The D.H.S. DJ selector mixing selecting a M-A-S-S-I-V-E special post- (or pre-) carnival set selection. Praise!
Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby‘s – Dub With A Difference Horace Andy’s Dub Box – Dub Larking Horace Andy – Skylarkin Junior Dan – A House Is Not A Home Junior Murvin – Police And Thieves Niney – Quiet Barrington Levi – Under Mi Sensi Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking Ken Boothe – Everything I Own Gregory Isaacs – Cool Down The Pace Dennis Brown – Changing Times Max Romeo – Chase The Devil Mikey Dread & King Tubby – Parrot Jungle Super Chick – Roach Killer Sister Nancy – Bam Bam Connie Bell – Vampire Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby‘s – Dub In Rema Horace Andy – Money Money Jah Warrior – Dub From The Heart Anthony Red Rose – Tempo Tenor Saw – Ring The Alarm Robert Lee – Dreams Clement Irie – Kolo-Ko Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng Ackie – Call Me Rambo Ricky Melody – What A Act The Icebreakers – Work Out Linton Kwesi Johnson – Doun Di Road The Heptones – Message From A Black Man Nicky Thomas – Love Of The Common People Willie Williams – No One Can Stop Us A.L.T. Joe – Hitching A Ride The Paragons – The Tide Is High Derrick Harriott – Groovy Situation Marcia Griffiths – Feel Like Jumping Jim Brown – Seen Him Michigan & Smiley – Eye Of Danger Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby‘s – Full Dose Of Dub Lone Ranger – Badder Den Dem Ras Clifton – Look Over Yonder Otis Gayle – I’ll Be Around Ken Boothe – Memories Cocoa Tea & J.C. Lodge – Time For Love Dandy Livingstone – Big City Horace Andy – Quiet Place The Heptones – Mistry Babylon Linton Kwesi Johnson – Dread Beat An Blood Dillinger – Cocaine In My Brain Sound Dimension – Granny Scratch Scratch Richard Ace – Stayin’ Alive Norma White – I Want Your Love Risco Connection – Sitting In The Park Little Girl Wonder – It’s My House Dread And Fred – Warriors Advance Anthony Red Rose – Electric Chair King Tubbystyle – Deuteronomy Foxy Brown – Love Is Where You Can Find It Johnny Clarke – Wante Wante Can’t Get It Jacob Miller – Healing Of The Nation Johnny Osbourne – We Need Love Horace Faith – Black Pearl The Cimarons – We Are Not The Same Marvels – Rock Steady Toots & The Maytals – Funky Kingston Greyhound – Black & White Bob & Marcia – Young Gifted And Black
Mixes recorded for the Invitation To Openness Special at soulsender.de
Aaron Smith – Sometimes I Wonder Creative Force – It’s So Good Mirage feat. Gary L – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright Ron Carroll – A New Day Donnell Rush – Symphony Inner City – Pennies From Heaven Ce Ce Rogers – Brothers And Sisters Total Eclipse – Come Together Kevin Elliott Presents Malik Hart – We’re On Our Way Tommye – I Need To Go Away Miss Joi Cardwell – Goodbye The Bias Project – The Valley Mark Rogers – Twilight For Some
Mixes recorded for the Invitation To Openness Special at soulsender.de
New Deep Society – Warehouse (Days Of Glory) Park Avenue – Don’t Turn Your Love Sterling Void – Someday Masquerade – Real Love Frankie Hollywood Feat. Ricky Dillard – Feel The Fire Fred Fowler – Times Are Changin Joe Smooth – I Try Paris Brightledge – Learn To Love Irving And Romeo – Brighter Day Ce Ce Rogers – Someday Will Downing – A Love Supreme Fingers Inc. – A Love Of My Own
Michaela Melián – Convention (Monika Enterprises) Dee Dee Brave – Can’t Get Over It (Champion) Stefan Goldmann – Heatwave (Victoriaville) Jackin’ Bernard Badie – Bernard’s Got The Funk (D.J.B. Productions Records) Unknown Artist – Untitled (Chicago Underground) Unknown Artist – Untitled (Other Side Records) Barry Manalogue – Koyo Front (Nonplus Ltd.) Ricky Smith – Cry Baby (Chicago Bad Boys Records)
You are a well respected music writer writing for publications like De:Bug, RA and your own blog (among others). Has music writing always been part of what you do, and what came first? The writing or the djing?
I write about music in public since the mid-90’s, and I started playing out in the late 80’s, so definitely DJing came first. My output as a writer has also been not as prolific as it turned out to be after I moved to Berlin in 2003. I knew Jan Joswig, the fashion editor at de:bug at that time, from former days in my hometown Kiel and he asked me to contribute. I started out writing reviews and then turned to features and especially interviews, some of which got quite some attention. So that eventually led to writing for other print and web publications too, like doing the “Playing Favourites” series for Resident Advisor, my “Rewind” series for sounds-like-me.com, Groove Magazine, and a lot of other media. The Website you’re referring to is not a blog in the sense that I write about everything that goes through my head, it is more like fragmentary online archive of my activities from the 90’s until now. Writings, Mixes, Gigs, the label, and a plethora of other things. It is not that I’m that vain to want everybody to know what I do and did, it is kind of a reminder for myself that others can follow if they like. Excuse the irregular updates at this point, but I slowed down all said activities a bit to have more time for my lovely wife and daughter, and I took up working at Hard Wax, too. Consider me well busy.
Can you please tell our readers what is D*ruffalo and who stands behind it?
I can’t possibly tell, at least not anymore. When D*ruffalo was unleashed 4 years ago, it was some sort of a media experiment initiated by a semi-anonymous collective of writers, producers and DJs based in several German cities, intended to be a platform to share love for what should be loved, free of any conventional restrictions. Soon some lack of love for what was deemed not as loveable showed up as well, but basically it was conceived to be the Fort Alamo of sincerity. Decidedly non-ironical, accidentally post-cool and fiercely anti-hype. At some point The D*ruffalo Hit Squad and the according Druffmix series was brought to life, to shine a light on music no light shined upon. But it totally spiralled out of control. I don’t know what it is right now, or if I am still a part of it even. But apparently D*ruffalo celebrates its sheer existence and the 50th Druffmix with a party at Berlin’s Soju Bar on February 11, and there are negotiations about a regular residency there. If the unpredictability and confusion of the D*ruffalo members allows. Which is probably unlikely, maybe. I can’t possibly tell.
You are running Macro Records together with Stefan Goldmann. How’s the process been running a label and what can we expect from Macro in 2011?
When we founded Macro we decided to only release music we find worth releasing, at the potential risk of longer stretches with no releases at all. But then the label took up so much momentum that we now have more releases lined up for this year than in the years before. March will see a new EP by the rather sensational Elektro Guzzi and Stefan’s magnificent “The Grand Hemiola” 2×12″, you can hear excerpts of both in the mix I recorded for you. We will follow that up in April with a live album by Elektro Guzzi and a compilation of the late works of the composer and conductor Friedrich Goldmann, Stefan’s father, who sadly and much too early passed away in 2009. We are also in the process of preparing several other projects for later this year, which are not yet ready to be unveiled, but well worth waiting for. We worked very hard to achieve a position in which we can do whatever we want, and as long as this strong support will stay with us, we will do just that. Expect the unexpected.
You’re known for your eclectic dj sets. What can you tell us about this set you prepared?
My sets, be it in a club or radio context, can be quite diverse, that’s true. But I don’t believe in eclecticism per se. Meaning, I don’t want to attract opposites just for the sake of it. If you neglect a certain coherence, structure and narrative you will end up sounding like a jukebox, however interesting it might be musically equipped. I like thinking of a concept when doing a mix, as subliminal or not it might be. With this one, I just intended to combine an experimental streak with a dancefloor functionality, while providing a glimpse of unreleased Macro material and tracks of artists I consistently admire, and tracks I still find as interesting as the day I first heard them. Which in the case of this playlist, was not too long ago. At any other time the set would probably have sounded differently, but this was what I then had in mind for this purpose and I hope it makes as much sense to the listeners as it made to me when I recorded it.
Stefan Goldmann – Mining The Vein / The Grand Hemiola Raime – This Foundry (Regis Version) Shackleton Vs. Kasai Allstars – Mukuba Special Theo Parrish Ft. IG Culture – Traffic Elektro Guzzi – Boom Room Margaret Dygas – Hidden (NSI Mix) Farben – Kursbuch 1&2 Son Of Sam – Nature Makes A Mistake (Âme Mix) Marco Bernardi – Klinsfrar Melode (Sprinkles Deeperama) WK7 – Higher Power (Hardcore PCK Mix) Pinch – Croydon House
A mix with some 90s house records I hold very dear.
Mr Fingers – On My Way (Pinky Blue Mix) Lovechild – Sweet Ambience (Deep Dub) Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Forever Monna Inner Soul feat. E. Scott – I’m In Need 4 U Sound Waves – I Wanna Feel The Music (Smooth Mix) Sensory Elements – Explain It Jazz-N-Groove – Do Ya (Marcs Lunch Pale Mix) Equation – I’ll Say A Prayer 4 U Debbie Gibson – One Step Ahead (Masters At Work Mix) Yohan Square – Love Of Life (Genesis Mix) Mark Rogers – Twilight For Some (Hurleys Twilight Mix) Subculture – The Voyage Joanna Law – Love Is Not Enough (Mix D’Ambience)
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