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Transitions 529
Hour 1: John Digweed
01. John Digweed & Nick Muir - Gigawave (Fairmont Remix) [Bedrock Records | BEDVSRMX03]
02. Quenum & Cesare Vs Disorder - Fatty Boy (Different Samba EP) [Yakazi | YKZ001]
03. Kerb Staller - Siren Song (Thugfucker's Lio's Wide Shut Rework) (Four Fingers EP) [Leftroom Records | LEFT 050]
04. Nuuda - The Chant Dub [Promo]
05. Eagles & Butterflies - Birds Of Paradise (Uner Remix) [Spread Your Wings | SYW005]
06. Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Âme Reinterpretation) [Cocoon Recordings | COR12"121]
07. Martin Eyerer - Reckless [Watergate Records | WGVINYL21]
08. Erol Alkan - Sub Conscious [Fabric | FABRIC154DX]
09. Josh Wink - Talking To You [Ovum Recordings | OVM-248]
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01. John Digweed & Nick Muir - Gigawave (Fairmont Remix) [Bedrock Records | BEDVSRMX03]
"This is a monster. Out Sep 22nd" [John Digweed]
October of last year saw the much anticipated release of the mighty VERSUS project from John Digweed & Nick Muir. The three CD album was a huge undertaking and as part of the package the Bedrock duo teamed up with a number of artists to create twelve exclusive new tracks. All label regulars, the likes of Pig&Dan, Carlo Lio, Henry Saiz and Marco Bailey joined the John and Nick in creating yet more iconic tracks for the label. The originals have lit up dance floors world wide since their release.
Having already brought you the excellent Extended Play rework of Morphism, we return with our next unique version. Taking on the beautiful and beatless Gigawave is Canadian artist Fairmont who gives the breathtaking original a new club-friendly face. His warm, subtle and yet persuasive bass-line provides the perfect bed as he transforms the originals ambient textures, delivering an uplifting dance-floor revision.
Release Date: 22 September 2014
Label: Bedrock Records
Catalog Number: BEDVSRMX03
02. Quenum & Cesare Vs Disorder - Fatty Boy (Different Samba EP) [Yakazi | YKZ001]
[Ibiza Voice Review] Barcelona’s FACT crew are well known for being behind some of the best parties in the Spanish city, with their numerous OFF Sonar parties regularly offering some of the festival’s finest moments. Now, on the back of their success putting on parties in Barcelona (and increasingly, elsewhere), some members of FACT are launching a record label in a bid to distil some of the magic that has made them such a well-known brand.
For their inaugural record they’ve called upon the talents of Philip Quenum and Cesare Marchese – two stalwart figures in European house music. It’s an interesting pairing; whilst both Quenum and Cesare are artists with considerable bodies of work and are well regarded by those in the know, they also have something of the underdog to them. They are figures who deserve more attention than they get. Point in question, Quenum’s album Face To Face, one of the finest house and techno LPs of last autumn, seemed to barely make a ripple on its release, let alone the splash it deserved.
It was during the recording of that album that Cesare and Quenum first started working together, and Different Samba dates from those sessions. The record is atypical of both producer’s sound in its grooving bassline and sparse male vocals. But this is no straightforward house cut, instead the bassline is the only constant amidst a cacophony of sounds and samples that are thrown at it, from dusty bells to spoken-word samples to brief snatches of guitar chords. The trouble is, it feels like a dozen ideas hastily lumped together and lacks the focus or precision of either artist’s best work.
Thankfully, two remixes improve on the original. Butane puts on his editors cap, cutting out much of the excess of the original and stream-lining it all into a much tauter cut. The effect is startling compared to the original, Butane’s rubbery bassline and accompany hi-hats making for a deep and chugging house track. Loquace’s effort takes things even deeper, stretching the track into ten-minutes of shuffling minimal, in which soft, warm pads and dramatic chords make for a track that it’s hard not to be lose yourself within.
Fatty Boy, the second new production from the duo on the package, is an outing in expansive tech-house. A tribal groove loops over distant tinkling chimes and soulful vocals that become increasingly distorted, seeming to spin out-of-control into the audio foreground. It’s exactly the sort of thing that you can imagine has been designed with big, cavernous club spaces in mind and, in that regard, will be more than fit for purpose.
03. Kerb Staller - Siren Song (Thugfucker's Lio's Wide Shut Rework) (Four Fingers EP) [Leftroom Records | LEFT 050]
Close friends Matt Tolfrey and jozif have been planning collaborative material for quite some time, but it was the recent move to a new shared studio space that led to plans becoming reality. Recent months have seen the duo working solidly in the studio on album material for the newly formed Kerb Staller alias (Definition: - Pedestrians who halt pointlessly at traffic-free road crossings, holding up everybody behind them), which the pair will play live across 2015. Here Leftroom marks it’s 50th release, though Tolfrey tells us ‘this is just another chapter in a long story’, there’s lots more in the pipeline for the imprint with material from Jay Haze & ESB, Dinamo Azari, DJ Bone, Chez Damier and Cottam lined up.
Kicking things off is the original mix of ‘Safety Instructions’, seeing the pair employ a classic amen break, a 303 bass hook and chuggy guitar licks as the driving force. While the latter stages see vocal murmurs build tension in the depths of the cut, as the envelope of the acid line is opened up to a squelchy, psychedelic feel in true acid house fashion. Ibadan’s Jerome Sydenham steps up to rework ‘Safety Instructions’ next, providing a typically raw interpretation. Contrasting to the original cut Sydenham brings heavy distorted rhythms to the forefront here, as the nexpansive atmospherics and synth licks are subtly eased into the groove to create a slow-blooming reshape.
Opening the flip side of the release is ‘Siren Song’, taking things in a more album based, musical direction with a stuttering bass hook, clavia synth licks and original vocal lines helping create a charming and brilliantly unique composition from the duo. Thugfucker steps up to follow with his ‘Lio’s Wide Shut Rework’ of ‘Siren Song’, the Life & Death artists treat us to their signature melodic and entrancing style, fusing warm analogue pads and wandering arpeggios into a hypnotic workout.
Format: 12"
Cat: LEFT 050
Released: 13 Oct 14
04. Nuuda - The Chant Dub [Promo]
Limited info. An earlier (non dub) version of this track was played on Nick Warren's T512 guest mix: Lama Gyurme & Jean Philip E Rykiel - Medicine Buddha Mantra (Nuuda Remix) [Real World Records]
05. Eagles & Butterflies - Birds Of Paradise (UNER Remix) [Spread Your Wings | SYW005]
British producer Eagles & Butterflies presents his new work through his own label Spread Your Wings; an EP called Birds Of Paradise and where a fusion of sounds, which is topped with great remixes predominates.
The title track is a fun piece that goes to electro progressive house to offer an unstoppable whiplash which also is based on distorted electric guitar accents and melodies to 16 bits to increase the casual air of the track.
For the remixes are, first, the Spanish Uner focusing on electroid exacerbate background, denoting an exquisite aroma kraftwerkiano; and secondly, the British Kydus piece that reflects a more deep and psychedelic, with some poppy air.
The EP is completed by cutting the downtempo disco funk, Earth; psychedelic deep house, percussive and housey Cinematique of tribalism and slightly minimalist, but provided with a huge groove, The Waiting Game, completing it is a good bet for the most demanding dance tracks.
Released: 20 Oct 14
06. Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Âme Reinterpretation) [Cocoon Recordings | COR12"121]
The master of all things techno presents a pristine remix package just in time to celebrate his 50th birthday. When you look at the dancefloor at one of Sven Väth's gigs these days you'd probably realize that a vast majority of his crowd wasn't even born when the originals of "L'Esperanza" and "Beauty & The Beast" were released. This man layed down some of the biggest stones to the foundation of techno and tech-house and he has chosen the right names to spice up these classic hits. Remixes from Âme and Tuff City Kids.
Release Date: 11 November 2014
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Catalog Number: COR12"121
07. Martin Eyerer - Reckless [Watergate Records | WGVINYL21]
With the second part of the exclusives from the Watergate 17 CD mixed by Pan-Pot, we see three artists that have close ties to the duo and all reside in the Riverside Studios complex just steps from the club's front door. Martin Eyerer, Stephan Hinz and Clint Stewart step up with 3 massive tunes for the dance-floor which don't have to hide from Pan-Pot's high quality productions.
08. Erol Alkan - Sub Conscious [Fabric | FABRIC154DX]
Londoner Erol Alkan has spent the last two decades building up a reputation as a sonic innovator. Finally stepping up to the FABRICLIVE mantle with aplomb, he brought a propulsive selection of acid house and oddball electro, also displaying his formidable production acumen on one of the mix's standout cuts, the shimmering acid workout 'Sub Conscious'. Appearing exclusively on FABRICLIVE 77, the track has been singled out to be committed to vinyl as part of the fabric series' occasional 10" series.
The other side showcases another acidic cut from the mix. Resurrecting a long-lost cut by Phreak, one of many aliases (alongside Atom™, Señor Coconut and countless more) of the idiosyncratic Uwe Schmidt, whose 'Acid On' represents the dirtier corners that Alkan explores on FABRICLIVE 77.
The 10" sampler is strictly limited to 300 copies, and is exclusively available to fabricfirst members.
09. Josh Wink - Talking To You [Ovum Recordings | OVM-248]
Ovums 20th birthday celebrations continue with Josh Winks Talking To You!With such an impeccable track record for his original productions, any news of an impending Josh Wink release is usually met with a familiar mix of excitement and trepidation.
When the bar is perpetually raised to such lofty heights, what can one man do to keep such momentum going? The answer, naturally, is to slam the listener with the kinetic intensity of a full on jackhammer acid assault, and thats exactly what Im Talking To You does. A swelling TB 303 motif contorts and swims around a vocal snippet, distorted and chopped to mind-bending effect in classic Wink style. Make no mistakes, the Philly godfather still reigns supreme; Wink is here, and he's talking to you.
The release also features a (subjectively) more subdued Groove mix, and a signature TalkApella tool for DJ sets.
Huge Support from Carl Cox, John Digweed, Adam Beyer, Pete Tong, Green Velvet, Jamie Jones, Claude Von Stroke, Eats Everythng, Heidi, Boys Noize, Erol Alken, Ben Klock, and many more!
