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I am moving again, and here is another mix before my decks and cd players get put away for a couple months.
I played a similar set at Flammable last week. It was pretty good turnout wise, even remembering that it was Super Bowl that night. I got to laugh a lot with some friends and there were lots of people I hadn’t seen in months.. years even.
I am playing a techno rave party in a couple weeks. Adam X and Brian Zentz, Brandon Plank and myself are playing. Spirals, the promoter has a massive fuck-off turbosound rig, imported from the Greatest of Britain.
I sat down with Dan Dagen aka Spirals last week to talk shop, go through a substantial record collection and try to ignore the stacks of speaker cabinets that take up 60% (seriously) of his living room.
He pulled up a stack of records, I pressed record on my laptop and off he went, playing an hours worth of techno in what seemed like 20 minutes. Maybe I am just hungry for beats, but he played everything I needed to hear that day.
After, we played every dj’s favorite game: “have you heard this one?” for 2 hours. Yes.
1-sleeparchive- acd bleep- Research EP
2-sleeparchive- bleep 02- Recycle EP
3-sleeparchive- image photometer- Infrared Glow
4-surgeon- black jackal throwbacks- Force + Form
5-surgeon- sleep (ultravilotet)- Body Request
6-diversion group- all boys/no girls Playground Procedure
7-regis- execution grounds- Divine Ritual
8-portion reform- suffocate- The Supreme Negative
9-regis- aftertaste of guilt- Exercise For Institutions
10-function- disaffected- Anticipation
11-regis- white stains- Penetration
12-ancient methods-untitled – Second Method
13-the advent- light years away- Light Years Away
14-the kooky scientist- old vs. neav- O.L.D. vs. N.E.A.U.
15-sven vath- mind games-Mind Games
16-joris voorn- state of inner soul- The First Sound
17-robert hood- razr- Hoodmusic 1
18-james ruskin- return (original)-Return
19-regis and female- c/chaos- Faith Is Fear
I stole this tape out of the bedroom of a semi friends sister when I was 16. I am sorry. But you will never get it back. There were two tapes at one point. “Doc Martin, Live at Unlock the House”, 12-9-1995 tape one and tape two. Tape one is gone. Long live tape one. I thought I tracked it down, but it was not the one. I will always remember the Spanish guitar jam that the crowd lost their shit to, because I walked everywhere with it, losing my shit on the bus, on the street going over to Dickey’s house, in my living room with 25 invited friends over at 8am on Sunday morning.
This tape is deep as fuck. Doc at his peak. Heavy. Slamming drums, big vocals and nasty stomach twisting basslines. Snare rolls. Breaks, builds, tension and mother fucking drama in the club.
Extra points if you can tell me what the Energy Flash mix is at 21:00.
40 seconds later he starts teasing the tambourine from Green Velvets “Flash” in and you hear it: “FUCK YEA!”
Obviously I want to say something about this mix, but I am not sure where to begin. For starters, if you are a chin scratcher, or afraid of liking tunes because they have melody or worse yet, a breakdown, then you might want to just go back to the batcave and keep complaining about how “good music is getting harder to find”.
Not saying this is some uptempo trance fest because, well, that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Summer is over, and the clouds rolled in quickly to make that point. Some good ideas turned into bad ideas and I have never been less inspired to actually write music since… who knows. I have not played out less, dj or live since I started doing this over ten years ago. Just keeping below the radar,
I am not complaining, just marking the fact that this mix is cool colored. Not blue, not grey, just cool. Full of heart and feeling, but still sad and expecting.
Quality tunes though, both serious classics and some current classics in the making.
Take Dave Angel’s “Endless Motions”. Released in 1993, and full of everything that shows how important the British music scene was in pushing Techno farther and in different directions that America was going.
Jeff Samuel’s “Off the Mark” is stunner, showing off his talent for combining movement with heart. Listen and listen again. The synth work by itself is incredible, bringing that kind of emotion with something so superficially confining like Techno is work best left to the masters. The innovators. The Jeff’s.
Gregor Tresher has been catching my attention recently, taking a playful approach the the minimal and electro sound, while keeping it dance floor friendly. “A Thousand Nights” is melancholy, sexy, girls like it and clubbers love it. Chin scratchers hate it.
Orbital comes correct with “Fahrenheit 3d3″ Giving techno and acid a distinctively British lean. One of my favorite Orbital songs. 1992, yo. Seriously.
Leftfield’s “Swords” brings the whole thing down. Deep, dark and something I slept on till a few weeks ago. Not perfect, me.
Today is the first day of summer. I am sitting in the studio in my sweat shorts, and polo, with long black socks on, all the shades drawn, door locked and not taking any phone calls. Why? Should I be cycling around the lake, or slumming on some beach somewhere looking at this years fresh crop of “adults”? Perhaps sneaking a steak on the unused “vegetarian” grill at a house party some where?
No. Not when there is good work to be done in this world.
Soul Music. Funk Music. Deep Blues. This is music made for both big feelin’s and feelin’ big. No room lackluster. No room for anything but letting it all out, no matter if you have a tissue handy or not.
All you do is pick a hand-full of JAMS, set your levels and go. Some days it is just that easy. Today was that day.
This mix clocks in around 30 minutes. 8 assertive, rockin’ out party tracks. I was thinking about the Flammable show last week, and when putting away my records I grabbed a couple I played and a couple more and jammed out for a bit. Does anybody play this fast either? I never play this fast, but jeesh, It just came out at me.
I played a little dark at rebar, and my feeling was I played a little too dark, but like Brian says “play how your feeling”. The relationship is over, I am trying to sort out a new home, my finances, my music ect. I played how I felt, and this mix continues with that feeling.
I am going to try something new too. Instead of putting out the tracklisting with the podcast, I will wait a week. My pea is thinking that less people listen if they know what to expect. I am guilty of that too. There is also the fact that some people will not listen unless they know what to expect. Guilty x2.
Maybe it all comes out in the wash.
The track listing has arrived.
1. Ian Pooley – Revelations – Definitive
2. Head Nodding Society – Nudge Up – Classic
3. Ooze – Down Up -Work
4. Josh Wink – You are the One – Nervous
5. Ian Pooley – Allnighter – NRK
6. Underground Resistance -HardLife Aaron Carl Remix – UR
7. Steve “Silk” Hurley – The Word is Love – Kelly G Dub – Silktone
8. Swag – Version 06 – Version
Do not pass go, nor collect a buckfitty.
Man, I have been slacking on putting this up for a while. I did this a few months ago for a show on My House -Your House radio
This mix is pretty rowdy. Dropping “Love will make it right” over the “Play that music” is one of those mixes I got attached to right off. I never had the balls to play it live, as it took a fairly quick mix to get out and I was always one of those “hold it till you pee” mixers. It took some control to only put two Ian Pooley mixes in this, I almost had 4 on it, but I narrowed them out. The final track, by Dj Drazil is a Seattle born classic from head to toe. Produced by the Jacob Londons, (You can find their version floating around too if you look) this track came out on the Eat House imprint of Carlos Miguel. I am releasing a few of Drazil’s track soon. He will be the second release on TKFL, and has both a couple classics and some incredible new tracks ready for release.
Spring is here! This is my contribution to this years sound track. Play it in your car on your way to your mom’s. Listen to it with your windows open while you are cleaning your apartment. Barbecue food to it.
There are limitless ways you can listen to this mix. Its up to you!
This is a nice mix for Fly Fishing on the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie. It made the sting of not catching anything easier to bear.
Intro: Call Letters
1. Undisputed Truth – Space Machine
2. Derrick Carter – Do My Thing
3. Rasoul – Loves Theme
4. Men From The Nile – Watch Them Come (Jazzanova mix)
5. BNO (I’m not sure what the song is, but I will dig it back out later.)
6. Mat Anderson – Theft Prone
7. Rasoul – You Feel That, You Feel Them Beats?
8. Eddie Richards – Feel So
9. Kimbu Kimra – Raise the Dead – (Love from San Francisco)
10. Matthew Herbet – Leave Me Now.
11. Phurry Phreaks – Want Me Like Water (Edit) Backed with Mat Anderson – Great Life (Outro)
12. Manon – Unwirklich
13. Two banks of Four – Skylines Over Rooftops
14. Adam And Eve – Its a Universal Thing.
15. Undisputed Truth – ?
16. M.F.S.B. – My Mood.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
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