I really love Detroit Beatdown house stalwart Rick Wade. He’s been doing what he does forever, he stays away from acting like a superstar despite his well deserved underground reputation as a deep house don, (to wit: his myspace profile features slice of life photos of him at his day job and snaps of him about to take a shower) and he usually turns out quite deep and soulful dance tracks. That’s why it’s especially disappointing that his recent artist album The Good, the Bad, and the Deep is exactly all three, usually simultaneously, and not much good. That’s especially true if by “good, bad, and deep” you mean “totally unremarkable.” His latest release for Yore, and his career second full length album, GBD is not so much an album as an assemblage of mediocre deep house tracks with a few overused themes.
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posted by Count Zero at 12:32 pm
The good news is I started a new day job recently. The bad news is that means I’ve been pretty busy getting into the swing of things there, so unfortunately I haven’t gotten around to finishing a few posts I’ve been working on. In the mean time, here’s a list of my top 30 all-time favorite disco tracks:
B&B Band - All Night Long (which I played on this mix)
T-Connection- At Midnight
Geraldine Hunt - Can’t Fake The Feeling
Gino Soccio - Dancer
Tavares - Don’t Take Away The Music
First Choice - Dr. Love
Wings - Goodnight Tonight
Patrice Rushen - Haven’t You Heard
Tantra - Hills Of Katmandu
Rufus & Chaka Khan - I Know You, I Live You
Chic - I Want Your Love
Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
Diana Ross - I’m Coming Out
Baby’o - In The Forest
Salsoul Orchestra - It’s Good For The Soul
Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose
Temptations - Law Of The Land
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder
Michael Zager Band - Let’s All Chant
MFSB - Love Is The Message
ESG - Moody
Bee Gees - More Than A Woman
Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
Double Exposure - My Love Is Free
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Chicago - Street Player
Eddie Holman - This Will Be A Night To Remember
Cheryl Lynn - To Be Real
Loleatta Holloway - We’re Getting Stronger (The Longer We Stay Together)
Class Action - Weekend
I know there are a ton I’m forgetting, so expect a second installment at some point.
posted by Count Zero at 9:26 pm
So this week I’m playing catch up on a few cuts I missed in the weeks past, as well as some very fresh stuff too:
anthony collins - rabouine house - freak n chic - 05-28-2008
barna soundmachine - tell me who - somosunekipo - 06-09-2008
peter grummich - another day - sthlmaudio - 01-11-2008
galactik knights - silver bells - beatism - 06-04-2008
mossyrock - whiskey is the devil - intrinsic design - 04-11-2008
peter grummich - it’s to share - karloff - 04-21-2008
raiders of the lost arp - submarine theme - nature - 05-19-2008
raiders of the lost arp - beyond the dark - nature - 05-19-2008
steadycam - get on up there - kompakt extra - 03-10-2008
two armadillos - snowflakes - dessous - 06-04-2008
Bonus record I’m going to buy as soon as I can afford to pick up more than just one 12″: the Anton Zap EP from Jus-Ed’s Underground Quality imprint. $15 for priority shipping from Connecticut to NYC?? Yr killin me Ed!
Watch this space for a complete review of Ian Pooley’s awesome new album “In Other Words” and a unique and historic DJ mix with tracks selected by the inventor of techno, Juan Atkins, within the next few days.
posted by Count Zero at 3:05 am
Meant to post this a few days ago, it’s basically my May Top 20 since I haven’t posted a chart in a while. I think I made up for that with my last mix, though.
Anyway, here’s what I was digging on in May:
der fränk - toms track - unreleased
dinky - unidog - horizontal
edwin starr - contact (hypnotyza edit) - unreleased
foo foo - drummo - yoke
hakim murphy - wiggles - metamorphic
johnwaynes - muzzle feat. hubert tubbs - compost
kms - good life feat. inner city (mathew jonson’s acid mix) - kms
los hermanos - message of hope - submerge
love is colder than death - wild world (der fränk tekno edit) - unreleased
move d - honey - smallville
mri - acid - resopal schallware
nick holder - a strange delight - nrk
nublu orchestra - sketches of nyc (UR I-80 remix by nomadico) - nublu
perc - bumble’s collar - stolen moments
pogon - alice - unreleased
samklang - chip - snork enterprises
soulphiction - whizzdom and understanding - sonar kollektiv
stacy kidd - jazzy days - dust traxx
steve b & johnny dj - iktus - panormus music
tampopo - genesis of the evil dog - unreleased
posted by Count Zero at 11:17 am