Fabric/Fabriclive mix cd series S/D

the series itself seems middlebrow as hell and some of the other participants fill me with fear but the results justify on this evidence. (all i've heard.)

the Radioactive Man mix is excellent if you like tough, booming quasi-breaks electro. i agree with Matos on the John Peel mix.

my big surprise over the weekend was how much I enjoyed Fabric 6 - Tyler Stadius. like the promo says, it's a "hot, heavy trip, wrapped in percussion and drowned in echo". so it's very minimal, tribal deep house. most tracks are just an urgent two or three note bassline and congas, bongoes, shakers, kicks and snares under many layers of delay and reverb. what struck me most was how little seperates this style from DFA tracks like "dance to the underground" or their mix of "orange alert". really it's just a few elements: in the DFA tracks you get a chicken-scratchy guitar and in the Jay Tripwire tracks you have bleary deep house synth pads.

so yeah, the Tyler Stadius mix is surprising high-quality, even if the rhythm & sound outro feels tacked-on.

also James Lavelle's mix is excellent though I can't think of what to say about it other than Andy K's comments on allmusic are quite right.

That said I really like alot of them so they have sort of duped me I suppose.

i used to subscribe to them. got em super cheap. but i've given up. it was a luxury i can no longer aford.

the plumps mix is also mighty fine for your party breakbeat needs.

The Bent one is surprisingly high quality but I wonder how much my initial appreciation for it was based on not having heard Annie's "The Greatest Hit" before.

I agree with Ronan in that I instinctively want to dislike these albums; like, I'm sure I'm going to adore the Michael Mayer mix but there's something vaguely disquieting about tying him into the Fabric brand.

Sorry, what's the problem with the Fabric brand? Is it too parasitic or something?

I guess there's the issue of it being a 'more discerning' take on dance-culture than say, Ministry of Sound; despite essentially functioning in an identical 'corporate' manner.

But then, there's the upside of it representing a mutation of the superclub that actually comes off as sort of relevant. Plus, it's great to see Michael Mayer gaining some much needed exposure. I'd actually like to hear more Microhouse in the 'mainstream'...

Destroy: Doc Martin (horrible noodly deep house, badly mixed too), Slam (bog-standard tech-house, although it ends on a great note with UR's "Inspiration"), and especially The Amalgamation of Soundz, which is sleep-inducing even by the standards of chillout music.

to what degree is a purchase an endorsement? that is the tough question from all of this because you can easily have a MoS cd next to a fabric one in you collection and enjoy both. i really give cultural material a real exemption from that "purchase as endorsement" idea because cultural material takes longer to understand than, say, and SUV ;-)

do you think other series' of mix cds suffer from the same aristocratic nature (ie dj kicks)? also, what is the alternate approach? if fabric is a sort of aristocracy of cool than i agree about your problem, but, for Socrates' sake, i wonder why aving a series of mix cds that represent only one genre would not imply any sort of elitism or favoritism? is it because fabric is parasitic as Michael said?

It's pretty good - not exactly big, epic stompin choons, but it has its moments. Oddly, it was really hard to find - most shops has every other number in the series except 03. I couldn't work out if that was because it was really popular or they didn't bother stocking it...

(as an aside: has anybody heard the two anniversary mixes on classic? there's a one-disc mix by doc martin that looks ok and a two-disc mix by luke solomon and derrick carter that looks great but i wonder if it hasn't dated by now)

BUT - i have it on good authority from trusted friends that the mixing is good enough to (literally) make you weep.

so does anybody know?

only real duds i've heard are james lavelle and amalgamationz of sound...

is the mayer one already out, or coming out?

i dont think i actually know who james lavelle is exactly? is he the eptiome of "proper" "beardy" tastemakers ?

IT'S BETTER THAN "IMMER"!!

Diplo's mixing is also occasionally a little weak. When he transitions from The Cure to Bombs Over Baghdad, the two songs are blatantly out of tune with each other and it's ugly.

I agree with Abbadavid that the Diplo one does sound like it would be good out, but not necessarily something you want to listen to a lot. That's why it's good they're cheap now! Mixes should be more disposable.

(So er ... why this thread, but never mind)

truth be told I prefer dj-kicks as a series though.

Tracklisting for new Ewan Pearson Fabric mix. I know very few of these tracks, which is good!

Fabric 35:

01 Jahcoozi - Ali McBills (Robert Johnson 6am X-Ray Italo Rework)
02 MarcAshken - Nimrod (Marc Houle Is a Nimrod Remix)
03 Gui.tar - Push in the Bush
04 Snax - Honeymoon's Over (Konrad Black Mix)
05 Jens Zimmermann - Tranquillité
06 Liquid Liquid - Bellhead
07 Lee Burridge and Dan F - Treat 'em Mean, Keep 'em Keen (Exercise One, Mix 2)
08 100 Hz - Trustlove
09 Samim - Paspd ft. Big Bully
10 Laven & MSO - Looking for God
11 Simon Baker - Plastik
12 Samuel L Sesssions ft. Paris the Black Fu - Can You Relate
13 Johannes Heil - All for One (Tobi Neumann's Swinging Remix)
14 Kaos - Panopeeps (Origin)
15 Beanfield "Tides" - C's Movement #1 (Carl Craig Remix) / Aril Brikha - Berghain

that samuel l sessions track is a monster. detroit sounding with a pitched-down vocal - very sleazy

they're starting a podcast

The inaugural fabric podcast will be released on October 24, 2007 hosted by our long-time resident Craig Richards. Then Andrew Weatherall takes the hot seat, sharing tales of his earliest musical memories and influences. Full details of artists scheduled to host these sessions will be announced shortly

you'd have thought that the RA podcast & online radio must have severely dented the Fabric CD sales, if they were ever significant - there's just no way they can keep pace. they should slow down the release schedule and have less frequent, but bigger 'event' CDs like the Villalobos. and the podcast can pick up the slack...

plus with all the money they'd save on licensing, artwork, distribution etc, they could afford to pack fewer people into the club! :-/

Herbalizer one killed me yesterday

As shitty as a lot of the mixing on Nitin Sawhney's Fabric issue is, I really dig the back to back Homelands mixing, especially somewhere between 13:00-18:00.

The Herbaliser's mix is also good, as is DJ Format's.

james murphy/pat mahoney one, ewan pearson one, villalobos one all worth yr time.

james murphy/pat mahoney one

yeah I have been listening to this a ton, it's really good

the ewan pearson has plenty of good tracks (panopeeps!) but the jahcoozi song that opens it is kinda gross

I really can't get into the Pearson one - his SciFiHiFi and Resident Advisor mixes were fantastic in different ways but on this one he's all 'OMG I am doing a Fabric Mix - I AM SERIOUS EWAN THIS IS SERIOUS MIX' and it falls a bit flat for me.

But still OMG podcast! Excited.

Craig Richards is a great DJ, never hear much about him on ILX though.

This set is one of my favorite mixes of the year, it goes all over the place (well within a house'n'techno context) but the tracks flow so well:

Part 1 http://www.theflame.it/djset/01-craig_richards-live_at_wasabi_(capitolo_italy)-sbd-06-30-2007-01.mp3

Part 2 http://www.theflame.it/djset/02-craig_richards-live_at_wasabi_(capitolo_italy)-sbd-06-30-2007-02.mp3

Part 3 http://www.theflame.it/djset/03-craig_richards-live_at_wasabi_(capitolo_italy)-sbd-06-30-2007-03.mp3

I AM SERIOUS EWAN THIS IS SERIOUS MIX

haha it is kinda like that

esp. the dark carl craig-ish part in the middle

"the ewan pearson has plenty of good tracks (panopeeps!) but the jahcoozi song that opens it is kinda gross"

Pearson has always had a weakness for good tracks with bad vocals.

"I really can't get into the Pearson one - his SciFiHiFi and Resident Advisor mixes were fantastic in different ways but on this one he's all 'OMG I am doing a Fabric Mix - I AM SERIOUS EWAN THIS IS SERIOUS MIX' and it falls a bit flat for me."

I felt this way too but it grew on me - it's not a pretty as the other two mixes but it's pretty compulsive stuff ultimately, esp. the last third or so.

http://www.fabriclondon.com/press/beta/uploads/packshots/fabric41_Luciano_packshot.jpg

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Fabric 42: Âme - best fabric mix i've heard in a while. wasn't really loving the Luciano. therefore, Search the fuck outta Fabric 42.

fabric 46: claude von stroke

a masterpiece of progressive boompty

stoked for the next two: jay haze and radio slave!!

I will say that out of any of these, my absolute favorite is the one from a genre that I don't necessarily love: Marcus Intalex's FabricLive:35.

http://www.discogs.com/Marcus-Intalex-FabricLive-35/release/1034899

1 Calibre Ft. Lariman Overeaction (4:15)
Vocals [Featuring] - Lariman
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin*
2 Calibre All The Days (2:12)
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin*
3 Lynx (7) Ft. Kemo (3) Global Enemies (4:25)
Vocals [Featuring] - Kemo (3)
Written-By, Producer - J. Wilson (2) , S. Nobes*
4 Commix Faceless (Marcus Intalex Remix) (4:25)
Producer [Additional], Remix - M. Kaye*
Remix [Credited To] - Marcus Intalex
Written-By, Producer - G. Levings* , G. Brewer*
5 Jonny L Come Here (4:03)
Written-By, Producer - Jonny L
6 Amaning vs. Dubwise (5) Smash V.I.P. (2:57)
Written-By, Producer - Dubwise (5) , T. Amaning*
7 Soulmatic Self Belief (2:33)
Written-By, Producer - D. Carlsen*
8 Calibre Ft. DRS Hustlin' (4:37)
Vocals [Featuring] - DRS
Written-By, Producer - D. Pottinger* , D. Martin*
9 Calibre Mr Right On (2:12)
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin*
10 Deadly Habit Synesthesia (Theory Remix) (5:42)
Remix - Theory (3)
Written-By, Producer - Deadly Habit
11 Breakage Clarendon (5:42)
Written-By, Producer - Breakage
12 Alix Perez And Lynx (7) Allegiance (4:25)
Written-By, Producer - A. Depauw* , S. Nobes*
13 Zero Tolerance Ft. Steo Refusal (3:41)
Vocals [Featuring] - Steo
Written-By, Producer - C. McCann*
14 Mistical* Time To Fly (2:57)
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin* , L. Davenport* , M. Kaye*
15 Duo Infernale Feeling Blue (5:31)
Written-By, Producer - Duo Infernale
16 Instra:mental* Pacific Heights (3:41)
Written-By, Producer - Instra:mental*
17 Bango Collective Ft. Kemo (3) And Dennis Jones (3) Apocalypse (3:52)
Vocals [Featuring] - Dennis Jones (3) , Kemo (3)
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin* , J. Wilson (2) , P. Kilbauskas* , S. Nobes*
18 Mistical* Groove Me (4:58)
Written-By, Producer - D. Martin* , L. Davenport* , M. Kaye*
19 Alix Perez And Sabre Solitary Native (5:10)
Written-By, Producer - A. Depauw* , G. Kideo*

stoked for the next two: jay haze and radio slave!!

the jay haze is pretty cool, I've spun that a few times in the last week since I got it. starts out with some smoked-out reggae-tinged type of stuff then wavers back and forth between that type of vibe and staticky minimal

co-sign on can't wait for radioslave

i do like me a radioslave mix, but sometimes i feel like i'm the only person who really finds the productions (under the radioslave moniker) to be completely lackluster and, if i may say so, boring.

eep. haven't heard any new ones in a while but I like Bell Clap and loooove No Sleep 3 (guess that's more of an edit really) and Deer in the Headlights remix &c.

reggae-tinged type of stuff

bad description ... more like downtempo or something. stuttery piano n breakbeats with some housey keyboards deep in the mix, then melds into some sparse low piano 4-4 beat stuff. and a lot of tracks have that sizzling hisssssssss

people have been hating on radio slave on ilx since 2006 at least!

but then half of em came around!

seriously though d00dz : fabric 46 is the shit

john tejada's seems to have been slept on, it's awesome

I'd been meaning to check out that VonStroke one seeing as I love pretty much everything he's done.

Have to agree about the VonStroke - so so good, especially that track at the end...

really really like the Jay Haze Fabric 47

well, radio slave's turned out pretty lame but magda's is a winner, i think. surprisingly entertaining.

I need to hear Fabric 50 Martyn. The tracklisting looks great.

I need a s/d on these series, I'm trying to get acquainted to it and haven't started yet.

Don't know if this is any help.

My own favourites are Ewan Pearson, Optimo, Andrew Weatherall, Ricardo Villalobos, Omar S, Murphy and Mahoney, Plump DJs and Carl Craig.

ok

search (the absolute cream of the crop)

autonomic
toddla t
james murphy
aim
adam freeland
spinbad
bent
jacques lu cont
deadly avenger
james lavelle
surgeon
martyn
omar s
john tejada
metro area
ame
rub'n'tug
global communication
carl craig
luke slater
swayzak
tyler stadius

you dont like the michael mayer?

is there any thread on best DJ mixes of the 00s?

destroy

none of the albums are really bad, except maybe the post-grooverider GO FASTA DUMM N BASS installments (j majik, andy c & dj hype, etc etc)

well, maybe one. michael mayer. terrible, terrible stuff. like all other kompakt related microhouse, a huge pus-leaking zit on the hairy ass of true techno music.

btw, i own all of the fabric / fabric lives barring the drum and bass ones (and i have many of those)

i have like 80-90 of these shits

Can't believe the Bugz in the Attic mix isn't in your list vahid.

mayer one is gold.

bent is one i only picked up recently, love it

Thanks for the recommendations! Will start digging asap.

is there any thread on best DJ mixes of the 00s?

― just sayin, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 18:33 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

RA's list of that is gold.

Heard Jacques Lu Cont today and it's wonderful.

tim i am boycotting pharrell

oh BUT WAIT this mix has artwork's "red" on it ALLOW DIS MIX

seriously though i feel like that bugz mix is like one quarter ghost face killer to three quarters purest filler

much like each of the genres represented on the mix

i certainly wouldn't destroy it though

real surprise for me was that i forgot about death in vegas

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2010/2010-facbricshackleton.jpg

The Shakleton installment out soon apparently

Any love for the Ricky Villa 'mix'? Was swept along by the pre-release hype at the time but ultimately found it a bit dry and unexciting.

I didn't hear the RV mix until like 2 years later, and for what it was I found it to be really great.

well, maybe one. michael mayer. terrible, terrible stuff. like all other kompakt related microhouse, a huge pus-leaking zit on the hairy ass of true techno music

people are not going to be pleased at this. vahid you may offend people if you continue to post in this manner. they won't stand for it!

Shackleton mix is apparently all Shackleton and not all new/unreleased Shackleton.

Ricky Villa

lol am stealing this

Shackleton one sounded impressive albeit through computer speakers - yeah is def all his stuff, didn't check what was/wasn't exclusive tho

Optimo one is pound-for-pound the most... loveable I've heard in the whole series I think

the ricky villa (lol) one is probably the most polarizing fabric cd. myself, i listened to it many times and still couldn't get it. and vahid is the first person i saw hating the m mayer one.

Yeah the Mayer one, though the middle is a bit slack, is pretty glorious.

ricky villa i'd say is pretty cool tho not a necessity. there are like four or five ricky villa albums i'd buy first.

as far as mayer goes, i really enjoy the first three and last three tracks but i think the middle is a total snorefest.

truth is that i really hate wispy swoony microhouse tho so your mileage may vary

isn't some of the middle quite technoey...i haven't listened to it in years, or is the really technoey track the third one....

Loved the Jackson remix of M83 on the Mayer mix. Wasn't so keen on the rest.

8-X DEATH IN VEGAS 8-X

so this thing starts out with chopped and screwed italo, then moves into something that sounds like a cheesy "trans europe express" rip at first but suddenly breaks down into a tuff abstract techno break thats as chopped and phased as a prime urban tribe track. then there's a third section with super tight electro zaps over what sounds like a klaus schulze track. anyway the third track is the one that takes my head off into future shock territory. the washed-out and slowed down choir that starts the thing is at like the exact midpoint between chillwave, witch house and old rising high chillout tracks, but then there's these echoey balearic freak folk guitar / middle eastern string stabs that fleck the whole thing, and then throbbing gabber-like bass under the whole thing. basically this mix couldn't get more "secret history of goth crunk" if it tried.

sorry to repost

I'm sure I posted this earlier, but I was a huge fan of the Radioactive Man mix when that came out. Absolutely enormous, tough as nails early-00's electro, which might be a bit dated now but nevertheless is fun as fuck.

yeah it's too dated for me now but there really *are* several monster tracks on there, i recall the pile-up between his own "ave that" and tim wright's remix is pretty amazing, as is rother's "die macht" and 2LS dot allison remix.

and the ending bit with a princess superstar acapella over dirty hospital's nu-hardcore (no pun)

In/Out was the highlight for me. But it's full of bangers. No doubt I will dig it out and enjoy it anew in a couple of years.

that's the one with the "holy mountain" sample

just listened to doc martin's one on the way to work this morning + im surprised it's not on moonship's list... that shit is deep

^^^^ Esp. Rise Ashen's "Second Wind"!!!

I think maybe Vahid underrates it because he prefers Sounds You Can Feel? I disagree, though both are ace.

i havent heard sounds you can feel! will track it down tonight

The fact that I rate the Fabric mix ever so slightly higher should not in any way be taken as a diss...

Villalobos mix is a classic in my book, particularly love the first half lead up to the track with the "zany" voice, just super sharp precision house tools. I seriously can't think of anybody more capable of those kind of extremely reduced and refined functional loop tracks since like prime Dan Bell?

The mix that sadly always gets left out of these discussions is Akufen's. It's a perfect summation of that early-mid 00s Classic/MFF/Perlon/Telegraph micro-junction, ridiculously groovy and unashamedly house with plenty of headphone pleasing "wtf was that" moments.

Actually Villalobos would've been a classic if it wasn't for the 12 minute OMG Fabric at 10 AM bore-a-thons towards the end.

xp yeah I dug out the Akufen mix again recently - great stuff. I think I like it more now than I did at the time of first release (when I was probably hoping it would be all My Way style "flipping the radio dial" blipvert house, although there is more of that on there than I remembered!)

RV mix is the exception to the rule that the only good Fabric/Fabriclive mixes are the ones with PRIME NUMBERS [/sweeping generalisation] ;)

Thread kind of inspired by the EDM poll nominations and the way they've been taking me deeper into 2000s house & techno than before (though it was a path I'd already started a little way down).

These are the only ones in the series I own so far -
Fabriclive 54 - David Rodigan
fabric 55 - Shackleton
Fabriclive 56 - Pearson Sound/Ramadanman
fabric 63 - Levon Vincent
& I've also given quite a few listens to friends' copies of fabric 50 - Martyn and Fabriclive 57 - Jackmaster.

From these, the Shackleton one is an all-time fave and the Levon Vincent CD is something that I'm listening to over and over at the moment. The only one I'd maybe give a 'destroy' rating to is the Jackmaster, which is a shame because Jack usually is one of my favorite DJs (think this was discussed in another thread actually).
Browsing through the list inside the Levon case, there's quite a lot of tasty-looking earlier entries, but I'm looking for some expert opinion before I decide what to go for next.
(Apologies if this has already been covered - did a quick search and it seemed to be threads on individual CDs but not the whole series).

Oops, seems there is a thread after all....
Ah well, revive!

Just listened to the Shackleton one for the first time yesterday! Exceptional quality, that one...

ah levon you're fucking spoiling us

shy fx & b traits - sorry, you fail

struggling to get into pinch

still enjoying four tet

oneman looks exciting, hopefully doesn't fuck it up

sorry kasra i skipped you because i saw too many clinical drum and bass names like "phizix", "hybris", "halogenix", "resources", "soundwaves", etc

would like to hear opinions on brodinski and drop the lime

Actually meant to bump this thread myself. Since these are dirt cheap all over london I've been meaning to stock up.

I guess right now I have:

Jackmaster
Shackleton
Villalobos
Omar-s
michael mayer has been ordered
james murphy/pat mahoney

While I intend to get the Four Tet at some point, I'm also debating akufen, ame, pearson sound and others I've seen used.

Ame's quite good, not a life changer. Listened to the Ellen Allien one again recently and that's held up surprisingly well.

Jacques Lu Cont's Fabriclive is ALL TIME imo.

but yeah, also get:

Ewan Pearson
Tyrant
Radio Slave
Metro Area
Swayzak

yeah, also curious about the early ones, which I've sort of not thought about. Craig Richards, for example? I would look out for Ewan, radio slave, and metro area (not to mention Martyn, Surgeon, Optimo, and Carl Craig), but preference is typically going to those I find for alarmingly cheap prices.

Been meaning to get the Metro Area one for ages, just ordered it from Amazon for £1 + p&p. Agree with Dwight that the Ellen Allien and Ewan Pearson ones are great.

Metro Area is great fun. My faves are Mayer, Optimo, Villalobos, Murphy/ Mahoney, Omar-S.

Looking forward to the Oneman mix. Tracklisting looks good (I do miss his epic dubstep / garage blends of yore however)

if you like deep house, the doc martin one is great

The Ewan Pearson Fabric mix is really drab compared to his Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix and pretty much ever other mix I've heard by him.

What's the mixing on the Doc Martin like? Practically every mix I've heard of his has been full of clangers.

o really? the mixings p good on the fabric i think

that Drop The Lime one is p naff, although not as bad as his actual productions these days

it has 'Rock Around The Clock' slapped in its middle and feels v forced in general

iirc Craig Richards' one was way more interesting than my idea of him as a DJ at least

I've never heard Craig Richards play anything other than clumpy tech-house and I'm kind of amazed anyone would actually think to check out his own mix.

The Doc Martin one is really nicely mixed IMO.

xpost: yeah, that was my attitude too, but I was just looking at the resident Advisor top mixes of the 00s poll and was kind of surprised to find that at like, 11 or so.

Re: Craig Richards. While he does play his fair bit if clumpy tech-house (lol, love that term). He does play a lot of other styles too and can pull out some great gems, it's pretty common for him to also play electro, italo or classic deep house. For example he put $tinkworx on his last mix, and I've heard him play things like love'n'music in Room 1. Now, if only he could learn to play these with interesting, dramatic mixes rather than smooth, souless blends - that is perhaps his most 'tech-house' trait.

Basically when I've been in Fabric and heard Craig Richards I've mainly been glad it's not Terry Francis playing the same record for 3 hours. ;)

I obviously love a bit of the old clumpy tech house, just looked for a recent mix and I'm currently rushing my tits of, in a manner of speaking, to this: http://soundcloud.com/r_co/craig-richards-kiss-presents

levon's is probably the best one ever

i found agoria's in the trunk of my car today, i think i threw it in there to sell it because i wasn't really feeling it when it came out ... but damn if isn't actually really, really good!

It's not light goth microhouse like you are loathe to listen to? :)
I don't know that I've listened to the Agoria fabric mix, but I enjoyed his At the Controls mix, although it was more of a 2 CD thematic affair.

I don't think, beyond a few token releases I've picked up, that I've really followed the fabric mixes in the last few years. I thought the Pinch one was very accessible, though, and the Surgeon one was good although fairly by the numbers and didn't deviate into the noisier/darker reaches he goes for.

I picked up a whole load of these at HMV Replay the other day - £2 each. So far I have Optimo, Sneak, Derrick Carter and Surgeon. Haven't had a chance to scratch the surface on them all though - which should I start with?

The Optimo one of those is the only one I know, but it's excellent.

yeah i gave that one a quick blitz on friday night before going out. it seemed to take a while to get going, but it was really well put together and mixed.

The Optimo and Surgeon are both really good. You'll probably find Carter and Sneak fairly interchangable - doing the high energy Chicago house thing they've always done. I find it a bit relentlessly and strangely joyless these days.

the agoria one is not gothy at all, it's kind of a jazzy detroit techno meets continental maximal house thing

DOG LATIN

i've bought more or less every fabric / fabric live mix, here are the ones i've kept

jams murphy, surgeon, optimo, rub n tug, levon vincent, luke slater, jay haze, bent, deadly avenger, death in vegas, swayzak, autonomic, spank rock, martyn, toddla t, metro area, john tejada, pearson sound, jackmaster, four tet, pinch, shackleton, ame, omar s, aim, dj spinbad, tyler stadius, jacques lu cont, carl craig, global communication, james lavelle, filthy dukes

oh and claude von stroke

i'm very excited for ONEMAN

that's already out and it's not very good

Still going through the blitz of fabric CDs I picked up a month or so ago. Actually, I'm listening to the radio slave one for the first time as I write. 5.5 tracks in it's pretty lifeless and dull in the same way pretty much all of RS' productions are, but that's perfect because I need music like this to write essays too, so it's serving well. I could also see this serving exceptionally well as inoffensive, dinner party background music.

I think I have the Ivan Smagghe one in the car

So I guess here's my (seemingly quite favourable) breakdown of what I have

Michael Mayer: ALL TIME CLASSIC, PERRRRRRRRRFECT!
Ricardo Villalobos: Exceptionally solid
Metro Area: Also very good. Very 'fun'
Omar-S.: Also very good.
Radio Slave: see above
Optimo: Still need to listen to it
James Murphy and Pat Mahoney: One of the most fun mixes I've heard. Luvv this.
Shackleton: Really amazing.
Pearson Sound: Very good, perhaps plays it too safe to be exceptional.
Jackmaster: Pretty good, I guess, but nothing all that special, really.
Four Tet: Great, loads of 'character'

Still would like, but the fact I haven't pounced on them might be telling:
Martyn, Surgeon, Instramental + D Bridge,

Wow, that radioslave mix actually really sucked. The fact that it just ham-fistedly faded out at the end, without any attempt to bring things down first or find closure is just injury + insult.

MARTYN is amazingly dope

i was so disappointed with radio slave! it's just shit boring tribal house. he could've just mixed the best 15-20 rekids tracks and been done with it! but i also note that his own dj mixes and the mixes he's made to promote rekids are in general quite underwhelming

another one i forgot that i would heartily recommend to dog latin would be the new digital soundboy soundsystem one

in particular i think DL would really enjoy that one

i do like the michael mayer one but i have no idea what happened to my copy! i have a bunch of random fabric mixes in storage that *aren't* on that list, maybe i'll dig some of them out ...

cheers - will def check some of those out, particularly DSB.

Listened to Sneak followed by Carter back to back while doing some weed clearance in the garden yesterday. Both were okay - the Sneak one maybe less interesting / more functional than Derrick Carter's mix, but I'm not sure either are 'my style of music'. Still, I guess a lot of these comps work as primers and insights into a particular style, and that's cool.

One of my alltime favourite Fabric ones goes back to its early days - the Radioactiveman mix is a lot of fun. Other than that I've got a handful - Global Communications, Swayzak, Michael Meyer etc... My one complaint with a lot of these is that they often play it very strait and safe - think this may be down to the "I am serious DJ, this big serious Fabric mix" factor. That said they don't all lack humour (Metro Area for example).

The Villalobos one is really good, and a good place to listen to a large chunk of his stuff, similar in that respect to the Omar-S one. Mayer is all time. I have a soft spot for the Glimmers one too, but then I like every mix of theirs I've heard.

I like the Carter one.

My one complaint with a lot of these is that they often play it very strait and safe - think this may be down to the "I am serious DJ, this big serious Fabric mix" factor.

The Ewan Pearson and Ame mixes both struck me as examples of this dynamic.

That reminds me, I forgot to include my summary of:

Ewan Pearson: good-ish. A little too 2007 minimal house. Too clean, and yes, too by the book. Sounds more like a theoretical ideal of a well made mix than something I`d return to over and over.

Pearson's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix from 2005 is fantastic though. Played it in the car this weekend and the last 40 minutes are such a huge rush

Aw man, 'Broken Dream' by Da Fresh! That Summetime Cowboy remix! YESSS!

Yes part of the problem his Fabric mix had was coming off the back of that one.

Oh man, this Surgeon mix is just wonderful!

zip!

yes!

I've just ahem stumbled across an archive of every Fabric mix up until last year and damn the Ben Klock one is great, just zero fannying around at all. Might just sit at home and listen to these all weekend.

excited for prosumer and illum sphere

dont much care for his own music but the illum sphere one is one of the best mixes ive heard this year i think...

who is monki? this one looks good!

Annie Mac protegee, she's like 21 years old and already has her own Radio 1 show. I've never listened to it but that tracklist looks extremely promising.

I've been playing the Monki one all week by the way and it's brilliant, my favourite in quite a while, joining the dots between hard-as-nails percussive bass music and hands-in-the-air gospelized house, with the occasional enthusiastically amateurish MC thrown in.

i was not as impressed but i only gave it a couple of spins

Kinda want TLG to hear the Joris Voorn one just to see what level of red mist it gives him. It's like a big fluffy cloud of microhouse candyfloss, really pretty in some places but at other times I can kinda feel my brain dribbling out of my ear.

i was quite turned off by the size of the track list. i dont have anything against digital - i use traktor myself - but in general i don't care much for the slice-n-dice school of dj'ing. i like ye olde richie hawtin mixes okay but that's about it.

If you'd asked me without looking at the tracklisting I honestly wouldn't have guessed there were so many records involved. But then the same goes for Closer To The Edit.

There are plenty of other reasons why you won't like it though. It's like a more fussy version of some of the wibblier James Holden sets I've seen in my time.

voorn has been making p much shitty trance for a long time

i've been listening to a fair amount of old holden lately - the "balance" and "at the controls" mixes. super good. maybe i should give this voorn one a shot.

anyway i revived this thread because based on the RA review i was expecting the baby ford mix to be a disaster ... which it really isn't. i mean, he certainly phoned it in, but it's not *that* bad.

little behind on this but mathew jonson 👌

That one is excellent, it's pretty much a live set but as such it's better than any individual Mathew Jonson album.

As far as I can tell it's the only good one in quite some time (although the Fabriclive series has been pretty good of late).

When enough water has flown under the bridge, Fabric mix CDs will make up a large part of my early-2000s ephemeral tapestry

I'm halfway through the Alan Fitzpatrick one, which I approached with no real expectations and woah. Festival techno! This is exactly what I want to listen to in June.

Nice to hear Mouth To Mouth again as well.

flava d soon:

https://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/newsflash-flava-d-has-mixed-fabriclive-88

Been listening to the Carl Craig one a lot lately

why is flava d getting to do a fabriclive? im sure it wont be bad, but its like, in 2016, why have they not had slimzee do one yet? or spooky? spooky would be incredible. something a bit off about it really.

the EZ one is top 5. maybe THE best fabriclive. makes a mockery of the competition.

Now that this is officially a historical archive we should probably have another go round at repping for the best ones.

Has it been confirmed that the mix series will end?

if it does, there's some sort of sale on their back catalog again. not that I need the physical objects at this point in the game, but... I don't know, I'd like something.

back in the mid-2000s I subscribed to the cd series. being in the middle of the US there were limited possibilities to actually go to a club where I'd see acts like those that played fabric. even the mixes obviously made more for home listening made me feel like I was getting a glimpse into something. the design/artwork and music selection was variable but I always got something out of it. I can't remember when I started... probably shortly after that fabric 13 michael mayer mix.

it's a weird time for released mixes in physical format, or even mixes that are purchased at all. that the fabric ones are still running seems like a throwback at times

many, if not most, of the fabric mixes are on some of the streaming services, though

for a short while i was on the fabric promo groove.
even the promos has a good look and feel to them.
simple basic coloured covers in heavy cardboard.
my faves : omar s, john tejada, commix, noisia,
and when in the mood for an old school hip hop set, dj spinbad.

I'm not sure if it's still out there, but the fabric promo materials (just the press releases and promo images/materials, not music) website was public but relatively un-googleable. I remember grabbing some of the original art in really high resolution, which was excellent for background images.

I don't think it's been confirmed either way but that's hardly going to be at the forefront of their mind right now. I guess they're promotional loss-leaders in any case, they can't possibly make their money back off releasing a whole run of, say, Jesse Rose CDs.

Commercially-released mix albums do feel anachronistic in the age of hundreds of free mixes a week but I think I still engage with them in different ways. Like a mix CD still feels like a DJ releasing an album. A great podcast can be better and a great radio set can be much better but they have that looser, live feel to them. I like the implied permanence of a mix album (also they're usually in better sound quality and you can actually see track titles, which matters to me).

I'm listening to the Glimmers one right now which is the best of the mid-00s bloggy ones (except the James Murphy/Pat Mahoney one which is all time).

Otherwise my top 10 from both series, in no particular order:

Fabric:

Michael Mayer (everyone says this but its true)
Carl Craig
Ellen Allien
Andy Weatherall
Agoria
Claude Vonstroke
Zip
Omar-S
Luciano
Marcel Dettmann

Fabriclive:

Jacques Lu Cont
Bent
The Glimmers
James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
Jackmaster
Toddla T
Elijah & Skilliam
DJ EZ
Flava D
Logan Sama

There are so many terrible-sounding ones I've never bothered to go near, and nearly every DJ has turned out a better mix album for someone else (Mayer's Immer, Pearson's and Luciano's Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi), but I'll sort of miss them if they do stop dropping off the conveyor belt.

I forgot the Optimo/Metro Area/Tiefschwarz/Monki ones which are all also excellent.

the Death in Vegas fabriclive one is good

Shackleton and Sandwell District ones are more artist album/mixes than anything else but I'd endorse them

I was a huge huge fan of the Radioactive Man one back in the day. Don't know how well it's aged, probably come back round in terms of style. Pure full-frontal electroclash fun.

Oh god yes the carl craig one

the villalobos one was great for having all unreleased - at the time - villalobos, including primer encuentro latinoamericano which is one of my favourite ever villalobos tracks - not so great as a mix cd.

The John Peel one.

many, if not most, of the fabric mixes are on some of the streaming services, though

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there's only 1 on spotify where i am :(

i have been contemplating getting the sandwell district mix as i have no chance of ever getting their vinyl stuff, but the constant use of 'dark' in various descriptions puts me off as i dont actually know what that means in regards to dance music, as to me it means foetus/front242/industrial etc.
that said, i have just heard a sandwell district vs the black dog remix, and so that 'buy now' option is a lot close than it was.

Just bought the Ellen Allien and James Murphy/Pat Mahoney CD's on Discogs

The John Peel one was ridiculous but it introduced me to so much interesting music, as any John Peel session should I guess. That Capris' song singlehandedly got me into doo-wop and that insane gabba track (Identify The Beat) towards the end was a firm party favourite among my friends for years.

ricardo's is may favourite definitely

zips was a bit disappointing for me, despite the (second half) tracklisting, still good though

been meaning to go hear to the Pure Science one for a long time...so many good records...and so many really bad ones

from his discography, i mean

The Sandwell District one bangs, you should listen to it.

Like it's dark but in the way clubs lit by one lightbulb with everyone going mental are dark, it's not especially screwfacing or gothy or anything.

i.e. perfect for me.

ta Matt DC .. ordered .

question : why is the jamie jones fabric mix so much cheaper than any others !?!?

is it really that bad ?

(i have ordered it as i love the REKIDS groove).

FTR : of the promo stuff i heard, the mark farina mix was the one i really hated.

once i tuned into the beat that was consistent throughout i could not hear anything else.

I think I'm in the ilm minority in enjoying the loopy, self-consciously "dark" sandwell-style stuff but it's got its place. glad to know Matt DC is a fan.

I thought Sandwell District in general were reasonably highly rated on ILM?

They're pretty monochrome and warehousey but not in the posturing way you get with more EBM-influenced acts. Maybe not quite the time of year yet though - I always seem to dig the album out in November.

my goodness, this nina kraviz mix >>>>>>

she's done some really interesting & weird things with her label lately

Yeah I was given that one a listen the other day, REALLY great. What was even better was that my girlfriend and fellow music fiend came back from an errand while it was playing and instantly recognized it was her by her style and approach -- talk about a sign you've arrived.

yeah i totally get that - haven't seen her play out in years but must rectify

Have to look into this... I've liked her previous material, and any mix released in 2016 that includes Air Liquide's "Revelation" can't be bad.

So it's good then? Her DJ-Kicks is very murky and never really takes off, so I was going to skip this one.

...no to mention Kirlian, Namlook, and even Drax's "Amphetamine"! Looks like she's been heavily into classic '90s bangers, which should be a good sign for an oldie like me.

(xmessage)

really wish I had picked up her album on REKIDS when I saw it in hmv a few years back ..

I love her album but I didn't think the DJ-Kicks was up to much and the Bjarki stuff I've heard from her label is bewildering in its popularity to me. I'll need to investigate this.

I really like the Gerd Janson entry.

It has a great energy (that so many mix cd's are lacking). Good on her.

this rules a lot

I think her DJ-Kicks was the tail end of that particular sound for her.

She's seemed to veer into a more wide-reaching approach to DJing. First indication of that for me was her dropping 'No Good (Start the Dance)' at Dekmantel this year.

Haha I have actually fantasised about being a prestigious DJ at a prestigious club or festival and dropping "No Good (Start The Dance)".

i'm curious what other people's top 10 fabric mixes are. my own lists don't overlap too much with matt dc's but there is some.

as far as the fabrics go i really like tyler stadius and swayzak from the early run. carl craig and global communciation did a great little thing mixing up broken beat and detroit techno. i recall luke slater's was excellent early early example of the berghain / sandwell axis thing bubbling up. ame's is a great blend of deep house and dub house. martyn's was really amazing, kind of sounds like nothing else. agoria's was very emotional, expansive classic techno and house with some neat tempo tricks happening (ableton?). i would probably round out my list with shackleton and levon vincent. very tense listening.

overall i probably prefer fabriclive to fabric. i think a lot more of them are just more interesting, and the good ones have held up really well. jacques lu cont, bent and bugz in the attic still sound really great and fresh. aim's is really lovely pastoral hip hop. death in vegas is very dark and cool in an unusual way, holds up better imo than a lot of similar dark rock-techno-disco entries from the time (say, andrew weatherall or ivan smagghe, both of whom i think are great but turned in not so great mixes). i still listen to james murphy's. the autonomic one nicely sums up that moment. pearson sound, four tet and ben ufo round out my ten.

i do think i forget how many bad blog house and drum and bass mixes were under the fabriclive banner. i still think i prefer the fabriclive mixes i listed to the fabrics but i don't think i'd say the latter series is better than the former.

there are quite a lot i think that are passably good representations of what that person does while not being the best example you can find of what that person does: omar-s, villalobos, dj ez, jackmaster, etc

need to relisten to mumdance and illum sphere, i remember those sounding pretty good but i barely got a chance to listen. and metro area. i haven't checked that one out in a while but i remember thinking it was pretty weird.

This is one of the best mixes of the year for me. Makes me feel jealous how she's not only very physically attractive but great at her craft. She also keeps getting slightly weirder without losing her style which is usually a good sign in any artist for me. The ambition to expand.

Is there a Fabric/Fabriclive mix poll? This is 91 right? There's enough for two or three polls if we do 30 mixes per poll.

The Eats Everything mix also released this year is good.

i'm curious what other people's top 10 fabric mixes are. my own lists don't overlap too much with matt dc's but there is some

i'd struggle to fill 10 i think, unfortunately!

there are quite a lot i think that are passably good representations of what that person does while not being the best example you can find of what that person does

This being one of the main reasons! There are certainly DJ's i like that have released fabric mixes, but most fall in either 'passably good representation' category, or often "disappointing and flat". i think ricardo's is actually one of the ones that doesn't though, i think thats one of the few where it does do justice

i dont know if its the cd format that is the issue, or if Fabric is sometimes.....a bit late in booking, there's an argument some of the contributors have gone well off the boil by the time they got to do one

Mmm I think I could do it but I haven't listened to all of them. Favorite ones I remember top of my head:

Shackleton
Villalobos
James Lavelle
Four Tet
Nina Kraviz
Levon Vincent
Sandwell District
Ewan Pearson
Daniel Avery
Petre Inspirescu
James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
Erol Alkan

Scratch Perverts

i dont know if its the cd format that is the issue, or if Fabric is sometimes.....a bit late in booking, there's an argument some of the contributors have gone well off the boil by the time they got to do one

the concept of a cd mix has felt archaic for years now - when i see a dj i like is lined up to do a fabric cd i just shrug because i can and have heard any amount of mixes/sets by them whenever i choose, usually, it's not a special occasion. but from talking to them a lot of them do feel it's a special occasion, or at least they put pressure on themselves to...represent themselves fully, i guess? which is bad when they try to cram too much stuff in, or over-think their selection when their forte is spontaneity (jackmaster is prob exhibit a here).

so as wanky as the auteurist approach is, i guess the djs who can pull this off are those, like villalobos or levon vincent or omar-s, who craft it almost like an artist album, and who have enough quality material to do it themselves.

as for timing, rather than too early or too late per se, a fabric cd commission often comes when a newish dj is cresting a wave and is simply incredibly busy (and also feeling pressure to justify themselves while simultaneously trying to evolve in general). nina kraviz is an example where late timing works in fabric's favour - technically they're super-late given how long she's been around but she's obviously gone up a level and has been doing some super-interesting things with her label this year, so it's the right time for an auteurist approach (though not with her own stuff) to work.

Think there's a core of a good piece here, Lex!

I don't think they are super-late if she hasn't gone off the boil! Otherwise agree, which is why i only own one of them!

Haha I have actually fantasised about being a prestigious DJ at a prestigious club or festival and dropping "No Good (Start The Dance)".

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video of it (from exit not dekmantel - apparently this is a regular thing for her these days!). it goes OFF obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6WG77z7NzQ

Honestly this mix is fine but not especially exciting and takes an age to get going (a bit like the Scuba one from earlier this year), like it doesn't feel qualitatively any better or worse than the run of reasonably straight-ahead European techno mixes they've put out over the last couple of years. It's a lot better than the DJ Kicks one but I don't feel immediately compelled to go and see her live or anything.

the concept of a cd mix has felt archaic for years now - when i see a dj i like is lined up to do a fabric cd i just shrug because i can and have heard any amount of mixes/sets by them whenever i choose

At the same time, the frankly insane volume of free mixes out there means that some form of curatorial hand feels necessary, even as mix CDs (or digital versions of them) become commercially less and less viable. I'm sure there are amazing mixes being put out by random Estonian dudes on Soundcloud but there are so fucking many mediocre ones out there the whole experience feels like a trawl. Also I'm old fashioned and like decent sound quality and being able to actually see track titles.

Whether the Fabric series is the best for that I seriously doubt at this stage. I think there's something about the architecture and vibe of the building itself that encourages heads-down and quite moody selections from DJs who generally aren't. There's also that maddening thing where DJs who always go hard in actual clubs spend half the CD patiently building upwards to the extent that it sounds completely unrepresentative and indistinguishable from everyone else.

usually, it's not a special occasion. but from talking to them a lot of them do feel it's a special occasion, or at least they put pressure on themselves to...represent themselves fully, i guess?

There was a quote from a Flava D interview where she talked about the rush of going into HMV of all places just to see her CD on the shelves which I thought was quite revealing (and hers is probably the best of the last couple of years). At its best a commercial mix should actually feel like an album rather than a straightforward representation of a club set - Mayer's brilliant at this - and hers does as well. A lot of DJs are actively bad at this. By contrast, Gerd Janson's is fine but there's basically no difference between that and hundreds of similar podcasts, like what's your reason for putting this out for sale?

there are quite a lot i think that are passably good representations of what that person does while not being the best example you can find of what that person does

Even if you filter out podcasts and festival recordings I don't think there's a single DJ who's put their best commercial mix out for Fabric. Immer is better than Mayer's, The Workout is better than Carl Craig's, the Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi mixes by Luciano and Ewan Pearson are both better than their Fabric mixes etc. I seem to remember Ben Klock and Marcel Dettmann's Fabric mixes being better than their Berghain ones but without there being much in it. (Dettmann's DJ Kicks is fantastic and bucks a generally underwhelming recent trend in that series).

The Fabriclive series has a lot more personality in general but a lot of those personalities are fucking horrible. The recent run of garage and grime mixes has been fantastic though.

there's an argument some of the contributors have gone well off the boil by the time they got to do one

Maybe they just aren't that good in the first place when removed from a club context (or even in one), or their ear for selections is very tied to a small and quite limited set of records. But I certainly remember the format feeling much more vital in the early-mid 00s.

There's also the cramming-30-tracks-into-70-minutes thing, which is fine if they're playing big-room techno or if they're someone like DJ EZ who always does rapid transitions, but kind of annoying if they're a house DJ feeling the pressure to over-represent themselves. I do love the Jackmaster one though even if the mixing itself is completely shonky. Sometimes it adds to the intensity and at other times it completely kills the vibe.

i recall luke slater's was excellent early early example of the berghain / sandwell axis thing bubbling up

<3 Luke Slater but I remember this being a really good techno mix broken up with these baffling side turns into the big dancefloor bankers of the day, like DFA or Switch or whoever sticking out like a sore thumb. Just this general sense of lacking courage in his convictions or something, or having too much of it. I suppose some mix CDs that feel obvious at the time later feel like an excellent document of a scene but this isn't really one of them.

Maybe they just aren't that good in the first place when removed from a club context (or even in one), or their ear for selections is very tied to a small and quite limited set of records

This may be true but here it sounds more like you are describing someone who was never on the boil

DJs can get lazy, or rest on laurels and stop digging! or just change their style in ways that dont work! or have different phases....just the same as producers.

At the same time, the frankly insane volume of free mixes out there means that some form of curatorial hand feels necessary

Curatorial hand yes, but its the same for records or for anything, its something you build up over time subconsciously, everyone builds up their own curatorial hand, which is built up from a variety of sources, nothing is ever random (except for when it is).

Objekt's 'Kern' is better than any Fabric mix from this year except maybe the Flava D one. And that feels like both a coherent statement and something that wouldn't have worked as a podcast. It also doesn't waste a second of the CD without feeling rushed.

I don't think there's a single DJ who's put their best commercial mix out for Fabric

if there's a better james murphy &/or pat mahoney mix out there I'd love to hear it

Probably several other artists are in the same boat (Bugz in the Attic and Bent to start with) but I assume Matt meant "(of those DJs who have released several commercial DJ mixes)".

there is no need for a curatorial hand.

xp I'm not disputing the truth of it, just often hanker for more in that vein

just gave the claude vonstroke mix a spin.

not sure i have ever actually listened to it before.

really enjoyed it.

not that crazy about this guy's own productions but this looks interesting to say the least

http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/catalog/product/view/id/1134/s/fabric-92/category/8/

I knew zero about him at all before listening to this, but the Call Super mix is the first one in ages, in the core Fabric series at least, where I feel like I want to go back to it again and again and engage with it in the way I would an album. The fact that it peaks so early (and what a peak!) gives him a lot of time to drift through other moods and the second half is completely mesmerising.

Also I didn't really look at the tracklisting beforehand so the Wonderful Life moment was pretty much hands-in-the-air in my front room.

I can't recommend all of Call Super's own work (under his name as well as Ondo Fudd) highly enough

and yeah the Fabric mix is wonderful

"16. Bitstream - Incubator"

Great record!

yes, the fabric mix is excellent, reminds me of agoria's similarly free-wheeling entry

i'm also excited for the special request one which is next out (fabriclive 91)

http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/09/special-request-fabriclive-91-announced/

request for comment: any artists on houndstooth, their in-house label, I should be checking?

they had a sale on houndstooth stuff, and I was looking through and realizing I wasn't too familiar with the majority and started off on a listening binge to see what's up

well lex and a lot of people i know endorse call super (who i am not crazy about but will be giving another shot)

i quite liked the special request 2CD and i've also really enjoyed the marquis hawkes releases

not so into post-dubstep these days but if you are you will probably like the akkord album

finally i have heard a lot of good things about aisha devi but not investigated myself

actually got into akkord via a remix ep a while back

was surprised aisha devi is on houndstooth -- I saw her live last year and it was a++ and after realizing I'd been into her past work under an alias it made sense

Love the Call Super mix (really like his album from a few years ago too but this is very different).

Had not heard the house version of Photek's "T'Raenon" before, it's very pretty. Kind of nerdishly amused by how the track sequencing implies that Photek leads with a breakbeat when in fact it's Bushwacka's (it's almost like a small joke about how much we have forgotten about 90s dance music).

the call super is wonderful, wow

Brad make sure you listen to his (relatively) new track “Fluenka Spoke”.

great track

just announced Fabriclive 100 (the last one in its "current form" according to the PR blurb) : Kode9/Burial.

tracklisting = TBA

I'm intrigued!

whoa

i'm assuming craig richards for fabric 100

would not surprise me if they don't release a tracklisting and just put it out.
and yeah, its a pretty bloody great way to end the physical series.

Burial/Kode9 and Craig Richards would be the most underwhelming closing salvo imaginable but it makes sense.

Suspect they'll continue putting mixes out after this but those CDs must be like dumping money into a landfill at this stage.

Given they only just got round to Sasha I wonder if they've got someone really big lined up for Fabric 100 though.

I wonder how many people subscribe? Brother-n-law subscribed for an age, to the extent that it felt like "a big thing" when he stopped. Like he'd *changed* or something.

I subscribed for a brief period but it was over a decade ago! The advent of downloadable mixes and especially the regular podcast ones really put a dent in the market

we should poll them by their album art groups

or do a listen in consecutive order challenge

that's a challenge i'm not going to take btw, even allowing for breaks that just too much bad drum and bass

fabric vs fabriclive

is there that much of a difference really ?
I only have 19 of them, some fabric, some fabriclive, and never even really given the 'live' part much thought.

generally there's a genre split, although there are definite exceptions

fabric is more techno/house and fabriclive tends to have the drum and bass derived stuff combined with a grab bag of random people mixing

fair enough, ta for the insight.

the division is exactly the same as Fabriclive on Fridays vs Fabric on Saturdays at the club

as an old man who has never been to the place, I guess that's why I have never understood the distinction.

question : is fabriclive 14 by DJ Spinbad the only hip hop edition of the series ?

depends how you define it

oh ok.

*not sure what you mean to be honest*

does logan sama count?

does deadly avenger count?

does aim count?

does the herbaliser count?

damn there's a lot more edge cases than i realized

diplo
dj format
dj yoda
elijah and skilliam

and that's it i think

The Elijah & Skilliam one definitely doesn't count - that and the Rinse mix are probably the two best commercially available cases for grime as *dance music*.

cheers for the pointers TLG, forgot about the DJ Yoda and Format ones.

xp agree w you on e&s

FabricLive 100 (Kode9 & Burial) tracklist:

01 - David Hykes - Rainbow Voice
02 - Klein - Hurry
03 - Cooly G - Magnetic
04 - Julz Da Deejay - Deaths Effect
05 - Roman Rodney - Triple Beat
06 - TLC Fam - Skim Sam (DBN Dance)
07 - Nazar - Konvoy
08 - Lechuga Zafiro - Agua Y Puerta
09 - Hyph11e - Black Pepper (Tzusing Remix)
10 - Luke Slater - I Can Complete You
11 - Virgin - B9
12 - Nut-E-1 - Underwater Fireworks
13 - David Hykes - Rainbow Voice
14 - Jungle Buddha - Drug Me
15 - Black Acid - Black Acid
16 - Vladislav Delay - Otan Osaa
17 - DJ Spinn - Make Me Hot
18 - Mr. Fingers - Spy (Kode9 Remix)
19 - Scratcha DVA - Pink 33 (DJ Phil Remix) (Feat. Clara Le San)
20 - DJ Tre - A House Hybrid
21 - Tedmann - Baby
22 - DJ Rashad - Let It Go
23 - Ontheground - Fallen
24 - Intense - The Quickening
25 - Genecom - Polyphonic Raid
26 - Clementine - The Opening
27 - Victim Rebirth - Metamesonyxtia Narkogyra
28 - Friends Lovers & Family - The Lift
29 - AK1200 - Junior's Tune (Digital Remix) (Feat. Junior Reid)
30 - Okzharp & Manthe Ribane - Treasure Erasure
31 - Ben Frost - Ionia (Jlin Remix)
32 - DJ Taye / Babyfather - Nu Summer Shit / Prolific Deamons
33 - Jacob's Optical Stairway - Solar Feelings (Claude Young's Kyoto Soul Dub)
34 - Proc Fiskal - Dishwashing
35 - DJ Chap - Brujeria
36 - DJ Tre - A Hammond Jam
37 - RP Boo - Wicked'Bu

sigh

matt was right

very 2013 way to go out

Not doing it for me (didn't get on with Kode 9's DJ Kicks at all). Love that Claude Young remix of Jabobs Optical Stairway though. 37 tracks so no doubt it will only make a 90 second appearance tops.

Big up for the use of Intense “The Quickening”, however. Serious 1994 jungle crate-digging there

don't think I have too much use for this but it's introduced me to the extremely wild Black Acid track so kudos

The flutter of indignation I felt at seeing Scratcha DVA's name in there was a real nostalgia trip, I've missed you old friend.

Is there a Fabric 100 or are they bowing out with the (very boring) Sasha one?

3 stars in RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23143

Apparently there's going to be a 100th installment. Craig Richards / Ricardo perhaps?

I don't know if I'm mellowing in old age but I'm quite enjoying this. The Luke Slater drop is a fantastic moment.

I mean, it's not up there with DJ Q dropping a bassline remix of the Stingray theme tune but baby steps eh.

is it streaming somewhere?

fabric 100 = 3cd set with craig richards, terry francis and keith reilly.

Craig Richards
01. Monolake - Nmos
02. Alphacom - Journal Square
03. Solar X Brother Nebula - S.I.S. (Savile's Jetset Radio Remix)
04. Setaoc Mass - Flying Buttress
05. D. Ball - Transition
06. Larry McCormick - Ride Low
07. Simulant - New Machines
08. The Woodleigh Research Facility - The Question Oak
09. Rutherford - Pseudo Judo
10. Reedale Rise - Lucid Flow
11. Craig Richards - My Friend Is Losing His Mind
12. Fred und Luna - Monotonikum
13. Nancy Noise - Azizi's Dance (Andrew Weatherall Remix 1)
14. Reade Truth - Where Has Love Gone
15. Simon Haydo - Obey?
16. DMX Krew - Bush Baby Bug Eyes
17. Detromental - Rewind
18. Mike Ash - The Fizz
19. Vectorvision vs Convextion - Zy Clone
20. Orgue Electronique - Suck Seed

Terry Francis
01. Patrick Di Stefano & Luca Doobie - Get Through (Inxec Remix)
02. Jamie Fairley - Round 'n' Round
03. Jose Vizcaino - Vicious Vision
04. Joeski - Cross Over feat. Jesante
05. Audiojack - Turya
06. Gel Abril - Carpet Sneak
07. Mauri Fly - Red Tribal (Silvano Del Gado Remix)
08. Blue Wig - No Ignorance (Part 1)
09. Pure Science - The Way We Use To
10. Argy - Love Dose
11. Kevin Yost - Dancer Dancer
12. Andre Salmon - Where Is The Salmon
13. Francesco Robustelli - After Midnight
14. Jaded & James Petrou - Toni's Pain (INXEC's Morphine mashup)
15. Terry Francis - Wipeout
16. Tiefschwartz – Oberton
17. Terry Francis - Emotional Blackmail
18. Funtopia feat. Jimi Polo - Do You Wanna Know (Club Mix)
19. Creep Show - Safe And Sound

Keith Reilly
01. Vondelpark - California Analog Dream (Robag's Moppa Habax NB)
02. Alex Attias Presents Mustang - Finding Who We Are feat. Colonel Red (Quarion Dub)
03. SIOPIS - Really Love Ya
04. Taube - Belle La Vie
05. Low Deep T - Casablanca
06. Eddie Richards & Gideon Jackson - Biscuit Barrel Blues
07. Eddie Richards – Droids
08. Rancido - Devil's Den
09. Hanna Haïs feat. Sandra Nankoma - Mwala Wei'ka (Original Mix)
10. Hyenah - Tale Of The Dirt feat. Aquarius Heaven (Rampa Remix)
11. Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Ordinary (Mick Rubins Deep)

Not done with physical releases after all...

https://images.roughtrade.com/product/images/files/000/164/797/hero/fabric201.jpg?1548242105

https://www.fabriclondon.com/store/bonobo.html

Listened to that the other day, very suited for an early spring - extremely pleasant and entirely unchallenging.

Yeah the Bonobo mix sounds pretty great when all you can see is blue sky.

I don't care about Bonobo as an artist at all (I always assumed he was kind of politely unchallenging, Four Tet with all the rough edges sanded off). But if Dixon had turned in this mix - which he quite easily could have - people would be falling over themselves to hosanna it.

found the previously unmentioned Surgeon Fabric 53 mix today in a charity shop.
it is exactly what i was needing from a mixtape at the moment
i.e. dark and intense pounding machine noise.
had only heard Surgeons ltd mix cd on Warp prior to this so had an idea of what to expect.
not disappointed.

arse.
forgot about the expanding of the thread before i did the search.
yeah, it has been mentioned.
quite a few times by the looks of it.
doh.

Still nice to see this thread revived!

i have a snow day so i actually get to hang out and listen to my sweet cd player and get to some of the stuff i have that i haven't listened to/haven't listened to in forever. ANYHOO i'm really enjoying the Zip Fabric mix! i did not know that Zip is the Perlon dude until i looked him up. it all makes sense now. sounds so good.

https://i.discogs.com/9a4AR3DysfZ-GJ8TmrkKh-97q4xbtRxNZKlVBzclvXM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:563/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwNzMz/NzYtMTU1MTIyNjc2/MC00MDM5LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/TLp4crrg5p1sR5_GgdXO1sdGOvPumvsQ9Ga1Dgh70OM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:574/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQwNzMz/NzYtMTU1MTIyNjc2/MC02NTcwLmpwZWc.jpeg

Zip is incredible. One of the few DJs who I track down random tapes from. He’s also an awesome dude.

Pluto - Point Blank totally makes me want to listen to the album it comes from:

https://www.discogs.com/master/84567-Pluto-Demolition-Plates

which is one of the things i love about these mixes. rabbit hole city. a city filled with rabbit holes!