Fabric/Fabriclive mix cd series S/D

Looking forward to the Oneman mix. Tracklisting looks good (I do miss his epic dubstep / garage blends of yore however)

if you like deep house, the doc martin one is great

The Ewan Pearson Fabric mix is really drab compared to his Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix and pretty much ever other mix I've heard by him.

What's the mixing on the Doc Martin like? Practically every mix I've heard of his has been full of clangers.

o really? the mixings p good on the fabric i think

that Drop The Lime one is p naff, although not as bad as his actual productions these days

it has 'Rock Around The Clock' slapped in its middle and feels v forced in general

iirc Craig Richards' one was way more interesting than my idea of him as a DJ at least

I've never heard Craig Richards play anything other than clumpy tech-house and I'm kind of amazed anyone would actually think to check out his own mix.

The Doc Martin one is really nicely mixed IMO.

xpost: yeah, that was my attitude too, but I was just looking at the resident Advisor top mixes of the 00s poll and was kind of surprised to find that at like, 11 or so.

Re: Craig Richards. While he does play his fair bit if clumpy tech-house (lol, love that term). He does play a lot of other styles too and can pull out some great gems, it's pretty common for him to also play electro, italo or classic deep house. For example he put $tinkworx on his last mix, and I've heard him play things like love'n'music in Room 1. Now, if only he could learn to play these with interesting, dramatic mixes rather than smooth, souless blends - that is perhaps his most 'tech-house' trait.

Basically when I've been in Fabric and heard Craig Richards I've mainly been glad it's not Terry Francis playing the same record for 3 hours. ;)

I obviously love a bit of the old clumpy tech house, just looked for a recent mix and I'm currently rushing my tits of, in a manner of speaking, to this: http://soundcloud.com/r_co/craig-richards-kiss-presents

levon's is probably the best one ever

i found agoria's in the trunk of my car today, i think i threw it in there to sell it because i wasn't really feeling it when it came out ... but damn if isn't actually really, really good!

It's not light goth microhouse like you are loathe to listen to? :)
I don't know that I've listened to the Agoria fabric mix, but I enjoyed his At the Controls mix, although it was more of a 2 CD thematic affair.

I don't think, beyond a few token releases I've picked up, that I've really followed the fabric mixes in the last few years. I thought the Pinch one was very accessible, though, and the Surgeon one was good although fairly by the numbers and didn't deviate into the noisier/darker reaches he goes for.

I picked up a whole load of these at HMV Replay the other day - £2 each. So far I have Optimo, Sneak, Derrick Carter and Surgeon. Haven't had a chance to scratch the surface on them all though - which should I start with?

The Optimo one of those is the only one I know, but it's excellent.

yeah i gave that one a quick blitz on friday night before going out. it seemed to take a while to get going, but it was really well put together and mixed.

The Optimo and Surgeon are both really good. You'll probably find Carter and Sneak fairly interchangable - doing the high energy Chicago house thing they've always done. I find it a bit relentlessly and strangely joyless these days.

the agoria one is not gothy at all, it's kind of a jazzy detroit techno meets continental maximal house thing

DOG LATIN

i've bought more or less every fabric / fabric live mix, here are the ones i've kept

jams murphy, surgeon, optimo, rub n tug, levon vincent, luke slater, jay haze, bent, deadly avenger, death in vegas, swayzak, autonomic, spank rock, martyn, toddla t, metro area, john tejada, pearson sound, jackmaster, four tet, pinch, shackleton, ame, omar s, aim, dj spinbad, tyler stadius, jacques lu cont, carl craig, global communication, james lavelle, filthy dukes

oh and claude von stroke

i'm very excited for ONEMAN

that's already out and it's not very good

Still going through the blitz of fabric CDs I picked up a month or so ago. Actually, I'm listening to the radio slave one for the first time as I write. 5.5 tracks in it's pretty lifeless and dull in the same way pretty much all of RS' productions are, but that's perfect because I need music like this to write essays too, so it's serving well. I could also see this serving exceptionally well as inoffensive, dinner party background music.

I think I have the Ivan Smagghe one in the car

So I guess here's my (seemingly quite favourable) breakdown of what I have

Michael Mayer: ALL TIME CLASSIC, PERRRRRRRRRFECT!
Ricardo Villalobos: Exceptionally solid
Metro Area: Also very good. Very 'fun'
Omar-S.: Also very good.
Radio Slave: see above
Optimo: Still need to listen to it
James Murphy and Pat Mahoney: One of the most fun mixes I've heard. Luvv this.
Shackleton: Really amazing.
Pearson Sound: Very good, perhaps plays it too safe to be exceptional.
Jackmaster: Pretty good, I guess, but nothing all that special, really.
Four Tet: Great, loads of 'character'

Still would like, but the fact I haven't pounced on them might be telling:
Martyn, Surgeon, Instramental + D Bridge,

Wow, that radioslave mix actually really sucked. The fact that it just ham-fistedly faded out at the end, without any attempt to bring things down first or find closure is just injury + insult.

MARTYN is amazingly dope

i was so disappointed with radio slave! it's just shit boring tribal house. he could've just mixed the best 15-20 rekids tracks and been done with it! but i also note that his own dj mixes and the mixes he's made to promote rekids are in general quite underwhelming

another one i forgot that i would heartily recommend to dog latin would be the new digital soundboy soundsystem one

in particular i think DL would really enjoy that one

i do like the michael mayer one but i have no idea what happened to my copy! i have a bunch of random fabric mixes in storage that *aren't* on that list, maybe i'll dig some of them out ...

cheers - will def check some of those out, particularly DSB.

Listened to Sneak followed by Carter back to back while doing some weed clearance in the garden yesterday. Both were okay - the Sneak one maybe less interesting / more functional than Derrick Carter's mix, but I'm not sure either are 'my style of music'. Still, I guess a lot of these comps work as primers and insights into a particular style, and that's cool.

One of my alltime favourite Fabric ones goes back to its early days - the Radioactiveman mix is a lot of fun. Other than that I've got a handful - Global Communications, Swayzak, Michael Meyer etc... My one complaint with a lot of these is that they often play it very strait and safe - think this may be down to the "I am serious DJ, this big serious Fabric mix" factor. That said they don't all lack humour (Metro Area for example).

The Villalobos one is really good, and a good place to listen to a large chunk of his stuff, similar in that respect to the Omar-S one. Mayer is all time. I have a soft spot for the Glimmers one too, but then I like every mix of theirs I've heard.

I like the Carter one.

My one complaint with a lot of these is that they often play it very strait and safe - think this may be down to the "I am serious DJ, this big serious Fabric mix" factor.

The Ewan Pearson and Ame mixes both struck me as examples of this dynamic.

That reminds me, I forgot to include my summary of:

Ewan Pearson: good-ish. A little too 2007 minimal house. Too clean, and yes, too by the book. Sounds more like a theoretical ideal of a well made mix than something I`d return to over and over.

Pearson's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix from 2005 is fantastic though. Played it in the car this weekend and the last 40 minutes are such a huge rush

Aw man, 'Broken Dream' by Da Fresh! That Summetime Cowboy remix! YESSS!

Yes part of the problem his Fabric mix had was coming off the back of that one.

Oh man, this Surgeon mix is just wonderful!

zip!

yes!

I've just ahem stumbled across an archive of every Fabric mix up until last year and damn the Ben Klock one is great, just zero fannying around at all. Might just sit at home and listen to these all weekend.

excited for prosumer and illum sphere

dont much care for his own music but the illum sphere one is one of the best mixes ive heard this year i think...

who is monki? this one looks good!

Annie Mac protegee, she's like 21 years old and already has her own Radio 1 show. I've never listened to it but that tracklist looks extremely promising.

I've been playing the Monki one all week by the way and it's brilliant, my favourite in quite a while, joining the dots between hard-as-nails percussive bass music and hands-in-the-air gospelized house, with the occasional enthusiastically amateurish MC thrown in.

i was not as impressed but i only gave it a couple of spins

Kinda want TLG to hear the Joris Voorn one just to see what level of red mist it gives him. It's like a big fluffy cloud of microhouse candyfloss, really pretty in some places but at other times I can kinda feel my brain dribbling out of my ear.

i was quite turned off by the size of the track list. i dont have anything against digital - i use traktor myself - but in general i don't care much for the slice-n-dice school of dj'ing. i like ye olde richie hawtin mixes okay but that's about it.

If you'd asked me without looking at the tracklisting I honestly wouldn't have guessed there were so many records involved. But then the same goes for Closer To The Edit.

There are plenty of other reasons why you won't like it though. It's like a more fussy version of some of the wibblier James Holden sets I've seen in my time.

voorn has been making p much shitty trance for a long time