how is the Booka Shade one? weird to see Fialka, The Streets and Hawley in it
i really like the Hot Chip one, if only for 'My Piano', Wax Stag, the New Order/Young Leek and Noze
― blueski, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the Erlend Øye one. Lots of glorious electro.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you could make a pretty solid case for the booka shade one being the strongest dj kicks mix ever
― ^@^, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
HMV have got a selection of these CDs in their current 2 for £10 promotion. All the incentive I needed to finally pick up the Daddy G and Chicken Lips mixes. Both are great.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
no mention of cj bolland's?
― Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Speaking of DJ Kicks, what the hell happened to Burial's ?!
It's already been listed and rated on Amazon UK:
By M. Locke-Cooper - See all my reviews(REAL NAME) will this ever come out? 5 starts because its gonna be good when it does.
haha
― sam500, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard CJ Bolland's
― sam500, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great. Haven't picked up James Holden (yet?).
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 22 July 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The James Holden one is pretty decent.
Listening to the Apparat one right now. He's pretty good at defining his aesthetic, isn't he?
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't listened to K&D one for years, sounds like a good idea for a rainy afternoon.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
definitely want to check out apparat, if only for the telefon tel aviv track.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I always overlook K&D's DJ Kicks mix in lieu of their K&D Sessions one, because it's the best thing ever.
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, DJ Kicks is way inferior to K&D Sessions. Still enjoyable though IIRC.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great.
Kode9 is excellent.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
essentials:
carl craignicoletteterranovasmith & mightyplaygroupfour tet
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Search: Erlend Øye, K&D, Annie, Four Tet
Actually, those may be the only ones I know well enough to judge.
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Still enjoyable though IIRC.
"Bass & Several Cars" is all-time
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure there's ever been a particularly poor dj kicks
― sock lobster (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the Daddy G one as well, some good rootsy reggae.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Apparat one just came out and is pretty fucking fantastic.
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't get into the Apparat one.
Search: Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Booka Shade, Playgroup.
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't get the appeal of the juan maclean one. ordinary tracks, ordinary mixing. it's like some random mix from the internet.
― Death Cab for Kuti (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
8-X DEATH IN VEGAS 8-X
so this thing starts out with chopped and screwed italo, then moves into something that sounds like a cheesy "trans europe express" rip at first but suddenly breaks down into a tuff abstract techno break thats as chopped and phased as a prime urban tribe track. then there's a third section with super tight electro zaps over what sounds like a klaus schulze track. anyway the third track is the one that takes my head off into future shock territory. the washed-out and slowed down choir that starts the thing is at like the exact midpoint between chillwave, witch house and old rising high chillout tracks, but then there's these echoey balearic freak folk guitar / middle eastern string stabs that fleck the whole thing, and then throbbing gabber-like bass under the whole thing. basically this mix couldn't get more "secret history of goth crunk" if it tried.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that reads like a crunk boomkat review
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
And, um, I'm going to be dumb -- is that about the juan maclean one? Haven't heard of a death in vegas one.
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOOPS sorry that's a fabric mix, not a dj kicks
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool, I thought that is what you meant. I'm going to check it out -- FabricLive 23, right?
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
word
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
The Apparat one just came out and is pretty fucking fantastic
So hooked on this
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 November 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The Detroit mixes were pretty good. Still listen to the Stacey Pullen sometimes although I prefer his BBC Essential Mix from around the same time (which included a few of the same tracks). Such a great DJ in his day - the recent mixes of his I've heard have been uber-generic tech-house...yawn.
The Claude Young is decent too but harder.
― sam500, Thursday, 11 November 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Erlend Oye one is the all time classic for me. Sure the mixing is pretty awful (but not as bad as Annie's one. jesus christ!) but the tunes...it's the record that got me into microhouse ergo probably the most important record of my teen years. Timeless stuff really.
Apparat one is nice enough, not listened to it much. Hoped that playing it on a longish car journey through the Fens with my dad would get me into it properly...just made me a bit bored tbh.
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 11 November 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha I bought Annie's one the other week for $5 and have not played it yet, but thought it can't possibly be as bad as her mixing was live!
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Some nice tracks on that mix though the mixing is indeed poor.
― Neil S, Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, she picks some great stuff (That Bumble Bee Unlimited track, the Alan Braxe remix of DFA 1979, 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' by La Bionda etc) tbf to her.
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ha again, I opened it and read the sleevenotes after posting that, and they apologise upfront for the mixing being shit!
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
This Apparat mix is my cold weather chillin' music.
― sectarian chicken (mh), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i keep forgetting to listen to this
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuxE5ZA4WPM
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
(vocal starts around 2:35)
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
the moodymann dj kicks is so so so good
― map, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Seconded although I need to give it a few more spins.The Dam Funk mix is also great - flows really nicely.
― millmeister, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
track 3-5 on the Dam-Funk one are incredible
whole thing's good but that stretch + the original stuff on the second half are definitely the highlights
― frogbs, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
the verticle lines "theme from beach boy" instrumental is sooo my shit
― brimstead, Friday, 26 August 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
agreed, map -- moodyman is by far my fave album of the year
― bodacious ignoramus, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
what's the scoop on Yaw of the first song on the Moodyman DJ Kicks? can't find anything about it online
― flopson, Friday, 10 February 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
figured it was some classic 70s track but... seems not?
― flopson, Friday, 10 February 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA5RW-X2QTc
yeah i googled this a while ago too & came up with this, which has a lil bit of info - http://latenightdj.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/yaw-where-will-you-be.html
― just sayin, Saturday, 11 February 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
the vocal harmony at 2:16 is the one of the best moments of music i've heard, just heavenly
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link
moodyman digs so deep, respect
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link