Search and Destroy: DJ Kicks!

surely you mean "is the best thing ever"?

i'm with you. that song makes me feel soiled.

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smith & mighty - is totally magical. beautiful dubby trip hop intro which suddenly shifts into a "best-of" of underrated bristol jungle. you probably need it just for more rockers "show love" which has the greatest diva break ever, the filtering making her voice sound like a rocketship straining to drag the whole track into space. and also krust's remix of "bass speaker", under rakim's "kick a hole in the speaker" sample he throws down these frenzied bass farts that sound like he's trying to strangle the woofer from the inside.

what about those of us who don't like either?

does it actually have that brilliant black strobe mix of martini brothers or am I imagining that?

the claude young mix is brilliant, except for a couple of unnecessary backspins. not 'spartan' or 'sparse' at all, really, just sort of... inhuman?

yeah, i enjoyed the claude young mix. a bit on the relentless side however so you have to be in the right mood.

i really liked the stacey pullen although even that was trumped by his exceptional bbc radio 1 essential mix (1996) that includes some of the same tracks.

Booka Shade are up next, for what it's worth

best: playgroup
biggest eye-opener: henrik schwarz
sentimental fave: stereo mcs (!)

i can always get behind tiga's 'hot in herre'.

Yeah Playgroup's is awesome. It was quite an eye-opener for me at the time as well.

it will be interesting to see what Booka Shade do. The only DJ set i've heard from them was a fairly straightforward electro-house/minimal set, but I could imagine the DJ Kicks being closer to the atmospheric parts of Memento.

Yeah the Playgroup one kinda set the tone for everything that happened after it.

No love for Chicken Lips?

yes! the nina hagen song kills me every time. gets a bit samey in the second half though.

Booka Shade tracklisting:

01. Passengers - A Different Kind Of Blue - Universal Music
02. Nôze - Slum Girl - Circus Company
03. Cerrone - In The Smoke - Malligator
/ Ben Westbeech - Hang Around (Wahoo Main Mix) - V2
04. John Carpenter - The Bank Robbery - Silva Screen Records
05. Booka Shade- Estoril - GPM
06. Yazoo - Situation (US 12" remix) - Mute / EMI Music
07. Akiko Kiyama - The Misida Monarchy - Lick My Deck
/ Karel Fialka - The Things I Saw - Universal Music
08. Lopazz - 2 Fast 4 U - GPM
09. Quarion - Play Your Part - Drumpoet Community / Compost
10. John Carpenter - Arrival At The Library - Silva Screen Records
/ Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Far Away - Crosstown Rebels 29
11. Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam - Warp Records
12. Heaven 17 - Geisha Boys And Temple Girls - Virgin / EMI Music
13. The Tubes - Drums - EMI Music
14. Brigitte Bardot - Contact - Universal Music
15. Booka Shade - Numbers (DJ-Kicks) - !K7 Records
16. Quarion - Karasu - Drumpoet Community / Compost
17. The Streets - It's Too Late - Warner Music
18. Amir Ad Fontes - Virtual Nature - Big City Beats
19. Carl Craig - Landcruising - Warner Music
20. Matthew Dear - Tide - Spectral / Ghostly
21. Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri (Hot Chip Remix) - Ghostly
22. Richard Hawley - Last Orders - Mute / EMI Music

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

I love the Erlend Øye one. Lots of glorious electro.

i think you could make a pretty solid case for the booka shade one being the strongest dj kicks mix ever

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.

no mention of cj bolland's?

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

I've never heard CJ Bolland's

The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great. Haven't picked up James Holden (yet?).

agreed, map -- moodyman is by far my fave album of the year

what's the scoop on Yaw of the first song on the Moodyman DJ Kicks? can't find anything about it online

figured it was some classic 70s track but... seems not?

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

the vocal harmony at 2:16 is the one of the best moments of music i've heard, just heavenly

moodyman digs so deep, respect

I like Gold Panda's a lot.

Kamaal Williams is mixing the next DJ Kicks. Looks like there will be a broken beat theme....which is a good thing.

01. Budgie - Sometimes
02. Kamaal Williams - Snitches Brew (Live In Atlanta)
03. Karriem Riggins - Summer Madness S.A.
04. Lord Tusk - Space Invader (Vocal Mix)
05. Seiji - Buggin' Out
06. Steve Spacek - Hey There
07. Max Graef - Speed Metal Jesus
08. Kaidi Tatham - Two Tens Madam
09. Freeez - Southern Freeez
10. Peven Everett - Stuck (Original)
11. Hard House Banton - Sirens
12. Diggs Duke - 'Cause I Love You
13. DJ Harrison - MovingUp
14. Ratgrave - Ein Kola Bitte!
15. Wbeeza - He's So Crazy
16. Awanto 3 - Pregnant
17. Henry Wu - 117 Careplan
18. Lone - Airglow Fires
19. Henry Wu & Earl Jeffers - Projections
20. City People - It's All In The Groove
21. Phil Asher - Peace And Love
22. Tenderlonious - Song For My Father
23. Yussef Kamaal - Lowrider
24. Steven Julien - XL (Original Mix)
25. Kamaal Williams - Shinjuku (DJ-Kicks)
26. Henry Wu - Wivout U
27. Dego - Nuts
28. K15 - Time Humbles Us All
29. Kamaal Williams - Strings (ATL)

Looks great. The Peven Everett tune was on Motor City DE's DJ Kicks too.

Very excited to hear it's Avalon Emerson up next. Looks like a proper dancefloor mix but with plenty of original material.

1. Avalon Emerson – Long Forgotten Fairytale
2. Avalon Emerson – Wastelands & Oases
3. Butterfly – Tranceonic
4. Waveform – Breakers in Space (DAT Remix)
5. Avalon Emerson – Rotting Hills
6. Anthony Acid – Doe Doe Doe
7. Little Mike – Dirty Pusher Man
8. DJ Sense – Finest
9. General Midi – The Future
10. Oni Ayhun – OAR004-A
11. Oklou – Just Level 5 Cause It’s Cute
12. Oceanic – Yellow Cone
13. Smith & Hack – Ultra Range Process
14. Soundstream – 3rd Movement
15. The Dirtbombs – Shari Vari (Avalon Emerson’s cybernedit)
16. !!! – Hello? Is This Thing On? (Thomas N’ Eric’s Rub And Tug Throwdown)
17. Avalon Emerson – Poodle Power
18. Lady B – Cruising Around Motor City
19. Regular Citizen – Ultramarine Dew
20. Austra – Anywayz (Avalon Emerson 14th Life Version)

luv her

her release on the FKA Whities label is one of my fav techno records ever

Anthony Acid – Doe Doe Doe

Love the vocals on this. emotional content

Yeah I want acid and bleeps and bangers and beguiling space melodies.

Just listening to Long Forgotten Fairytale now, it's great

Its v poppy, not bleepy and banging at all really. Tho as the opener maybe not indicative of the rest of the mix

always nice to see !!! get some respect

were people only allowed to vote for the releases that have been cleared for streaming !?

https://ra.co/features/3943

as someone who loves the Tiga entry into the series, I really didn't need to have it explained to me that it was "fun" because it contains an unexpected cover, multiple times

this thread got me fixing to revisit the series for entries that i haven't heard, which i'm realizing now is quite a few. are there any sucky ones that i should avoid?

oh shit Jesse Lanza did the most recent volume? ok!

*Jessy