the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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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)

(a conceptual toe at least, biggest on the mental foot of course)

Awesome, thanks for that - will grab it later.

I haven't listened to the monthly mixes since August, because I'm lazy and was grabbing them from the essential garage blog, which has been dead since then. Have any of you been recording them??

That is my story, though in my case it's more that I basically only listen to music while en route or at the gym now and the bbc app won't work in Australia.

Downloading these mixes now though.

Subject to hearing the album I agree with the gazebo vs house analogy though.

mm yes well contrary to seeming pop belief i don't actually spend my days reclining on chaises longues either unforch (ok ok apart from today)... can just about find the space for 60 minutes of timeless splendour in a month though?

yknow uk gazebo wouldve been a pretty much parfait term for the black butter sphere the more i think about it

Well I think I did listen to October and November once each but these mixes are like sacred texts, they need to be studied carefully and reverently.

ESSENTIAL GARAGE 11 November 2013
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/6831494/file.html

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 (Taiki & 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

ESSENTIAL GARAGE - 9th December 2013
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/85342921/file.html

Drake - Poundcake (Moony Edit)
Yasmin - Thinking About You (Billon Remix)
Kumarachi - 11
Flava D - On & On
Kingdom - Mind Reader (Todd Edwards Remix)
Hybrid Theory - 0483
Shadow Child - Mr Speaker
Teddy Music - Out Of Control (DJ Q Remix)
Hot Chip - Day & Night (Dragon Remix)
Bloc Party - Montreal (Ejeca Remix)
Danny Byrd - Make It Weighty (Wookie Remix)
Caserta - Change Your Mind (Scott Diaz Remix)
Drop Lamond ft Ruby Wood - Feeling High
Gorgon City ft MNEK - Ready For Your Love
Tom Garnett & Lorenzo ft Tom Zanetti - P.A.R.T.Y
Flava D - In The Dance
U Know & The Drill - Stackin Papers
Bastille - Of The Night (Kove Remix)
Danny Phillips - Now Or Never
DJ Haus - Addicted To Hauz
PVC - You
Alicia Keys - Unthinkable (N Fostell 2 Step Mix)
Deetah - Relax (Brum & Flex Remix)
Sound Of One - As I Am (Todd Edwards Remix)

ESSENTIAL GARAGE - 6th January 2014
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/68883248/file.html

Virgo - Down Diggy (DJ Q Edit)
Kozzie - Destruction Remix (Accapella)
Disclosure - Voices (Wookie Remix)
PVC - She Can Get It
Para - Got My Mind (Duncan Powell’s Mind Made Up Mix)
Flava D & Moony - Who I Am
Todd Edwards - I’m Hopeful (DJ Q Edit)
Kevin McKay - Ease Your Pain (Lumino Remix)
Drop Lamond ft Ruby Wood - Feeling High
Jay Robinson - Slung
Moony - Rusty Hell
Disclosure - Stimulation (Preditah Remix)
Tom Shorterz - Why
Billon - Meditate
Brasstooth - Pleasure (Final Cutt Collective Remix)
PVC - You Know My Man
Storm Queen - Look Right Through (Marlon Williams Remix)
Flava D - Comfort Me
Nativ - Shifty
Jhene Aiko - The Vapours (AC Slater Remix)
Rachel K Collier - Predictions (Billon Remix)
Charlotte Kelly - Be Mine (New Horizons Speed Garage Mix)

make it worth my while hey boys?

http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/files/2013/08/tumblr_ml252mhGRm1qedlsro1_250.gif

rah you absolute badman! only listened to each of these once before - nowhere near enough times.

fgs will someone at mos radio please relieve rtc of his duties and start providing dl links?

I just (finally) learned how to record these (cumbersomely), so hopefully I can grab them in future, but thanks so much for this!

Panamabar show is getting my day off to a good start now.

Thanks for this new batch of DJ Q mixes. Listening to one right now, r|t|c

(Well, thanks to Q as well obviously.)

This little change at around 8:50 (during "Mind Reader") in the 9/12/2013 (British style) is the kind of thing that kills me in these mixes. I don't know how unique it is, but I love it and as soon as I heard it I thought about how good it would sound in the car. I think driving around with these mixes has had a lot to do with my absorbing them.

I don't know how unique it is

As in: I really literally don't know, not implying anything one way or another. Just to be clear. No other DJs I've checked out get that particular sound, but I'm obviously a noob.

rtc you are a prince

Jeez, where to start with these sets?

U Know & The Drill - Stackin Papers

so tuff, and the moniker is almost as good as Trumpet & Badman.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TiLyT17uxVY/TLMPshqM-dI/AAAAAAAAKGg/mY5jyDnTls8/s200/cornucopia2.jpg

I don't know how unique it is
As in: I really literally don't know, not implying anything one way or another. Just to be clear. No other DJs I've checked out get that particular sound, but I'm obviously a noob.

― _Rudipherous_, viernes 24 de enero de 2014 7:58 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think maybe the only other uk garage dj to reach all-time/all-genre greatness is EZ, who is much more technically flashy but fuck it, Q surpassed him long ago.

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rtc you're the greatest

Q not too shabby either ;)

experienced all of these sacred texts once or twice and all sounded fantastic, looking forward to spending more time with them! so many sick mixing moments, Virgo/Wookie "Voices" rmx transition - what a rush

"Stackin Papers" (coming out next week if i'm correct?) and Shorterz' Katy B remix are my tracks of the year so far btw

hey rtc

mr q wants to get in touch w you

can you drop me a line at tracerhand AT gmail please?

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Drop Lamond's "Feeling High" (in the Boxing Night set) is one of those tunes that starts off seeming understated but turns out to be crazy and crazy good.

Love when these mixes go polyphonic.

And it's an abstraction of an abstraction (music) or an extraction of an extraction. If music is a distilation of life, and then you distill that distillation? If someone gets that right (at least for a given listener--hello!), it's super potent. Rather than Plato's shadow of a shadow, it seems more like the essence of an essence. (Sorry if this is overboard. I'm prepared to blame a sudafed buzz if needed.)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_osQ6QFqJiAM/Rws_ZJKDM2I/AAAAAAAAATE/s_7dkx-4s2A/s320/rtc1.jpg

ha! it's the bat signal! come in, come in, rtc!