RFI: new house compilations

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At the moment i'm eyeing off three house compilations:

Chicken Lips' 'Bodymusic' (which I've listened to and seems great)
"Jack To Future" on MRI's new label, and
"Cruising" mixed by the boys from Martini Bros

I'd just get them all except my budget is pretty tight at the mo', so... Has anyone heard these? Which should I get/avoid? Or are there any other necessary comps that have been released lately?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

mri has a label?!

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:48 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre900/e942/e94243x35wt.jpg

― trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 11 September 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The label's called Resopal and its distributed by Force Inc. "Jack To Future" allegedly gets people like Hakan Lidbo and Dirk Diggler to make tributes to mid-eighties acid/jack house.

Thanks Trife but that looks like prog-house.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Jack To The Future is pretty underwhelming--a few tracks trade on the premise reasonably well but mostly it's dry, brittle, monotonous, and nowhere near as jacky as it oughtta be. Haven't heard the other two either but Chicken Lips keeps winking my way.

Any word on the Steve Bug-mixed Da Minimal Funk Vol. 3 on Poker Flat? Saw it once, hesitated cuz of overlap, and haven't been able to find again.

― Andy, Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah the Minimal Funk 3 thing is too expensive for me to buy without major encouragement. It looks good but perhaps a bit tasteful from the name downwards. Generally Steve is a bit more restrained than his labelmates (i want i want i want i want that impossible to ever obtain Jeff Bennett album!!!)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicken Lips apparently have a DJ Kicks coming out soon too, so you might want to wait and compare.

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Thursday, 11 September 2003 07:23 (twenty-three years ago)

B-but it has the Ewan Pearson mix of "Make It Happen"!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Naked Music's "Lost on Arrival" ain't a bad mix - it's a somewhat desperate attempt by them to switch up their flow in the face of the combined attacks of San Francisco Freaks-style quirk house, microhouse, electroclash and Metro Area-style avant-disco. Being Naked Music it's still slightly conservative but it's very nice-sounding - voluptuously thick, rhythmically frisky dubby disco. There's a great Morgan Geist remix of a Daniel Wang track on there.

I still think Hooj's "Le Future Le Funk" is excellent, especially the first disc as well as RJ Project's "What Colour Is Love" on disc 2 (which I'd love to put on a comp/mix w/ Luomo, Superpitcher and Martini Bros' "Boy/Girl" called Dancing with Tears in my Eyes).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 12 September 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Swayzak's Fabric mix is also very good (along similar lines to Le Future Le Funk, but a bit tech-ier).

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

How To Kill The DJ Part 1 mixed by Ivan Smagghe is pretty fucking great, I caught on to it late enough but it really is wicked, nice 80s disco feel, and then Smagghe's KILLER edit of Memorabilia by Soft Cell at the end.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 September 2003 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i am going to go pick up the new gusgus mix tonight, it's got lots of playhouse stuff and things like villalobos and even stuff like aaron carl on it so i'm excited to see. i'll let everyone know how it is.

in the meantime i am jacking along to the new dj rush mix on pro-jex, i would recommend it to you pansies if i thought you could take it

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 12 September 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm trying to get through this gusgus mix to let you all know if it's any good but i keep getting stuck at the aaron carl tracks, especially "homoerotic". good mix of freaks/prince/romanthony style vocal numbers and more abstract tracks. it wanders a bit through the middle, and maybe could have used more straight-up house tracks (damn, "homoerotic" is the fucking BOMB). the overall vibe is very "international snootleg". oh, and it's actually captain comatose and not villalobos on this mix.

i also bought the new fabric mix from bent. more downtempo than house but still a very strong showing.

okay now who's heard the takatak mix by villalobos?

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Is "Homoerotic" as good as "Down" - I love that track to absolute DEATH (and why aren't there any more scary ACTUALLY GAY black house records like Carl's rather than just implied-gay-via-screaming-diva house records?)

Yeah I quite like the Bent Fabric mix as well - the Morgan Geist track is great and Annie's "The Greatest Hit" obviously roxor.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

taka taka is my favorite mix cd this year. i only wish it was longer or a double cd because villalobos is just amazing. his mixing is like subtle hypnosis where you just get completely lost in a track or a mix only to find it gone and replaced by something else. it's something that is really hard to do well and on top of that his mixing style can be very raw. there are great contradictions at work in the tunes he selects and the way they're mixed. he is a master at controlling vibe and makes the most disparate of tunes sound like they belong together. i could go on and on...

― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)

the taka taka tracklist looks pretty great. how 'micro' is it, stu?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

it's definitely micro, but it's also funky and moist. lots of highs and lows whereas i could see an easy criticism of micro being that it's too flat.

― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 13 September 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

'Taka Taka' doesn't exist as far as Australia is concerned :-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 14 September 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard conflicting things about Taka Taka, which is hard for me to believe, because Villalobos is one of my favorite DJs (as well as one of my favorite producers). I can't wait to hear it, in any case. Don't forget Dan Bell's latest mix on Logistic, which isn't nearly as micro as one might expect (I reviewed it somewhere in my column on neumu, if you're curious to read a more expanded version - I think it's the "bread and milk" column). I'll also take this opportunity to plug my own mix from this year (more micro & techno than house, per se, but whatever), spanning Villalobos, Rob Hood, Luciano, DJ Abstract, Akufen's Massive Attack mix, Pan/Tone, etc. Anyone who wants a copy, get in touch and we'll work out a trade or something.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 14 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

1) what is the whole "new jack" thing... i mean, i understand it, but what should i listen to?
2) does anyone have the comp on slsk? i can only find 3 tracks.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

holy poo, i can't believe i forgot to mention: "rocker's delight: the rock sound of darkest paris".

http://christophemonier.free.fr/RockersDelight/Info.htm#English

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

this is what i wanted the "irreversible" sdtrk to be: unhinged french people crooning/screaming over banging french hard house. like frankie bones vs. romanthony, or the supercollider crew trying to do progressive house. well it's from 1990-95 so it sounds a little more primitive than that, i guess, honestly more like the tracks from alive 1997 with vocals. also some very eerie skylab-esque instrumentals, tape loops of tibetan orchestras and echos of chansons and mr.oizo bass farts.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and the last track is an echoed out drone scape of john barry strings and a looped chanteuse with a motorik drum loop. as the drone modulates higher shards of deeply filtered drum breaks begin poking out through the layers of vox and guitar, hinting at an impending amen beatdown which NEVER HAPPENS, instead we get huge subbass depth charge and a weird ringing in our ears where the rinse should go.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

the villalobos and gusgus comps sound awesome - does anyone know where i can pick stuff like this up in london?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I would say HMV Oxford Street, their dance section is good.

Failing that try some of the record shops on Berwick Street in Soho.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"jack to the future" is actually pretty good. a jack track that samples pharoahe monch is always good in my book.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone heard the Moon Harbour 2 comp out on Intergroove? Losoul, Steve Bug etc. Looks good.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 19 September 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I'm thinking of buying this unassuming looking unmixed 2CD set, just because it has several things ('Fanfares', 'The Sky Was Pink', M.Mayer's 'Happiness' remix, Rex the Dog's 'Girls' remix, 'Requiem For A Hit') that I like a lot. Can anyone more knowledgeable than me tell me whether the rest of it is any cop or not?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - mucked up link:

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/165160-01.htm%3CBR%3E

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Err - mucked up link again. I am an idiot. I've checked it this time:

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/165160-01.htm

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That looks really good Alba. The Andre Kraml track is great, as is "Decompression". The Martini Bros and Greens Keepers tracks are both decent (the latter would be *fantastic* if it had some sort of brock-out extended club mix - maybe the mix uses one? - otherwise it's a bit polite). The Ewan Pearson mix of Mocky really surprised me the one time I heard, it's very slow if I recall. Could be amazing, could be not, not sure.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, that seems like enough good stuff for me to take a chance on the rest. Thanks Tim.

Any other dance compilations people like at the moment?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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