Best Fabric Discs

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I am about to embark on a long car ride and I'm itchin to pick up a Fabric disc. Any recs? I've already got Swayzak, Mayer, Jaques Lu Cont and Andrew Weatherall.

― James Jung, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Some people rate the Akufen and Bugz In The Attic discs.

― Honorary Banana Slug (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

akufen, definitely.

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

john digweed - fabric 20.

― Martin Turenne, Friday, 11 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

#19 & #20 are certianly nothing to sneeze at.

― Flash (cowboytrance), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

the Bugz one for sure.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

The Akufen one is fab

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Afuken or Doc Martin

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

the Jacques Lu Cont one is really good.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

just got the new DJ Heather one but have yet to listen. afuken's my fave so far.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

the craig ricards fabric 01 mix is something special.

― colin nagy, Sunday, 13 March 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Digweed is quite nice. The Andy C vs DJ Hype is nigh-on impeccable drum n bass. Radioactive Man is awesome. If you want hip hop you can't go wrong with the DJ Spinbad comp. John Peel's is wonderful too.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Just noticed that the Freestylers have one as well. Dunno if it's any good.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

best fabric discs:

fabric 06 - tyler stadius - tribal house dropped into the echo chamber. exactly 1/3rd of the way between blake baxter, basic channel's main street discs and lcd soundsystem's "beat connection"

fabriclive 09 - jacques lu cont - seamlessly flows from gorgeous royksopp-isms to high-energy electro-acid-house. some random 80s stuff thrown in the mix, and at the end it veers into straight postpunky rock.

fabriclive 11 - bent - these guys are the good-natured goofy flipside of holland's bunker crew. they also live in the interzone between smurfy electro, italo disco and twisted house but the vibe is more carebears than cobra commander.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 14 March 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Mayer and JLC, easily. I know this doesn't do you much good though, so the John Peel one is fun.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 March 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

I like the Bent one a lot, yeah. It's kinda like a more poppy Chicken Lips mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 14 March 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Bent combines 'Radio Jolly' with 'The Greatest Hit', so it scores some points. The Radioactive Man disc seems to have a few fans.

― BARMS, Monday, 14 March 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for all the suggestions. Went with Akufen, it's good.

― James Jung, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

has the villalobos fabric mix been scrapped?

the fabric website no longer lists it as upcoming

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

i was at fabric on saturday and they had posters up advertising the smagghe mix which had a byline at the bottom about forthcoming mixes. the villalobos was mentioned as one of the forthcoming ones but i suppose the posters could have been printed a while ago.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Akufen and Radioactive Man are decent. The ones I really love are Weatherall, Mayer and Smagghe (esp that bit with the Booka Shade acapella mixed into 'Heiden'.)

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

poor ricardo! LOST IN THE K HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEE

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

on the fabric website they're changed the November mix from ricardo to Carl Craig.

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah it's been cancelled.

― a, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

he really better get his fuckin mind right

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

i'm bummed too. but carl craig? sweet! (does anyone remember his 2cd mix on react called the workout that came out a couple of years ago? they have it at my local virgin for $5 which is a steal)

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

um. grab that and put it up on ebay for you buy it at $24.99. we'll split the $20 profit (50% for yr business advisor).

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Remember? Shjeet, I still play those mixes a lot...still, can't say i'm really psyched by the idea of another Craig mixcd (instead of an album in his Just Another Day mode.)

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

what??? it's big on ebay? we sold about 20 copies at work for 12 euro each or something, a special offer, I think because React shut down or became another company.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

try finding a copy of "suck my deck pt 1". react went into bankruptcy because of some sort of shady funding deal that fucked the owner over - he's started a new company called resist but all of the old react stuff is now OOP.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

hah vahid, considering that i don't currently have a job, i might just do that. there's one copy of it up on ebay right now from a uk seller.

that's true about yet another cc mix, but i'm still curious as to what he'll pick for fabric. i haven't heard him play out in a long time. (not that that means much for an at home listening cd, but still)

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, one of those local megastore's had a bunch of Workouts lying around for 6-7 euro recently...almost bought some as standard birthday presents.

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah we got all the React comps at a really good price, lots of them too, Nag Nag Nag, DJ Hell's EBM thing, Dave Clarke World Service etc etc etc.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

fabric 44 = a winner.
loving it.

― mark e, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

fabriclive 50 d-bridge and instra:mental is pretty great, feels like something different

― rahni, Friday, 5 March 2010 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

Dear people at Fabric: Where the fuck is that Omar-S CD I won back in Decemeber that's never arrived yet!

― We jus' havin' fun, so don't act like you don't want my money, hon (EDB), Friday, 5 March 2010 06:02 (fifteen years ago)

fabriclive 50 d-bridge and instra:mental is pretty great, feels like something different

Really want to hear this. Pretty OTM choice of helm-artist(s) I think.

― Tim F, Friday, 5 March 2010 11:09 (fifteen years ago)

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