Search and Destroy: DJ Kicks!

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?).

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?

Haven't listened to K&D one for years, sounds like a good idea for a rainy afternoon.

definitely want to check out apparat, if only for the telefon tel aviv track.

I always overlook K&D's DJ Kicks mix in lieu of their K&D Sessions one, because it's the best thing ever.

Oh yeah, DJ Kicks is way inferior to K&D Sessions. Still enjoyable though IIRC.

The Juan Maclean and Kode9 sets are both really great.

Kode9 is excellent.

essentials:

carl craig
nicolette
terranova
smith & mighty
playgroup
four tet

Search: Erlend Øye, K&D, Annie, Four Tet

Actually, those may be the only ones I know well enough to judge.

Still enjoyable though IIRC.

"Bass & Several Cars" is all-time

not sure there's ever been a particularly poor dj kicks

I liked the Daddy G one as well, some good rootsy reggae.

The Apparat one just came out and is pretty fucking fantastic.

Can't get into the Apparat one.

Search: Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Booka Shade, Playgroup.

i don't get the appeal of the juan maclean one. ordinary tracks, ordinary mixing. it's like some random mix from the internet.

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.

that reads like a crunk boomkat review

And, um, I'm going to be dumb -- is that about the juan maclean one? Haven't heard of a death in vegas one.

WHOOPS sorry that's a fabric mix, not a dj kicks

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