The Ivan Smagghe thread

I've not seen him, I like some Black Strobe, search their remixes of Ghosttrack by Tiefschwarz, Number One by Playgroup, and maybe their own tracks Fitting Together and Innerstrings too. I like Me and Madonna but alot of other ILXers didn't.

That mix really is wicked, I've been checking out alot of that Get Physical Music stuff after loving that Chelonis R Jones track Blackout so much.

Ronan, I dunno if Hard! is bugged out or not - got it on slsk.

I got the sampler for the Bugged Out cd, and it's great, I've got high hopes for the mix now.

But he plays exactly what the dance scene has been missing for the last couple of years, to my mind.

The trouble with the influence of electroclash was that there were all these great tracks coming out that were full of energy and excitement, but that you couldn't actually dance to, and that were missing that kind of strange, surprising twists that raise dancefloors to another level. It was all "here it is" laying the theme of the track right out on a plate for you.

But Smagghe's selections are so genius. Stuff like the Scratch Massive track on the Bugged Out mix, and the Digital Tongue remix on "How to kill" have that fucked-up head-bending sound that makes you want to be on drugs and going nuts in a way that (I personally) haven't heard in a while.

OTM.

I just want him to release three more mixes this year...

Last year we got "Hard!", "Death Disco" and "How to kill the DJ"

I won't be satisfied with less than 4 cds this year.

And if this is goth, pass me the eyeliner!

i recently bought "suck my deck" and it's quite good/punishing/sleazy. the "dead eyes opened" remix makes me very happy

Wasn't Death Disco from this year?

While we are on the subject, I recently downloaded this mix that was labeled as being compiled by Mr Smagghe. Can anyone confirm this? It's not as electro/sleazy as his current mixes, but still pretty good.

Ivan is HOTTTTTT!!!!!!!!

i heard kill the dj 2 for the first time this morning. it's awesome. fave moment on first listen was when the nww track comes in (i hadn't looked at the tracklisting so wasn't expecting it).

sacem, the french music facists are refusing to release the manufactured copies for some unfathomable reason. the french do love their bureaucracy. so much so that they gave us the freaking word!

how the fuck did you hear it? i don't even have a copy of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And as has been observed, listening to it makes you want to DO DRUGS. Which can be a good thing.

2cb is... Kind of indescribable.

I am not sure the tracks are there, re Par-T-One! Which I admit is a shame, though perhaps by circumstance I am forced to go to too many clever nights to hear the good big stuff like that.

Is that new Benny Benassi mix any good then? I gave up on Subliminal ages ago. I agree that Simon R's enthusiasm for this stuff is odd, at the same time, without denigrating the quality of individual singles over the last 2 years, in 02 or 03 were there really any mixes as good as the Smagghe ones?

I mean not microhouse ones? Waves II perhaps? 2manydjs?

I'm not so sure, yet at the same time, crucially, perhaps the quality of his mixes is indicative of a lack of quality in the singles arena, ie he's good at picking the best stuff, in a time when there are no obvious choices, obvious choices of course homogenise all the mixes a bit, like in 2002. Not so much last year I guess.

i'm afraid it's err on slsk. there's only one guy sharing it though, and it took me a week to get it off him (and don't worry, i moved it out of my share folder immediately, so it's probably still almost impossible to get).

to be fair though, strongo, you could lob this kind of accusation at many critics and ilm does this kind of thing all the time (basement jaxx, dizzee...) i'm not saying that it's necessarily bad, i think it's more like a fact of life.

yeah, exactly. i'd say the "waves i" and "waves ii" mixes, the gus gus dj mix and the david guetta dj mix are all at least as good. then there's the kompakt juggernaut, the fabric mixes from lu cont and bent and mayer, villalobos' taka taka mix and so on.

i'd rather see smagghe concentrate on his production, his tracks are easily the best on those discs.

Actually, listening to it one more time will allow me to better articulate (beyond a "no likey" opinion) what I feel it lacks.

Maybe it's too polished? Too perfect? Insufficiently challenging-slash-rewarding? Like I said, I'll get back to all y'all on this one.

Luciano people!

you going to glastonbury twitch?

stirmonster, are you playing in Tokyo tomorrow night? I hope I can make it down (we came last time at Cay and chatted a bit afterwards) Yellow is maybe the best venue in Tokyo so it should be fun. Also, my friend Mel Bruce is warming up for you!

anyway, i can't wait to come back again - tokyo is possibly my favourite city in the world. hopefully we are going to do a japan only mix cd later this year so should be back around november.

I finally chose not to see Smagghe because I'm not so into the gothy Black Strobe EBM vibe, but it turns out he doesn't DJ this style by himself. Foiled! My girlfriend will see him, Isolee and Craig Richards at Fabric in late July and will report back.

I'm glad you like Tokyo! and what's this about line dancing???

He's just done the latest resident advisor podcast.

They are always worth a listen, Ivan's looks good, not DLed it yet.

http://afewthingsfromivansmagghe.blogspot.com/

a super limited compilation with his last edits is out now

He's playing an eight-hour set in Farringdon on Saturday. How are his sets these days? I remember seeing him around 2004-ish and he was awesome, proper big-room stuff at the techier end of electrohouse. A couple of years later he'd gone minimal in a fairly hamfisted way and was just playing fairly lumpen tech-house.

Does anyone know the vocal track that starts very early in this mix, from about 2m20s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45FVC06e_gg

I already googled the lyrics and it doesn't show any results.