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― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

dj scream - only the crunk survive 12: kings of snap edition

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

funny you say ... i was totally underwhelmed w/ "snap or die"

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

but i just hooked my subwoofer up last week, so maybe i should try it again.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to suggest part 2 of lindstrom's six-hour "shibuya FM x lowrider" epic

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

actually i have no idea.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

tiga essential mix!

― genital hyphys (haitch), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

rub n tug - fabric 30

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cassy - Panorama Bar 01 (CD)
Kiki - Boogy Bytes Vol.1 (CD)
Ricardo Villalobos - Live @ Awakenings Festival Netherlands 01.07.06 (mp3)
Roll Deep Presents Grimey Vol.1 (CD)
Mala/Skream/Kode 9 & Spaceape... BBC Breezeblock Dubstep Warz (mp3)
Sylvie Marks - Live @ Radio X 03.05.06 (mp3)
Sascha Funke - Boogy Bytes Vol.2 (CD)
Magda - She's a Dancing Machine (CD)
Luciano - Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. Vol.2 (CD)

in that order. rather a trendy list :/

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

a bit early aren't we?

well, mixed up in the hague was recently re-released.

jokes aside, it is probably this. (though i have not heard it yet)

what is the date on the lindstrom mix? what are everyone's favorite hip hop mixtapes?

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

i have been reading this message board for about 2 years and have never posted because i don't really know that much about what you are all talking about, but i'm drunk and don't really care what i say. i think the best dj mix of this year is sasha's live mix at avalon(los angeles), june 24. he uses ableton live during his set and it is just amazing. besides richie hawtin's transitions series, this is the best ableton live set set/album i've heard. a must listen. he recored himself as he was playing and then handed the mix out to the crowd at the end of the night.

― jeff bergeron (bergeronyoface), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

"jokes aside, it is probably this. (though i have not heard it yet)"

OMG HENRIK SCHWARZ DJ KICKS!

Neat looking tracklisting, although I could wish he had more of his own stuff on it.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kings of Snap IS good.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

That Henrik Schwarz looks so good it might kill me. He has Cymande on it!

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, is Rub 'n Tug's Campfire '06 or '05? I did love that. Also Selzer and Simonetti's "Crazy Rhythms" was great.

Otherwise, Casssy. The Kiki one is totally overrated.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Cd-wise: Kiki of course (overrated because it's gooooood.)
But Villalobos @ Awakenings is way better than anything released on cd.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:T9PaXZf0XAkJ:ipopped.blogspot.com/2006/04/tiga-essential-mix.html+tiga+essential+mix&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=3

i didn't hear the TIGA but here s the tracklist.

anyone got a link to some kind of ysi or same?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah and I love the second hour of the Booka Shade Essential Mix. Just perfect.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

I missed that Booka Shade Essential Mix :-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Here you are, Tim

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TX0W33VW

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

that schwarz mix looks great (actually it looks like something i would put together but not as well, of course).

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

kiki boogybytes!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

Frankie Bones - Discogs 16: Oliver Lieb

http://www.spookyland.ch/?p=181

― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

I found a working link to the Tiga mix last night, but saved it elsewhere. I'll repost it later, I want to hear that too!

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love that Modernist Collectors Series Pt. 1 a lot.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

interested in part 2 of that series, looks like one for the cosmic/beardo set.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Tiga Essential Mix

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

under-appreciated Fabric mixes:

Global Communication
Wiggle
Cut Copy

don't really have the capacity to do them justice here, but they stayed on my player for a long time (esp Cut Copy - couldn't get the damn thing off my player)

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'll have to agree with Grady. The Rub 'n' Tug Fabric mix is pretty fuckin awesome. Not as ragged as the Campfire mix, but loveably unpretentious and, well, just super-danceable.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy Rhythms mix was 2005...but as it's the best mix of all time, surely it's the best mix of 2006.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

this henrik schwarz mix is pretty fantastic on first listen

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

so who the hell is this guy? he seems to have only one trick for his own productions (deep house + long, achy breaky horn lines) but its a good trick.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Please share all lindstrom sets.

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jess, re Schwarz, you've probably already heard his remix of Wei Chi's "Faces & Phases" on the first Body Language mix, but you should also check out his beautiful percussive remix of Alex Smoke's "Don't See The Point", plus "Leave My Head Alone Brain", "Jismi 2006 (Mix 3)" (which is more minimal, sort of like to Schwarz as "Rej" is to Ame) and "Where We At" (his amazing collaboration with Ame and Dixon with the vocals from Derrick Carter's "Where U At"). Oh, and his remix of Tosca's "Superrob", which condenses a lot of the same tricks as the "Take A Walk In My Shoes" mix down to 5 minutes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

haha this mix is pretty much cosigns vahid's "beardo = the new trip-hop" theory.

xpost: thanx tim.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently he also released a live album last year that I would love to hear - he's kinda my new obsession.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

can i also nominate shit robot's dfa radio mix?

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Villalobos- Awakenings Festival set
Luciano- Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi 2

and what the fuck is going on with y'all when you haven't mentioned Kreucht und Fleucht?

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

uh, because it came out in 2005?

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

seriously guys, shit robot radio mix. it's like classic records goes down the k-hole.

also this switch mix rocked the first half of my year

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

whooops ... this one

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

yeah those were both good!

― genital hyphys (haitch), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

"interested in part 2 of that series, looks like one for the cosmic/beardo set."

from daniel wang to throbbing gristle in 5 steps.

so no noms for better with a spoonful of leather? it's one of my faves for sure. black sabbath disco.

tim finnizzle check your email.

"this henrik schwarz mix is pretty fantastic on first listen"

jealous!

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha i think i'd already call it (on, like, the fifth or sixth listen so far today) my favorite dj mix of 2006. sadly 50% of the tracklist is pre-2006, of course. but it's certainly the first DAHNCE dj mix this year that i've actually felt like playing more than once, certainly the only one i've felt like playing multiple times in a row.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

the section that runs luther davis group-->a. russell-->womack and womack is particularly lovely. not quite sure what he's doing to the russell (prolly just EQ tricks) but it actually sounds like a pretty tuff little unit now. i never woulda pegged it for a dancefloor track. the luther davis group track is one of the few DIGGIN IN THE CRATES BEARDO NUGGETS i've heard so far that actually sounds like it deserves to be re-found.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"it's like classic records goes down the k-hole"

that is quite a recommendation there. is it like schwarz's remix of induceve? ("breathe out, breathe in, it's time to begin")

i am glad people are feeling schwarz. IMO he's the awesome (as opposed to the typically rote) middle ground in the maelstrom of minimaltechhouse this year.

also, +1 to the cassy contingent. (who is also much the same (hotness in the center of the sticky bun)) (but even heavier and deeper)

― breakfast pants is pretentious (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, dude sounds like he's doing bad karaoke when he gets to the chorus, but it's a totally charming mishmash of EVERY DISCO CLICHE EVER: chicken scratch, cheesy strings, synth "wow" noises, horns, party whistles. and then this gorgeous echoplex guitar solo. i think if he could actually sing well it might be too cheesy.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

and before all that there's drexciya and robert hood!

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

oy, i should've wrote minimaltechbeardohouse up there.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I was thinking that - re Schwarz and "middle ground" - earlier myself, the way he seems to tie together so many of the different threads perfectly, Villalobos meets Feedelity etc.

In a similar but subtler way it's what I like about Ame too - the way they bring house back into minimal (although for them it's more like adding minimal to their house)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

henrik schwarz is not the first dj to put pulsinger's "claire" and a drexciya track on a disc w/ cymande and pharoah sanders

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

also if you like the jazzy techno stylings of patrick pulsinger's "claire", you'll LOVE the 2-disc mo'wax "excursions" compilation!

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have this notion that this Jerome Sydenham mix could be my favourite mix of the year, though having not actually heard it yet throws a spanner in the works perhaps. Can anyone report back?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

i got a promo, listened to it once and promptly put it away ... it's sort of ... underwhelming.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

vahid perhaps you did not notice the following:

haha this mix is pretty much cosigns vahid's "beardo = the new trip-hop" theory.

-- john cougar thornton melloncamp

but continue bustin' imaginary chops if it makes u feel better.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't really been blown away by many DJ mixes this year. Tiefschwarz Fabric and Body Language 2 were both quite enjoyable though. There are a lot of my favourite tracks which haven't been put on any CD yet though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

uh, because it came out in 2005?
-- john cougar thornton melloncamp (wt...), September 12th, 2006. (dubplatestyle) (link)

Occasionally, I am a moron.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

yes i was pleasantly surprised with the tiefschwarz fabric mix.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

vahid i'd wager that the way the mix is constructed is what differentiates it from mo wax.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

i love the first half of body language 2.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

jess i was talking about myself!!

i want to hear that damn henry schwarz mix!!

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

The best by far for me is Surgeon - Glade Festival 07.14.06 (from his website)

Also rans:
Kode9 ft the Spaceape - Dubstep Allstars 3
Grievous Angel - Dubstep Sufferah
Skream / Stormfield - Ammunition mix

― Ken Boone (Hubajube), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

surgeon's been on a more-or-less EBM kick lately right?

i will check that out.

i should also note JOEY BELTRAM - LIVE @ WOMB on tresor

it totally demands an all-caps treatment

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Still need to listen to the Schwarz mix. My favorite Schwarz thing so far remains "Chicago." Best Moodymann rip ever.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

i love the first half of body language 2.

That's what I always say/think. The second half is, how do you say, pants.

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

That Surgeon set is gnarly! Will listen to Shit Robot again too, plenty of sludge, plenty of dance, but not much polyrhythmic/idm farting about, can see why vahid rates it.

04 vs. 05 vs. 06?

been looking back, as I was surprised to feel this year's been much better for mixes than I expected, especially as I've been trying conciously avoid "keeping up" (not very well, clearly).

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

basically what i've learned is that optimo needs to put out a new mix this year so they can take it three years in a row for me.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Claussell's rising/falling techno-ambient "Translate" CD makes for great listening. But it's not really a party mix.

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

the one i've definitely played the most is DJ Solution's garage mix which is available for download here : it's got a bit of 2step here and there, but mostly it's Todd Edwards and Todd-inspired 4x4 UKG. 43 mins, relentlessly funky from start to finish.

― Mind Taker (Mind Taker), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

surgeon mix looks fucking crazy!!

haven't even listened to it yet, not sure what to expect ...

the thing about that jerome sydenham mix is that it drifts into the same sort of trouble territory that francois k has lately ... four minute sections of whooshy noises w/ not much to do but contemplate the meandering tribal "small percussion" instruments

it's like listening to witch doctor music or cuban voodoo drumming or something. interesting in theory, but without the 4/4 kick to tie the whole thing down it's actually incredibly tedious listening.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

big swathes of the first sydenham mix literally sound like someone matching basic channel loops to a field recording of the worst university hippie drum circle ever

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

that Surgeon mix is a bit "all this music is techno" in the way it grinds down IDM/Dubstep/Electro etc rather brutally to his cause. Which is quite some skill. But I didn't listen to it right through a lot of times tbh. I should redownload/reconsider it (I just kept skipping to the Vex'd > Cristian Vogel section near the end...) although I have a feeling I simply prefer it when off-axis genre records are left alone to sound more like themselves, for the contrast, in a mix situation.

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

didnt' get the Villalobos Awakenings set cuz i've been burned too many times by his sets. anybody have a functioning link? my source, (http://cocoonstyled.web-log.nl/) links to a set that says "FORBIDDEN TO BE SHARED".

― mixer (brother loves dub), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Cut Copy.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

ricardo villalobos (666 matching messages)
tell me...
-- gareth (garet...), November 26th, 2002.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

That awakenings set is fantastic. Not as dull as some of his can be for home listening...

Still prefer Cassy though. Much perkier.

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

The second half of Body Language 2 isn't crap is it? Isn't it just all big hits?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, track for track the second half is great, although I agree that it the track sequencing doesn't seem to build momentum.

I prefer M.A.N.D.Y.'s No Soap Radio Mix, which is possibly second only to Jeffrey Mac's Meditations In Dub mix in my affections this year.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ganik - Live @ Exile in Belgrade March 06

outstanding!

― Cam B (Cam_B), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Good Dog, thanks a bunch for posting that Booka Shade Essential Mix upthread! I was finally able to get it to download - will report back!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

The headman mix at Plastic People way back in Feb' was very good - lots of records that link very well, although it does have the ordinary boys slap bang in the middle. It could be down-loaded so it will be hanging about.

I did see this when I was hammered on my birthday so dont trust me 100%

― Luke McNally (raw sweaters annoying brother), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Mayer, Immer 2

oh my fucking god.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

darker and dreamier than Immer the first, but with more luxuriant textrual stuff, a la Triple R's Friends. less poppy than Fabric 13 but just as luminous. maybe his best mix yet.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

basically what i've learned is that optimo needs to put out a new mix this year so they can take it three years in a row for me.

the other half of optimo will have a mix out just before the end of this year.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

The mixing on the Tiga essential mix is really, really great. I'm not totally into all of the tracks he plays but the way he throws it together makes a hell of a difference (and I don't usually care that much about scrappy mixing).

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

the other half of optimo will have a mix out just before the end of this year.

hooray!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 14 September 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm digging immer 2, perhaps more than i expected; really stoked to see the crowdpleaser & st plomb track in there, and the koehncke cut works a lot better than i thought it would. (inexplicably, i've sort of gone off koehncke this year, not sure why.) the one thing i do find a bit odd is that mch of the mix doesn't seem THAT mixed, at least on first listen - more like he's highlighting standout tracks, and fading them gently together. not saying that's a bad thing, but i do tend to prefer mixes where i really can't tell where songs begin or end. then again, that's never been exactly mayer's style, i suppose, so i'm not sure why i should be surprised.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

This Shit Robot mix is much better second time around! Not best of year perhaps but sweet all the same.

― boredom to the left, babylon to the right (fandango), Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

shit robot RULES, butthead!!

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

where could i find the shitrobot mix?

― natedey (ndeyoung), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/spring2006.htm

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Vahid - you've convinced me to check it. What was this Beardo Disco == Trip Hop, by the way?

― natedey (ndeyoung), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

sir drew!!

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, it has wombat on it! I like it already and haven't even listened yet...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 15 September 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of Wombat, i dunno what my favourite mix of the year is but i really like the second half of Chloe & Smagghe's Dysfunctional Family - they pitchshift Wombat into the next track and it...rules

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4075/buttheadjx0.jpg

― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers to Good Dog for the Booka Shade Essential Mix. So massive - love the live set esp., which improves on the album simply by focusing only on the big dancey moments (and adding stuff like "Trespass 06" and "Played Runner" to fill the gaps). The "In White Rooms" --> "Darko" --> "Mandarine Girl" --> "Body Language/Cha" run at the end had me thinking of Orbital live sets in its ever-mutating maximal compulsion. Luvvit.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

Luciano & Domenic D'Agnelli @ Harry Klein 05.05.06

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

link (I didn't put it up on there!)

― a (rslvd), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

yep henrik schwarz dj kicks

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

I adore Schwarz's "Imagination Limitation" on that mix - his sound works so well with soulful Owens-style mandivas, it's like house at its most far-in/far-out simultaneously.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

re: henrik schwarz

convince me

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

seamless, various, ties together disparate elements, african drums!, thin year. convince me not.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

the schwarz is so-so but it starts off very well. the thing that kills it stone dead for me is the actual Robert Owens hideous vocals and lyrics to "walk a mile in my shoes". i don't want to hear that again so i don't think i can listen to the mix.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

The "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" remix is brilliant jed what are you on.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

"re: henrik schwarz
convince me "

Vahid do you have specific doubts or suspicions that you would like addressed?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Shit Robot is okay. Felt kinda predictable. I sort of prefer DFA holiday mix (obv not 2006) for that sort of thing.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

i hope DFA do a new holiday mix in december, it might coincide with my actual holidays this time!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

suspicions: it's jazzanova remixes all over again!!

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

i remember you seemed to like the jazzanova remixes and i wasn't so into it.

also: i am suspicious of ANY "best of 2006" dj mix that seems to rely so heavily on the past.

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

the past vs. retreads of same

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

in a way the mix is a very pure synthesis of crate digging + the technologies available in 2006, the fetishization of curatorial skill and the ear to do something unique with it.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

it is also against the new-new-new myopia so prevalent in these circles (i am so guilty of this as charged) - it is important to be against i think; to have that friction.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

Thing about the Schwarz mix is that most of my favourite moments are his productions!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:58 (nineteen years ago)

the schwarz is so-so but it starts off very well.

i knew youd say that ;)

― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Friday, 22 September 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

tricky otm

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

people need to download the Luciano and ffwd to 253:00

― a (rslvd), Friday, 22 September 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I love that Modernist Collectors Series Pt. 1 a lot.
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), September 12th, 2006.

interested in part 2 of that series, looks like one for the cosmic/beardo set.
-- genital hyphys (carlos....), September 12th, 2006.

theyre both great! Faith Recordings really has the indie-friendly dance mix cd market cornered this year.

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

That Sven thing we discussed on another thread that Vahid ysi'd for me.

Not the Cassy mix. Don't like the first transition which kind of gave me a bad first impression and don't really feel it kicks in until Sieso.

The Audion fabric, anyone? This seems to have been a bit hated on but it sounded ace when I was tidying my room this afternoon.

Luciano Sci. Fi. Hi. Fi. and maybe the Alex Smoke one judging by the tracklisting.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Slightly weirdly I'm finding a lot to love in the Marc Romboy Systematic Sessions disc. It's basically a bunch of the years big electrohouse tunes but is sequenced nicely and incorporates some deeper moments well. Not really transcendent, but very very playable.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

For me it's Henrik Schwarz, both Faith Recordings discs and the Italians Do It Better mix by Jacques Renault.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 10 November 2006 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

That looks interesting. The inclusion of Liz Torres is tasty, the inclusion of My Mine and Skatt Brothers is a bit too obvious though.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 10 November 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

One that I haven't heard people talk about, and which is excellent, is Tom Bioly and Benjamin Froehlich's Permanent Vacation mix. So dreamy! It's a bit like the first few tracks of Ewan Pearson's Sci-Fi Hi-Fi mix meets Henrik Schwarz meets the Chicken Lips at their best.

It's not listed on discogs.com but this is the quite funny description on the permanent vacation website:

PERMANENT VACATION - Mix-CD (PERMVAC002-2) - 12" EP (PERMVAC001-1)

it feat. tracks and remixes from joakim, whomadewho,double, lindström, alexander robotnick, maurice fulton, ilya santana ao.
the 4 track 12" sampler includes an exclusive cut from ilya santana ( balihu ), double's woman of the world , ost&kjex ( maurice fulton remix ) and tommy seebach's bobble sex.

here is what some of our favorite djs/producer say about permanent vacation:

lindström:.... the comp is great !!!!! i get MANY requests for compilations ... 97% of them pure wack ... yours is amongs those 3% ... hehe
i.cube: Woman of the world great track -ost k jex maurice fulton remix also great. didn t knew the two other trax, brilliant stuff.
todd terje: "Love this mix, let's go swimming!"
ilya santana: itsfantastic!!! the artwork is great and the tracks that u choose are cool, like bobble sex, i never listen before!! i love it.

the cd is compilation of the month in GROOVE magazine (07/08 2006)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Slightly weirdly I'm finding a lot to love in the Marc Romboy Systematic Sessions disc

yeah me too! sometimes you just need all the big tunes in one place.

kiki's boogybytes still way out in front for me, it really is an incredible thing.

sven vath's sexy techno thing, the mandy no soap radio mix, heidi's monza, immer 2, sascha funke's boogybytes and luciano's scifihifi are all just behind it. STILL not totally feeling the cassy mix even though i keep trying.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah and mandy at the controls

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

isn't boogybytes from last year?

i haven't listened to so many mixes this year..

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Vakant mix

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

feb 06 according to discogs...

i listened to it on the bus last night, the 'kahana' through to 'gazebo' section is such a rush. xp

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

the fabric rub n tug mix is really hitting the spot for me right now. also the first 30 minutes or so of this tim sweeney set:

http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/images/fall2006_1content.jpg

are really fantastic, it drops off a bit in intensity when the tempo goes down tho.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Tobi Neumann's Flieder Lieder deserves a mention.

― a (rslvd), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

also damian lazarus's crosstown rebels mix

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

That looks interesting. The inclusion of Liz Torres is tasty, the inclusion of My Mine and Skatt Brothers is a bit too obvious though.

to his credit, Jacques recorded that mix like 2 or 3 years ago, when maybe Skatt Bros and My Mine weren't quite as obvious, though they are timeless classics anyway!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of Damien Lazarus ...

he was here in SF for 3 sets last week. ah! he's fucking rad. last time i saw him, he did this crazy minimal acid set that blew my mind.

yay for mr. lazarus.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Bioly and Benjamin Froehlich's Permanent Vacation mix

sounds pretty cool

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Can somebody suggest me a current minimal techno mix aimed at peak-hours dancefloor action? All the ones I've been listening to lately, while great, have felt more like after-hours / comedown mixes. Good for listening to around the office etc, but I've got a hankering for a real blood-pumping one. Suggestions?

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

a late entry is Tom Middleton's The Trip 2 mix, super super killer!

― something less threatening (heywood), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

tylero try out any of the villalobos mixes here

the vakant mix is amazing and it doesn't even have the best thing they put out this year on it!

― josh. (disco stu), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tylero, you might also get into Flieder Lieder which is pretty 'pumping'. didn't really feel revelatory to me, but it was nice.

Was Sami Koivikko's "Hot pepper" mix this year? I loved that one.

― Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

Last year, but it's brilliant - esp. the run of tracks 2,3 and 4.

Tylero, Sven Vath's Sexy Techno mix for Coccoon is pretty pumping, I imagine his Sounds for the Seventh Season mix will be too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

jeffrey mac - meditations in dub
kode 9 - burial breezeblock
villalobos - live at awakenings
daft punk - live at coachella (more of a live pa but ooh damn)

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone download the alternate version of the henrik schwarz mix from the k7 site?

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

Seconding the Permanent Vacation mix, it's really nice.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 11 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think my favorite is this mix from Donato Dozzy.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 11 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I referred to that Permanent Vacation mix here, maybe it's out of place there...

Favorite mix is still Kiki's, followed by The Modernist's (swoon-mix).

― willem -- (willem), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

what is the Vakant mix...

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vakant.net/va/img/momentum.jpg

― josh. (disco stu), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Forthcoming Freeform Five mix is hott!

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 13 November 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

should have said "FAB"

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Monday, 13 November 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

erol alkan live at oxygene is def. my fave mix of the year. possibly one of the most intense mixes i've ever heard.

http://www.erolalkan.co.uk/tracklists/oxeygen090706.htm

there's a link to subscribe to his podcasts there to get the mix. or you can just click here.

Sunday 9th July 2006

K- Hole (Mustapha 3000 Remix) - Ali Love
Walkman - Sebastian
Waters Of Nazereth (Erol Alkan's Durrr Durrr Durrrrr Re-Edit) - Justice
HalfAnEdit - Mr Ozio
Bump (Switch Remix) - Spank Rock
All Over My Head - Jesse Rose
Erotic Discourse (Mark Sullivan Mix) - Erotic Discourse
Oh Yeah (Booka Shade Mix) - Yello
No More Conversations (Nightmoves Mix) - Freeform Five
Do Worry (Kid Alex Mix) - Telex
Mouseville Theme - Cirez D
Erole Attack - Boyz Noise
Warrior Of Light - Johannes Heil
Move My Body (Boyz Noise Mix) - Tiga
Killing In The Name Of - Rage Against The Machine
Newman Vs MBV - Vitalic Vs My Bloody Valentine
Jupiter Room (Erol Alkan's Extended Edit) - Digitalism

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Forthcoming Freeform Five mix is hott!

Seconded - that mix treads lines between a whole cross-section of various hipster discos that just works on me. That transition from the MSTRKRFT remix of that Gossip song into that Lindstrom track had me OH DAMN SONning like crazy.

Of course this really shouldn't be too surprising considering how their Misch Masch mix towered over 2005.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

title/label/release date?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

i was disappointed by the freeform five mix, it's the same ilk as the cut copy fabric mix...individual components are great in isolation but a whole mix of the stuff makes me want to cut off my ears.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

title/label/release date?

Bisous Bisous II/Perspex/November 6th

01. The Gossip - Listen Up (Mstrkrft Remix)
02. Lindstrom - Contemporary Fix (Serious Syntoms Remix)
03. The Subliminal Kid - Math & Music
04. Einzelkind - Grundstuck
05. Alex Gopher - Motorcycle
06. Radioslave - Secret Base
07. Spektrum - Don’t Be Shy (Speaker Junk Remix)
08. Johannes Heil - All For One
09. Mylo - Paris 400 (Etienne De Crecy Remix)
10. Glimmers - Bonfini
11. Riton- Hammer Of Thor
12. The Meat Boys - Fireworks (Punks Jump Up Remix)
13. Simian Mobile Disco - Tits And Acid
14. Freeform Five- No More Conversations (Mylo Remix)
15. Gabriel Ananda - Glucksmelodie (Freeform Reform)
16. Green Velvet - Shake & Pop
17. Filth & Dirt - i81u812 (Speaker Junk Remix)
18. Sebastian - Ross Ross Ross
19. Deise Tigrona - Injecao

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I second I.M. from Hollywood. Cut Copy Fabriclive 29 is an incredible mix. Pays homage to their 80's predecessors without delving into too much cheesiness.

― Matt DeLaere (Matty Dee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone download the alternate version of the henrik schwarz mix from the k7 site?

I'm trying to, but both www.k7.com/henrikschwarz and www.henrikschwarz.com (where I know I saw a download form for the mix) seem to be gone. Die angegebene Seite konnte nicht gefunden werden, apparently.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

scheisse!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Success! Die Seite kann gefunden werden! Downloading now.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

there a tracklist anywhere for that dozzy mix?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't found one. One track is O, another Dozzy's remix of 'Life is Wonders'

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Besides the Permanent Vacation mix, I really like the new Radioslave mix on Eskimo, the AME mix "Mixing" on Sonar Kollectiv, the Rub N Tug Fabric Mix and the Henrik Schwarz DJ Kicks is fantastic. OK, it seems there is a lot of agreement on these....

K7 finally posted the tracklisting for the alternate Henrik Scwarz mix here:
http://www.henrikschwarz.com/tracklist_alternativemix.html

also may I throw the Optimo Essential mix from last week into the ring. I found it to be one of the more mental things I had heard in a while. Download it here (it is a single 2 hour MP3, sorry!)

http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

do you have to be in the know to get a download code for that alt. Henrik Schwarz?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it comes with the DJ Kicks when you buy it.....
I can send it to you via YSI....

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

if it's no trouble that would be great!

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

there's so many i need to catch up on, but faves of those i've heard thus far:

acid girls, how to acid girls
booka shade, essential mix
optimo, essential mix
donato dozzy, dozzydozzydozzy
shit robot, dfa radiomix thing

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, and forgot about jeffery mac's meditations!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

(it is a single 2 hour MP3, sorry!)

when you have a single "track" mp3 like this, is there any way of splitting it to enable burning to two cd-rs?

― dh (djh), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

try
http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/

- works pretty well, you can set split points yourself or use a .cue file.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

K7 finally posted the tracklisting for the alternate Henrik Scwarz mix here:
http://www.henrikschwarz.com/tracklist_alternativemix.html

No Womack & Womack, no credibility

― Pamplaxico Polancobon (Andy_K), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

it's somewhat out of place on this thread but i think "The trip" by Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey is my favourite mix of the year.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, I just got another one,Not even sure if this is out yet (I think just in Japan so far, maybe the rest of the world in 2007). It is a new Optimo Mix CD called "Walkabout" on elecetronic label Mule Musiq. Of course, any dance music that somehow includes Black Dice is a-ok by me, but this is a really unique wild mix (as always). Respect!

Tracklisting Optimo "Walkabout"
01. Throbbing Gristle / Walkabout
02. Grungerman / Grungerman
03. Panasonic / Hapatus
04. M. Perini / Electrofrogs
05. Like A Tim / Aibe Stracie
06. Lenny Dee & Nicolai Vorkapich / The Virus
07. Philus / Kuvio 3
08. Shane Berry / Fillertet 2
09. Boris / My Machine
10. Godsy / Razor Against Silk
11. Suicide / Radiation
12. Eventell and Metaboman / Control a Zoid
13. Thomas Brnkmann / Momomexico
14. 6k / Tighten
15. Marc Houle / Bay of Figs
16. Herbert / Moving Like A Train (Smith & Hack Remix)
17. Radio Sampling in Nagoya...
18. Black Dice / Manoman

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

when you have a single "track" mp3 like this, is there any way of splitting it to enable burning to two cd-rs?

itunes does this automatically, no? mine fills one cd, then asks you to insert another.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

another vote for Jeffrey Mac's Meditations in Dub. I went and saw the Wighnomy Bros last night and they were really unmusical and dreary. Listening to Jeffrey's mix now as an antedote!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Lenny Dee & Nicolai Vorkapich / The Virus" !!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

wow a mix on Mule...that is weird...it's a good and unpredictable label..

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

wow, that optimo essential mix is a thing and a half!

― the gangsta Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (H2-H4), Monday, 20 November 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

is that possibly the jg wilkes solo mix that stir mentioned waaaaaay upthread?

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

yup, it's a jg wilkes solo mix. the mule connection came about as mr. mule is the guy who takes us to the land of the rising sun and after several late night sake sessions in tokyo he thought it would be a good idea to do a japan only (to begin with) mix cd. we were asked to do two mix cds at the same time so decided to do one each but the label i was going to do one for was unable to license a single track i asked for so was aborted.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh man what a great idea... sucks that it can't come to fruition. an optimo devide and conquer ala Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below makes me juicy.

stir, aren't your other mixes formatted this way though...? like there's a point where one hands it over to the next?

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Monday, 20 November 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Can somebody suggest me a current minimal techno mix aimed at peak-hours dancefloor action?

Audion and Marco Carola's Fabric mixes (27 and 31, respectively).

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

carola otm, not so sure about audion

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

man that essential mix looks great! is there an mp3 floating around yet?

― parsley, sage francis, rosemary, and thyme (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

you mean the optimo one? it's available via the link galkin provided.

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ self

― parsley, sage francis, rosemary, and thyme (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

UNDER THE RADAR AWARD GOES TO

kinkysweet recordings

yes, you've seen their horrendously packaged "afterdark", "frequent flyer" and "loft party" mersh deep house dj mixes.

but did you know they released mixes by osunlade, dj gilb'r (of chateau flight / versatile) and gavin hardkiss??

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

also shout out for having the balls to release a dj dan "alternate mixes + rarities" compilation. oh, the humanity.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 15 January 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

I have been almost completely out of the loop since september 06, but just got four mixes yesterday and I like them all...
... Immer 2, Henrik Schwarz's DJ Kicks, Alex Smoke's SciFiHiFi V3, and the Cassy mix. Ultimately, the latter two are my favorites, for both personal and more theoretical reasons.

As much as I love minimal, and have really loved the German take on techno and house since Chain Reaction, there has been something a bit missing in the music over the last year or so that I wasn't able to put my finger on. My friend and co-conspirator Rob (myspace.com/lovedose) put his finger on it this past summer. What had happened to minimal is that is was getting too inner-directed. Some of the longing, futurism and dys/u-topiansism of the original deep chicago and detroit sounds had been jettisoned for absolute introverted psychedelia. We tried to resolve this by mixing in a lot of early Guidance, early M_nus, and some mid-90s Detroit records as well, but since nobody was at our party, it didn't happen ;-).

What I like about the Smoke and especially the Cassy mixes is how the what-is-now-more-typical sound of minimal circa 05-06 is being re-integrated with some of the more dreamy moments of the past, whether from older records like the Model 500 and early M_nus tracks on SciFi3, or from newer tracks around the Delsin/Styrax orbit on Cassy's mix. I like especially how this is being accomplished without without either mix coming off as a "back to 94-99" statement. I imagine that this has either always been going on in the clubs or has just started, but its nice to hear it on CD.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

never did get into the cassy mix - what IS the appeal of something so bone dry? - but the schwarz dj kicks is amazing.

also, disappointed in the lot of you for not picking up on magda's she's a dancing machine!

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Cassy mix isn't "bone dry" AT ALL. Well, one or two spots but mostly it's sexy/deep as fuck. Really. I need to find what I posted the last time this came up...

Schwarz is "accomplished" and I do like it but something stops me getting super passionate about it.

Magda is OK as aural wallpaper, I do put it on a lot(not all in one go though!) but I wish it could have been more of a energetic & dancefloor mix. There are long stretches where it works brilliantly but also huge chunks where it gets over-dessicated for no good reason, It could have been (needed to be) much tighter as a CD mix.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

lex are you listening to it on your iPod or something?

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the longing, futurism and dys/u-topiansism of the original deep chicago and detroit sounds had been jettisoned for absolute introverted psychedelia

YES

although ... villalobos and luciano do a good job of balancing the two, too

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes, especially Villalobos. this should be on the other thread but...
http://www.discogs.com/release/5454

this is probably the most underrated production he has ever put out, and i think you would have appreciated me bringing in this record on top of it...
http://www.discogs.com/release/34038

i miss my party.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

cassy thread w/small rant

Are people missing the usual '06 mnml-bumping-the-overground bloated synth washes, flatulently soft basslines, go-nowhere pointlessly refined & tiny sounding 'minimal' drum patterns, overlong hypnotic "anthems" (full clip, big yawn), minilouge style dull trance or m-nus 'techno' blandness in calling the Cassy mix "dry"?

'cos the abscence of most of that shit (and replacement by several different, more fundamental, more adventurous, more uplifting tricks) is exactly why it felt utterly palate refreshing to me. It has a fuckload of soul too.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha I reckon a fair amount of the tracks actually sound like m-nus 'techno' blandness!

The housey bits are great though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Did not expect Lex to like Schwarz DJ Kicks

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

My two cents:

Cut Copy / Freeform Five mixes - I love this stuff in theory, but agree w/ The Lex that a whole hour of it back to back can get wearisome. Best sampled in small chunks.

Alex Smoke Sci Fi Hi Fi - this ended up being perhaps my third favourite mix of 2006. With the benefit of hindsight, the connections between dubstep and minimal techno are, duh, obvious. But sometimes it's good to point out the obvious.

Henrik Schwarz - hmmm. Not what I was expecting at all. It brings back unwelcome memories of Gilles Peterson radio shows. Like some others, I'm finding it hard to get super excited about it. (I've done a bit of a 180 on the Four Tet DJ Kicks though, so maybe I'll come around to this one too.)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Schwarz DJ mix but I think his productions are more exciting.

" people missing the usual '06 mnml-bumping-the-overground bloated synth washes, flatulently soft basslines, go-nowhere pointlessly refined & tiny sounding 'minimal' drum patterns, overlong hypnotic "anthems" "

This sounds like the Joakim remix of "Camino Del Sol" i.e. awesome.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Did not expect Lex to like Schwarz DJ Kicks

why not? i have a history of liking tasteful stuff!

lex are you listening to it on your iPod or something?

i don't have an ipod! i tried loads of times to get into it last year and apart from the last few tracks when it suddenly actually gets exciting, i just don't hear any of what you hear. there is a vast ten-track stretch after the shackleton opener when literally NOTHING happens.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

this is like the wrongest thing ever, at least for tracks 1-7 ...

(after that I'd agree there's a spot of slightly TOO minimal sahko/BC-ism)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

there are probably 33 track(s) chunks where bloody Magda falls right off the groove, just edited down to 5 minute(feels like 10) edit points...

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

my defending of this is really inarticulate and flaming :(

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure if it's 2006 or 2007, but Optimo/JG Wilkes's Walkabout is fucking tremendous.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I don't think anything on the Cassy mix sounds like m_nus. too analogue. I think of m_nus as having a very distinct, airless, computerised sound (although obviously there are exceptions)

― a (rslvd), Friday, 26 January 2007 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

"this is like the wrongest thing ever, at least for tracks 1-7 ...
(after that I'd agree there's a spot of slightly TOO minimal sahko/BC-ism"

Actually this I probably agree with - I love track 3 for example, so spacey.

Mind you I go up and down with the Cassy mix. I may well end up loving it - that's what happened with Tobi Neumann's Pass Your Bedtime mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 26 January 2007 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

do you have to be in the know to get a download code for that alt. Henrik Schwarz?
-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), November 17th, 2006.

yeah it comes with the DJ Kicks when you buy it.....
I can send it to you via YSI....
-- GALKIN (j...), November 17th, 2006.

EH?! It didn't come with my copy!

― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Friday, 26 January 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure if it was released in December or January, but I'm really, really liking the Marco Carola Fabric 31 mix.

It's on the slowed down, micro-ish tip, but also heavy and hypnotic. Tracklist:

01 - Matt John - Io - Underl_ne
02 - erikOtanabE - Eclat and Prudo (Alfa Romero Rmx) - MiniSketch
03 - Chris Carrier - Sure Shot - Adult Only
04 - Marek Bois - You Got Good Ash (Gabriel Ananda Rmx) - Trapez
05 - Fusiphorm - I am...you! (Someone Else Rmx) - FoundSound
06 - Timo Anttila - Nakuta - Frozen North
07 - Barem - Cilindro - FoundSound
08 - Mathias Kaden - Snowman - We Are
09 - Paco Osuna - Cretine - Plus 8
10 - Fraktion - Acidrop - Resopal Schallware
11 - Marc Houle - Kicker - Minus
12 - Audio Werner - Onandon - Perlon
13 - Dolly La Parton - Whenever - Bemysheep
14 - Microfunk aka 2000 and One and Dave Ellesmere - Pecan - Remote Area Records
15 - Details - Change - Loose
16 - Dario Zenker - newbe (Heartthrob’s are u gay Remix) - Esperanza
17 - Ernie - Escarabajos - Signs Of Authority
18 - Alex Smoke - Plunder – Soma

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

For 2006 I liked the Cut Copy and Freeform Five, but the "mix" I listened to the most was Air's Late Night Tales - way better than their forthcoming album (which is admittedly growing on me).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

no love for the jay haze mix?

― rio natsume (rio natsume), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

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