fabric 41: LUCIANO

01 Rhadoo – Slagare – Cadenza Records
02 Brothers’ Vibe – El Baile (Acapella)– Som Underground
03 D’Julz – Yo Momo – Intacto Records
04 Los Updates Ft. Luciano – Getting Late (Luciano’s Getting Late Remix) – Cadenza Records
05 Reboot – Be Tougher – Cadenza Records
06 Alex Picone – Floppy – Cadenza Records
07 Sety – Mogane (Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix) – Circus Company
08 Johnny D – Orbitalife – Oslo Records
09 Julien Jabre – Jungle Beatz – Defected
10 M83 – In Church – Gooom Disques
11 Inner City – Good Love (Luciano Remix) – KMS
12 Phuture – Rise From Your Grave (Tiefschwarz Remix) – Strictly Rhythm
13 Schneider, Galluzzi – Albertino – Cadenza Records
14 D’Julz – So You Know – Ovum
15 Kenny Larkin – You Are Original – Planet E
16 Chymera – Arabesque - Tishomingo

he seems a bit stressed about it!

“For me, the hardest thing to do is make a mix CD. Really"

d'julz is a good sign

m83 is a bad sign, though

Johnny D is a really bad sign.

Glad that Los Updates'll get more exposure ... oh god, the thought of that Tiefschwarz rmx of Phuture stresses me out, how long is it gonna be before someone like Does It Offend You, Yeah? try & remix "Your Only Friend" etc etc.

jesus, way to harsh a buzz!!

his sci.fi. mix was good. his recent bbc essential mix was dullville. not sure about this.

is that a recent kenny larkin tune? i really really don't need to hear another remix of 'good life' (seriously).

11 Inner City – Good Love (Luciano Remix) – KMS

very very disappointing, this. I think it has the same problem as his Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix - takes ages to get through all the minimal (this time lord help us tribal bongo minimal) before any other flavours kick in. And by that time, it's all over.

The best track is the last one: Chymera's 'Arabesque', which closes out the mix (seven or eight minutes long) - something different & unexpected

'the same problem as his sci.fi.hi.fi mix' => but for me there are NO problems with his scifihifi mix!

!exciiiitement!

Arabesque is awesome though - a real trance anthem done proper http://www.myspace.com/chymeramusic

shit, i thought this was gonna be luciano the reggae artist.

New Larkin, yes.

Inner City should've made a track titled "Bug Fin," too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/events/jamaica05/gallery/robbo/luciano.jpg

i really like this mix, it's a good balance of crooked techno and warmer housey stuff

arabesque at the end of a luciano mix -- what a shock.

i really like this mix, it's a good balance of crooked techno and warmer housey stuff

-- braveclub

so it leaked already?

not that i know of

arabesque at the end of a luciano mix -- what a shock.

zing-culture. he played it last in Dublin too.

this mix looks good, I look forward to hearing it.

this looks ace. can't wait to hear his los updates remix. and that tiefschwarz remix of "rise from your gwave" is the bomb!

This is much better than this thread led me to believe.

m83 is a bad sign, though

-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, 2 June 2008 06:32 (1 month ago) Link

But it works with Jungle Beatz over the top.

11 Inner City – Good Love (Luciano Remix) – KMS

This track is great. Unfortunately I can't seem to track down an unmixed version of it from any of the online mp3 shops or blogs.

it's certainly over the top

does planet e not do digital then? that luciano remix of 'good love' is definitely out there on 12".

HAPPY FACE EMOTICON!

I like this even more than Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi actually, it just BUMPS, right from the start. I really don't get where Good Dog is coming from with that criticism.

maybe it is just me, but i only like the second half of this mix. the rest makes me minimally sleepy.

3-4 bpm too fast

I'm sort of halfway between good dog and matt on this one: the second half (esp. owing to the massive Arabesque track, the "Good Life" remix and the ever-reliable "Albertino") is stronger than the first, but I still like it the whole way through.

It is a shame, though, that there's no commercially available mix like his best live sets from the past twelve months. I think the Resident Advisor review is spot on when it notes that only people who have heard some of those sets will find anything to complain about in the Fabric mix - everyone else won't know what they're missing.

http://www.rhythmism.com/images/contest/contest_108_190.jpg

Tim F right on-- after seeing him live twice and hearing a bunch of his live sets, i was just underwhelmed. felt like the second half sort of approximated the live feel best.

alright, s/d recent sets then?

silo club 5/16 & kristal glam 10/27, from last year, have been my driving theme for months. so good!!

just got raum barcelona 9/16 and live @ 10 days off 06, but these are old - what else??

SODOMA 7.12.2005 - still the best i've heard but yeah, old

Oh God, Imagine what it would have been like to actually be at that silo club night. I mean, I rarely listen to a mixes several times, especially recordings of sets, but whew.

There was a good one from Christmas Day 2007 too but I think I've lost it.

Otherwise I completely cosign silo club and krystal glam.

hmm, I used to sell that particular experience. wouldn't mind my cut of his fee these days!

I saw Luciano few weeks ago and he opened with nesrib and orbitalife. disappointing. i was expecting his deep openers.

I am seemingly the only person who doesn't like Orbitalife. Nesrib is awesome though.

And hey if anyone wants to link to any of those sets they're repping that would be very nice.

I saw him last week and it was dreadfully disappointing. not him so much as the sound: all you could hear was an indistinct bassy thump, so it sounded like he played the exact same track all night. At first i thought it was the track selection (and to be sure recent sets I've heard have been much more minimal than his populist peak last year, albeit in a psychedelic safari kinda way), but then I started to vaguely recognise (the bottom end of) some tracks, like the one that opens the Silo Club set. It's very frustrating to be on a dance floor, not too far from the DJ, and thinking "if I could actually hear properly the track that's playing I could really enjoy myself..."

Matt, search "site:megaupload.com luciano" and you should find most of them. To narrow down throw in "silo" or "krystal" or "esse".

luciano has fallen off a giant cliff over the past few years.

you're definitely not the only person who doesn't like orbitalife...

i don't dislike 'orbitalife' but it's not exactly a favourite.

Hard to imagine hating "Nesrib"

I'm indifferent about orbitalife as a single, but I enjoy it in mixes.

^^^

Were Luciano sets always so housey?

he's always played a lot of classic house in his sets, yes. but of course all the contemporary european house he's playing now is a recent trend.

Yeah but the classic house quota jumped dramatically early last year. He's backing away from it now a bit, perhaps because everyone jumped on that sound. He was quite housey when I saw him last week but recent sets I've heard have been much more tribal-minimal along the lines of actual Cadenza output.

wow @ tribute to the sun!

yep. kinda hate all the shit directed towards luciano and villalobos and mnml in general. these guys release amazing fucking records.

the record is a beezer. One of my favourite's of the year. Though I've not listened to it enough.

to talk about the fabric mix that this thread is about - definitely a letdown. Always go for mix from Kristal in Bucharest, December 2007 mentioned upthread instead of it. Some overlap in tracks but the Kristal one is longer and just plain better. Still never seen Luciano pinchando en vivo :(

Was never a huge fan of the Luciano mix. Still, it introduced me to Orbitalife by Johnny D, so I can't moan.

Silo Club 16.05.2007 is still my favorite Luciano mix and one of my all time top favorite mixes ever

well, either that or SODOMA.. who can choose??

I haven't heard any of the new album, as I feel very unmotivated to do so. At this point most of me just wants him to build on his Mental Groove era material.

I just want him to make my head explode like he does with stuff like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwDmJnxps8

and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW-81grphnI

i should've paid more attention

"octogonal" is the best. it's like the ultimate convergance of basic channel, epic detroit strings and delicate latin percussion.

That's actually a great description. I didn't mean to bump this thread just to rag on Luciano, though. I'm just kind of curious about mapping out where he's going and wondering if I should be expecting another Limonada de Pepe Bombilla stlye epic (the last of which I guess was his shut up and dance contribution, and I guess stuff on off that 2XLP he released on Cadenza a few years back).

the album is awesome.

Will give it it's proper due, then. I think the album cover was enough to cloud my senses and put me off (honestly, what the fuck was he thinking? Cadenza's design is almost always awesome, deviating from its characteristic style is fine, but when it's that picture of himself, in that T-shirt, I mean c'mon. I'm tempted to chalk this up to the sort of fantastical narcissism and drop in sartorial sense that accompanies DJ stardom.

the 1/2, 2/2 set on Mental Groove, Punching the Mango and whatever else, is fantastic. Also check his EP on Bruechtstucke too. The one with the vocal that says 'When The People Will Come' is my fav. Luciano ever.

http://www.discogs.com/Luciano-Capricciosa-EP/release/62819

http://www.discogs.com/Luciano-12/release/105408

http://www.discogs.com/Luciano-22/release/105389

The new album has been growing on me. When he lets the beats flow without getting too hung up on including a bunch of complicated percussion*, he's on (e.g. "Hang For Bruno").

* yeah, I know this is sort of the whole point of the album.