Best release in the Fabric Mix Series

tyler stadius

2nd doc martin
3rd rub-n-tug
4th radioactive man
5th carl craig

honorable mention: craig richards #1, tony humphries, slam, swayzak, weatherall, global communication, wiggle

i haven't listened to most of these tbqh!

Links to all the tracklists, complete with audio clips.

i've downloaded every single one but i only bought 36 of them

Poll is moot because Ricardo's one will be the best, la la la fanboy love <3 ^_^

Voting for Andrew Weatherall because it was the first time I heard 2 Lone Swordsmen's remix of 'Dexter'

xpost haha jim i'm guilty too!!

ricardo's 19 hour long mix will be shelved indefinitely until they release fabric mixes digitally

weatherall, then mayer, then rub n tug.

what about fabriclive?

akufen

is mayer going to walk this?

when is ewan pearson out? the tracklisting looks very nice

xp

Will Mayer walk it? Probably not, but he gets my vote. Weatherall, Tiefschwartz, and Akufen are also contenders, among the 10 or so I've heard.

imho the FABRICLIVE series offers more thrills (and d&b)

andy c and dj hype!
grooverider!!
bugz in the attic!
meat katie!
the glimmers!!

tyler stadius u fules

u r all ghey

I've never heard the Mayer one. That seems wrong.

on balance i agree that fabriclive might have as many or more hits (don't sleep on BENT!! and also james lavelle, dj hype, deadly avenger, jacques lu cont, adam freeland, aim, death in vegas)

but the bad stuff on the fabriclive label is extremely dire (the corniest-ever breaks stuff you can imagine)

13, by 10 votes.

Fabriclive 22 - Scratch Perverts is great.

i'm stuck btw mayer and weatherall

the other ones I've heard and liked are smagghe, rub n tug, ellen allien

but I think 13 and 19 are best

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Sorry Vahid, I had to vote for Mayer here.

2nd: Doc Martin
3rd: Rub'n'Tug
4th: Carl Craig
5th: Global Communications
6th: Andrew Weatherall
7th: Ivan Smagghe
8th: Akufen

I have the Pearson but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

audion. i ll feel all nostalgic about mayer, beyer and carola five years from now though, they sum up nicely what was popular at my favourite dance spots at the time.

the pearson's good, once you get past the vocals on the opening track

Paul in Santa Cruz, bro, where have you been? (Sorry, I'm not qualified to vote in this poll.)

Hi Rockist, I've been lurking more and posting less. Busy with work these days. I have a looming deadline on a big writing project, so naturally I'm posting once again as a form of procrastination.

13, 1, 35, 30, 11, but i have a lot of these (i get them in the mail every two months) and have not spent the time to justify any kind of balanced ordering. the ones i listed are the ones i've listened to the most except for 35 which is new new new and taking priority in the queue because it's the one i've been listening to the most. the beginning of 11 + the end of 35 would be like woah dude. i'll have to try 25 again. 26 skipped like crazy out of the tin so i should really download that one. the next few coming up could force a redo of this poll.

10, 15, 17, 19 belong in my list somewhere, too.

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Well that was a romp.

Jeff was pretty much OTM.

Poor vahid.

RIP.

I'm surprised only 26 people voted.

I've only heard bits and pieces of the mix (although skidoos by akufen = an all time favourite), but the idea of starting off a mix with Michael Jackson by Negativland is enough to put Swayzak in the #2 position for me (although yes, in a 3 way tie at 2 votes)

Will Mayer walk it? Probably not

I would vote for akufen if I weren't too late

how long do these things stay open?? this is the first i've seen this thread. i would've voted mayer anyway but the nu ewan pearson is very possibly my 2nd favourite.

What's the difference, exactly, between fabric and fabriclive?

Would be good to repoll this. Radioactive Man mix was robbed!

the type of music, isn't it? xpost

actually scratch that. I don't know.

A repoll would be good, although there are now more than 50 releases (54 as of September 2010).

Love your new display name, Paul.

What's the difference, exactly, between fabric and fabriclive?

― EDB, Saturday, 11 September 2010 15:41 (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Fabric used to be, pretty strictly, house/techno with fabriclive being a bit more eclectic. They've kinda merged into one now.

they're two different nights at the club. fabric is house / techno oriented and fabriclive is d'n'b / breaks / electro / etc oriented. the labels pretty much reflect that division too though with martyn putting out a fabric mix and surgeon's latest being full of dubsteppy stuff they're kinda merging - though we haven't seen a strict 4/4 mix on fabriclive yet.

The thing though, is that people do buy records because it references moodymann or detroit or whatever, and the idea of Detroit has become an instrument of self promotion for many - for whom the reality of Detroit is often a very distant fact, replaced by an idea of Detroit founded on myth, fetishization, exoticization, etc.
While homages are all fine and good, determining the boundaries of innocuous citation and misappropriation can be difficult (e.g. how does something like Morgan Geist's Driving Memoirs compare to MCDE?) and the latter (which I think MCDE falls closer to), I'd argue, is often founded on a conception of “Detroit” founded in myth etc. Constructing a self-image based around this myth, and entailed obfuscation of the reality of Detroit, including aspects of race, class, and social politics that comprise it, I think is in fact a problem, one which extends beyond a strictly formal reading of music (which will be filtered through the signs with which its articulated, whether it be an 808, or putting pictures of black kids on your sleeves and putting motor city in your name). The flipside to all this, though, is that it’s just as well possible for dudes from Detroit to mythologize the past, and similarly give their own history the distance with which it can be mythologized, facilitate fetishization of it, etc.

keep it in the bobbins thread guys

woah, wrong thread!