the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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!

Uhh....

Bastille - Of The Night (Kove Remix)

just realized stardom for both Q music & rtc texts are my new year wish

Is it just my imagination or is there a higher quotient of bassy 2-step tunes with a 2001 vibe in the last couple of months' sets than was there previously?

Will need to isolate some particular tasty examples in service of my point here.

Like this one:

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

More of a 2000 than 2001 vibe I suppose.

Uhh....

Bastille - Of The Night (Kove Remix)

― MikoMcha, Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:02 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha i don't know if you're vibing to the groove or repulsed by the vocal.

i was kinda mad at Q for making me accept that Pastille track tbh

U Know & The Drill - Stackin Papers
Bastille - Of The Night (Kove Remix)
Danny Phillips - Now Or Never

kinda gotta look at it like little kaleidoscopic appetiser plates imo... thuggy bass undertone values overwhelmed by explosive lurid typhoon of vulgar abandon laced with (ordinarily mollifying, now oddly astringent) prissy classical todd repro. omit any single one of those components and it's just not the same michelin star dialectic tastebud trip

(nb "we rearrange, we destrange", is that an old shantie lyric?)

Virgo - Down Diggy (DJ Q Edit)
Kozzie - Destruction Remix (Accapella)
Disclosure - Voices (Wookie Remix)
PVC - She Can Get It

as mt says, putting genteel 'voices' in amongst these lairy numbers is sooooo gooooood. narky grimelad chuntering thru to airy "i hear voices in my head... you bring out the darkest side of me" thru to MAN I SWEAR THAT SHE CAN GET IT, pure narratives

Disclosure - Stimulation (Preditah Remix)
Tom Shorterz - Why

amazing transition, carefree frolic abruptly finds the most queasily sorrowful note

Jhene Aiko - The Vapours (AC Slater Remix)
Rachel K Collier - Predictions (Billon Remix)

love this, tentative "can i hit it again..." into swooshing showstopper finale of a tune, beat cuts out, "the deepest place in my mind" gliding on thermals. sick tune

this is a really good album!

"through the night" is amazing

that first section of the january set is too good, keep rewind to it.

To those of you who have the album already: do you hear anything different about the tracks previously released as singles?

I find it impossible to write anything insightful about these mixes, but I've been listening to the panama bar set a lot this week, and the mixture of melancholy and euphoria seems really extraordinary to me - I want to group it with some DJ Sprinkles mixes, maybe, but mostly out of ignorance.

melancholy and euphoria is my standard night out

DJ Q mixes/sets are among the only things that can reliably make me smile lately.

My god the December mix is so good.

Ha i don't know if you're vibing to the groove or repulsed by the vocal.

Both of course!

Vibing with a contorted expression of disgust.

That whole set is a really good example of what I'm talking about w/r/t the curious resurgence of bassy 2-step in Q's mixes.

dudes..... check this

http://www.mixcrate.com/djqmusic

Makes No Sense - Sling (Munnibrotherz Remix) [DJ Q Edit]
Kevin Mckay - Ease Your Pain (Lumino Remix)
Last Vinyl Generation - Unhook (Missb Remix)
Tchami - Promisses Ft Kaleem Taylor
Gotsome - Bassline (Friend Within Remix)
Ten Walls - Gotham
Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (MK Remix)
Crackboy & Jean Nipon - Ligne Onze
Katy B - Crying For No Reason (Tom Shorterz Remix)
Dusky - Esperanto Juggler
Drop Lamond - Feeling High Ft Ruby Wood
Tom Shorterz - Why
Hardrive - Deep Inside (Mak Booty)
The Glass - Superhero (Truce's Virtuoso Mix)
Robin S - Show Me Love (Ejeca Remix)
Cocolores - Shox

wonder if he's into kaytranada

I like Kaytranada but he seems to have been embraced by the most boring DJs around my parts.

been listening to nothing but these MOS radio sets for the past week and now all other music feels lethargic

So, if I like DJ Q and I like a lot a high percentage of stuff on the UK bubblers threads, what would be some good, related, earlier dance music to check out? Please recommend compilations, albums, DJ sets, mixes, etc. I'm especially interested in 90s UK garage, which I know nothing about. (Not interested in jungle, but that would not be the obvious direction to take this anyway.)

Like maybe up to 12 (LP length) recommendations?

this is a fave

http://www.discogs.com/EZ-Pure-Garage-Platinum-The-Very-Best-Of/release/2183827

http://www.allmusic.com/album/sound-of-the-pirates-mw0000773176

Thanks. Will investigate.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/ayia-napa-the-album-mw0000727422

i got this when tim f recommended it a few years ago and it's genuinely one of the best purchases i've ever made.

The much shorter vinyl version of this was the first uk garage I ever owned:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Matt-Jam-Lamont-Presents-The-Jam-Experience/master/77838

check this if you can
http://www.discogs.com/Zed-Bias-Sound-Of-The-Pirates/release/80988

oh wait its actually on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMIpphPQY3g

also this is very timely for u rudipherous
http://rinse.fm/news/garage-hour-special-dj-q/

I shouldn't have asked this. I have stuff to get done today. (But don't stop if you have more to suggest!)

https://soundcloud.com/paul-browning/live-set-classic-ukg-essential

Dreem Teem's 2000 Essential Mix live from Ayia Napa

Speed Garage Boom Time:

http://www.discogs.com/Tuff-Jam-Underground-Frequencies-Volume-1/release/483231

http://www.mediafire.com/download/e4acxezrrixcv1z/%5B74321+49465+2%5D+Various+Artists+-+Tuff+Jam+Presents-+Underground+Frequencies+Volume+1+%281997%29.rar

Speed Garage into 2-Step brilliance:

http://www.discogs.com/Dreem-Teem-In-Session-Volume-2/release/258786

Thanks, I was going to ask about 2-step recommendations. I started listening to Sound of the Pirates and mostly like it so far. (I've gotten sidetracked by Arabic music at the moment, but will come back to all of this shortly.)

OK back to Zed Bias just in time for some "eastern" sounding vocals. I'm kind of bemused by how thoroughly I missed all of this. I really like this thread of dance music way way more than most of the mega genre.

This is great.

I don't know, "UK garage" and "2-step" just never sounded very inviting and didn't give anything away, to me, about what they sounded like (not that most genre labels really do I suppose).

So many old threads discussing garage in the archive here! (Duh!)

This "Gabriel" song. What the hell? (In a good way.)