Mark E, The Revenge & Slow-Motion House/Disco

so much love.
i am clearly going to have to have another listen to the mans stuff, given that seeing this thread pop up all the time is going to do my fucking head in.

got that ghost note just for the mark e side. and it patiently builds to awesomeness. so so good.

i like his take on edits in the interview. like, with hip hop and (esp older) house and tons of other sample-based dance stuff there wasn't really the need to call them edits when you take loops and do your own thing with them. maybe too much of this stuff is referred to as edits than should be. of course "edit" is on everyone's tip of the tongue lately. and there's threads and fights about it everywhere already so i'll just shut up about it now.

in addition to that love the action mix psych mentions, a couple other of his mixes from '07 and thereabouts are rad. resident advisor and beats in space in particular. and peppered with his stuff.

here's that RA podcast

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m39g3d

T/S beardo vs slo-mo

Betty Botox - Music is Music

this beats in space may be my fave. the way it goes from funkadelic through this weird, meandering loops thing into the orb remix is pretty wild.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/swiqt7

dude, fuck the whole uploading frowned upon bs. thanks everyone on these. making my friday.

sorry, here's the mark e zip

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e4oimj

"T/S beardo vs slo-mo"

slo-mo!! went on a mark e beatport binge yesterday.

Thanks for the sendspace correction and thanks to everyone for making these mixes easy to grab.

So this is a thread for people who wish they were Theo but aren't nearly as good? Exciting. R&B Drunkie is my jam tho, I also had to pick up the JJ 12" to mix in with it.

i think what i love most about this genre is the bpms could be considered practically downtempo, but the way the tracks are arranged gives them that awesome chugging energy that makes you want to dance, at like 95 bpms (or faster)

Real question: is this stuff analagous to chopped-and-screwed hip-hop?

I don't mean "does it sound like it," more "are there parallels." Seems like it to me. I like this stuff a lot, the little I've heard. And of course the Mark E RA Podcast was tremendous.

totally forgot about this dude from LA (from the podcast), anyone have any of his other records, i've heard big things and some sell for $$$ on discogs?

cole medina - love you inside out

matos lemme get back to you after i put on these mp3s and sip on some codeine

xxpost

i have been mixing this stuff every other wednesday night at Seattle's Grey Gallery. Last night I started at 91bpm and moved through the Lissvik mix of Fever Ray into some Meanderthals, Rune Lindbaek, Cousin Cole, Revenge edits and more. Highlight of the set for me was going from Sabres of Paradise - Edge 6 into the Pressure Drop mix of Why Can't We Live Together. Set finished at 107bpms with the Revenge edit of One of These Nights.

*set also included Reggie Dokes - Black Children of the Ghetto which sounded much better over the PA than it has on my headphones.

Reggie Dokes blows all these other guys away. He's possibly my favorite producer at this point.

sounds like a good night. was the crowd into it? and woah has lissvik remixed anything else? xposts

yes, the crowd were into it. by 'crowd' i mean my dj partner, my girlfriend, 2 of her friends and the bartender.

d lissvik mix of fever ray isnt amazing

The Red Rack Em mix for Cool in the Pool is great as well, treading the (arguably non-existent) line between this sound and Theo/Moodymann.

what don't you like about it space cowboy?

matos: i think it depends on the artist really. some of the tracks are tripped out chopped up disco edits and some are super-linear slow house.

on the cole medina tip, if you can find his karen carpenter mix, get it! it's great

what don't you like about it space cowboy?

i dunno, just not that interesting, i like the original more... again it's not BAD it's just not up to expectations (which are really high for d lissvik)

http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Cole-Medina-15-Upgrade/release/454721

this is the one im interested in but havent heard, so i don't wanna blow $30+ on it

Just went back to check what else i played and remembered i got some positive feeback from One Night At The Raw Deal by Twisted Wires.

san frandisco: it's on the way

Huge fan of Mark E's "Slave 1."

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dta0a8

just used "slave 1" in a mix!

I always think Mark E being from Manchester makes a lot of sense cos his stuff feels so like the Unabombers type of music, in a really huge way. I recommend people here check out Electric Soul 1 and 2 (not heard some of the later CDs.) I don't usually go for downtempo "nu soul" or whatever but those mixes are the more than acceptable face with lots of house/disco stuff too...

Man, I forgot how good "R&B Drunkie" is -- I've been looking for that for ages, too. Thanks!!!

my parents play the fuck out of all this stuff. when i was young and experimenting with cool edit pro dad used to get me to loop his favourite bits from his records. just wish i had a delay and and a filter. could have been 13 year old moodymann.

i have been mixing this stuff every other wednesday night at Seattle's Grey Gallery

brotherlovesdub, what time? I play every Wed at Havana, across the street, from 7 to 9 p.m., just playing whatever I want, sit-down radio-DJ style. I should obv. swing by if you're on after 9!

i start at 9 and mix until 10:30, then again after midnight. we're losing the weekly after may and will go to a monthy in june. since i mixed this week, I won't mix again until the week after next. next week is dj struggle and d'jeronimo though, and they play all sorts of incredible deep house ala reggie dokes, prime numbers etc. great dj's.

Good to know, thanks.

Nyers - mark e gonna be at santos week after next

not to be mr spam dude but roman flugel's mix here is in this style and v nice

since there is a little bit of dj cole medina / scott k discussion on the thread, anybody have a copy of his (limited to 1000) edit of james brown's "satisfied", as seen here?

grabbing now, ronan. btw, i don't think mark e is from manchester. in/around birmingham maybe?

ah my bad, I was sure that he was all this time.

would looove to hear more unabombers btw, all i seem to have is that 'electric chair saved my life' from last year. which is good, but probably wouldn't have connected them to this 'slo mo' business based on the mix or anything

yeah I guess it's not really connected, I do think specifically Mark E's mixes are quite similar to theirs though, just the source material for his edits and stuff.

I re-listened to the Roman Ronan mix last Friday by coincidence and noted how codeine-disco-y it was!

that sick dub delay band 12" totally fits in here, right?

san frandisco: it's on the way

thanks!!!

I've been away from a computer over the long weekend, but thanks for all the links, uploads and recommendations!

jamie where is that initial quote from?

It's from Dicky Trisco, from his mix on Cool in the Pool with Pete Herbert
http://www.coolinthepool.com/radio.html

i think what i love most about this genre is the bpms could be considered practically downtempo, but the way the tracks are arranged gives them that awesome chugging energy that makes you want to dance

This nails exactly what I find compelling about this stuff.

For my money, Beat Down and Deja Vu are the best Mark E tracks. So good.

And there are a ton of Revenge tracks to stream here http://soundcloud.com/the-revenge

here's a good new one:

https://soundcloud.com/slowtownrec/stown-05-riccio-never-go-away

https://soundcloud.com/polishcutouts/ptaki-ponure-miasto?in=polishcutouts/sets/tvpc004-ptaki-jak-ptaki-ponure

love this new one on polish cut outs, too

basically i think there are tons of great edits still, but you have to slog through a lot of boring stuff to find them

Latest Test Pressing mix:

http://testpressing.org/2014/02/330-mark-e/

nice!

seems like a disco edit to me, but i'm not sure a new soundstream track can be seen as proof of a thriving edits scene or anything

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, February 13, 2014 5:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're disco edits by definition, I guess. but not THE genre. they're disco edit in a way moodymann and theo is disco edit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nCK7ldacRk

The track at about 1:04 on the test pressing mix w/ the tropical drums is sick

Mark E's new album is good but I prefer the Black Country Roots EP.

6th Borough Project new album has a few solid numbers on it, notably "Read My Mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-JbO21nO4

What else is going on here that's good?

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

two years late to the party

I guess I'm the only person left who cares but I can't wait to get my hands on the Mark E compilation of E-Versions.

i've only heard "mingo" but man is that a sick track

excited to hear the rest of them

I heard Magazine out a few weeks ago and it sounded great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgQqvL93ao

Is there anything else current and relevant to this thread I should be investigating, I know I ask this every time this thread is revived but I am terrible at finding the gems in this sort of thing despite it being one of my favourite things in the world.

his recent single on ESP institute is great

https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute/sets/esp025

in general his tracks are a lot faster now, yeah?

maybe a bit, but afaik he's always hovered around the 110's

i kind of stopped following this scene because i never really felt like listening to a whole set of it and also because it's too hard to mix w regular paced 120-ish stuff

Such a tremendous amount of this stuff if one goes digging, particularly edging into nu-disco and funky house domains.

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

nobody told me about maddermodes!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=561VeuToMqg