my dude ish! was asking me about some as-yet-unavailable stuff from SBTRKT, and i had to confess that i wasn't familiar with anything he'd done.
so yeah, ish! basically got me started, and i did what i usually do: search my hard drive. weird, i know, but i grab so many tracks off blogs here and there that sometimes things slip through the cracks. turns out i had SBTRKT's "Timeless", a rework of Goldie's "Inner City Lights", laying on a drive.
last night i did more 'net-digging and turned up this thing:
It's SBTRKT's remix of "We Want War" by These New Puritans, and it is sweet -- just the right amount of deep and heavy, with a healthy dose of get-on-your-fucking-feet. I may be killing this one next time you see me (unless I'm doing a disco set, lol).
Check the original of the track as well, it's pretty pretty good. And check dude's soundcloud page for some upcoming releases and swell dj mixes.
*Definitely* on the "people to watch in oh-ten" list.
I was just randomly checking the search terms that brought people to my site. This isn't a high-traffic site or anything, so I don't do it often. Today I was surprised to see that so far in February I have had 27 search requests for this:
бивис и батхед mp3
Of course, I had to sound it out (I know most of the letters' sounds, at least), and once I did, I knew what brought them here.
bah, i think today is the last day blogger will allow ftp. gotta migrate to something else (wordpress?) so you may not see stuff here for a minute.
update: actually now that i re-read the email, this week is the week their migration tool is available. the actual deadline is March 26th, so i can procrastinate a bit more. yay?
This is my debut release on AERO, the longform mix release sublabel of Race Car Productions. For this one, I'll let them speak for me:
DJ Empirical Party Like It's Before 1990
released: 2010-02
catolog #: AERO 013
Stephen Boyd is a fascinating character. As DJ Empirical he employs his knack for obscure music collecting and correlating seemingly unrelated tracks just perfectly. Here we find him behind the wheels of a Delorean going back to where it all began.
To add to that, basically I felt like early techno and electro (as well as acid) was not something I was as familiar with as I should be. I figured that doing a set of those tunes would force the research I needed to close that gap a bit.
Enjoy! And visit the AERO site for more excellent mixes.
Tracklist:
Model 500 - Sound of Stereo (instrumental) [1987, Metroplex] Hithouse - Jack to the Sound of the Underground [1988, CBS] Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is (Majestic mix) [1988, Transmat] Armando - World Unknown (My Mixx Is Dunn) [1988, Warehouse] Phresh Phantasy - Come on Acid [supposedly 1988, released 2005, Logistic] Phuture - Acid Tracks [1987, Trax] Virgo Four - In a Vision (808 State edit) [1987, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless] Amnesia - Ibiza (Loco Acid remix) [1988, Indisc] Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks - Shout (Ashley Beedle edit) [1987,
FLEX, edit 2008, Harmless] Cybotron - R-9 [1985, Fantasy] Juan - Techno Music [1988, Ten] A Tongue & D Groove - Feel Surreal [1988, Ten] Adonis - No Way Back (Greg Wilson edit) [1986, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless] Model 500 - What's the Game [1988, Metroplex] Rational Youth - Dancing on the Berlin Wall [1982, Yul] Channel One - Technicolor (long mix) [1986, Metroplex] Mike Dunn - So Let It Be Houze! [1988, Westbrook] Forgemasters - Track With No Name [1989, Warp]
