Âme / Ame

Coast 2 Coast is in the Head/Zavvi clearout for wallet busting £2.75.
cos of this thread its now on my desk and about to get ripped.
better be good.

ha, let me know! might grab it too if it's still there when i next head into town.

actually, i was wrong it was £2.25 ..
bear in mind this was the bristol shop lex, but if you are interested etc etc ..

I really like the Coast 2 Coast mix, but it takes some time to sneak up on you I think. It's determinedly unhistrionic.

easily best mix cd of 2007 for me. tim, what is unhistrionic?

As in it's relatively laidback throughout, and never ostentatious in presenting its charms - no massive anthems or bangers really, or even "what was that" weird tracks or eclectic/surprising selections.

I guess it kind of peaks with the Carl Craig remix of "Poor People Must Work" and also "Sleepy Hollow", but on their other released mixes those would be build tracks rather than peak tracks.

However it's the best of their released DJ mixes in spite or maybe because of those things: it's just a lovely collection. There's something really gorgeous sounding about pretty much every track here. I adore the Chateau Flight and Buddha Khan tracks, and the Losoul remix of Freaks.

"As in it's relatively laidback throughout, and never ostentatious in presenting its charms - no massive anthems or bangers really, or even "what was that" weird tracks or eclectic/surprising selections."

--well, i don't know about you but i think ct satin's "i found a friend" is massive. this mix introduced it to me.

Oh yeah but that's probably the one mildly ostentatious "hey look at this undiscovered singalong curio from the past" moment. Anyway I'm not criticizing the mix at all!

These guys have been so consistent and excellent for years, I am looking forward very much to this. Their version of Underworld's "Crocodile" is such big fun, "Envisions" is a total anthem and "Ku Kanjani," the single from last year with Amampondo, was heavily under-rated.

Sort of surprised they haven't just up and released the best house album of the 21st century.

which is better, their live PA's or dj sets?

The Ame live PA I saw was outright transplendant. More or less perfect, actually.

Someone, I can't remember who, linked to this four hour set in one of the Todd Terje threads to talk about the mix into "Bizarre Love Triangle" but the rest of it is just as much fun:

http://soundcloud.com/r_co/me-live-club-silo-closing

haha that was me. fucking ecstatic moment. I can imagine myself crying if I had been on the dancefloor.

I don't know why this track doesn't get more love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHsZ7ZOWb3Q

thanks for that link!

Such awesome and consistent producers, I'm really looking forward to this.

Primary Structures aka their FACT mix was great too, I love the way it goes from the Charanjit Singh track into the galloping opera-techno of The Knife's "Seeds". Plus NDF's "Since We Last Met" is the best wispy, frail house track in recent years.

kinda feel they're underrated though