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check out Jacques at the end!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

my flatmate came into my room to complain that i was listening to queen when i watched this :(

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

I don't even like Queen but it does make me like that song.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://www.eject.it/ecards/viewer.php?ecardID=21

Erol Alkan's long awaited mix CD 'A Bugged Out Mix' will be released on 25th April (with 3LP format following on 2nd May). The 2CD package demonstrates 2 sides of the Trash/Bugged Out resident: A Bugged Out Mix (CD1) perfectly captures Erol as if at a Bugged Out party, featuring electronic dancefloor tracks from some of hottest names in the scene. In stark contrast, A Bugged In Selection (CD2) delves deep into Erol's vast personal record collection, taking you on a wonderfully chilled journey through a wide range of rarities and surprises, both old and new.

What a tracklisting.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

That looks very nice ... I would also highly recommend this mix:
http://www.discogs.com/release/152531

― +, Friday, 15 April 2005 00:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

Nice cover too.

― Mil (Mil), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh man, that looks really good. big city gets love at last!

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

though I don't think I have heard the remix

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I just got my copy, and its pretty great. I actually like the second CD best. Its a chill-out mix and a bizarre collection of old and new stuff that just work fantastically.

― temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

I just got my copy, and its pretty great. I actually like the second CD best. Its a chill-out mix and a bizarre collection of old and new stuff that just works fantastically.

― temeraire (r h), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love the mix, really, I do. Is Erol like, cheesy, really commerical or something, in the UK? I dunno, somehow I get that feeling from reading about him. Like he tries to hard to be hip or please the teenie clubbing crowd or something. Or I am mental.

I just slsked the second disc last night and am very excited to listen to it (didn't put it on the mp3 player today b/c I need to listen to Abe Duque's new one in prep for tomorrow night!)

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

You are not mental, I feel the same way about him!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

What do you think of Bugged Out? slsk:ILM is harshing on it...not really a surprise, though.

Knowing that this is how he is thought of kinda makes me like him better, since I pretty much want to be an 18 yo London club kid, right now anyway.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

i can't wait to hear this mix. i saw him spin a year and a half ago and he floored us with the wink/rapture thing late in his set. the muzik mix is aces too.

i don't quite understand all the hating, but yeah i guess he's received totally differently in the UK. i just wish he'd come to NYC more often.

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 May 2005 04:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

he's not hated in the UK!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 08:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Just got this mix cd. Havent listened to it. The tracklisting is ace.

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Thursday, 5 May 2005 08:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

He seems pretty loved in Brighton - sold out shows whenever he plays.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I hate him!

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

really Steve?

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

i don't like that rock star thing he does when he climbs on the decks, but i guess he did come from an indie club. otherwise i like him!

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

who hates him???? and why on earth would they?

he's an amazing dj technically and 'feel'wise, totally the opposite of trying to be hip or trying to be anything really, an ex indie kid who always dresses in scruffs and @ trash parties each december he still queues up in the cold to meet each person and their guest and say 'hi'.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 5 May 2005 11:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

I dunno, I can't think of what I read specifically, but that was the impression I had. Glad to hear it's otherwise, though. I really hope he spins in NYC before I leave

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

And he's plauing at Did we mention our disco www.ourdisco.com on Friday. For a fiver. I might go.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

playing, not plauing

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah will, i got the same impression from a couple friends of mine as well ... nice to know it was misguided though.

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

rajeev, are you going to see Abe Duque at Rothko tonight?

from Erol's website:
Name: erol - Time: 5.5.2005 - 14:06
Message:
i've recorded a mini mix (its 5 minutes long!) which is being broadcast tonight on Radio 1, i believe its from 9pm... tune in if you are at all interested to see how i managed to get 17 tracks into 5 minutes..
ps the chems mix was availible as a promo 12"

e x

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

i'm just jealous.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

nope - seeing new order tonight. very excited.

that mini-mix sounds cool. i guess that's 9 PM GMT? do you know if it'll be streaming?

― rajeev (rajeev), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

probably. it's part of Annie Mac's show. and if you miss it, the bbc has the lovely listen again feature, so you can catch up on it

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh that's cool, not much of a NO fan myself but I'm sure it'll be great for all y'all who are.

How long does the listen again feature last after a broadcast?

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

Erol wisely didn't tamper much with Big City, seems like the biggest change is adding a pedal point through some of it. And it's longer. God, I love this song. I really like Spacemen 3, and this is easily the least-Spacemen 3 Spacemen 3 song, but damn I love this song.

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

longer?

really? btu the original is, what, 10 mins+ as it is?

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

yeah, this one's 14:something.

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

I'm scared, scared, scared of posting on an ILM dance thread, because I'll be beaten up for knowing jack shit about techno/house bobbins and Matt DC and Stevem will laugh at me, but, erm...

does anyone want to talk about the BEYOND THE WIZARDS SLEEVE RE-ANIMATIONS album that came out yesterday?

This is what it will take to make me like dance music - a dance DJ that plays Spacemen 3 tracks. Yes.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Roque Santa Gold (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

Phew, tis just Andre 3000 - I thought it was gonna be laughingkidoffthesimpsons.jpg

It's a bit... "Jeez, not everything is Balearic, guys..." but then the prog bits kick in and make me very happy.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve is by some distance the best thing Erol's been involved with for at least five years, mostly because proggy Balearic psych-folk edits >>>>>>>>>>> the shit he usually plays.

― Roque Santa Gold (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

the edits basically all do the same trick, but it's a good one

― braveclub, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

I don't know what he usually plays! That's the thing.

Like I said, the last time I hear him DJ, he was playing all mad 60s psych and prog and krautrock. (Though mind you, at Bugged Out he was playing kind of identikit disco - but I was in such a bad mood that night that I wasn't prepared to give anything a chance.)

MAD PSYCHEDELIC FLUTE AND DUB ECHO = A++++++++++++ one million

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

backwards guitar is also key

― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

Every time their mix of "Love" by Simian fucking Mobile Disco come on, I keep thinking it's The Homosexual by Momus.

EXACTLY the same panting and synth-drum pattern. Nick, you should sue. ;-)

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

I don't think I'd ever be head over heels abt this album but it made me actively want to hear 'Young Folks' which is an achievement of sorts at this stage

― Luka ModReq (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

I want to know more about Dust Galaxy - I kept thinking they were Young Galaxy as I was listening to it, and thinking "this is way too psychedelic for them..."

But the problem is, the original songs I have listened to (Tracey Thorn sticks out) are not as good as the originals. I mean, they made me actually *like* a Goldfrapp song from the album I listened to once and filed.

But the Bears Are Coming mix - the original of which was one of my fave songs of the past year - was really disappointing. (Probably because I'm so fond of the orig.)

Also, that OOOOOEEEEEEOOOUUUUUUUUWWWWOOOSH filter that turns into a weird whistling noise that they use on EVERY. SINGLE. MIX. = totally The. Business. It's so Hawkwind.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

But the Bears Are Coming mix - the original of which was one of my fave songs of the past year - was really disappointing

The Art Bears Are Coming mix on the other hand...

― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

The Art Brut Are Coming.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

the midlake remix is the best of these, i reckon.

the last non-BtWS set of erol's that i've heard was the hilariously crunchy live @ global gathering 2007 mix, which was kind of an end-point for that whole ed banger/kitsune stuff for me.

― resident advice whore (haitch), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

I *hate* the Midlake song - I keep skipping it.

Is Young Folks ridiculous sped up, or do PB&J really *sound* like that? If so, wettest tweeboys ever.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's a good bit quicker, iirc.

the unofficial edits series that got BtWS attention in the first place are all worth tracking down too kate - some of them were compiled on this CD, no idea how easy that is to get though.

― resident advice whore (haitch), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

>10, Path Through The Forest

AS IN THE FACTORY ?!?!?!?ASOIDFJAJKFH ASJKDFB ADSJFBC HJAWEFCNABV JZDMN ,MCVXN DJNF

WANT WANT WANT - NO - THAT'S NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!

I wonder if it's the same stuff that's on "Erol's Psychedelic Boutique" - which I have been trying, through bribery and outright begging to get off a friend of mine, but she was given it by one of LOTP under the express condition that she didn't share it with anyone.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 13:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

you can pick up that edits cd at rough trade, that's where i got it

― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

phonica had that BTWS 'Ark' compilation as well, as someone mentioned on the beardo thread, it misses off a few tracks from their singles but it's got some great stuff on there, although some of it doesn't really add much or alter the originals (if it's possible to add to 'path through the forest' etc!)

― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

Phonica's website says it's sold out of Ark 1.

Had another friend who said she ordered it, and it never turned up, apparently. (Don't know where from, though.)

Oh god, am I going to have to wade through that Beardo thread?

I refuse to believe there's a genre called beardo disco even less than I believe in space disco.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

Rough Trade is probably your best bet for Ark 1- they still had it the last time I checked.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

can you get in trouble for posting YS1's of stuff that was a bit dubious whether they had permission to edit in the first place?

― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

God, that means I'll have to leave the house. NOOOOOOOOO... it took every fibre of my being to go up the street to the Turkish deli and I'm not going out again any time soon.

So, basically, am I right in thinking that Beardo Disco = Club Kosmische with an 808?

I'm kind of.., intrigued... to find more of this stuff. But the words "ibiza" and "balearic" are just natural turnoffs to me. I just like the idea of music better when it comes from Dusseldorf or Birmingham. Less of that awful horrible sunshine. I hate bands from LA for the same reason.

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

You can't YSI at all on ILX... but you can email me about it! :-D

hint hint double clue!

― Craft Punk (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

Aaaahhh... I just Ark 1 this afternoon. It's luuuuurrrrvvvvely.

It makes me so happy I can't even describe...

― Do Masonic Owls Make Masonic Hoots? (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

SOSOOOOOOO CHEWY MAKE ME HAPPY PSYCHEDELICGOODNESSSSSSS

― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 21:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Dozens of mixes! http://www.mixcloud.com/ErolAlkan/

― StanM, Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

haven't really followed erol for a while, but the new 'another bugged out mix/selection' is really doing it for me. not as zeitgeist-y as the original but excellent all the same.

― a love supreme (pizza) (haitch), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

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