:D
― The Reverend, Friday, 9 March 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
I approve of this thread.
I've thought of starting it a few times actually.
His recent DJ Weekly podcast is excellent:
http://soundcloud.com/djmag/dj-weekly-podcast-73-dj-q
DJ Q - All Junglist Rusko - Somebody To Love Todd Edwards - Beckon Call (2003 Remix) TS7 - Bitter VIP Discarda - Rhyme On Acapella Disclosure - My Intention Of War Alyssa Reid - Alone Again (Sunship Remix) DJ Q - Here Comes Da Bassline D Double E feat Example - Catch Me If You Can Preditah - Groupies SBTRKT feat Sampha - Living Like I Do (Lil Silva Remix) Burgaboy - You're Gonna Love Me Swifta - Oh Yeah Redlight - Get Out My Head Redlight - Get Out My Head (Joker Remix) Project Bassline - Resistance Mosca - Bax Nick Hannam - Love You Girl Lady Gaga - Marry The Night (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix) 5kin & Bone5 - Make You Understand DJ Q - JD & Coke Cause & Effect - Ripped Groove DJ Q - All You Have To Maya Jane Coles - What They Say Mista Men feat Detboi - Happen To You DJ Q - Dibby Dibby Sound Zinc - Juicy Fruit Zed Bias feat Sam Frank - Night Lovers (Heavyfeet Remix) Preditah - Circles TS7 - Nothing To Show Booda - No More Calls DJ Q - Brandy & Coke
― Tim F, Friday, 9 March 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
i also approve, he is amazinggggg
i just bought the brandy & coke 12'', it is EVERYTHING
btw, sort of related, Unknown to the Unknown is such an amazing label like every release is dope.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, 9 March 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
Whenever The Reverend and The Brainwasher vehemently agree on things I imagine them with their own TV show called 'The Reverend and The Brainwasher'.
― Tim F, Friday, 9 March 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
ha, we spend a lot of time vehemently agreeing on things these days
― The Reverend, Friday, 9 March 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
bummer i thought this thread was about dj q
― the late great, Friday, 9 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
The Robin Thicke remix on that mix!
― The Reverend, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
this is fabulous also:
Alyssa Reid - Alone Again (Sunship Remix)
― Tim F, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah love this one
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Friday, 9 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
even better than the a-side imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLIejRG5484
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
THE SUMMER IS NOT READY
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 19 March 2012 05:30 (twelve years ago) link
i do like "brandy & coke" better tho, myself
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 19 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
"brandy & coke" was a total
http://imnotatoy.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/obamabased.jpg
for me
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 19 March 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
I thought "Brandy" was better for a while but "JD" just kind of snuck up on me.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
I assume you dudes heard "Over Me" from last year?
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
What's especially dope is the Summer 2 Step Mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRv7Yvs6Gho
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
I also love the unofficial sequel "Breaking Free":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz23Su7RSy8
Kinda sad that r|t|c isn't around to bask in the belated take-up of the idea he put so much effort into promulgating over a year ago (namely the ineffable genius of etc.)
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Also THIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkwsnUG74RI&feature=related
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't sound like a very RTCesque turn of phrase!
i have always disliked the word "ineffable" tbh. one of the first words i can remember disliking.
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 March 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
where is rtc? ilm suffers without him.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I just gave it this title to make sure I roped in ppl who were taken with T2.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
No I didn't mean the phrase, I mean DJ Q's genius.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I can see how my prior post was confusing, but I am confident that the phrase "the ineffable..." will not be going viral any time soon.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
I've liked DJ Q for years, I just didn't start checking for him obsessively until recently.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
DJ Q as a "thing" post the golden age of bassline is something that has seeped into popular consciousness only over the past 18 months I'd say.
In particular the melting pot of bassline, 2-step and grime (with smatterings of dubstep, old school house, funky etc) that his dj sets from the last few years basically define.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Also I wasn't accusing you personally of being a new jack, Rev, DJ Q's rep has exploded in general over about the last 6 months in particular.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, but I understand, before recently I just kind of treated him as a "like him when I hear him" type thing.
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
his 97 remix of dizzee's "flex" is still all time, of course. And "you wot".
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
obv
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
One thing I love about this scene (and it was true in the early days of funky as well) is how totally random (but awesome) outsider tunes become massive anthems. Maya Jane Coles' "what they say" being a good example.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
i gotta youtube that, but yes, i loved that about funky. "we belong to the night", "self religion", "turn me on", etc
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
"what they say" is basically an organ anthem.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
same guy? used to love this bitd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1WJP9PoI0
― piscesx, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't realize the organ stuff was apart from this scene. i thought it was just kind of in another part of the spectrum. xp
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no "what they say" isn't an Organ anthem, haha. Maya makes euro deep house and occasionally dubstep. But it feels like an organ anthem in this context. It's an inadvertent resonance perhaps.
Organ, as such, seems both part of this scene and also apart from it, slightly, in the sense that there are Organ DJs who would never touch the harder stuff that DJ Q plays. Though really the same is true of all the scene's constituent parts so that probably doesn't mean much.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh, you meant small "o" organ, i gotchu
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
pisces: different guy
― The Reverend, Monday, 19 March 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
His "Enters the Unknown" mix CD is amazing.
I've also found myself gravitating towards that lovely nexus of bassline, grime, funky, and all the techno-y and housey bits of dubstep as of late. It almost feels like lots of things are moving in this direction. Maybe its just me.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Monday, 19 March 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
all the techno-y and housey bits of dubstep as of late
it's quite interesting seeing what's "in" and what's outside the nexus of the above stuff - it's not just a quality issue either, some housey post-dubstep I adore would sound very out of place in a DJ Q mix whereas other stuff I like but less enthusiastically feels like a perfect fit (and tends to sound much better in that context than in isolation).
I should just break down and order this from boomkat, shouldn't I.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Its worth the money. I got mine from the label and it took about three weeks.
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure it's worth the money! It's more that ordering CDs seems so.. anachronistic. But I will do it.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
really? i totally haven't noticed this. you're probably right but who are you actually referring to? other DJs or critics? if the latter i've been trying to pay less attention generally
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
maya jane coles has completely passed me by in that i know she's been getting big but i've somehow managed never to hear anything she's done, whether dj sets or productions (until her new dj kicks mix)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
β lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:18 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Getting more play in a variety of DJ sets in a variety of (obv really close together) genres, getting lots of critical attention (including stuff like doing DJ mixes for magazines), tunes seeming to get a (relatively) high sales results on juno etc, releases on more critically respectable labels...
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Maya Jane Coles is really good mostly!
Lex I think you would like her release as Nocturnal Sunshine, "Can't Hide The Way I Feel". It's a lot like Damu.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
i seem to have so little time to keep up nowadays nnnghhh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
this maya jane coles track is fabulous
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
how the fuck did i miss "what they say"? so incredible
i say i missed it, i totally recognise it, but i didn't realise what it was til now
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol "what they say" is TWO years old o_0
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2012 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's one of those tracks that's totally easy to miss in that way because it sort of feels like it's been around for ever and is not in fact the product of a particular individual, just a structurally necessary moment in the mix.
― Tim F, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
listening to UKG at lunchtime and Hannah started singing "Baked Beans" along to the vocal sample in said track, even tho she'd never heard it before
:D <3
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 April 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
tqd album is amazing
― flopson, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Totally missed this. Some pretty great moments so far: https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/ldn
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:18 (six years ago) link
Says it's been up for seven months, but I could swear it wasn't there seven months ago.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
massive number of new tracks on soundcloud! lotta filth, lotta beauty
really like "my heart"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 November 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
Bassline producers... in 2018 can we stop trying to be comedians online and actually release more music for the supporters... on that note, My Bae by myself and @FlavaD is available to stream / download from today https://t.co/ypyF8iRSup— DJ Q (@djqmusic) December 25, 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 December 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
Any idea where the vocal sample in Make Some Noise v2 comes from (if it is a sample)?
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 25 December 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
nope
5-hr set from July: https://soundcloud.com/djqmusic/qllnightldn
the mixing around 49 mins is a thing of beauty. i love the ragga/hardcore/2-step combo. love how rough and ready these live sets are, how fearless q is, how ambitious
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 January 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
twenty-five mins in and he's breaking out the Dream Teem Dub of "Buddy X", today is going to be a good day!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link
This is predictably tremendous
― Tim F, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 08:25 (six years ago) link
omg@ 1:34
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
:00-ish
schaffel sighting at 2:02:30-ish
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 January 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
lol @ "one more time" x "that's not me"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
what is the absolutely incredible song at 2:44:00-ish? "i walk away"?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 February 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MxPDEq1Sfc
― ennui soundsystem (doobydoo), Friday, 16 February 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
nice :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 February 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
TUUUUUUUNE
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 February 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/newsflash-dj-q-has-mixed-fabriclive-99
This is firmly in the 'about fucking time' category.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
βIβm Sorry...β one for the UK Garage heads!! π¬π§ pic.twitter.com/7ATXtrZFYX— DJ Q (@djqmusic) July 6, 2018
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
9 days left to listen.. TQD mix for R1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b89wkw
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 July 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
the new Barely Royal compilation "100% Bass" is giving me the same kind of feeling a DJ Q Kiss show gave me - lots of opulent bangers of growling subs and wobbling midrange, rhythmically thrilling but direct and brutalist, new vocal anthems mixed with refixes of 90s pop-house, skirting awfulness with tastelessness but never less than joyous glee
(except the drum & bass tracks on it, they're mostly rubbish)
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
caught him live at a festival recently. it was a lot more bassline and a lot less garage-house than i'd expected
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 09:02 (five years ago) link
This Fabriclive mix is fucking bonkers in the best way - personal highlight is the end of his remix of the Stingray theme (!) and a sample intones "anything can happen in the next half hour" and it feels like a promise as much as a punchline. Why can't all music be so charismatic and fun and joyous?
― boxedjoy, Friday, 14 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
The Stingray drop is one of my favourite musical moments of the year but the mix in general is, I dunno, enjoyable but slightly frustrating and unsatisfying? Like it could stand to be more pop maybe?
It's like when Q was at his peak his sets had this magical alchemy, like he'd perfected the ratios of bassline brutalism, garage slink and pop shamelessness and his recent sets have more of the former and less of the latter. Over the last few years Q (and TQD in particular) have become fixtures on the UK festival bosh circuit and as a result maybe his sets have lost a bit of the balance that used to make them special. He's amped up the ruffness and cut back on the sugar.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 December 2018 13:18 (five years ago) link
sounds a little like the journey taken by my other favourite dj, jd twitch!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 December 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
it seems likely that hanging out around kiss and 1xtra would result in a bit of residual pop rubbing off?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 December 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
I do wish there was a little more of the shameless 90s-ecstasy-refix about it but obvz that wouldn't be very on-brand for Fabric to have something like the Motez remix of "Don't Call Me Baby" or whatever
― boxedjoy, Friday, 14 December 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
damn i missed this mix^, gotta check that out
this deep house roller from i don't know when is hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGluH6YukdI
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:04 (five years ago) link
as hell
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:06 (five years ago) link
lol it's a different dj q. still good though!
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 14 February 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
How about this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42B6m12UVg
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
https://m.mixcloud.com/djqmusic/the-best-of-dj-q-2010-2019/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
If youβre a DJ and youβd like to receive some DJ Q music then simply reply with your email address ππ— DJ Q (@djqmusic) March 3, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
oof
https://djqmusic.bandcamp.com/track/all-in
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
oh yeah that's a banger
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
https://polymerzine.club/2020/11/01/dj-q/
― just sayin, Monday, 2 November 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
boom
HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE IβLL BE JOINING KISS FM WITH A NEW SHOW EVERY WEDNESDAY 9PM TILL 11PM PLAYING THE BEST IN UKG, BASSLINE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. πππ pic.twitter.com/vDXrTlfZJh— DJ Q (@djqmusic) November 2, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
fantastic!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
https://planetradio.co.uk/kiss/player/137057415/
― toby, Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
octo octa remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTynM5QAmy0
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
dang, what an ilx special!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
right???
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 09:52 (three years ago) link
and now this: https://ra.co/podcast/766
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
New album coming out on Local Action:
https://djqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/est-2003
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
https://on.soundcloud.com/yFbqE7ejVLH186j3A
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
misteeq remix
https://djqmusic.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-want-dj-q-edit
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 October 2023 07:01 (five months ago) link