the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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.)

"Gabriel" is an established ILM dance kru fave!

also it's about an archangel

Peven Everett sang it and played trumpet too!

I bet there are millions of people who would like this song (and lots of other tracks here) if they heard it.

Kind of bizarre how separate U.S. and UK music manage to remain most of the time. I'm sure I could think up some good explanations and find even better ones (right here), but in the end it's kind of bizarre considering the lack of any significant language barrier.

steering the thread back to Q, rudipherous you might have missed these

http://www.dummymag.com/lists/best-vocal-2-step-garage-dj-q-list

here´s that crucial U.S. connection you´ve been pondering
https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/todd-edwards-selection

another old skool mix by Q
http://www.mixcloud.com/vagabondz/dj-q-vagabondz-nye-promo-mix/

the audio for the DJ Q rinse FM garage hour mix that went out yesterday
http://podcast.dgen.net/rinsefm/podcast/GarageHour140214.mp3

Oh yes the Todd Edwards selection mix!

benny b i kiss you

I can't believe I'm already behind again just on the DJ Q links posted on this thread. (Finally getting to the Just For Fun mix.) Thanks all. Oh, "Ease Your Pain" has already colonized my nervous system via the sets I've listened to in the car.

"Move your waistline to my bassline" sounds like there is finally a suitable Anglophone answer to all the "mueve tu cintura" in Latin music.

Sorry to be so all over this thread but Feeling High and Why one-two-punch killing me. Agh. </imago> That "please" is just so perfect. Raw ache.

Was the vocal choppiness in parts (you know which parts) of "1 Thing" drawing from UK garage, do you think, or was it arriving there from other directions. (It's not like a unique idea obviously, but still, I hear a particular simiarity there.)

?

btw here's a link to disc one of Shanks & Bigfoot's Ayia Napa 2000 comp:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/6y6q5a

Thanks. Ugh, my PC is so messed up (old and slightly virus-damaged operating system) that other download didn't work for me, but I'm going to try it when I'm alone at work tomorrow. (Better to do it at work in some ways, since I also can't burn CDRs on my own PC and that's the only way I have to play any of this in my car.)

I have to say I like practically everything I've gotten to hear so far. Not necessarily every single track in multi-track mixes, but the mixes overall, plus all these individual tracks among DJ Q's separately listed faves.

That link worked for me, incidentally.

... And Ayia Napa 2000 disc 2:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4p3osx

Haha, it's funny the things you can make up based on ignornace. I was thinking "Buggin'" was a new song that Q was giving some exposure to but then since I never heard it any other mixes or anything since I first heard it (on the 30 min. exclusive) I figured it had kind of flopped, that and the fact that I don't really like it.

ayo Tim F - did you get my message on twitter by any chance?

as tonight's show is already up...

ESSENTIAL GARAGE - 27th January
http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/46003291/file.html

DJ Q - Be Mine ft Kai Ryder
Mike Delinquent Project -Wiggle (MDP VIP Mix)
Katy B - Crying For No Reason (Tom Shorterz Remix)
Gotsome - Bassline (Friend Within Remix)
Foamo - Rep Your Manor
Tchami x Janet Jackson - Go Deep
Shift K3y - Touch
Preditah - Black Ice
Distro - City Lights (Hybrid Theory Remix)
Wilkinson - Too Close (Wookie Remix)
PVC - Flashback
Route 94 - My Love ft Jess Glynne (Royal-T Remix)
Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (MK Dub Remix)
Disclosure - F For You ft Mary J Blige
Todd Edwards - Hold The Faith
Deckstar - One Step Further
PVC - Our Reason
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - You Love Me
Meridian Dan - German Whip
Timbah - Flow Poke
Spooky - Badboy
PVC - You Know My Man
DJ Q - Trust Again ft Louise Williams (Major Grave Remix)
Fiona Prince - High On You Again (Marvel & Eli Remix)

YES.

The last few sets have saved my life.

Also corpsey I have now! Will listen...

Just to update needlessly: I haven't gotten to everything recommended, but I haven't lost interest. I've also found some close enough things, like some DJ EZ material on youtube. Plus I've decided to dive in to a bit of Chicago house. Realizing I'm really kind of crazy about Todd Edwards generally, though I still haven't listened to that much of what he's done.

interview w/tom lea

http://thump.vice.com/words/local-action-is-living-local-thinking-global

hey dudes there is a boiler room set in brixton tomorrow, also w/t.williams, big narstie, slackk and tom lea

if you want to go, email i✧✧✧@djqmu✧✧✧.c✧✧

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Five tracks in and this is predictably great, Through The Night is probably the standout so far.

stuck at work, can't waaaaaaaiiiiiit

Discretely closing my office door.

Yeah just hit Through the Night and this song really does have a je ne sais quoi to it.

1st impressions - great! but i kinda want a mixed version.

also just dawned on me i´d heard the discarda tune yonks ago and completely forgotten about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URLL0YMw1Q