Eulogy to DJ Harvey - unsung second greatest DJ of all times

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So it must have sucked to be you because the audiences over the years in Brighton or South London, Tokyo or California maybe they didn't have the ears, the attention, the sheer span - how could they? - to bear to hear it all, all of it, the deep down depths of it, the sheer funky librarian genius of it, the alientation, the lizard brain connection, the fucking rightness of the deeper sound so many have reached for that only you have plucked form radnom obliteration and have found and championed, the sound nobody can embrace, your sound, the right sound the sound of the perfect line that connects it all from that to this.

But lo, the message was truly the funkiness and it is overwhleming in its impact. And I am here to say Harvey baby, Harvey, holmes, no wonder the knickers come down! Beacuse you get there, after nerdy years of toil, you take it out and you blow it out and yes you became the second coming, the heir, the batton holder and its yours baby, and ours to share and you became the one who could go deeper and bring it back to the people.

Few can know this but I do. I hear it and I praise you for it. Now rest, rest, rest in the oblivion you have made home.

― bahktin, Saturday, 23 July 2005 05:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

is he dead?

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 23 July 2005 05:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Aww...I hope not. He's a really cool guy with some of the most amazing eyes ever. I haven't heard him DJ though, so I've got nothing on that front.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 23 July 2005 06:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

as a dedicated disco and deep house freak, the suggestion hits me really hard. i hope he's not. so many amazing edits, amazing remixes - his remix of extended family's "ulysses" one of my favorite house tracks of all time, an endless layered samba breakdown over a thick vocoded vocal chorus, predating lopazz's "take me home" by what, ten years?

also his astounding dj mixes - his promo mixes for freshjive and sarcastic clothing were two of my favorite dj mixes of last year, throwing together funk (of the funkadelic variety, think EWF's "power"), heavy boogie rock ("space truckin"), prog rock (rush!!), disco and ambient library music.

whether he's passed or not, i hope someone compiles at least some of the awesome re-edits he put out on his black cock label.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 23 July 2005 06:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

please can someone confirm or deny this? he is close friends with a friend of mine. it's too late tonight to call and find out... but i certainly hope this is not true. long live dj harvey : /

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 23 July 2005 09:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

please tell me you are just messing around! he is also very close friends with a good friend of mine who is currently travelling around europe and would be devastated to hear this. in fact i am devastated if this is true. the man is a legend. craziest dj i have ever heard too.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

anyone? please? haven't been able to find any info yet.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

after speaking to some people who would know if this was true tonight, i think this is total nonsense.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 24 July 2005 03:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

finding out that you have died on the internet c/d ?!!

― death of tom (death of tom), Sunday, 24 July 2005 20:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

also received word otherwise...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 24 July 2005 22:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

har

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 13:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

Best street teamer ever.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 17:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

RIP Harvey

MEET U AT TEH CROSSROADZ

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

SOMEONE GET AT ME WITH SOME HARVEY MIXES IN MP3. FUCK A REAL PLAYER

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

type "sarcastic disco" into your favorite p2p

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 00:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

i've done it over and over and can't get anything w/o 315 in line before me

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 03:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

JAXON

CHECK EMAILS

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

hi first post please dont bite me. my friend jeremy jbees told me about this place ages ago but have been lazy.

harvey is the definitely one of the best around , and he's very much alive at least he was last time in detroit a few weeks ago!

I've loads of his mixes and a card carrying member of his sarcastic disco cult :)

his sarcastic mix is here I believe:
http://www.headroomlosangeles.com/past-harvey.html

ciao
chinaski

― Gary Abugan (henry chinaski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

There's an mp3 of Harvey's set at last summer's PS1 Warm Up (starting again this Saturday kids!) available here:

http://ps1.el.net/web/podcasts/dj_sessions/

Haven't downloaded the set yet, so no idea of the sound quality, but I remember the day he played as being a particularly good one.

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

vahid, yr email hasn't arrived yet, but the seek has come through once again. (v, are you on it?)

and i totally change my mind on this mix after a few months. first time i listened to it, i didn't get the big deal. but now after listening to a bunch of baldelli and loda mixes, i get this. it's pretty fucking rad.

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

cool, got yr email and it's not the sarcastic mix, awesome!

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

make sure your copy of the sarcastic mix has got 23 tracks ... there's some floating around w/ only 18 tracks!!

here's the "real" tracklisting...

Sonic Seasonings - Walter Carlos
Our Prayer - The Beach Boys
Hollywood Symphony (excerpt) - Holger Czukay
We Have Come To Bless This House - Severed Heads
Clash (Shugyru of the Sun) (played at -- Logic System
Can't Be Serious - Ginny
Transfer Station Blue -Michael Shrieve
Camino del sol - Isabelle Antena
Don't you know I did it - John Forde
My Boss - Linda Di Franco
Woman of the World - Double
Memories - Amadeo
Love for the sake of love - Claudja Barry
Fragrance - Holger Czukay
"Paws"
Irena's theme - Giorgio Moroder
Sensuous Black Man - Madame X
Nocturne - Bryan Ferry
Riding to Rio- Strange Cargo
95 in the shade - Hudson Ford
"Poz Two"
Rendezvouz with the Sun - Howard Wales
Hallucinations - Roy Budd

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 04:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

man, i keep hearing how many beardos (can't hate as i'm prolly one myself) there are over at the djhistory boards, but there are soooooo many harvey worshipping threads there. pretty funny.

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

THAT'S NOT A BEARD!!! THIS IS A BEARD

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

11 years of beardo house!! ILX is late to the party!!

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

DUDE, YR SET LIST IS WRONG. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE LISTENING TO GIORGIO MORODER AND IT'S HOLGER CZUKAY!

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

the moroder's at cool cosmic speed if i remember correctly

whats funny is everyone on djh hate on harvey jokingly too..if you post his name you will most likely get quashed!

the views on some of his threads are in the ten thousands..

he did play quite an amazing set in detroit! has anyone here heard him play?

― Gary Abugan (henry chinaski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 05:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

he plays at our bar every couple of months. actually we're trying to put together a night with him, rub n tug and tim love lee right now. that will be an AMAZING night. i once asked him what a record was and he answered 'i don't fucking care!' with a giant grin on his face... at first i was a bit bothered but then i realized i should take his advice and just get back to dancing.

his "lecture" at the red bull music academy event he took part in is hilarious! you can download it form their site, which i am too drunk to bother looking for right now.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 07:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

which bar is that? in LA? let me know if the rub and tug and harv night goes down. sounds great!

― Gary Abugan (henry chinaski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

Anyone have a tracklist for the compilation of Black Cock edits? Anybody who wants 'em, send me an email.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

didn't know there was a compiltion ...but here's the discography

http://www.discogs.com/label/Black+Cock+Records

his friend and cohort gerry rooney also is a great dj

― Gary Abugan (henry chinaski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Got it off somebody on SoulSeek and couldn't find a tracklist anywhere. Something like 11 tracks... maybe someone put em all together.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

he plays at our bar every couple of months. actually we're trying to put together a night with him, rub n tug and tim love lee right now. that will be an AMAZING night.

That would be amazing. Rub-n-Tug easily the best party DJs in NYC right now. They have that special DJ 6th sense that allows them to know what tune the crowd wants to hear next before the crowd does. Every time I've seen them everyone in the room has been dancing like crazy.

― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

gary, it's at the avalon bar in costa mesa, ca. it's in o.c., but seriously, their nights are worth the drive. i know no one goes south, but i would for them. we have the very honorable distinction of being the favorite place for all those guys to play in california.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

hello 1stworldman..i've heard of avalon..i read a funny interview with maurice fulton with the avalon crew..any chance that mix is still around? or any harvey mixes from avalon?

california is amazing i'll have to get down there again!

I asked harvey about moonshadows (?) unfortunately he does'nt play there any more!

did anyone hear his mix for redbull music academy - i think it was called the trainwreck mix.

ciao
g

― Gary Abugan (henry chinaski), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

i saw harvey play a beach party here in hawaii just three days ago. a half hour before sunset he put on E2-E4. about 25 minutes in i went up to him and asked, "are you going to play this one all the way through?" he smiled huge and replied "of course, man!" it was dark by the time the song's 58th minute rolled around. the mixture of an epic sunset with an epic track orchestrated by such a master selector created something hard to describe. it will probably remain one of my top 5 musical moments for the rest of my life.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

great story

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 20:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

What did Harvey do for the 58 minutes? Dance? Fuck around with the EQ? Run home and change clothes?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

duh.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

i put on e2-e4 in appreciation

how often does he play hawaii? and what island? i'm going to maui in august

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

i mean i ask because one of the other sets of his i downloaded was from a hawaiian radio station and it sounded like he was a regular.

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 21:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

he helped open a gallery/club in honolulu (that's on oahu) a few years back. its a lovely place with a rooftop garden, art on the walls, and great staff/managment in one of honolulu's oldest neighborhoods. i just moved here two months back, but it seems like he gets here three to four times a year- he seems to love surfing almost as much as music. he may play maui from time to time, but i didn't ask, so i can't say.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

i don't believe your story. they can't fit that much onto one side of a record (or can they?) or was he using CDJs?

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

it was a cd.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

who was the first greatest unsung DJ of all times?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

that's what i want to know. mancuso? levan?

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

they were sung.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

one could argue that harvey is/was to the same extent, too.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

and the thread title says "unsung second greatest" not "second greatest unsung." anyway, best sung/unsung dj of all time is an ILM fest i dont want to attend.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

count me out also.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 23:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

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dj harvey: mad dog chronicles soundtrack

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 16:43 (9 months ago) Permalink

not listened yet but perhaps he doesn't talk for 90 minutes this time.

Just 18 minutes at the start.

― skip, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 16:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

FIRST BATCH OF TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT
LIMITED ADVANCE TICKETS WILL GO BACK ON SALE AT 9AM THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER
£18 VIA RESIDENT ADVISOR

why did i procrastinate

― just sayin, Saturday, 22 September 2012 18:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

bought a copy of the amadeo album for 10 bucks today! :-)

― flopson, Sunday, 23 September 2012 01:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

not sure if either of these are the same as the "300" mix mentioned upthread but they're both awesome:

RA 300 was episode 300 of the Resident Advisor RA mix podcast, posted a few months ago; those two are BBC Radio mixes from the 90s, going by the URLs

― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Sunday, 23 September 2012 02:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

Had a great chat with him tonight, such an easy/enjoyable person to interview...gives you gold with minimal prodding.

Flopson: Harvey bought the Amadeo record for something like a quarter of a cent in Greece, allegedly, and is glad that he's helped it become a cult classic.

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:32 (8 months ago) Permalink

did you ask him about his longest set ever

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

xp ha! awesome

― flopson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

I knew I forgot something...

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

gr80 do you know what the very last track on that best of the 1990's essential mix is?

― flopson, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 16:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

no idea

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.discogs.com/Shaboom-Totally/master/110723

― the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://www.discogs.com/Shaboom-Totally-The-David-Morales-Remixes/release/750740

― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:48 (8 months ago) Permalink

nice!!!

― the late great, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

such an epic track, great end to a great mix

― flopson, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 20:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

UK PEOPLE: The new issue of Crack can be found in numerous pubs/record shops etc, go grab it and read my interview with Harvey himself. Will post a link to the online version when I can.

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

If anyone cares, the link to the interview is here:
http://issuu.com/crackmagazine/docs/crack24low-res

I interview Nathan Fake in it as well. Enjoy!

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

I picked read the interviews the day, nice work. Off-topic but in the Fake one you mention a ILM thread! It was then guessed it must be an ILMer interviewing him.

― mmmm, Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:58 (8 months ago) Permalink

had a guess list place fall through and now desperate for any London tickets.

PM me if anyone thinks they'll have spares..

will beardo for tickets....

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 12 October 2012 09:54 (8 months ago) Permalink

mmmm: do i?!

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 12 October 2012 10:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

Bumping this thread as I'm still looking for a spare, It doesn't look like any
will be released on the night either. Doors shut at 2am

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

There's a few on ebay (at not too extortionate prices yet):

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=harvey+tickets&_sacat=0&_odkw=dj+harvey&_osacat=0&_from=R40

― groovypanda, Thursday, 18 October 2012 10:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

on the guestlist lol

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:02 (8 months ago) Permalink

Didn't make it to the end of the show last night but had an absolute blast. He was playing Sapphire by Zombi when I walked in...hearing a record that sonically gorgeous on a soundsystem that good was pretty much orgasmic. He also dropped an insanely long/insanely incredible edit/remix of I'm a Man by Spencer Davis Group (which I think is the I'm a Man/Yeke Yeke single by Clubhouse) which absolutely destroyed the place. Yeah, great stuff, nice'n'housey at the start then went full on disco. The crowd were good too, pretty much everyone seemed to be there because they wanted to be there and not because it was the hottest ticket in town.

Obviously Harvey looked as cool as ever. Shame I wasn't allowed to thank him for giving up his time the other week to do the interview with me.

Any other ILXors there?

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 20 October 2012 14:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

somebody on facebook said he closed with Save a Prayer by Duran Duran

― dan selzer, Saturday, 20 October 2012 15:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

Stayed till just after 4, but then tired legs got the better of me. It was amazing...

the soundsystem and venue were perfect for this gig...

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:31 (8 months ago) Permalink

Looks as though I might have had the same cynical pessimism followed by regret for Harvey @ Oval Space as I had for the Olympics. Still holding out for a residency at Plastic People or similar.

― mmmm, Sunday, 21 October 2012 01:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

Interesting that some people hated the sound:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=210331

― toby, Sunday, 21 October 2012 07:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

tracer hand and i were also there! he sacked off after a while but i stayed until about 4.30 making dancefloor-friends with strangers.

i thought the sound was good but it definitely depended on where you were in the room - there were a few places of gorgeous clarity, a few places with a bad echo, a few places where it was frankly tinny.

― c sharp major, Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

really want to find out what track it was he played at 4.20 or so that seemed to go on forever and was stupid dancing delight.

― c sharp major, Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

That was Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

― dan selzer, Sunday, 21 October 2012 21:59 (7 months ago) Permalink

fp'd u for that

― c sharp major, Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:11 (7 months ago) Permalink

I thought the sound was great but it was true there were "dead" spots, and sometimes a tall person would move in behind you and suddenly things would get muffled - it was a weird, morphing, multi-tentacled auditory experience which frankly seemed exactly appropriate

Harvey also used the volume knob, sometimes bringing the overall level down a bit for a good 10-15 minutes before slamming into something big; I thought it was tremendously effective and also made for a more convivial atmosphere in that you actually could chat with ppl from time to time

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 October 2012 08:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

I stayed to the end. He actually finished with Chilly, For Your Love, but then said thanks and yes, played Save a Prayer.

Anyways, it was awesome, but I wish I'd got there for the start and left a bit earlier. I'm too old for this!

― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith), Monday, 22 October 2012 09:23 (7 months ago) Permalink

Me too :( I think you made the right call though.. imo it was a sort of moiling, unfocused vibe until around 12:30 or 12:45

How late did it go?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 October 2012 10:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― badg, Saturday, 24 November 2012 20:34 (6 months ago) Permalink

gets interesting at about 2:50 or so

― badg, Saturday, 24 November 2012 20:35 (6 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

finally!!!

http://www.wordandsound.de/article/80389

― Crackle Box, Monday, 21 January 2013 11:42 (4 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

ayo!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWo3bVN2EY

― Crackle Box, Monday, 4 February 2013 15:09 (4 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

playin at lovebox

― just sayin, Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:46 (2 months ago) Permalink

― just sayin, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:28 (2 months ago) Permalink

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:34 (2 months ago) Permalink

i think i might have taken that^ photo c. 2007 but i am searching through old emails and cant find the orig

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 20:57 (2 months ago) Permalink

really??? damn

― just sayin, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 21:04 (2 months ago) Permalink

and one from 99

http://www.mixesdb.com/db/index.php/1999-12-26_-_Harvey_-_Essential_Mix

― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, October 30, 2011 2:41 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jamming this today, still so fresh

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:33 (2 months ago) Permalink

also i found the old pic, and it wasnt mine

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 5 April 2013 17:33 (2 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

― brimstead, Monday, 10 June 2013 03:15 (1 week ago) Permalink

the knife is making me uneasy

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 10 June 2013 03:31 (1 week ago) Permalink

there's more than one way

― the late great, Monday, 10 June 2013 03:38 (1 week ago) Permalink

Celebs with cats

― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:17 (1 week ago) Permalink

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