eleven records i would have bought in may if i weren’t saving money to go record shopping in Detroit (where i might end up picking up more than a few of these anyway)
i haven’t decided for sure if i want the masque edits record. one of the tracks is an edit of this PiR track:
BASIC SOUL UNIT - Tuff Luv EP - Creme Organization Holland - CR 1247
BLAKE, Andy - Cave Paintings I - Cave Paintings - CP 1
BRAWTHER - Asteroids & Stardust (Burst mix) - Balance Alliance - BL 12
DJ NATURE - This Side Of Heaven - Golf Channel US - CHANNEL 007
DJ YOAV B - Love Dubs EP - Delsin Holland - 81DSR/YBS 3
GERD - Friendly Fire - Royal Oak Holland - ROYAL 03
HIEROGLYPHIC BEING - The Ninth Root EP - Mathematics US - MATHPLUS 05
HUNGRY GHOST - Illuminations - International Feel Uruguay - IFEEL 004
MASQUE EDITS - Masque Edits - Masque Edits - ME 001LTD300
READ, Jamie - Never The Future EP - Elektrosouls Recordings - ESR 002
WILSON, Jared - Paris Massacre - 7777 US - 7777 003
one of the tracks i’m charting below shamelessly nicks this Jeff Mills classic:
here’s my mid-April chart:
Cosmin TRG - See Other People - Rush Hour
Chicago Skyway - Wolfgang Hair ep - Uzuri
Gene Hunt - Cancemnini EP - Hour House is Your Rush
KiNK - Rachel EP - Ovum
Based on Kyoto - Sunrise EP - Japonica
Tevo Howard - Kisses From New York With Love - Rebirth
Nebraska - Soho Grand - Rush Hour
DJ Qu - Secret Place - Strength US
Various - Soft House Experience - Mathematics
Big Strick - 100% Hustler Remixes - FXHE
Andrea - You Still Got Me - Daphne
for full reviews of the above, see my post over at ISM.
older stuff i finally picked up
justin martin - my angelic demons - buzzin fly
levon vincent - solemn days repress - deconstruct
mick welch - morphological construct - elektrosouls
xdb - lost tapes - wave music
STL - Things From The Basement (Something) (12″)
Arto Mwambe - Love Lift (Osborne Remix) (Brontosaurus) (12″)
Move D/Steve Oh/Black Jazz Consortium - Earth Tones (Soul People Music)
Relapxych.00* - Hallucinogenitaliencryption (Ghost Sounds, Creative Space)
Rob Belleville - Sounds Of Introspection (aDepth audio)
Various Artists - We Do It For The Love EP (House Is The Cure)
Mock & Toof - Farewell to Wendo - Tiny Sticks
Jerome Derradji / Rahaan - Concrete Reservation Pt 1 - Stilove4music US
Marvin Belton - The Letter E.P. (Ferrispark)
Jeff Mills - Something in the Sky Part 2 - SITS
I’ve also really been enjoying a couple Robert Hood represses that came back out recently, including the Floorplan - Funky Souls re-release on Rush Hour and the Alpha/Omega re-release on M-Plant.
too tired to annotate this or link it up, maybe later. daylight savings time is KILLING me.
tazz - acid love - underground quality
marcello napoletano - chicago, detroit, new york - quintessentials
desolate - heroic death ep - fauxpas
entro senestre - la caccia - WT records
madteo - sinister ministers - meakusma
adonis pres. late invitation - the invite - mathematics
bruce ivery - things i want - stilove4music
reggie dokes - until tomorrow - royal oak
f.c.l. - vocals for everyone - we play house
i.f.m. - yes we are ep - drumpoet community
various - second accolade - millions of moments
Twenty years ago (TWENTY!) on a Friday night like this I typically would have been getting ready to go to the local dance club Bonkers in my sleepy little town of Latrobe, PA. Here are a couple of the songs I would have been desperately hoping the DJ would play, not necessarily in this order:
<!–more–>
and warner brothers doesn’t allow embedding on this one:
When I was nine years of age there wasn’t a more mysterious and awe-inspiring musical instrument than the Synclavier.
The Synclavier was responsible for a large portion of the sound of one of my favorite pop albums of all time, Hall and Oate’s Big Bam Boom. It’s too bad the irony and sensuality of the song All American Girl is lost on the dim person who made this jingoistic looking “video” for the song to post on YouTube
I know I am starting to risk looking like nothing but a matrixsynth reblogger, but this is too funny/awesome to pass up. This dead-ringer for a certain famous physicist tore apart a classic roland synth and turned it into a three tier organ type thang
rumor has it that Coca Cola is going to roll out a new formula Coke sometime this summer, possibly an attempt to compete with Pepsi’s throwback cane-sugar bevs?
what has this got to do with techno or house? nothin’, but there was a dope acid house dj mix by jackmaster called “drinking coca-cola and eating mcdonalds” that helped rekindle my interest in house back in 2006. i will post it when i get around to ripping it from CD again.
this was one of the dope tracks from the aforementioned dj mix