Apr 23
Today's cool album is
Zapper by Nanoray!
Genres: hardcore breaks, hard trance
Year: 2021
Country: united states
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seen from United States
Today's cool album is
Zapper by Nanoray!
Genres: hardcore breaks, hard trance
Year: 2021
Country: united states
Today’s mix:
Moonshine Mixed Vol.2 by Steve Levy 1998 House / Tech House / Techno / Breaks / Big Beat / Breakbeat / Trance / Electro
If you’re a DJ and you’re given the task to try to make a mix that best represents the sound of a label whose catalog is as varied as Moonshine’s is, well then, you’re just gonna have a mix that lacks any sort of cohesion. Ultimately, that’s this thing’s fatal flaw. Too much genre hopping and too many disparate styles to really get the listener into a real groove. But at least the album cover rules.
Listen to the full mix here.
Highlights:
Top Kat - “Feel Cool” E.K.O. - “Keep It Shining (Stellar Remix)” Elli Mac - “Celebrate (Tall Paul Remix)”
Liberation by Les Rythmes Digitales Wall Of Sound 1996 House / Breaks / Techno
Today’s mix:
Damn That DJ Made My Day by Richard “Humpty” Vission 2001 House / Breaks / Deep House / Electro
Alright, this is an awesome mix and Richard “Humpty” Vission came really close to making my day with it. It has plenty of that turn-of-the-millennium house music that I love: that upbeat strings-and-horns-and-warm-keyboards stuff that’s all rooted in disco, funk, and soul. I can’t get enough of that shit. BUT, the mix takes a little bit of time to really start to strike that groove. After the first few opening tracks, this thing quickly becomes a jumbled-up, mashed-up megamix mess of sorts, going in all directions and seemingly trying to please everyone. And by the time we hit around the 18-minute mark of this 56-minute mix, we’ve already gotten through half of its tracks. The infusion of “I See You In My Dreams” by Fallen, which is a bad Euro-house song, is a total head scratcher. However, once you get past that point, it’s smooth, sensational, good-time party sailing from there. 😎 And the mixing skills on display here from Vission are super on point, even when the selection is perplexing.
Listen to the full mix here.
Highlights:
CZR & ITO - “Bringing The Funk” Stretch & Vern - “That Sound (Stretch N Vern Club Mix)” Sébastien Léger - “Afro Dyzak” Vinyl Fever - “The Prophet” Filter Science - “Darkness Falls (Joey Beltram Remix)” Gouryella - “Tenshi (Transa Remix)” Conga Squad - “I Lost It” The Street Preacherz - “Ill Concept” Thick Dick - “Welcome To The Jungle” United Friends Of Funk - “Millennium Boogie” Hatiras - “Spaced Invader” Phoenix - “If I Ever Feel Better, I’ll Go To The Disco” Christian Smith, Junior Sanchez - “United Groove” Exodus - “Real Close” Static Revenger - “Happy People” Olav Basoski - “Playing Da Game” Rhythm Masters - “The Underground” Kings Of Tomorrow - “Finally” Afro Medusa - “Pasilda (Knee Deep Club Mix)” Static Revenger - “Music Makes Me Feel So Good”
Today’s compilation:
The Lo Fibre Companion 1998 Experimental / Minimalism / Breaks / Minimal Techno
Highlights:
Line - “Hollow”
Today’s mix:
Tectonics by Adam Freeland 1999 Breaks / Nu-Breaks / Electro / Florida Breaks
This is one of those mixes that makes you realize the infinite potential that breaks has as a dance genre and the Pangaea album cover is a clever expression of that sentiment. See, the tracks on here are so wide-ranging and different, but the glue that holds them all together is the fact that they’re all breaks (except for one house tune). Adam Freeland’s daunting mix here represents the continents being smushed together; he delivers a set of wildly different tracks that contain unpredictable twists and turns of their own, all on one mix, and yet there’s still one thing that seems to unify them all and that is breaks.
Listen to the full mix here.
Highlights:
Makesome Breaksome - “Pig Chase” Ils - “Tectonic” Leuroj - “Isokora (Bushwacka! Remix)” Apex - “Bangin’” Motion Unit - “My Mind” Vigi & Flip - “Freak Frequency” Layo And Bushwacka! - “Deep South” Beber - “Juvenile Delinquent (Tectonics Mix)”
Today’s mix:
The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One by The Prodigy 1999 Breaks / Hip Hop / Mashup / Funk / Big Beat / Electro
From the debauched mind and expansive record crate of The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett comes the mix that you’d expect only The Prodigy to slap their name on. The Dirtchamber Sessions is primarily a barnburning megamixed stew of classically funky breakbeats and old school hip hop jams, but along with that comes a handful of rock tunes, too, which is probably why this thing sounds so...Prodigious. I mean, where else are you gonna find a sweet mix that includes Public Enemy, Jane’s Addiction, Babe Ruth, Barry White, The Sex Pistols, Frankie Bones, Primal Scream, and Fatboy Slim? The answer is nowhere. And this mix has some pretty stunning mashups too, man. Lest you think that that was a late aughts / early tens kinda fad, here’s Howlett banging some out before Y2K even hit.
The Dirtchamber Sessions is a little herky jerky at times, but it wouldn’t be a Prodigy mix without a little chaos. And you gotta applaud the effort and ingenuity here from Howlett. He produced a dance megamix for those of us who can find a way to get down to most anything.
Listen to the full mix here.
Highlights:
“Session 1″ “Session 2″ “Session 3″ “Session 4″ “Session 5″ “Session 6″ “Session 7″ “Session 8″
Count Zero - “Blue Boogaloo” Phuturesole Song released in 1999. Compilation released in 2002. Future Jazz / Breaks / House
Got some obscure, late 90s dope from the UK for today from a duo called Count Zero. There’s not much info available about either of the members, but Hamish Anderson appears to have been some kind of in-house guy at Out of the Loop Recordings, a UK-based deep and jazzy house label that released Count Zero’s only record. The other guy, J. Franco, appears to have been in a late 80s UK acid jazz band called The Jazz Defektors, and in ‘99, the same year that Count Zero released Blue Boogaloo, he was also in a Latin house group called Galera. How Anderson and Franco knew each other though is not known.
But in ‘99, they managed to team up to make this sweet uptempo dance jam that fuses together elements of future jazz, breaks, funk, and house music. Why they failed to make anything else is beyond me, because this shit absolutely rips. Afro-Latin hand drum breaks, some percussive clinks, a deep and funky bassline, a variety of jazzy and funky keyboard leads, and stringy pads added towards the end, all with a snare-and-hi-hat house backbeat. Just wonderful.
Real 70s jazz-funk fusion kinda vibes on this, but at a danceable BPM. Who in their right mind could resist something like this and why was there only one Count Zero record? Just some of life’s many unanswered questions.
