Electro-house bobbins 2005

can i have a roll call of labels and/or artists primarily producing this kind of thing?

just (finally) heard the thin white duke mix of "just let go" - pretty underwhelmed, as i was by the original. i really wanted another "emerge", but this really isn't it.

I've got the unmixed version of Crack House Warming somewhere. I liked it well enough, but it didn't set anything on fire. I can't really remember much about it, but the fact I haven't bothered to dig it out since late November probably says it all.

I have the Michael Mayer mix too. I think it's more up your alley than mine Tobes. Obv. old Mac and the wrath of Novamute (I really want to stay on their mailing list) prevents me soul-seeking, but you can have my CD copy if you want it.

i've only listened to the soulwax remix of lcd soundsystem once, but i remember it being pretty great. there were some good remixes of soulwax's e-talking, too, weren't there? one by rex the dog? i should really sort my mp3s out.

It's seriously amazing, maybe the best release on Get Physical so far, I mean in terms of all 3 tracks being really really great.

Also while I'm posting this, can we have a DJ T Vs MANDY throwdown on this thread? Or should I start a new one? I love DJ T but I can't escape the sensation that MANDY are going to get better and better, whereas T seems a bit less versatile.

I don't think I have any 05 recommendations yet!

Kev, which artist is that?

Mental Overdrive - Disko Dans

check Blue Room - Radio 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/blueroom/tracklistingssat.shtml

This track grooves with pulsating electro robotic beats.

a couple questions: has anyone been able to ID tunes from the DJ T - Club Monza mix that was discussed a month or so ago? i've only been able to figure out Osborne - Africa as the 2nd track but i'm dying to figure out some of those other ones. anybody?

also, i got something from slsk that seems to be MANDY remixes of Laurie Anderson's "O Superman". has this been released? will it? anybody know?

That MANDY-O Superman thing was released on a white label as Telegraph-Saved At Sunset

Ronan I was just thinking last night (while listening to Booka Shade's glorious "Something Physical") about how I find it really difficult to distinguish between M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade and DJ T! The Get Physical in-house sound is so distinctive that it kinda effaces a lot of the internal differences of the artists. I was gonna tentatively suggest that maybe M.A.N.D.Y. were more groove-based and DJ T more epic, but then I remembered the former's "Our World (Our Music" (strings!) and the latter's "Phantomas" (beats!).

"the must-listen label for me at the moment is Systematic. recent work from John Dahlback (Jesper's cousin) has been *wrecking* shit at my house, including his newest on Morris Audio, "My Favorite Stars". "

I love Olav Pozsgay's Nur Aus Liebe - so starry and emotional! - but I wasn't aware of anything else on this label really. Actually keeping on the same topic, that track could v. easily be on "Get Physical", it sits very well next to "Freemind" etc.

Track recommendation: I was playing the M Mayer remix of The Modernist's "Protest Song", and had totally forgotten how great it is. It's like a synth tornado! I would love to start a mix-set with this track, just to scare everyone.

Funny how Mayer's album takes a lot more cues from his remixes such as this one (and Agoria, Egoexpress, Superpitcher etc.) than from the tracks he'd actually released previously.

"I actually feel mildly embarassed for the amount of jizzing about Get Physical on my part, on so many threads!"

It's hard not to though, they're so continually amazing.

ha tim - i've got that one on hold at the shot at the moment. only gave it a cursory listen but it's killer.

has anyone given "total body workout" a proper listen? just picked up the doublepack and it's solid so far...does the cd release have any bonus tracks/mixes?

oh and ronan - the dub of "superworld" is the shit. i dunno if it's my *favorite* T tune but it's up there. :)
and thanks for the tip on the Telegraph record. is it MANDY, then?

a1 - catwash/dj wild & chris carrier - eyes need sugar
a2 - catwash/dj wild & chris carrier - believe in me
b1 - martinez - mind games
b2 - martinez - machine script
c1 - afrilounge - the dude
c2 - chelonis r jones - i don't know? (starsky & hutch mix)
d1 - silver city - the galactic ride (ralph lawson mix)
d2 - tomas barfod - first timers

I have a recommendation, it is from last year but never got mentioned anywhere really.

Mount Sims-Restless-International Deejay Gigolo's super weirdo making a sad electroclash love song!

x-post maybe you did get a promo! mmm I am dying to hear this now!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/balaam/Sum0fAPitch/Sum%200f%20A%20Pitch%20-%20TakeYourSleep%20(early%20demo).mp3

Well it's not really in the sense that Get Physical is for example, but "Lovelace" and "Against Luftwiderstand" are classic ravey electro-house tracks for me...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/balaam/Sum0fAPitch/

Boys Noize - The Bomb. Does what it says - acidic ravey synth aceness from IDG.

Tomboy - She Hit My Head. More acid tinged electro, bit more downtempo than Boys Noize, from the Whomadewho guy's who did that Satisfaction / Flat Beats covers 12 on Gomma as well.

But today I had to almost stop the car during that DJ T @ Monza set (thanks Mike btw), WHAT ON EARTH IS THE TRACK ABOUT 49 MINUTES IN?

It is kind of warm and clicky and then it has this gigantic white noise e climax which is just insane!

what about:
57 min.
8 min./acid breakdown at 10.5 mins (?!? I NEED THIS TUNE)
25 min. ?!?! sounds like John Dahlback to me...
29 mins - what. the. fuck.

sick sick sick.

Same with 29 mins, it's instantly familiar to me but I can't think from where.

25 mins is great yeah. But the track before that is really good too!

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Mayer in particular is a huge Underworld fan. His "I Built This City" remix is practically a tribute to them.

Well, how wrong I was, given they subsequently released 3 of the best tracks of this year, "Piccadilly Circuits" gets better with each play, and the b-side is very good too.

I think now it's more a case of people like DJ T needing to find a new direction to match that taken by GPM, certainly he's gone from being a sort of icon of their sound to seeming like something of a quirky retroist.

Though his remix of Will Saul does indeed show a way out.

x-post I actually always imagine Mayer as being into all populist dance music, perhaps this is idealism on my part.

in the UK, or at least the north, the kompakt/electro- axis is totally mixed up with breaks

I would say down here in Brighton, that sound is much more related to the techno scene, thanks mainly to the Kliks boys who all seem to have come from a techno backgound.

Having said that I try and steer clear of the breaks nights so there may be a whole 'nother side of that scene I'm unaware of.

Seriously though, "Poker Flat" is an awesome tune but it feels anchored at one pole of what's happening, pushing things in a certain direction, whereas "Mandarine Girl" has that weird combination of Holden/Wruhme style sonic epilepsy with (allegedly) Ibiza-ready riff-populism.

Deej I reckon that mix will grow on you even more: I seem to remember thinking parts of it were just too suble but now when I listen back I can't remember what they were.

I'd agree if we were only talking about Second Toughest..., but listen to the first four tracks or so on Beaucoup Fish! Underworld are (or were) maximalists who are secretly minimalists, and Mayer's a minimalist who is secretly maximalist.

Also, I find it amusing we talk so much about Pokerflat, they seem to be as spotty as any other random minimal label from Germany these days.

here: Electro-house bobbins 2005 Part 2

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF191188-01-01-01.mp3

out in the shops folx!!!

please apologise to wilkes for some drunken fool shouting at him about justus kohncke on saturday. it wont happen again...

I get excited, I wish there were more of these on the whole

i'll pass on the message when i see him tomorrow. were you requesting justus or just randomly shouting about it? wish i had been there but they'd only pay for one of us to go.

Some other cool current ones I like:

Serge Santiago - Atto D'Amore
Giu Boratto - Aquipelago
Marc Romboy vs. Matthias Tanzmann - Who Got The Beats

Not terrific like most of his other remixes but nice enough. (Freeform Five has remixed Elton John and Brian Wilson before, though I'd conceed Will Young might not be quite in the same category.)

I guess I think Spirit Catcher or Pearson are more going halfway than "Discopolis".

maybe we're not thinking of the same endpoint then - to my ears, Discopolis (and I don't mean to single this out, I actually enjoy it) goes halfway to where Key Generator and the Jupiter track on the Uhu disc already are. They're just very bright tracks to me, whereas Discopolis seems kind of dull in comparison