erol alkan cd on the cover of MUZIK

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anyone got this yet ?
tracklist ?

any good ?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's poptastic !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

raaaaaar !

tracklist mister martian !

can't find the new muzik up here in manchester.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

it was on sale in London yesterday !

anyway the latest e-mail from Muzik

NEWSFLASH: 11/06/03

ON SALE TODAY!

The July issue of Muzik magazine - starring P Diddy!

Yup, we in again with a fresh new slice of dance music goodness. You can pick up your new Muzik right now!

* A free mix CD from Trash man Erol Alkan (one of the best Muzik's ever produced, though we say so ourselves)

* A world exclusive interview with The Man Formerly Known As Puff Daddy about his exciting new dance direction

* The lowdown on Daft Punk and their full length manga movie (no, really!)

* Not to mention ESG (NYC's godmothers of punk funk), the full Ibiza 03 roundup and the story of the Diwali Riddim

* PLUS: Archigram, Jazzie B, Cody ChesnuTT, Ed Rush and Optical, Gilles Peterson and many, many more, as well as all the news and reviews you could want.

* PLUS:
WIN! A DJ slot at Spain's Benicassim Festival
WIN! Tickets to see Royksopp thanks to MTV
WIN! Tickets to this year's V Festival

All for £3.80. Get yours now.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Playgroup - Make It Happen (Zongamin Mix) (Edit)
2. Mitsu - Hush
3. Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Night Version)
4. The Faint - The Conductor (Thin White Duke Remix) (Edit)
5. Codec And Flexor - Crazy Girls Make My Heart Go Boom Boom
6. Headman - It Rough (Chicken Lips Remix)
7. Goldfrapp - Train (Ewan Pearson Dub Mix) / Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (Acappella)
8. Grand Popo Football Club - Men Are Not Nice Guys (Goldrum Remix)
9. Gilleron & Mcarthur - Now It's Dark
10. Kiko - Italiomatic (Kiko & The Hacker Remix) / Alex Gopher - Party People (Acappella)
11. Ferenc - Yes Sir I Can Hardcore
12. Archigram - Doggystyle
13. Uminski - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yeppeee, you deserve a medal, James !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

wel done that man !

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

CD sounds good, dam this means i have to buy Muzik twice in as many months for the first time in about 3 years

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

its brilliant - esp. Uminski - i wass on me neck laffin - that p/d interview is a corker - check the spineline - much better than recent jockey slut CDs

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

but i'm sick of 'make it happen', this summer's 'shower scene'

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wow the ferenc track!! kompakt is breakin out of its ghetto!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It's good, but it sounds like he's been frequenting gabba.net. Loads of the featured tracks were on there months ago.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope "Crazy Girls" finally gets more luv. Also I don't know Pearson's dub mix of "Train" but the vocal mix is typically great.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 12 June 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

taking sides: 'crazy girls' vs. chupa's 'goth chix'

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I do love Muzik. pg 102 - R Kelly review. pg 104 - Phill Niblock review. Where else? Not bothered with the CD yet, the mood will come.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Osama unthugged.

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

a pretty good CD. I loved Grand Popo Football Club and Uminski trks tho'

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 16 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, how's the rest of that Codec & Flexor album, anyway? I saw a few negative reviews that derisively referred to it as "industrial," but "Crazy Girls" is indeed fine. Still: 17 used copies on Amazon + 0 customer reviews = dud?

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Monday, 16 June 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not terribly great - some really good tracks but yeah surprisingly industrial-ish! Which would be fine (first track "Black Diamonds" is pretty awesome-ish in that regard) but they're not as good as Green Velvet is at the same sort of thing, and there needs to be more tracks like "Crazy Girls". What I've heard of the Martini Bros. album is better.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ferenc is two people from the nitsa club team in barcelona (where erol alkan dj's regularly).
i like the sense of humour part of the title on their track: 'yes sir i can boogie' is a trash bubblegum pop classic from the spanish 70's. i heard a good version of the song by jack and anthony reynolds last year.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

i am listening to the MIXMAG covermount right now

1. justice - waters of nazareth (erol's edit)
2. sebastian - walkmen (erol edit)
3. mr oizo - half an edit
4. headman - moisture (mustapha 3000 remix)
5. lark - animal's claw (in flagranti edit)
6. herbert - moving like a train (smith n hack remix)
7. claude von stroke - the whistler
8. spiller - jumbo
9. spank rock - bump (switch remix)
10. hi jack - hi jackin (herve remix)
11. peaches - downtown (simian remix)
12. johannes heil - warrior of light
13. digitalism - jupiter room (erol edit)
14. the knife - like a pen (thomas schumacher remix)
15. hot chip - boy from school (erol edit)

WOW ... so many remixes ... and so much of this sux. between tracks 2 and 5 there is nary a pulse. smith'n'hack don't disappoint, and "waters of nazareth" is a ceritifed banger, but so far this has been 70% bummer.

wow, this smith'n'hack track bumps!!

i'll keep you updated

(ps - he is mixmag's dj of the year)

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

I like the headman mix from that early section. (mustapha 3000 is just erol again.) the herbert/smith n hack remix is a total sleeper, I love it too!!

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

it's pretty good from 'warrior of light' to the end, I reckon.

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

actually it's all good from the herbert mix on.

i can't believe we haven't talked about the herbert mix ... holy shit, it's like the next level of beardo disco, the first update on the "kiss me again" template ... total shambolic overload.

erol's rework of hot chip is amazing in it's own way.

the only thing post-herbert that i don't care for is the knife, but you all probably already guessed that i just would hate the knife.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

take your fucking bjorkesque caterwauling to the iceland where it belongs, and where with any luck you'll be mistaken for a moose in heat and mauled by an angry polar bear.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

i don't really care for the mustapha mix so much, and i ESPECIALLY HATE the lark track that comes after. they both have the "zany" vibe of early wall of sound productions, without the freshness. the 2nd half of the mustapha track (the huge syndrum breakdown) sounds like a chromeo outtake and the lark thing is just sub-wiseguys level crap that jon carter would spin.

i also really really don't like oizo's "half an edit". isn't that like the dub version of uffie's "ready to uff"??? or is there a mashup floating around of "ready to uff" vs "half an edit"?? thank god this french glitch-hop thing hasn't blown as half as big as i predicted it would, it's clearly driven by a total lack of musical ideas.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

umm... :(

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

OH COME NOW, i restrict my bile to 4 tracks out of 15 ...

mr alkan is batting a solid 0.733333333333, that's easily good enough to make it the 14th of 15th best dj mix of the year.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

ok i was overly harsh on the oizo track, but i really feel like he's a giant who's fallen to the level of mortals, you know???

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:28 (eighteen years ago)

and i guess whatever i think of oizo/lark/mustapha, the sequencing and flow from the sebastian track to the herbert track *is* very nice. we'll give them a half point each.

but i can't award any points for the knife. that track just blows.

13/15!!

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

man that old muzik mix was great, I'm playing it now.

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

herbert - moving like a train (smith n hack remix)

I think this is one of my favourite tracks from last year...

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

i have such a love/hate relationship with this stuff, occasionally it throws up genuine greatness but an entire cd of it all in a row...it just seems so wilfully one-dimensional.

1. justice - waters of nazareth (erol's edit)
7. claude von stroke - the whistler
11. peaches - downtown (simian remix)
13. digitalism - jupiter room (erol edit)
14. the knife - like a pen (thomas schumacher remix)
15. hot chip - boy from school (erol edit)

that said i properly love all of those. the peaches one shocked me by being so good!

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

also the erol rmx of hot chip renders all hot chip originals entirely superfluous

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

robin did i ever hear that herbert? i don't remember hearing it.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

don't think you could forget hearing it

― a (rslvd), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah its the cut up electro-rock-glitch stuff that puts me off, it's so clumsy! Coming out of Carl Craig at the End the other month to go the bar and finding the other room playing this stuff and people going mad for it and the gulf in quality was just huge.

I'm coming to the conclusion that every Justice track that isn't Waters of Nazareth is an utter clunker, and their imitators are even worse.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

Lex - not sure, I heard it at the first Allez-Allez in November and had to ask what it was, the DJ was looping it and letting it build for ages, the effect was awesome.

I'm coming to the conclusion that every Justice track that isn't Waters of Nazareth is an utter clunker, and their imitators are even worse.

It's true. And their DJ sets are annoying! Everything really over-saturated and sledgehammer-subtle.

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

it is also v annoying that people are still talking about uffie rather than letting 'ready to uff' lie as something which was v fun for 5 mins and NO LONGER

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha, you were loving Uffie so much 6 months ago

i still like the Sebastian mix of 'Pop The Glock' but nothing else

clumsy music for clumsy people?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

yes 'ready to uff' was lots of fun AT THE TIME

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Friday, 19 January 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Ready to Uff was never fun.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

why did it stop being fun?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

Why do jokes stop being funny when you've heard them again and again?

(Actually Ready To Uff was always rubbish)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 19 January 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Thirded on Uffie. Why listen to "SHOCKING" quasi-pop when you can listen to the real thing ?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 19 January 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Why listen to bad rapping in an annoyingly wobbly voice over some crap retro beats? At all?

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

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