00:00:00 1 Nature Boy – Strugglin’ (Demo Mix) 00:05:18 2 Nature Boy – Bassline Jumper 00:10:32 3 Nature Boy – Players (Demo Mix) 00:13:06 4 Nature Boy – On Fire (Piano Version) 00:18:08 5 Nature Boy – I’m Searching 00:23:02 6 Nature Boy – On Your Side 00:26:19 7 Nature Boy – Hey Ho (Demo Mix) 00:31:25 8 Nature Boy – 9 Ether 00:36:00 9 Nature Boy – The Things You Do To Me 00:41:15 10 Nature Boy – Whatchusay (Dubwise) 00:45:16 11 Nature Boy – I’m On Fire 00:49:11 12 Nature Boy – Near You (Unreleased Mix) 00:52:53 13 Nature Boy – Near You 00:56:26 14 Naomi Daniel – Feel The Fire (Nature Boy Dubweizer Dub) 01:00:26 15 Nature Boy – Mud Up 01:04:02 16 Nature Boy – Tobago 01:08:29 17 Nature Boy – Unda Me 01:12:00 18 Nature Boy – Unaffected (Raw Demo) 01:16:35 19 Nature Boy – Watchusay (Unreleased Demo Mix 2) 01:20:38 20 Nature Boy – The Living Groove 01:26:09 21 Nature Boy – Trackin’ 01:30:06 22 Nature Boy – Unaffected (Reprise) 01:34:56 23 Nature Boy – You Want 01:39:36 24 Nature Boy – Prayer (Flute Mix) 01:45:36 25 Nature Boy – Prayer 01:52:25 26 Nature Boy – Yeah (Groove Express) 01:57:42 27 Nature Boy – Euro Disney (Unreleased Mix) 02:03:06 28 Nature Boy – The Major Enemy 02:08:27 29 Nature Boy – Tryin’ To Find It 02:12:33 30 Nature Boy – Yeah (Mellow Version) 02:16:59 31 Nature Boy – Goin’ Thru Changes 02:19:55 32 Nature Boy – Hot (Demo Mix) 02:24:12 33 Nature Boy – Watchusay (Demo Mix) 02:26:37 34 Nature Boy – Round & Round 02:30:25 35 Nature Boy – Prayer (Demo Mix) 02:33:45 36 Nature Boy – Piece Of You (Demo Mix) 02:37:49 37 Nature Boy – Real (Dubwize) 02:41:35 38 Nature Boy – Real 02:45:41 39 Nature Boy – Yeah (Main Version) 02:50:03 40 Nature Boy – Get On Up 02:56:15 41 Nature Boy – Ha Ha 03:03:59 42 Nature Boy – J-Edit 03:06:47 43 Nature Boy – Do The Freak 03:09:35 44 Nature Boy – Dirty Plucker 03:13:36 45 Nature Boy – Dirty Games (Demo Mix) 03:17:24 46 Nature Boy – Philly Bound 03:20:42 47 Nature Boy – Your Body 03:25:40 48 Nature Boy – Better Man 03:29:04 49 Nature Boy – Act Like You Feel 03:35:37 50 Hiroshi Fujiwara – Getting Over You (Mil’o’s Natureboy Remix)
00:00:00 1 DJ Nature – TSB 00:08:48 2 DJ Nature – It’s Over 00:14:39 3 DJ Nature – Tacky Stuff 00:19:38 4 Society of Silence – Ambivalent (DJ Nature Ghetto Grind Remix) 00:24:16 5 DJ Nature – Sexual Tension Scene 1 00:30:32 6 DJ Nature – Sexual Tension Scene 2 00:36:28 7 Sad City – Steady Jam (DJ Nature Remix) 00:41:20 8 Sad City – Steady Jam (DJ Nature Dub) 00:47:39 9 UNKLE – If We Don’t Make It (DJ Nature Remix) 00:51:42 10 DJ Nature – Follow Your Dreams 00:57:12 11 DJ Nature – Fool 4 Love 01:02:26 12 DJ Nature – Real Talk 01:05:13 13 DJ Nature – With Your Body 01:09:34 14 Herva – Broken (DJ Nature Remix) 01:14:09 15 DJ Nature – Groove Me 01:20:05 16 DJ Nature – C.O.A. 01:26:03 17 Typesun – Last Home (DJ Nature Remix) 01:32:33 18 Margee – In My Sleep (DJ Nature Remix) 01:40:46 19 DJ Nature – Destiny Reprise 01:45:38 20 Daniel Kyo – It’s Alright Feat. Diviniti (DJ Nature Remix) 01:50:43 21 DJ Nature – Born Lifted 01:56:20 22 DJ Nature – Celebrate Your Life 02:01:40 23 DJ Nature – Let’s Break the Rules 02:07:52 24 DJ Nature – Return of the Savage 02:13:08 25 Danilo Braca feat. Troy Mobiuscollective – Oh My Lord (DJ Nature Remix) 02:20:19 26 DJ Nature – Mbakwe 02:25:38 27 Khruangbin – Balls And Pins (DJ Milo Remix) 02:28:58 28 DJ Nature – Blood On Your Hands 02:33:48 29 DJ Nature – Dearly Beloved (DJ Nature Remix) 02:40:52 30 Spike – New Germany (DJ Nature Remix) 02:45:20 31 DJ Nature – No More Tears On The Dancefloor 02:51:11 32 DJ Nature – Crockett’s Theme
00:00:00 1 DJ Nature – Everyone 00:08:06 2 DJ Nature – Sleep Talk 00:12:05 3 DJ Nature – A Until 00:18:52 4 Nebraska – Usin’ Me (DJ Nature Remix) 00:24:20 5 DJ Nature – Foggy Monday Morning 00:30:07 6 DJ Nature – It’s Up To You 00:35:26 7 DJ Nature – Violet & Me (Original Mix) 00:41:41 8 DJ Nature – Violet & Me (Native Healing Reprise) 00:48:10 9 Admin – Flute Loops – DJ Nature Remix 00:52:38 10 DJ Nature – Let It Ring 00:57:11 11 Spike – E.S. Rever – DJ Nature Remix 01:02:01 12 DJ Nature – Walking In The Rain 01:07:59 13 DJ Nature – Cosmic Assignment 01:13:22 14 DJ Nature – A Moment 01:18:35 15 DJ Nature – Synthetic Crisis 01:27:14 16 Dicky Trisco And Love Drop – Music Moves Me (DJ Nature Remix) 01:31:49 17 DJ Nature – Signs Of The Sun 01:39:26 18 DJ Nature – Joyous 01:45:05 19 DJ Nature – Flutter 01:51:46 20 Crazy P – SOS (DJ Nature Remix) 01:58:52 21 DJ Nature – Loving U More 02:03:57 22 DJ Nature – Drifting In The Foam 02:10:31 23 DJ Nature – L/F (Mix 1) 02:15:27 24 Pheel – Burnin’ (DJ Nature Remix) 02:20:48 25 DJ Nature – Afrique (DJ Nature Euro Remix) 02:26:58 26 DJ Nature – Goin’ On 02:32:56 27 DJ Nature – Love 4:2 (DJ Nature Remix) 02:38:18 28 DJ Nature – My Life 02:43:09 29 DJ Nature – Siliconada (NB’s Mix) 02:48:06 30 DJ Nature – Siliconada 02:54:33 31 DJ Nature – Bobbi 03:00:10 32 Kaspar – Whatchadoo (DJ Nature Remix) 03:03:04 33 Nathalie Capello – So Deep (Nature Boy Remix) 03:08:26 34 DJ Nature – Oyasumi
Love is the message special, in originals, edits and samples
Ellis D – Just Like A Queen (Share The Throne Mix) The House Crew Feat. Bonz – Dance To The House (Smooth Dub) Sax Machine – Love Is The Message (The Love Workout Mix) MFM Orchestra – Love Is The Message (Bass In Ya Face Mix) Nancy Martin – Can’t Believe (Instrumental) Trammps – What Happened To The Music (Dub Mix) Nature Boy – You Want… David Ian Extrvaganza – Elements Of Reprise (Johnny Dynell Mix) Jose & Luis – Queen’s English (Royal Club Mix) Malcolm McLaren And The Bootzilla Orchestra – Deep In Vogue (Banjie Realness) The Salsoul Orchestra – Love Break (Remix) Ellis D – Dub Break (Long Version) FRS – Love Is The Message MFSB – Love Is The Message
Over the 80s and 90s I spent a lot of time per week digging through a tiny store called Plattenkiste in my hometown of Kiel, up North in Germany. The store was rammed with stacks of records, filthy paperbacks, VHS tapes and video games. It was all completely unsorted, and whenever they did their regular flea market stints, they just rearranged it all back randomly and you had to start all over again. The store was operated by a family business, a couple and their daughter, and neither of whom had even a vague interest in what they were selling, nor any knowledge. The only music playing was an oldie radio station, constantly. They bought record collections from local DJs, Danish libraries and any private person in need of money. Every record in the store then cost 2 Deutschmarks, regardless of format, and later 2 Euros. It was a total goldmine, where I found a good deal of my record collection, and even if it now has dried up compared to its former glory days, I still find bargains there whenever I go back to visit family and old friends.
One of the finds with the most impact on me has to be “Ruff Disco Volume One” by Nature Boy, which was released on NYC based Black Label in 1992, and which I discovered in the store a year later, probably left there by some local DJ in search of some funky House tunes for the rather commercial clubs of the town. Given that purpose, this particular record was really bound to fail. Apart from myself I never hear it played in clubs for years to come. Disco actually was the theme throughout, and its samples mainly shared the same heritage used in the freestyle based releases of early 90’s New York House labels. But that was it completely in terms of similarities. These tracks deconstructed Disco thoroughly, down to a primitive core that was just incredibly rugged and dark. It kicked determinedly, but all the glitz of its sample references were twisted to a muffled mess, and you were rather thrown out into the back alley through the back door than swayed through the velvet rope on the other side of the building. The record was and is totally visionary, and it preceded what the mid 90’s Chicago trackstyle or Detroit House producers would make of Disco, albeit arguably not this radical and daring.
This was pre-internet, so it took me some more years to find out the producer behind it was DJ Milo from Bristol’s legendary Wild Bunch sound system, and then I loved it even more. You could snatch up copies of it for little money for a really long time, but last I checked that changed dramatically, and these few words probably won’t help. Then again, it might help to get it reissued. Else, dig and you shall find.
(photo by Tom Lawton, very early morning @ Summer Sound System, Glasgow, 2005)
These days the Discogs Marketplace seems to outweigh the website’s initial purpose of building a research database and there is a lot of talk about the value of certain releases, and less talk about what said releases actually sound like. So I decided to compile this playlist by organizing my collection at Discogs for the highest median prices fetched at the Discogs Marketplace, and then selected items from the first pages that in my opinion justify demand by classic status. If this is what is wanted by so many Discogs users, you can thus have an impression of how the records sound in action, and decide for yourself if they are worth the effort. Items sought after due to recent hype and speculation efforts by producers, labels and sellers of any kind were decidedly neglected.
Dedicated to all the people who created the monster, and to those who do not abuse it. I salute you.
Andthoney & M. Kinchen – The Feeling (Prescription) Dream 2 Science – My Love Turns To Liquid (Deep Water Mix) (Power Move) Vil-N-X- What Cha Gonna Do (Vil-N-X Stra Mental Mix) (Island Noyze) DJ Sprinkles – Bassline.89.1 (Comatonse) Nature Boy – Unda Me (Ruff Disco Records) Unknown Artist – Untitled (Magnet Sounds) Jovonn – Back 2 The House (Goldtone) Shake – 5% Solution (KMS) Unknown Artist – Untitled (Chicago Underground) Kikrokos – Life’s A Jungle (Ron’s Edits) K. Alexi Shelby – My Medusa (Transmat) The Prince And The Wizard – The Music Is Kickin’ (City Limits) Gherkin Jerks – Parameters (Alleviated) Ace & The Sandman – Let Your Body Talk (Saber) Schatrax – Restless Nights (Schatrax) The System – You’re In My System (Atmospheric Dub) (Ibadan) Unknown Artist – Untitled (Other Side) Boo Williams – Make Some Noise (Relief) Circulation – Emotions Unknown (++Force Mix) (Balance) Freaks – 2 Please U (Surreal Visits Dub) (Playhouse) Moodymann – I Feel Joy (KDJ) MD – Cold Cuts (United States Of Mars) Octave One – Nicolette (430 West) Vincent Floyd – I Dream Of You (Dance Mania) Low Key – Lovemagic (Serious Grooves) John Beltran Feat. Open House – Earth & Nightfall (Sinewave) Claude Young – Dream Of Another Time (Utensil) Fingers Inc. – A Love Of My Own (Extended Club Mix) (Alleviated) B.F.C. – Please Stand By (Retroactive)
Rydims – Rydim#2 (Version) (Nu Groove) Mike Shannon Feat. Fadila – Under The Radar (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) (Cynosure) Soylent Green – Low Pt. 1 (Playhouse) The Prince Of Dance Music – E-3, E-6, Roll On (City Limits) Badawi – Dstry<All>Prfts (Shackleton Remix) (Cargo Records) Hertsi – Oodi Sähkölle (Sähkö) Da Sampla – The Rider (Moods & Grooves) Wax – 30003 B (Wax) DJ Duke – Escape From New York B2 (Power Music) Never On Sunday – Urban Rains (430 West) Laurent X – Drowning In A Sea Of House (House Nation) Keith Tucker – It’s A Mood (Seventh Sign) Dettmann – Vertigo (Vincent Kunth Remix) (Ostgut Ton) Nature Boy – The Major Enemy (Black Label) 4th Measure Men – The Need (Henry Street Dreams Mix) (Multiply) Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal? (Instrumental Version) (Not On Label) Buzzin Cuzzins Feat. Romanthony – Let Me Show You Love (Approach To Temple) (Azuli) Raudive – Sienna (Macro) Instra:mental – Let’s Talk (Naked Lunch)
FCL – Let’s Go Seven (We Play House) Ramadanman – Glut (Hemlock) Scuba – You Got Me (Hotflush) To Rococco Rot – Fridays (Shackleton’s West Green Rd Remix) (Domino) Monolake – Alaska (Substance Remix II) (Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music) Low Res – Amuck (Sublime) Oni Ayhun – OAR004A (Oni Ayhun) Julia Decay – Untoward (Scandinavia) Rhythim Is Rhythim – Kaos (Juice Bar Mix) (Transmat) DJ Bone – No Sleep (True To Da Roots) (Sect) Mr. G – Life (One Dark Late Saturday) (Moods & Grooves) The Oliverwho Factory – Rain 5th Wave (Madd Chaise Inc.) Moodymann – Analog:Live (KDJ) Grand High Priest – Mary Mary (We-Ze Records) Shake – Psychotic Tango (Frictional) Spencer Kincy – Don’t Stop (Cajual) The Closer – Strong Meets The Weak (KMS) Bim Marx – Stronger (Stilove4music)
Seit jeher gibt es diese Typen, die einen untrüglichen Riecher für wichtige Entwicklungen haben. Typen, die in irgendeiner Funktion den Wagen in Bewegung setzen, und dann längst abgesprungen sind, wenn die Mehrheit später einsteigt. Milo Johnson fing 1979 mit Auflegen an und war Teil des legendären Soundsystems The Wild Bunch aus Bristol, dessen andere Mitglieder später groß Karriere machten: Nellee Hooper ging zu Soul II Soul und der Rest wurde Massive Attack. Milo Johnson hingegen machte ebenso erfolgreich und metropolenübergreifend in Mode und Design und wurde sporadischer DJ und Produzent auf hohem Level, der seinem eigenen Erbe 2002 mit einer schönen Mix-CD auf Strut ein schönes Denkmal setzte. Von 1992 bis 1993 produzierte Milo eine Reihe äußerst merkwürdiger House-Platten, deren stilistischer Hintergrund sicherlich bei den Disco-, Electro-, und Dub-Klassikern seiner DJ-Laufbahn auszumachen ist. Zu jener Zeit war House mit Disco-Samples nichts Bahnbrechendes, Legionen von Latino-New-Yorkern hatten eigentlich schon alles ausgereizt was man mit Vocal- und Arrangementschnipseln aus dem Backkatalog der Traditionslabels von Salsoul bis West End und darüber hinaus anstellen konnte, und die große dekonstruktivistische CutUp-Offensive aus Chicago war auch schon in Vorbereitung. Was das Projekt Nature Boy dennoch einzigartig macht, ist die Art und Weise, wie mit den historischen Referenzen umgegangen wird. Durchgehend gibt es eine total kaputte Grundstimmung, die zum einen an Mülleimer-Beats und bis zur Verzerrung aufgedrehtem Bässen liegt, zum anderen daran, dass die Samples teilweise komplett losgelöst vom Originalkontext zu etwas zusammengesetzt werden, dass mit den ursprünglichen Verheißungen von Disco nicht mehr viel zu tun hat. Dieser Eskapismus wird nicht von Edelschampus befeuert, sondern vom billigsten Fusel. Die Samples sind nicht mehr als hinterhältige Lockvögel, Verkehrsschilder die verdreht wurden und einen Weg weisen, den man lieber folgen sollte, denn dort leuchtet nichts mehr und kaum jemand kam je zurück. Ruff Disco in der Tat, im ugliest Edit.
Nature Boy – Ruff Disco Volume One (Black Label, 1992)
Welcome to another Druffmix edition. The Druffalo Hit Squad is dedicating this one to the old school chapter of the International Disco Deconstructivist Conspiracy. Venceremos!
Johnny D & Nicky P – Like Morning Agent X – In The Morning Sensory Productions- Houseluck House 101 – I Got The Music Glenn Underground – I Need GU Jellybean – Twilight Dome Pt. 2 Freestyle Orchestra – Twi-Lite Glenn Underground – Functions Mada – Good Stuff Raw Grooves – Three Markus Nikolai – Rood Audiomatrix – Miss You Level One – Give It Up Nature Boy – Tobago Travis Nelson – Breakin’ Rocks Mike Dixon – Love Is… Nail – Dancin’ Netto – Kula DJ Spen – Tedd’s Beat Goes On Johnny Dangerous – Kill For A Day Daniel Wang – Not Feeling It Whirlpool Productions – It Happened Last Night Sound Stream – Motion Stacy Kidd – Take It Easy Paul Johnson – Hear The Music Ghetto Godfathers – Love Junkie Brother Of Soul – Eyes Of Love Bim Marx – Stronger Eddie Kendricks – Thank You For The Memories (Dam Edit)
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