Finally, its been a long time coming, but Nature Or Nurture is coming to a Friday night near you! whoop!! Really looking forward to this and i hope we can get lots of peeps down for it, East London on the Friday before Chrimbo? surely its a win win situation?? GET YOURSELF DOWN HERE!!
It’s a great looking lineup with ultimate legend and top mixer The Pushamann as well as Danny Raper and of course Sir Terry to top the bill.. what more could you want??
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So; Hour Seven. In some ways I have been working on this mix since the start of august (oh how time flies) and there are a few tracks (the opener for example) that have been in place for months, but I’ve been working in the rest of the selection slowly since then and in fact the Peter Kruder track (what a tune) was bought and inserted on the day of the mix. Just shows you how quickly you can adapt even if you have tried to consider, over time, how best to construct a mix.
I personally think this is my favourite and best mix so far. It’s notable for its lack of the more organic (bongo tastic) percussive tracks that i went through a period of loving, and has more techno and tech-housy influences. It does slightly throw up an issue of identity, but frankly I think i am still too much of an amateur to worry about that quite yet.
Lusine – Two Dots (Pezzner remix) // Ghostly International
Matt Brown – Sauvente // Einmaleins Musik
dOP – Stock Option // Circus Company
Kabale Und Liebe – Una Y Nada // 100% Pure
Shonky – Carnage // Freak N Chic
Oxia – Sun Step // 8Bit
Rodriguez Jr – Kids of Hula // Leena Music
Peter Kruder – Law of Return // Innervisions
Gorge, Dubnitzky – Smile In My // Brise Records
Boris Horel – How Do I Look Like // Eklo
Ellen Allien – Lover // Bpitch Control
Ellen Allien & Apparat – Jet (Ben Klock remix) // Bpitch Control
Next months Nature Or Nurture includes a rather special guest who goes by the name of Moodymanc, who’s name I have not heard before though apparently he carries some weight in the electronic world and judging by the labels attatched to his name which i certainly have heard of, i will have to assume that this is the case. I hope the turnout will be better than it has been for the previous two months (it has to be better than last weeks when i was playing to err.. nobody) and so every effort will be made to get people down.. By the looks of it i may be playing for a bit longer too.. Hope to see you all there for sure..
Its been a while since I have successfully recorded anything approaching decent on the wheels of steel (mostly plastic) but I finally managed to put something together. The first four tracks have worked together better than any other i have played in a mix, though i didn’t really anticipate that being the case at all. The vibe is very upbeat throughout and this is only compounded by the fact that the tempo up there at around 133bpm. Again this was not intentional but as the beat of ‘Kings Child’ doesn’t come in for a good minute or so, there was no initial conception of how fast it would be. I actually think it adds to the live nature of the mix which is something i wanted to achieve. It’s not completely polished, and it didn’t get a bout of compression from Cool Edit either, but I’m really enjoying it at the moment and it represents exactly where I am right now with regards to my output
There is one feature of this mix which I would like to talk about. Overlaying ‘Sunken’ over the rhythmic pounding of ‘Dope Slingin’ Vibe’ was, in my opinion a good call Any reticence was down to my being labelled as a ‘copy cat’ but I thought you know what? it sounds so nice and ultimately – in the end – I chose the tracks so, why shouldn’t I? I have been thoroughly enjoying the 2005 release ‘Et In Arcadia Ego’ by The Village Orchestra in recent weeks and i have thought often that a soaring, uplifting and graceful track such as ‘Sunken’ should be laid over a beat to drive it along and accentuate the feeling of the track. I am fully aware, of course, that Luciano (copied cat) was probably thinking along the same lines when he discovered that using M83’s ‘In Church’ over many a percussive beat would create a magical moment in a mix and in a club. If you hear the mix you’ll probably agree having listened to my track selection that I am fond of not only the man but also his organic up beat tunes, so it’s no coincidence BUT it’s not, in – my mind anyway – out of the question that i would have thought to do it myself – first. But of course, i didn’t. Ultimately i did it because it sounds great, i really love the track and it takes the mix somewhere different. You may judge for yourselves.
Hour 6
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Wareika – King’s Child // Motivbank
Reboot – El Loco // White
Butch – Bengal Tiger // Bouq Records
Julien Chaptal – Mamdaye // Remote Area
Mirco Violi – Breaking Rocks // Hypercolour
Dance Disorder – My Time (Radio Slave’s Rekids Tribe Mix) // Eskimo
Michel Cleis – Tribute // White
Invisible Planets – Dope Slingin’ Vibe (Brother’s Vibe remix) // Fresh Fish
The Village Orchestra – Sunken // Highpoint Lowlife
Mirco Violi – Tzar // Bloop Portugal
Mendo – Everybody I Got Him – 2009 mix // Clarisse Records
Welcome to my new blog – my old one is now dead. WordPress is much nicer and much more creative so hopefully my blog will be much smoother and more interesting to look at (and indeed to read). Stay tuned for updates. Please see HERE for all my old posts.
In the meantime i shall re-post my most recent entry – Hour 6 – just to get things going again..
