what about those of us who don't like either?
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
does it actually have that brilliant black strobe mix of martini brothers or am I imagining that?
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 8 August 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 9 August 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 9 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Monday, 9 August 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
the claude young mix is brilliant, except for a couple of unnecessary backspins. not 'spartan' or 'sparse' at all, really, just sort of... inhuman?
― ☪, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sam500, Thursday, 2 August 2007 00:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Booka Shade are up next, for what it's worth
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 2 August 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
best: playgroup biggest eye-opener: henrik schwarz sentimental fave: stereo mcs (!)
i can always get behind tiga's 'hot in herre'.
― haitch, Thursday, 2 August 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah the Playgroup one kinda set the tone for everything that happened after it.
― Ronan, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
No love for Chicken Lips?
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yes! the nina hagen song kills me every time. gets a bit samey in the second half though.
― ☪, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Telephone thing, Monday, 27 August 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― blueski, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the Erlend Øye one. Lots of glorious electro.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i think you could make a pretty solid case for the booka shade one being the strongest dj kicks mix ever
― ^@^, Monday, 8 October 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
no mention of cj bolland's?
― Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― sam500, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I've never heard CJ Bolland's
― sam500, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great. Haven't picked up James Holden (yet?).
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 22 July 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
The James Holden one is pretty decent.
Listening to the Apparat one right now. He's pretty good at defining his aesthetic, isn't he?
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't listened to K&D one for years, sounds like a good idea for a rainy afternoon.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
definitely want to check out apparat, if only for the telefon tel aviv track.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I always overlook K&D's DJ Kicks mix in lieu of their K&D Sessions one, because it's the best thing ever.
― mh, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, DJ Kicks is way inferior to K&D Sessions. Still enjoyable though IIRC.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great.
Kode9 is excellent.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
essentials:
carl craignicoletteterranovasmith & mightyplaygroupfour tet
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Search: Erlend Øye, K&D, Annie, Four Tet
Actually, those may be the only ones I know well enough to judge.
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Still enjoyable though IIRC.
"Bass & Several Cars" is all-time
― lol @ dog w/ sunglasses (Pillbox), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure there's ever been a particularly poor dj kicks
― sock lobster (blueski), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the Daddy G one as well, some good rootsy reggae.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 26 October 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The Apparat one just came out and is pretty fucking fantastic.
― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
her release on the FKA Whities label is one of my fav techno records ever
― davey, Friday, 11 September 2020 08:04 (three years ago) link
Anthony Acid – Doe Doe Doe
Love the vocals on this. emotional content
― saer, Friday, 11 September 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link
Yeah I want acid and bleeps and bangers and beguiling space melodies.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 September 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
Just listening to Long Forgotten Fairytale now, it's great
― or something, Friday, 11 September 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
Its v poppy, not bleepy and banging at all really. Tho as the opener maybe not indicative of the rest of the mix
― or something, Friday, 11 September 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
always nice to see !!! get some respect
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
were people only allowed to vote for the releases that have been cleared for streaming !?
https://ra.co/features/3943
― mark e, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Friday, 3 December 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
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?
― davey, Sunday, 5 December 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
oh shit Jesse Lanza did the most recent volume? ok!
― davey, Sunday, 5 December 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
*Jessy