the ineffable genius of DJ Q

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✧✧

whoops

info

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djqmusic DOT com

http://pitchfork.com/advance/380-ineffible/

(pfork illiteracy shockah)

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

this is great so far but kinda sucks that he had to redo "Every Time" without the Amerie sample

ooh, I like this dude rapping VERY EMPHATICALLY about his shorty

Willing spring to come by putting this album on repeat.

I didn't know that was an Amerie sample but I am pretty sure I know which one you're talking about, Reverend. I miss that vocal Arabesque here too.

It's loading more slowly. What times is it in the UK? (I still haven't made it all the way through btw. Couldn't do it at work and at home I keep trying to pause it and ending up starting over.)

I thought I reached some sort of crucial psychological/existential insight listening to "Through the Night" earlier but now I'm not sure. I'm not going to even embarrass myself by trying to explain it here. Quite personal actually (and not related to the lyrics particularly--except in some oblique nature-of-feeling-as-such sort of way). Maybe I was just music intoxicated as usual.

MCs. :(

"be mine" is probably my second favourite after (obviously) "through the night" - he knows how to use cut-up vox for maximum emotional impact not just a throwback signifier...

the haunted-house bass of "caught up"!!!!

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2014/03/hi-five-dj-q-reminisces-about-hi

Not really used to listening to Q outside the mix so a couple of the instrumental bangers feel a bit... unfinished to me, Two Faced especially. But the vocal tracks are all amazing.

The obvious exception being Lassie and even that's a good groove, but virtually any other MC in Britain would sound better over it than John Hartson Discarda.

I really have no idea who Discarda is but I like "Lassie" because of the weird cognitive dissonance between the aggro-ness of the rap and its subject matter.

that entertained me at first but it turned out to be more novelty than lasting (perhaps would've worked better as a stand-alone single rather than crashing this party)

I BRING OUT THE BEST IN HER
SHE BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN ME
YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

I can't get past the ridiculousness of it (which you've pinpointed), honestly.

sounds like 'me and my bitch' tbh

any excuse to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcEdG6fCdr8

hahaha that's not what I envisioned him looking like at all

am really loving this album.

new track "madness" leads off this B2B with dj target:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01wx4xf

it seems like an album from another time

terrrrrrible RA review whinging about pop. why haven't these opinions been fully killed off?

There will be a large contingent of fans that will hear Ineffable and immediately accuse DJ Q of selling out,

lol wut

*pulls badman face at pop haters*

that review was so lazy and laughably bad.

it's especially weird applying anti-pop arguments to dj q who in my world of uk dance pop is kingmaker. but then again the local action guy is trying it in that interview posted upthread so who the fuck knows.

lol I'll be grateful to tom forever for giving Q a label platform but he's not very high on the list of people I'd go to for an opinion on UK pop-house.

all dance music is functional, but it's hard to imagine anything more so than this specific blend of swung 4/4 beats and garagey bass wobbles

from a tech-house website, no less!

Some (relatively) recent DJ Q Ministry of Sound radio sets:

Essential Garage 2014-02-24
http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/33434443/file.html

Essential Garage 2014-04-21
http://www34.zippyshare.com/v/47599451/file.html

Tracklist for the April set is:

Royal T & Flava D-On My Mind-(Version 3)-Butterz
Toyboy & Robin-Back & Forth ft Nikki Cislyn-MTA
Foundation-Hobson’s Choice-White Label
Hot Natured-Reverse Skydiving ft Anabel Englund-(Tom Shorterz Remix)-FFFR
Jakwob-Somebody New ft Tiffani Juno-(TCTS Remix)-Digital Soundboy
Nineteen96-Tell Me ft Gift-Strictly Rhythm
DJ Q-Be Mine ft Kai Ryder-(Dub Mix)-Local Action
Rudimental-Baby ft MNEK & Sinead Harnett-(Bad Habit Remix)-White Label
Cause & Affect-Testosterone Deficiency-Bullet Train Records
Alex Mills-Forever Young-(Alex Kacoutie Remix)-White Label
Skepta-That’s Not Me ft JME- -Boy Better Know
Flava D-In The Dance-Formula Records
G.E-Together-White Label
Karin Park-Shine-(Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo Remix)-State Of The Eye
Javeon-Intoxicated-(DJ Q Remix)-PMR Records
Hybrid Theory-King Kong Riddim-Four40 Records
Arun Verone-Short From Change-Q Recordings
Linden Jay-Break The Hold ft Ruby Wood-(DJ Q Remix)-White Label
Flava D-New Era-Formula Records
Alex Parkin-Nasty Thing-RKS
Booty Luv-Shine-(V.F.D Remix)-White Label
Preditah-Guiness Punch-Woah Entertainment
M A N I K-Boardcut-Black Butter Records
Sure Thing-Holding You Tight-(Gotsome Bump-In-The-Trunk Remix)-Defected Records
Tony H-In Her Eyes-42tf Records
DJ Q-Everytime ft Kassandra-Local Action
DJ Q -Notice Me-Local Action
Cause & Affect-Operation 60-Bullet Train Records
Mike Delinquent Project-Anything-Champion Records
Ashanti-Happy-(DnD Remix)

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(jk)