the ineffable genius of DJ Q

yes, that. think i will adopt the way tim hears it from now on

that section and the switch from nintendo-ass floaty panpipe riddim to the savagery of t williams 'three letters' circa 17mins are v much the croosh flashpoints

having a caffeine meets eyeballs night so i may as well have a go reconstructing the t-list now tbh

oh and then the walter ego mix of queenie 'and every' sped way the fuck up is probably the best bit. such a groovers!

THANK YOU BENNY B

Also I will need to cross-reference but I am blithely certain that I agree with what r|t|c is saying about other particular tunes.

if anyone was wondering what would Drake enthusiasts think of a Drake remix by "Glasgow's legendary DJ Q" (lol) with no Drake in it, look no further:

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/drake-from-time-song.1639722.html

march, may & july sets are so the best, funny how the july set sounded so forbiddingly ruff tuff when it appeared but now feels so breezy and fun! guess i'm just in too deep lol

omg thank you for saying that, i really didnt want to be that one guy again

(and yes "glasgow's legendary" also spotted and smirked @)

anyway, missed some obvis but

ESSENTIAL GARAGE 15h July 2013

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Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith - La La La (Deckstar Remix)
Drums of Death ft Yasmin - True
Trumpet & Badman - Love Keeps Changing
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T Williams - Three Letters
Queenie - And Every (Walter Ego Remix)
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Hannah Wants & Lorenzo - Signs (Roller Mix)
DJ Q - Come With Me
Deckstar - Make It Through
DJ Q - Dance With Me
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Roska - Dreamchasers
My Nu Leng - The Grid (Alias Remix)
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AC Slater - Donkey Shake
TC4 – La La La VIP
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? v Back In The Day
Spooky - Baby
Route 94 - Tell You Why
Todd Edwards - Time To Care
DHL - Whiskey In The Jar

Champion.

ah listening again now, such a wicked set! the nintendo-ass floaty panpipe riddim is bicep 'courtside drama', totally ripped this selection for a mix I did. Never would have occurred to pick up on a tune by bicep otherwise, must admit.

the october MOS sets streaming now, should really be giving that a proper listen. Loving that Linden Jay/C&A tune right now though so I've got a good feeling about it.

1st ?: Rynsa Man - Electrons (Sivey Remix)
2nd ?: Hybrid Theory - Whats Going Down

excellent excellent. the one after alias is an obvious slam dunk on the tip of my tongue but the one after tc4 is what i really want

it's so true what mt said though, i think i listened to this one live at the time and found it SO overwhelming and now it's like oh yeah this this this. march is still the one with the everlasting magic for me personally

would never presume to tell the great man what to do but along these ruff tuff lines i still think there's a tempting space for blending this approach with the dostracks mix. (i guess i am saying i want more ejeca and mk dubs and shit - but not losing the sharp sweetness somehow) (xp and now lol at me missing a bicep cut)

think it was 'salient sarah' in the september set that made me strongly believe that lil silva is kinda the quintessential q audio kinship, q brings his tunes to life in such a particular transcendently brilliant way, the harshness, the sweetness, the melodrama, idk it's hard to describe but you don't ever hear it elsewhere

hope we have all heard the lil silva mix of storm queen btw

yeah i remember us discussing this before. Theres been at least 3 occasions I'd heard a new lil silva tune on SC and thought they were weak, only to have a revelation hearing them on Q's shows.

Loving that Linden Jay/C&A tune right now though so I've got a good feeling about it.

― Benny B, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 00:35 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

every mix of this is a vibes iirc. great tune

ooh look taiki & nulight with a new one http://soundcloud.com/lindenjay/linden-jay-break-the-hold-ft

mmm thats nice, not what i was expecting at all from t&n, sort of a downtempo 2step/old skool uk streetsoul flava.

mixmag gave the C&A one away free on their site but rather annoyingly the dl link doesn't work.

Would agree that Lil' Silva feels like the key reference point for the harder sections of the July set (can't speak to subsequent entries yet) - esp. that run of "Better Off As Friends", "Living Like I Do" and "Your Drums, Your Love", such a compelling vision of post-apocalyptic dance-pop, the harshness and sweetness slashing into one another rather than cancelling each other out.

yeah in all honesty i think silva's is probably the most otherworldly sui generis vision anywhere right now, like you're genuinely talking about something beyond evolved accreted sensibility, a preternatural beauty so savage yet estrangingly calm and lucid

'post-apocalyptic' is right, kinda on some ballard shit pretty much, flesh-eating orchids flowering in the middle of bitterly brutalist urban abstract utopia

banks 'work' and his mix of london grammar 'metal & dust' also urgent & key (the latter is weirdly scarce, might have to youtube it up myself at some point actually)

lil silva so hard to pin down, like the post-apocalyptic ballardian angle though.

we should really post the tls here so we don't lose em in future. Here's the latest. The stanton warriors remix continues to kick my head in. Haven't fully digested this yet though.

Drake - From Time [DJ Q Edit]
Ellie Goulding - Lights (MK Deep Mix) [DJ Q Edit]
New York Transit Authority - 95
Linden Jay ft Ruby Wood - Break The Hold (Cause & Affect Remix)
Javeon - Lovesong (Shadow Child Remix)
Wookie ft Eliza Doolittle - The Hype (S Chu Remix)
Paranoid Resistance - Smoke Machine
DJ Q ft Robbie Rue - Soundboy Connection
All About She - Higher (Preditah Remix)
Mella Dee - Things Don't Change
Francois ft Louis Benton & Mr Limey - Menajatrois
TS7 - Reach (Bassline Dub)
Spyro - Silo Grass
DJ Zinc - King Kong
Bo Saris - The Addict (Todd Edwards Remix)
DJ Q - Wreck It
Stanton Warriors - Cut Me Up (Cause & Affect Remix)
Rudimental ft MNEK & Sinead Harnett - Baby (DJ Q Remix)
Dave Spoon - At Night (Shadow Child & T Williams Remix)
DJ Zinc - Golden Funk
Paul Sirrell - Deep Day
Moony - Smoker
Faye B - Any Other Way (DJ Q Remix)
Dem 2 - Artificial Love

would never presume to tell the great man what to do but along these ruff tuff lines i still think there's a tempting space for blending this approach with the dostracks mix. (i guess i am saying i want more ejeca and mk dubs and shit - but not losing the sharp sweetness somehow)

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that dostracks mix is really rather good isn't it? Quite downtempo for Q. A few quite obvious/old tunes on there that I was nevertheless delighted to hear again when put together like this. Personally I love the MK dubs in any situation but the ejeca ones I've heard have bored me a bit when listened to outside of a q set.

will endeavour to record the october set when next i revisit. really kicking myself not doing so for the previous one...

first & foremost order of business re this months set is of course to give thanks & praise for the return of our lord & saviour louis benton

dorkily enough when essential garage blog didn't provide the july tracklist i started c/p-ing from the MOS site and saving them just in case, here's the august tracklist:

Ciara - Body Party (Deckstar Remix)
Foamo ft Lotti - Release Me
Scrufizzer - Kick It
Trumpet & Badman - Love Keeps Changing
Champion presents Heyfever - Ground Collapse
Wookie ft Eliza Doolitle - The Hype
DJ Q - Makaveli
PVC - She Can Get It
Zed Bias & Terror Danjah ft Olivia Louise - Telepathy
Krystal Klear ft Jenna G - Addiction (Royal T Remix)
Motez - Take Off
Flava D - All They Do Is Hate
Hybrid Theory - Raw Sex
Trumpet & Badman - Go!
Deckstar - Ride It
PVC - Diamond Life
DJ Q - Big
AlunaGeorge - Lost & Found
Prodigy ft Esther - Gangsta Love (DJ Q Remix)
Wookie - Back Up Back Up Back Up
Baffled - Over U
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert (Steve Gurley Remix)
Beverly Knight - Shoulda Woulda Coulda (DnD Remix)

september:

DJ Q - Come With Me
Todd Edwards - Javid Khan
Foamo vs Todd Terry - Release The Girl (DJ Q Mash Up)
Toyboy & Robin - Jaded
Lil Silva ft Sampha - Salient Sarah
Tinie Tempah - Trampoline (Shift K3y Remix)
Chris Lorenzo, Marc Spence & Pete Graham vs Mowgli - Who Dat Back In The Day (DJ Q Mash Up)
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - What I Want (Killjoy Remix)
Queenie - And Every (Queenie Raw VIP)
Wookie ft Eliza Doolittle - The Hype (DJ Q Extra Snare Blend)
Lethal B - Party Right (Friend Within Remix)
Arun Verone - This Is It
Majestic & Jungle 70 - Creeping In The Dark (Preditah Remix)
Flava D - Home VIP
Fryars - Cool Like ME (Todd Edwards Remix)
Martin Ikin - I Know
MKS - Flatline (MJ Cole Remix)
Spooky - Baby (DJ Q VIP Remix)
Chubba - Shift
PVC - She Can Get It
Riddim Commission ft Mr Hudson & Newham Generals - Battle (Cause & Affect Remix)
Breach vs T2 - Jack (DJ Q Mash Up)
Tina Moore - Nobody Better (Dem 2 Unlimited Remix)

wow lol i did that too! it's not just a name people he really does take minds

haha

still have to properly revisit the august set but i gotta hand it to Q for ending it with one of my all time fave ukg tunes

http://www.dummymag.com/mixes/dummy-mix-187-trumpet-badman

Jodeci - Freak'n You [Marcus Jakes back to 98 booty]
Turntable Orchestra - You're Gonna Miss Me [Ejeca Remix]
Jakwob - Fade [Club VIP Mix]
Taiki & Nulight - Take Me Up
Jonarr-Dotzz & Lorenzo - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You

p sure this march section is what i want played at my funeral tbrr

ah fuckit it's gotta be the whole thing. i'll make them put some cushions out

One thing I've been thinking about is whether/how DJ Q's sound relates to what I said about funky here:

http://getphysical.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/last-year-i-had-privilege-to-contribute.html?m=1

My sense is that this sound operates according to a different logic again, a molecular one, as if the idea of the bubbler has become necessarily a covalent relationship between two different impulses - building on comments above, maybe Lil' Silva's scorched earth rigidity and the warm bounciness of MK. Arguably everything else Q draws for, even if sounding quite different to both, can be expressed as falling somewhere within that axis.

That's a great essay

Thanks Moodles.

Thinking about this more rigorously, maybe it's not Lil' Silva and MK specifically that are important, but hat the relationship between them expresses a structure that the bubbler sound is bound to recreate in shifting permutations.

https://soundcloud.com/user3105090/touching-bass-dj-q

this november mos set is amazing, outrageous mixing from start to finish

Katy B - 5 AM (Deckstar Remix)
Benjamin Diamond - Little Scare (Todd Edwards Vocalised Version)
Kumarachi - Skunk Funk
Rymez vs Sticky & Kele Le Roc - Things We Do For Love
Cause & Affect - Social Experiment
Luxury - Jaws
Gary Esson - Starz
P Money - Round The Clock (Cause & Affect Remix)
TC4 - Beta
AlunaGeorge - Best Be Believing (Shadow Child Remix)
Friend Within - The Renegade (Special Request VIP Mix)
Breach - Jack (CJ Reign Remix)
MK ft Alana - Always (Route 94 Remix)
Linden Jay ft Ruby Wood - Break The Hold (Taikiu & Nulight Remix)
Paranoid Resistance - The Tunnel
PVC - You Know My Man
Dare Me - Unreal
Deckstar - Be With Me
DJ Q & AC Slater - Oh Yeah
Sinead Harnett - Got Me (MK Remix)
PVC - This Is Our Reason
Ramsey & Fen - Love Bug

Obsessed with this remix of Lana Del Ray by heroes Toyboy & Robin:

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

confirmed: the album is actually going to be called "ineffable"

I really will have no choice but to stan for this album forever.

Oh wow.

I love this.

Anyway, Rev, if you could get us all appellations that we could use for our own debuts kthxbye

The luscious hair of Ned Raggett

yesss

<3 <3 <3

It shall wave in the breeze.

Merry Christmas!

http://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/sets/all-i-want-for-xmas-is-q-free

DJ Q Music
Play
DJ Q feat. Kai Ryder - Be Mine (From the album DJ Q - Ineffable LOCLP003)

https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/dj-q-feat-kai-ryder-be-mine

FROM DJ Q'S DEBUT ALBUM, INEFFABLE
Released March 31, Local Action

After a decade of club singles spanning bassline house, garage, grime and more, DJ Q releases his debut album, Ineffable, on Local Action.

Although he’s been releasing club tracks since the start of the ‘00s, DJ Q had his breakthrough moment in 2008 with ‘U Wot’, one of the biggest tracks to come out of the UK’s bassline house / Niche explosion. The years since have seen him hold down residencies on BBC Radio 1xtra and Ministry of Sound Radio, while releasing on Butterz, Unknown to the Unknown and Local Action. He’s picked up some impressive admirers along the way too – DJ EZ, Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy and Skrillex have all shown their admiration for Q in recent years.

Ineffable follows four singles for Local Action (including the instant sell-out ‘Brandy & Coke’) and – let’s get this straight – is a pop record, albeit a pop record raised on MJ Cole, Todd Edwards, French touch and grime. This is 21st century pop music the way it should sound: at times devoted and at times desolate, sexually charged and made for the night.

Guest appearances come from regular collaborator Louise Williams, Swedish vocalist Kassandra, Kai Ryder, Jayjayborn2sing and cult grime MC Discarda, whose performance on ‘Lassie’ provides a sequel of sorts to his classic freestyle over XTC’s ‘Functions on the Low’.

Tracklist:
01. Get Over You
02. Two Faced
03. Let The Music Play (feat. Louise Williams)
04. Every Time (feat. Kassandra)
05. Through the Night (feat. Louise Williams)
06. Closer (feat. Kassandra)
07. Caught Up
08. Trust Again (feat. Louise Williams)
09. Lassie (feat. Discarda & Jayjayborn2sing)
10. Notice Me
11. Be Mine (feat. Kai Ryder)

Truly this is the greatest moment in the history of ILM.

Cannot wait.

its a perfect title for Q

too late to lobby for rtc-penned liner notes I guess?

:)

"cult grime MC Discarda, whose performance on ‘Lassie’ provides a sequel of sorts to his classic freestyle over XTC’s ‘Functions on the Low’"

!!!

btw, pressing play on this right now with much anticipation for some album exclusives

https://soundcloud.com/butterz/elijah-skilliam-flava-d-dj-q

heh congratulations guys