best dj mix of 2006

in that order. rather a trendy list :/

well, mixed up in the hague was recently re-released.

jokes aside, it is probably this. (though i have not heard it yet)

what is the date on the lindstrom mix? what are everyone's favorite hip hop mixtapes?

OMG HENRIK SCHWARZ DJ KICKS!

Neat looking tracklisting, although I could wish he had more of his own stuff on it.

Otherwise, Casssy. The Kiki one is totally overrated.

i didn't hear the TIGA but here s the tracklist.

anyone got a link to some kind of ysi or same?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TX0W33VW

http://www.spookyland.ch/?p=181

Global Communication
Wiggle
Cut Copy

don't really have the capacity to do them justice here, but they stayed on my player for a long time (esp Cut Copy - couldn't get the damn thing off my player)

xpost: thanx tim.

and what the fuck is going on with y'all when you haven't mentioned Kreucht und Fleucht?

also this switch mix rocked the first half of my year

from daniel wang to throbbing gristle in 5 steps.

so no noms for better with a spoonful of leather? it's one of my faves for sure. black sabbath disco.

tim finnizzle check your email.

"this henrik schwarz mix is pretty fantastic on first listen"

jealous!

that is quite a recommendation there. is it like schwarz's remix of induceve? ("breathe out, breathe in, it's time to begin")

i am glad people are feeling schwarz. IMO he's the awesome (as opposed to the typically rote) middle ground in the maelstrom of minimaltechhouse this year.

also, +1 to the cassy contingent. (who is also much the same (hotness in the center of the sticky bun)) (but even heavier and deeper)

xp

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In a similar but subtler way it's what I like about Ame too - the way they bring house back into minimal (although for them it's more like adding minimal to their house)

K7 finally posted the tracklisting for the alternate Henrik Scwarz mix here:
http://www.henrikschwarz.com/tracklist_alternativemix.html

also may I throw the Optimo Essential mix from last week into the ring. I found it to be one of the more mental things I had heard in a while. Download it here (it is a single 2 hour MP3, sorry!)

http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/

acid girls, how to acid girls
booka shade, essential mix
optimo, essential mix
donato dozzy, dozzydozzydozzy
shit robot, dfa radiomix thing

when you have a single "track" mp3 like this, is there any way of splitting it to enable burning to two cd-rs?

- works pretty well, you can set split points yourself or use a .cue file.

No Womack & Womack, no credibility

Tracklisting Optimo "Walkabout"
01. Throbbing Gristle / Walkabout
02. Grungerman / Grungerman
03. Panasonic / Hapatus
04. M. Perini / Electrofrogs
05. Like A Tim / Aibe Stracie
06. Lenny Dee & Nicolai Vorkapich / The Virus
07. Philus / Kuvio 3
08. Shane Berry / Fillertet 2
09. Boris / My Machine
10. Godsy / Razor Against Silk
11. Suicide / Radiation
12. Eventell and Metaboman / Control a Zoid
13. Thomas Brnkmann / Momomexico
14. 6k / Tighten
15. Marc Houle / Bay of Figs
16. Herbert / Moving Like A Train (Smith & Hack Remix)
17. Radio Sampling in Nagoya...
18. Black Dice / Manoman

itunes does this automatically, no? mine fills one cd, then asks you to insert another.

stir, aren't your other mixes formatted this way though...? like there's a point where one hands it over to the next?

Audion and Marco Carola's Fabric mixes (27 and 31, respectively).

UNDER THE RADAR AWARD GOES TO

kinkysweet recordings

yes, you've seen their horrendously packaged "afterdark", "frequent flyer" and "loft party" mersh deep house dj mixes.

but did you know they released mixes by osunlade, dj gilb'r (of chateau flight / versatile) and gavin hardkiss??

As much as I love minimal, and have really loved the German take on techno and house since Chain Reaction, there has been something a bit missing in the music over the last year or so that I wasn't able to put my finger on. My friend and co-conspirator Rob (myspace.com/lovedose) put his finger on it this past summer. What had happened to minimal is that is was getting too inner-directed. Some of the longing, futurism and dys/u-topiansism of the original deep chicago and detroit sounds had been jettisoned for absolute introverted psychedelia. We tried to resolve this by mixing in a lot of early Guidance, early M_nus, and some mid-90s Detroit records as well, but since nobody was at our party, it didn't happen ;-).

What I like about the Smoke and especially the Cassy mixes is how the what-is-now-more-typical sound of minimal circa 05-06 is being re-integrated with some of the more dreamy moments of the past, whether from older records like the Model 500 and early M_nus tracks on SciFi3, or from newer tracks around the Delsin/Styrax orbit on Cassy's mix. I like especially how this is being accomplished without without either mix coming off as a "back to 94-99" statement. I imagine that this has either always been going on in the clubs or has just started, but its nice to hear it on CD.

also, disappointed in the lot of you for not picking up on magda's she's a dancing machine!

Schwarz is "accomplished" and I do like it but something stops me getting super passionate about it.

Magda is OK as aural wallpaper, I do put it on a lot(not all in one go though!) but I wish it could have been more of a energetic & dancefloor mix. There are long stretches where it works brilliantly but also huge chunks where it gets over-dessicated for no good reason, It could have been (needed to be) much tighter as a CD mix.

YES

although ... villalobos and luciano do a good job of balancing the two, too

this is probably the most underrated production he has ever put out, and i think you would have appreciated me bringing in this record on top of it...
http://www.discogs.com/release/34038

i miss my party.

Are people missing the usual '06 mnml-bumping-the-overground bloated synth washes, flatulently soft basslines, go-nowhere pointlessly refined & tiny sounding 'minimal' drum patterns, overlong hypnotic "anthems" (full clip, big yawn), minilouge style dull trance or m-nus 'techno' blandness in calling the Cassy mix "dry"?

'cos the abscence of most of that shit (and replacement by several different, more fundamental, more adventurous, more uplifting tricks) is exactly why it felt utterly palate refreshing to me. It has a fuckload of soul too.

The housey bits are great though.

Cut Copy / Freeform Five mixes - I love this stuff in theory, but agree w/ The Lex that a whole hour of it back to back can get wearisome. Best sampled in small chunks.

Alex Smoke Sci Fi Hi Fi - this ended up being perhaps my third favourite mix of 2006. With the benefit of hindsight, the connections between dubstep and minimal techno are, duh, obvious. But sometimes it's good to point out the obvious.

Henrik Schwarz - hmmm. Not what I was expecting at all. It brings back unwelcome memories of Gilles Peterson radio shows. Like some others, I'm finding it hard to get super excited about it. (I've done a bit of a 180 on the Four Tet DJ Kicks though, so maybe I'll come around to this one too.)

" people missing the usual '06 mnml-bumping-the-overground bloated synth washes, flatulently soft basslines, go-nowhere pointlessly refined & tiny sounding 'minimal' drum patterns, overlong hypnotic "anthems" "

This sounds like the Joakim remix of "Camino Del Sol" i.e. awesome.

why not? i have a history of liking tasteful stuff!

lex are you listening to it on your iPod or something?

i don't have an ipod! i tried loads of times to get into it last year and apart from the last few tracks when it suddenly actually gets exciting, i just don't hear any of what you hear. there is a vast ten-track stretch after the shackleton opener when literally NOTHING happens.

(after that I'd agree there's a spot of slightly TOO minimal sahko/BC-ism)

Actually this I probably agree with - I love track 3 for example, so spacey.

Mind you I go up and down with the Cassy mix. I may well end up loving it - that's what happened with Tobi Neumann's Pass Your Bedtime mix.

yeah it comes with the DJ Kicks when you buy it.....
I can send it to you via YSI....
-- GALKIN (j...), November 17th, 2006.

EH?! It didn't come with my copy!

It's on the slowed down, micro-ish tip, but also heavy and hypnotic. Tracklist:

01 - Matt John - Io - Underl_ne
02 - erikOtanabE - Eclat and Prudo (Alfa Romero Rmx) - MiniSketch
03 - Chris Carrier - Sure Shot - Adult Only
04 - Marek Bois - You Got Good Ash (Gabriel Ananda Rmx) - Trapez
05 - Fusiphorm - I am...you! (Someone Else Rmx) - FoundSound
06 - Timo Anttila - Nakuta - Frozen North
07 - Barem - Cilindro - FoundSound
08 - Mathias Kaden - Snowman - We Are
09 - Paco Osuna - Cretine - Plus 8
10 - Fraktion - Acidrop - Resopal Schallware
11 - Marc Houle - Kicker - Minus
12 - Audio Werner - Onandon - Perlon
13 - Dolly La Parton - Whenever - Bemysheep
14 - Microfunk aka 2000 and One and Dave Ellesmere - Pecan - Remote Area Records
15 - Details - Change - Loose
16 - Dario Zenker - newbe (Heartthrob’s are u gay Remix) - Esperanza
17 - Ernie - Escarabajos - Signs Of Authority
18 - Alex Smoke - Plunder – Soma