the ineffable genius of DJ Q

We need to persuade the good man to make this the cover of a new release:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/226725_10151960558364202_1613001138_n.jpg

haha

Words cannot do justice to the extent of my infatuation with his 20 May Ministry of Sound set.

I like most of the "Classified" one for DJ Magazine, I think it is. I discovered that somewhere else but it must have been mentioned on this thread already somewhere.

Tracklist for the 20 May show:

DJ Q - Everytime
Linkoban - Like This (Tom Shorterz VIP Mix)
Ray Foxx - Heartbeat (Taiki & Nulight Remix)
Infinity Ink - Infinity (Skream's 99 Remix)
DJ Haus - Feel It ft Matrixxman
Hybrid Theory - So High
Disclosure - You & Me ft Eliza Doolittle
Breach - Let's Get Hot
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Girls
Kcat - Greater Love (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
Mr Virgo - Jack In The Box
Royal T - I Know You Want Me
DJ Q - Wreck It
Champion - Iced Tea
We Are Nuts! - Bombaclat (DJ Q Remix)
Todd Edwards - The Dream (Compound Mix)
Majestic - Creeping In The Dark
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Kneadin'
Moet & Benson and Velvet Tux - When I Come Through
Moony - Barge
DJ Q - Notice Me
Sinden - Bad Boy
Palace - Astral
DJ Q presents Classified - All I Do
Lazy Rich & Hirstee - Damage Control ft Amba Sheperd (Danny Phillips Remix)
Shola Ama - Much Love (Dreem Team Remix)

... and it looks like a 17 June show is now available.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xwgbz

if anyone's after the tracklist for the new one it's this old skool mix from the 11 sept 2011 show

... what, don't look at me like that

What are these horrific Modern Rock vocals at 11 minutes into the (recent?) Classified/DJ Mag mix? Is this some sort of joke?

(around 11 minutes in)

I do love when he really gets going with the vocal reductions.

YOU GUYS.

this is a 30-min mix that Q sent me and asked me to post here. (!!!)

check out the artwork!!!!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bzqryx

:)

is this mix really exclusive to ilx?? it's hott!

it's almost as if he took pity knowing a oldskool set wouldnt be enough to sate his loyal crackheads for a whole month

i was sort of nervous to ask him if it was an actual ILX exclusive! not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth. but... it seems possible?

haha the art

made my day this.

Whats this old-skool (well he says 2005 in the lyrics) MC tune right at the end?

and 'Sherlock (Taiki & Nulight remix)' is so fucking good.

yeah this is delicious. what a gent.

xp http://soundcloud.com/man-like-me/london-town-large-joints-remix

iirc man like me's non-remixed stuff is some of the worst tripe ever put to tape

"The mix is exclusive to you guys on the forum as a thanks for the support!"

Rynsa Man - Foxy Brown
Walter Ego - Baby Benz
DJ Q - Everytime
DJ Haus ft Matrixxman - Feel It
Todd Edwards - Heaven
Lee Webster - Punch A Crocodile
Deckstar - Make It Through
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Kneadin
Rynsa Man - Electrons (Sivey Remix)
Hybrid Theory - So High
True Steppers ft Dane Bowers - Buggin
Ashanti - Happy (Dnd Remix)
Man Like Me - London Town (Juicy Joints Remix)

Thank you DJ Q! Really liking this so far. (Thank you ILM too, especially Tim F, without which I probably wouldn't have found my way to this music.)

Respect! So great.

<3 u, Q.

Q deserves some special ILM award for looking after us so.

Rynsa Man - Electrons (Sivey Remix)

damn you Q for making me like future garage!!

lol mind taker

heh q had a bunch of satirical tweets recently about his new genre "future bassline house"

(i tried to post them but kept getting an error page? weird)

i hope in talking past it i didnt put anyone off this week's oldskool essential garage mix this week btw, it's only cos i knew it well. ftr it is a treat and a masterclass and you'd have go to v far to hear better

the new tracklist also means i finally know what this is!! sick riddim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVH9mK-7dZQ

ooh i've got a copy of that GOD ep, the whole thing is sick. Jeremy Sylvester innit.

thanks Q, this is great!

thank u based Q

I'm going to spend forever racking my brain to figure out what the sample is in DJ Q - "Everytime". I feel like it's something I haven't heard in years, but that one vocal run is so recognizable, if not placable.

The synths remind me a lot of the Dreem Teem Original Dub Mix of Neneh Cherry's "Buddy X", but not sure otherwise.

^ yeah I've been doing the same. I don't think its the one but it really reminds of 'I pray' by N10-tainment, if you remember that old minor funky classic.

naw, it's the vocal sample, nothing to do with the synths. it might be the track after that I was thinking of tho, can't relisten right now.

amerie, 'talking to me'

not gonna be cool and pretend that wasnt eventually sprung from the most torturous brainwracking sesh btw

otoh on the plus side i'd somehow p much totally forgotten all i have ever existed and am now falling head over heels all over again

ahhh good lookin out

AHHHH awesome choice Q, such a fabulous song (and album!).

wait this is so dope

TY Q

q is the best and doing an ilm mix just confirms it

Guys guys guys do make sure you check the 20 May 2013 set if you're enjoying this:

http://essentialgarage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/essential-garage-2013-05-20.html

shush you, i wanna see what other random mutes come out of the woodwork

http://essentialgarage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/essential-garage-2013-03-25.html

seriously though march is still the toppa top one imo

obv they're both fantastic but i just feel like this was more of a feat

on mixcloud too

http://www.mixcloud.com/djqmusic/

seems like Q leaving 1xtra hasn't been such a bad thing after all. Love these hour long mixes.

Xxpost agreed, I've just been listening to the may one more in the past few weeks for obvious reasons.

And benny, I agree - the perfect length and much more accessible. Though maybe a step down for people who were getting a weekly fix before.

I only started to listen to the 1xtra show about a year before it ended (not every week i admit). Obviously it was a peerless show but I like the concentrated 1 hour hit and it means i'm replaying and getting more out of them. This no-chat format also really highlights his mixing skills more and puts him centre-stage. Plus the guy's workrate outside of radio is so fierce, can't say I've felt a lack of Q in my life since the MOS show started so i'm happy.

i'd imagined losing the weekly fix would be a terrible loss but actually it's been really rewarding spending a bit longer marinating on each mix and getting into some close reading. (ok i probably wouldnt say no to fortnightly...)

i guess in retrospect q's 1xtra departure could be seen to be serendipitous as from then on garage has diffused out into ubiquity whilst simultaneously losing its core heartland to some extent - everywhere but nowhere. "essential garage" becomes aptly named under q's direction - not simply an exercise in (superbly) mixing together whatever's around at the moment but an ideological treatise on garageness itself, and rather than retreat back to basics to make the point like everyone else he instead approaches it by taking in even more of the surrounding ecology as possible and intuitively teases out the bubbling thread running through

which is why i particularly ride for the march set cos i think he said more with what at the time seemed apparently "less" if you catch my drift