A
hard house label from the
UK. Formed in
autumn 1995 by
The Tidy Boys (Andy and Amadeus), has lately become very
popular all over
Europe.
Their
home page (which uses
Flash quite heavily) can be found at
http://www.tidytrax.co.uk/.
Tidy Trax'
music - like most hardhouse/hard
trance - is characterized by hard
bouncy sounds, simple
structure, over-
recycled vocal samples and a heavy overusing of the classic
Juno preset
"What the", made famous by
Human Resource's The Complete Dominator hit in
1991.
An another often used "
trick" for Tidy Trax is to
rip off an old
techno/
rave hit, without giving it
credit by calling the finished product a
remix. Instead of just sampling the sounds/samples (which is quite
acceptable and is an important
building block in
electronic music), they
steal entire
loops made with the sounds.
A few examples:
Tidy Girls presents Anna Savage - I Need A Man
Two loops (the lead plus a percussive background) stolen from Insomniak Remix by DJPC
??? (the first
track in the
Spring Collection mix)
The entire beat and partial bassline ripped from Trippin' Out by Misjah & Groovehead.
??? (on the
Untidy Trax sub-label)
TWO leads stolen from James Brown is Dead by L.A. Style.
Tony De Vit - Are You All Ready
Lead stolen from the classic first Speed Freak release.
I will add more to this list later.
Note that all the
raped tracks were made
numerous years before the Tidy Trax versions were released, maybe to make sure nobody would
remember the original. So it's not a
question of who stole from from who.