Beats and pieces

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Cleo Sol - Why Don't you

 

 

Black Milk - Could it be

 

 

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Human Movement - Run it by me ft Eliot Porter 

 

 

Swindle ft. Kojey Radical - Coming Home

 

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Ross Couch - Beautiful

 

 

Javonntte -Citylights

 

[John102]

 

 

 

 

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Soul Vision aka Sandy Reviera - Don't Stop remix

 

 

Danvers - Mason

 

 

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 Roy Ananda feat. Pete Simpson - The Only Thing That Makes Sense is you [Opolopo RMX]

 

 

Baslow - Closer

 

 

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 Sean McCabe - Now is the time Seans cosmos Remix

 

Children of Zeus - Vibrations - Zed Bias Remix

 

 

[Paul]

Got tickets to see Children of Zeus in town in a couple of weeks. 

[whtwht]

1 hour ago, Paul said:

Got tickets to see Children of Zeus in town in a couple of weeks. 

Let us know what they're like live mate

[aRdja]

Peven’s probably my favourite ‘voice’ in house music.

 

Peven Everett - I Can’t Believe I Loved Her

 

 

[razor]

Could a modern DJ get away with playing this nowadays?  It just seems to me there a few old school tunes that are timeless.

 

Shut Up and Dance:

 

 

[Paul]

My clubbing days are long gone, sadly. However, anything can get played in the right club with the right crowd. 

[aRdja]

Billy Ocean - Nights

 

 

[whtwht]

Alex Agore - Breakpoint

 

 

 

David Federmann feat Maeva- Cherry Tree-Reel People Remix

 

 

[aRdja]

Do you all have a Spotify account. I reckon we should setup a collaborative. Have one going with a couple of mates who are into House and Disco. We’re up to almost 10k songs now.

[Paul]

Strictly Apple Music, sorry, mate. Good idea though. 

[Paul]

Went to see Children Of Zeus at 24 Kitchen St in the Baltic Triangle  in town last Friday and it was great. The venue is a tiny spit and sawdust reclaimed bit of an old  warehouse where they’ve spent the money on decent toilets, a nice little bar and the best sound system I think I’ve ever heard.

 

The low end was unbelievable; pure vibration. However the top was amazing too and perfect for showcasing the vocalists on stage. Obviously the main boys were boss but their support who’s a guest on the album, was a soul singer from Manchester called

[ k s r ] whose voice is amazing. Like ridiculously good. If you get the chance, check him out live. 

 

[ k s r ] - Sweet

 

 

[aRdja]

For those based in Liverpool. This looks like a sweet event. Both excellent Chicago House DJs.

[aRdja]

 

[Paul]

There’s a live version of this with full band and string section which is absolutely fucking amazing. This is still great though. 

 

Swindle - What We Do

 

 

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Mike Risk - Welcome to my House

 

 

Clyde - Roll of the beast

 

 

 

 

[whtwht]

DJ Dove - Illusions

 

 

 

 

 

Sabrina Malheiros - Clareia - Dego Remix

 

 

[aRdja]

1 hour ago, whtwht said:

DJ Dove - Illusions

 

 

 

 

 

Sabrina Malheiros - Clareia - Dego Remix

 

 

My mate plays Sunday league in Hackney with Dego. Only realised he was Dego when he bumped into him when was out with his missus, and his missus was like, “ah I didn’t know you were mates with Dego”, and he was like “he’s Dego?”

[whtwht]

Haha! Small world innit.Dego can be one grouchy fellow if you catch him off on the odd occasion though. I might head out tonight to hear him play in Hackney by coincidence.Getting there will be a ball ache as its going to be freezin!!

[Paul]

 

I got the deluxe box set special edition blah, blah, blah of The Man From Mo’ Wax for Christmas and watched it this morning. It’s basically a documentary about James Lavelle that covers almost his entire career using video footage from the man himself plus other key figures in his career, including DJ Shadow.

 

To say that it’s unflinching is an understatement as it shows all his weaknesses in equal proportion to his considerable strengths.

 

For someone like me who collected Mo’ Wax on vinyl at the time, it’s a fantastic watch. What’s fascinating though it to see how everything turned after the man and the label’s greatest moment. 

 

After Endtroducing, it was a long, slow decline of ego, drugs and a complete absence of financial sense. The more he tried to place himself at the heart of the artistic endeavour, the worse things got. It’s also obvious now - and was then in so far as I lost interest - that the further away he moved from his love of black music the weaker and - damningly - blander his output  became. 

 

If his one true talent lies in “curation” (as his Meltdown renaissance arguably proved), his real failing was the raging ego that drove him to the centre stage way beyond what his talent merited. Ironically the one person with a great career he started in parallel with and could have been his model for real longevity appears in the film.

 

If Gilles Peterson is essentially the ultimate jazz-leaning leftfield curator of labels, artists, festivals and radio shows, Lavelle could easily have been a hip hop version of his friend - and arguably, given the relative profiles of their first love genres, more successful. 

 

Either way, this is a great watch if you were into that stuff at the time and it’s certainly whetted my appetite for digging out all those records again as well as looking for what he does next. 

 

Check it out if you can. There’s a blag playlist version on YouTube if you can’t find it anywhere else.