the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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

Right at the end of that butterz set there's an actual ilx-referencing explanation of the album title. V psyched for ineffable.

i have always disliked the word "ineffable" tbh. one of the first words i can remember disliking.

― lex pretend, Monday, March 19, 2012 2:32 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I am confident that the phrase "the ineffable..." will not be going viral any time soon.

― Tim F, Monday, March 19, 2012 9:26 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well it took nearly two years...

And 2.5 years from The Ineffable Beauty of Tropical 2.

Haven't listened to this, but I don't think it's been posted yet:

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/dj-q-live-at-electrosanne-2013

full effanineffable credit should rly go to ts eliot's visionary 1930s og interzone bubbler thesis the naming of cats imo

good lookin out toby, not certain if i saw that one myself

did people catch the "Boxing Night Special 2013 Panama Bar And Club Stoke On Trent" (the uk panorama bar i'm sure) promo mix he had on his soundcloud? it's kind of a slightly different angle on his usual like the dostracks one was - this time a more languorous disquisition on the troubled, anomic side of deep house, basically loads of vocal cuts orbiting the lodestar of nick hannam's 'love you girl'. deleted now but can re-up if need be

sorta hard to discuss these matters in general without rly knowing whether and to what extent u guys are into the singularly genius monthly mixes - like obv i am super hyped for the album (and most certainly not to harsh anyone's buzz) but it'll be a small shame if it's not seen and heard in complementary terms, if the gazebo's mistaken for the mansion

alright i had nothing better to do... tracklisted it for posterity as well

DJ Q - Boxing Night 2013 Special - Panama Bar & Club - Stoke On Trent
http://www67.zippyshare.com/v/84012819/file.html

Tom Shorterz - Why
Rs4 - All Around
Route 94 - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Nick Hannam - Love You Girl
Linden Jay ft Ruby Wood - Break The Hold (Cause & Effect Remix)
Route 94 ft Jess Glynne - My Love
Sinead Harnett - Got Me (MK Remix)
Billon ft Lola Coca - Hurt Me
Disclosure - F For You (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)
Dusky - Careless
MK ft Alana - Always (Route 94 Remix)
AlunaGeorge - Best Be Believing (Shadow Child Remix)
Gorgon City ft MNEK - Ready For Your Love (Dub)
Little Nikki - Right Before My Eyes
Chris Malinchak - All Shook Up
Sub Focus ft Kele - Turn It Around (MK Remix)
Drop Lamond ft Ruby Wood - Feeling High
Wookie ft Eliza Doolittle - The Hype (S Chu Remix)
Route 94 - Tell Me Why
Tom Zanetti - Darlin
Yasmin - Thinking About You (Billon Remix)
Martin Ikin - Rhythm
Majestic & Jungle 70 - Creeping In The Dark
Yousef ft Charli Taft - I See (Shadow Child Remix)
Azari & III - Hungry For The Power
Neeko - People Outside

the way he intertwines the vocal samples in the transition between the second and third tracks - WALLSCOMETUMBLINGDOWNYEAH panickattack femme, "all around, all arounnnnd" glowering whisper homme - is so very extremely brilliant i could claw my eyes out so that i might only hear

(btw obv when i say "troubled, anomic side of deep house" that means a toe dipped into shuffle deep tech scene for those that know, hence rs4/ikin)