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Trentemøller Audio Phreaks pres Bar 9
Harbour Boat Trips 01: Copenhagen Audio Phreaks
HFN Alfredo Big In The Game Pacha Classics
A foot in both camps Balearic Beach Session Harmless Records New State Music
Setting a different sail Azuli
Although it’s only just beginning to enjoy

D&b dons collide Everyone loves a classic
Once there were just banging mix albums. widespread respect and recognition on an Masterclass in Balearica
Then came chillout compilations and for a international scale, dubstep is already With Andy C, Zinc, Calibre, Refi ned tastes are all well
while all was good. It took former DJmag dividing itself — in much the same way that Argentina-born, Ibiza-based Goldie, Chase & Status and and good but only the
editor Chris Coco to realise that you could put drum & bass has — into two opposing DJ pioneer Alfredo redefi nes High Contrast all delivering most dour-faced techno
acoustic songs in with dance music — an idea factions. First those who want their dubstep notions of the Balearic four-track mini-mixes, this purists could resist smiling
Trentemøller has really run with. served up large, lairy and instantly gratifying sound with an eclectic diverse d&b selection might at George Morel’s ‘Let’s
Following his 2006 Essential Mix of the Year and then those who think the genre should mix of electrofunk boogie, sound like a dog’s dinner on Groove’, Kings of Tomorrow’s
and his excellent ‘Chronicles’, ‘Harbour Boat follow a subtler, more soulful route. downtempo beats and weird paper but comes up trumps ‘Finally’ or Livin Joy’s ‘Don’t
Trips 01’ runs from an opening section that This 26-track, Bar 9-helmed mix from and wonderful musical in practice. Yet while deserv- Stop Movin’’. At least, that’s
sees the Sigur Ros-esque Grouper blend into Leicester’s Audio Phreaks label actually chimeras. Try Mariachi hip- ing of the ‘all killer and no what we told ourselves
melancholic folk of Emiliana Torrini for the manages to appeal to both camps by hop, Afrobeat Clash covers fi ller’ cliché, the fragmented while grinning del at the 60
opening mood setting, before Nic Endo’s balancing the feral and the cerebral, with and dubbed out house on for format quickly wears itself smile-inducing anthems on
rough mix of The Raveonettes brings the fi rst heads-down teeth-gritters like F-One’s size. Ben Murphy out. Allan McGrath here. Allan McGrath
appearance of beats, almost half an hour in. ‘Swagger’ rubbing up against the warm ‘n’
From there the intense electronics rub fuzzy likes of Zen Militia’s ‘Pull of Guilt’.
against art punks like Suicide for a truly A second unmixed disc of bass-crazed Bar 9
unique mix. We’ll take emotional feel over productions is, predictably, a less varied
genre restrictions any day of the week. affair. Although it’ll be lapped up by fans of
James Kendall Caspa and Rusko’s ringtone boogie.
Joe Madden
Solarstone Dimitri From Paris Best Nights Ever:
Solaris International pres Night Dubbin’ House Party
Electronic Architecture BBE Seamless Records
Solaris
’80s dubbed delights Solid house music
Melodic journeys
Dimitri handpicks London’s For a generic house mix
Konrad Black Above & Beyond pres OceanLab Solarstone sculpts a strafi ng dubby disco stalwarts The album you could do worse
Watergate 03 Sirens of the Sea Remixes two-disc journey through Idjut Boys to explore the than this double CD offering.
Watergate Anjunabeats blissful prog, acidic grooves, deep spaces between the Neither mix will set your
lush breaks, soft tech classic ’80s dub mixes of D world alight but nor will
Driving techno mission OceanLab go under the scalpel textures and cliché-dodging Train, Serious Intention, they offend your inner
trance that is swathed in Wham, Lenny White and canals with the commercial
Be it as producer or DJ, Konrad’s heart is Weighing anchor in fi ne weather, Jaytech deep melodic elegance. This more, while Dimitri contrib- drivel that plagues so many
forever emblazoned on his sleeve and for that drops a blissed-out audioscape on the already is a genuine gem if given a utes two unmixed discs of compilations of this ilk.
you’ve got to love him — but not quite as very lovely ‘If I Could Fly’. Slightly choppier chance. Allan McGrath further gems. Dean Barton Simon Kelly
much as his cracking new mix album. In a waters are ahead though as ‘Come Home’’s
scene that so often runs around in circles maudlin tones — which were a tough sell on
chasing its own tail, it’s so damn pleasing to the original album — are sadly beyond even
be confronted with a DJ that clearly spends Michael Cassette’s remix redemption skills.
REPEATTHE LPS WE CAN’T LEAVE ALONE...
bags of time diligently cherry-picking — on After which CD1 is pretty much plain sailing
‘Watergate 03’ only the fi nest Konrad-com- to the fi nish line, as Gareth Emery, Andy
patible nuggets will do. Duguid and Oliver Smith work their magic on
Here his penchant for throbbing, driving bass ‘Lonely Girl’, ‘On The Beach’ and ‘Ashes’
and dark, dubby overtones run riot with respectively. Hot Chip Permanent Vacation Tectonic Plates Vol. 2
fi lthy, acidic synths, via some of the most CD2 has a wider tonal spread in terms of the A Bugged Out! Mix by Selected Label Works Tectonic
exciting noodle-free producers around — Ben reworks with Andrew Bayer and Sonorous & Hot Chip No.1
Klock, Alex Cortez, Raudive and Mr Black Duderstadt bringing in greater diversity. New State Music Permanent Vacation Futuristic in outlook and
himself — fi lling you with unrelenting, For OceanLab 1.0 fans (their 2001 – 2004 heaving in bass weight,
limb-fl ailing urges from the off. An album for period), the album climaxes with the Armin/ A debauched house party Waves of funk, disco revival Tectonic’s second compila-
serious decibel/woofer abuse. Dan Kinasz Ferry/A&B remixes of the early classics, set alongside a second disc sounds, proto-house piano tion sees them at their most
making certain of a feel-good fi nale. of lights-out, drugged-out numbers and cosmic throbs. brilliantly diverse.
Tim Stark warehouse soundtracks.
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