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!

Buried Treasure #8 - Sci-Clone - Everywhere I go (remix)

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 mighty Kemistry (RIP) and Storm for their DJ Kicks mix.
In many ways, this tune outlast most of the fodder which was released back then. And I can still listen to it every day.

Buried treasure #7 - Acid Rock - Rhythm Device (re-edit)

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 B-Sides monniker for Music Man way back in the days.

Anyway, if you go looking for this record, there are two versions: the original in a yellow sleeve and the remix in a red sleeve. Both are equally good, although I prefer the breakbeat in the remix version. I used both versions to come up with my own re-edit.

Flashback #2: Another new beat mix

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 Lovelight remix and the Subs, to end with Maurice Fulton's The Fly. Enjoy...



Tracklist

Euroshima - Snowy Red (ESSENTIAL!)
The Dominatrix sleeps tonight - The Dominatrix (edit) (New York no wave CLASSIC!)
Coitus Interruptus - Fad Gadget (CLASSIC!)
Enjoy the Silence (12" mix - edit) - Depeche Mode (CLASSIC!)
Fade to grey - Visage (CLASSIC!)
Hip Hop Don't Stop - Man Parrish (CLASSIC!)
Pump up the volume - MARRS (one of the first house hits across the globe)
Space 3000 - The Project (an early R&S release by label boss Renaat Vandepaepeliere and CJ Bolland)
Join in the Chant (edit) - Nitzer Ebb (recently remixed by Blackstrobe, but the original still rocks the hardest)
Your only friend - Phortune (haunting chicago house by DJ Pierre)
Love can't turn around (Boys Noize acapella)
TV Treated - Neon Judgement (a couple of years ago Eskimo released two of the Judgement's seminal hits, backed by remixes)
Cubik (original) - 808 State (together with Frank Dewulf's Acid Rock it introduced a harder rock sound in dance music; later on they rereleased a disappointing remix, so everyone was searching for the gold sleeved Extended Pleasure of Dance EP)
Zdarlight (Paranoid Asteroid mix) - Digitalism
Kiss my trance - The Subs (one of my favourite electro groups at the moment; it's kitschy but it works)
Lovelight (Soulwax remix) - Robbie Williams (another classic Soulwax remix)
Cactus Rhythm (edit) - Plexus (a killer tune; I've probably listened to this one a zillion times when I was a teenager)
Flat Beat - Mr Oizo (simple but still effective after all these years)
The Fly - Syclops (originally released on Tirk, but now rereleased on the DFA label - amazing)

Flashback #1: A New Beat Mix

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 re-release of eighties classics like Prince's Sign of the Times album or the first Pixies albums, but there's no bloody excuse for bringing back Eurotrash like 2 Fabiola or Dr Alban, is there.
Anyway... One of the musical styles which didn't get its second moment in the spotlight, is New Beat. One of the reasons why New Beat wasn't taken seriously, was the fact that it was a movement which was quickly polluted with commercial bullshit. It was a hype for a year or two and so everyone tried to make a buck. While the original form was being exploited, the real underground producer were already experimenting with new sounds (acid, house & techno) and new beat would give birth to hardbeat (Complete KAOS label), acid new beat (KAOS label) and Belgian techno (R&S label).
It is said that first experiences determine the rest of your life. My first experience of going to a club was in 1988, the beginning of the New Beat era. It blew my mind and it would last till my first I love techno parties (at Vooruit in Ghent) before I would experience something like it.
Going out in the eighties didn't mean you would only hear new beat records. It originated from new wave and so many new wave records were still played out alongside the records which were hot of the press. To get a trancelike effect, many new wave tracks were slowed down to -8 or played at 33 rpm +8. The best example of this is Boytronic's Bryllyant, which was re-released in this slower version.
This first New Beat mix is what I remember was played at those clubs. It was fun looking for these records and blowing the dust off their surface. I hope you enjoy this mix too.



Tracklist

1. Introduction - Erotic Dissidents (taken from their LP; it features soundbites from a BBC documentary on new beat)
2. Death Disco - Arbeid Adelt (a Belgian new wave classic, recently re-released with mixes by the Glimmers and Todd Terje)
3. Move your ass - Erotic Dissidents (the first new beat hit which is largely inspired by Yello's Bostich)
4. Witness the change - Pete Shelley (a new wave classic picked up by the Glimmers for one of their compilations)
5. Where are you? - 16 Bit (German track which perfectly fits the new beat profile)
6. LS Beat - La Strada (many new beat tracks were recorded by DJ's for their clubs and so they got the name of the club)
7. [sample] Voices inside my head - The Police (revamped to devastating effect by KC Flight)
8. Fatal Error - Fatal Error (this track really blew me away! I used to wait and wait untill the dj played it; a 2 Many DJ's favourite)
9. The Drop Deal - Bazz (another early new beat classic; they had a flying dj booth in the club and they would wait for this record to activate it)
10. Give yourself to me - Farley Keith (American house record which was covered by L&O (Even now remix))
11. Rock to the Beat - 101 (a Kevin Saunderson classic revamped for Belgian dancefloors; there's also an alternative version by Hi-Hat which is less well-known but equally good)
12. Fantasy - Pleasure Zone (another early house classic which tore up dancefloors)
13. Acid Story - Dr Phibes (one of the best new beat tracks according to me, amazing!)
14. The Future (Mark Moore remix) - Prince (this remix was regularly mixed up with the Dr Phibes track)
15. I sit on acid - Lords of Acid (this classic illustrates new beat(s decadent side; check out Acid Queen if you're into that)
16. I do anything you want - Executive Board (Boccacio classic!)
17. Cheebala - Ghentlon (a transitional track between new beat and techno)
18. Aciieed - D-Mob (an English acid track which is still deeply funky)
19. Even now - L&O (another classic which stood the test of time)
20. My heart the Beat - D-Shake (Dutch track sampling Love Song by the Simple Minds)
21. Love Song - Simple Minds (big new wave tune, and better than Don't you according to me)
22. Flesh - A Split Second (new wave track that was a real new beat anthem!)
23. Alright (Prisencolinensinainciusol) - B-Art (another classic which was actually a remake of an amazing track by Adriano Celentano; check the clip on youtube)
24. Stop Bajon (Primavera) - Tulio De Piscopo (another Italian classic which was often played at the end of parties)
25. Rainbows (instrumental) - Jade 4 U (a beautiful track by the beautiful Jade 4 U)

Buried treasure #6 - McCartney II (LP) - Paul McCartney

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 out that the song is also featured on the remastered full cd.

I received the cd a couple of days ago, and I just can't stop listening to the best tracks on it. Half of the tracks are typical McCartney songs, but the tracks in which he goes all experimental are bloody amazing. The bizarre Temporary Secretary you might already know from the remix the mighty RadioSlave did some years ago. But even better are the new wavish Darkroom, the quirky funk of Check my machines and the trippy Secret Friend.

I couldn't help but mess around with the tracks and these are the results.

Buried treasure #4+5: ADTDC - DJ Q/Glasgow Jazz (Derrick Carter remix)

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 Filter Records released DJ Q's We are one EP, which featured a Carl Craig remix. This C2 remix was the reason why I picked it up without even listening to it. And when I came home I was blown away by it and the original version. I picked up all other DJ Q releases on Filter and Glasgow Underground during the next years.
The amazing thing about these tracks is that they still sound as fresh as ever. We are one is still an anthem, obviously, but lately I've been playing out Derrick Carter's remix of Glasgow Jazz (Delirious EP, Filter 031) a lot. It has this typical minimalistic Carter groove that is just so enormously funky and very atmospheric keys.
And today, I stumbled across DJ Q's excellent Twentyfour7even LP (Filter, 2000). For some reason it had ended up in the wrong spot in my collection. I put it on the turntables and ADTDC (A dedication to Derrick Carter) really stood out: a simple yet funky groove and those typical Carter horns on top of them (remember Theme from Blue Cucaracha?). Excellent stuff.

Chill it! mix

Tracklist

Gee - Beach Boys
I put a spell on you - Nina Simone
Give me your love - Curtis Mayfield
Walk on by - Isaac Hayes
2 Wicky - Hooverphonic
Les professionels / All I need - Air
Tsunami / Back to live (acapella) - Sven Van Hees/Soul II Soul
Think Twice - Detroit Experiment
Rose Rouge - St Germain
Ugh - Mr Scruff
Bird's Lament - Moondog
Breaking away (Koop remix) - Shaun Escoffery
Sycamore Trees - Jimmy Scott & Angelo Badalamenti
In Dreams - Roy Orbison

Keep it slow - Low Motion Disco

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 just 1 listen, I can guarantee you: disappoint you or bore you, this album will not. Okay, you could call it balearic but this album proves that's not necessarily a negative thing. Whereas most eerie and slow paced music tends to lose you as a listener after a couple of minutes (remember those ambient doodlings of the nineties?), this album keeps you interested at all times. What's even more, the slower the songs, the more they grab you with the (proverbial) balls. Listen to The low murderer is out at night and you'll know what I'm talking about: hard yet slow drums, a spooky atmosphere and something that sounds like a Neil Young sample (my guess is Down by the river). Totally amazing song!

The fact that those good people at Eskimo have included a cd (with extra tracks!) together with the vinyl version, makes this a must buy.

PS Check their Myspace on www.myspace.com/lowmotiondisco and their own blog on http://lowmotiondisco.wordpress.com/ (featuring some mixes and other stuff). Essential!

Buried treasure #3 - Over & Over (12" version) - Sylvester

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 (well-worth every penny if you can still find it) for Azuli. It immediately blew my mind with it's sweeping violins and this incredible break that builds and builds untill it explodes.

Only recently, I made the effort to have a look at the credits and found out it were Ashord & Simpson who penned this marvellous tune, which probably explains why it has such a moving melody.

I think I own at least three copies by now. For some reason I always have to buy a copy whenever I see it.

Buried treasure #2 - The brightness of these days (Quantic remix) - KJM

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 slowly morphs into a broken beat pandemonium. A brilliant track and an excellent tool to shift from laidback grooves to dance mayhem.


For more info on Quantic's projects, surf to
http://www.quantic.org/index.php

A day (re-edit) - Clan of Xymox

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 a shame, because some parts are really excellent. So, I cut up the track, left all the mellow bits and this is what I came up with.

Jacking on the disco floor (re-edit)

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.

Buried treasure #1: 3 heights - UDS

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 name. They released 7 cd's, including a best of released 2 years ago.
I only own their first (Mental Floss for the World) and third (Persona Non Grata, a more grungy and less funky affair) cd's, and 3 Heights is nowhere to be found on them (or on any other cd if I'm not mistaken). The song was a bonus track on their Bureaucrat Of Flaccostreet cd-single, but got a second life on the 110 Below: No Sleeve Notes Required compilation on the New Electronica label. 110 Below was a series of dub/ambient compilations in the '90s. All three of them are well-worth collecting, especially number 2 (A Trip to the cHip sHop), which contains the Carl Craig classic If Mojo was AM.
Anyway, UDS's 3 Heights is one of the stand-out tracks on the third compilation. Here's a snippet

Allez Allez (Aeroplane & optimo remix)

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 releases on Eskimo, as well as their beautiful remix of a Das Pop song on Prestel), while She's stirring up gets a funky punk (or punky funk?) treatment by JD Twitch and Dave Clark (no e!). Their Optimo (espacio) drum attack mix focuses on the drums which turns the track into a fierce work-out that send the dancefloor straight into a sweaty bliss.
Needless to say both remixes are excellent, but the Optimo remix is the winner for me.

Jhelisa vs. Photek

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 (re-released a couple years ago by popular demand) you'll find an excellent example of what they meant. The MLO-remix of DJ Food's Dark Blood is topped with Jhelisa's amazing voice to devastating effect.
When I was browsing through my collection a couple days ago I accidentally picked out Photek's all-time classic Into the 90's on his Natural Born Killa EP (on Metalheadz, recently repressed!) together with Jhelisa's Friendly Pressure. A couple of minutes later, the mix-up was finished.

Sigismundo Session 1 - mix 24

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. Intro
2. 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 up horn sample taken from Maceo & The Macks' Soul Power '74)
3. Keep on movin' (acapella) - Soul II Soul (all-time classic!)
4. Get Right - Jennifer Lopez
5. Rock your body - Justin Timberlake (definitely not a fan of his, but who could keep from dancing when you hear a Neptunes beat?)
6. Good stuff - Kelis (sexy vocals and Neptunes beats)
7. Justify my love - Madonna (maybe the queen of pop's finest hour: sighs and moans, Public Enemy beats and horny synths)
8. Ring ring - De La Soul (unfortunately they are almost forgotten about nowadays, but these guys were one of the first rap acts that really blew my mind - remember three feet high and rising?)
9. Walk this way - Run DMC & Aerosmith (another all-time classic)
10. King Kong Five - Mano Negra (a huge hit at parties when it was released; a perfect crossover between rock and dance)
11. Work (acapella) - Masters at Work
11. I'm a man (edit) - Spencer Davis Group (one of the best rock groups of the sixties)
12. Assembly Line (break) - The Commodores
13. Get up - Vernon Burch (wait till the break and you'll go "Aaaahh")
14. Groove is in the heart (Meeting of the Minds mix) - Deee-Lite (unforgetable quirkiness)
15. Killer - Adamski (classic)
16. 1999 - Prince (classic, just like 90% of the other things he ever did)
17. Pump up the Jam - Technotronic (Belgian commercial take on the technosound)
18. Around the world - Daft Punk (the beginning of the return of the early electronic sound)
18. Smooth Criminal (acapella) - M.J.
19. Gipsy Woman - Crystal Waters
20. Ring my bell - Anita Ward
21. People hold on (acapella) - Lisa Stansfield & Coldcut
22. Wish I didn't miss you - Angie Stone
23. Don't stop - Michael Jackson (off the classic Off the Wall album)
23. Finally (acapella) - Ce Ce Peniston
24. Forevermore (full version) - Moloko (dramatic bassline and sexy vocals by Roisin)

Like some dream - Daniel Wang

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 obscure disco track, it looks like a recipe for disaster but it turns out to be a small miracle. Somewhere it keeps remembering me of early Moodymann classics like I can't kick this feeling when it hits.

I had the hardest time tracking the song down. The original came out on Wang's Balihu Records in 1993 and is sold for up to €90/£60 on the internet today. Even though I don't mind spending a lot of money on records, I didn't buy it immediately. I thought I would slowly forget about it.

But when Gilles Peterson played it on his Worldwide show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/gillespeterson/) on the 8th of May, I really knwe I had to own it. By pure luck I found the Best of Balihu Records compilation (I was a disco malcontent) on amazon.com for a mere $20. I didn't wait any longer, ordered the cd at the beginning of the week and today it was in the mail. What an amazing collection, especially when you consider it was released in '98 which is eons ago in dance music. A true classic!

Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love (2x12")

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 version of Love Love Love is a balearic comedown tune which would fit in perfectly in a Prins Thomas or Lindstrom set. The track immediately stuck in my mind, but only after a while I realized why: the track samples Rene & Angela's "I love you more", a funky eighties soul balad and François K favourite (check his Choice-selection on Azuli).

The remix I like playing out most at the moment is the Still Going version, even though all of them are excellent. (They really are!)

For more info: check http://www.discogs.com/ or their myspace http://www.myspace.com/lowmotiondisco

Spinnin' - Bernard Wright

I recently bought the latest installment of Defected's In the House series. Over the years I picked up a number of them, including the one from Masters at Work, Dimitri from Paris and Jazzy Jeff. All good solid house compilations, often well-mixed.
And Gilles Peterson's comp is an absolute winner too. There's not a mediocre track insight, and the mixing is swell too. But even with the quality being this high, one track still stood out for me: Bernard Wright's Spinnin' of his Nard-album.
Once in a while you come across tracks that you really need to have. No matter what. So I logged into Amazon and ordered an import copy. A couple of days later the cd was in the mail. I slipped it into the cd-player and quickly found out that Gilles had used a heavily re-edited version of the song. A re-edit which was nowhere to be found.
So there was only one thing I could do: try to make my own re-edit. And here it is. I hope you enjoy it.

How to start?

Instead of going on about myself endlessly, I just posted a mix of Brazilianesque music I created a couple of months ago. Hope it inspires the sun to show itself a little bit more.