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
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― 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
Can't get into the Apparat one.
Search: Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Booka Shade, Playgroup.
― Moka, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't get the appeal of the juan maclean one. ordinary tracks, ordinary mixing. it's like some random mix from the internet.
― Death Cab for Kuti (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that reads like a crunk boomkat review
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
And, um, I'm going to be dumb -- is that about the juan maclean one? Haven't heard of a death in vegas one.
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
WHOOPS sorry that's a fabric mix, not a dj kicks
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool, I thought that is what you meant. I'm going to check it out -- FabricLive 23, right?
― mh, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
word
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen 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