Can we talk about Playgroup again....

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haha, actually I just remembered the way I discovered ILM (or more accurately, Freaky Trigger) was googling on in after getting and loving the Party Mix, looking for writing about it and finding Tom's review - a really great bit of writing.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

i just realized that i really haven't liked anything trevor jackson's done after about 6 mos: the album, the party mix, the dj kicks record

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

Just about the same situation here. I only play Party Mix when it's for a friend; it's still fun to listen to through her/his ears. I just listened to DJ Kicks for the first time in quite a while -- after almost a year of no play -- and it still excites me in certain spots. I haven't felt the urge to listen to the proper album in quite some time.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

DJ Martian was praising that Colder album on his blog

― s.r.w. (s.r.w.), Thursday, 12 June 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'll always love the DJ Kicks mix for "The Sky Is Not Crying" - can't argue with that track!

I also think that "Medicine Man" seems curiously underrated as a track. I never really clicked with the Playgroup album initially, so whenever I do pull it out I actually enjoy it slightly more.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 13 June 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Been playing this a lot recently. Rowetta is on it! Can't get too much of Overflow, there's a wonderful moment towards the end where a synth line comes in deep in the mix with that exact same wintry tone that New Order used on the likes of In A Lonely Place and The Him.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm. I wonder if I would like this or not. I'll give it a try.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 12 February 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

So Jess what do you think

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Wow, I missed that connection somehow -- so this is the Underdog guy, eh? That explains that really great version of "Films" on the Numan tribute album he did...

ordered a 2 * 2cd set of all the underdog remixes (most unreleased), and this version is indeed rathergood.

― mark e, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link

ooops, pressed return too quickly.

there are also some excellent new kingdom versions.

https://www.discogs.com/Underdog-Underdogs-Greatest-Bits-Volume-One/release/4107253

https://www.discogs.com/Underdog-Underdogs-Greatest-Bits-Volume-Two/release/4107271

― mark e, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link

of course the remix of "Vicious Circle" by Alex Reece adds loads of "Vicious Games" by Yello into the mix.
bloody fantastic stuff.

― mark e, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link

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