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I think this was the first record that I bought on the then fledgling Guidance Recordings label which in it’s first fifty or so releases, heralded the beginning of a new wave of deep house productions in the latter part of the nineties. An ear catching feast of deep vibes mixed with edible lyrics.

Something smells good, we cookin’ now!

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A number from San Soda’s second release on the Belgium imprint, We Play House Recordings.

Quintessential deep house track from the first wave at the beginning of the 1990s.

Cashing in on US import kudos, Dave Lee’s first release under a pseudonym for the pioneering New York label, Nu Groove.

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Deep is as deep does, down deeper we go, in search of more adjectives to describe it’s deepness but no we can’t and instead just nod our heads sagely, deep in thought and time, d-e-e-e-e-p, and see how many mentions of deep we can get into one long deep sentence. A sublime track with a sound that epitomises deepness, melding with the alpha waves of your brain and taking your mind away…

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One of my favourite mixes, period; it’s been part of my life for so long that it’s like a family member. Bought from a small shop that sold trendy ‘club wear’ in Chelmsford where I studied, that also sold mixtapes. We’ll forget about the baggy zebra-stripe Gio Goi shorts that I spent forty quid on which made me look like a clown; the guys who ran it were real clubheads and had good connections for some of the best mixtapes around, both nationally known djs and local ones. It’s fortuitous that I managed to rip the cassette to the computer and burn onto cd before it wore out and snapped which was an unfortunate circumstance that befell another prized deep house mix that belonged to ck. That mix (which was held in as high regard as the Bukem one) was by Dean Savonne; a victim of it’s excellence, chewed up by the car stereo.

It became an obsession to identify and then hunt down and buy all the tracks on this Bukem mix, only one left but it’s taken over ten years to get to this stage. The mixing is tight, transitions quick. No long snooze-a-thon mixes here, an average of three minutes a track and the next is being seamlessly blended in. Having listened to this mix hundreds of times, I’m biased but it’s all killer no filler; you could not get a better overview of what deep house sounded like in ’91/’92. If I had to choose, my favourite tracks would be the Masters At Work, QX-1 and M.C.J. releases; the M.C.J. one especially, I didn’t know what the track was until a few years ago when someone ID’ed it on a forum. I’ve hosted this mix online since 2003 and it’s been downloaded thousands of times, tracks from here will definitely be featured by themselves on this blog in the future.

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Tracklisting

1. | 0:00:00 | Coldcut – Jade (Aleph mix)
2. | 0:05:25 | Endangered Species – Endangered Species
3. | 0:09:54 | Masters At Work – Our Mute Horn (Ken Lou mix)
4. | 0:12:40 | Springboard – Make Some Noise (Nod Your Head mix)
5. | 0:16:11 | Monarch – Forever Slammin’ (Forever Slammin’ mix)
6. | 0:19:53 | Gio Canepa – ORE: Nove Nove
7. | 0:24:32 | Beautiful People – I’ve Got The Rhythm (Club mix)
8. | 0:26:08 | Jamie Principle – You’re All I’ve Waited 4 (E-Smoove Late Nite mix)
9. | 0:28:53 | PWM – Are You Ready To Move (Deep Rave mix)
10. | 0:33:08 | Z-Formation – Frenzy
11. | 0:35:49 | L Factor – Claim To Be (Mike Dunn’s Mixx 2)
12. | 0:39:24 | Raw Elements – Raw Basics
13. | 0:42:54 | ???last unknown – help!???
14. | 0:44:18 | Rhythm II Rhythm – A Touch Of Jazz (Do It Tonight mix)
15. | 0:46:49 | DTR – Journey Into A Dream (Sex In Paradise mix)
16. | 0:51:40 | Simply Red – Something Got Me Started (Hurley’s Dub)
17. | 0:54:46 | Chocolate Fudge – To Be Now
18. | 0:57:15 | QX-1 – Love Injection (Inject Me Love Mixx)
19. | 1:00:59 | Red Light – Who Needs Enemies
20. | 1:04:28 | Optimystic – 4 A.M.
21. | 1:07:19 | Mystique – Want Your Body (Coolout mix)
22. | 1:09:48 | World Power – I’m Happy (After The Rave mix)
23. | 1:14:13 | Korda – Move Your Body (Club mix)
24. | 1:17:03 | Déja Vu – Move Your Waistline (Sweat mix)
25. | 1:20:36 | Urban Rhythm – Love Will Make It Right (House To House mix)
26. | 1:24:38 | M.C.J. – Sexitivity (Deep mix)
27. | 1:27:14 | Keep Moving Ahead – Always Searching (Uhura mix)
28. | 1:31:08 | Jovonn – Be Free (Instrumental mix)

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Deep techno soundscape flavour from the Chicago based producer Steven Hitchell, excuse the authentic vinyl crackles at the beginning, adds a little character anyway. I haven’t got access to my record cleaning machine to run it through at the moment but there appears to be plenty of copies available to buy for yourself. Entices you in with the reverb and echoes then chugs along on an introspective journey.

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