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Monkey Mafia

Don "Don Letts" Letts

Haven't heard the Monkey Mafia one so voting Chems if no-one YSIs it before the end of the poll (Carter's Breezeblock is definitely my favourite radio mix ever so it's in with a chance)

the best short-lived dj mix series ever?!??!??

On The Floor At The Boutique beats these

also the Dread Meets are just comps, not mixes, right? (even if, I've seen Letts live and he's very much just a selector, no skillz involved)

On The Floor At The Boutique beats these

agreed, as do the FSUK series (vols 1-4)

All these mixes are great, but the one I still go back to most is the Weatherall one, really good deep housiness.

Weatherall one is pretty great - Max Is The Mentor, Freedom, Havana Twilight, Shehezerade all memorable tunes

and mushrooms!

prob weatherall. monkey mafia was good too tho.

as do the FSUK series (vols 1-4)

only bought the BRA FSUK (LOL) but it was much better than it really had any right to be

I had a tape from Select which was an edited version of the Monkey Mafia mix. I still listen to it occasionally, along with a Fatboy Slim tape that came with the NME, called "Beat up the NME". Ah the heady days of big beat!

Beat Up The NME was fantastic. Stuck to the cover of the Jason Pierce & Kate Radley Under A Tree In Spacesuits issue IIRC, 1997 in a nutshell

(xpost) I have that tape as well. Pretty good apart from the rankling use of the word "Result!" on the back of the cassette inlay

That's the NME for you, using the most up-to-date words dat the KIDZ use. Bangin. Shroom.

It was on the front cover of Select actually. I remember being bitterly disappointed by that one word, because I believed that Select were beyond such blatant attempts at being hip and with it. It was indeed like that hallowed magazine had suddenly transmogrified into the street slang co-optingly cynical NME. Then I realised that it was probably some kid on work experience or YTS or whatever who'd written the inlay, and promptly forgot about it.

"on the floor at the boutique" was just straight-up big beat stuff and didn't have the range of these. jon carter's is a totally ridiculous spin through ragga, proto-jungle and breakbeats. weatherall's is the first place i *really* heard the glasgow underground super-deep techy disco house aesthetic in all its glory - and the first place i heard "mushrooms". fearless' has a crazy tracklist. yeah, the OtFatB series is unimpeachably great but i don't think it reaches as far or tries as hard as these mixes do.

FSUK? now that is just madness. the first volume - dalek dahlarge - is just totally dire. you know it's bad when coldcut's "beats & pieces" is a highlight. yeah i have a sneaking affection for volumes 2 and 4 but you can't tell me that the freestylers dropping two hours of warmed-over "ooh la la" and arthur baker breaks (with a mild climax of urban takeover styled jump up) is gonna be anywhere near carter's ragga breaks meltdown or that cut la roc making his way from the herbaliser to bootsy collins to fatboy slim to slacker to nu skool breaks is gonna be anywhere near as good as fearless' set, which takes in chicks on speed, aaron carl, model 500, carl craig, slam, I-F, etc.

and BRA volume is grebt but weatherall's mix is like ... you thought "hyper city" was good? or his subaquatic essential mix? this is the UK deep house magnum opus of the late 90s, no joke.

Agreed that the Fearless one is amazing, some really cold Kraftwerk electro stuff as well as some super-percussive industrial numbers as well.

i was mainly on about the FSUK/BRA mix actually. should have been more clear. haven't listened to the others in a long time - which i guess totally backs up your point

bump?

another vote for weatherall, with the admission that the chems mix didn't leave my gym cd walkman for like two years

just straight-up big beat stuff

nah son, 2 and 3 are so great for the way they work stuff like Gwen McRae and Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy and non-big-beat hip-hop into the sets

and didn't have the range of these.

across the four, yeah okay, but the Weatherall Social sticks to a sound just as much as the Fatboy Boutique

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