QUICKIES…
Back To Back Vol. 4 Global Underground Pres. Carl Cox
Compiled & Recomposed By
And.id Black Rock Desert
Mobilee Global Underground Nervous Nitelife Strictly Rhythm: 20 Various Artists
Mixed By Tom Stephan Years Remixed Rough Trade Shops:
Grecian earns his stripes Desert fox grooves Nervous Strictly Rhythm Counter Culture 09
Rough Trade
Greece’s fi nest exponent of deepest house Many have preceded him, but this (the 38th No prizes for subtlety Mixed modernisation
music, Andreas Dimitriadis (aka And.id) steps in the Global Underground series) belongs to Over the counter genius
up to the plate for Anja Schneider’s Mobilee the inimitable Carl Cox. Revered New York label Nerv- One of — if not the — most
label in compiling the latest in the ‘Back To And for the venue, he chose Nevada’s Black ous drops its latest album in legendary label in house Rough Trade return with
Back’ series, the fourth so far. Rock Desert. Not the usual jet set location, the Nervous Nitelife series. gives up its most iconic their now annual round-up
But this is no ordinary mix album. Sure, the granted, but once a year this arid lakebed And if a constant stream tracks for modernisation. of all things musically vital.
fi rst disc covers the basics, linking together becomes a haven for lunatics as it plays host of dizzying build ups and We’re digging Michel Cleis’s From techno (Tiga) to post-
blisteringly good tracks from Mobilee’s 2009 to the Burning Man festival. humping breakdowns is your samba-pattered cover of rock (Broadcast) by way
release schedule (featuring the likes of So this album is a paean to the party people thing, then this latest from River Ocean’s ‘Love & Happi- of hip-hop (Mos Def) and
GummiHz, Marcin Czubala, new recruit Dan of that parched landscape. Superchumbo producer Tom ness’ and Jesse Rose’s take spooky electronica (Fever
Curtin, Exercise One, Sebo K and Pan-Pot, as Tiefschwarz feat Seth Troxler’s wonky ‘Trust’ Stephan should be right up on Hardrive’s ‘Deep Inside’. Ray), this is a handy primer
well as Schneider herself), but on disc two the is a suitably off-beam place to start, and your strasse. As subtle as a But very little here betters for where we are and where
script is well and truly fl ipped. across disc one Cox weaves in classy kick in the pills. Ben Arnold the originals. Allan McGrath we’re going. Jim Butler
Six tracks from the Mobilee catalogue have selections from Skylark (‘Krakatoa’), Trevor
been reinterpreted, rearranged and Rockliffe (‘Move!’) and Christian Smith (the
re-recorded by
And.id and a crew of jazz musi- brilliantly spacey ‘Flyertalk’). Disc two takes
cians from Berklee College of Music. in Intec man Jon Rundell’s 'Damager',
Then the original versions are presented on Umek’s rolling ‘Before Violence’ and the dark
the remainder of the disc to compare and and chugging Jerome Sydenham mix of Adam
contrast. Now that’s what we call going the Beyer and Joel Mull’s ‘Forming Dies’. It is, as
extra mile. Ben Arnold one might expect, a class act. Ben Arnold
Cream Future Electro History Of Trance Greco-Roman From
New State Music Euphoria The Seat Of Mount
Mixed By John '00' Olympus
Overload Fleming Greco-Roman
Ministry Of Sound
Chasing the electro band- Pile-driving prankster
wagon with the desperation A euphoric re-education beats
Freeland Kings Of Drum & Bass of someone running to catch
Cope Remixed Compiled & Mixed By 4Hero & DJ the last bus home, Cream Remember a time when Sven Landing on our noggins with
Marine Parade Marky unveil three CDs featuring Väth played trance, and it skull-crushing accuracy,
BBE big tracks and remixes from wasn’t actually a dirty word? this Greco-Roman round
Double dose people like Deadmau5, If so, the fi rst two CDs here up includes remixes from
Regal d&b Calvin Harris, Crookers and will be a blissful reawakening Skream and 2 Bad Mice, and
Freeland’s ‘Cope’ LP last year was partly a David Guetta. You do wonder — think Humate, L.S.G., Art Drums Of Death’s new school
concept LP based around a mythical drug that Decent d&b comps are rarer than hen’s teeth whether they should have Of Trance. If not, get to know electro meisterwerk ‘Cursed
sedated consumers into spending more in a in rocking horse shit, but BBE’s ‘Kings Of…’ dropped Tiësto off some- — you might just enjoy this. By Magik’. Ben Murphy
capitalist society. series are digging that little bit deeper for where else, however. Paul Allan McGrath
We don’t think you have to be Michel Foucault their crown jewels here. Clarke
therefore to spot the intrinsic contradiction It's not often that d&b’s original forefathers
in Adam Freeland now releasing a load of 4Hero are summoned for a CD mix — espe-
REPEATTHE LPS WE CAN’T LEAVE ALONE...
remixes from it in an attempt to get people to cially given their transition into the national
part with their cash twice. treasures of future jazz and soul-drenched
Still, when you get off your high horse, the eclecticism — and the duo prove they’ve still
two discs of ‘Cope Remixed’ present a mixed got a regal command of dark broken beats.
bag. First reaching back to their early scene classic
The likes of El Ten Eleven stick so close to the ‘Universal Love’, they segue it with London Sub:stance mixed by Martyn A Tribute To Arthur
original album’s rock crossover formula that Elektricity and Robert Owen’s ‘My Dreams’, Scuba fabric 50 Russell
it makes their remixes pretty pointless, but taking in Nookie’s whizzy water-fuelled Ostgut Ton Electric Minds
the dubstep crowd like Emalkay and Joker do shape-cutter ‘Give A Little Love’ along the Can Martyn do any wrong
a pretty decent job, and Justus Köhncke and way. On the fl ip, Brazilian Marky offers Scuba’s ride through the right now? The only sane Late US disco producer
Gui Boratto swap the headbanging attitude another lesson in d&b dynamism with classics waters between experimen- conclusion after listening Arthur Russell comes into
for deep techno to make ‘Mancry’ an easier like Scorpio’s ‘Li Li’ jostling against future tal dubstep and off-kilter to this seamless syncopated fresh focus through this
pill to swallow for those averse to Freeland’s anthems like Stunna’s ‘Back In Time’. Allan techno is about as futuristic groove is no. The best fabric faultless collection of
rock fantasies. Paul Clarke McGrath as it gets. mix for a long time. remixes and covers.
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