Andre Galluzzi - Berghain 01

Awesome, awesome mix.

And "Wombat" = stealth bomb! :0

And I'd like to hear this stuff out sooo badly right now (soon).

Any Galluzzi & Brtschitsch recommendations on taksi? I've heard Survivor which was another he did with Guido Schneider - tasty stuff.

-- geeta

"Panorama Bar 01" is Cassy!

this mix is really good wigged out shit.

the loco dice remix is decent! first tune ive heard by him that ive liked. prob the first tune ive heard byu him

Can't believe Cassy beat Dinky to it(!), still want a Sylvie Marks Boogy Bytes. Ok ok Magda finally did it, I think my argument is probably flawed or illusory but the femininity is often what I like about this kind of techno (without it heading into wailing diva house cheese fakeness territory) and surely it shouldn't just be guys bringing it out ? My own fave DJ's seem to come fairly evenly from both sexes.

also, the only other recent commerically released mix i can thing of that shares the idea of a "singular piece" is richie hawtin's de:9 transitions, but that is a different beast entirely.

*warning! spoilers below*

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panoramabar 01 mixed by cassy

Anyone who has spent some time on Panorama Bar’s dancefloor during one of Cassy’s sets has witnessed what special kind of atmosphere and energy she manages to create with her House-Sound. When Cassy is behind the decks, sitting around or hanging at the bar never really is an option, as it is rather probable everyone finds themselves dancing. Her very own way of fusing deep, minimal and sexy records is highly exceptional and it creates a very intoxicating, special groove. As one of Panorama Bar’s residents, Cassy has managed to coin a sound which really stands for this location. Thus, it has only been logical that she delivers the second installment in our series of mix cds. She has picked twenty four tracks ranging from DBX’ classic „Bleep“ to more recent tracks like Redshape’s „Dust“, adding up to an emotionally dense, varied and deep mix. With the right choice of tracks Cassy shows that introverted minimalism is only one crossfade away from something a lot more ecstatic. Her way of mixing lets the music by artists like Rick Wade, Baby Ford, Auto-Repeat or Shed merge into one big picture. Cassy is not interested in trends. She is relying on her personal taste, always searching for a timeless quality in music. Where most of the commercial mix cds are put together on a computer these days, this cd was consequentially created with two turntables, a mixer and a pair of hands.

Besides her quality as a dj, this mix also shows Cassy’s side as a producer, as it contains two of her remixes, as well as new material from her ep „Cassy 1“, which is about to be released. It will surely tie in with the success of her 2005 release „My Auntie“ on Perlon.

Bio, tourdates and more info on Cassy:
www.cassybritton.com

TRACKLISTING:
01. Shackleton „Blood On My Hands“ SKULLDISCO
02. Dwayne Jensen feat. Miyon Norm „Believe“ (Norm Talley’s Beatdown Mix) FATHOM RECORDS
03. D5 „Sides of Space“ DELSIN
04. Melchior Porductions „Let’s go deep“ PLAYHOUSE
05. Tobias. „Below Houston“ LOGISTIC RECORDS
06. Rick Wade „Night Station“ MUSIC IS
07. Ricardo Villalobos „Sieso“ CADENZA
08. Nsi. „Clara Ghavami extended“ CADENZA
09. Mono Junk „Channel B“ STYRAX LEAVES
10. V/A „Mltd“
11. Auto-Repeat „What turned itself“ LAZY CUT
12. Tobias „Dial“ LOGISTIC RECORDS
13. DBX „City on the edge of forever“
14. Babyford & The Ifach Collective „Sugarspoon“ KLANG
15. Yassin & Arne „Bleepy Creep“ (Cassy Remix) 3RD FLOOR
16. Ø „Kolmas“ SÄHKÖ
17. Mathias Kaden „Pentaton“ VAKANT
18. DBX „Bleep“ ACCELERATE
19. Redshape „Pink Dust“ STYRAX LEAVES
20. Cassy „Toyah“ CASSY
21. Redshape „Dust“ STYRAX LEAVES
22. Shed „Well Done“ (033472 Edit) SOLOACTION
23. Liebe ist cool „Glühwürmchen“ (Cassy Remix) ELECTRIC AVENUE
24. Dj Abstract „Touch“ TEMPA

i agree, that dj abstract track is hyper-melodic spacey bukem-step, nice!

I thought that was some obscure reference to an mp3 blog or somthing.

If someone said the a-side was a dubstep track I'd believe them! The b-side sounds like one too, until the 4/4 beat comes in.

It's like Thomas Melchior giving up on garagey swing and going for dubstep snap.

Cassy: The new Ciara?

I was thinking about this joke last night actually! Of course Cassy and Ciara's vocal styles are diametrically opposed, Cassy's is so heavy, I want to describe it as pregnant.

"i've never heard dubstep that is this SEXY either, but i would love to be pointed in that direction. "

The simple answer is that's because dubstep abandoned its house influences! You'd have to go back to some of the early "proto-dubstep" I'm always banging on about - Horsepower Productions' "One You Need", the Zed Bias remix of 2 Banks of Four's "Hook & a Line". A bit later on but a perfect reference point is the DJ Abstract tune Cassy finishes her mix cd with.

I meant more the playing of UK garage etc, I guess I just don't see how any good can come from this, but I am quite harsh and narrow minded about that kind of thing.

No wai no WAI will this be even remotely IDM! I'm almost certain (having caught her live and had a skim/google some of these tracks) it'll probably be the perfect bumping deep-house meets gutsy minimal techno mix that will probably bring one or two haters on board or at least stem any 'backlash'. The fact she's plucked a couple of tunes from outside the usual (record store) boxes is just the cherry on top.

yeah, that's pretty much exactly it. it's everything i want "minimal" to sound like right now.

And female ones who don't.

Second of all I made the comparison based on picking older tracks from non house genres, I didn't say the Cassy CD is irredeemably awful crap because of this either, just that I am usually sceptical about that kind of sticking out like a sore thumb track from another genre thing, which Ellen Allien also does in my opinion.

I don't think that's grasping at straws but if that's how it appears then I suppose I won't sleep for a week at least, for worrying.

I totally understand why Ronan mentioned Ellen Allien. The comparison would make perfect sense if Cassy was using modern dark clanking dubstep as her seasoning - because then it would sort of function the same way as IDM-ish stuff does or at least did in Allien's sets (making them more difficult, unexpected, not just "another smoothly flowing house/techno set" - for good or for ill, depending on your perspective!). Of course I hear that Allien doesn't do this so much anymore...

Ironically the other person who would have made sense to mention here is Miss Kittin! OH NO ANOTHER WOMAN!

Thing is that the dubstep tracks that Cassy is using in this mix don't really function like that - "Touch" especially is a very warm, soulful vocal track, albeit with an utterly firing syncopated rhythm. Ronan a better comparison is probably Daniel Bell's The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back which starts to flirt with shades of broken beat at the end.

(on a tangent, one of the sideproducts of there being less female DJs overall in this scene is that each one's aesthetic feels entirely distinctive - I have a very definite idea of the approach of Ellen Allien, Magda, Cassy, Electric Indigo, Acid Maria, Chloe, etc. whereas sometimes the male DJs blur into one another a bit)

thank god for Anja Schneider

in all honestly, I jumped on the Ellen Allien comparison because she's one of the most boring DJs I've ever witnessed

*traipses off*

later-period drum n bass and gabba strike me as more "boy" genres than electro. i think electro is pretty feminine actually.

and electric indigo is more into hard techno than electro, judging by the times i've seen her.

That mix album she put out a few years ago (can't remember it's name, it's got "2 After 909" on it) was more like "hard electro" actually - a bit like Ellen Allien's My Parade set but mostly pumping and grinding where that was nervous and glitchy.

will import if I have to (amazon.de, ostgut shop etc) but would prefer not to.

Swear on my life I hadn't read that before making the same comparison somewhere else. Perhaps the only thing that doesn't make the Cassy mix look like a Bell set is that it's a little short on the Wighnomy-type end (the FAT material, not the relatively rigid Kompakt tracks) or Perlon. Otherwise: Dwayne Jensen, Rick Wade, NSI, Dimension 5, and the Logistic near-OD... and that particular mixture of old and new... Bell, through and through.

Also: cover connection?

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A touch smoother than Luciano's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix, I was worried that was gonna be a bump in the road here.

but my headphones are liking it very much! I think it's much too dry on a first listen to 'convert' anyone to minimal though, particularly not haters.

Is this even supposed to be released yet? I got mine from Juno and it went out of stock as soon as I'd placed my order!

i was supposed to go to berlin last week, but i couldn't for various reasons. my friends who did go said that panorama bar was amazing.

most amazon images are like that now for some reason...

yep, me too. i've been dying to hear that record in a mix like this where it just works as a twelve inch single should.

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xposts - this took at least three plays to open up all the way for me ymmv of course.

1. sven weisemann 'oracy's traktor beam dub' mojuba
2. theo parrish 'early byrd' sound signatures
3. joshua for general atmospherics 'happiness' guidance recordings
4. kevin yost for trio productions 'flight plan-bongo madness' i records
5. shed 'selection one' soloaction
6. jb3 'time-advent remix ii' novamute
7. dimbiman 'round?' pal
8. vince lawrence 'go wild rythm trax (virgo)' trax records
9. shake 'mindless entertainment' metroplex
10. ron trent 'altered states-euro trance mix by armando' djax up beats
11. d.w. 'endow' dow records
12. paul johnson 'flange beat' dance mania
13. stl 'that mnml track loop' perlon
14. senior andreoni 'recon' tuning spork/blues experiments
15. joshua for general atmospherics 'sure' mff
16. todd terry 'melissa's dream' freeze
17. stl 'purple saturn days' perlon

this mix virtually stopped me caring about minimal entirely!! in a good way, I mean it's THAT fucking good. Still.

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yeah this had a similar impact on me. Tobi Neumann's Fliederlieder mix which came out around the same time has a similar effect.

Fliederlieder is best!

thoughts on berghain02? on the first few listens the section from risque rhythm team "the jacking zone" through redshape "plonk" just doesn't work for me at all especially when he drops suddenly into the kevin saunderson track (though i wonder if in this age of digitally composed mixes this is dettman's way of proving that he is mixing live?). and the heavily gated brash 80s drums in "the jacking zone" just don't fit at all with the pristine, laser precise drums of the luke slater and samuli kempii tracks that sandwich it. despite this short detour i am totally loving this mix, though i don't see it as such a revolutionary back-to-techno masterpiece as certain bloggers seem to be claiming, i mean for example wasn't the panorama mix from two years ago essentially in the same kinda vein (ie up to the minute cutting edge techno alongside some similarly minded classics)(and it is better mixed!)? but it definitely succeeds in it's aim to further cement the berghain's musical identity.