the ineffable genius of DJ Q

for a taste of what a Q "live set" is like, as opposed to a mix for radio:

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

https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/nokturnal-2-mixed-by-dj-q

had a crack at a tracklist, can anyone fill in the gaps?

Rs4 - No one else
? ´feels so good´ - ?
Thats not me acapella - Skepta
? ´i´m gonna get you drunk on my bass donk´ - ?
??? ´you love me...you´re special´ - ?
I enter - Second city & Tyler Rowe
2on (DJ Q remix) - Tinashe
? house n bass
Prove2u - ?remix - Alex Parkin & Lorenzo
West coast (mk remix) - Lana Del Rey
Its you (?remix?) - FCL
Wet dollars (Donaeo remix) - Tazer
Champion - Execution

(30 mins) -----------------

Do it all again - Mr Probz
? grimey ´baby´ remix
Way we are (Apexape remix) - Kove ft. Melissa Steel
? hnb remix of Janet Jackson - Rhythm nation
Always (Shiba San remix) - MK
Deep down (?remix) - Louie Anderson
sparks n kie fly bi acapella
? grimey hnb
? ´you´ve got to own up to this love´ - ?
DJ Q? instrumental
? grimey hnb
? "nothing less than love" - ?
Feeling high - Drop Lamond & Ruby Wood

can't listen til later but the fifth is flava d 'he loves me'

(flc remix is the gotsome one i would imagine?)

(and if 'grimey baby remix' refers to spooky not rudimental it could be hybrid theory 'king kong riddim' cos he plays it a lot and i had a misled mare identifying it too)

´you´ve got to own up to this love´ -> Motez - Own Up (AC Slater Remix)

^ yes! all these are bang on

reliably slamming mix

the on-the-fly grumpy/lusty THAT'S NOT ME/INSIDE OF ME clinch he hits upon with skepta and the preceding vox sample is >>>>>>>>>>>> all other djs go home

yet another example of that extraordinary kaleidoscopic facility for using, abusing, juxtaposing any and every available vocal strategy to make his sets freak which is such a huge maybe under-appreciated aspect of what elevates q to the ineff plain... ukg was always omnivorous, bassline made it in-your-face, q fuses it all into one

and then the clean and perfect baton handoff from ldr to fcl so absurdly simple like it was always there

after tinashe it's

Ben Mono - Bonanza Break

then the last section is

Apexape & Chris Lorenzo - Got To Give (Heavier Mix) (vs Fly Bi)
Motez - Own Up (AC Slater Remix)
[?? q instrumental]
Jook 10 - The Beginning
Example - One More Day (Shadow Child Remix)
Drop Lamond ft Ruby Wood - Feeling High

Yeah listening to this one now and loving it, not heard 'That's Not Me' outside of its natural habitat until now I can't believe people don't just whack it over the top of everything.

Also I was dancing in some far flung tent in the early hours of Monday morning at Glastonbury when Redlight dropped Q's remix of Tinashe and my head nearly exploded with joy.

smile every time when that remix nicks "make you wanna holla q!" from schoolboy namesake

yes!

https://soundcloud.com/donaeo/tinashe-2-on-donaeo-cover

btw i know it should only really have been a minor amusement but donaeo's montell jordanish 2 on cover has totally supplanted the og in my summerjam rotation

btw 2, all i was saying that about vocals is why 'lassie' is the most agent cut on ineffable - agree with the idea that it should have been another 'me and my bitch' but discarda (forever lame) didn't cotton on in the end sadly

Yeah it's the vibiness of the way the tunes literally talk to each other.

there's moments like this in every set but i recently stuck the february one on again and literally just ended up spending an entire spellbound commute rewinding over and over and over the bit where ruffneck stylo g and ballerina kiesza's worlds intertwine.... ~UR JUST A FEELING~

Not a Q mix but this sorta thing always reminds me of your description of the bit in Tropical 2 where the Preditah tune is suddenly seized by anxiety as it witnesses the unstoppable eruption of Royal T's "Cool Down".

oh yeah the tropicals are the absolute best/worst for that malarkey

anyway!

ESSENTIAL GARAGE - 16th June 2014
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/15560952/file.html

All About She - Remedy - Disturbing London
CJ Reign - Believe ft Anatea - Two Step Vybe Dubb - DPR Recordings
Tinashe - 2 On - DJ Q Remix - White Label
Shadow Child - Steak Fingers - Food Music
Sparks & Kie - Fly Bi - Accapella - EastWest
Lana Del Rey - West Coast - MK Remix - Polydor
Stikky Lips & Chris Lorenzo - Naughty Good Girl - Cuff
Olivia Louise - Cocaine - DJ Q Remix - Q Recordings
DJ Haus - Lez Get 2getha - Hot Haus Records
Davidian - What I Want ft Tiffani Juno - Original - Kitsune
Apexape & Chris Lorenzo - Listen Up - Speakerboxx
Justice - DVNO - Sunshine Brothers Remix - Ed Banger Records
Chris Gresswell & The Alliance - In Here - White Label
Wonderlush - Swag - Wideboys Summer Garage Mix - World Wide Phonographics
Flava D - Her Loves Me - White Label
Second City & Tyler Rowe - I Enter - Dirtybird
TS7 - Give Me A Sign ft Yaz Nicks - Dub Mix
Champion - Execution - Nest HQ
Mumdance - Take Time ft Novelist - Rinse
Mak & Pasteman - Electro Funk Massacre - Lobster Boy
Tazer - Wet Dollars - Donaeo Remix - Recess Recordings
Tony H - Deep Down - 42tf Recordings
Shift K3y vs Teedra Moses - Touch Your Girl - DJ Q Mash Up - White Label
Junior Jack - Thrill Me - GotSome Ruff & Rugged Remix - [PIAS] Recordings
Rough Copy - Street Love - DJ Q Dub Remix - Simco Limited
Hybrid Theory & Jamie George - Only You - Four 40 Records
DJ Q - Madness - White Label
PVC - You Smoke - Q Recordings
Colours - What You Do ft Eska - 10 Below Remix - Ice Cream Records
K Stewart - Tell Me Bout That - 37 Adventures

had originally intended to rerecord that (hence the delay) but 1/ cba and 2/ in retrospect i decided to preserve the forgetful moment that i contrived to install drivers more or less in tune and in time with 'wet dollars'. selec le lec tah!

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/dj-q-live-at-motion

let's see if the dl works

...no. does if u inspect element yourself though

yep, same with all those rbma shows. sadly they've moved to 128kbps though (used to be 320).

Champion - Execution - Nest HQ
Mumdance - Take Time ft Novelist - Rinse
Mak & Pasteman - Electro Funk Massacre - Lobster Boy
Tazer - Wet Dollars - Donaeo Remix - Recess Recordings

this section is so sick

https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/dj-q-live-at-the-harley-in-sheffield-19-july-14-1

new Trumpet and Badman EP is a KILLER

The moment in the Sheffield set when Q drops "Gotta Get Thru This" is such a vibe ting.

http://f.cl.ly/items/1e421q003Q420q144729/ClouDrop%2015%20Aug%202014%2019%3A02%3A44%2015%20Aug%202014%2019%3A02%3A45.png

/ end communication

Is there a missing 'J' in that logo?

no we are disqualified from listening again sorry

Fuck.

i dunno what it is! as a consequence of me telling q about this thread he occasionally sends me things he wants to tell us about - like this graphic - and i'm sorry if it comes off as street-teamy. but he says deets are forthcoming.

da quietus

never stop street teaming for DJ Q.

this week's essential garage is a banger. features a monstrous insectoid thorax and an inspired dash of the reelists 'freak mode'

won't be putting it up til its unavailable to stream but i trust u will all rise above mediocre ilx-poster-ass indolence

yeah, the new one is a blast - here's a link for the casual crew

https://www.ministryofsound.com/radio/shows/dj-q

that mysterious jpg tracer posted refers to this new collab with the also-excellent flava d (who i'm beginning to discover)

https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-flava-d-ps-loc018

that sbtv mix:

http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/89508614/file.html

think i missed this one! thanks

(in fact i know i did because sparks & kie vs ten walls is something u generally remember in life)

and now theres this´
http://www.mixcloud.com/Outlook_Festival/outlook-mix-series-20-dj-q/

ahhh that looks hella good. shame i have zero time

c&a preditah collabo what what

he even brought back booda 'no more calls' from the 1xtra days. q if ur reading this plz release that on ur label u known u want to okthxbye

zero time - tell me about it. managed to make time for the new essential garage though. amazing.

the preditah/c&a thing is a free download btw
http://monkiandfriends.redbullstudios.com/

amazing mix here -

https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/dj-q-live-paris-social-club-paris-france-23rd-august-2014

i feel like it's a summation and refinement of his 2014 mixes so far - "baay-beh", fly-bi, etc

or maybe i just like it cause it's super accessible, relatively speaking

in comparison to?

his previous club mixes; this feels like a "greatest hits" in a way

yeah i wasn't asking in a pointy accusatory way, guess i'm just interested in hearing to what extent the mos sets may be daunting to perhaps the more life-balanced non-acolyte shall we say

it's clearly v understandable why any garage dj would approach live sets in this way (especially so abroad) and of course q does do it in a particularly switched-on way; however behind the freewheeling party fun i do sometimes wonder whether and how far ukg still has to make excuses for itself by taking frequent recourse in emollient nostalgia... and even though garage is pervasive in so many ways now how the particular association in itself may be something that many recoil from (much like how kids today want to grow up being seen as any and everything but an r&b singer despite demonstrable evidence to the contrary)

obv i'm not trying to hop in the nerd wahhmbulance here with the "keep it ardkore" siren blaring feebly but idk it's kinda hard not to discern a slight subconscious implication that the radio sets are too experimental or estranging to fly irl when really they already do so much to make all the hard weird crazy edges of ukg's ecologies as fun as inconceivably possible, without having to pop monsta boy acappellas over the top or whatever (haha this reads like shots fired at dj ez now)

isn't it just the difference in radio sets vs live sets, the former pretty much always for the hedz and your producer wanting as many "exclusives" as possible to sell the show with?

I love both modes. Esp. in a live setting the sheer thrill of hearing some of the old 2-step tunes - esp. less obvious ones - is massive. On the flipside there's a certain taut plastic-covered muscularity to the new productions Q draws for that makes his radio sets really deeply satisfying to me in a way that a more golden oldies set might not in anything other than a live set (though it's complicated here by the thrill of Q's mixing and bootlegging, which really comes to the fore live).

Partly this is because grooves like "Testosterone Deficiency" or (in a different way) PVC's "You Know My Man" don't feel like they could have existed three years ago. But even less obviously contemporary stuff like the CJ Reign remix of "Jack" has a - what is it - a toughness that feels now even though objectively we're just talking bass driven 2-step circa 2001.

yeah i think i've probably misarticulated here... really the difference is the live sets are like a dizzying quickfire hopscotch from old celebrated bits in/to/thru new riddims (v noticeable how v much more the chris lorenzo catalogue features in these btw), in-yer-face style ukg evangelism, whereas the radio sets take advantage of a freer licence to draw the listener along someplace and deliver abrupt switches or weave over extra layers etc

trace is also right in saying it's something of a time-old dj situation in any genre smaller than the omni-categories (ie i'm not saying him playing an old bit is like a house dj having to play frankie knuckles every set) (wrt radio production tho in this particular instance i'd be v surprised if mos' input extended beyond "send us a mix once a month and we'll bang some idents on it cheers"). and of course it's better to be aware of and willing to please your punters than not!

still tho i would argue that the radio sets are functionally dance music first and foremost, whether hi-concept or not, so idk it does just seem something of a shame that it should demand adaptation in the wild (however skilled and judicious that may be)

(heh i'd also say there's probably an additional vague overarching thing informing this circumlocution which is just generally internally wondering how impressive or distinctive q mos sets actually do come across to the non-kvlt who quite reasonably arent interested in the ecologies and microdialectics etc)

i mean to put it another way it's really as simple as silently freaking out on the bus to (for instance) the randomer/mella dee drops in the latest set and thinking "fuckkkkk i wish i was there!!" and then that there kinda being a mirage really