Mark E, The Revenge & Slow-Motion House/Disco

But there are a host of excellent new labels and artists kicking about
now, especially on the slo-mo house scene who are making excellent music. Labels like
Prime Numbers and Trus’Me and artists like Mark E, Linkwood, The Revenge and Red Rack
Em. Their sound joins the dots in different ways between Moodymann style house, Detroit
techno, deep house and disco edits.

I was just going to start a Mark E thread, but that quote made me think it was worth broadening it out, and maybe this stuff is different enough from other well-covered trends to be worth talking about.

So S/D, C or D etc.

Basically I just love the really slow, but still quite driving stuff.

At first, I was kind of oblivious to the edit genre and was cooped up at home making these dark insular Theo-esque beat down swirlers, spending hours in a smoky haze listening to the same loop over and over. It was only when I didn't know how to end one of these loop marathons that I just dropped the original track in at the end, and [Womack and Womack edit] 'Scared' was born.

Plus if anyone wants to share R&B Drunkie that would be great ... I've only heard it on mixes.

And I haven't actually heard all the Jisco stuff, apart from The Revenge track. What's good?

So anything that's too slow to be regular house, and too house to be nu disco - edits or original productions - could be discussed here.

Mark E is an amazing DJ, mostly played faster stuff than his own productions, but he dropped one slo-mo track near the end was just right in context and really kept the energy going. The Detroit Experiment remix is lovely.

jamie where is that initial quote from?

i've thought of starting a mark e thread for a while too. that low motion disco remix from last year seems like the prime example for this stuff. total opposite to all the floaty balearic stuff that's around - really tense and wound-up.

i'd been wondering if mark e himself was a one-off but in the last couple of months there's been a bunch of stuff come out that's related to the revenge and 6th borough project in particular, it does seem like there's more of a scene of sorts behind it. (i haven't heard much of it though so i can't really expand beyond that.) plus there was that linkwood RA podcast, which is fantastic.

trus'me seems a bit more reverent to the whole KDJ/theo thing. too reverent maybe.

And I haven't actually heard all the Jisco stuff, apart from The Revenge track. What's good?

EVERYTHING, I own and severely appreciate the following

Scared
(Mark E's first and possibly best edit of Womack & Womack's "Baby I'm Scared Of You")

Ray Gun/Touch
(More dubby disco action, slightly faster, not as remarkable as others but still great in sets)

Cadillac/Planets
(Quite possible The Revenge's most irresistible floor filler, put them on my radar at least)

Nightflight/Unfinished Edits.../Savin the Day
(More upbeat disco edits, including an edit of the track from Ghostbusters that I love)

You're Welcome
(Newcomer to Jisco Eddie C comes with "Let Your Mind Be Free" which has an incredible breakdown)

also check out my blog, i post a lot of stuff like this regularly, including today's post!

http://www.discohorror.com

r&b drunkie (aka dopest song everrrrrrrr) - http://www.sendspace.com/file/hbaicf

i was just about to do that!

that quote up there may be from this recent interview: http://ultraastrum.blogspot.com/2009/03/black-country-boy-mark-e.html

love mark e. not a duff track yet. golden ears this guy.

i'm game for any of the revenge/6th borough/craig smith stuff. search: just a memory, rocky mountain drifter, planets, do it to the max, Hit Em' (6th Borough Project Mix).

the mark e remix of think twice is my recent favorite of his.

the horn break at 4:00 in just a memory is pretty much the most sublime thing

as far as revenge mixes and radio shows go, they are a bit hit and miss (too much talking on the radio shows). the ooft that's house mix from a few months ago is fun. http://ooft.blogspot.com/ is one of those that when a new post comes up on my reader it's a must-download

i disagree with san frandisco above about mark e's "touch" not being as remarkable as the others, that track is definitely a favorite of mine. the hit:miss ratio with these guys' physical releases is amazingly high, even if you kinda have to sift through the podcasts/radio shows.

i haven't heard much from red rack em, can anyone reccomend anything in particular?

could anyone share the remix? the pressure dub is on youtube, but i have yet to hear the remix

psych, you're right man, i meant really in relative terms really. his scared edit is quite possible one of my favorite edits, like of all time, and Smiling, which came after is also like incredible. touch and ray gun for anyone else would be great tracks, but for mark e they seem almost pedestrian

but they're still great, i still play them out

also DO NOT forget about his Sun Shadow edit on Creative Use

http://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Artist-Sun-Shadow/release/1346565

has anyone heard the slave 1 release? i never bought but it's gotten good reviews

OR his RA Podcast, which is like uggggghhhh all slow motion loopy amazingness

btw, my gift to this thread...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x2g0J4HhKuI/R3GHzH28OaI/AAAAAAAACoo/m3Mu_RYvMMM/s400/CS276693-01A-BIG.jpg

sun shadow is great, agreed. also worth mentioning is his 'love the action' mix for cool in the pool... http://www.coolinthepool.com/markeinterview2.html.

also, here's a nice little feature on golf channel records i found the other day that is kinda relevant to this thread i spose... http://ultraastrum.blogspot.com/2009/03/fore-golf-channel-records.html

this is my favorite kinda stuff right now.

i'm currently uploading all the mark e and revenge/ooft stuff i have. also super in love with a fudge fingas track that samples marvin gaye.

great! i'm going to up a few of my favorite revenge sets this weekend

here's the mark e mp3s i've found

01 R&B Drunkie (Mark E).mp3
01 Slave 1.mp3
1-01 Sun Shadow (Mark E Edit).mp3
Baby I'm Scared Of You (Mark E Edit).mp3
holy jungle (mark e dub).mp3

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xo1z7n

also really feeling the bside of this one.

http://www.vinylfrance.com/details.php?art=24320

here's the revenge stuff i have

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qk6lcg

02 La Isla Bonita (The Revenge Rework).mp3
02 The Snowman Rework.mp3
Brothers Gonna Work It Out (The Revenge Rework).mp3
Cadillac (The Revenge Rework).mp3
Funky Space Reincarnation (OOFT Music Edit).mp3
Georgie porgy (ooft rework).mp3
Inherit The Wind (Revenge Rework).mp3
Lost In Music (The Revenge Rework).mp3
Love You More (The Revenge Rework).mp3
One Of These Nights (Revenge Rework).mp3
Savin' The Day (The Revenge Flat Top Mix) 1.mp3
Skylarking (The Revenge Caribbean Sunrise Rework).mp3

btw, i got all these from blogs and stuff, i know the whole uploading thing is frowned upon now, but i'm just letting people stay lazy

mark e + revenge mixes link to same Revenge.zip file 116MB

so much love.
i am clearly going to have to have another listen to the mans stuff, given that seeing this thread pop up all the time is going to do my fucking head in.

got that ghost note just for the mark e side. and it patiently builds to awesomeness. so so good.

i like his take on edits in the interview. like, with hip hop and (esp older) house and tons of other sample-based dance stuff there wasn't really the need to call them edits when you take loops and do your own thing with them. maybe too much of this stuff is referred to as edits than should be. of course "edit" is on everyone's tip of the tongue lately. and there's threads and fights about it everywhere already so i'll just shut up about it now.

in addition to that love the action mix psych mentions, a couple other of his mixes from '07 and thereabouts are rad. resident advisor and beats in space in particular. and peppered with his stuff.

here's that RA podcast

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m39g3d

T/S beardo vs slo-mo

Betty Botox - Music is Music

this beats in space may be my fave. the way it goes from funkadelic through this weird, meandering loops thing into the orb remix is pretty wild.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/swiqt7

dude, fuck the whole uploading frowned upon bs. thanks everyone on these. making my friday.

sorry, here's the mark e zip

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e4oimj

"T/S beardo vs slo-mo"

slo-mo!! went on a mark e beatport binge yesterday.

Thanks for the sendspace correction and thanks to everyone for making these mixes easy to grab.

So this is a thread for people who wish they were Theo but aren't nearly as good? Exciting. R&B Drunkie is my jam tho, I also had to pick up the JJ 12" to mix in with it.

i think what i love most about this genre is the bpms could be considered practically downtempo, but the way the tracks are arranged gives them that awesome chugging energy that makes you want to dance, at like 95 bpms (or faster)

Real question: is this stuff analagous to chopped-and-screwed hip-hop?

I don't mean "does it sound like it," more "are there parallels." Seems like it to me. I like this stuff a lot, the little I've heard. And of course the Mark E RA Podcast was tremendous.

totally forgot about this dude from LA (from the podcast), anyone have any of his other records, i've heard big things and some sell for $$$ on discogs?

cole medina - love you inside out

matos lemme get back to you after i put on these mp3s and sip on some codeine

xxpost

i have been mixing this stuff every other wednesday night at Seattle's Grey Gallery. Last night I started at 91bpm and moved through the Lissvik mix of Fever Ray into some Meanderthals, Rune Lindbaek, Cousin Cole, Revenge edits and more. Highlight of the set for me was going from Sabres of Paradise - Edge 6 into the Pressure Drop mix of Why Can't We Live Together. Set finished at 107bpms with the Revenge edit of One of These Nights.

*set also included Reggie Dokes - Black Children of the Ghetto which sounded much better over the PA than it has on my headphones.

Reggie Dokes blows all these other guys away. He's possibly my favorite producer at this point.

sounds like a good night. was the crowd into it? and woah has lissvik remixed anything else? xposts

yes, the crowd were into it. by 'crowd' i mean my dj partner, my girlfriend, 2 of her friends and the bartender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q5BCM_ZIeg

Isaac Hayes edit, from the sound of it.

niccolò cupo track sounds like some lost mr fingers

https://soundcloud.com/polishcutouts/ptaki-krystyna

very polish

heard it on eddie c's BIS mix:

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/665

1. Eddie C - Far West - Red Motorbike
2. Maciek Sienkiewicz - Song For Mohindar - Polish Cut Outs
3. Mikhaylo Vityk - Untitled -
4. Ptaki - Krystyna - The Very Polish Cut Outs
5. Tornado Wallace - Cloud Country - ESP Institute
6. Roxy Music - Avalon (Lindstrom & Prins Thoms Version) - Virgin
7. Eddie C - Jam On Dallas Road - Endless Flight
8. Azymuth - Partido Alto (LTJ Experience Remix) - Far Out
9. Eddie C - Every Life Under The Invisible Hands - Endless Flight
10. Apiento - The Orange Place - World Unknown
11. Rubber Room - Taliban Discotech - Disco Devil
12. - - Porn 1
13. Groove And The Gang - Gimme Some (Phat Dub) - Rey-D
14. LTJ Exoerience - I Love You - Irma
15. Cottam - -
16. The Rimshots - Super Disco - Stang
17. - Midnight Girl (King & Hound Edit) - Golden Goose
18. Jamie 3:26 - Can You Feel It - Lumberjacks In Hell
19. TNT Subhead - Ecstasy & Release (Tom Of England Mix) - Groovement
20. Major Problems - Overdose (The Final Trip) - Nu Groove
21. Skatebard - Confirmation Bias - Untz Untz

Is anyone keeping up with this stuff still? And if so can they help me get up to speed?

stuff i'm digging:

young adults comp - house slippers:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-House-Slippers/release/4532654
http://youngadultsrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/only-this-moment-sasha-anastasov-remix

pretty much everything i can find by ben la desh, suzanne kraft, and dead rose music company.

magic wand edits:
http://www.discogs.com/label/Magic+Wand

tornado wallace and this side project of his:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDlScp07kbs

this ep from the mole:
http://www.discogs.com/Mole-Love-Is-The-Way/release/3441839

dj steef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb5nnbHcrUc

http://soundcloud.com/tippy-toes

honestly there should just be a catch all thread for slow stuff/disco/deep house/edits/balearic along this continuum b/c i love this stuff and most of it isn't really all that slow anymore, but it all makes since mixed together in a set

love Suzanne Kraft. namely the EP on Running Back and "Jus U" on that earlier Young Adults comp.

looking forward to digging through some of your other links, thanks.

Thanks for all these tips!

I am with karl, for some reason this stuff wouldn't feel right in the bobbins threads to me even though it's basically just slower deep house these days.

oops, makes sense*

I chanced upon this from retro nu disco, rather than slo-mo house. So I'm not exactly sure whether the better recent comps like Ushuaia Ibiza 'The Beach Album' or Dmitri from Paris - Back in the House belong here rather than in the Aeroplane-like summer jams thread. I can say the artists I follow, like Moon Boots, Gigamesh, and Plastic Plates are all pretty vibrant this summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_IIcrF2HC8

love this eddie c edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqb_0tmh2c

Heion - Silk (Trujillo & Bernardo Risquez Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/r-zone-2/r-zone-1-houz-nation-rattler

these have been killing me lately

here's one from an unlikely source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47XbrtMK1q4

Missed the René Breitbarth album late last year, but it seems to be up in only slightly abbreviated form on Soundcloud. File alongside Suzanne Kraft's slow-mo nu-disco.

listening to this philipp matalla EP again while sorting through the stuff i've been into so far this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2U9HEyiIxI

https://soundcloud.com/philippmatalla/alright

soooo goooooood

New Mark E out soon

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1000343_557205967667919_892134957_n.jpg

thread is decidedly lacking mention of fellow glasgow brethren MERMAIDS: https://soundcloud.com/mermaidsmha

young in the game, but extremely promising original productions and mixes.

a few official releases incl something on OOFT!'s foto imprint, but tons of gems on that page.

Thanks anza808 I really liked Mermaids. Have you seen them live?

i haven't, but here's a great short mix they had up on their soundcloud earlier this year and took down - "Secrets of the Space Crystal." still trying to figure out what a few of these tunes are: http://goo.gl/tC3ykZ

That "Secrets of the Space Crystal" mix is so good and I'm really enjoying their Forever Dusk EP. Really great stuff.

a few more mixes from earlier this year that have since been removed. all so killer:

Live @ Deadly Rhythm NYE: http://goo.gl/keTyXg
In the Mix Dec 2012: http://goo.gl/y7AZX7
Love is Noise: http://goo.gl/1kt3Li

a few more mixes from earlier this year that have since been removed. all so killer:

Oh wow, thanks so much. Very appreciated.

this is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-9I_qIXJI

Big up this track from LBCK's freebie album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583AOtKhnGg

New original track from DRMC with free download to boot:

https://soundcloud.com/thedeadrosemusiccompany/the-dead-rose-music-company-1

is it just me or is the world truly lacking good disco edits nowadays? i'm browsing the juno charts/bestsellers and many of them suck. am i looking in a wrong place? but juno used to give me some decent disco jams.

i thought this one from late last year was pretty nice (thanks to karl i blv?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9FBrrBdBA

seems like a disco edit to me, but i'm not sure a new soundstream track can be seen as proof of a thriving edits scene or anything

here's a good new one:

https://soundcloud.com/slowtownrec/stown-05-riccio-never-go-away

https://soundcloud.com/polishcutouts/ptaki-ponure-miasto?in=polishcutouts/sets/tvpc004-ptaki-jak-ptaki-ponure

love this new one on polish cut outs, too

basically i think there are tons of great edits still, but you have to slog through a lot of boring stuff to find them

Latest Test Pressing mix:

http://testpressing.org/2014/02/330-mark-e/

nice!

seems like a disco edit to me, but i'm not sure a new soundstream track can be seen as proof of a thriving edits scene or anything

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, February 13, 2014 5:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're disco edits by definition, I guess. but not THE genre. they're disco edit in a way moodymann and theo is disco edit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCK7ldacRk

The track at about 1:04 on the test pressing mix w/ the tropical drums is sick

Mark E's new album is good but I prefer the Black Country Roots EP.

6th Borough Project new album has a few solid numbers on it, notably "Read My Mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-JbO21nO4

What else is going on here that's good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRXXKDfqNiw

two years late to the party

I guess I'm the only person left who cares but I can't wait to get my hands on the Mark E compilation of E-Versions.

i've only heard "mingo" but man is that a sick track

excited to hear the rest of them

I heard Magazine out a few weeks ago and it sounded great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgQqvL93ao

Is there anything else current and relevant to this thread I should be investigating, I know I ask this every time this thread is revived but I am terrible at finding the gems in this sort of thing despite it being one of my favourite things in the world.

his recent single on ESP institute is great

https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute/sets/esp025

in general his tracks are a lot faster now, yeah?

maybe a bit, but afaik he's always hovered around the 110's

i kind of stopped following this scene because i never really felt like listening to a whole set of it and also because it's too hard to mix w regular paced 120-ish stuff

Such a tremendous amount of this stuff if one goes digging, particularly edging into nu-disco and funky house domains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_zlSubZjYE

nobody told me about maddermodes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyFowyHDecQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=561VeuToMqg