commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

sam500 fear not that hood mix is not all bangers ..

will check it out thanks. nighttime world was lushness.

derrick carter this week!

playing a bit of catch up for the past 2 months or so, but really diggin' the greg wilson one right now, which kind of surprised me.

holy crap MOTOR CITY SOOOOUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Yeah, that mix is lovely. Beautiful in fact. Best one for ages. Must listen again.

Anyone heard the Jus-Ed mix? Never heard of this guy but the tracklisting looks nice and chunky.

I'm up to the Mike Huckaby track on 'US deep house producer du jour' Jus Ed's podcast. Aside from the not entirely seamless mixes the selection is sweet (this doesn't bother me though). Prefering the more dubby side, the Benjamin Brunn track is WOW! It sounds like Porter Ricks. Motorcitysoul ain't doin' it for me.. maybe I will relisten because I am loving the Portable one a few weeks after.

motorcitysoul mix is a winner in my book

am I an insufferable snob for thinking that a "yacht rock" mix is a really bullshit thing to publish?

they need to "reissue" 1-50

am I an insufferable snob for thinking that a "yacht rock" mix is a really bullshit thing to publish

no.

insufferable snobs of the world, unite!

oh, i guess we already do, here on ilm.

i like me a bit of 'yacht rock' (hate that term) but a) not much point calling it a mix when there's no mixing and b) that's a pretty uninspired selection right there, yacht rock 101.

yes, weaksauce

I've seen the guy who mixed it in the pub near here more than once...therefore can't be good.

The RA thread for this new YR mix is hilarious. Some people have never heard the term before, are seemingly excited for "real" records as opposed to the faceless "deep house" rubbish that has been going the past few weeks. Here is my favorite quote: "Well, these tracks are still played and known some 20 years plus after they were penned. Doubt you will say that about a lot of the other music featured on the more recent podcasts."

I wonder why some of these people are ON RA at all!

sorry "rubbish" needs to be in quotes too.

heaven forbid even people who like techno actually have any respect for it

I WAS THERE ... when dj harvey dropped "how deep is your love" on a peak-time crowd

prins thomas played "love is in the air", in fact I think I've heard "love is in the air" a few times, todd terje and probably 2manydjs also.

yeah i don't care if you wanna forgo mixing, so long as the selections are strong. but there are some suuuuper obvious choices here.

i still must admit i enjoy listening to it

yacht rock is the soft serve space age rap of the beardo scene

yacht rock...
people have become so cynical that only the most cynical music can be perceived as authentic

i need to stop listening to these on my zen, they have seemed kinda dull and faceless(yeah yeah) lately. i've had a hard time getting through lee burridge's so i know it's me tripping. motorcitysoul was def. just boring, and i listened to it way more times than i wanted to

Aeroplane also played "Love Is In Air" when I saw them but I wasn't sure if they do that all the time or if it was just an Australian reference.

Most of the mixes are excellent in capturing what it would be like to hear someone out, but I dont think most people spend the time going through 1000 records to create a really artistic mix. I am fine with that.

i liked the yacht rock mix

sorry i didnt even hear it i just wanted to disagree with someone

^^board description

"motor city drum ensemble"

first impression: keep it deep(ly boring)

or maybe just deeply predictable?

danny howells poodcast is great.
previously i've only heard his miami mix, which never really did much for me, but i'm loving this.
cabaret voltaire. marvin gaye. led zepp.
insanely all over the place, and hugely enjoyable.

i picked this up completely by coincidence the week before that came out, so i wasn't that surprised by his selection. you should look into that set, he totally kills it, esp on the first disc which has a great stretch of awesome wild pitch tracks in the middle.

that cd looks pretty great.i must investigate to see how he gets iron butterfly in there, something i have been trying to do for eons.

by only using the drum break

i have that on vinyl -- i enjoy playing 'fire island'

vinyl isnt mixed obv

i saw villalobos play the iron butterfly track. he didn't exactly work it in though.

i sense iron butterfly edits

i have done one. i've just never managed to fit it into a set. yet.

i bet there is some breaks potential in "inna gadda da vida"...

and it could be turned into a total freak out as well. (as if it isn't already, but hey)

that drum break always reminds me of the 'drum solo!!' bit in weird al yankovics 'polka yr eyes out'. would be nice if someone could make an edit without it.

weird .. i had associated howells with run of the mill house gubbins (a la miami), but the RA podcast is making me re-evaluate his status (bear in mind i have never seen the man play out, nor followed his career closely). the segue from rockit into duck rock is just fantastic, so can well believe that choice mix being of worth.
ta for the pointer, will be keeping an eye out for that.

Anyone heard the recent Orb one? If so, does anyone think it is anything other than boring?

Yeah. Agreed. I thought it started UK - with what sounded like Markus Guentner but just seemed to go on a bit. Don't remember any of funny/quirky samples that used to really add to The Orb. A good ambient mix is a tough thing to do but you would've thought those that were custodians of the Land of Oz chill out room back in the day could've handled it.

Fine line between boring and interesting in ambient stuff, agreed.

got 20 minutes into the orb podcast then gave up.
just boring.

"motor city drum ensemble"

― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:01 PM (4 weeks ago)

I gave up about 2/3 through..