Metro Area (and if you want also Morgan Geist) (and now Storm Queen)

metro area fabric mix! looks good

01 Babla's Disco Sensation - Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi (Intro)
02 World Premiere - Share the Night (Breakdown Mix)
03 Ministry - Work for Love (Dub Mix)
04 The Disco Four - Move to the Groove (Instrumental)
05 Skratch - You Should Have Known Better (Instrumental)
06 Barbara Norris - Heavy Hitter (Dub Version)
07 Gary's Gang - Makin' Music (Dub Mix)
08 Voyage - Souvenirs
09 Five Special - Why Leave Us Alone (Long Version)
10 Ray Martinez - The Natives are Restless
11 Dreamhouse - I Can Feel It
12 Mascara - Baja (Instrumental Dub Version)
13 Play by Numbers - Cloud Nine (Ready Mix)
14 Midway - Set it Out (Funky Breakdown Mix)
15 Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
16 Data - Blow (Remix)
17 Atmosphere - Swede's Scandal
18 Wiretap - X-Rated Man
19 Plez - I Can't Stop (Acid Rainforest Mix)
20 Baby Oliver - Feelings2
21 Jean Luc Ponty - Open Mind (Special Dance Mix)
22 Premiere Class - Poupée Flash
23 Devo - Freedom of Choice

would smash

I was going to stop my Fabric supscription, looks like i'll wait till this drops then stop it.

Double Night Time release party

Wed Oct 15th, 10pm, $10

Santos Party House
100 Lafayette St. NYC

oh this is where I posted that tracklist ..... was hunting for it in the other thread

13 Play by Numbers - Cloud Nine (Ready Mix)

^^^^^^ so dope

sorry, party is 5 bucks, not 10.

http://www.environrecords.com/MG_FLYER2.jpg

loooool at the intro to this... a+

(the fabric mix that is)

officially played out

?

that intro is fun exactly 1 time, then it's annoying. not as annoying as Carl Craig's intro but in the same category of annoying. it's completely fake and will be regretted by both DJ and MG in the very near future if they don't already regret doing it now. the rest of the mix is mixed very well but i just can't get into right now. maybe it will sound better when i'm craving this style/genre.

hey dj
hey mg!
give me a motherfucking breakbeat
who's
who's
who's that gigolo on the street.....

this genre (80s boogie & italo revivalism) is officially played out

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-vXFmP6NZoWmZM:http://www.challops.com/images/1.gif

x-post oh ok yeah it has definitely been over-compiled lately.

i didnt find the intro went on long enough that it would get annoying, but i've just heard it for the first time so

and calling the intro 'completely fake' is a bit weird

not really. by 'completely fake' i mean, they weren't recording that intro live (triggering samples, playing the melodies, handclaps etc). so when they say, 'i like that bass, could use some girls singing....yeah ladies, clap, clap, clap' it sounds like they're directing the music when in fact, they're just reciting lines over a preexisting song, not actually playing anything or directing anything. that intro wasn't recorded live with them triggering samples as they recorded the vocals but thats what they try to pass off. thus, my comment that it's completely fake.

what is the point of getting on the mic at the beginning of a dj mix anyway? like i said, it's still not as bad as Carl Craig's intro to his Fabric mix.

They weren't recording that intro live (triggering samples, playing the melodies, handclaps etc). so when they say, 'i like that bass, could use some girls singing....yeah ladies, clap, clap, clap' it sounds like they're directing the music when in fact, they're just reciting lines over a preexisting song

O rly???? good work, detective! ;)

it's obviously supposed to be a joke. I lolled.

vahid, i agree on the italo being played out, boogie not as much, but almost there. what's hot in the world of u?

damn, wish I got the memo earlier! I would've sold all my italo and boogie on eBay for max bucks. Now nobody will want it because it's totally unlistenable. Metro Area definitely should have filled their fabric mix with some kind of next-level futuristic music that will influence them well into the 22nd century instead of those trendy teenybopper anthems you hear coming out of every car on the street like Poupée Flash and X-Rated Man.

ha. i don't mean necessarily in terms of listening or going to dance to, i was agreeing in terms of compiling

i haven't heard the mix, so i can't comment

mix is dope

I was more responding to Vahid anyway. I don't think those particular tracks are over-comped, and fwiw, I don't think there's much wrong with including a track you like in a mix just because you like the song and how it fits in with the mix. And it's a mix, not a compilation. I've complained about comps and bootlegs that have the same songs that were on last years comps and bootlegs, but if a DJ made a mix and decided Blue Monday or I Feel Love was an appropriate inclusion, what's the harm? But in this case, it's not like these are all the same songs you've heard on tons of italo and boogie comps and mixes, right? I haven't, but maybe I haven't heard that many.

should have filled their fabric mix with some kind of next-level futuristic music that will influence them well into the 22nd century

yeah, like the driving memoirs.

that's almost as old as italo-disco!

you're almost as old as italo-disco, grandpa!

I am older than italo-disco!

damn this is so good

http://www.lagasta.com/storm-queen-look-right-through/

YES

^^so this song from three years ago that received two posts here is going to be number one this week

i really have no idea why or how

hah awesome!

it's the mk mix which is great and all but never superseded the original in my affections

best number one of the year anyway

I suppose it bears a superficial similarity to e.g. Disclosure, perhaps the yoot have caught on to that?

yeah that's the bit i know, just don't know why a three-years-old tune has been revived as the vehicle for it

although it's stuck with ME for three years in a way that amazing-at-the-time dance tracks often don't so i guess that's it

There's not much on this thread but I'm sure I've seen extensive repping for Look Right Through on ILX in the past. The MK mix is effectively a reboot in commercial terms, it's allowed the song to filter through an entirely different scene (the original would never have been playlisted on 1xtra).

This isn't exactly a new phenomenon - Let Me Be Your Fantasy had been around for like two years by the time it hit number one. It's a symbol of a British dance ecosystem that's functioning properly again. The internet helps as well, it's been getting mad Shazam tags which helps the record company put weight behind it, although that may be a bit chicken/egg.

Original > MK Mix though.

Also factor in the worlds of disco, house and garage being closer together than they've ever been, probably.

I wonder does MK genuinely have a knack for hitting the UK pop zeitgeist like this or has he just got lucky twice. To my ears there's never been anything partic notable abt his stuff but that prob says more abt my ears. I think if anything the Jpdeci remix was the apex of this sound but it never did much.

Jpdeci = Jodeci obv

Whoa, amazing; here's hoping the UK success will spill over to other regions.

^^so this song from three years ago that received two posts here is going to be number one this week

there is definitely a lot of Storm Queen talk on some of the rolling threads. maybe a little less on Look Right Through since it was the first one but when the other two dropped people were like NEW STORM QUEEN OMG

this hitting #1 is so cool.

there was loads of talk, it was one of the biggest records of that year.

I'm gonna go bat for the MK mix here, which is obviously not exactly a fully drawn and pathos-laden song in the way the original is, but is just so compulsive it doesn't matter. There's something about his organ-riff basslines that are totally magical (see also his remix of Katy B's "What Love Is Made Of").

The MK Dub is better, really, it wastes less time paying tribute to the original's structure.

Agreed about the Dub being better. I still have a lot of time for MK dubs in general. Old Murk as well. They mined a similar vein that keeps aging well. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWXtlHuaZg

nice momus cameo in the new video

re: "Look Right Through" talk on ILx, from Tim's 2010 EOY thread:

It seems like there's usually at least one great storming male diva house throwback tune each year - last year, of course, was Azari & III's "Reckless With Your Love", which not only was excellent as a house tune but also was to my mind is one of the great diva-house songs, and a song that simply wouldn't make sense delivered in any other style or manner. Like a lot of music that hits me thematically as well as viscerally it's the kind of thing that makes me wish I made music. But then diva vocal house has that effect quite often, the short-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths so irresistible that even people who stumble on seeming superficiality elsewhere intuitively understand its logic - it's the kind of music, in short, that brings out the best in its listeners fully as much as its makers.

"Look Right Through" (produced by Morgan Geist) isn't quite as fine a song as "Reckless With Your Love", but that's an unfair comparison: "Look Right Through" is lesser only in that it seems content to be a charming, impassioned, exhortative diva anthem about unrequited desire, carefree in its classicism - though formally, of course, it's heartbroken, resentful, oddly philosophical. But these traits emerge in classicist male diva house like hereditary features, inevitable and right-seeming as your right arm. Of course who's to say that there isn't a similarly moving deeper story lurking underneath: as far as I can tell the singer shifts from a drug addict or drunkard lover to a series of one night stands to a realisation that everyone in the world takes him for granted. Shit gets pretty real in this song.

Still, in some ways "Look Right Through" is more track than song: so much of the delight of this tune inheres in its ceaseless mutation, moving restlessly from rudimentary house percussion to shimmering, shivering synth chords and noodly arpeggios and bumping bass, before a bleepy breakdown that in no way preprares you for the tune's sudden headlong plunge into booming, bottom of a well bass at the four minute mark, as the diva wails "am I a piece of glass in your mind??" From there the tune almost disintegrates into murky dub-house, before those nervous synth-chords suddenly emerge, flittering above your ears as delicately as ever. It's great dancefloor trickery, and in the club "Look Right Through" provokes ever greater displays of enthusiasm from dancers with each shifting articulation. I think part of it is sheer surprise: "Look Right Through" is so musically and performatively generous in a style that hardly requires it, you could churn out endless derivations of "Love Won't Turn Around" and everyone would lap it up, but instead Geist and his diva Damon Scott shower you with hooks and ideas like it's the last chance they'll ever get.

― Tim F, Monday, 20 December 2010 12:42 (2 years ago)

& r|t|c precog as usual:

mk dub of storm queen's 'look right through' is arguably one of the most influential cuts of the year imo but not in any way that would get attention here

― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 15:06 (9 months ago)

Tim's post is OTM, especially about that "hort-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths", which I think is one of the major things I latch onto in overtly happy pop. Anyway,this is the best number one in recent memory.

*short, oops, C+p error

http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/