Shoehorning so many styles into a show requires some creative mixing
at times, and at others you just have to bite the bullet and forget any
notion of matching beats or keys. This episode starts out
conventionally enough with a few representative house tracks, but once
the audience is warmed up we just go all over the place - dirty breaks,
electro-trance, demonic-techno, euphoric-trance, elevator-chill
music, experimental-storytelling.... That's one of the great things
abotu dance music is that there are so many new genres being creates
all the time, either in the studio or on paper. I mean there's the
music journalists, there's at least 2 kinds of them - one group still
has their brain in the mainstream and still uses the term 'electronica'
- nobody that actually listens
to dance music uses this term, at least without sarcasm. Then there's
the real members of the scene who like to create genres and write
articles about them, look at 'Electroclash', in early 2002 some people
were calling it 'Synthcore', while others were more descriptive,
although frequently geographicaly innacurate, with 'Wierd Ass German
Shit'. Personally I liked the last version, since it raised a smile,
and lets face it, the whole scene was very up front about not being
taken seriously. I'm sure there's some glory to be attributed to the
individual who came up with the name of some modern classification,
just like the way the WareHouse
and Paradise Garage are held in
some reverence by historians of the scene.
I could write a book on the whole genre, sub-genre, micro-genre,
nano-genre culture that exists, but it would never be complete, new
genres are created all the time, some springing from inspired moments
in recording studios (Swing time Jungle anyone?), and others coming
from looming publishing deadlines. Doesn't really matter in the end,
I'm only going to play what's good, well unless it's Drum n Bass, in
which case you can hear that on jungleZone,
unless of course it's swing time Drum n Bass - then I'll claim that
back for myself.
So this weeks guest mix isn't really a guest mix, since the forces
of fortune managed to conspire against my scheduled guests, instead I
tasked some guy called DJ S&M to come up with a themed mix that
would be enjoyed by everyone.... Well excpet those that really don't
like trance.
So, on with the show. Stay Funky People.
Scott Manley
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| Bassbin Twins | ESW | Marine Parade | |
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This is the intro track we play
at the start of every show. Slammin Beats!
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| Coloursound |
Fly With Me |
City Rockers |
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This was the best records from
last year, it appealed to a lot of people, with it's simple production,
funky bassline, and fantastic sing-along vocals. This record is so good
I considered singing along with the intro, count yourselves lucky I
chose not not.
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| DJ Rasoul | Oh Baby (Red Jerry Mix) |
Hooj Choons |
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I played the breakbeat version
last week, this week is the house mix on the B-Side. At this rate I
might even get round to playing the original deep house mix. I just
love the rolling syth bleeps, it makes it feel like a Sunset party in
Golden Gate Park.
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| Gus Gus |
David |
Underwater |
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| This Icelandic house creation is a dead on hit, not sure where the
title comes from, but those beats and synth chords definately come from the dancefloor and go straight
to the motor centres in your brain. |
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| Nu-Breed
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Midi-Killa |
Boom Box |
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Australia's Nu-Breed have been compared to Hybrid by many people,
while they lack the symphonic breadth, they dfinately mix well with the tough breakbeats and deep basslines.
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| Ira
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Dariush |
Nukleuz |
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Electro-Trance or Punk-Techno? I've no idea what this record really falls under except that it just kicks ass, it's definately a lot less serious or precise than techno, and the shouty vocal (which I can't understand) just gives it bucketloads of energy.
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| Dave Clarke |
The Wolf
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Skint |
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Techno Predator, from Dave Clarke who's on the same record label as Fatboy Slim,
Dave is the best counterargument to anyone who ever claims techno is boring. Either as a DJ or a producer he rocks
any joint. Can't wait for his album.
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| Tillmann Urmacher |
On The Run
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Direction Records |
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One of the Few really good Trance records from 2002, managing to avoid fall
nicely between pop trance and hard-trance. Just the right amount of euphoria for any party.
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| Chris Coco |
Falling |
Distinctive Breaks |
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Chill Out with members of rock band Bush? Chris Coco recruited Gavin Rossdale
and Sacha Puttnam to provide some vocals and keyboards on his album of proper chill out material. 'The Next Wave'
features more guest stars than a robert altman movie, singers, musicians and even author Iain Banks all contribute
to make a great album.
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| Earl Zinger | The Story Of The Heaviest Bassline In The World | K7 | |
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Basslines can be scarey.... Earl Zinger manages to produce a modern jazz
album which has an amazing sense of homour, especially if you're a DJ - He is the official commedian of clubland.
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| Joey Beltram | Energy Flash | R&S |
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Thundering monotonic bassline over wibbling 303 sounds, this record is timeless,
even a decade on from it's original release it gets everyone going. Maybe not *the* heaviest bassline in the world,
but about as close as I can get without endangering the audience.
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| The Chemical Brothers | Come With Us (Fatboy Slim Mix)
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Freestyle Dust |
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Chems vs Fatboy - it's like the big-beat boutique again, I wasn't a huge fan
of the original mix of this track, but this cranked the speed up and thickened the production. The rest of the
album is pretty good too, I'm a big fan of the Beth Orton track 'The State We're In' and the way it effortlessly
mixes into the following house track.
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| Junior Cartier | Women Beat Their Men (Ashley Beedle Mix) | Nu-Camp | |
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DJ S&M Theme Tune - but more from him later. Jon Carter is like
a younger, better looking, version of Fatboy Slim - at least when he's DJ'ing, playing proper groovy house
music and avoiding anything described as 'Deep'.
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| Plump DJ's | Plumpy Chunks | Finger Lickin' |
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I wanna F, F, U, F, U, N,K! Plump DJ's just rock the party, this is one
of their older records, it's definatley got a housier feel to it, but even breakbeat fans love it.
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| Drummatic Twins | Miss you | Finger Lickin' | |
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Finger Lickin' Good eh...Drummatic Twins are on the same label as the Plumps,
they've actually put together a full length album of breaks and dirty house music, look out for Drummatical if you
get a chance.
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| DJ B-Side | Light Sabre (Hedrock Valley Beats Mix) | Backroom Records |
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DJ B-Side lives in San Diego, I think I owe him an apology because I only play
a short chunk of this, maybe I'll try and get him to do a mix for the show and you can appreciate just how the
California breakbeat scene spreads across the whole state.
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| Andrea Doria | Bucci Bag | Southern Fried | |
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Southern Fried is Norman Cook's Record Label, and
pretty much every track released on it gets played by the man. This record was apparently around for a while and
it's just been discovered and played out by all the big names. I *am* ready to *rock*!
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