RUSSOM’S ESSENTIAL TOp 10

01. Mad Mike

TOp 10

GAVIN

‘Base Camp Alpha 808’

UR

02. Diamond Vampires

‘Friday Nights

(Telephones Remix)’

Amateur Recordings

03. Fania All Stars

‘Congo Bongo’

Fania

04. Laurent Garnier

‘Back To My Roots

(Afrodiziac Mix)’

Innervisions

05. Medio Mutant

‘Corre Corre’

Cititrax

06. Angus Maclise

‘Chumlum’

Counter Culture Chronicles

07. Levon Vincent

‘Double Jointed Sex

Freak’

Novel Sound

08. Delia Gonzalez &

Gavin Russom

‘El Monte’

DFA

09. Moon & Sun

‘Hunt’

Oscillatone

10. Exuma

‘Obeah Obeah O’

Kama Sutra

CRYSTAL CLEAR VISION

GAVIN RUSSOM is without doubt DFA’s most inscrutable and interesting subject. Known for his experimental Kosmiche jams with Delia Gonzalez, as much as for tripped out, cosmic dancefloor smashes under such names as Black Meteoric Star and Black Leotard Front, this New Yorker has been content to allow his music to seep insidi- ously into the sets and minds of DJs and dancers the world over, remaining subtly influential without ever claiming the credit.

Marrying propulsive disco grooves with freeform synth funkin’ and weird textures, his new single as Crystal Ark, alongside Viva Rulz, ‘The City Never Sleeps’, (out now), is just the latest dispatch from this incognito genius. Seek it out. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12