so which dj mix best summed up 2005? and which was the most extraordinary?

But as far as representative, 2005 is all about Body Language.

I think there were too many great mix cds this year (and too many sharing at least a handful of tracks) for any to stand out as being OMG this is the new shit (at least of those I heard) - I think we're getting to a point where too many DJs have good taste. I wonder if this by itself will make the music seem irredeemably "tasteful" after a while. I hope not.

Body Language is my third favourite album of the year, so it probably wins by default, but it actually took a while for me to realise how good it was.

How has Crosstown Rebels 2 aged for you Tim? Especially since you were a big booster of it earlier this year?

It'll be in my top ten for the year I expect.

Josh, M.A.N.D.Y. did Body Language.

I do wish we'd specify we're talking about 'dahnce' dj mixes in the thread title though.

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It says "summed up 2005", not which do I like the best, so that excludes "Today" and "Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi" as far as I can see, both of which are fairly specific sounds, but not necessarily massively popular ones, at least in the case of the Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi that's kind of a niche sound, for me, the not ultra minimal house but not Tiga electrohouse intersection. A niche I like though and one I try and mess around with myself.

I don't think any mix is really as representative of what's popular as "Body Language", at least that seems the really unifying centre point of most of the mix CDs released this year.

But there are still lots of areas where the mix CDs just aren't really there, ie you don't hear what certain DJs are playing live on CDs, or maybe that's a way of saying mix CDs are never really representative of a great deal, except the crossover elements of whatever sound, and what is big in crossover terms.

x-post to tricky, while I love the Black Strobe E mix, as far as I remember it's from December 04.

sci.fi.hi.fi is pretty excellent, too. when i was living in berlin, i had lunch with ewan pearson and he gave me a copy of it! i swooned! why did i move back to nyc again?

Also there needs to be love for these two mixes:

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DJ Milo - Live at The Cat Club 1979 (disco mix that almost seems to have a novel "no electronics" elements)

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Greg Wilson - Credit To The Edit (Disco/Boogie re-edits!)

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'Sweatbox'! 'Lust Pellets'! 'Blood'! erm...'Dominator'!! Totally in my top-10 if I were to make one.

haven't heard the dj milo one. can somebody, er....

i want to hear that greg wilson mix...i was actually coming here to post about how good some of those lindstrom and prins thomas shibuya fm mixes are. disco edits ahoy. the mix they did for beatsinspace.com was nice too. the disco edit phenomenon is one my favorite 2005 developments if it can be called that.

i have the glimmers double mix cd that came out this year i think. i like the second disc, it's pretty much all disco and hip hop.

I'm still thinking "Transitions" has it for me in category of "extraordinary" as in "surprisingly good". In the past I've always found Hawtin's mixes to be better in theory than in practice but this one is just so great. You can spend hours alone just trainspotting all the little snippets.

the villalobos snippet made me laugh

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Bad Acid: Swag (MFF)
Si Fi Hi Fi: Ewan Pearson
Suck my deck: Damian Lazarus
Detached: Jeremy Caulfield (most representative for me)

Also hyped about the C/O Pop Festival double CD, and also interested in hearing Hell's Hellboy italo-mix.

The tracklist (and mixed really well):

1MäRTINI BRöS - HERE COMES THE SIN
2FALKO BROCKSIEPER - ROME NIGHT
3 BEROSHIMA (HEXAQUART MIX) - ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION
4 WELT ZWEI - SIMULATOR
5 JOHN TEJADA - SONGFORM + FREEDOM
6 SASCHA FUNKE - BROCKEN
7 GEBR. TEICHMANN IN LOVE WITH ACID MARIA - FLAMING LIPS
8 REWORK - REWORK
9 JACEK SIENKIEWICZ - THIS NIGHT WITH THE EAGLE
10 OFFPOP - DOWN
11 MITTE KARAOKE - ICH STEH' DRAUF
12 PLASTIQUE DE RêVE VS. CROWDPLEASER - HEUT NACHT KOMM ICH ZU DIR
13 T.RAUMSCHMIERE - RAVEMUSICK
14 DAVID CARRETTA VS CASSY - TU ES

CD 2
1. Gebrunn Gebrunn [ Paul Kalkbrenner ]
2. Magma [ Ellen Allien ]
3. 50.1 [ Huntemann ]
4. Rock The Box [ Tom Hades ]
5. Bright Lights Fading [ Slam Back to Mono RMX ] [ Slam ft. Billie Ray Martin ]
6. Bollocks [ Marco Bailey ]
7. Electryk FM [Scan X RMX ] [ Rykkk¡¦s ]
8. Tested Well [ Tony Rohr ]
9. Solid [ Donato Dozzy ]
10. Sweatbox [ Motor ]
11. Wait & See [Alter Ego RMX ] [ Tiefschwarz ft. Chikinki ]
12. Radiant [ Hiroaki Lizuka ]
13. Aggresiva [ Cristian Varela ]
14. Suffering [ The 65D Mavericks ]
15. Time For A Change [ Redhead ]
16. Clubtakes [ Joris Voorn RMX ] [ Secret Cinema ]
17. Stoppage Time [ Original Mix ] [ Guy Gerber ]

The Freeform 5 'Misch Masch' is brilliant as well- much better than the Tiefschwarz one which I found a bit dull, but then my taste is for the less genre specific mix cd! I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned it.

Also Eskimo released some great mixes- Optimo, of course, but what about Rub and Tug?

Also Balance 008 by Desyn Masiello (again, no idea) is really great, goes for the trance balearic thing, esp. the second cd is the bizznizz, piano house heaven:

Disk 1
Will Saul - Mbria
New Ordinament - Dusty Little Kid Presents: Jerry Cala
Clashing Egos Feat Jelle Paulusma - Love Sweet Love (Sterac Electronics Dub)
Williams - Love Crisis
Chelonis Jones - One On One (DM Edit)
Babak Shayan - Flowers
Rene Amesz - Cabilla
Mark Clement - The Tunnel (Francois K Visions Of Saturn Mix)
The Visitor - Our Lips Are Sealed (Dub)
New Ordinament - Dusty Little Kid Presents: Dusty Kid Adventure
Soulsearcher - Cant Get Enough (Derek Howell Mix)
The Idiots - Teardrop
Chris Lake - Piano Tool

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Disk 2
Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
Spirals - X
Rozzo - Blue (Reloaded)
Moloko - Cannot Contain This
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Dave DK - Crush The Bits
Dealer's Choice - Bomb The Place
Wise - Again (An2 Mix)
Hong Kong Micros - Time For Change (Start Your Revolution)
Coburn - We Interrupt This Program (Raul Rincon Mix)
Ramsay - Dirty Delicious (Dub)
Joey Negro - Make A Move On Me (Joey Negro Old School Dub)
Daisuke Matsusaka - Asian Blue Rose
Ellen Alien - Magma (The MFA Mix)
Karu - Maraud Your Ears (Tim Paris We Almost Lost Detroit Mix)

other ones I have loved this year: freeform five misch masch (so many great moments), optimo psyche out, erol alkan bugged out/in (a bit obvious but it pushed my buttons), idjut boys press play. body language didn't really move me the couple of times I tried it. will have to give it another spin since everyone rates it so high!

And I agree that it's the best DFA mix so far! Such a great decision to concentrate on remixes I think, it entirely dissolves any imagined distinction between DFA and "proper" dance music which you can hold onto when everything is DFA "live drums" - this slips back and forth over the line so gracefully and effortlessly and almost imperceptibly. It's the perfect example of a lot of what I've been recently thinking about "eclecticism" - that eclectic DJ mixes are best when they don't actually sound eclectic.

but i will stump for that Joris Voorn mix. pretty bangin' in spots, more aggressive than i would have expected - it was described to me as being kind of minimal. hah!

re: the Superpitcher, i played it like once and filed it away. nobody's really mentioned it. is it that unremarkable, or do i just have a huge backlog?

i can go into detail later, when i get home, but for right now, let me just say that, on this, the first absolutely dismal pissing-down rainy day of the autumn, it strikes just the right balance of gloomy + exhausted, while neatly tying together the vague threads running through the years music: meandering dubby krautrock-space-disco, buzzing electrohouse, clattery, blippy micro-cum-ambient house, detroit retro IDM revivalism, the last gasps of electrohouse and disco punk, and everything referencing original chicago acid.

that fearless mix = godhead status just for introducing aaron carl to the world.

(t/s: "down" vs "flat beat"?)

(the first disc of the Vath set is like the roots to the second's futurism, current tracks which mostly sound like throwbacks to older forms of techno, chicago house, trance...)

2006 could be very interesting! Turned on Radio 1 (a habit, it normally goes back off a minute later) and instantly was presented with Nathan Fake's "Silent Night" record! On the essential selection?! Have they even played anything vaguely electronica/glitchy at that hour before? This type of thing is becoming common! Get Physical label of the year in DJ Mag too (w/a free 7")!

There's a huge window of opportunity for all the current vouge labels to push some crazy sounds into the mainstream if the English media is going to follow them blindly for a while. But will they?

Part of me really wants Underworld to perhaps sneak onto the trend and blow it up in some large, easily graspable way for people who don't exactly pay attention to labels & vinyl releases (I barely do, as far as the latter goes, yet I remain curious if not-too-educated by DJ (or ILM) standards.

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1 Mary Jane Girls In My House
2 Tomas Andersson Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
3 Eleanor Adventure
4 DJ Ali & Tim Fuller Show Me Right
5 Ruede Hagelstein Sweaty Balls
6 Juliet Avalon (Jacques Lu Cont Versus Remix)
7 Terence Fixmer Oops
8 J.M. Silk All In Vain
9 DJ Naughty A Naughty Night
10 M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade Body Language
11 Patrick Cowley Sea Hunt
12 Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk & Jesse Saunders Love Can't Turn Around (Houseapella)
13 Bam Bam Make U Scream (Deep House Remix)
14 Sweet Light Abusator
15 Vitalic My Friend Dario (Dima Prefers Newbeat Remix)
16 Chikinki Assassinator 13
17 Poni Hoax Budapest
18 Kaos (6) Feel Like I Feel (Sing Along) (Glimmers Remix)
19 Silver City Shiver (Ewan Pearson Remix)
20 Sunburst Band, The I'll Be There For You (Original Album version)
21 Sharpe & Numan Change Your Mind
22 Clashing Egos Love Sweet Love (Sterac Electronics Dub)
23 Hugh Masekela The Boy's Doin' It (Carl Craig Remix)

"I might have investigated that one if not for the fact the quality control couldn't even spell artist credited correctly on the cover... and the whole 'minimal' thing seems like a blatant attempt for them to try and suddenly rebrand a scene they've all but ignored till the very last minute."

Yeah that kinda pissed me off too, which is why I didn't buy it for two months or so, but it's worth while!

I've yet to see loads of my favourite electroclash (electrohouse) tunes on CD mixes this year. The answer to this thread as regards electroclash is erm........NONE OF THEM.

Budapest is great ...

this seemed to be almost as true for rap music as it was for proper dance music. mike jones = not really built for the club, you know? i heard almost as much ciara this year as i did chris brown - all summer it seemed like the DJs were a bit lost, they seemed as gripped w/ endless summer 04/03/02 nostalgia ... didn't really hear any new dancehall, either!

So nothing like when the rest of the world caught up with Chicago in '87 or so then?

I mean, hasn't this always been the case?

freeform five misch masch. intended to get it at the time then completely forgot.

the planet where it went from a handful of people paying attention to a profile of Bun B in the New Yorker?