New Beat mix 3

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 Snowy Red; the remake by Kate B was more trancy but also very popular in the new beat scene. This version is still my favourite.)
2. Welcome to paradise – Front 242 (another classic; b-side to all-time favourite Headhunter - remember the Anton Corbijn video?)
3. Ibiza – Amnesia (still loved by many dj's like The Glimmers and Optimo Espacio; includes the famous piano tune from Halloween)
4. Even now – L&O (another classic one from the legendary Target Records label; the melody of the song is based on The Residents' Diskomo)
5. Can you feel it accapella – Mr Fingers (I still remember when I was the first time I heard this.. Do you?)
6. Baby wants to ride – Jamie Principle (I first heard the Neon and B-Art remakes, but this original version is still second to none)
7. Can you feel it (vocal version) – Mr Fingers (cf. 5)
8. Break 4 Love – Raze (I loved this one from the first time I heard it. For a long time I didn't even know what it was. Sidney Youngblood used the beats on If only I could)
9. I wanna give you devotion - Nomad (British house; very moody - an anthem)
10. White horse – Laid Back (all-time classic)
11. Erotic City – Prince & the Revolution (another one; b-side to Let's go crazy)
12. Going back to my roots (edit) – FPI Project (I was to the original version and then this vocal version dropped; a Louie Vega favourite)
13. Big Fun (Magic Juan 12” mix) – Inner City (melodic techno anthem)
14. Just let go (dub) – Petra & Co (and then the Belgians started to duplicate that sound; the dub version still rocks today)
15. Techno Time – The Maxx (cf. 14)
16. Just as long as I got you – 101 (a cover of the Looney Tunes version of this disco classic)
17. Los niños del parque - Liaisons Dangereuses (EBM classic)
18. Acid Queen – Major Problem (hard beat - i.e. new beat with a harder edge and porn samples - classic)
19. Acid Sex - Nasty Thoughts (cf. 18)
20. Acid in the house – Miss Nicky Trax (major acid new beat classic; bloody brilliant)
21. Business man (re-edit) – Logo (somewhat forgotten moody new wave track; finally got my hands on the 12" last year - thank you discogs!)
22. Elle & Moi – Max Berlin (brooding new wave classic)

Mix November 2008

I finally had some time to record another mix featuring some recent and older classics.

Enjoy.



Tracklist:

I cling - Deetron
Dingly Panther (Voorn remix) - Jimpster
Enfants (Luciano edit) - Villalobos
Danke - Stimming
Preacherman acapella - Green Velvet
K-Maze - Radio Slave
Oblivion - Chateau Flight
Stagger - Julien Jabre
This is Acid - Maurice Joshua
Hierbas - Paul Woolford
Discoroute (Deetron remix) - Legowelt
Getting Late (Luciano remix) - ?
Struggle of my people (Mr G remix) - Mike Grant
Moving like a train (Smith & Hack remix) - Herbert
Trompetta - SIS
I'll House you (Dope dub) - Jungle Bros.
I'll house you (K. Dope remix) - Jungle Bros.
Body Language - MANDY vs Booka SHade
From disco to disco - Whirlpool Productions
Slussen (Erot goes dub remix) - The Persuader

Mix 2 - In the jungle (2002)

An old mix I did featuring some classic d&b tracks.

Mixed live and recorded on mini-disc in 2002.



Tracklist:

Mungo's Hifi - Ing
Krust - 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)

Future classic #2: Hey Boy, Hey Girl (Soulwax remix) - Chemical Brothers

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 to do with that. Anyway, this remix is a true return to form. As always, all the good ingredients of the original are cut up, re-edited and sprinkled over those trademark Soulwax beats. It's so good, the original might disappear for a long time.

PS If you get the chance, do check out Part of the weekend never dies. What a trip!

Future classic #1: Enfants (Luciano edit) - Villalobos

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. Minimal, deep and warm: a seldom seen combination.

If you're into this, also check Luciano's mindblowing Fabric mix.

Classic Mix #2: Moving House Live at FOOD by DJ Geoffroy

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 eventhough Hawtin seemed to pull off this stunt somehow, it also made sure the world was flooded with boring minimal tracks.

The perfect antidote was the house music scène which had found a new breath outside of America. New producers like Bugz in the Attic, Phil Asher, Isolee, Fred Everything and the amazing Erot were releasing tracks which blew away the American competition.

In Belgium, these new house tracks were played at the Food Club by Geoffroy, a DJ who has always had an impeccable taste for new music. All of his Moving House copmpilations were excellent, but the Live at Food mix really blew me away. It starts off with Isolee's quirky all-time classic Beau Mot Plage, which is followed by a still unreleased Bugz in the Attic track (Stop), classics by Chez Damier, Swirl People, Phuture Retro and Erot (especially his mixes have stood the test of time). The mixing is impeccable and beautiful. Geoffroy manages to layer tracks in such a way that they seem to have been made for each other.

PS Geoffroy is now also a producer. Check his output under his Mugwump monniker. Especially Boutade on Ewan pearson's Misericord label is fucking awesome. Also check his Hi-Phen label and the Suicide label which he runs for NEWS.

Classic Mix #1: DJ Connection mixed by DJ Pierre

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 beatless Carl Craig remix of Dave Angel's Airborne, which made the place go bazerk.

Over the years, Pierre's mix for DJ Connection turned out to be a timeless piece of art. It all starts of with a mesmerising Bandulu track (Phaze In-version; a track I looked for for years) and slowly sucks you deeper and deeper into a trancelike state with true classics like Compass's Gliding, Wishmountain's (= Herbert) bizarre yet obsessing Radio, Octave One's Empower, the future funk of Juan Atkins' remix of Beltram's Instant and Man Made's (= The Advent) techno anthem Spacewreck. The cherry on the pie to is the last track, Green Velvet's I'm losing my mind, a track which was first released on the Flash remixes double ep. The track became so popular that it got a new title (The Stalker)and a seperate re-release on the Belgian Yeti-label.

Twelve years after my first listen to this cd, I still play it regularly because of its slow but seamless mixing and its excellent tracklist. A true classic!

For more info: http://www.discogs.com/release/78748

PS Compass's Gliding can be found on the Cabinet Records compilation on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 records. Essential stuff!