• 04 Exquisite Corpse - Strange Attractor
• 05 Orlando Voorn - Still
• 06 NYX - Delphi (Rewaxed)
• 07 Stefan Robbers - Afridisiac (Jumpy Mix)
• 08 Fluxland - Fluxland
• 09 This Side Up - Glider
• 10 Georgio Schultz - Trance
• 11 Quazar - Cycledrops
• 12 2000 And One - Crystal

Through 35 tracks stretched across three volumes, Music For The Radical Xenomaniac delivers the first ever deep dive into The Netherlands? colourful house sound of the 90s and the under-celebrated producers and record labels whose music soundtracked a countrywide cultural movement. Plenty of books and documentaries have celebrated the riotous raves, legendary clubs, high profile DJs and promoters who shaped The Netherlands? hedonistic house scene throughout the 90s. Music For The Radical Xenomaniac dares to challenge these narratives by shining a light, for the first time, on those who created the scene?s kaleidoscopic, game-changing and globally influential soundtrack. Leading the charge were a disparate group of key creators who not only forged links with their counterparts in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom, but also became celebrated figures on the worldwide electronic underground (Eric Nouhan, Aad De Mooy, Orlando Voorn, Stefan Robbers and Steve Rachmad). Alongside key underground imprints (Stealth Records, Basic Energy, ESP, Prime and Outland Records included) and lesser-known producers, these pioneers gave flavour to a radical musical movement via open-mindedness, unheard-of creativity and a genuinely futuristic ethos. All of these artists and labels are represented throughout the series. So, what defined this hedonistic house sound from The Netherlands? Stylistically, it was varied ? as the series so emphatically proves ? but was defined by a set of distinctive sonic characteristics: emotive musical motifs, high-frequency synth sounds, mellow basslines, pulsating rhythms and more than a touch of hallucinatory intent.