Since getting acquainted with my records/turntables again, I've not only re-developed my old vinyl-buying habit, but I've also got an appetite for listening to House music tracks and mixes on my iPod. I've been scouring Soundcloud for mixes from some of my favourite artists and there are a few that I've been coming back to time and time again.
I thought I'd bundle my favourite three together in a post here so you can enjoy them too:
JAMES JOHNSTON VIBE AND PEPPER PODCAST 01/12/11
After being out of the loop for so long, I knew there'd be a few names floating about that I wasn't familiar with. One of the first I'd discovered and was really impressed with was James Johnston; every sample of his productions I listened to was bang on the money and I subsequently bought a load of his tracks. His 'After Everything' on his own label No Matter What is absolutely fantastic and was well worth spending a few quid shipping it in from a Belgian Discogs seller.
James' well-stocked Soundcloud account is a great cross section of his production and DJ work and should be a first port of call for anyone unfamiliar.
This brings me nicely to his mix, made for Vibes and Pepper recordings at the end of this year. It is posted on James' Soundcloud account for you to stream or download and features a fine selection of House sounds which spans deep, detroit, garage and tech influences.
A tracklist isn't available but I know for sure that XTC from the After Everything EP is in there towards the latter part so well worth taking the time to listen
KASTIL vs DJ MISTER, LIVE @ HOR DAGO! NOCHEVIEJA NEW YEARS EVE 2011
http://soundcloud.com/kastilmusic
http://soundcloud.com/dj-mister
Another mix I've been enjoying from the end of last year is a live recording of a New Years Eve set by Kastil and DJ Mister. It's a five-hour vinyl only session that begins on a slow-house disco note and builds towards House and Deep House moments and heads towards a more up-beat, garagey end. There are real gems aplenty throughout and lots of track I.D queries that are too numerous to even pursue. The mix has since been removed from Kastil's Soundcloud account unfortunately but then I bet a five hour mix was taking up a fair bit of hosting space! So it kind of makes this post a little redundant, but still - Kastil/DJ Mister, if you're reading, great job!!! It's on my iPod and I listen to this all the time - gardening, cleaning, lunch-breaks, tea-breaks, commuting...even played it at a recent party of mine as I was too occupied with drinking to take to the decks myself. Great comments were aplenty
FULBERT, SOUL NOTE PODCAST
I'm a fan of the old-skool style House productions of French artist Fulbert and particularly enjoyed his recent work for Local Talk. On an entirely unrelated note, I've really been enjoying the output of the Soul Notes label of late. The two have combined here, with Fulbert providing a podcast for the label, presumably to warm up for a possible release on the label.
It's free to download and spans a carefully programmed selection of deep cuts of all shapes and sizes. Fulbert manages to offset the warmth of deep chord washes with jacked out cuts, woozy trippiness, disco wobbliness, proper old-skool sounding House music and a whole lot more.
I notice towards the end that he makes good use of a Slowhouse piece from their superb but rare vinyl-only series. Well worth a click is this
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
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Magnofon May 2012 Chart
Chart for May 2012
01> Milton Jackson - Sub Rosa [Tsuba Limited]
"Three solid deep/tech House cuts from Milton Jackson. I've long been a fan of his work, which is always consistent. It's tough to pick a stand-out track from this one as they're all very playable but the title track just about edges it for me"
02> Bicep/Unknown - Make Love In Public Places [Love Fever]
"Superb garage-House from up and coming producer Bicep here. Vocal samples, deep rhodes keys and a jacking garage rhythm makes this one a real highlight. The flip is a downtempo disco style cut which is certainly listenable but not much more than hazy late night 'listening' music for me"
03> Rio Padice - Moon Phases EP [Housewax]
"4 excellent tracks from top deep House producer Rio Padice. Each has a slightly vintage analog feel to it and all four work well for me. Tracks one and two are chilled to the core deepness but there is an edge to bassline-driven track three and the jacking beats of four that stand out"
04> Adryiano - Snapback Grooves [Soul Notes]
"Excellent well-rounded EP from Adryiano, with four playable pieces. There's an overriding old-school theme to a couple of the tracks which really comes to the fore in the Kirill Tipo Remix of 'Feel Like'. Man of the moment (for me, anyway) Kastil comes in with a chilled deep House remix of 'Open Up', which gives it a completely different feel'
05> Malin Genie - Sancta Simplicities [Slapfunk]
"I recognised the skipping garage beats and 'laughing?' vocals from Malin Genie's 'Turd Machine Tiger Dos' after having heard it in a Tomska podcast. The rest of the five track EP doesn't disappoint either, with a varied pallette. With jazzy 'All About The Original', the minimal-tech of 'Boter', square beat deepness in 'Alemal' and then the downtempo 'Four Drops', there's plenty of versatility to keep this one in your bag."
06> Iron Curtis - Thoughts On [4 Lux]
"It seems here that 4 Lux have worked with Iron Curtis on this one to provide a repress package for 2008's 'Thoughts On'. The tempos range from the up-beat original to slow and low-slung with 'Interlude In The Park'. The EP comes alive when you spin piano driven 'Oh, Come On' and the 2012 mix of 'Thoughts On'
07> Nick Lawson - Drum Boppin [Back To You]
"Nick Lawson's a new one on me but he looks to be well established so perhaps my time out from the scene has meant I've been missing out. This EP on Back To You sees two Lawson originals joined by remixes from two of my favourite artists of late - Jordan Peak and Rio Padice. Peak's mix is quality up tempo tech House as you'd expect, Rio's remix is deeper but his beats on this really kick. The real gem though is Lawson's original 'Seen This'"
08> Homepark - Estimated [Bliq]
"I have been out of the loop with House music since 2009 so I have missed out on this one from 2009. The three cuts are all playable, especially the more peak-time 'Beatdown'. James Duncan gives more of a kick to the title track."
09> Wasnme/Konstantin Sibold - Standing Hi [Caramel]
"Excellent EP from two new names for me and on this evidence, I'll be keeping an eye out on their future output. Wasnme is particularly excellent here, providing 3 great cuts of which the stand-out has to be Standing Hi, the title track. This is mainly down to its bouncy bassline"
10> Medlar/KRL/Maxxi Soundsystem/Weekend Express - Wolf EP 11 [Wolf Music]
"This is an interesting and varied EP on Wolf Music, starting with the obvious standout choice by Medlar. 'Static' is an acid House number worthy of a mention but it's the two disco cuts on the flip that have really grabbed my attention. I'm not sure when I'll play them, but they're both excellent tracks"
06> Iron Curtis - Thoughts On [4 Lux]
"It seems here that 4 Lux have worked with Iron Curtis on this one to provide a repress package for 2008's 'Thoughts On'. The tempos range from the up-beat original to slow and low-slung with 'Interlude In The Park'. The EP comes alive when you spin piano driven 'Oh, Come On' and the 2012 mix of 'Thoughts On'
07> Nick Lawson - Drum Boppin [Back To You]
"Nick Lawson's a new one on me but he looks to be well established so perhaps my time out from the scene has meant I've been missing out. This EP on Back To You sees two Lawson originals joined by remixes from two of my favourite artists of late - Jordan Peak and Rio Padice. Peak's mix is quality up tempo tech House as you'd expect, Rio's remix is deeper but his beats on this really kick. The real gem though is Lawson's original 'Seen This'"
08> Homepark - Estimated [Bliq]
"I have been out of the loop with House music since 2009 so I have missed out on this one from 2009. The three cuts are all playable, especially the more peak-time 'Beatdown'. James Duncan gives more of a kick to the title track."
09> Wasnme/Konstantin Sibold - Standing Hi [Caramel]
"Excellent EP from two new names for me and on this evidence, I'll be keeping an eye out on their future output. Wasnme is particularly excellent here, providing 3 great cuts of which the stand-out has to be Standing Hi, the title track. This is mainly down to its bouncy bassline"
10> Medlar/KRL/Maxxi Soundsystem/Weekend Express - Wolf EP 11 [Wolf Music]
"This is an interesting and varied EP on Wolf Music, starting with the obvious standout choice by Medlar. 'Static' is an acid House number worthy of a mention but it's the two disco cuts on the flip that have really grabbed my attention. I'm not sure when I'll play them, but they're both excellent tracks"
Journey Through The Deep
Journey Through The Deep by Magnofon on Mixcloud
I work in the upholstery trade and this afternoon I came across a close-up photograph of a fabric swatch and decided to earmark it for a music project. I was particularly keen on the tone of it, as it had an almost African feel to it. Then this evening, I was washing the dishes and listening to music as usual when I came across an old mix of mine from back in 2006.
And here we are...another blog post!
2006 was a year where in terms of DJing, I was pretty much in my prime as I was starting to get quite a few gigs. This was my first and possibly only recorded mix as I had some terrible problems with my laptop at the time and even to this day, I'm pretty proud of it.
I intended to make a set that was so deep that it would tread a strange, almost dark territory and scoured some of my weirder, more underground records.
The result is something that's consistently dubby, hypnotic, deep and beautiful at times. Occasionally, my developing interest in ambient music can be detected and the mix has the odd flicker of African influences too. It's the latter which ties in nicely with the cover image I have selected.
As for the mixing, it's pretty decent on the most part. The only real blemish is the recording quality, due to that ancient heap of junk laptop I used to capture it. There is a consistent hiss which is present throughout but hopefully the quirky and hypnotic deepness will prevent your ears from focussing on it too much...
I work in the upholstery trade and this afternoon I came across a close-up photograph of a fabric swatch and decided to earmark it for a music project. I was particularly keen on the tone of it, as it had an almost African feel to it. Then this evening, I was washing the dishes and listening to music as usual when I came across an old mix of mine from back in 2006.
And here we are...another blog post!
2006 was a year where in terms of DJing, I was pretty much in my prime as I was starting to get quite a few gigs. This was my first and possibly only recorded mix as I had some terrible problems with my laptop at the time and even to this day, I'm pretty proud of it.
I intended to make a set that was so deep that it would tread a strange, almost dark territory and scoured some of my weirder, more underground records.
The result is something that's consistently dubby, hypnotic, deep and beautiful at times. Occasionally, my developing interest in ambient music can be detected and the mix has the odd flicker of African influences too. It's the latter which ties in nicely with the cover image I have selected.
As for the mixing, it's pretty decent on the most part. The only real blemish is the recording quality, due to that ancient heap of junk laptop I used to capture it. There is a consistent hiss which is present throughout but hopefully the quirky and hypnotic deepness will prevent your ears from focussing on it too much...
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