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.
- Intro – Cliff Martinez - Don’t Blow It
- Carl Craig – Technoambient
- Dave Angel – Endless Motions
- Trentemoller – Snowflake
- Mat Anderson – A Heart Like Thera
- Isolee – Beau Mot Plage
- Jeff Samuel – Off The Mark
- Underworld – Beautiful Burnout – Mark Knight Mix
- Gregor Tresher – A Thousand Nights
- Orbital – Fahrenheit 3d3
- Fatboy Slim – Next To Nothing
- Moby – Go
- Leftfield – Swords
- Aphex Twin -Ageisopolis
The video is nothing short of amazing I think. Check it below. Swords, by Leftfield
