Sunday Sessions
Enough about metal already, I’ve been listening to plenty of techno, house and disco while writing about the screamy stuff. I’ve decided I really need to start mixing again in earnest and thus don’t feel too bad inflicting my practice sessions on you dear reader.
Check the mix here.
Sebastian Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
Kelley Polar - Rosenband
Cobblestone Jazz - PDB
Elektrochemie - Pleasure Seeker
Rodion - Electric Soca (Crookers Remix)
Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts - My Main Man (Flying Filter Edit)
Michal Ho - Take Me Away (Jay Haze remix)
Tuff Jam - Need Good Love (Todd Edwards Dub)
Busy Face - Which Saint
October - Homosapiens
Age of Love - Age of Love (New Age Mix)
Bodycode - Body to Body
Jamie Anderson - Time Is Now (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Mix)
Lega - Nutmeg
Luke Hess - Motor Dub
Patchwerk Man - Transensual
PWOG - Ensnared
Aphex Twin - Moss
I realize that for those of you in the know this might raise a few eyebrows. Yes, I know I’ve gone from mixing dubstep and minimal techno to mixing, well, some strange combination of deep house, electro and dub influenced minimal and early trance. Yes, that is the Age of Love, as in one of the first trance tracks proper. And that is Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia in the tracklisting towards the end there, the original trippy (I refuse to say psy) trance artists vaguely affiliated with Psychick TV.
I think minimal has done a lot to get me to listen to early trance with an interested and not entirely hostile ear. And I don’t think that the big mainstream trance was necessarily the endpoint of a lot of that stuff, in fact you can mix a lot of it with Villalobos or Luciano without really clashing aesthetics. I really wish that Coil could have stuck with making track based music, or that they could have influenced some of the Belgian scene way back in the early 90s.
Alas it got too big, too mainstream, too fucking gay (even for me). Now it has a pernicious influence on drum and bass and very little mainstream credibility for all but the bravest DJs. Obviously people like Booka Shade and Stephan Bodzin have flirted with returning to their trancey roots, and there is the whole neo-trance thing with stuff like Minilogue but its not enough. In my experience drones and drums are entrancing, not arpeggiated synth riffs. So for me the Villalobos Shackleton remix is more trancey than anything with a huge arpeggiated saw synth lead.
Minimal is a chance to prove this, people like Bruno Pronsato, or his collaboration in Half Hawai have made deep techno and house influenced music that is in my opinion entrancing.
And the Tuff Jam track is there because I still love UK Garage, and more DJs need to. Melchior is the only minimal artist with a definite UKG influence and in my opinion its not enough. Some of the stuff he released earlier in the decade was fucking stellar. Especially the Lets Go Deep EP, minimal techno with cut up vocals a la Todd Edwards = A++ by me.
I owe Jacob a major thanks for turning me on to that one, as well as lending me his excellent Busy Face tracks. And thanks is due as always to the mighty Gutta aka Patchwerk Man for his awesome new tracks.
Finally a disclaimer, like a lot of my mixes this privileges track selection and time over perfect mixing. If you can’t stand listening to a novice mix in Traktor, with all the problems there of, or a little line noise here and there, don’t waste your time. This has got a lot of my sweat and blood in it, it only makes sense its coming to you half raw.
