The new Get Physical thread (cos Chelonis doesn't deserve all the credit)

Feel free to smack me.

drums-keith moon
vocals-lennon/mccartney
guitar-slash
drums-john bonham
bass-mccartney
drums-ringo starr

that interview is totally sweet:

Q: Perhaps something to help readers get their heads around it...what does M.A.N.D.Y stand for? Anything special or is it one of those in-label and studio jokes?

A: At the beginning we invented crazy stories about a girl called Mandy, but to be honest the name just came up and we thought it’s better than our real names. It was quite funny at the beginning when club promoters were expecting a hot babe to turn up and instead of two ugly boys.

aw i love them!

So then "Full Body Workout", what's the verdict?

Still taking it in, but first impressions, the Ralph Lawson remix is seriously great, like Voodoo Ray gone Italo.

like Voodoo Ray gone Italo

I was thinking more like instrumental New Order gone Soft Cell as produced by Black Strobe...

I found it on slsk Adam, so it should be ok. That Lawson remix is killing me, played it about 20 times last night!

But I had no idea the main synth hook from MANDY's "Don't Stop" is sampled from an old Italo song "Check-Out Five" by Naif Orchestra. It was released in '85 on the Fuzz Dance EP, which also contained "Problemes D'Amour."

the DJ T track on Mood Music is really good, the A-Side mainly.

I was so gonna go but I passed out in Lewisham instead!

I think Suck My Deck is very dependent on context, sometimes I find it sounds awesome and sometimes it does nothing for me. I always enjoy Death Disco though - I found it odd how you were saying that it was super-dry and technical etc. (that was what you were saying yeah?) but then I guess I focus more on stuff like the Paul Rutherford track and "TV Night" (one of the most amazing combinations in a DJ mix that i can think of) than say the Sweet Exorcist edit.

Jess did you ever download those Matt Coleridge mixes?

The Smagghe mixes are great!

no, i don't think i downloaded them! i'm supposed to be reviewing that rebel futurism thing you told me to get for pitchfork this week as well, and i still haven't heard it. (downloading it as we speak, actually.) sadly, there's just never enough time in a week for me to get everything in that i want to listen to. (though i don't miss being broke[r], i do miss the amount of free listening time freelancing gave me for those two years. i wonder how often my crankiness regarding certain things is down to disliking the little i've heard and not having the time to bother tracking down more. still being on dial-up at home can't help either. [crazed conspiracy theories about genres i've barely had time to explore are sure to follow shortly therafter.])

x-post: the irony is that i got the chemical sweet girl ep and loved it.

Strongo this is standard practice for the rest of us.

I don't think Get Physical/Booka Shade & Friends are passe though. Their sound is sort of morphing quite radically though (or at least it appears radical given how consistent the sound of their earlier stuff is), and I guess there's the sense that by being part of the new reassertion of "micro" allegiances in electro-house they might lose their distinctiveness slightly - or at least have to compete directly with all the other great practitioners in this area (Alex Smoke, Border Community, Villalobos, Luciano, Bucci etc. etc.)

(wasn't ewan pearson bitching about "tiefschwarz-alikes" not too long ago?)

I guess though that there's a certain type of electro-house DJ/club night that will cleave very closely to an approximation of the sound Tiefschwarz established in their remixes - sorta the same clubs/DJs/dancers who used to rock "I'm So Crazy" and "Where's Your Head At" and stuff on Subliminal.

mikebee - remember me?
tracklist:
1. booka shade - vertigo (get physical)
2. boogie drama - stalker's groove - john tejada rmx (wasnotwas)
3. hugg & pepp - kanelbulle (dahlback)
4. clement - myra - alexkid rmx (tropism)
5. john tejada - sweat (on the walls) (pokerflat)
6. hardfloor - da revival (brique rouge)
7. rex the dog - we live in daddy's car (kompakt)
8. marc romboy - my love is systematic - john dahlback rmx (systematic)
9. john dahlback - briana - (morris audio)
10. james flavour - pornero - dave dk rmx (highgrade)
11. new order - round & round - club mix (factory)
12. dj t - radiator (20/20 vision)
13. martinez - machine script (get physical)
14. m.a.n.d.y. - no stoppin (get physical)
15. vince - superworld (dj t dub mix) (art of disco)

mikebee - live on future breaks FM 5/14/05
tracklist:
1. My My - Klatta (Playhouse)
2. Trentemoller - Physical Fraction (Audiomatique)
3. Whignomy Brothers - Pele Bloss (Freude-Am-Tanzen)
4. Thomas Gwosdz - Keiler (Speicher)
5. Tiefschwarz - Issst (Fine)
6. John Tejada - Sweat (On The Walls)
7. Hardfloor - Da Revival (Brique Rouge)
8. New Order - Round and Round - Club Mix (Factory)
9. Air Frog - Bon Voyage - Stacey Pullen rmx (R&S)
10. DJ T - Rising (Get Physical)

First Jess, now if Matos likes this soon the world will be ours.

I love the Smagghe mixes too, to back to the upthread discussion. But I can see Jess's point about Death Disco, there are some parts which are less electrohouse than just bleep. It is very very dark, even by Smagghe's standards. How To Kill The DJ Part One actually has alot of funkier more uptempo stuff, still a great mix that one.

I think Black Strobe's Essential Mix is probably better than all the Smagghe mixes though.

Also I think Tim otm about Get Physical's current position, if they do continue to plough a different, more minimal, furrow, then they have alot of competition, and of course risk being swallowed up a bit.

Mind you I think the new "Body Language" mix is great, probably prefer it to Rebel Futurism 2, contrary to Tim's opinion I think.

Takes minimal + riff-lectro-house and adds extra "electro" in the more traditional sense for a super-doomy trippy feel.

If you like the Booka Shade album, you really shouldn't keep telling yourself the above.

Cos the actual label is probably the most patchy of all the big electrohouse labels for me.

To be fair I haven't listened to Body Language an awful lot yet.

Rebel Futurism 12 inches of note at the moment: the Pier Bucci EP, the "Safari" Remixes EP, the split twelve of John Spring and the Kiki & Silversurfer mix of "Safari" (which is better even than the Alex Smoke Mix)...

"Isn't it pretty much the only label that's pure electrohouse?"

I'd put Systematic and almost all Sub-Static and Poker Flat in this category too.

heywood jablomi, aren't you in SF? where are you picking up these releases? i've asked around to a few techno stores in the area and they have no idea what i'm talking about. do you know if the Get Physical comp is sold anywhere?

word!

not to get into genre facism but isn't poker flat more tech house?

do you work there? i'm sure i know who you are (i'm there so fucking much) and i bet you'd recognize me

zactly. Most of Poker flat shit isn't really full on bass riffs and woozy synth biz. get Physical is only label i can think of that releases nothing BUT lectrohouse.

you still didn't answer my question. do you work there? are you the really tall light skinned black guy?

whats the full body workout like?

and whats this?
sugababes (m.a.n.d.y mix?!?!)

ps GPM fans, m.a.n.d.y plays basics in leeds on sat 4th june

is nobody checking out my mixes that were posted upthread?

Yikes, you weren't kidding....

Jaxon you should know that the Chelonis R Jones stuff is only a fraction of the label's output; most Get Physical stuff is instrumental.

"zactly. Most of Poker flat shit isn't really full on bass riffs and woozy synth biz. get Physical is only label i can think of that releases nothing BUT lectrohouse."

I think a lot of it's pretty close, especially since '02. Steve Bug's Sensual album was as I recall very Get Physical-ish, although I sold it in a moment of abject poverty so now I can't be sure.

This is a heartfelt minor derailment, but you should check out a new UK single called '16 Lovers' by Cagedbaby, which sounds like what you're looking for (well, apart from the minimalism, but it's not that loud either - bass riffs and woozy synth biz abound).

Heywood, I have gotten your mixes and so far, I like what I've heard.

Poker Flat is kind of tech-house. Even when they do "minimal" it's not really minimal is it? Like I dunno, does having lots of clicks make something minimal? Sometimes these days it's like the answer is "yes, yes it does!" because everybody wants to buy minimal house regardless. Or feel that they are. If I went into a record shop I would ask for minimal even though in reality I often don't buy the stuff which genuinely is minimal, I know I would get a good selection of records I do like!

Going back to Pokerflat/Physical, there was a Steve Bug/DJ T single on it, it's a 10 inch vinyl, fact fans! It's good but apparently Marine Parade re-released it and it became a breakbeat anthem so I don't like it anymore.

As regards Body Language, I think it's really good. The start of it is interesting, it feels kind of retro, a spoken word type vocal in the intro which ends and then a perky first tune, all mixes used to be like that! Does anyone know what I mean?

Oh yes. A lot of hip hop DJs, at least the bedroom types, still like doing this. A close friend sticks to this rule like glue. I think it would perk up more dance mixes if this happened often.

Oh and just read on the Royksopp thread, Chelonis is doing some vocals for their new album!

That would pique up my tiny interest some.

Hey, you disappeared yesterday. I know yer busy, but I was hoping to engage you more on both this thread and the other one.

I think Jacob is applying a fairly restrictive definition of "electro-house", which even Get Physical doesn't really meet - surely "Take Me Home" and "Philly" are just house by this definition? Not to mention a good two thirds of the label's output from the Booka Shade album onwards, which is as much micro, minimal, or tech-house depending on one's definition.

(I agree with you Ronan that a lot of the "minimal" stuff now isn't very minimal, just clicky; on the other hand, I've always thought that the best stuff done by Perlon etc. back in the "day" (00/01) was clicky but not really minimal. All that said a lot of Pokerflat's early stuff was genuinely minimal)

The funny thing about that Steve Bug album is that, although I enjoyed it, I was deeply ambivalent about its overall "project" of fusing electro (in the electroclash sense) with house. I remember saying something in my review like: "simply putting electro synth riffs over house grooves doesn't seem like the most exciting direction for this music" (or to that effect anyway). So so wrong!

Body Language is very very pretty isn't it - the Luciano track for example is just beautiful. Maybe where Rebel Futurism #2 has an "edge" for me is that it covers pretty much all the different sub-styles that are big right now, whereas BL plows a relatively restricted furrow. In strict tune-for-tune quality terms they're probably equal for me.

BTW Tim G which city are you in? It's fairly easy to get Get Physical stuff in Melbourne - there's a couple of dance record stores which are all obsessed with it and import large quantities of the CDs and 12s. Body Language has actually been picked up and released locally.

My thesis is on.....music blogging! and to what extent the academic work done on news blogging can be applied to it. I've had ages to do it, I haven't actually been as slack as it seems, I just really read for too long and took too many notes, couldn't organise where to put everything. Also the 5000 words that are left are mainly methodology, introduction and conclusion, so quite easy really.

hahai didnt even know who they were. i remember thinking that "dj t" was a bit of a lame dj name.
i listened to body language again last night, on my proper speakers rather than headphones, it sounded a lot better, and i was kinda into it. i think it just was a lot more minimal than i was expecting (ie the get physical mix part II)

also, heywood, i downloaded yr first mix (on dial-up here) and i like it quite a bit. thanks!

btw folks, 'boogie playground' is still up for grabs on slsk if you wanna...

definitely sounding more minimal with this album, but me likey.

i would always get billed (and sometimes still do) as dj twitch. it drove me nuts which is why i inverted the letters to stop promoters doing it. i have just seen a flyer that says 'dj jd twitch'. argghhhh!

unless you are a very old school scratch mix legend, dj in front of your name = total dud.

Also I'd like to reiterate my comments above relating to Raymond Barry's "TV Eye" on Smagghe's Death Disco mix. It is seriously the most awesome thing in the world. No surprises that it was made by the Par-T-One guys.

Ronan - good luck with finishing the thesis!

Sorry I just had to announce that.

There should be more action on this thread.

Was listening to the Get Physical mix while walking my dog today, and thinking again that "Our World (Our Music)" always strikes me as the LAST house track, it is that one and then nothing afterwards ever ever ever. There's a certain apocalyptic comprehensiveness to it.

I can't wait to hear what Matos and Jess think of this mix.

I sometimes think Get Physical pre-minimal is maybe not as good as it seems, because they gut so many italo tracks for their best hooks! But I think there's probably enough original production there. Listening to that Italo mix Fezaffe posted on the YSI thread it strikes me that GPM is easily the most italo-house label in existence, not just cos of the sampling, the sound of the first 15 releases or so.

Me and my co-worker one day began cueing mixes which have weird voices saying "welcome" in them and as customers walk onto the floor we would press the cue button to "welcome" them.

It was absolutely hilarious particularly on some Jon Cutler compilation which pitched down sounded like you were being welcomed to the state penitentiary.

He told me alot of interesting GPM news. He has done a remix of "Muscle Cars" by Mylo. It is good. Chelonis's new single will have a Tiga remix on it. Chelonis makes his own stuff but it is "quite rough, but good rough" and then Walter from Booka cleans it up. But for his album they are going to leave it as it is. Oh yeah and the first release off Boogie Playground with remixes will have one by Joakim and also one by...........ADONIS.

That is, if Adonis has not spent the cash advance and ran. Apparently he works in McDonalds now, and he initially asked for some huge cash advance but was negotiated down a bit.

that's mad that they tracked adonis down.

Not surprising they all gave up music considering they all got ripped the fuck off by Trax and/or DJ International.

But actually, I remember Adonis resurfacing briefly a couple years back to do some dubious remixes of "move your body". If that is anything to go by, the quality of his output may not be high.

And Boogie Wonderland is very good.

i am gonna take the plunge and grab the "body language" mix. anybody know somewhere stateside that i can hook it up??

so after sonar i had to go to cannes to spend a week at the lions (advertising awards) for work, and happily, there turned out to be a nice post-sonar thread running through all the events. all the different agencies hosted parties all week and a number of decent djs showed up (including steve mackey, who, despite the crowd, played "midas touch" (bless him) and another duo that i danced to for four hours before finding out the next day was 2 MANY EFFING DJS). anyway one of the highlights was attending this lunch one afternoon and being sat, very randomly, across from a pair of german dudes who i soon struck up a conversation with. they said they were in cannes because they run an advertising music house but that they also had a label on the side. i ask the label name, not expecting to have heard of it, and of course it's get physical! small world.

(btw michael, are you still after that black strobe bloc party remix?)

all of that is a prelude to:

GPM 031 - DJ T. - "A guy called Jack", incl. remixes by Joakim and Samim & Michal (Release: August 05)

GPM 030 - CHELONIS R. JONES "Le Bateau Ivre" (taken from the album "Dislocated Genius", coming out in september with remixes by Tiga & Jesper Dahlbäck + Samim & Michal + Booka Shade) (Release: August 05)

GPM 032 - Williams - "Picadilly Circuits" (Release: September 05)

GPM 033 - DJ T. - "Funk on you", incl. remixes by Headman & Putch 79 (Release: September 05)

GPM 034 - Tomas Barfod (Release: October 05)

taken from Get Physical website

Mboy's actually gotten some decent remixers for his singles from this album besides Booka, I think Abe Duque/Superdiscount/Mylo/Ewan Pearson were on the previous singles.

Sadly it seems Adonis took the 250 dollar advance and away to the crackhouse he went. That remix never having materialised.

Bit dissapointed in the "Le Bateau Ivre" remixes too, I think a glossy electro house remake could've been a big crossover (those echoing "I think, think I'm in love" are really ripe for pop exploitation.)

 

GPM038 - DJ T. - "Ambush"
a) ambush
b) stalker

GPM037 - Elektrochemie - "Pleasure Seeker"
a1) pleasure seeker
b1) star struck
b2) vexed

GPM036 - "Full Body Workout Vol 2."
a1) elektrochemie - "big one"
a2) motion 040 - "timmy´s turn"
b1) tomas barfod - "barsebäck"
b2) afrilounge - "discoheadz (rough demo cut)"
c1) claude von stroke - "chimps"
c2) einzelkind - "drop74"
d1) tying tiffany - "you know me"
d2) voltique - "wah wah wah"

one of my favorite remixes of the year actually. :/

We never got the last 2 GPMs in at work, tho, I just listened online to them, thought they were pretty good tho not as good as say "Piccadilly Circuits" (but then what is). The latter I think deserves to be on a par with "Mandarine Girl" and "Body Language", it's such a brilliant record, I can't stop playing it.

tracklisting follows:

01 Chelonis R. Jones „Na Na Na“
02 M.A.N.D.Y. „Nuf“
03 M.A.N.D.Y. „Say A Little Prayer“ Dub
04 Booka Shade „Friend For A Night“
05 Jona „Yellowstone“
06 Zwicker „Monkey Mood“
07 DJ T. „Funk On You“ Dub
08 M.A.N.D.Y. „Jah“ Francisco Rmx
09 DJ T. „Time Out“
10 Chelonis R. Jones Bateau Ivre“ The Fairy Dub Mix
11 M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade „Body Language“
12 Jona „Learning From Making Mistakes“
13 Sunsetpeople „Orion“
14 Fuck Pony „Dave Brubeck“
15 DJ T. „Stalker“
16 Snax „Fill Me Up“
17 DJ T. „A Guy Called Jack“ Joakim Rmx
18 Booka Shade „Mandarine Girl“
19 Elektrochemie „Vexed“
20 Chelonis R. Jones „Deer In The Headlights“ Troy Pierce Mix
21 Booka Shade „Shimmer“
22 Lopazz „Migracion“ Luciano Rmx
23 Williams „The Arrival” [Departure]

http://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/Diverse%20-%20Get%20Physical%202:%20Fourth%20Anniversary%20Compilation.html

The way that M.A.N.D.Y. mix out of it after about 1 and half minutes is criminal, this is one of those tracks that sound better the longer it's allowed to run on.

As per Ronan I absolutely love Jona's "Yellowstone", which reminds me a bit of Herbert's remix of "Sing It Back" as well as New Horizons! Combined with the awesome xylobass line in "Full Pools" and I'm starting to suspect that Jona is a secret UK Garage revivalist!

i always get irritated by the Yellowstone tune, then as it unfolds a big grin spreads across my face. liking the 4th anniversary mix a lot. esp. the snax and ioneq tune!

bbbut (and i think ive asked about this before, at least have been meaning to ask) is there a defect in my copy where the "migracion" remix just cuts out prematurely, then a short pause, before the williams tune starts up? seems like v weird mixing if its not a mistake.

Full body workout 2 is pretty boring! dont think ill bother with the other one.

and finally....anyone got a "body language 2" release date?

Jona also has a new 12 on the ever exciting Fumakilla, sounds pretty good at first glance.

Oh yeah I also like the way in the Zwicker track, after some discussion with my gf, we think the screams go "monkey screaming, monkey screaming, woman orgasming", it's kind of weird and funny! A different sample I think!

I just realised that paragraph looks kind of dubious but it is about nothing other than Get Physical.

If Booka Shade use a spotlight to highlight certain parts of a track, it seems like the same thing with this mix, where people just jump up onto the stage for 'their moment' and then get pulled off - it makes the mix (and the label) appear pretty monolithic.

I was about to post the same thing. But I'm on first listen stage and might come around to the same position as natedey.

I would love to do the following mix transition:

Schaeben & Voss ft. Schad Privat - One Night At The Dizko
Fuckpony - Ride The Pony/Dave Brubeck
Andre Kraml - Safari (Kiki & Silversurfer Remix)

Does anyone else think DJ T's "Stalker" sounds like "Groove La Chord"? (in line with my post on another thread that "Groove La Chord" is a big record again).

liking the 4th anniversary mix a lot. esp. the snax and ioneq tune!

Fruity good fun, for sure! It was cracking me up and making me sing along last night.

is there a defect in my copy where the "migracion" remix just cuts out prematurely, then a short pause, before the williams tune starts up?

mine is like that as well, for whatever that's worth.

I have this too. Doesn't seem to be a mistake. Just a quick fade-out "...and now the last track of the night The Arrivaaaaaaalll."

Anyway, loads to take in on just one first listen, although I agree that a lot of tracks are cut too short (Migracion for instance.) They could've cut down on the DJ T, or should we say T? and left off 'Manderine Girl'.

Really M.A.N.D.Y. should have used "Ain't Got Much To Lose", the ace vinyl only track from Memento. That and "Trespass 06" maybe?

I like the Francisco remix of "Jah" quite a bit, even if he is a bit of a one trick pony!

True it's not as good as the "Animal Magic" remix.

Yessss! That's one of the early stand-out tracks for me. But yeah 'Stalker' is the one I like least (I sort of lose concentration after that for a bit too.) I've got absolutely no problem with 'Funk on you' or 'Time out'.

Though my favourite T is still the remix of Vince-Superworld, on Art of Disco. If you guys haven't heard maybe I can do the forbidden YSI dance.

I guess the problem with this CD is that the second 20 releases on GPM have been alot more varied and perhaps more hit and miss.

I sort of miss the time when tracks like that and "Freemind" sounded really fresh and startling though (as opposed to just really great in and of themselves). One slightly annoying aspect of the explosion of electro-house (esp. in Australia) is that it tends to undercut how "ohmyfuckinggod" tunes like that were when I first heard them - I suspect if I played "Freemind" for the first time to someone now I suspect they'd just shrug their shoulders.

x-post cutty the 12 inch for "Learning From The Mistakes" has an amazing b-side "Full Pools" which is essential, have you heard that? I don't know any other Jona though. Some of the photos on his website make him out to be quite hot!

Though Mobilee has been giving me that kick a bit too I guess.

Jona has a few other 12s pre Get Physical, which are very good, and as I said a new one coming out on Fumakilla, plus he just did a remix for a David K single.

http://www.discogs.com/release/673102

Jona's Ask/Use & Abuse 12" didn't make much impression on me, but with my Yellowstone love I should go back and listen to it.

01. The other people place - Let me be me
02. Stella - Extralife (DJ Naughty Remix)
03. Einzelkind - Marsha
04. Tensnake - Around the house
05. Spektrum - Horny Pony (Barlz E Syntho Mix)
06. Chicken Lips - Sweet Cow (Chicken Lips Zeefunkt Mix)
07. Audio Soul Project - Reality Check
08. DJ T. vs Booka Shade - Played Runner
09. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Graig Remix)
10. Tiefschwarz - Damage (M.A.N.D.Y. Dub Mix)
11. Trickski - Sweat (Instrumental Mix)
12. Gui Boratto - Arquipelago
13. Discemi - Tango or Cash
14. Serge Santiago - Atto D'amore Dub
15. Tahiti 80 - Big Day (Booka Shade Dub Remix)
16. Ricardo Villalobos - What you say is more that I can say
17. Heiko Voss - I think about you (DJ Koze Mix)

i intend to make this the new "YSI?" meme

Tracklisting:

01 intro
02 children of love
03 ride the pony
04 silence
05 cellphone hit
06 it's only music
07 freaky story of earth
08 93 n 4am
09 get pony
10 make money, ho
11 bongo porn
12 mafalda
13 draft

First impressions: "Ride the pony" and "Cell phone hit" are edits, the rest of the album takes after the 12" (this is a good thing), and there is no appearance by Paris the Black Fu (though they mention the planet Uranus to make up for it).

Don't get me wrong I really like the Fuckpony 12, but I thought the Snax and Ianeq one was pretty shit (in an annoying way) as I said on Stylus, plus this bombardment of CDs.

It just seems a very sudden shift in focus, from the Booka Shade album to really ultra poppy 12s with a "radio edit".

This will seem anti pop or something, which I'm not, GPM is always pop anyhow, I just don't want any more stuff like Snax and Ianeq. I mean from "Movements" to some "dirty electro, evoking Prince!!. That kind of electropop shit has been around for about 5 years and it was only good for about 6 months.

cf. "Ride The Pony" which has vocals and is catchy but is also too subtle and unchanging to be a real crossover hit.

As I say, I'm not predicting doom or anything.

a) "In White Rooms" wasn't enough like "Mandarine Girl" in the first place; and

b) the climax is too good to mess with so we'll leave it out entirely.

Luckily for Electrochemie the production is so swoonsome it's impossible to hold the above against it.

the new 12 by Discemi, Jouri Hulkonnen and Phonogenic, is very good. I played it last night and it really went off. Kind of Arquipelago/Pleasure Seeker style.

was distracted by togo-korea

It was the record of the week at my local dance vinyl store. It could well be huge, bigger than "Body Language" possibly. When I interviewed Arno from Booka Shade the other week he said he was looking forward to seeing how it was received in Ibiza.

VOMIT

Where are you publishing this? Please link...

This is not a bad thing, it's like a "story so far" track. I don't think it's a certified Get Physical classic, but it is the b-side. Looking forward to hearing "Played Runner".

If it wasn't for those big "hits" and the last 2/3rds of the Body Language mix (which even saying I love a lot of the music on it I still find a bit dry & surprisingly uninvolving, esp. after hearing Ewan Pearson's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix) I might be tempted to wonder if I ever liked Electro-House and Get Physical much in the first place? Or did I just get swept along by the ILM hivemind??

It's certainly got more obvious to me recently (getting a little jaded/tired or just overexposed to some dance stuff) that I just don't click with electrohouse to anywhere near the same extent I do with more grounded & earthy House music & rhythms, micro(techno)house, minimal-house, techno, electro, hell even your DFA/Punk-funk type of stuff, filterhouse & electroclash areas do more to get me excited.

This DJ T mix seems okay though. A bit more actual regular house strut in it, it doesn't seem quite so vacant & "last months sound" transient. And I still need to get the first Get Physical mix comp. seeing as that seems to be "the one" so far according to everyones recommendations.

Mind you I love Body Language vol 1, though it took a while for it to grow on me to the fullest extent.

I love the Ewan Pearson mix too. Maybe I'm just less critical than other people here. I think the first anniversary Get Physical mix is closer to the Ewan Pearson mix than Body Language is, definitely.

The bit that baffles me in regards to it, is how Fandango thinks that because he prefers the Pearson mix to Body Language, that also means he doesn't like electrohouse (acknowledgement of over simplification), when the pearson mix is the more electrohouse of the two mixes.

and yeah, seconding the recommending of the Get Physical mix

I just mean, I feel like i go onto every thread these days and say "no, it's great!" to some hater.

I think I DO basically know why a lot of Electrohouse doesn't quite do it for me but it's tricky to unpack concisely for ILM :/ And nobody particularly needs to read such navelgazing blog shit anyhow.

I could do to download some Tiga mixes sometime, that feels suddenly like it could be the missing link in my appreciation of it all. I should maybe add I heard Ewan Pearson's mix but I didn't keep it on my hard drive very long. I would probably buy it again if I saw it somewhere (cheap) but even that still had that weirdly disposable feeling I get about much electrohouse.

Here's what: There is a huge ..in' A' remix from MANDY to the "In white rooms" track from booka shade that i want to find. They've played it in the no soap radio session and i've heard it once more from them in another session where they completely recostrunct the hall thing. It has this slappish base-line where a trained ear will discover the notes & sounds of "in white rooms". PLEASE HELP! TELL MANDY I'AM GOING NUTTS HERE! That remix i cannot find anywhere (yes i have them all).

PLEASE HELP! Dial 111-M-A-N-D-Y! ;-)

Here's what: There is a PEREFECT! Track/Remix from MANDY to the "In white rooms" track from booka shade that i want to find. They've played it in the no soap radio session and i've heard it once more from them in another session where they completely recostrunct the hall thing. It has this slappish base-line where a trained ear will discover the notes & sounds of "in white rooms". PLEASE HELP! TELL MANDY I'AM GOING NUTTS HERE! That remix i cannot find anywhere (yes i have them all).

PLEASE HELP! Dial 111-M-A-N-D-Y! ;-)

BTW istoware that remix of "In White Rooms" in the No Soap Radio mix isn't "Blue Rooms" after all, I think Ronan is right.

Not sure how "funky" would play, with that song, though - I can see the funk coming in at the end as a mix-out but this track seems so ... throbbingly austere that anything disturbing its purity would seem strange.

1. Maurizio –Domina (Carl Craig's mind mix)
2. John Tejada - Forced Fiction
3. Kerri Chandler – Downtown (Dark Mix)
4. Darkmountaingroup - Lose Control (reprise)
5. Fuckpony - Ride the Pony
6. Heidi vs Riton - Vejer
7. Martin Landsky - 1000 Miles
8. Moritz Piske - Ein Kanguruh Im Clubraum
9. Tobias - Street Knowledge
10. Cobblestone Jazz - Dump Truck
11. Marc Houle - Bay Of Figs
12. Alex Under - D
13. Dennis Ferrer - Son of Raw
14. Hot Chip - Boy From School (Erol Alkan's Extended Re-Work)

He would kill me if he knew!

OUT SOON!
GPM 056 Booka Shade - Darko 1 (booka shade meets hot chip mixes)
GPM 057 Fuckpony - Its only music
GPM 059 Jesse Rose - Didnt I

Depeche Mode´s upcoming single "Martyr" (coming in various formats)
will feature remixes by Booka Shade.

A new Booka Shade single, „DARKO“, will be released at the end of October.

The two 12" editions will feature remixes by HOT CHIP,
TIEFSCHWARZ and RADIOSLAVE.

Still Tiefschwarz and Radioslave (they sure love Radioslave at GPM towers) should be good.

I played with Booka Shade on Saturday, the live show seems to get better and better, it is total stadium dance music, they seem to have a few really technoey tunes they didn't put on the album.

yeah I'm loving the Booka Shade essential mix - they're totally approaching live Underworld/Orbital territory.

Chelonis R. Jones - Chatterton

Right now we´re working on Chelonis long awaited "Dislocated Genius" follower called "Chatterton". We´re in the final production stage right now so the album should hit the streets early 2007....get ready for some Psycho Audio Couture !!!

This time, the singles better have Booka Shade remixes (I swear we wear promised them for "Dislocated Genius").

P.S. When is Jona's Yellowstone getting a proper release?

P.P.S. Why must I be so whiny over Get Physical's generosity.

srsly this needs the full treatment.

It has a different version of the track that opened their No Soap Radio mix - turns out it's Jesse Rose and Henrik Schwarz's "Stop Look & Listen" (three points to Ronan). The version on At The Controls is "Henrik's Version", so perhaps the version on No Soap Radio is Jesse's? Anyone heard the Jesse Rose album More Than One?

Early favourite track for disc one is Osborne's "(TBC)" which is just magical and totally epic.

Mathew Dear - Tide
Isolée - Willy Skipper
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (My My Mix)
Jona - Smart Cats Vs Dumb Dogs
M.A.N.D.Y - Take Two Four
Alex Under - Collage
Dinky - Michelle
Señor Coconut - Electrolatino (Ricardo Villalobos 'Lecktro Carlño' Mix)
Osborne - Outta Sight
Jesse Rose & Henrik Schwarz - Stop Look & Listen (Henrik's Version)
Rockers Hi Fi - Push Push (M.A.N.D.Y Mix)
Booka Shade - In White Rooms (Mexico Version)
My My - Clean Break
Claude Vonstroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit
Lindstrøm - I Feel My Space (M.A.N.D.Y Mix)
Scsi-9 - Senorita Tristeza
Chikinki - Assassinator 13 (Ruege Hagelstein 'Ride On Take Off' Mix)
Justin Martin - The Sad Piano (Charles Webster Mix)
Zweikarakter - Synthic
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemøller Mix)
Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Radio Mix)

And while I'm posting on this thread all by myself, I may as well ask an entirely unrelated but similar question:

does anyone know the actual identity of the track incorrectly nameed the "Fairy Dub Mix" of "Le Bateau Ivre" on M.A.N.D.Y.'s 4th Anniversary Mix? I know it's not the Fairy Dub Mix (or Fairy Remix) on the Le Bateau Ivre vinyl. I also know it's not the Booka Shade/M.A.N.D.Y. Remix (which is ace - track it down if you haven't heard it).

i really love the whole at the controls mix, anyway, i think it's really consistent and i wouldn't leave any of it off!

That My My track "Clean Break" is so good.

i want to investigate more my my: i love 'clean break' too, and also 'bonus jack', and the album's meant to be good...

"Whose Afraid Of Detroit" is a brilliant track, I was surprised its flipside "The Whistler" wasn't discussed more here, it was huge in the summer over here.

I only heard "The Whistler" recently and really like it Ronan, such a bouncy groove (I'd argue the sampled "ugh" is actually more important than the whistling). I probably like it slightly more than "Kookaburra", although that's growing on me too. I find "Kookaburra" works really well in the mix but "The Whistler" stands up by itself a bit better.

I said on another thread a short while back that this sort of track reminds me a lot of "Voodoo Ray".l

i tried tracking this down also to no avail...

how's the my my on circus company, kinesi workshop?

haven't had as much $$$ to buy 12s lately, I'm out of the loop!

And here's the lovely album artwork, just for fun:
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-751066-1159477819.jpeg

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http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FA4VYG.01._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V66210202_.jpg

Dear Abbie,

Last night someone played me "put your hands up 4 Detroit" and said "This is cheesy shit. I hate it. You will hate it too" and ... I loved it. When I feel down now, I just hum the bassline to myself and I'm okay. Am I an idiot?

Cheers, GD

WHAT IS THE ID OF THE TRACK THAT SUDDENLY STOPS (as if the boys are experiencing an error with the gear) @ 22:21 (trully trully awesome in deed, one of the most melancholic climaxes in minimal get/phys era) ???

Needless to say that it's the same mix that they have release twice (to my knowledge) in radio stations here & there:

M.A.N.D.Y. - Sputnik Turntable Show (14-10-2006)
Track No.4 - ID-ID [Suddenly stops, like an error with the gear @ 22:21]

and

M.A.N.D.Y. - NJoy In The Mix (06-10-2006)
Track No.4 - ID-ID [Suddenly stops, like an error with the gear @ 22:18]

God! The boys r doin' it again with this track. Thanks again in advance for the one(s) that will perform the right, delicate research to ID this great track.

i haven't gotten to the new tracks yet, but the remixes are all pretty weak. none of them outshine the originals.

HI JAYMC

I'm loving the new Kramer 12" (gpm 072) though, especially b2, El Pueblo De Bailar. It's got these giant siren/foghorn sounds that would be so great on the right soundsystem.

Booka Shade's "Unhealthy Pleasures": how do they manage to sound so deep and so pop at the same time?

Yay, thank you, Jergins!

'tickle' is great.

yes it is. 'karma car' is just so-so.

the kramer 12, playing this very second on the link I just put in minimal bobbins, is their best release in ages

Anyone heard M.A.N.D.Y.'s mix-cd for Mixmag? It's labelled as "Ibiza 2007" which is about right - it's very uptempo and fun. It's good but I miss the spacey quality which has characterised the last few mixes I've heard from them.

Yessssss.... This will hopefull make up for the 5th Anniversary SnoozeFest (taken from Resident Advisor):

Swiss DJ and producer Samim has often been part of a couple, first with Michal Ho as Samim & Michal, then later as part of Bearback and Fuckpony with Jay Haze, the latter of which was responsible for last year’s rated longplayer on Get Physical ‘Children of Love’. This year Samim has been stepping into the spotlight alone a little more, with a huge remix of Pier Bucci’s ‘Hay Consuelo’ and big solo gigs in London, Barcelona and Berlin. He’s also techno’s most enthusiastic blogger.

‘Flow’ promises Samim vocal tracks featuring Big Bully (‘Spring Break´), Middle Eastern percussion (‘Black Death´) and even touches of R&B (‘The Lick´ - billed as Timbaland in Berlin in the press notes).

‘Flow’ tracklist

1. Intro
2. Springbreak
3. Blackdeath
4. Heater
5. Ukaka
6. Setup One
7. Zleep
8. Force Feedback
9. The Lick

‘Flow’ by Samim will be released on Get Physical on September 7th, 2007.

Also the Monza Club Ibiza Vol. 2 comp looks good. Lazarus seems to have backed off from the forbidding minimal of his Get Lost mix a bit:

’Monza Club Ibiza Vol. 2’ tracklist

CD 1 mixed by Damian Lazarus

1. Nathan Fake – You Are Here (Four Tet Remix)
2. Pier Bucci – Glasgow
3. Dennis Ferrer – Son Of Raw (Loco Dice Remix)
4. Efdemin – Just A Track
5. Patrick Zigon – Mental Draining
6. Outlines – Listen To The Drums (Contains Shackleton feat. Savage Republic - Next to Nothing (acapella).
7. Marc Romboy – Helen Cornell (Stefan Goldmann Remix)
8. Jamie Jones – Strangers
9. Phonique – Bang
10. Szenario – Pleaseasy (Raudive Remix)
(Contains Ambivalent – R U Ok? (acapella)
11. Danton Eeprom – One Thing Leads To Another
12. Snax – Honeymoon’s Over (Konrad Black Remix)
13. Henrik Schwarz - Walk Music
14. Trentemøller & DJ Tom – An Evening With Bobbi Bros
15. Findlay Brown – Losing The Will To Survive (Wizards Of The Sleeve Remix)

CD2 mixed by DJ T.

1. Max Berlin - Elle & Moi (Joakim Remix)
2. Boundzound - Louder (Martin Buttrich Remix)
3. DJ Koze Vs. Sid Le Rock - Naked (DJ Koze Remix)
4. Martin Landsky - Let Me Dance
5. Raz Ohara - Whitmey Na
6. Einzelkind - Maferefumeco
7. Matthias Tanzmann - Procon
8. Johnny Wagner - Intercity (Daniel Stefanik Remix)
9. DJ T. - The Dawn
10. Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix)
11. Mike Shannon - Ghost Writer Blues
12. Arto Mwambé - Ombala Mbembo
13. Schatrax - Mispent Years (Original)
14. Claude VonStroke and Christian Martin - Groundhog Day
15. Efdemin - Bergwein
16. Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe

the second half of lazarus's disc is AMAZING, as is the whole of the dj t - functions a lot like heidi's monza mix last year, very hit-heavy and banging

in a way i feel sorry for the three or four really awesome tracks on the 5 year thing, buried away on this bizarrely terrible compilation

the lazarus mix.....isn't electrohouse gone?? that's what I thought when I saw the tracklist, it looks so SOLID, even more so than DJ T!

Re the 5th Anniversary Comp - Yeah I feel the same way - it's odd how boring most of the exclusives are! It's like a bad Poker Flat comp.

"the lazarus mix.....isn't electrohouse gone?? that's what I thought when I saw the tracklist, it looks so SOLID, even more so than DJ T!"

Yeah, and thank God to be honest. I spent ages and ages trying to fall in love with Get Lost and ultimately gave up. Although I'm tempted by Jamie Jones' follow-up.

That Get Lost mix was difficult alright, but those two discs do look a bit boring to me.

i listen to the CrowwtownRebels vol 01 mix a lot more than the Get Lost it has to be said. never bothered with Jamie J's - and now that Fopp has gone, the chances of seeing it in a shop have gone forever ! (they always had CrowwTownRebels stuff in .. )

that crosstown rebels mix was really awesome, such a gorgeous rush

totally with you there lex - and amazed you figured out what i was on about in my fucked post.

crowwtown

not once, but twice.
oh the shame.

i wasn't aware that i needed more accordion in my life, but then i heard 'heater'.

MANDY remixes comp is forthcoming.

Kanye sampling Daft Punk? pfft, whatever. just watch this clip of Will.I.Am previewing songs from his forthcoming album, wait for a few minutes 'til he gets to a track called "Get Your Money", and... hehe!

haha!/argh!

ethan is on record circa a few years ago sayin that the BEP are basically a euro popdance group so i'm not surprised at how housey this album sounds.

i like that italoboyz 12" a lot. it's not especially 'get physical' but what you gonna do.

what's this krautrock-style business they're putting out? anyone heard it properly?

I've heard this, it's very good! Bronnt are a Bristol act, kind of John Carpenter-style proto electro. The bloke behind it has done a FACT mixtape which gives a good idea of some of their influences, you can dl it and read an interview about the record here.

i miss mid 00s electrohouse ;_;

Me too.

I'll just have to satisfy myself with all these Lee Curtiss tracks, close enough to old Fuckpony for my purposes.

http://youtu.be/PIGzopGDamw

this has been my indian summer jam today

It seems sad to realise that by the time this thread was started peak Get Physical was already over.

This looks supa dupa obvious but I bet it's lots of fun:

http://www.junodownload.com/products/dj-t-presents-united-under-the-ball-30-years-of-disco/1909918-02/

I know an awful lot of that but almost everything I do know I love, and there's enough I don't know to make it an 'OMG want' type thing.

http://youtu.be/I00qzHX871Q

this was THE track of burning man 2012

as my good friend put it..

picture the scene... you're riding round the desert dressed as a pilot and you finally found the giant dragon shaped car you've been looking for the sun is coming up and the dj on the back of the dragon plays this song...

http://www.physical-music.com/releases/GPMMember/Membership

Worth doing. Free Mandy v DJ double CD in the post today. May be too late, I suppose.

RIP Philipp Jung of MANDY

https://djmag.com/news/philipp-jung-get-physical-music-and-mandy-co-founder-dies-aged-55