Sasha, you have fooled me for the last time

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I swear we all know Sasha sucks ass but he does these gigantic big grandiose things with all his releases that somehow make me think they might be good.

Eg, his Essential Mix from last week, ON ABLETON LIVE, FROM MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, SASHA'S ENTIRELY DIGITAL MIX. So it has a fucking 3 minute intro of "countdown" to Sasha etc, then it opens and has shit breakbeats for most of it, and the rest is fairly inoffensive crap aswell.

And yet again I'll probably eagerly listen to Fundacion expecting to be blown away. How the fuck does this guy get away with it SO many times, he's not even terrible, he's just so fucking average.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I really think the guy has simply lost faith in his ability to pick a good tune or a bad one now, there's just no real confidence in these mixes and his constant live re-editing feels more like a crutch than anything else, at this point it'd be more of an announcement if you heard "Sasha, playing in an old folks home on two kam belt drive decks and a mixer last used in 1956"

At least then you'd know he might have to just play records.

It's like he's now getting into electro as prog begins to come back, you'd think Sasha could do amazing Kompakt style sets but seemingly not. Even Digweed managed a half decent mix for Fabric, surely Fundacion must be better than the Essential Mix!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no......now "lovefood" with a breakbeat.....now I now how those insufferable Beatles fans must feel about the Grey Album.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Blessed?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I'm not quite an insufferable one

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

heh

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I listened to that Essential Mix but yeah nothing really grabbed me. But I'm still loving a mix of his I found from '91, live at Shelleys in Stoke or something.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ive never heard sasha once!

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to hear a couple of his ridiculously overblown late 90s Twilo sets sometime.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

how much does sasha get paid these days?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. Even if he is the highest paid DJ on the planet probably about a quarter of what you pay Franz Ferdinand.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

franz ferdinand haven't seen one red cent of my money.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

of what ONE pays them then!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean the whole "overpaid DJ" meme is kind of a myth really isn't it. DJs aren't actually very expensive as any promoter will tell you!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sasha doesn't 'just play other people's records', he's one of the ones keen to do something more than that for whatever reason and I wonder how much that's down to the stigma re his DJ income i.e. how bothered was he personally by the criticism regarding 'overpayment' of DJs?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

in the day my prog mate would say how cool ver sash was for playing guitar in the dj booth.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Who are the top ten DJs in the world right now?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

1) chris moyles
2) ronan

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

3) Nigel Benn

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Peter Scudamore
5. Lester Piggott
6. Frankie Dettori
7. Ruby Walsh

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You're watchin' cartoons if you think Ruby Walsh beats Ricard Dunwoody.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to love him, some of the Renaisance mixes, GU San Fransico (I think, easy to loose track with Global Underground), Communicate, and then all the melody went out of prog house and it went a bit ... meh (I feel like Geir, but you know what I mean).

I haven't seen him play for years, but if he is making more of an effort - rather than making the crowd wait for the sheer thrill of a hi hat coming in after half an hour of one rhythm - then more power to him.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

In a way it's like all the effort and stuff is taking away from him by now, just so much packaging, you'd want to hear the hyped intro to the Essential Mix, it's like the moon landing.

I've only seen him play once and I didn't inhale. I guess the Fundacion mix that's coming out might be good, it has a good tracklist.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd want to hear the hyped intro to the Essential Mix, it's like the moon landing.

it seemed like such an old-fashioned thing. it's the sort of thing i'd do haha.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

sasha and digweed always felt like the enemy to me

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

you just didn't like the music they played? or what?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

it was the music and the pretentiousness and the 'above-all-that-ness'. the whole superclub thing, plus hippiness.. it was like 1974...

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he's a bit misunderstood. before Muzik magazine lured me totally into big house and all the trimmings in '95 i had had the same dismissive attitude towards Sasha and the like and that stigma that surrounded what was really the genesis of the superstar DJ thing - but this had always been without hearing enough of the music and ethos. i ended up really liking the deep Balearic slant, and some of the hippyish aspects, at the time.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

as ever tho, outside looking in...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

or should that be the other way around?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i never made that journey, actually a part of why i liked unfashionable stuff like big beat was because it explicitly took aim against new york purism a la farley/heller and progginess a la sasha. there are shades of this of course. but the hip-hop element in both big beat and jungle is probably a big part of why i like them more than 90s house.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

some of his old mixes, like the really old ones from shellys are massively rushy, really euphoric and fucking great. however, he then went on that tip where he got rid of everything that was good himself. i rate him but it's solely on past glories.

― stelfox, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

it seemed perfectly acceptable to me to like both big beat and big house/techno/trance in equal measure, along with all the dnb.

Sasha did a few 'big beat' style tunes himself - 2 Phat Cunts 'Ride' (with BT) for example. Bandwagon what?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

He DJed on a boat in Sydney once. Trying to get down on a moving floor is an interesting experience - like a cross between being drunk and being in a bouncy castle.

― moley, Thursday, 2 June 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post per $$$

Franz Ferdinand (for example) is four people with a massive road crew. Sasha is one DJ, with maybe a mate or two helping. If he gets $5-$10,000 per gig, that's a lot of cash compared to the, dunno, $30,000 FF pockets and then must split up. Correct me if I'm way off base, though.

James Murphy (for example) gets $5000 for an hour long set or so, I think. That's a lot of cash.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no way Murphy gets 5000 dollars a set is there? I find that outrageously hard to believe, but maybe I'm wrong.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

whats the legendary story about money for djsets, its...junior vasquez, i think. tokyo, i have a feeling it was nye 1999. $100,000

carl cox must have earned a lot for that night too, to justify airfare to sydney on that particular day!

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair play to them.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

heh i thought this was an sfj thread :(

― swvl (vozick), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Sasha fans vs Sasha Frere-Jones fans

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If it came down to a fight that'd be a bit like Luxembourg vs China...

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(which is which, though?)

― N_RQ, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah they really have to be swapped

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

top paid djs in the world at the moment? or just top djs?

hang on ...

― piscesboy, Thursday, 2 June 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd have to do best DJs by genre belt or something. I don't suppose anyone here loves Tiesto for example, but he's top dog for some kids.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hrm

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 2 June 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, Fundacion is actually really good, the highlight being a really clever mix of "Jah" by Mandy into that Playgroup Electrocash version of "Behind The Wheel" by Depeche Mode, works so well, that lush bassline under the dry trebly "Jah".

Generally it's a good mix too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

God I hate Sasha.

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

01 Badger - Rise Of The Machine
02 Adam Johnson - Four Squares
03 Swayzak - Another Way (Richard Davies Mix)
04 Beanfield - Tides feat. Bajka (C’s Movement #1) (Carl Craig Remix)
05 Kosmas Epsilon - Innocent Thoughts (Stel Remix)
06 Funk Da Void - All That Matters
07 Closer Musik - One, Two, Three (Ewan Pearson Remix)
08 Phonique --99 & A Half featuring Alexander East (I:Cube Remix)
09 Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Last Version)
10 Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Club Mix)
11 M.A.N.D.Y. - Jah
12 Playgroup -Behind The Wheel (DJ-Kicks Electroca$h Mix)
13 Freeform Five - Electromagnetic (Tiefschwarz Dub)
14 Closer Musik - One, Two, Three (Ewan Pearson Remix)
15 Andre Kraml - Safari - (James Holden Remix)
16 Freaky Chakra - Blacklight Fantasy
17 Goldfrapp - Strict Machine (We Are Glitter Mix)
18 M83 - Don't Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix)

So, who has a problem with that set? It's ace as is the usual with Sasha. I've seen him a dozen times and he's provided a great night out every time. You peeps like to suck on M.Mayers cock but he's a shit DJ. He may have a Kompakt white label but he can't mix worth shit. Sasha is the best DJ in the world when it comes to blending tracks together. I'm not talking about his Abelton skills, but rather with vinyl and CD's. The first Northern Exposure 2CD set is probably the best DJ set ever released.

To the guy who said Sasha played mostly breaks on his EM. Do you even know what breaks are? He plays a bit of breaks but to say it's mostly breaks is to stand up and say "HEY I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT DANCE MUSIC BUT I KNOW I HATE SASHA...DON"T KNOW WHY BUT I DO!"

― biz, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah sasha is the greatest dj on earth and has cottoned onto Kompakt records right now because he is so far ahead of them.

involver, terrible, airdrawndagger, terrible, everything since northern exposure, terrible.

fundacion, finally something approaching good.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

and michael mayer vs sasha=living proof that technical mixing ability is nothing if you're a floundering fucking insecure mess when it comes to tune selection, "oh why won't they like me" for 10 years until chance swings fashion around to prog again

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

mayer and sasha have two very different styles of mixing. the fact that the two are now mentioned in the same sentence together is quite interesting. there is definitely a really interesting middle ground between trance, progressive house, kompakt style techno, and electro going on right now. everything is all mashed up. i am very curious about this fundacion mix because i think the records that he chose don't necessarily reflect his style of dj-ing (well some of them do lend themselves to long blends). i am very much a dilettante when it comes to sasha though. i know his early stuff and i have involver (which i really enjoy), but that's about it. anyway, the fundacion tracklist is very tasteful looking. it's not far from what i'd play myself.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

i downloaded sasha's e-mix, but i haven't heard it yet. wasn't the last ableton live e-mix done by black strobe?

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 16 June 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

that sasha mix looks quite a bit like the new damian lazarus 'suck my deck' mix, doesn't it? almost like they shared notes. they both end with the same M83 superpitcher remix, they both have the same phonique I:Cube remix, they both have remixes by ewan pearson and james holden...

― geeta, Thursday, 16 June 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

In 2000 i saw Sasha mix in Seattle. He played a dark, twisted, dubbed out set that slanted towards the German sound. His sets at the time were completely different to the one he played that night. In an interview, Sasha stated that certain nights, in the right venue, he'll play a more experimental type set for a "progressive house" dj. I checked posted set lists for a while after that and he never really played the same type of tracks. Usually he plays to what he thinks the masses want to hear. I think Sasha has a wider interest in music than is reflected in his DJ sets, remixes and original productions. While writing Involver with Charlie May they listened to Fridge and Rhythm and Sound in the studio for inspiration. I'm so wound up about this because i've heard a lot of people slagging Sasha recently for switching to Abelton Live and "bandwagon" jumping and i think it's unfair. Switching to Live is the logical step for Sasha and in 5 years, a ton of DJ's will be performing Abelton sets instead of mixing with vinyl, CD's or even Traktor. As for bandwagon jumping...i wouldn't call it bandwagon jumping but rather a realization he can finally step away from the tight reigns of Progressive House and people will enjoy it. If he had put out another set of tunes like his Global Underground discs, people would be saying "shouldn't he move on" but now that he's playing a different style, people say he's fake. It's a no win situation.

I don't actually listen to Sasha's music or mixes much anymore but i have a lot of respect for what he's done as a DJ and producer. I do collect his remixes from the early-mid 90's. Pretty much everthing through 1994 is good.

― biz, Thursday, 16 June 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

biz otm, ronan waay off

sahsa has always had a capacity to create magic like nobody else in his genreation of djs

micahel mayer? please. kompact had a minor fashinable crescendo 6-12 months ago and gets distorted props from clueless ilx indie turds & rookies like ronan.

but they are so not in the same league as djs either live or on studio sets

― pogue_mahone, Thursday, 16 June 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

The first Northern Exposure 2CD set is probably the best DJ set ever released.

WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!!!!!!

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 16 June 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

"micahel mayer? please. kompact had a minor fashinable crescendo 6-12 months ago and gets distorted props from clueless ilx indie turds & rookies like ronan."

... And Sasha himself evidently?!? Hence all the Kompakt-related tunes on his new mix?!?

Yeah I'd noticed that similarity with the Damien Lazarus mix too - hyped to hear that one!!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

WRONG

look, you're right, clearly. but if you've never had a moment in your life when you experienced the truth of his statement, i feel sorry for you.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

i mean dude, Cascade!!

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is Jon Williams doing on a Sasha thread if he hates faggy Euro trance so much? Oh wait, that IS why...

I think NE1 is a classic mix, even if it does take Sasha 20 minutes to bring in the beats.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I ended up preferring Digweed as a DJ anyway. 'Airdrawn Dagger' had some nice moments musically. In terms of dancefloor excitement though, not much cop ('cept for 'Fundamental' if you're doing an epic breaks set, as many were 3-4 years ago).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

sasha has always been shit, your mind just arbitrarily chose this album to wake you up to this fact

― Amon (eman), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

there is definitely a really interesting middle ground between trance, progressive house, kompakt style techno, and electro going on right now. everything is all mashed up.

it's crazy! imagine the spaced out venn diagram.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

sascha is as good as the material hes working with, and fundacion is pretty great once it gets going (which is 26 minutes in, unfortunately). digweed otoh manages to turn a good selection of tracks mix into vaguely pleasant boredom

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

If it's just a mix CD of a good selection of classic tracks, what would you have a DJ do with that?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

put the tracks in the right order?

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

what is the right order?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

the one that feels natural, that builds up, and doesnt have me thinking, oh thats nice, heres another track. if the mix doesnt build, it doesnt need to be mixed at all

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

debatable!

― N_RQ, Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, building to what? I prefer the A to B (or Z) journey thing with peaks and dips scattered throughout. That Digweed mix looks like typical journey soundtrack.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

build is a pretty nebulous term isn't it?

does the mix build in intensity? (do the tracks get harder?)
does the mix build through mood? (somber, downtempo through ecstasy and back)
does the mix build through vibe? (does it get weirder? more hypnotic?)
etc, etc

i'm kind of disappointed that the sasha mix takes 26 minutes to get going although that seems typical of his style. for a single cd (?) release, that's a bit ridiculous.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

i cant think of a "journey" mix that wouldnt have been better off as an unmixed compilation. personal preference i guess. xpost

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

(and by "personal preference" i mean "standards fucked up by the endless euphoric happy-go-lucky ups and downs of pvd / van buuren sets")

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

he's no jeff mills!

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

oranges and lychees.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

i cant think of a "journey" mix that wouldnt have been better off as an unmixed compilation.

well if your journey is long and not punctuated by alterations in mode of transport or whatever, than a lengthy mixed progressive sequence makes perfect sense to me.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard a PVD or AVB set thankfully.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

he's no daniel bell

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

who?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Dude someone sent me Northern Exposure mp3s and it made me want to blow up dance clubs.

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I never really thought of it as a club mix, it's pretty yessed out. It made more sense in 1996 than it would now obviously.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 16 June 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Dan Bell = better than all these chancers.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

How can Fundacion take 26 minutes to get going if "Tides (Carl Craig Mix)" is its 4th track?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah and that richard davis swayzak remix is its second track!

I can't believe I got called a rookie upthread! it's funny how Sasha gets praised for the fleeting moments when he digs stuff everyone else is into for far longer, I even find myself doing this, even Fundacion is not a good mix by any means for someone who has access to any song before any mere mortal, Sasha is now a follower, like every other big 90s DJ.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

sasha and digweed always felt like the enemy to me
-- charltonlido (...), June 2nd, 2005.

likewise.

and to whoever said mayer can't mix - bollocks.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

even Fundacion is not a good mix by any means for someone who has access to any song before any mere mortal

i thought this initially, too. where are the dubs on the obscure labels? it's partially why you'd want to hear a mix from the guy, right?

i am curious as to why you guys think sasha and digweed feel like the enemy. i can think of a number of reasons, but i don't want to assume. i never really liked or disliked them. they seemed to be very ambitious career-wise (to an obnoxious extent in the u.s. and to the degree that careerist superclub djs are annoying...how the superclub affected nightlife in a largely negative way). so are they like the yuppies of the dj world? the personification of the worst excesses of the 90s? i've never gone to hear either of them play, but that would be the ultimate test.

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 18 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

How can Gareth never have heard Sasha?

― Semaphore Burns (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

know your enemy!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

semaphore burns is a classic pseud, dude. (i think yakuza ghost six is still my favorite though)

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I like Fundacion a lot. Also really like Christ Fortier Balance 007.

Tricky and Ronan I'm really interested in the idea of prog, electro, german techno, etc coming together. Any good threads about this? Want to start a new one?

― Toontown Drifter, Friday, 24 June 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

interestingly the idea of Sasha-esque "micro-prog" was first floated here wrt to MRI's All That Glitters (there's a thread about that album that basically devolves into a discussion of micro vs prog). But where that album was all spangly and sparkly, the current electro-prog fusion stuff is more thick and woozy.

Border Community are the exemplary model obv.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

now i want to listen to that mri album, but it is at home...i still love "nightclubbing at home". (the title of which is eerily prescient of the years that followed its release)

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

toontown, do a search in the archives for "house" and you should have more than enough reading/discussing material. it seems that most dance music threads on ilm are as splintered as the genre itself.

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

wow, i have no idea what any of you are on about. all i know that this is yet another mix i want to hear and its getting me down a bit. i wish people would stop releasing all this stuff.

i dont particularly like prog house or trance that ive heard and been able to identify, for the reason as its never seemed very funky. the kompakty stuff i like is funky, so if prog house is eating kompakt or the other waty round this might introduce some funk to proceedings. i mena, none of these fuckers have basslines, right?! whats up with that?

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i just needed to say that fundacion is my favourite mix of the year (even if it loses points for that goofy sci-fi intro). it's so fucking bubbly. i love it. runner-up for me is triple r's MBF flashback mix, which is just one long swoon.

― martin turenne, Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

ssssssssssssswwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

i agree.

the daso 12-inch that just came out is so fucking killer in that mix.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

When I saw this subject line I thought it was going to be about the Emiliana Torrini piece. She's got her moments and a pretty voice, but really, "magnifies the humble until it becomes sublime"? It's just a bunch of Nick Drake impressions!

― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

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