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After two mixes I still had a lot of unused new beat/new wave tracks lying around, so there was no. 3.This time the mix slowly moves from new beat to early house and techno tracks and back to hard beat and new wave.This mix represents what you would hear on a typical Saturday night in Belgian clubs, somewhere between 1988 and 1989.1. Breakdown – Carol (classic electro/new beat track by

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I finally had some time to record another mix featuring some recent and older classics.Enjoy.Tracklist:I cling - DeetronDingly Panther (Voorn remix) - JimpsterEnfants (Luciano edit) - VillalobosDanke - StimmingPreacherman acapella - Green VelvetK-Maze - Radio SlaveOblivion - Chateau FlightStagger - Julien JabreThis is Acid - Maurice JoshuaHierbas - Paul WoolfordDiscoroute (Deetron remix) -

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An old mix I did featuring some classic d&b tracks.Mixed live and recorded on mini-disc in 2002.Tracklist:Mungo's Hifi - IngKrust - Poison (V)Busta Rhymes - Wooha (accapella)Roni Size - Dayz (V)D Kay & Epsilon feat. Stamina MC - Barcelona (BC Recordings)? (Soul:R)Kosheen - Hide U (MOKSHA)MIST vs Marky & XRS - Sunshine (Soul:R)Un-Cut - Midnite (Marcus Intalex remix) (M Records)

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It has been circulating on the net for a couple of weeks, but the first white labels of the Soulwax remix of the Chemicals anthem start popping up! Normally it should be released as the b-side to Midnight Madness (a future classic?).Their Rolling Stones remix was a bit too tame, according to me. Maybe the fact that a record company attaché was constantly looking over their shoulder had something

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Today I got a white label copy of the new Sei Es Drum (Ricardo Villalobos' label!) release. It features two Luciano re-edits which are AWESOME!First up is his re-edit of Villalobos' Enfants track, which combines the chants and the beats to devastating effect. (There's also an olin-refix circulating on the internet!)Track two is Nana Vasconcelos' Brazil turned into a minimal tech-house cracker.

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By 1999, the technohype of the mid 90's had died out in Belgium. I distinctly remember parties boasting a "NO TECHNO"-slogan on their flyers. Maybe they had a point: techno had slowly evolved into a sturdy minimalism. The start of it all had been Richie Hawtin's Concept series in 1996. Every month, a new 12" was released with two tracks that were made up of little more than beats and clicks. And

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In 1996, after having released three other trance & hardcore mixes under the DJ Connection flag, the NEWS label released Belgian DJ Pierre's first mix cd. Pierre has been the resident DJ at Fuse, Brussels' famous technoclub, since 1994. I still remember the first time I heard Pierre play at one of the first I Love Techno-parties at Vooruit in Ghent in '95. In the middle of his set he dropped the

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I first heard this track on a Bailey mixtape like about a year before it was released. I kept bugging the record shop assistants for this one, but they didn't know what it was either.When it was finally released on the mighty Metalheadz imprint, interest was quite low because it was a melodic tune and didn't fit the hardcore Renegade Hardware/Hardleaders sound of the day. It was selected by the

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A song which seems to have been forgotten over the years is Acid Rock by Rhythm Device (Frank Dewulf). It was a revolutionary record because it introduced a harder rock sound in dance music. Basically, you can compare it to what the Chemical Brothers did a decade ago and what Soulwax are doing now.Frank Dewulf - one of Soulwax's heroes by the way - released a string of classic tracks under the

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This is another mix on a new beat/new wave tip. It starts of with Snowy Red's Euroshima, another classic new wave/new beat crossover, and a number of electro classics like The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight & Man Parrish's Hip Hop Don't Stop, takes in some later new beat classics like Space 3000 (an early R&S release) and 808 State's mindblowing Cubik, some modern electro sounds like Soulwax's

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Over the years many past eras have been rediscovered. At the beginning of the nineties, it were the fifties and the sixties which were rediscovered (does anyone remember the Tour of Duty series - "5 dollars fuckie fuckie - me love you long time" - and CD compilations?), then disco and the eighties came back and now it's the nineties. I could live with bringing disco back from the dead, and the

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A couple of years ago, Gilles Peterson started one of his Worldwide shows (the one with Bugz in the Attic) with a strange and quirky electronic tune called Check my machines, which he took from the b-side of the Paul McCartney's Waterfalls single. Flashforward to a couple of weeks ago, when I listened to a recording of the show. I immediately started searching for a single and by accident I found

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In 1997-1998, I started to get a new interest in house music. A couple of years before, I had discovered the Music Man shop in Ghent, and had lost my heart to Detroit techno. I still remember the excitement when buying those first Carl Craig & Derrick May 12 inches. Even though they had been released years before, they still sounded like the future. And gradually I lost interest in house. Until

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TracklistGee - Beach BoysI put a spell on you - Nina SimoneGive me your love - Curtis MayfieldWalk on by - Isaac Hayes2 Wicky - HooverphonicLes professionels / All I need - AirTsunami / Back to live (acapella) - Sven Van Hees/Soul II SoulThink Twice - Detroit ExperimentRose Rouge - St GermainUgh - Mr ScruffBird's Lament - MoondogBreaking away (Koop remix) - Shaun EscofferySycamore Trees - Jimmy

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Some time ago, I was raving about the first split double 12" of Low Motion Disco on Belgian imprint Eskimo. A couple of weeks ago, the dreamy Things are gonna get easier was released and now their debut album Keep it slow is finally up for grabs. Whenever a group has released two amazing singles, chances are big that you're gonna be disappointed when the full album finally drops. But even after

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Now and then you come across a song that you wished would go on forever. For me, this song by Sylvester is one of them, even though it's almost ten minutes long. Normally these songs are heavily edited on artist compilations, but thank god the one responsible for the Star compilation put it on there in all it's 9 minute and 23 second-glory.I first heard it on François K's Choice compilation (

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2002. Broken beat was starting to gain momentum as Afronaught, Bugz in the Attic & 4Hero were turning out killer remixes and tunes, but the remix of the year as far as I'm concerned was Quantic's epic hiphop-afrobeat-broken beat mix. The track start as jazzy hiphop with Vanessa Freeman's sweet vocals on top, but halfway through it changes into this banging afrobeat work-out which in its turn

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Clan of Xymox were a Dutch darkwave group, which had its origins in Xymox, an eighties synthpop band. They left their mark on the Belgian and Dutch new wave scene with A Day, released in '85. Years later, it was selected for the influential Club Class-X new wave compilation on Antler Records.The original lasts over 9 minutes but is in its full length a bit too melodramatic for my taste. Which is

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I came across this track today on a million-selling seventies pop album which I'm not going to name. Actually I was looking for one of the hits on it, but this one immediately caught my attention with its moving disco strings over a funky & jacking beat. The only thing I didn't like were the verses, so I re-edited the whole lot, expanded the great parts and voila: this re-edit was born.

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The first in this series of songs which somehow got lost in the sands of time is Urban Dance Squad's 3 Heights. The Squad was a Dutch crossover band who tried to blend in rap, rock, funk, punk, grunge and world music. Much like Rage Against the Machine would do a couple of years down the street.Their first hit was A deeper shade of soul, which featured a sample of Ray Baretto's song by the same

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Eskimo is planning to release a Best of compilation of Allez Allez, a Belgian funky new wave band. Two years ago they already re-released African Queen (b/w a killer Quiet Village remix) and Allez Allez, which was remixed by the ever excellent Lindstrom.Today I picked up a new pair of remixes. Allez Allez is remixed into a balearic house tune by rising stars Aeroplane (do check out their 3

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At least once a year I re-read Last night a DJ saved my life, Frank Broughton and Bill Webster's excellent history of DJ'ing and dance music. At the end of the book they listed some all-time classics in the most remarkable clubs around the world. In Coldcut's list you'll find Jhelisa's Friendly Pressure acapella "mixed over pretty much anything". On their own quintessential Journeys by DJ's-cd (

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This is a mix I did about two years ago during the summer holidays. I was reminiscing about times when I was much younger, so that's probably the reason why it features quite a number of "classics".1. Intro2. I had a dream - Axelle Red (not really a fan of hers, but this tune stuck with me because of the piano riff)3. Get Right (instr.) - Jennifer Lopez (this track is built around an amazing sped

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One tune has been bugging me ever since I got a copy of the excellent FabricLive36, compiled by DFA-honcho James Murphy and Pat Mahoney. (If you haven't got this amazing New York postdiscohousefunk work-out, buy it now! Every track is a killer.)The tune I was refering to is Daniel Wang's Like a dream (I can't stop dreaming). What a bomb!!! A campy vocal hook combined with samples taken from an

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Eskimo has just released Love Love Love by Low Motion Disco, a split double 12 inch containing remixes by L.S.B., Aeroplane and DFA signing Still Going. Even though I try to track down all releases on this great Belgian label, the debut album of Low Motion Disco somehow never caught my attention. I still haven't got my hands on a copy, but judging by this track it should be a killer!The original

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