Two Thousand and Great

It's the end of the year and a great year it's been for music. In some ways there has been a shift in trends, genres and clubbers and I think another change isn't that far ahead. 2008 for myself and a lot of dj's will be a year where there were certain situations where you felt that you had to play a certain track, one that would make the crowd go absolutely crazy. Early this year I was lucky enough to do a podcast with Tiga and Thomas on this topic and since then I think there has been a shift back to more traditional methods and, dare I say it, "dancing" in clubs.

An end of year "BEST OF" mix sounds like a cliche, so I thought I would put together a mix of tracks I have loved this year, but have never got round to playing. Maybe through being scared they would kill the dancefloor and maybe just because they are better suited to an ipod than a club. One is a Clouded Vision remix that I am really proud of but again its quite hard to play in a big room. The last track is one of my favourite dance records ever and again there is no chance you could drop this in a club!

Tracklist:

1. Toob - Dervish Angel (Clouded Vision Remix)
2. Captain Commodore - Another Lonely Night (Luke Solomon remix)
3. Arcadion - Arc
4. PBR Streetgang - The Tale of Wild Bob
5. Mungolian Jetset - Madre Epics (Part 2)
6. Entertainment - U 1988 (Bot'ox Remix)
7. Zombie Zombie - Texas Rangers (Danton Eeprom Remix)
8. Tim Paris - Alike
9. Long Blondes - Guilt (Pantha Du Prince Remix)
10. Michael Mayer - Lovefood (Matias Aguayo Remix)

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Turbo Recordings, 2008 a round up:

So there has been a lot of "lists" already and it's hard not to sit and dwell on them for ages to try and remember what you really liked over the last 12 months. I was asked to complete, what I thought was a pretty comprehensive survey from Thomas and Tiga. So here are the results, based mainly on my DJ sets over the last year...

I would like to add that there have been many many records I have loved, charted, sent to people and havent even found the space to play at gigs...

so,


artist(s) of the year –



MGMT, Hercules and love affair, Late of the pier, popof, proxy, Tim Green

2. live electronic act(s) of the year –



Hercules and love affair, Zombie Nation

3. DJ(s) of the year – (that I have seen):



luciano, boys noize, marco corola

4. record label(s) of the year:



cecille, turbo, dissident, klang/playhouse, tartlet, dirtybird

5. song(s) of the year -



Blind – hercules & love affair, sis – nesrib, proxy – raven/dancing in the dark, popof – electric circus/chomper, alter ego – baby kraut, kreon – jauce, tomski/fredboy – do the tartlet, patrice baumel – ROAR, inflagranti – business acumen, tiga – mind dimension, photonz – glass onion

6. album(s) of the year -



mgmt, late of the pier, Hercules and love affair, padded cell

7. remix(es) of the year –



Duke Dumont mystery jets, alex tepper Tim green, sunglasses at night (black devil/alter ego) john starlight – road rage (popof) radioslave (dubfire mix), D'Julz – Just so you know (2001 mix) and anything by holy ghost or joakim

8. website(s) of the year –



beatport (without it I couldn't answer this review)

9. most annoying trend(s) –



loud basslines

10. unsung hero(es) –



marco corola


• Things to look out for in 2009?



Tiga's album, Clouded Vision


as a DJ (IF you DJ) :



there actually not being any clubs left with working record turntables.



• what were the 3 records you played the most? –



Alter ego – baby kraut

Brodinski – oblivion (clouded vision mix)

Sis - nesrib


• what were the 3 records you saw get the biggest reactions?


proxy - raven

john starlight – road rage (popof mix)

Patrice baumel - roar



Also, these, from Tiga:

• on a scale of 1-10, how much did you care about Obama winning? (1 is
didn't care, 10 is couldn't sleep):



11: the bags under my eyes in my press shots are mainly due to this.

• do you have a stock portfolio and if so, how much money did you
lose, as % of total assets:



£7.50

• how much % MORE records do you think you would have sold in 1998:



What are records? Those big black cds?

• best thing about being on turbo:



the pressure of keeping up a good string of haircuts

• worst thing about NOT being on Turbo:



not getting to write your own press release





MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!