D’Menace – Deep Menace (Burger Queen Mix) (320k)

Tracky (euro-)house. Familiar loop there. Bit cheesy maybe? Mix this with some ghetto house and it sounds somehow whole different. All about context.

Roy Davis Jr. – All I Do (320 kbps)

I guess Roy Davis Jr’s house version of Stevie Wonder’s All I Do would be considered almost as an edit nowadays? Spiritual.

Todd Terje re-edit is equally great.

With a couple of rarities (Kerim Khan, Phil Steele), exclusive track (Topless), essentials (Holy Ghost!, Ali Love) and all-time personal favorites (Laid Back, Seymour Bits, Roy Davis Jr) I’m quite comfortable with this new live dj mix. Electro soul satisfaction guaranteed.

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Tracklist
01. Laid Back – Bakerman
02. Toecutter – Best Party Ever (Fight Facilities Edit)
03. Roy Davis Jr. – Dance Shake
04. George Clinton – Erotic City (Sasso Re-Edit)
05. Muddyloop – We Play, You Move
06. Seymour Bits – All Alone
07. 50 & 50 Brothers – Redman
08. Topless – Vamos A Bailar
09. Ali Love – Diminishing Returns (Extended Version)
10. Kerim Khan – Seaside Rendezvous (Seaside-Dub)
11. Holy Ghost! – I Will Come Back
12. Phil Steele – Video Love (12″ Remix)

Mix of the Week #15

I found Casablanca’s “Mzo Bullet” from Blackdown’s sometimes excellent blog (which is overall quality though): there’s an interview of Gerv LV who went to South Africa for a trip and found some good good music. Besides the interview there’s also a nice mixtape of some African music in house styles and such by Gerv (is it kwaito? township? dunno).

Brenda Fassie – Qula (Embedding disabled by request) – nice deep houseish styles.

Coupé décalé – or logobi is the genre of these ZaZa Twins. French youngsters working dem synths and drum machines. Well, I’d assume they’re more on the software… This one’s on the ghettohouse/ghettotech tempo plane as is the case with this logobi thing I guess.

One thing I’ve learned during last year or so is that some of this newer African music is WAY TOO DIFFICULT TO BE FOUND so that I could buy it. Whether as digital files or CDs. Why is that so?

Julian Jonah – Jealousy And Lies (Alternative Dance Mix) (320k)

British house music! Really lovin’ the cover of this 12″ release. “Jealousy And Lies” was a big tune in the old days within Uk house/club scene. Here’s the Alternative Dance Mix version which has more percussion in it than the original mix. Few years before the turn of the millenium Julian Jonah went onto the uk garage tip for example as other half of the 187 Lockdown. In the early noughties guy was producing house again, with some disco flavour this time.