commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

mix is tops dudes thnx!

anyone listen to the fever ray one yet?

I'm fifteen minutes into it and it's kinda doin' nothing for me at all. I don't know the first thing about Fever Ray though. Loved the Lawrence one but I love pretty much everything Lawrence touches.

however it does have this awesome Zola Jesus track on it so that's cool

i enjoyed it a lot

Dor from Laid/Dial records -- lovely. Very smooth, very Detroit. Bit of a casual/spontaneous live mix, mistakes left in, triggering a 250-post lol-RA thread on soul vs technique.

Really liking Matt Edwards II/II mix tonight

are they still 128s or have they bumped up the quality.
i stopped grabbing when they dropped to 128, well, that and the fact i got a little overloaded with mixes and realised i just never had time to absorb and enjoy.

they're back at 160 now :)

cosmic twins weirdly controversial in the comments box. you'd think people would be all over derrick may / françois k but i guess not?

have you hard it? horrible unfunky sped up late 90s jazzy / tech house with a box of badly used tricks.

it's not THAT bad

Sounds alright to me, proper dancing music, hi-hats are due a comeback.

tf; dl

xpost OTM. Lol @ folx who can't deal with anything over 110 bpm

Although I'd forgotten how much Derrick May's EQ fiddling can be a bit annoying - he's less offputting than the last time I saw him play though.

The last track is the bomb.

Commendation to anyone who submits a mix to RA. Those comment pages can turn nasty very quickly.

reprimand for outstanding damage to the human race: resident advisor posters

OMFG TENSNAKE

Indeed.

Me gusta!

I don't think that May / FK mix was that good, even thought I usually am really into both those guys' mixes, but the people in the comments saying 'it's way too fast' are tripping me out. It's really not that long ago that mixes like this were what most techno dj's played like and aspired to. You'd think they'd (the commenters, that is) understand the context of it.

yeah the tensnake one is loads of fun. i love this guy.

oh man just getting to tensnake--so good

Marcus Worgull one is sounding WAY proggy. And I mean as in prog-rock.

LOVE the Marcus Worgull mix, have listened to nothing else all week. The initial psychedelic/balearic vibe doesn't last but what follows is just as good. Azari and III's 'Reckless with your love' was new to me -- best thing I've heard since 'Happy House'.

Favorite parts of Tensnake were the first 10 minutes ('Lovesick', Tiger & Woods) and the big NYE-in-NYC ending (from 'Coma Cat' on).

DJ Stingray this week, technoheads rejoice.

Yup, Stingray is good. Mixing is nothing special but track selection spot on.

Finally getting to the Marcus Worgull mix myself and absolutely loving it!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1144

nice to see gas 'pop' in the top 10 also agree with villalobos ftw. think vocalcity could have been higher. thoughts etc?

Vocalcity should be Number 1

No Afro Finger and Gel by Mu either. People seem to have forgotten that one.

xpost: great album. Also, why does Isolee "We Are Monster" get more love than his "Rest" album?

Because far less people have heard rest?

Even I haven't heard the (full) album, and I put Isolee in my techno/house POV of the decade.

"we are monster" is a better record!

Mylo's album is 21 and kittens and thee glitz is 73?? more than 50 behind....

wow that's an odd choice.

Scuba/SCB is just delicious.

Dude was doing absolutely nothing for me circa Mutual Antipathy, but at this point, he's making shit happen.

$10 says they're going to do an outrageous 200th podcast for April fool's day, the question is what would this be.

Podcast 200 = Carl Craig! Downloading now...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=200

Well I was wrong...

It's ok but I can't help thinking that a lot of these once great Detroit DJ's have disappeared down this bland tech-house cul-de-sac. Stacey Pullen's recent LWE podcast was incredibly dull for example.

Is this what happens to DJ's who play out, week in week out?

Dance music is prone to hyperbole, but you'd be hard-pressed to come up with anything but words like "legend," "titan" and "giant" when describing Carl Craig's impact on the electronic scene. Producer, remixer, label boss, DJ, the list goes on and on.

feel like this entire paragraph should be inside inverted commas inside this paragraph.

I can't help thinking that a lot of these once great Detroit DJ's have disappeared down this bland tech-house cul-de-sa

e.g. the hella boring D25 party at WMC, totally phoned in

not that i don't still try to track down just about every new CC remix...

carl craig has become pretty formulaic in his remixes these days, but there still pretty damned good imho. i really like his recent rmx of hot chip.

still haven't had a chance to listen to the podcast, but the DJ sets i've heard from carl craig have been very good, if not great.

yours,
cap'n save-a-craig

*they're

also the chez damier re-issue is essential!

Scuba/SCB is just delicious.

God, yes. Gorgeous. Listening to his mnml ssgs mix next.

Nicolas Jaar: Jaw dropped.