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Archive for the 'house' Category
10th January, 2009 | 82 views
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Hooray it’s Saturday but boo, it’s January. Thus you’re probably unlikely to be on your way out this evening for a night of trance-induced debauchery amongst towering speaker stacks in a darkened room illuminated by nothing more than a distant laser through a haze of smoke; but if you were, the Xylem Flow Mix by Spooky would aid the trip. Unusual track in that when you first hear it, bass is conspicuous by it’s absence and it sounds like you’re listening to a track where the DJ has EQ’ed the bass out and forgotten about it, yet that just sweetens the moment when it finally arrives. Most people would probably have first encountered this pulsing little number on Northern Exposure, unless you were fortunate enough to be swept away on a throbbing dancefloor first.
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9th January, 2009 | 101 views
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The acronym, if you didn’t know or were wondering, stands for the Larry Heard Appreciation Society. However this isn’t a narcissistic project by the man himself but does naming your outfit after him live up to the self-enforced benchmark of quality that his title sets out? In the hands of Jamie Read, yes it does! This is the first of two EPs on his own label, Push II Shove Records, under the same moniker, both doing a more than decent stab at sounding Heard-esque. This track has it all – the smoothness of the keyboard chords and an acid line that “makes u want 2 jack”, sort of like Washing Machine put in a errr… washing machine with Stars or something.
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8th October, 2008 | 80 views
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This is the Dub Vocal Mix by Resistance D – still holds it’s own today, fourteen years on from it’s initial release. First had it on the Voila! compilation but that was expelled from my collection to make way for the original release, superior pressing naturally. Trance can be a dirty word in some circles but the unfamiliar African inflections of Mory Kanté’s vocals lend themselves well to the remix treatment. This was part of the ‘Going Global’ series where French-African artists were given the remix treatment by selected house/techno producers at that time and was kicked off by Hardfloor breathing new life into Yeke Yeke, Mory Kanté’s biggest and best known track.
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22nd September, 2008 | 236 views
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As a rule I don’t have any compilation albums, quite a few years ago I performed a Stalinist purge on my collection, realising that a) the pressings were usually crap and b) I only really liked a couple of songs on each one anyway. Due to the miracle of t’interweb, the original releases of the tracks I liked were a mere mouse-click and a few additional brass farthings on the credit card away. The husks of the compilations were cast aside to a fate only marginally better than the refuse tip, the charity shop; probably to begin the cycle anew when picked up by some other spotty herbert.
However, for this compilation I grudgingly had to make an exception because the album it’s from is an even quieter pressing and the release on twelve isn’t the same version – I know because I bought them all in an escalating paroxysm of rage and frustration. I’m possibly being a little unfair to this comp because it’s spread across four slabs of vinyl with a max of only three tracks per side and it does have more than two tracks that I like. This is what I bought it for though; dub house, ragga house, don’t really care exactly what label with which to pidgeon-hole it but it’s a bouncy smiling track. I think Jazzy B’s phrase “A happy face, a thumpin’ bass, for a lovin’ race” equally applies here.
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14th September, 2008 | 125 views
I’ve always followed Aybee’s output ever since purchasing his ‘Revolution Of 1 EP‘ on his own Deepblak label and his mixes were no exception to my roving ears, hungry for deepness. Since his collaboration with Ron Trent produced the sublime ‘Across The Universe‘ under the guise of Indigenous Space People, his contact with other producers mean his mixes always contain one or two exclusive tracks from CDr that seem to remain unreleased. Download or stream from the mixes section on his website or from his MySpace blog post (Update: he appears to have cancelled his MySpace account).
01. | 00:00 | Carl Craig – It’s A Wonderful Life
02. | 07:36 | Deadbeat – Miso (Akiko Kiyama’s Miso Butter Remix)
03. | 10:28 | Ananda Project – Moment Before Dreaming (Idjut Boys Rmx I)
04. | 17:29 | Jeff Samuel – Month 2 Month
05. | 23:14 | Dos Almas – The Message (feat. Louie Balo) (Original Mix) (digital only)
06. | 27:46 | Trinidadian Deep – Ebo (unreleased)
07. | 32:20 | beats
08. | 34:54 | Osunlade? – ?
09. | 38:54 | Carl Craig – Sandstorms
10. | 42:53 | Aybee – Solaris
11. | 49:09 | Simbad – D’Angelo Dubplate B
12. | 52:09 | Karl Moestl Ft. Da Fonz – Al Pajaro (Move Your Legs Mix)
7th June, 2008 | 67 views
This is a great ride of deep house and techno, expertly blended and highlighting some of the lesser known releases that were likely overlooked at the time. Producers such as Ray Castoldi, Jamie Read and Chris Brann jostle in rhythmic time with others that I wasn’t even aware of until I heard this, some sought after and hard to get as well. Forget my pithy introduction though and click on the links below for a fuller description from the horse’s mouth…
Tracklisting from discogs
00:00 V-Phorms “Fragments”
05:00 Nuron “Eau Rouge”
10:10 Z-Formation “Hollow Cloud” (Part II – The Black Sky Remix)
13:15 Raymond Castoldi “Cycles of Life”
17:48 The New Sound of Soul “Deep in New York”
21:45 Hypnotone “Sub”
24:50 DMO “Movement”
28:30 L.H.A.S. Inc. “4-D”
33:30 Virgo “Ride”
36:10 Emojonal “Make E Move”
40:50 Bizarre Inc. “Let it Go”
43:58 Fruits of God “Spirits”
47:07 Ismistik “Bulb”
51:00 Wamdue Kids “Time We Will Never Share”
55:00 A.D.N.Y. presents Leiva “Sane”
58:40 Translucent “Light of Dawn”
62:10 Pollon “Lost Souls”
67:50 I:Cube “Deep End”
