Fabric/Fabriclive mix cd series S/D

Any love for the Ricky Villa 'mix'? Was swept along by the pre-release hype at the time but ultimately found it a bit dry and unexciting.

I didn't hear the RV mix until like 2 years later, and for what it was I found it to be really great.

well, maybe one. michael mayer. terrible, terrible stuff. like all other kompakt related microhouse, a huge pus-leaking zit on the hairy ass of true techno music

people are not going to be pleased at this. vahid you may offend people if you continue to post in this manner. they won't stand for it!

Shackleton mix is apparently all Shackleton and not all new/unreleased Shackleton.

Ricky Villa

lol am stealing this

Shackleton one sounded impressive albeit through computer speakers - yeah is def all his stuff, didn't check what was/wasn't exclusive tho

Optimo one is pound-for-pound the most... loveable I've heard in the whole series I think

the ricky villa (lol) one is probably the most polarizing fabric cd. myself, i listened to it many times and still couldn't get it. and vahid is the first person i saw hating the m mayer one.

Yeah the Mayer one, though the middle is a bit slack, is pretty glorious.

ricky villa i'd say is pretty cool tho not a necessity. there are like four or five ricky villa albums i'd buy first.

as far as mayer goes, i really enjoy the first three and last three tracks but i think the middle is a total snorefest.

truth is that i really hate wispy swoony microhouse tho so your mileage may vary

isn't some of the middle quite technoey...i haven't listened to it in years, or is the really technoey track the third one....

Loved the Jackson remix of M83 on the Mayer mix. Wasn't so keen on the rest.

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.

sorry to repost

I'm sure I posted this earlier, but I was a huge fan of the Radioactive Man mix when that came out. Absolutely enormous, tough as nails early-00's electro, which might be a bit dated now but nevertheless is fun as fuck.

yeah it's too dated for me now but there really *are* several monster tracks on there, i recall the pile-up between his own "ave that" and tim wright's remix is pretty amazing, as is rother's "die macht" and 2LS dot allison remix.

and the ending bit with a princess superstar acapella over dirty hospital's nu-hardcore (no pun)

In/Out was the highlight for me. But it's full of bangers. No doubt I will dig it out and enjoy it anew in a couple of years.

that's the one with the "holy mountain" sample

just listened to doc martin's one on the way to work this morning + im surprised it's not on moonship's list... that shit is deep

^^^^ Esp. Rise Ashen's "Second Wind"!!!

I think maybe Vahid underrates it because he prefers Sounds You Can Feel? I disagree, though both are ace.

i havent heard sounds you can feel! will track it down tonight

The fact that I rate the Fabric mix ever so slightly higher should not in any way be taken as a diss...

Villalobos mix is a classic in my book, particularly love the first half lead up to the track with the "zany" voice, just super sharp precision house tools. I seriously can't think of anybody more capable of those kind of extremely reduced and refined functional loop tracks since like prime Dan Bell?

The mix that sadly always gets left out of these discussions is Akufen's. It's a perfect summation of that early-mid 00s Classic/MFF/Perlon/Telegraph micro-junction, ridiculously groovy and unashamedly house with plenty of headphone pleasing "wtf was that" moments.

Actually Villalobos would've been a classic if it wasn't for the 12 minute OMG Fabric at 10 AM bore-a-thons towards the end.

xp yeah I dug out the Akufen mix again recently - great stuff. I think I like it more now than I did at the time of first release (when I was probably hoping it would be all My Way style "flipping the radio dial" blipvert house, although there is more of that on there than I remembered!)

RV mix is the exception to the rule that the only good Fabric/Fabriclive mixes are the ones with PRIME NUMBERS [/sweeping generalisation] ;)

Thread kind of inspired by the EDM poll nominations and the way they've been taking me deeper into 2000s house & techno than before (though it was a path I'd already started a little way down).

These are the only ones in the series I own so far -
Fabriclive 54 - David Rodigan
fabric 55 - Shackleton
Fabriclive 56 - Pearson Sound/Ramadanman
fabric 63 - Levon Vincent
& I've also given quite a few listens to friends' copies of fabric 50 - Martyn and Fabriclive 57 - Jackmaster.

From these, the Shackleton one is an all-time fave and the Levon Vincent CD is something that I'm listening to over and over at the moment. The only one I'd maybe give a 'destroy' rating to is the Jackmaster, which is a shame because Jack usually is one of my favorite DJs (think this was discussed in another thread actually).
Browsing through the list inside the Levon case, there's quite a lot of tasty-looking earlier entries, but I'm looking for some expert opinion before I decide what to go for next.
(Apologies if this has already been covered - did a quick search and it seemed to be threads on individual CDs but not the whole series).

Oops, seems there is a thread after all....
Ah well, revive!

Just listened to the Shackleton one for the first time yesterday! Exceptional quality, that one...

ah levon you're fucking spoiling us

shy fx & b traits - sorry, you fail

struggling to get into pinch

still enjoying four tet

oneman looks exciting, hopefully doesn't fuck it up

sorry kasra i skipped you because i saw too many clinical drum and bass names like "phizix", "hybris", "halogenix", "resources", "soundwaves", etc

would like to hear opinions on brodinski and drop the lime

Actually meant to bump this thread myself. Since these are dirt cheap all over london I've been meaning to stock up.

I guess right now I have:

Jackmaster
Shackleton
Villalobos
Omar-s
michael mayer has been ordered
james murphy/pat mahoney

While I intend to get the Four Tet at some point, I'm also debating akufen, ame, pearson sound and others I've seen used.

Ame's quite good, not a life changer. Listened to the Ellen Allien one again recently and that's held up surprisingly well.

Jacques Lu Cont's Fabriclive is ALL TIME imo.

but yeah, also get:

Ewan Pearson
Tyrant
Radio Slave
Metro Area
Swayzak

yeah, also curious about the early ones, which I've sort of not thought about. Craig Richards, for example? I would look out for Ewan, radio slave, and metro area (not to mention Martyn, Surgeon, Optimo, and Carl Craig), but preference is typically going to those I find for alarmingly cheap prices.

Been meaning to get the Metro Area one for ages, just ordered it from Amazon for £1 + p&p. Agree with Dwight that the Ellen Allien and Ewan Pearson ones are great.

Metro Area is great fun. My faves are Mayer, Optimo, Villalobos, Murphy/ Mahoney, Omar-S.

Looking forward to the Oneman mix. Tracklisting looks good (I do miss his epic dubstep / garage blends of yore however)

if you like deep house, the doc martin one is great

The Ewan Pearson Fabric mix is really drab compared to his Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix and pretty much ever other mix I've heard by him.

What's the mixing on the Doc Martin like? Practically every mix I've heard of his has been full of clangers.

o really? the mixings p good on the fabric i think

that Drop The Lime one is p naff, although not as bad as his actual productions these days

it has 'Rock Around The Clock' slapped in its middle and feels v forced in general

iirc Craig Richards' one was way more interesting than my idea of him as a DJ at least

I've never heard Craig Richards play anything other than clumpy tech-house and I'm kind of amazed anyone would actually think to check out his own mix.

The Doc Martin one is really nicely mixed IMO.

xpost: yeah, that was my attitude too, but I was just looking at the resident Advisor top mixes of the 00s poll and was kind of surprised to find that at like, 11 or so.

Re: Craig Richards. While he does play his fair bit if clumpy tech-house (lol, love that term). He does play a lot of other styles too and can pull out some great gems, it's pretty common for him to also play electro, italo or classic deep house. For example he put $tinkworx on his last mix, and I've heard him play things like love'n'music in Room 1. Now, if only he could learn to play these with interesting, dramatic mixes rather than smooth, souless blends - that is perhaps his most 'tech-house' trait.

Basically when I've been in Fabric and heard Craig Richards I've mainly been glad it's not Terry Francis playing the same record for 3 hours. ;)

I obviously love a bit of the old clumpy tech house, just looked for a recent mix and I'm currently rushing my tits of, in a manner of speaking, to this: http://soundcloud.com/r_co/craig-richards-kiss-presents