Interested in hearing pretty much anything Moritz Von Oswald does. I think his mix of Sebbo's Watamu Beach is the best thing he's done in quite a while. It really is sublime. And bearing in mind the title of the track, it really does sound like it rolls down the beach for the first half and ends up bobbing around in the sea in the second. So good.
Carl Craig on the other hand is really hit and miss with me. All of his recent remixes have left me cold (except maybe the R & S one). His Sessions mix dissapointed no end, which is no surprise I guess considering it's packed with said remixes. The best stuff on it - his Chez Damier remix, PP's Throw (one of my favourite tracks ever), the 69 stuff - is all old as fuck. I think the man needs to loose the sheen and (re-) find the funk. But if this new project is being loosely referred to as classical then I can't see that happening, at least not now.
Rod Modell & co. have done and are doing some great stuff. The Vibrasound (The Deepchord Years 1999 - 2004) CD is fantastic as is the mix of same (plus more) by Kevin Hanton: http://www.discogs.com/release/392850 Listened to it a couple of evenings ago while working in the garden as the sun was going down and it was absolutely perfect. Anyone in to dub techno should own it. His remix of Model 500's Starlight is a favourite too. No mean feat taking on that track and coming out of it with your head up... Think some control in terms of quality and quantity wouldn't go amiss right now though. Seems like every week there's a new release available. Still, as mentioned above, he's very much furrowing his own path... Inspired by Basic Channel perhaps, but certainly not merely copying...
Carl Craig on the other hand is really hit and miss with me. All of his recent remixes have left me cold (except maybe the R & S one). His Sessions mix dissapointed no end, which is no surprise I guess considering it's packed with said remixes. The best stuff on it - his Chez Damier remix, PP's Throw (one of my favourite tracks ever), the 69 stuff - is all old as fuck. I think the man needs to loose the sheen and (re-) find the funk. But if this new project is being loosely referred to as classical then I can't see that happening, at least not now.
Rod Modell & co. have done and are doing some great stuff. The Vibrasound (The Deepchord Years 1999 - 2004) CD is fantastic as is the mix of same (plus more) by Kevin Hanton: http://www.discogs.com/release/392850 Listened to it a couple of evenings ago while working in the garden as the sun was going down and it was absolutely perfect. Anyone in to dub techno should own it. His remix of Model 500's Starlight is a favourite too. No mean feat taking on that track and coming out of it with your head up... Think some control in terms of quality and quantity wouldn't go amiss right now though. Seems like every week there's a new release available. Still, as mentioned above, he's very much furrowing his own path... Inspired by Basic Channel perhaps, but certainly not merely copying...
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