2007 rolling dj mix thread

from 06 i am looking forward to finally hearing this and this lawrence mix is a sneaky, excellently paced, non-astrigent groover.

i also think the modernist's collector series mix is a perfect update and improvement on erlend oye's dj kicks. i particularly like the blend-edit style of the mixing and the tracklist is pop-techno nirvana. stuff like "protest song" should've been talked about more.

isn't there an optimo mix slated for release early in 07?

this one looks pretty interesting in an minimelodic ableton cut-and-stitch kind of way.

sorry, i didn't like "incommunicado" very much. =( will try again =(

yup "walkabout" looks like a must-have as usual.

Yeah Vahid I felt slightly vindicated by the presence of "Groove La Chord" on Body Language 3 (although I haven't heard the mix yet).

2006s most fun minimalrave mix was Monika Kruse On The Road Vol. 4 btw; this is what Sound Of The Seventh Season should have sounded like

how about miss kittin's "bugged out" mix???

slam's "nightdrive"?? the first disc (minimal) sorta lame bandwagony but on the second disc (techno+electro) they fucking bring the fucking bangin bangingfest.

vahid you should def check out smoke's 'prima materia' - he completely abandons all moodiness in favour of big OTT orchestral hands-in-air anthem.

i dislike that freeform five mix...not as bad as the cut copy fabric one but it leans too far in that direction for my liking.

i don't buy the dry accusation against mr. smoke. that first album has lots of bouncy melodic fx-laden hooks.

the only one of those cocoon season comps i like is the fifth season.

vahid was praising the henrik schwartz DJ Kicks on the nu-beardo thread, and i have to agree. its fucking excellent. after putting it on i was like "please, please, don't get too jazzzzy for christ sakes" but the jazzy spots worked really well. one of my favorites from last year. i'm eyeing the vinyl companion and am thinking about getting it. i'm really happy they put the moondog intro and the womack and womack on it.

those Harvey bootleggers just wont let up.

the Wilkes mix does look good.

what's a good 2006 mix for someone who's a recovering techno-phobe and is now techno-curious?

xpost, i saw all of those harvey mixes on the HMV site and did a double-take!

that "sonic disco #3" mix is actually harvey's MAD DOG CHRONICLES promotional mix for FRESHJIVE from like three years ago .... >:-(

i will upload it shortly so that nobody actually buys that shit off king biscuit ...

no need to upload it, vahid. lovefingers has it here.

Or is it just that I'm more aware of the whole process now?

and yet the specificity includes songs which overlap across mixes which at first seems strange, but really isn't and is kinda appealing in a rhizomatic way. i think i just liked tim's sentence there.

i am not surprised by the number of designer brand mix cds. there are definitely more than there were, say, 10-15 years ago, but back then there were also mix tapes, actual cassettes you know, and my local danceteria had a lot of shelf space dedicated specifically to those; i would say they probably had 40-60 at least at any given time. so now the mixtape has grown up and we have the whole "long tail" phenomenon to describe it. that said, i have noticed that in 2006 there have definitely been more commerically released mixes and the shelves seem a bit bloated. who has the time for all of that media? and how much of it is actually top tier/worth the time in the first place?

fabric/fabriclive maybe, but their quality control is so TERRIBLE and their dj selections so ... random, really. fabric reminds me more of Ministry of Sound! the club is making so much damn money that they can pump out comps w/o much rhyme or reason ...

not just you, tim, but also the label people who are putting these comps out know are more aware of how the process works too!!

speaking of luke slater's look, he looks like he's turning into karl lagerfeld!!

Junior Byron-Dance to the Music
Dominatrix-The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
Electric Mind-Can We Go
Queen Samantha-Take a Chance
Connie Case-Get Down
Rockers Revenge-Walking on Sunshine
Digital Emotion-Get Up, Do You Want to Funk
Charlie-Spacer Woman
Thanya-Freedom
New Order-Sub-Culture (John Robie remix)
Freeez- I.O.U.
Klein & M.B.O.-Dirty Talk
Scotch-Penguin's Invasion
M+G-When I Let You Down
Shiver-Never Coming Back
The Men-I Don't Depend on You
Yaz-Situation
Jamie Principle-Bad Boy(the Movie)
Mark Imperial-J'Adore Danser
Maurice-This is Acid (A New Dance Craze) S&T Mix
808 State-Pacific 202
A Guy Called Gerald-Voodoo Ray(Rham on Acid mix)
A Number of Names-Sharivari
Kelley Polar-In Time
Gino Soccio-Remember
Lime-On the Grid
La Bionda-Wanna Be Your Lover
Amanda Lear-Follow Me
Tantra-Hills of Katmandu
Sylvester-Stars
Man Parrish-Heatstroke
Human League-Open Your Heart
Tin Tin-Kiss Me
B.B. Band-All Night Long (Extended remix)
The Lift Boys-Liftvooyzzzz
Jamie Principle-Your Love

Totally! It's as if particular songs (e.g. for 2006 the Henrik Schwarz mix of "Walk A Mile In My Shoes") are like skeleton keys for multiple aesthetics.

"fabric/fabriclive maybe, but their quality control is so TERRIBLE and their dj selections so ... random, really. fabric reminds me more of Ministry of Sound! the club is making so much damn money that they can pump out comps w/o much rhyme or reason"

Yeah this is why I didn't include Fabric - it's definitely in that MoS overarching institution vein.

I guess Tricky answered my question here. One of the things that precipitated my comments upthread was listening again to one of my favourite house mixes, Lil Louis' Vega's entry in the United DJs of America series put out by DMC. Great mix, but everything about it - the style, the selections, the packaging - is so, um, solid and unpretentious, it really is only one step up from a mix-tape. But then I was thinking even the lavish expensive mixes of the same period (the Renaissance mixes most obviously) there was definitely this sense of a very strong but straightforward shared aesthetic identity - the packaging and the music and the consumers all fitted one another very tightly and obviously.

Now it's like all these mix-cds are vying for the same audience so there are all these micro-differentiations which are in some cases quite arbitrary. I'm particularly interested in the distinction between, say, At The Controls and Bugged Out, which is much less clear-cut than that between DJ Kicks and X-Mix. The idea seems to be that At The Controls is auteur-dance (kind of a millenial update of old Warp compilations) while Bugged Out is rock-crossover-dance (and the in-abeyance Suck My Deck is, I guess, punk-underground-dance)... but the actual mixes don't fall very cleanly into those three categories (e.g. Damian Lazarus is closer to James Holden than he is to Ivan Smagghe). What's important is the concept that the mixes and their chosen DJs are meant to illuminate - the cult of personality which big-picture rock critics think died with the recession of the superclubs but in fact dominates dance music more strongly than ever. I mean, at least with the Global Communications series there was never actually much of a distinct personality attributed to the superstar-djs beyond the rapturous descriptions of hands like quicksilver etc. Whereas now many of the DJs look like they're gearing up for an NME cover story.

The Glimmers's self-titled mix mines kinda similar territory but not as successfully I think, coming across as self-consciously eclectic, perhaps because it doesn't flow very well (I suspect the Glimmers work best when they have a clear idea of a hypothetical genre they are trying to map out, as on Eskimo III or DJ Kicks). The closest thing to it that I can think of is perhaps Optimo's Psyche Out, but that's so perverse and what-the-fuck in its sonic connections that it doesn't have the same populist feel-good easy listening vibe (to be clear, this is not at all a problem for Psyche Out which I think is amazing).

maybe karl lagerfeld is actually turning into luke slater.

BPI (http://www.bpi.co.uk/, click on statistics) does the tallying for the UK, but you can only look at the database if you are a member or pay 250 pounds. (I think there is a similar members-only pact to the Billboard/Soundscan database?)

YEAH!

i found it. it fit my mood perfectly this morning (ill, hungover, broken, unable to cope with being conscious &c &c, on way to work, still dark). the claro intelecto track is awesome, also the quixote one.

HEY PHIL THX FOR djsanonymous.com!!!! INSANE SITE!!!

http://download.yousendit.com/9FBA4125170D6EF9

First some 12" called (or on) Out or something, feat. Claussell on percussion, then Don Carlos, Roy Davis Jr, Laid, Phil Asher, Glenn Underground, Frankie Valentine, Franck Roger (2), Dennis Ferrer, Mr. V, Pastaboys, the Geiger remix of Justus Koehnke & Andreas Dorau, Ron Trent. No fancy schmancies, bit of the old knees-up etc.

goodnessgreatness v2.0 (right click save as)

66:06
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mostly disco-ey stuff.

possible over-zealous use of home-made delay effect.

artwork courtesy MS paint.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/goodnessgreatnessv2.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/backcover.jpg

fix that font though, brother. cleartype for life!

post pictures of garden.

now it's a completely unhinged mess and we gotta replant in two weeks (!!)