after tinashe it's
Ben Mono - Bonanza Break
then the last section is
Apexape & Chris Lorenzo - Got To Give (Heavier Mix) (vs Fly Bi)Motez - Own Up (AC Slater Remix)[?? q instrumental]Jook 10 - The BeginningExample - One More Day (Shadow Child Remix)Drop Lamond ft Ruby Wood - Feeling High
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah listening to this one now and loving it, not heard 'That's Not Me' outside of its natural habitat until now I can't believe people don't just whack it over the top of everything.
Also I was dancing in some far flung tent in the early hours of Monday morning at Glastonbury when Redlight dropped Q's remix of Tinashe and my head nearly exploded with joy.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
smile every time when that remix nicks "make you wanna holla q!" from schoolboy namesake
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
yes!
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/donaeo/tinashe-2-on-donaeo-cover
btw i know it should only really have been a minor amusement but donaeo's montell jordanish 2 on cover has totally supplanted the og in my summerjam rotation
btw 2, all i was saying that about vocals is why 'lassie' is the most agent cut on ineffable - agree with the idea that it should have been another 'me and my bitch' but discarda (forever lame) didn't cotton on in the end sadly
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's the vibiness of the way the tunes literally talk to each other.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
there's moments like this in every set but i recently stuck the february one on again and literally just ended up spending an entire spellbound commute rewinding over and over and over the bit where ruffneck stylo g and ballerina kiesza's worlds intertwine.... ~UR JUST A FEELING~
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Not a Q mix but this sorta thing always reminds me of your description of the bit in Tropical 2 where the Preditah tune is suddenly seized by anxiety as it witnesses the unstoppable eruption of Royal T's "Cool Down".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah the tropicals are the absolute best/worst for that malarkey
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
anyway!
ESSENTIAL GARAGE - 16th June 2014http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/15560952/file.html
All About She - Remedy - Disturbing LondonCJ Reign - Believe ft Anatea - Two Step Vybe Dubb - DPR RecordingsTinashe - 2 On - DJ Q Remix - White LabelShadow Child - Steak Fingers - Food MusicSparks & Kie - Fly Bi - Accapella - EastWestLana Del Rey - West Coast - MK Remix - PolydorStikky Lips & Chris Lorenzo - Naughty Good Girl - CuffOlivia Louise - Cocaine - DJ Q Remix - Q RecordingsDJ Haus - Lez Get 2getha - Hot Haus RecordsDavidian - What I Want ft Tiffani Juno - Original - KitsuneApexape & Chris Lorenzo - Listen Up - SpeakerboxxJustice - DVNO - Sunshine Brothers Remix - Ed Banger RecordsChris Gresswell & The Alliance - In Here - White LabelWonderlush - Swag - Wideboys Summer Garage Mix - World Wide PhonographicsFlava D - Her Loves Me - White LabelSecond City & Tyler Rowe - I Enter - DirtybirdTS7 - Give Me A Sign ft Yaz Nicks - Dub MixChampion - Execution - Nest HQMumdance - Take Time ft Novelist - RinseMak & Pasteman - Electro Funk Massacre - Lobster BoyTazer - Wet Dollars - Donaeo Remix - Recess RecordingsTony H - Deep Down - 42tf RecordingsShift K3y vs Teedra Moses - Touch Your Girl - DJ Q Mash Up - White LabelJunior Jack - Thrill Me - GotSome Ruff & Rugged Remix - [PIAS] RecordingsRough Copy - Street Love - DJ Q Dub Remix - Simco LimitedHybrid Theory & Jamie George - Only You - Four 40 RecordsDJ Q - Madness - White LabelPVC - You Smoke - Q RecordingsColours - What You Do ft Eska - 10 Below Remix - Ice Cream RecordsK Stewart - Tell Me Bout That - 37 Adventures
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
had originally intended to rerecord that (hence the delay) but 1/ cba and 2/ in retrospect i decided to preserve the forgetful moment that i contrived to install drivers more or less in tune and in time with 'wet dollars'. selec le lec tah!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/dj-q-live-at-motion
― toby, Thursday, 10 July 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
let's see if the dl works
― r|t|c, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
...no. does if u inspect element yourself though
― r|t|c, Thursday, 10 July 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
yep, same with all those rbma shows. sadly they've moved to 128kbps though (used to be 320).
― toby, Thursday, 10 July 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
Champion - Execution - Nest HQMumdance - Take Time ft Novelist - RinseMak & Pasteman - Electro Funk Massacre - Lobster BoyTazer - Wet Dollars - Donaeo Remix - Recess Recordings
this section is so sick
― r|t|c, Friday, 11 July 2014 06:44 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/dj-q-live-at-the-harley-in-sheffield-19-july-14-1
― toby, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 05:02 (ten years ago) link
new Trumpet and Badman EP is a KILLER
― online hardman, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 11:13 (ten years ago) link
The moment in the Sheffield set when Q drops "Gotta Get Thru This" is such a vibe ting.
― Tim F, Friday, 8 August 2014 09:02 (ten years ago) link
http://f.cl.ly/items/1e421q003Q420q144729/ClouDrop%2015%20Aug%202014%2019%3A02%3A44%2015%20Aug%202014%2019%3A02%3A45.png
/ end communication
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Is there a missing 'J' in that logo?
― The Reverend, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
no we are disqualified from listening again sorry
― r|t|c, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
Fuck.
― The Reverend, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
i dunno what it is! as a consequence of me telling q about this thread he occasionally sends me things he wants to tell us about - like this graphic - and i'm sorry if it comes off as street-teamy. but he says deets are forthcoming.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 August 2014 12:33 (ten years ago) link
da quietus
― Hogan's Bluff (wins), Saturday, 16 August 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
never stop street teaming for DJ Q.
― Tim F, Saturday, 16 August 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
this week's essential garage is a banger. features a monstrous insectoid thorax and an inspired dash of the reelists 'freak mode'
won't be putting it up til its unavailable to stream but i trust u will all rise above mediocre ilx-poster-ass indolence
― r|t|c, Saturday, 16 August 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, the new one is a blast - here's a link for the casual crew
https://www.ministryofsound.com/radio/shows/dj-q
― Mind Taker, Sunday, 17 August 2014 10:17 (ten years ago) link
that mysterious jpg tracer posted refers to this new collab with the also-excellent flava d (who i'm beginning to discover)
https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-flava-d-ps-loc018
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
that sbtv mix:
http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/89508614/file.html
― dbs, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
think i missed this one! thanks
(in fact i know i did because sparks & kie vs ten walls is something u generally remember in life)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
and now theres this´http://www.mixcloud.com/Outlook_Festival/outlook-mix-series-20-dj-q/
― Benny B, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
ahhh that looks hella good. shame i have zero time
c&a preditah collabo what what
he even brought back booda 'no more calls' from the 1xtra days. q if ur reading this plz release that on ur label u known u want to okthxbye
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
zero time - tell me about it. managed to make time for the new essential garage though. amazing.
the preditah/c&a thing is a free download btw http://monkiandfriends.redbullstudios.com/
― Benny B, Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
amazing mix here -
https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/dj-q-live-paris-social-club-paris-france-23rd-august-2014
i feel like it's a summation and refinement of his 2014 mixes so far - "baay-beh", fly-bi, etc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:45 (ten years ago) link
or maybe i just like it cause it's super accessible, relatively speaking
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
in comparison to?
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
his previous club mixes; this feels like a "greatest hits" in a way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah i wasn't asking in a pointy accusatory way, guess i'm just interested in hearing to what extent the mos sets may be daunting to perhaps the more life-balanced non-acolyte shall we say
it's clearly v understandable why any garage dj would approach live sets in this way (especially so abroad) and of course q does do it in a particularly switched-on way; however behind the freewheeling party fun i do sometimes wonder whether and how far ukg still has to make excuses for itself by taking frequent recourse in emollient nostalgia... and even though garage is pervasive in so many ways now how the particular association in itself may be something that many recoil from (much like how kids today want to grow up being seen as any and everything but an r&b singer despite demonstrable evidence to the contrary)
obv i'm not trying to hop in the nerd wahhmbulance here with the "keep it ardkore" siren blaring feebly but idk it's kinda hard not to discern a slight subconscious implication that the radio sets are too experimental or estranging to fly irl when really they already do so much to make all the hard weird crazy edges of ukg's ecologies as fun as inconceivably possible, without having to pop monsta boy acappellas over the top or whatever (haha this reads like shots fired at dj ez now)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
isn't it just the difference in radio sets vs live sets, the former pretty much always for the hedz and your producer wanting as many "exclusives" as possible to sell the show with?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
I love both modes. Esp. in a live setting the sheer thrill of hearing some of the old 2-step tunes - esp. less obvious ones - is massive. On the flipside there's a certain taut plastic-covered muscularity to the new productions Q draws for that makes his radio sets really deeply satisfying to me in a way that a more golden oldies set might not in anything other than a live set (though it's complicated here by the thrill of Q's mixing and bootlegging, which really comes to the fore live).
Partly this is because grooves like "Testosterone Deficiency" or (in a different way) PVC's "You Know My Man" don't feel like they could have existed three years ago. But even less obviously contemporary stuff like the CJ Reign remix of "Jack" has a - what is it - a toughness that feels now even though objectively we're just talking bass driven 2-step circa 2001.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
yeah i think i've probably misarticulated here... really the difference is the live sets are like a dizzying quickfire hopscotch from old celebrated bits in/to/thru new riddims (v noticeable how v much more the chris lorenzo catalogue features in these btw), in-yer-face style ukg evangelism, whereas the radio sets take advantage of a freer licence to draw the listener along someplace and deliver abrupt switches or weave over extra layers etc
trace is also right in saying it's something of a time-old dj situation in any genre smaller than the omni-categories (ie i'm not saying him playing an old bit is like a house dj having to play frankie knuckles every set) (wrt radio production tho in this particular instance i'd be v surprised if mos' input extended beyond "send us a mix once a month and we'll bang some idents on it cheers"). and of course it's better to be aware of and willing to please your punters than not!
still tho i would argue that the radio sets are functionally dance music first and foremost, whether hi-concept or not, so idk it does just seem something of a shame that it should demand adaptation in the wild (however skilled and judicious that may be)
(heh i'd also say there's probably an additional vague overarching thing informing this circumlocution which is just generally internally wondering how impressive or distinctive q mos sets actually do come across to the non-kvlt who quite reasonably arent interested in the ecologies and microdialectics etc)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
i mean to put it another way it's really as simple as silently freaking out on the bus to (for instance) the randomer/mella dee drops in the latest set and thinking "fuckkkkk i wish i was there!!" and then that there kinda being a mirage really
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
in this particular instance i'd be v surprised if mos' input extended beyond "send us a mix once a month and we'll bang some idents on it cheers"
hah yes i'm sure you're right about that. but i think there's an expectation that mixes for the radio are going to make a statement of some kind, set out a stall, be "promo", have a certain proportion of new choons, show the way in some regard
lol at your last post, this is so very true
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
comes back to what i mentioned earlier - the thing is i'm actually not so certain that that expectation is there for most manifestations of ukg, not in the active, agent way it generally is of other stuff. pr's will always liberally throw around words like freshest etc but i mean beyond that... ukg i think holds a place in the public consciousness somewhere in between fond nostalgia and a vague awareness that its lifeforce is still extant and maybe particularly influential lately - but really when you start talking of edgy new this n that it generally immediately becomes basshouse etc. i mean take q out of the equation and who do u really got making the same case, what does the world look like then? so this is really why i wonder if there's an constant subliminal element of deferential persuasion involved in the more referential live sets beyond just keeping the party bubbling with crowdpleasing hits
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
the randomer/mella dee drops in the latest set and thinking "fuckkkkk i wish i was there!!" and then that there kinda being a mirage really
― r|t|c, miércoles 27 de agosto de 2014 20:53 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aah these are the awesome slo-mo pitchshifting jungle bits right? had been kinda trying to imagine for while how breakbeats could be used in a garage context, without it just being yer standard "breakbeat garage" (in the 138 trek sense) but when these dropped unexpectedly they surpassed my fantasies. never even rated mella dee or randomer that highly before, and i suspect they wouldn´t have/won´t hit me in the same way if i´d just heard them on soundcloud or whatever. anyway, need to listen to this set again asap
haven´t listened yet but a free classified ep has just dropped too :)http://2tuf4u.bandcamp.com/album/completely-classified-e-p-vol-1
― Benny B, Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
ok, listened again and realise i probably got a bit carried away with the break thing there. still, no one can say Q isn´t pushing back the boundaries of what garage can be by selecting tracks like these.
the classified ep is straight tropical/todd edwards aceness as you´d expect
― Benny B, Sunday, 31 August 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
*breakbeat thing
― Benny B, Sunday, 31 August 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah def ... never liked mista men at all, and altho i've heard q make good use of randomer stuff before i'd never have touched anything on l.i.e.s with a bargepole (good sublol at what sounds like the "white sickness, white sickness" vox sample in gt turbo)
the fact q can pull off these moves while keeping them in close loyalist vicinity to todd edwards bits most sets is obv another example of what makes him so singular
― r|t|c, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/cicadamusic/cicada-feat-fleur-around-and
on the subj of breakbeats i still wanna hear someone play this!
― r|t|c, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link