― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 March 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link
It is pretty diverse though. "Chica Wrappa [Mejor Edit]" is like a collaboration between DJ T and Sasha & Digweed; "Recess" is the most rhythmically unusual schaffel track since the T. Raumschmiere mix of "Ich Weiss Warum", and almost as good; "6am" is a stringswept, guitar-tingling epic (almost balearic if it wasn't so sad), only with shivering fractured beats that Luciano would be proud of... it's all so brilliant!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Not got that mix yet, I got the more trashy electroey one, I may check that too though.
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 6 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Possibly, I've not made myself too familiar with the stuff, happy to avoid "prog" house for the most part... :-)
― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 20 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
I think you'll like it, it gets a lot housier than the first mix (although it doesn't quite match the first's dark thrills). This is the tracklisting:
01 Alex Smoke - Solitude - Soma02 Trentemoller - Physical Fraction - Audiomatique03 Lucien-N-Luciano & Pier Bucci - Stone Age - Cadenza04 John Spring - Strange - Sub Static05 Style of Eye - Back to Basic - Classic06 Error Error - Music, Music, Music - Einmusik07 Dirty Minds - Death of Brian - Eskimo08 Andre Krami feat. Shad Privat - Safari (Alex Smoke Tink Mix) - Crosstownrebels09 Spirit Catcher - Voo Doo Knight - Moodmusic10 Blondie - Fascination (The Idiots Mix) - White Label11 Unknown - Manga 03 - Manga12 Princess Superstar - Do It Like A Robot (Danny Howells Mix) - White Label13 Buick Project - Chancer - Saved14 Spirit Catcher - Street Hawk - Moodmusic15 Trentmoller - Rykketid - Audiomatique16 Andre Krami feat. Shad Privat - Safari (Pier Bucci Mix) - Crosstownrebels17 Misc. - Ballet - Sender18 Dole & Kom - Fast Lane - Death by Disco19 Trentmoller - Beta Boy - Out of Orbit20 Green Velvet - La La Land (Carganoid) - White Label21 Timo Maas - Feedback Welcome - Warner22 Mike Monday - Ca$h (Dub) - Freerange23 KC Flightt vs Funky Junction - Voices (Tom Middleton Cosmos Vocal) - Hooj
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 20 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
at least this track "ok" does
btw Alex Smoke is playign Leeds with Funk D'void in April i think so look out fo0r him playing elsewhere
― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
14 Spirit Catcher - Street Hawk - Moodmusic09 Spirit Catcher - Voo Doo Knight - Moodmusic
love this 12 too.
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 24 March 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Not as late as me. This album finally clicked for me this evening. It's great.
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Monday, 27 June 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Monday, 27 June 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 27 June 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I wasn't expecting that much from him; the records I've heard have been a little on the energy-sapping side, ahter than the energy releasing. Good when done well (superpitcher) but can drag a bit if the DJ doesn't give you some release.
But there was none of that nonsense. Some deeper stuff, but mostly maximal music for dancing. Respect too for Lee and Mark who kept the temperature up all night. Will check out the LP methinks.
― andy foopfoop (foopfoop), Monday, 27 June 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 10 September 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I think when I look back on electro-house in 2005 it's gonna be that particular intersection of psychedelic minimal stuff (Smoke, Trentemoller, Dominik Eulberg, Luciano, Cosmic Sandwich...) that really stands out as being somehow very representative and very dominant, sort of hegemonically rearranging everything else around it.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 11 September 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Sunday, 11 September 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dare (Dare), Sunday, 11 September 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Sunday, 11 September 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 11 September 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 11 September 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Envoy - Move On (Alex Smoke Dub)2. Golden Red - Tumble3. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden Mix)4. Luciano - Stone Age6. Yoshimoto - Do What You Do (Trentemoller Mix)7. Dinky - Acid In My Fridge8. Le Dust Sucker - Mean Boy (Dominik Eulberg Mix)9. Andre Kraml - Safari (Kiki & Silversurfer Mix)10. Alex Smoke - Neds11. Trentemoller - Polar Shift12. Triola - Leuchttern (Wighnomy's Polar Zipper Remix)13. M.I.A. - Sweet November14. Andre Kraml - Safari (Alex Smoke Mix)15. Dub Kult - On And On (Guido Scheider's On And On Remix)16. Steve Barnes - Cosmic Sandwich (Dominik Eulberg Mix)17. Andre Kraml - Safari (James Holden Remix)18. Trentemoller - Physical Fraction19. Luciano - Bomberos20. Nathan Fake - Dinamo (Dominik Eulberg Mix)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 11 September 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam in Edgware (nordicskilla), Sunday, 11 September 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 11 September 2005 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam in Edgware (nordicskilla), Sunday, 11 September 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― nocure, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
"paradolia"
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
One older thing he did which hasn't got a mention is his remix of Funk D'void 'Way Up High', his dub of that is excellent, very clicky and lots of wooshy echoes, but it's driving and funky at the same time, I play it a lot still.
― Bn1 (Bn1), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 26 January 2006 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
(I even tried the "imagine this was released on Kompakt" trick...that didn't work either :)
― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
'prima materia' is astounding.
i'm interviewing mr smoke when he comes to play in london. anything anyone wants asked?
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Again this should be right up my alley, sort of minimal detailed techno with hefty nods towards Detroit. Maybe it's just too derivative, for instance 'Persona' is pure Aphex Twin circa SAW 85-92 but airless.
― Omar (Omar), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Not heard anything since "Paradolia" but his name has just come up in conversation ... What have I missed?
― djh, Monday, 23 May 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Man I had forgotten how hard Alex went in on "Neds" and "You're A Bit Rough".
― Tim F, Monday, 23 May 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link