steve poindexter - computer madness - mark almaria and mc flipside remix
doubt it would nail me to the floor on the old school / new school fusion buzz as much as blake baxter and marc romboy's "the club", but its another addition to my tiny collection of new hip house, so hi-fives all round. if someone like leger or delicious were to remix this remix it would be chaos...
djs delicious and errik - we won't stop
dunno why it took me so long to come around to this one; fun tune, and i certainly agree with the sentiment. the less groovy but more mental minimal remix by tube and berger is also good.
bushy - ping - serge santiago dub
bit of a rollin' low key freaker from last year. nice.
joel mull - frequent
sold on the section in the middle with the wide-screen chordy chimes (SAW 1?)... at least when contrast with the tidy electro riff. gorgeous stuff.
alexander maier - road of injury / made in nebraska
a couple more of those electroey styled trancers that I enjoyed so much last year.
sweno n - black sun feat. nik felice
favoured the original and swen weber mixes on this one. monoroom's minimal mix was also good. don't know about the guys voice, works ok enough i spose. like the song because it reminds me a bit of dot allison's line from 'substance', i.e. "we're blinded by the darkest ray of light". e.g. "i feel the black rays burning my skin, trying to burn off all of my sins".
nino anthony - dancefloor - peak hour mix
some of his other tracks have been pretty good, but nino muthafuckin' anthony fully rivets my attention with this tuff, cold techy robot-body-brain-fuck-funk track, based around a rugged warpy bass riff and fem android vocal stabs, with a Very Decent minute long breakdown/build. bring on the remixes!!!!
p.s. if you can't feel some of the tough electro ACID house thats going around, like this track, its time to have your techno license officially revoked and start spending your evenings down the bingo hall.
hook n sling & kid kenobi - the bump - tonite only remix
only the fruitiest slice of new wiggy space disco...
massimo moccia - you're rude
great bitter robot-noir disco-diss-track of jilted obsessive love. scratched sample at the start "let everyone know they're being recorded live"... couples the sentiment with surveillance paranoia and ADDD (attention desire-deficit disorder). the internal male dialogue and external male gaze in one track, go massimo! love the lines...
"i just wanna be right for you, well you just wanna be right
i've got plenty of pictures of you i pin up for every night"
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after having such a great 2006 musically, i was feeling a bit cagey during january, but the past couple of weeks have really been quite reassuring. i like where things are going, a lot.