inconsistency in a world gone mad
i write for analogue every monday. well, by every monday i mean before i go to bed in the am of every tuesday. it's a bad habit, but there is some consistency to it, unfortunate or otherwise. so i figured i'd write here every tuesday. at least. i just need good content dammit.
i've been trying to do a mix these past few days, along with a host of other commitments. i always find it hard to do a mix when i have other commitments, it's so much easier to do them when you can literally spend hours deliberating over what tracks to play together, even to the finer details of what bar to introduce the enxt track and at what level - banging from the start, slow fade in or somewhere in between? i tried to do a momentous two hour mix a few months ago, working at it night by night and piecing it all together. i got to an hour and fifteen minutes before i got angry and gave up. i've reached a stage where the best mixes i do are just under an hour - any longer and they lose focus and i lose interest.
the other week i put up two mixes but blogger took them down. boourns. so i doubt there'll be much of an outlet on the internet for such things other than through email and facebook messages. ho-hum. anyway, some of the tracks floating my boat right now are as follows: a-trak's remix of bounce. dj rob 3's the chase. laidback luke's rave edit of be. actually that one deserves a special mention. i heard be months ago, then i heard the sega version, which i loved, but then, when i belatedly started listening to ayres' wmc mix, more drugs, i heard this rave edit. and sat so perfectly in the mix, just coming in at the wonky fade-out part of surkin's white knight two, that i couldn't help but love it. there was another track in that mix that's been getting a lot of love from myself, larry heard's the sun can't compare. it's just beautiful, there's no other way of describing it. the same can be said for the supermayer remix of hot chip's one pure though - they isolate the bassline of this pumping tune and turn it into a languid, delicate masterpiece.
and i guess that is all. check out the rub (and their history of hip-hop mixtape series), mad decent and pitchfork, from whence i shamelessly stole some links.
i've been trying to do a mix these past few days, along with a host of other commitments. i always find it hard to do a mix when i have other commitments, it's so much easier to do them when you can literally spend hours deliberating over what tracks to play together, even to the finer details of what bar to introduce the enxt track and at what level - banging from the start, slow fade in or somewhere in between? i tried to do a momentous two hour mix a few months ago, working at it night by night and piecing it all together. i got to an hour and fifteen minutes before i got angry and gave up. i've reached a stage where the best mixes i do are just under an hour - any longer and they lose focus and i lose interest.
the other week i put up two mixes but blogger took them down. boourns. so i doubt there'll be much of an outlet on the internet for such things other than through email and facebook messages. ho-hum. anyway, some of the tracks floating my boat right now are as follows: a-trak's remix of bounce. dj rob 3's the chase. laidback luke's rave edit of be. actually that one deserves a special mention. i heard be months ago, then i heard the sega version, which i loved, but then, when i belatedly started listening to ayres' wmc mix, more drugs, i heard this rave edit. and sat so perfectly in the mix, just coming in at the wonky fade-out part of surkin's white knight two, that i couldn't help but love it. there was another track in that mix that's been getting a lot of love from myself, larry heard's the sun can't compare. it's just beautiful, there's no other way of describing it. the same can be said for the supermayer remix of hot chip's one pure though - they isolate the bassline of this pumping tune and turn it into a languid, delicate masterpiece.
and i guess that is all. check out the rub (and their history of hip-hop mixtape series), mad decent and pitchfork, from whence i shamelessly stole some links.
Labels: a-trak, ableton, analogue, ayres, dj rob 3, dj sega, hot chip, laidback luke, larry heard, mixes, supermayer, surkin
posted by Aidan at 6:26 PM
5 Comments:
DJ rob's the chase is such an underrated track. you have to drop it at the right time so the people dancing will go crazy at that moment.
it's such a banger. i first heard it when eli was on evr's authentic shit in august, alas that particular episode is down. actually i'm going to upload it now, it's full of tunes and serious hilarity from eli, xxxchange, pase rock and rocktakon, especially talking about david guetta and hotels in la.
ok here we go, uploaded. the track list is here, well, with some incorrect tags. the radiohead and kanye west remixes are seriously worth checking out, they were completely new to me.
thanks man. going to enjoy this one, dont know how i missed the authentic shit, always try and listen to the The Let Out thats on friday evenings.
"do you know what is cool in LA,
not going out"
pase rock genius!
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