Right now the Dixon podcast on Resident Advisor sounds like the best thing i've ever heard

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Seriously, it's like dance music died and went to heaven. Maurice Fulton's remix of Alice Smith's "Love Endeavour"! The Kathy Diamond track! The astonishing Henrik Schwarz remix of Demba's "Louder"! The beautiful Dennis Ferrer remix of "Love Can Damage Your Health"!

How can one DJ mix be this brilliant??

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

well, you sold me

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh goddamn i always forget to download these.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

meh

― fies, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how Fulton does it on his remixes, his reworking of Alice Smith is up there with his jtakes on I:Cube's "Vacuum Jackers" and Ost & Kjex's "Have You Seen The Moon in Dallas" - so spacey, the piano sounds just like piano should in deep disco, really languorous, and that the great, guttural diva vocal emerging from the bowels of the earth: "This LOVE enDEEAAvour, don't have to LAST forEEEEEver!"

This is the tracklisting:

01. Amp Fiddler - Faith (Jazzanova Remix)
02. Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)
03. Kelis - 80s Joint
04. Owusu & Hannibal - Lonnies Secret
05. Kathy Diamond - Album Track 13
06. Paul Randolph - Believer (Jazzanova Remix)
07. Demba - Louder (Henrik Schwarz Main Mix)
08. Martin Landsky - Let Me Dance (Sebo K Remix)
09. Telepopmusic - Love Can Damage Your Health (Ferrer Remix)
10. Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)
11. Mattew Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith n Hack Remix)

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Louder" likewise has this at times insanely guttural vocal, the title is expressed like "urghllouudahhh!", but mostly it's just this incredibly anthemic vocal track over a gorgeous, endlessly percolating piano groove.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

And a groove that sounds like someone hitting two sticks together, and the biggest surround-sound production ever.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

if anyone has this to repost, i'd appreciate it

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Ferrer mix of "Love Can Damage Your Health" is deep house from a medieval forest, all drifting strings, glancing piano fumbles, and gorgeously deliquescing pools of sound.

The Buttrich remix of "It's All True" is classic Basic Channel in house mode, an impossibly deep well of synth chords.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

haha tim you're just bullshitting now

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

poison and just blaze you say?

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

ra.ratm.net/RA048_070312_Dixon-residentadvisor.net.mp3

― fies, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://ra.ratm.net/RA048_070312_Dixon-residentadvisor.net.mp3

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

whoops

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm listening to that alice smith fulton remix at hype machine. lovely

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not bullshitting, just being enthusiastically flowery. Jess if that link doesn't work (thanks fies) let me know.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

While we're talking about Resident Advisor podcasts, perhaps someone who knows can help me fill in the blanks for the tracklisting of my beloved Heidi mix (curiously, everyone hated this one on RA's comments section. I loved it!). This is what I have so far:

1) Nick Holder – Erotic Illusions
2) Lunar City Express – Met Harvey at a Bar Last Night
3)
4)
5)
6) Andre Crom & Tigerskin - Notaufnahme
7) Content - It's so (Will saul Remix)
8) Anja Schneider & Sebo K – Rancho Relaxo (Jennifer Cardini & Shonky Remix)
9) Jay Haze – Until You Fat
10) Sleeperthief – Full of You
11)
12) Content – No Refunds
13) Switch – Get On Downz
14) The House Master Boyz – House Nation
15) Audion – Mouth to Mouth
16) Martin Buttrich – Full Clip
17)

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

3. Mikael Weill-Silmarillion (Claude Vonstroke Remix)-Karat (I think it's on Karat)
4. Sebo K featuring Prosumer-FORGET THE NAME (SOMEBODY'S BACK2BACKREMIX)-Mobilee)

not sure on the others

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

new years resolution...in april...listen to some mixes that aren't my own...haha

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

That third track could be Claude Von Stroke possibly (whatever it is it's amazing, such a bizarre underwater skank), but as for the fourth track I wasn't aware of any tracks Sebo K and Prosumer did together apart from "Moved" and it's definitely not that (original or remixed).

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

did you hear heidi's monza mix? i really love that. i didn't hear her RA mix because that was probably when i was still confused by the word podcast.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

The third track is definitely that one, or at least, that track is definitely in this mix at 9 mins or so in.

To me, the fourth track sounds so utterly exactly the same as what I think is "Moved" that it must be one of the remixes, which I don't have to hand.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

hmm...just listening again, maybe not.

I assumed it was one of those remixes, it is very similar.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

that kathy diamond track is astounding

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

The podcast is better than the Monza mix! Although the Monza mix is very good also - love that Darkmountaingroup track.

Thanks for the tip-off Ronan, I will have to track down that Von Stroke mix if at all posssible.

Yeah that Kathy Diamond track... i love how the bassline sounds so muted and restrained, it's like hearing the a disco from another planet. And then those big drums! The vocals are delectable as well.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

alice smith's vocal performance is actually kind of amazing ... whats her production usually like? i assume this is a one-off fulton thing cuz she's not on his myspace or whatever

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

i like that kathy diamond record a lot in general although now i kind of wish he'd done one with alice smith

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

at first when the drums came in on the diamond, i assumed it'd had to be a transition between songs.

haha this schwarz reminds me of something totally 80s...a dub mix of pointer sisters track or something.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have it somewhere, I'll try and upload it for you. x-post to Tim.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Ronan! BTW I'm downloading yr last DJ mix now, can't wait to hear "Fiori".

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

This looks like a nice summation of much of what has interested me in recent times. Looking forward to it.

― matt2, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Really Henrik Schwarz needs to put out a remix comp. Between the Demba remix and Marie Boine remix his 2007 is already looking as strong as his 2006.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had high hopes for his (dub) remix of "Zumbi", the new Frankie Valentine single. As effective as it is, it sorta does to the original what an instrumental disco edit might do to a soul classic.

― blunt, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

alice smith's vocal performance is actually kind of amazing ... whats her production usually like? i assume this is a one-off fulton thing cuz she's not on his myspace or whatever

It'll probably make you wish for an entire album of Fulton mixes.

Dixon keeps moving up on my imaginary list of favorite DJs.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah RA podcast is the stuff.

In other news, Hot Chip's DJ Kicks mix: holy shit! That New Order / Leek mix is evidence that Mr. Chip is, how do you say, a spiritually advanced being.

― lukas, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

I really want more people to start talking about the Vince Watson RA podcast. Mostly because it is fucking sick lush Detroit.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah wasn't there a thread dedicated solely to these RA podcasts?

― matt2, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yes here it is.

― matt2, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

This sounds awesome in the morning sunshine.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

This part of
[url=[Removed Illegal Link] Body Language[/i] is brilliant...

5. Chateau Flight - Baroque (Henrik Schwarz Live Version)
6. Marie Boine – Filer Til Voui (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
7. Thom Yorke - Eraser

It's an amazing mix CD, beautifully programmed with many mixes in key. The piano notes on Thom Yorke just burn into your head.

― rchinn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think part of the magic here is the BPM he plays these particular tracks at, it might be around 118-120. My favorite cut is the Paul Randolph - Believer (according to the tracklisting), but I cannot find anything about it on the web. Any info about this one? YSI?

― Jena, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the Heidi RA Podcast haters were Londoners. she has a bit of a rep for being surly to customers in her shop (although she's always been fine to me)

― resolved, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
the Randolph just came out on 12". you're listening to a Jazzanova remix (the original is shite), and its available on oink if you do that sort of thing.

also xpost-
shouldn't that Chateau Flight track be Baltringue (Henrik Schwarz live version)? It's wrong on the CD's tracklist as well, but those chord changes are pretty recognizable...

― BATTAGS, Thursday, 12 April 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

I should have checked this thread from the start. However it's downloading now and I'll have something new to listen to in a minute.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, pretty spectacular. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

i'm waiting for someone to do the take on fulton a la vahid's bit about todd edwards from awhile back. Almost because I can see a devil's advocate position forming, even as i enjoy his shit

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I really want more people to start talking about the Vince Watson RA podcast. Mostly because it is fucking sick lush Detroit.

Link plz? I couldn't find it on the website; it said they'd archived it.

― Stevie D, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

it might be on itunes?

― lfam, Thursday, 12 April 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, fulton hasn't switched up his game AT ALL since ... well, forever.

just slow everything down and echo out FOREEEEVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRRR ...

but that said ... his remix of "over and over" is pretty godlike end-of-the-night chill out record.

more than anybody he needs to do a volume of misch masch (i said this years ago).

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

Assuming this doesn't break any rules since it was free download to begin with, here is the Vince Watson:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/vince-watson-resident-advisor-mix-mp3.html

― matt2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Really digging on the Owusu & Hannibal.

Also:
Demba - Louder (Henrik Schwarz Main Mix)

is actually this:
http://www.discogs.com/release/935500

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

"i'm waiting for someone to do the take on fulton a la vahid's bit about todd edwards from awhile back. Almost because I can see a devil's advocate position forming, even as i enjoy his shit"

I see what you and Vahid are saying here but I think that what saves Fulton's remixes from seeming identikit is his willingness to use different sounds to get to the same place. "Love Endeavour" rides its reverby piano, "Have You Seen The Moon in Dallas" rides shoegazer guitar shimmer, and the difference between the two prevents me from ever really noticing that they're at the same tempo, use the same bass/drums set up, and have the same basic effect (although the astonishing earthiness of Alice Smith's performance has something to do with it as well).

Agreed that he really needs to do a Misch Masch. Vahid if I like a lot of his remixes more than I like Life Is Water for Gerbaisies When They Are Dancing (although that's also great), is there a more suitable Fulton record I can pick up?

― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

get stress!!

― haitch, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

I will!

― Tim F, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

"stress" seconded ... though you'll notice that "stress" is quite samey, it's got more of his raw postpunk percussion jams and less meandering jazzy stuff.

HEY ... what is the sample used for "mom, the video broke"??

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

anyone else listening to fulton's bubbletease communications podcasts? i guess its what you would expect...funk bass/reverbed drum workouts, lots of diamond/smith-esque vocal cuts, a token mu track. new and unreleased it says? i wouldn't know.

― natty bo, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

The podcasts are usually pretty good, but I assume a good deal of it is unreleased. Maurice seems prolific enough to have crates of unreleased tracks lying around.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 13 April 2007 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

I got Stress (and for cheap no less) and while it's good I sorta feel it's a bit too quirky in a Freaks sorta way, at least for what I'm wanting right now.

What's nice about the three Fulton remixes I listed upthread is, perhaps, their classicism - they're grooves in which every single element is exactly where you'd expect they'd be. The Alice Smith remix in particular is like the song that disco has been singing to itself since the beginning of time.

― Tim F, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Have to say, the Ripperton one is incredible too, even better IMO. Some seriously garagey sounds in that one, but it's quite wide ranging. After a half hour of dub he drops some total Todd Edwards style track and it's completely and utterly anthemic hands in the air style.

― Ronan, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

To the above (all of which are awesome) I'd like to add the new one from Alex Robotnick. Frenetic and fun!

― littlewhiteearbuds, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

i grabbed the get physical mix by dixon tonight, not too sure about it.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

I find the RA podcast better than the GP Mix as well.

― Jena, Sunday, 15 April 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'm obessed with these podcasts now. i love this one! if i knew how to talk about dance music i'd say why. the Maurice Fulton remix sounds very larry levan (mostly the piano) and then the track after the kelis seems to be making allusions sonically and lyrically to the peech boys "don't make me wait...for you fat friend".

― artdamages, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Is there a YSI thread for the archived podcasts? There are so many of these I want to hear.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

where else have a i heard this:

Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)

discogs wasn't any help

― artdamages, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

The RA podcasts are all here:

http://mnmlbeats.wordpress.com/tag/ra-mixe/

― Tobias Rapp, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

"where else have a i heard this:

Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)"

The Ame RA podcast perhaps?

― Tim F, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's on the dixon body language mix too

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

i listened again today.

2nd half of the dixon mix >> 1st half of the dixon mix.

also not sure how i feel about this whole NEO DEEP BOBBINS movement - it makes me think of a housey revival of the absolute dregs of the post soul ii soul movement - shit like the mighty bop and les negresses vertes.

even as a hardcore trip hop / acid jazz apologist i'm not entirely ready to go down that road.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

BTW i am talking here about the GET PHYSICAL mix and not the RES ADV mix.

lex i know i capped on you the other day about complaining abt thom yorke in the ellen allien mix (for god's sake, it comes after the greyest hour of mopey gritty microhouse and semi-dubstep IDM!) ... but here, in the middle of the get physical mix, it's very much a sore thumb.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

God that sucked!!!
Whoever started this thread needs a boot to the head...

― Tinky-Winky, Monday, 16 April 2007 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

"also not sure how i feel about this whole NEO DEEP BOBBINS movement - it makes me think of a housey revival of the absolute dregs of the post soul ii soul movement - shit like the mighty bop and les negresses vertes. "

See i think this point-of-difference is being overrated a bit by both sides, supporters and detractors. The only real difference I can see is the prominence of vocals, and that applies inconsistently (e.g. Dixon loves vocals, but I can't think of any original Ame tunes with vocals).

That aside, I'm not convinced that this is necessarily that different to multiple house/disco revivals we've had in the last decade plus - if anything the issue is simply that it's not so obviously taking cues from Europe or Africa or America, whereas previous revivals declared their allegiances more openly.

Otherwise it's just a slight return/reemphasis of stuff that was already going on. Dixon's DJ sets are - quite literally - Fulton meets Jazzanova (arguably this is also a succinct way to describe Schwarz), and if there's a more antiquated reference point than that I reckon its Cultural Vibe's "Ma Foom Bey" rather than Soul II Soul etc.

― Tim F, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

if only it was as good as "ma foom bey", but i follow yr point

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

The RA podcasts are all here:

[Removed Illegal Link]

Loads of broken links there... would anyone be kind enough to share Heidi's one? x
― braveclub, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

"where else have a i heard this:

Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)"

The Ame RA podcast perhaps?

-- Tim F, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:46 (Yesterday)

yes, thanks!

i for one love this house/garage retroism, but maybe its because i'm not so invested in dance trajectories being a neophyte who mostly listens to old house and techno and disco anyway.

― artdamages, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

np: lovefingers on beats in space

― artdamages, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've been trying to decide whether this style would go off better at 6:00 AM on a Sunday morning somewhere in Berlin, or on a beach somewhere as the sunsets-> DJ Harvey style.

I think that I'm going with the second one.

Anyone mind if I mentally label this mix as "balearic garage"?

― Siah Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good name for it.

― Tim F, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the recommendation Tim.

― Siah Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

so, this BODY LANGUAGE mix.

is it just me or is this the most femme thing get physical have ever done?

i don't mean to sound like a neanderthal here, i like it and all, but ... man! it's HOUSE! it makes music for freaks sound like dancemania!

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 April 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

That aside, I'm not convinced that this is necessarily that different to multiple house/disco revivals we've had in the last decade plus - if anything the issue is simply that it's not so obviously taking cues from Europe or Africa or America, whereas previous revivals declared their allegiances more openly.

Otherwise it's just a slight return/reemphasis of stuff that was already going on. Dixon's DJ sets are - quite literally - Fulton meets Jazzanova (arguably this is also a succinct way to describe Schwarz), and if there's a more antiquated reference point than that I reckon its Cultural Vibe's "Ma Foom Bey" rather than Soul II Soul etc.

isn't this the problem? this just dovetails with what Dixon has been doing anyway, and he's been doing it for what, 3 or 4 years? More?

this is what gets me a little, I'm not getting bigger kicks out of this sound than I was when I heard Ame for the first time on that Jazzanova Mixing compilation. Whereas at least with Ripperton there seems to be a weird fusion of new and old, and minimal is represented.

Mind you I've still to hear the Dixon Body Language.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

(and sure stuff doesn't have to be utterly forward thinking, I like the podcast well enough, but the above reservations do rankle. PARTICULARLY when a label as big as Get Physical turn towards that style, feels like an all too obvious marketing move!)

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

How is it any different of a marketing move from when Get Physical shifted from their early deep house-ish stuff ("Philly," "Freemind" "I Don't Know," "Take Me Home") to being more electro/minimal ("Jah" "Orion," "Body Language")? They go with the flow!

― Michael F Gill, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

cos electro/minimal was new at the time, plus they were doing something new and leading in a sense then. not so now.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ronan it's just one mix-cd, it's not like having Jesse Rose do the third Body Language mix led to all of the GP releases sounding like Dubsided. I get the impression they're just trying to spotlight different strains of current house music - perhaps even deliberately spotlighting strains which are counterposed to their own.

― Tim F, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I know that's just one angle. But generally they've been very sub par lately apart from "Smart Cats Vs Dumb Dogs".

I'm going to listen to the new Booka Shade 12 which I just got this instant and report back.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

new booka shade 12?

― BleepBot, Monday, 23 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

and sure stuff doesn't have to be utterly forward thinking [..]PARTICULARLY when a label as big as Get Physical turn towards that style, feels like an all too obvious marketing move!

-- Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 08:57 (7 hours ago)

what is your point here? i am curious. are you SURE stuff doesn't have to be utterly forward thinking? does alluding to garage and old house or 303 workouts or drum and bass (ok i def. think that is retro. more retro than biting disco) or anything else have to be backward thinking? if not then why is Dixon and/or Get Physical backward thinking?

― artdamages, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

it's backward thinking in the sense that GPM enlist Dixon who has been playing this style of music for years now, why now?

my point is that a label as big as they are shouldn't have to borrow the frontman of a rival label to do their signature mix.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

maybe they like Dixon too?

― artdamages, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

dance is not a competition!

― artdamages, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

A competition? You're being quite ignorant here.

I like Dixon plenty but I also like dance labels to actually bother to keep a decent aesthetic going that makes them actually stand for something.

Kompakt would never, EVER, EVER, do something like this.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

And I don't mean they should hate Dixon or feud with him, of course they're all friends, but it is quite lame to resort to farming out mix CDs for credibility.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

i am ignorant

― artdamages, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Report back, Ronan.

― jim, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

kompakt is hella corny, so forget what they would do or wouldn't do.

"body language" = get physical's take on the "globus mixes" and you can't even claim that the "globus" was a dilution of tresor's brand

it just happens that get physical is nowhere near as good as tresor!!

(and anyway i didn't hear you complaining about f*ckpony on tresor, i fail to see how they match the GPM aesthetic)

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckpony was the beginning of this cackhanded change in direction! Plus it was good. It's not just Body Language either, the Einzelkind single on GPM proper, the Sebo K and Metro thing and DJ T's "Lucky Bastard" are all similar off the wall excursions into randomland, and Jesse Rose Body Language thrown into the blender just gives you that extra stomach achey wtf feeling...

I mean doesn't anyone else think the whole thing is kind of scattergun right now? Good releases but utterly erratic and failing to be truly great as a result. And it's not simply an issue of them being quite an old label, just a lack of new talent and no apparent desire to bring any in.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah and Jim, new Booka Shade is "Tickle", no deviation from "Movements" style whatsoever but still a pretty great acid trancer, a bit like "Pong Pang" for the first 4 minutes then ends with big booming deep housey chords, which are the best part. Can't really fault it.

And the B-side "Karma Car" which basically sounds like a remix of "Body Language" where they've added vocals which give it some Yello style wackiness. Pretty crap actually this side, though impeccable sounding as ever.

― Ronan, Monday, 23 April 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think it's scattered. i think its a definite statement that they are NOT just about 'electrohouse' or whatever, but also that dixon and his mix are wicked! i can see GP brand-wise becoming something synonymous with 'good house music' quite easily.

and the mix *is* great, he's on fire at the moment.

― BATTAGS, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's important to note that:

a) Dixon's style is pretty engaged with minimal-esque stuff at the moment - the secret key track on both the RA mix and Body Language mix is the Martin Buttrich remix of Tracey Thorn, as it establishes a continuum b/w the most dyed-in-the-wool disco/nu-jazz sections and, well, minimal.

b) Part of the reason he's getting more attention now is that he's better than he used to be! I mean, it's not like Immer was automatically defunct when it came out in 2002 just because Michael Mayer had done a very similar mix 4 years earlier...

― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kompakt would never, EVER, EVER, do something like this.

Isn't Kompakt releasing the Rex The Dog album? Surely that's a bigger deviation than anything GP has done recently?

Either way, aren't these the actions of labels whose original aesthetic is in decline and are trying to adapt? Does anyone really expect minimal/electro to be the dominant club sound 12-18 months down the line?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Also I'm not necessarily defending GP here, I haven't heard enough of their recent output to judge - whether any change in direction comes across as canny and prescient or just desperate depends entirely upon the label.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yep there's no doubt they're trying to adapt, and labels have to change and adapt especially as they get bigger. I just think GP have done it in a pretty lame and stunted way.

i can see GP brand-wise becoming something synonymous with 'good house music' quite easily.

Yep, me too, but good to who? They seem to still be releasing electrohouse that's of their trademark variety coupled with this neo-deep stuff. At which point I feel they've lost a lot of direction, or at the least are following where they used to lead.

Look at Mobilee and how they've managed to incorporate deeper stuff, FAR MORE SMOOTHLY, because they had that element to begin with. Get Physical set that kind of high standard for themselves. I mean, even the way Jesse Rose's Body Language and Dixon's seemed to come out on top of each other, it just feels kind of wrong. I know this sounds precious, but it's kind of discordant to me at the moment, all the releases feel like they're just part of a packed schedule. There's no A and R anymore.

And as for Kompakt, I don't think releasing Rex the Dog is that big a departure for them, but then maybe they've just managed to market themselves as a broader label more successfully than GP.

While I agree Dixon's style is engaged with minimal, I still don't buy that it's so radically different.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

...from what he was doing before.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Strange to hear Kompakt cited as an example of a label with a strictly coherent aesthetic, considering their approach has always been to release a hugely broad cross-section of stuff that appeals to them.

Also I don't think GPM broadening its output has to be viewed as desperate. The label was kinda painting itself into a bit of a corner previously.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I think Kompakt's aesthetic is mighty, to be honest.

They did paint themselves into a corner yes, but are they nimbly erm... painting themselves out. I don't believe so.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

We'll know Kompakt is dead and gone when they release a Mouse on Mars single.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

when they release a DJ T single

― Ronan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

When they release an El-P single.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Speicher 51-Simian Mobile Disco and Superpitcher-Beautiful Slut

― Ronan, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Get Physical Music presents the Funky House Agenda

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

what with prins thomas remixing simian mobile disco (after having done the same for justus kohncke not too long ago), it's not that hard to imagine a future convergence of every currently active subgenre of dance music, for worse or worse. then again, prins thomas will remix just about anyone.

― jermainetwo, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

well, i think that despite all of the trendy microgenre cross-pollination that passes for "new! electronica!" these days, some outlets for Quality European Dance Music, such as hard house, will always stay above the fray

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

prins thomas' misch masch will be 5 cds long

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

RONAN - what did you think of the jesse rose volume of "body language"?

i'm still trying to collect opinions on it, still trying to get people to talk/think about the "dubsided sound" ...

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/switch-essential-selection-12-08-06-mp3.html

― fandango, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard the Jesse one yet, I will check it out and let you know. I was not really into Dubsided for a good while but I did like one or two of Jesse's tracks in the last few months.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

More fuel for Ronan's fire? Check out the set of remixers for the GPM 5 Year Anniversary release. Hot Chip, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Rapture, Senor Coconut, and Moby??? This makes their neo-deep moves seem like a natural progression in comparison:

5 Years of Get Physical
Format: 2xCD
Label: Get Physical Music
Release date: June 5, 2007

Tracklist:

CD 1 - The Remixes:

01. Chelonis R. Jones - I Don't Know (Herbert Remix)
02. M.A.N.D.Y. - No Stoppin (Hot Chip Remix)
03. Booka Shade - Night Falls (Larry Gold String Version)
04. DJ T - Freemind (Dexter Remix)
05. Booka Shade - Vertigo (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
06. Lopazz - Migracion (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
07. Williams - Piccadilly (Rapture Remix)
08. Jona - Learning (Sideshow Remix)
09. M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade - Body Language (Señor Coconut Remix)
10. Chelonis R. Jones - I Don't Know (Lopazz Remix)
11. Elektrochemie - Pleasure Seeker (Earl Zinger Remix)
12. Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl (Fakesch Remix)
13. Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Moby Remix)

CD 2 - The Exclusives:

01. Jona - Fisherman
02. Audiofly - Don't Panic Till I Said So
03. DJ T - Once in a Lifetime
04. Riton vs. Heidi - In the Gum
05. Booka Shade - Unhealthy Pleasures
06. M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade (Feat. Laurie Anderson) - Oh Superman
07. Einzelkind - As Long As You Want Me To
08. Elektrochemie - Caiti
09. Williams - Illegal Ninja Moves
10. Chelonis R. Jones - Dirty Lipstick
11. Lopazz - The Fact

― matt2, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Who cares, they're rereleasing the "O Superman" Remix!!!!

Also, a Henrik Schwarz remix of "Vertigo"!!!!! Perfect track for him to play with.

― Tim F, Friday, 27 April 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

on "misch masch iv: radio slave", there's a 14 minute remix of "mandarine girl". sad to see it didn't make it onto this set, those "misch masch" things are wallet killers.

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 April 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see what's so wrong with that remix CD, it's not exactly claiming to be representative of the Get Physical sound is it?

― Matt DC, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

i really don't want to hear some of those remixes

but i want to hear all the exclusives!

― lex pretend, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

can hear samples already at http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=172279 ! personally, i'm rather excited. above snark aside, i really don't actually care about cross-genre pollination/pollution. i quite liked the fujiya and miyagi lp, and won't don't mind hearing them in this context.

― jermainetwo, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have any antipathy towards that CD. But yet again, makes the label seem so rudderless. Could be some nice stuff on it of course, though it doesn't rivet me I'll be interested to hear the Jona track in particular.

― Ronan, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

...............

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS "O SUPERMAN" THING

Is it a remix or more of a cover?

― Telephone thing, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

sort of a remix

― Ronan, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm. wow, i am so not involved in this argument. (gp= not quite up to my interests, musically.)

― the table is the table, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

01. Chelonis R. Jones - I Don't Know (Herbert Remix)

wow!

― tricky, Friday, 27 April 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

where'd you pick up the RS MM vahid?

― tricky, Friday, 27 April 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

it's not out yet - i think i read about it on resident advisor??

maybe june

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ummmm....ok this Dixon Resident Advisor podcast is the best mix I've heard in years!!! And barely anyone has mentioned my favorite track - Owusu & Hannibal: "Lonnie's Secret." S! I! C! K! Surfing around for info on this masterpiece, I came across a comparison to René & Angela's "I'll Be Good" which is dead on. But I also hear Imagination's "Just an Illusion" in the thing. The difference lies in the vocals, I think. You can still feel a René and an Angela and a Leee John in "I'll Be Good" and "Just an Illusion" (despite varying degrees of robotictry) whereas the eraserheads singing "Lonnie's Secret" have long ago left their bodies. "I'll Be Good" was a #4 R&B hit in the US. Owusu & Hannibal will/did not enjoy similar success. (And they can't be singing "Marco Polo, Marco Polo/whatcha tryin' to hide," can they?)

But that's the key to what makes this mix so genius - that blend of the (relative) classicism Tim F mentions above and an alien ungraspability. And nearly every track exploits this tension. Tim F - I bow to you for bringing it to my attention.

So now I want more (duh). Dixon's Body Language 4 is on its way to me and I'll seek out Stress soon along with other recommendations from this thread. What else? What else? (Dixon or otherwise from any era.) What about this Living With Owusu & Hannibal album? I'm almost afraid to hear it.

And are there any other RA podcasts remotely this good? The Alexander Robotnick was too acidy squiggly overall for my tastes. And he cut the orgasm out of "The Perfect Kiss" (I will not have sex with this man). I'd pay at least $4 ($5 at most) to see a floor of dancers raising their hands in the air to anything on that Ripperton mix. Where exactly was that anthemic moment? And the Vince Watson was just plain awful. So any RA podcasts not like these three would be great. Thanx!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

You didn't like the Vince Watson? Um, what the fuck's the matter with you?

― the table is the table, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

"porn studies"?!?!?!?

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

LOL! That's a fucking riot!!!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

no, you're a riot!!!

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 29 April 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

he didn't get the Ripperton one either

how do I shot 00s house

― Ronan, Sunday, 29 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

In the head

― blunt, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

To be honest I didn't really get the ripperton one, but i've only listened to it once.

― Tim F, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

uh chicago folks dixon is at ohm this friday. good venue, if you haven't been there ... i saw farley jackmaster funk there on mlk jr day.

i cant make it :-/

― deej, Sunday, 29 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

the ripperton is my favourite mix of 07, the first half reminds me alot of immer

― creme1, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

that robotnik one is terrible.

― artdamages, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

the opening track on the Ripperton is amazing, seems it was vinyl only hence I missed it. in its entirety it's even better.

― Ronan, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

DIXON
SATURDAY MAY 5th @ CIELO, NEW YORK

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

I really dislike this.

― jim, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

if the opening track is that Morphine Doser one it's a stormer. the guy just released a new record...

― resolved, Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

This is the track listing:

1. Ra.H - Fall of justice - Morphine
2. Sven Weisemann - Aquital - Styrax leaves
3. Boris Werner & Lauhaus - Legeres - Remote Area
4. Quenum - Agbaja - Cdr
5. Sonje - Fusteration - Lomidhigh 2.5
6. Sonja Moonear - 99 Erikas - Karat
7. Daso - La fée verte - Connaisseur 34:00
8. Sid le Rock vs dj Koze - Naked - Cereal killers 38:30
9. Minz - We are the new me - Perspectiv 4
10. Masaya - El choquero (Agnès remix demo) - Perspectiv 6
11. Kerri Chandler - The invaders - Deeply Rooted house
12. Mr. White - The sun can't compare - Alleviated
13. Attias - Time & space - Still music
14. Butane - Nowhere Kansas - Mo's ferry
15- Novox - Marbles - Resopale

P.S. I actually dig the Ripperton, more than the Robotnick even. I just don't hear any track that's "completely and utterly anthemic hands in the air style."

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 29 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

wow this mix is really classy

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

classic, kind of nostalgic kind of not, very rooted.

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

fuck then that tracy thorn track. FUCK.

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

and i mean that it totally ruined it for me

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

haha i was just going to ask... is taht a positive fuck? well, i had similar reaction unfort.

― SusanD, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

and smith n hack ftw

xpost, that's why i had to clarify ... i want to like the TT stuff i really do, but something about it just turns me off and especially in a mix with such a tight deep vibe those vocals and lyrics cut through it like ice

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

so placing it at the end of the mix isn't such a travesty, but still.

it's the same thing with the escort remix of "it's all true". rollerskate jam and then bathos. the only redeeming part of the vocal perf is when she does the falsetto otherwise it might as well be the strummy acoustic guitar stuff

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

thk god its at the end. but still it is too abrupt and thorough palette cleansing (which is the ony way i can understand it being there and i'm probably just not getting it ..oh well) for me.

― SusanD, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

errr palate

― SusanD, Sunday, 29 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

palate cleansing makes sense to me.

listening to the mix i was struggling to put i words how it fits into the deep house canon (wanting to say something more interesting and questioning the very idea of such a canon) and it struck me that in 2007 house music is 20 years old (give or take) so doing a mix like this is very much a tightrope act on multiple axes: pastiche/nostalgia/rote vs. authenticity/now/exciting. i suppose that is the danger when doing something that is so connected with history.

― tricky, Sunday, 29 April 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

The canon has been questioned and repurposed into oblivion by now anyway. However lush it may sound, Dixon's electrohouse (aka techno, but I've uselessly repeated this on ilm) does not a deep house mix make. There's some good tracks here (Owusu & Hannibal's Scritti-sh vibe, Demba).

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard this mix more than I wanted to. Must remember to pack more sound on trips exceeding one week or so.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

As for Ripperton's, my God, half of this stuff I hear in the making (I oversee a recording studio complex of sorts) and it doesn't sound better put together by a vain and ungrateful bastard. OTM comment upthread about un-handraising material, but that applies to a lot of what comes out now.

Speaking of & on a sidenote:
Is there a thread about how knowing musicians & producers can (further) ruin one's appreciation of their output, or enhance it for that matter? I'd like to contribute.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

start it!

― lfam, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Here goes, now let's look at it sink off the bottom of the page -no problem for me as I've never grasped the concept of thread ownership.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

i too would like to drop usage of "deep house", but it makes more sense than calling it techno! also the first 20 minutes or so of this mix are not remotely techno unless techno has become disco-fied (bath)house! is it the sampling? new technology? what?

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

blunt do you like edits?

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

if the opening track is that Morphine Doser one it's a stormer. the guy just released a new record...

yep...what's the new record?

the Ripperton is amazing, I can't stop listening to it, weird rhythms, lots of styles, I don't know what some of you are missing, but I guess to each his own. For me the anthemic moment is the DJ Koze remix in the middle which bridges the deeper dubbier stuff at the start with the more explicitly housey stuff of the second half.

― Ronan, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

xpost, sure, and remixes too why?

It's not so much about it being techno than about not being very house. My synopsis of the 1st 20 minutes goes: electrohouse to fultonia (très house vocal I admit) to funky r&b and back to poppy electrohouse.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

In the head

-- blunt, Sunday, April 29, 2007 10:02 PM (Yesterday)

OTM comment upthread about un-handraising material

Yeah, I made that comment. And we agree on the Owusu & Hannibal track.

So why exactly are you shooting me in the head?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

I shot 00's house as per Ronan's understanding/liking, Kevin. I wish you no harm. Yet.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

OK then. I'll be sure to keep my house away from electrohouse.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

i asked about edits because they're an example of music being repurposed into oblivion, but there's also this very reverent attitude hovering around the music and the whole digger aesthetic so it fits with the church of house (even though the communities around it seem to actively avoid the house sound). it makes the music have this kind of rushy conflict.

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed -that said, how reverent it really is in the end (grabbing attention by piggybacking onto, or indeed shitting all over, a classic) is a matter of discussion on a case by case basis.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but art isn't always so nice and a sense of humor is a good thing ... the breakthroughs come in funny ways. we are talking dj culture here after all ... the manipulator of other people's tunes. i am in the somewhat unfortunate position of agreeing both with you and your detractors although the position is a bit artificial because i don't see the two sides as really that opposed.

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I apologize for unpleasantness upthread, Kevin, but really: what is so awful about the Vince Watson mix? Do you not like HIS style (the first tracks and a bunch of others on that mix are his own, reworked) or are you not into UR/Submerge or are you not into Detroit? If you're not into him, whatever, I think he's great. But if you don't at least give some props to UR and fam, then I sort of don't know what to say to you...

Anyway, on a happier topic: Vince Watson new ep soonish, on Submerge, with a remix by Los Hermanos.

― the table is the table, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

if you want something slightly more maximal kevin give the redshape podcast a listen.

― creme1, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

"However lush it may sound, Dixon's electrohouse (aka techno, but I've uselessly repeated this on ilm) does not a deep house mix make."

Dixon's mix may not be 100% canonical deep house, but i'd certainly call it deep house before I'd call it electro-house or techno. The only track that vaguely fits either of the two categories is the Tracey Thorn remix (which I love and think works perfectly BTW).

Is Henrik Schwarz also techno, Blunt? Dennis Ferrer? Where, precisely, does deep house end for you?

― Tim F, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

Henrik Schwarz= techno stabs with deep house soul.

― the table is the table, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

bouillabaisse house!

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

(as opposed to minimal pasta)

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

I do think Schwarz sounds loopy-tracky most of the time yes. The Ferrer remix sounds clinical & effect-heavy, but I'd "blame" that on the original although I haven't heard it.

For me, deep house never ends har har

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

I really wish I could describe the difference in feeling I get from listening to 'canonical'/instrument-based/vibe-instilling house as opposed to loop-based/sound-obsessed/derivative techno. Did I just do it? Guess not.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, you did.

― tricky, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yay

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ronan: this. from the samples it doesn't sound as good, but I still really want to hear the full thing (it's not like samples would particularly do Fall Of Justice, er, justice either). the label seems to release all aliases of the one guy, and has multiple releases planned in the next months.

― resolved, Monday, 30 April 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

yep I just discovered him from Break SL's profile. the sound on "Fall of Justice" is just so amazingly rich. there's an absolutely amazing 12 on Sonar Kollektiv from about 3 years ago that it really reminds me of, called "Detriot) (yes detriot) that's really brilliant. Been meaning to upload that from the vinyl and do a post on it on my blog for ages.

― Ronan, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

Moonstarr or whatever?? haven't listened to that in an age

― resolved, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

don't remember it being as percussive though (one of my favourite things about the R.ah), i'll redownload and bear it in mind

― resolved, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah Moonstarr. I'm the same, I dug it out last night, it's a bit more synthetic sounding but it does remind me of that track in spirit.

― Ronan, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

"I really wish I could describe the difference in feeling I get from listening to 'canonical'/instrument-based/vibe-instilling house as opposed to loop-based/sound-obsessed/derivative techno."

I guess I've never really considered deep house to not be loop-based/sound-obsessed. Most of my favourite deep house (or should that be techno?) is, er, loop-based and sound-obsessed.

I'm thinking stuff like Powder Productions' "Skyline", or the Salt City Orchestra remix of "Mushrooms".

― Tim F, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Of course I didn't sum it up right, it was too simple to be true. And fighting about labels (not record labels but music style labeling) can get pretty silly when discussing specific tracks. I do hear disco/tech house in Skyline and that Mushrooms remix strikes me as kinda generic musically, without the vocals it would be very zzZZzz. Deep house is often mistaken for run-of-the-mill, flowing and utterly harmless stuff.

― blunt, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Blunt, do me a POV deep house 2006-2007, please?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Joe Claussell - Unchained Rhythums (pts.2&3)
Larry Heard pres. Mr. White - You Rock Me
Osunlade - Aquarian Moon (or pretty much any Yoruba Soul remix
Franck Roger - Solo Man/When Animals Manifest
Mr. V - Da Bump

strickly off the top'o'tha domez in under 5min..

― blunt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

also that's 2006 only I believe

― blunt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

i love that larry heard song on the dixon body language and ellen allien fabric mixes - 'the sun can't compare' or something

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah it's all right (for 1992)

― blunt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

was it originally released in 92? i'd assumed it was an old track but looked it up and it was released last year

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha! It was. Thank you for proving my point!

― blunt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

But what a glorious and perfect return to 1992.

― matt2, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

sun cant compare = classique

i'm not so enamored of that osunlade album

― deej, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

i like me quite a bit of larry heard (though i like the techier stuff a la "dance 2000" more than his r+b influenced work) and i like osunlade okay, but i draw a line @ joe clausell

bongo drums in 7/4 ahoy!!

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

i like i love joe clausell

― SusanD, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

f0zi, meter nazi

― blunt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but if it were a minimal record it would be in 7/4 with deliberate unquantized and bitcrushed elements every 3.14159 bongo beats and therefore brilliant and a step forward for mankind.

*runs*

― tricky, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

*runs back in*

i am currently reading the curtain by milan kundera in which he gives his history of the novel and his favorite authors. this bit reminded me of the discussion here over the past few days (and also of ILM in general). (italics his)

"...He [Grombrowicz] dislikes the avant-garde of the 1950s and '60s in France, particularly the "new novel" and the "new criticism" (Roland Barthes). (On the topic of the new novel: "It is paltry. It is monotonous...Solipsism, onanism..." On the topic of the new criticism: "The smarter it is, the dumber it is." He was irritated by the dilemma these new avant-gardes were posing for writers: it was either modernism their way (which modernism he found jargon-laden, university-ridden, doctrinaire, out of touch with reality) or else conventional art endlessly turning out the same forms. For Gombrowicz modernism meant: through new discoveries, advancing along the inherited path. As long as that's still possible. As long the inherited path still exists.)..."

― tricky, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

truer words never spake:
http://photos-199.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v72/47/48/4301801/n4301801_30543199_2965.jpg

― lfam, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

Gombrowicz is one of Poland's national treasures.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 3 May 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but if it were a minimal record it would be in 7/4 with deliberate unquantized and bitcrushed elements every 3.14159 bongo beats and therefore brilliant and a step forward for mankind.

*runs*

-- tricky, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 5:36 PM (4 hours ago)

the villalobos thread is next door

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 3 May 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I apologize for unpleasantness upthread, Kevin, but really: what is so awful about the Vince Watson mix

I appreciate the apology. As for the Watson, what can I say? You saw what I jizzed about. I'm a song guy. And I prefer my dance music gay gay gay.

I'm actually digging the Ripperton more and more. But as with most minimal, it doesn't move me (which is perhaps the point?). And I often find that reading, say, Andy Kellman on Villalobos is often as good as listening to Villalobos.

Whereas with the Watson, there's nothing I can hang my hat on in a similar fashion. If you're up to it, point me to a particular moment and/or send me to a critic who loves the stuff.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

Thanx for the Redshape suggestion, creme1. Diggin' the "Baba O'Riley"-esque cascading fragments around 13:40.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 3 May 2007 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

really glad you raved about this, tim.
might have missed it otherwise.
nice one.

― djh, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

ok so embarrassingly i relistened to that osunlade from last year and take back what i said.

― deej, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Check out the remix of The Day We Met For Coffee by his protégé Afefe Iku! Trancey in the best possible way.

― blunt, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I am listening to this now and really enjoying it.

― jim, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, liked it too - expected some electrohouse cobblers but it's so disco!! loses me for the last 20 mins when it gets all regular again tho.

glad someone found a use for '80s joint'.

are jazzanova supposed to be good now?!

― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

I keep coming back to this, it's amazing.

― braveclub, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

i want to hear this

― blueski, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks the first half of this >>>>>> the second half?

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

no, i v much think so too.

is there other stuff about like this btw? i suppose that mymy tune mark p was on about is sorta of a piece as well. like i said before, i quite fancy the idea of all these giles peterson guys being put to good use

― r|t|c, Friday, 5 October 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

The first half waaaay smokes the second half. Still, definitely in the top ten of the year. And yes, if there's anything like this Dixon RA podcast, please let us know. The suggestions above were nice in their ways but didn't come close.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 5 October 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

lol @kjb

― deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

the man demands results

― winston, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh deej honey, you are really getting heavy here. Just fess up that you want to buy me a drink at Berlin and then have me sing to you "forget about the neighbors - we're doing them a favor. I can't wait tonight...."

Or else find me something else that sounds as divine as this Dixon mix (which I listened to yet again on a trip to Roswell last week).

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

Ana Rago - You're God (I:Cube Remix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/7792570ccd32ee/

Rhian Benson ft. Slum Village & Dwele - Say How I Feel (Bugz in the Attic Remix)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/7793052f7c7da6/

― Tim F, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

sorry dude its just that whenever you post about this thing you sound way too much like a rock critic, it really grates.

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

also wtf is up w/ you posting my full name? at least i have the decency to googleproof yours as 'bozolka'

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

if you want another mix to listen to check out leonard part sixx's mix here:
anothernightonearth.blogspot.com/2008/02/press-play-12-leonard-part-sixx.html
hes the dude behind the underdog edits

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

kewl, lovely, thanks d33j

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Aw you're cute, deej. Do you act like this with all your crushes?

I don't want merely a mix to listen to. I want a mix like the DIXON one to listen to. And harmless as that Leonard Part Sixx mix was, it doesn't come within many football fields of Dixon's.

Also, rock crit behavior comes with the rock crit territory. If that's what really grates you, you have a charmed life.

And I had no clue you were uptight about your name being posted. I won't do it again. But there's no point in googleproofing my name since every post on ILM is signed with my real one. So I look forward to you NOT googleproofing it the way you have been (which is NOT 'bozolka' as you know).

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

And Tim F, thanx yet again for the ceaseless stream of goodies. The Australian govt. should fund you as a national treasure.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want merely a mix to listen to. I want a mix like the DIXON one to listen to. And harmless as that Leonard Part Sixx mix was, it doesn't come within many football fields of Dixon's.

ugh dude this is exactly what im talking about. this faux-objective canonical ranking bullshit, like anyone cares how many football fields apart apples and oranges are

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

its like you're more obsessed w/ properly filing your music into 'worthy' and 'unworthy' than you are listening to/enjoying/discussing it

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

i'd go with filing it as 'worthy' or 'unworthy'= discussion

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

thats why so many of your early posts on the snap thread debating the relative quality of t-pain singles were so damn lame

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

my prev post isn't my opinion but rather my hypothesis on the posting style of kjb

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I tried. Still luv ya, babe.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

it actually crossed my mind today about how mad you guys used to get about us (me and tape store and other ppl maybe?) posting about shit on the radio. i never understood why then but i get you now. though i think a post simply saying "the new song by x is great" is a worthy feeler post.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah thats fine, i dont mean to sound all 'u mad' but that impulse towards quantifying everything just gets really dull after awhile

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

the oblivious verbal diarrhea of hyperarticulate narcissists isnt just dull, its fucking annoying. most of the time ILM is like having a conversation with 40 people who love the sound of their own voices.

― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

the problem w/ arguments like these is now i feel all guilty going into the family guy thread and posting "FG > SP, U ALL SUCK!!!"

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

tempting but ive restrained myself

― deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.discogs.com/release/1218904

i think there's a link to this somewhere on djh (just run a search on dixon) but i can't be sure it's the same thing as i haven't checked it out yet.

― jaime, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what's on djh. But Innercity 2005-2008 proves that beardo wooze and post-punky funk fits the man just as seductively as blood & wires electro R&B. I:Cube's "Tokyo Uno" does justice to everything he is, opening up brief windows onto numberless pleasures you hope will return next measure. And leave it to him to get me bus stopping to Ricardo Villalobos. Not as juicy as the podcast. But he's the world's best DJ.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

I love that he's included the Maurice Fulton remix of "Have You Seen The Moon In Dallas" - an absolute favourite of mine.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Lifted from RA, but here you go.
rs8.rapidshare.com/files/85193234/VA_-_Innercity_2005-2008__Innervisions_-Promo_CD-2008-EMP.zip
password: pitt

Listening now ...

― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

password: pitt

pipecock?

― deej, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/gen/full-cnr-bot-right-821.gif
He looks exactly like someone here, but I can't figure out who, although he does kind of look like Prince.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Pffft. It was the picture of him that's on his Resident Advisor interview.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Yo Kevin and other people that like misty plush house, check this downloadable DJ Mix from Ben Watt:

http://www.nightmusic.ch/2008/05/30/ben-watt-giles-smith-buzzin-fly-radio-2852008/

That Wookie remix of Mattafix!! And Tigercity's "Are You Sensation" is the best track of its type since Phoenix's "Too Young".

― Tim F, Monday, 4 August 2008 06:48 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

what can i expect from a dixon 3-hour set?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 16 April 2009 06:34 (seventeen years ago)

Heaven. God-like genius. Disco.

xpost Tim F, I didn't see your post until now. And yay the link is still active. Thanx!!!!!!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 16 April 2009 07:37 (seventeen years ago)

check this out, video clips of a dixon's april set. http://www.obscenenyc.com/2009/04/06/dixon-at-house-and-home-brooklyn-ny/

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

This is still my fav mix, shame all the other mixes I've found by him aren't anywhere near as good as this

― X-101, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

really? i think off limits 1 and 2 are better than this.

― jed_, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Off-Limits/release/164922
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Off-Limits-2/release/61704

― jed_, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, better than his body language which i found boring. also check this out if you haven't: http://rapidshare.com/files/159928849/ame_and_dixon_-_live_at_petrol__antwerp_-10-04-2008-UMP3.mp3

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

Dixon podcast is good but really not that outstanding. I listen to it far less than say the Ron Trent or Maurice Fulton podcasts. Also, I know I'm biased but I think the mix Jerome Derradji did for the Still Music profile I did for RA blows just about all their podcasts out of the water.

― pipecock, Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:11 (seventeen years ago)

Mmm this shiznit is sounding good this morning. Link for anyone who needs it. Still looking for that Henrik Schwarz podcast though. Damn, his K7 mix is good.

One other thing that needs mentioning: it ain't house, but why oh why is there no love for the Patrice Bäumel RA podcast from last year? It really stood out to me as one of the best mixes of last year.

― viborg, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

hey dude schwarz is here - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3X933D3S

― just sayin, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

Love you lots.

― viborg, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

Has anyone here heard The Grandfather Paradox mix cd by Schwarz, Ame & Dixon? Can't see it mentioned above but it's got some pretty good reviews.

― groovypanda, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

There's a thread about it on ILM. It left me cold (the album, not the thread).

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 17 April 2009 20:53 (seventeen years ago)

Did Jerome ever learn to beatmatch? I spent a bunch of time trying to teach him so we could tag team, about 5... errrr more, years ago, and he was hopeless. He has really good taste though...

― factcheckr, Friday, 17 April 2009 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

listen to the mix and hear for yourself.

http://ra1.residentadvisor.net/audio/RA-mix-Jerome-Derradji-Still-Music.mp3

he is quite good these days, i think he had some sessions with Rick Wilhite and other to help him out! spent some time with him going through his collection at his house when i was in Chicago, he has some damn good taste in fact. that mix is all Still Music and it's sublabels material, and it is quite diverse and excellent.

― pipecock, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

how are you dixon stans enjoying the 'temporary secretary' mix? have just popped it into the CD player this moment.

― lad: "et tu, lady?" (haitch), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

so far it's a http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badassbuddy_com-slowburner.gif

― lad: "et tu, lady?" (haitch), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

tried it maybe 5x but it hasn't grabbed me yet.

― jergins, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:26 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

SO PRETTY:

http://essentialmusic.ws/2011/09/11/va-live-robert-johnson-volume-8-mixed-dixon-playrjcd009/

― Tim F, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

love this!

― geeta, Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)

Getting serious Northern Exposure disc one vibes from this actually. Or maybe I just mean Tobias Thomas. Anyway if you like yr slightly-cheesy sweepy ambient melodic house then get on this.

― Tim F, Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:13 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Saw a copy of his L@RJ mix for dirt cheap. Jump on it immediately: yes? no?

― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:00 (fourteen years ago)

based on one track i heard once in outloud ... yes

― lukas, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

It's even worth paying full price for.

― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:03 (fourteen years ago)

yes.

― toby, Friday, 21 October 2011 10:05 (fourteen years ago)

How convenient that I have to go right by the same record store today.
Thanks, all! (See, this is what happens when ILM goes down: my whole music-buying epistemological framework breaks down, leaving me vulnerable to make questionable choices).

― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Friday, 21 October 2011 10:25 (fourteen years ago)

Good call on buying the Dixon Mix. The man is a mix-pacing god!

― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Friday, 28 October 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjwEM7a8kI4

So pretty! So much better than the vocal version!

― Matt DC, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:40 (fourteen years ago)

yaya, into it

― who can judge namitha (toandos), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 03:50 (fourteen years ago)

I love the little nods to Jaguar in there, if they're intentional.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:44 (fourteen years ago)

I totally read this thread title as "Right now the Dixons podcast on Resident Evil sounds like the best thing i've ever heard"

― Laughing Gravy (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 09:46 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Four hours of Dixon and Âme.

― Brakhage, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:32 (thirteen years ago)

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