dBridge – Wonder Where Ruffhouse & Clarity – Aphasia Gremlinz & Reza – Bloom Ruffhouse – Strangers Foreign Concept & DRS – Falling Stars Nasty Habits – Shadow Boxing (Om Unit Remix) Paragon – Precipice Ruffhouse – Classified Sam KDC – Erosion Skeptical – Sphere Nucleus & Paradox – The Return Of… Fre4knc – Marching Cube VIP Data – Passive Aggressive (Stray Remix) Blocks & Escher – Moods Fre4knc – Cardiome Kasra & Enei So Real D-Bridge – True Romance VIP Lenzman – Empty Promise (Jubei Remix) Artificial Intelligence – War Horse Response – One Nation Enei – Goliath Loxy & Resound – Monsters Fracture & Neptune – Deadlands ST Files – Eric Bristow System – Sound Man Foreign Concept Feat. T Man – Tag Team Kinetic & Mark Recoil – Cold Streets Skeptical – Blue Eyes VIP Dub Phizix – The Clock Ticks Stray – Award Tour Foreign Concept & Stray – Bang It High Contrast – Global Love High Contrast – Twilight’s Last Gleaming High Contrast – Return Of Forever Kevin Rudolf – I Made It (Cash Money Heroes) (Rockwell Remix Dub) Amit – 9 Times Jubei – The Path Halogenix – Her Waves Ivy Lab – Missing Persons Ivy Lab – Baby Grey dBridge – So Lonely (Consequence Rmx) dBridge – Plain To See dBridge – Not Known Synkro – Letting Go (dBridge Remix) dBridge – City Of Lonely Runaways
I must admit that I did not buy that much Drum and Bass in its mid 90s heyday. I simply loved too much of it, thus it seemed purchasing what I loved would drain my budget for good, as there was enough already going on elsewhere I needed to keep track of. I bought a whole lot of mixtapes though, trying to devour the most and best of it as it was intended to shine. I applied the same pattern with Dubstep as well later on. There were just too many interesting records to add the them to the shopping list I already had week in week out. I went to nights, bought some mixtapes again, kept in touch. But then some day 5 years ago, I was going up the stairs to Hard Wax, and DJ Pete was booming this over the store PA. With every step up I became convinced more and more that this was not like anything I heard in either Drum and Bass and Dubstep so far, yet it sounded like it belonged to both, but it had very determined sound aesthetics more linked in my mind to Techno as well. The half time tempo had me confused at first. Of course you could always mix Drum And Bass or Dubstep with slower paced downtempo tracks, but this particular track seemed to be built for the purpose, only the other way round. Its beats were really heavy, yet agile. It’s atmosphere dark, yet totally engaging. The vocals floating above, adding still to the austerity. I asked what it was, and bought it instantly. There will be a time you will drop this, and it will do serious damage, I thought. I was right. I also fucked up my budget by extending my purchasing schemes to this area, for years to come. Sometimes, you just have to give in.
Fatima Al Qadiri – Shanzhai Maria Minerva – The Beginning Tala – On My Own In Hua Hin The Range – Two Mssingno – Skeezers Starkey – New Cities Kuedo – Mtzpn Design A Wave – Weird F Starkey – Neck Snap Ekelon – Techrine Starkey – Ok Luv Grown Folk X Main Attrakionz – I.C.E. Seawash – Close (Vox) Mark Pritchard – Get Wyld Tala – Serbia Morgan Zarate – Broken Heart Collector 813 – The Whaler Mssingno – XE2 Mala – Changes (James Blake) The The – Flesh And Bones Microthol – Depressive Morph King Midas Sound – Cool Out V.I.V.E.K – Mantra Kryptic Minds – Follow Me VIP V.I.V.E.K – Asteroids VIP Digital Mystikz – Education Morcee – Black Hole Sugababes – Stronger Dead Prez – Hip Hop Fatima Al Qadiri – Szechuan Björk – All Is Full Of Love Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal (Fennesz Remix) Lewis Taylor – Bittersweet Joanna Law – Love Is Not Enough Lana Del Rey – Ride King Midas Sound – Come And Behold (Green Gartside Revoice)
One thing I really enjoy when DJing is sequencing tracks that use the same samples, or combine them with the material it was sampled from on top. The same goes for tracks with similar sounds, and of course you find the most similar sounds if you takes a closer look at a certain producer’s output. I have a very weak spot for the eccentrics of House music and Chicago’s Curtis Jones is among my favourite from that species. I have a weak spot for spoken vocals in House tracks as well, particularly if they exceed mere dancefloor imperatives or spiritual togetherness stuff, or embarrassing sexual posing. Well, Curtis Jones is well smart and hip enough to perform the latter with tolerable style and humour. So I was flicking through my archives of 90’s Chicago House 12″s for a recent gig at Panoramabar a few days ago, and I remembered that several tracks produced by Jones used the sound template made so famous by the “Underground Trance” version of Cajmere’s “Brighter Days”. The other that instantly came to mind was “Chit Chat”, it took a while longer to come up with “Believe In Me”. All three tracks sound very similar, but have a very different lyrical content. I decided to play “Chit Chat”, “Believe In Me”, and then “Brighter Days” in succession, and together they form a really weird narrative. Of course the majority of the people on the floor have enjoyed the music more than the tracks’ twisted little story, but that is perfectly fine. Not every point you make has to hit home. But it is important to make a few points throughout a set, for me at least. I also played a few early 90’s NYC sample House tracks that sample Yazoo’s “Don’t Go”, but none were too obvious, and I forgot to bring Yazoo’s “Don’t Go”. Next time.
Xon – Midnight Express Cyclone – A Place Called Bliss Sweet Exorcist – Testone The Step – Yeah You (Robert’s Dub 2) Sweet Exorcist – Trick Jack Cabaret Voltaire – What Is Real (Virtual Reality Mix) The Wolfgang Press – Time Paris Gray – Don’t Lead Me (Nexus 21 Mix) Altern 8 – Objective C & M Connection – Another Night (Techno Dreams) Ability II – Pressure Dub Ital Rockers – Ital’s Anthem (Trebledown-Bassup Mix) Unique 3 – Pattern 12 Unique 3 – Beats And Bass Mix Nightmares On Wax – Aftermath (LFO Remix) LFO – Squeaky Uncle 22 – Pain Baby Ford – Blow Back Tuff Little Unit – Join The Future Cabaret Voltaire – Easy Life (Jive turkey Mix) Unique 3 – The Theme (Original Chill Mix) Rhythmatic – Take Me Back (Bass – Head Mix) Juno – Soul Thunder (Drillers Mix) Fantasy U.F.O. – Fantasy (Strictly Underground Mix) Salt Tank – Charged Up (Instrumental) Synchro-Bass – Mystic Voyage Midi Rain – The Crack Train (Vocal) Logarhythm – The Jungle (N.O.W. Mix) Unique 3 – Weight For The Bass (Digi House Mix) Baby D – Day Dreaming LTJ Bukem – Delitefol DJ Mink – Hey! Hey! Can U Relate (Deep Space Mix) Unique 3 – Activity (Mix 1) Zero B – Spinning Top 4 Hero – No Sleep Raver (The G And D Mix)
Ital & Halal – The Day After Elektro Guzzi – Alaska Flip Throwing Snow – Linguis VIP Fake Left – The Clockmakers Kinetic Dreams (Remcam Mix) Takuya Matsumoto – Requiem Spoiled Drama – Black Drama (Patricia’s No Drama Mix) NGLY – Speechless Tape Bass Clef – Self-Perpetuating Fun Loop Gesloten Cirkel – Zombiemaschine Sandman – Machines Like This Dust – Feel It Person Of Interest – Call This Number KiNK – Source Of Uncertainty Aurora Halal – Hazy G (Original Mix) Seven Davis Jr. – One Dtchplnes – Lost Baggage Kingdom – Goodies Remix (Instrumental) Falty DL – Mo djrum – Tailing Gamertag – Find Your Pulse Percussions – KHLHI DJ Aakmael – Just A Track 5 Enchante – Pattern 3 (Gunman) Rhythm II Rhythm – Mellow Magic King Amazin – Bang Beats Moodymann – Hangover Chapter & The Verse – It’s What You Left Me With
October – Unstable Phenomenon (Joey Anderson Remix) STL – A Million Lights Jay Daniel – Royal Dilemma Amir Alexander – Star Tigress Anton Mitchell – Sahara Kinetic Electronix – Astral Kin Ajukaja & Andrevski – Expensive Shit Ratchett Traxxx – Nut On U Beautiful Swimmers – The Zoo Vellico – Beck’s Brew Crazy Bald Heads – First Born (Four Tet Remix) Môme – Heading Feel (Stefan Goldmann Remix) John Beltran – Return To Nightfall Wada – Moonlight On Your Life Pt. 2 Hashman Deejay – Orbis Tertius Romanthony – Trust (MCDE Instrumental Dub) Pepp – You Know My Eyes K. London Posse – Caught In Luv (Rhythm Mix Dub) Dionne – Feel Da Rain (D’Pac Dub) Vincent Floyd Feat. Chan – Your Eyes (Instrumental) Vincent Floyd Feat. Chan – Your Eyes (Vocal) Loftis #V – Dreamin (Joe Smooth Vocal Mix) J.D. Hall – Into You (Jonathan Morning Mix) Nami Shimada & Soichi Terada – Sunshower Ajukaja & Maria Minerva – All The Heart Breaks Eric D. Clark – Another Night, Another Disco (Reprise)
Flava D – Hold On VIP Alex Coulton – Break Pressure Joy Orbison & Boddika – In Here Four Tet + Terror Danjah – Killer Animal Youth – Sixty Four Zero KiNK – Sintezator Hissman – Nobody’s Talking Sneaky Traxx II – Bangin It Chicago Trackwerk Vol. 3 – Be Quiet DJ Disciple – Fixation Da Rebels – House Nation Under A Groove Gino Soccio – Dancer C.A.T.S. – Dancer Robert Hood – Dancer Pev & Asusu – Surge (MMM Remix) Dario Zenker – Cookin Bookin FunkinEven & Delroy Edwards – X Dungeon Acid – Astro Todd Osborn – What Is Love Asusu – Velez (A Made Up Sound Remix 1) Hodge – Renegades Pev & Kowton – Raw Code (Surgeon Remix) DJ Qu – Undescribed (Believer) Dan Trevitt – Squelch Vereker – Slain Crash Course In Science – Flying Turns Vellico – The Peace Signal Vernon Felicity – Static Character
KiNK – Sintezator DJ Richard – Freydis MGUN – Funkshun NGLY- 5674 Specter – Zodiak Hound Scales – Odile Ondo Fudd – Coup D’Etat Deyal – Get To This Medium Length Hair – Untitled Vereker – Untitled Gunnar Haslam – Kohle (Beats) Acido 16 – A Acido 17 – A1 Inga Copeland – So Far So Clean Unicorn Hard-On – Houndstooth William Onyeabor – Good Name MD – Whitecaps Minor Science – The Beckoner Austin Cesear – 1 Year Even Tuell – Beats Come Alias G – I Can’t Get Out Of The House Point Break – Eating Alone Buz Ludzha – Bassline For Death
Benedek – Untitled Vincent Floyd – Moonlight Fantasy A2 Pender Street Steppers – Openin’ Up Psychic Youth – Our Lips Are Sealed
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