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MDK

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Mine is kinda done now, had a few playlists to choose from, I went for the one I thought would most suit the recipient in the end, an unmixed electronic/indie/downtempo/chillout playlist with a one track in particular I've wanted to include for ages.

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Okay, mine is done. It's not master-mixed in an area or anything, just tracks.

You will also get the mix I did for anewman last month as I think you'll enjoy it.

Should have this posted by the end of the week, but then Easter buggers the post up, so heaven knows when it'll get there.

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Well I've posted mine today. Tracklistings below (hidden in spoiler to avoid big dull post shocker!).

Filmic:

1 - Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3 - The Sopranos

2 - Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry - The Lost BOys

3 - In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry - Twin Town/Wedding Crashers/loads of others

4 - Golden Brown - The Stranglers - Snatch

5 - Strange Face Of Love - Tito & Tarantula - Desperado

6 - Hotel California - Gipsy Kings - The Big Lebowski

7 - Red Right Hand - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Scream

8 - The Killing Moon - Echo and Bunnymen - Donnie Darko

9 - God Only Knows - The Beach Boys - Boogie Nights

10 - Pick Up the Pieces - The Average White Band - Swingers

11 - Once Upon A Time In The West - Ennio Morricone - OUATITW

12 - Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin - School of ROck

13 - Requiem for a Dream (Orchestral Version) - Clint Mansell - Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Trailer)

14 - Morpheus Vs. Neo - The Matrix

15 - Spybreak - Propellerheads - The Matrix

16 - Danke Schöen - Wayne Newton - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

House:

1 Love Show (Tom Novys Club Mix) - Skye

2 Ride A White Horse (Ewan Pearson Disco Odyssey Parts 1+2) - Goldfrapp

3 Aint Got No (Beginerz Vocal Mix) - Nina Simone

4 Like A Waterfall - Solarstone

5 Life to Live - Layo & Bushwacka

6 Changes - Chris Lake

7 Release - Chris Lage

8 Radio Waves (Original Mix) - Fragma & Kirsty Hawkshaw

9 Seven Nation Army (Young Punx Club Mix) - Open AIr

10 Da Disco (club mix) - Tomcraft

Techno:

1 Paranoia - John Tejada

2 On and On (Guido Schneider remix) - Dub Kult

3 Zdarlight - Digitalism

4 Rourei - Anders Ilar

5 Arquipelago - Gui Boratto

6 Drug Queen - Duoteque

7 Circus Maximus (Main mix) - Solien

8 Serenetti - Trentemoller

9 Mandarine Girl - Booka Shade

10 For One Brief Moment I was There - Jesse Somfay

The techno CD is a bit of a cheat as the selection of songs was taken from the Pitchfork Media’s top 10 techno records of 2005.

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MW_Jimmy

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I thought you had somebody rubbish this month Jimmy :blink:

I flicked through it and nothing jumped out, but to be fair I was getting annoyed with some uni work and I had a headache.

I'll try again later.

Rubbish? Yeah, you are.

I wanted you to guess! - it was pretty obvious too :)

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Jesus, I knew one track! Anyway, here we go.

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bpe! Track review for you, guvnor. All scores are in ships out of ten.

Track 1: No idea.

The bastard offspring of modern production equipment and an out-of-work 1980s Disney movie composer. I sat with a furrowed brow for approximately sixteen seconds, at which point a big grin took over my face. That hawaiian guitar noise is just sublime. HMS Pinafore/10

Track 2: Polyphonic Ringtone - Somebody from Planet Mu

A dub bass, a ska feel, a healthy selection of moog noises, a ragga breakdown and vocoded vocals - i've been annoying the contractor sat in my office by murmuring "po-ly-phon-ic ring-tone" over and over. Cutty Sark/10

Track 3: No idea.

This is superb - instantly added to my portable's things to listen to while cycling home really really fast playlist. Bluebird/10

Track 4: No idea.

A bit too trancey for me i'm afraid - the guitar harmonics are a nice aside, but it doesn't seem to go anywhere. Paddle Steamer/10

Track 5: No idea.

Hip-hop beats and jazz guitar - delicious. One for the next time I go and stare at the sea. Catamaran/10

Track 6: No idea.

God, this is relaxing. If the health and safety officer could see typing with such bad posture, he'd have my guts for garters. P&O Carribbean cruise/10

Track 7: No idea.

Oh man! I've just picked up two Amiga CDs too (the Turrican soundtrack by Chris Huselbeck, and Best Of The Amiga Scene from synsoniq.de)! This track is a delight on so many levels - I used to do tracker stuff for the PD scene when I was younger; couple this with being an old obsessive Amiga gamer, and i've just sat through the lot feeling bittersweet pangs of nostagia. Silent Service II/10

Track 8: No idea.

I suspect that this was done on the C64 - ahh, the weeks of wasted youth playing Creatures. "Wasted"? I showed them! I showed them all! By typing them to a conveyor and running them into a rotary saw. That boat out of Spy Hunter/10

Track 9: No idea. Though I think i've heard this.

I really like the detached church organ in the background to this - a lovely counterpoint to the crazy d&b beat and video game sounds. This is probably what my brain sounds like. A boat made out of a leaf made out of sixteen pixels/10

Track 10: No idea.

I felt a bit detached from this, so I went googling for the lyrics; turns out they're from a poem about "The Great Wave at Kanagawa", a famous Japanese painting I have on my wall at home. Not the original, obviously, because that would most likely be illegal. Gets better towards the end though. The track, not the painting. How can paintings get better at the end? Idiot. Tiny doomed fishing boat/10

Track 11: No idea.

This was going swimmingly until the arse drops out of the tempo - I felt my will to listen disappear with the beat. A good start, but fucked up at the end... Titanic/10

Track 12: No idea.

If track 9 was the sound of my brain, then this is the sound of my secret madness. It's like The Hitcher from The Mighty Boosh is dancing on my frontal lobes, slicing me up like a green cockney geezer. I like it, but I can't pinpoint exactly why. Red Dwarf/10

Track 13: No idea.

Too slow and rich for me - it's dark and moody, which is usually my cup of tea, but add electronics of any kind and I crave a bit of tempo. Gondola/10

Track 14: No idea.

I think I overdosed on this flavour of D&B when stoned to fuck at uni, so the only reaction I get these days is "mmm, I could do with a joint". Sorry. :huh:Rubberduck/10 (Geeky audio joke ahoy)

Track 15: No idea.

This is the sound of my super-secret madness, that lies buried hidden in my other secret madness. The oddest medley of music styles i've heard in quite some time, and I used to know a part insane tramp smack addict with a hard disk recorder when I lived in Leeds, so I know what i'm talking about. Hydro Thunder/10

Track 16: No idea.

Super-fast D&B. Johnny Briggs. Super-fast D&B. Johnny Briggs. Super-fast D&B. Johnny Briggs. Super-fast D&B. <scanners-head.gif> The Love Boat/10

Track 17: No idea.

Happy hardcore drum'n'bass rave techno. With gentle strings and star-trek ship alarm noises. KILL IT. Belgrano/10

Track 18: No idea.

This is the sound of my super-super-secret etc etc etc Rainbow Warrior/10

Overall: So much promise, but went missing at the end. Beagle 2/10

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lolercopter!

That’s one of the best reviews I’ve had ever!

I’m glad that you liked the CD overall! So I bet you’re dying to see the tracklisting.. so here it is!

01.Toy - Grass Beatbox

02.Chevron - Polyphonic Ringtone

03.Feedle - Song For Dogs

04.Four Tet - Spirit Fingers

05.Exillon - Now You'll Never Know

06.Vector Lovers - Tokyo Glitterati

07.Venetian Snares - Yip Yaps

08.Bit Shifter - The Information Chase

09.Stochastic - Blistering Thumbs and A Broken Heart

10.Wisp - Uxe-Bu

11.ACRNYM - Megastation Mod Env

12.Drop the Lime - Hometaker

13.Search & Destroy - Candyfloss (Loefah Remix)

14.Dolphin - Autodidatic

15.Shitmat - My Humdinger

16.DJ Fuckin' Terrible - CrapEater

17.Sickboy - You Make Me Sick

18.Ladyscraper - If It's Gonna Be That Kinda Party I'm Gonna Stick My Dick In

Marky

P.S I loved the ships out of ten, even though it did confuse the hell outta me :D

:):)^_^:huh:^_^^_^^_^

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Feedback for you Jimmy:

1. Decline of the Reptiles / Don't Look Down

A nice bit of organ work but I didn't really dig the song. Are they Japanese?

2. Plastic Bertrand / Ça Plane Pour Moi

Sounds pretty old (and French, natch). Kinda like Beach Boys meets the Sex Pistols. But boring.

3. Lightning Seeds / You Showed Me

I thought this was alright when it first came out but I've overheard it and moved on from that sound. -SKIP-

4. DJ Mitsu the Beats / Dokkou Jazz Dou

This is better. Better -1 because I don't understand them, but the beat is good and there is organ featured again.

Would fit well in JSR/Katamari/Ouendan. I shall probably keep this one.

5. Crazy P / Cruising

Some funky electropop business. Took a while to get going but I like the groove. More details?

6. Kiki / So Easy to Forget

80's (sounding at least) synth pop. I was expecting a vocal earlier and a female one at that.

Something more prominent too but the whispering European males were fine I guess.

7. Kudu / Suite Life

I liked the start of this; Videogame sounding bass. Unexpected vocals but they seem to work ok with the track.

Nice melodies too but I thought it could have done with being a minute shorter.

8. Girls Aloud / Crazy Fool

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9. Gorillaz / New Genius

Dreary rubbish -SKIP-

10. Lillian Briggs / Can't Stop

Way too jolly be bop a doo wop rubbish -SKIP-

11. RIP SLYME / (I Could Have) Danced All Night

Not awful, but not really that good either. Average, then.

12. Gnarls Barkley / Smiley Faces

Meh, see above.

13. United Future Organization / My Foolish Dream {W. Monday Michiru}

You sent me this already. I liked it then and I still like it now.

Also, a slightly strange thing I realised today:

My first mix club entry back in Oct '04 involved me sending a cd to David Heath and recieving one from your good self!

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MW_Jimmy

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Curse you lot and your fancy CD name-playing machines. :ph34r:

Anyway, I knew what you would and wouldn't like before you even said (although I thought you'd like the middle section more) but I wasn't going to change any of it was I?

1. Decline of the Reptiles / Don't Look Down

A nice bit of organ work but I didn't really dig the song. Are they Japanese?

Nope, Australian rock band circa 1980.

2. Plastic Bertrand / Ça Plane Pour Moi

Sounds pretty old (and French, natch). Kinda like Beach Boys meets the Sex Pistols. But boring.

This is the original (??) of Jet Boy, Jet Girl by The Damned. It was kinda stolen but doubt remains over who stole it from who.

Also, a nice wikipedia fact for you that I've just found. "Plastic Bertrand was the cover star of the first ever issue of UK pop magazine Smash Hits in September 1978."

4. DJ Mitsu the Beats / Dokkou Jazz Dou

This is better. Better -1 because I don't understand them, but the beat is good and there is organ featured again. Would fit well in JSR/Katamari/Ouendan. I shall probably keep this one.

Actually wanted this as a instrumental but couldn't find one. I'm just getting into Mitsu's stuff at the moment and his album(s) have lots of western collaborators (Mark De-Clive Lowe, Dwele, Little Brother, Medaphoar) but didn't hear anything that flowed as well as this, and had that same click-boom-clack. The rapper on this is Hunger from Gagle, who *I think* Mitsu's younger brother.

5. Crazy P / Cruising

Some funky electropop business. Took a while to get going but I like the groove. More details?

Not really. Heard it on a podcast and liked it so on it went. I know they also go by the name of Crazy Penis which a forum search throws up a mention in the House Music thread here so....

8. Girls Aloud / Crazy Fool

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;)

Did you see it coming though? Erm, you chose the right Girls Aloud aswell - Its a Tweedy solo track. Back when recording WWTNS each of them went off and wrote a track by themselves. Sarahs showed up on WWTNS called Real Life, Nicolas is Its Magic from Chemistry, Kimberleys was a crap B-side ballad, dunno about Nadines. This is properly fantastic and should have easily made it onto either album, although the failure of this sort of 80's electropop sound probably gave them cold feet to follow it further.

9. Gorillaz / New Genius

Dreary rubbish -SKIP-

Boo.

10. Lillian Briggs / Can't Stop

Way too jolly be bop a doo wop rubbish -SKIP-

11. RIP SLYME / (I Could Have) Danced All Night

Not awful, but not really that good either. Average, then.

12. Gnarls Barkley / Smiley Faces

Meh, see above.

Its a theme man! Shame you didn't like.

13. United Future Organization / My Foolish Dream {W. Monday Michiru}

You sent me this already. I liked it then and I still like it now.

Good. :(

Anyway, there was a loose theme of 50's-60's rock&roll parties (doing the twist etc) mixed with cocktail bar jazz and a bit of a european flavour aswell. I was considering creating some cover art this month of an inside of a bar with all those elementals mixed in together in the same surrounding but it probably would've been crap.

Thanks for the honest feedback dude (although it's all clearly great).

Cheers,

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Right, mine's done and will be off in the post today. Hopefully you'll have it on Saturday, S8N. The post still runs on Saturday, right? Despite the Bank Holiday?

Anyway, it's just the usual collection of the best bits of stuff I've been listening to recently. I hope you like it and haven't heard all of it already...

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Did you get my cd David? Let me know when you want a tracklist.

Yeah been listening to it recently. Got it on at the moment.

I just wrote out a massive reply and Firefox crashed when I opened my Yahoo mail.

I'm glad I chose the piano option from your list because the CD is sounding quality. First track is massively in your face style drum and bass sounding. I was loving that, and judging by how loud I had it most of my street was as well. Fantastic opener. I originally thought the second track was definitely MF Doom, but I'm starting to question whether it really is at all now. I don't believe I've heard it before, though it may be on one of my Special Herbs boxsets or something, but yeah I liked this too. Would be nice to know who it was. After the energetic opening the third track came as a nice surprise. Has a really weird kinda chilled out groove to it, but not like in the way in that you could imagine it appearing on a chillout album though; more like the kinda thing I'd be chilling out to if I was lying on a mountain somewhere. The female vocals are superb, and right about now I'm liking how the piano elements are being used differently in each track. This one also leads nicely onto the kinda slap bass style of the fourth track, which for me acts a nice interlude between songs here, and builds nicely into frack five, which is a lot more progressive than the others - takes a couple of minutes to really get going, but once it does it seems to hold your attention throughout, which is obviously no bad thing. Also, towards the end some freakin' awesome drums come in and damage your whole head up. It also kinda sounds like its mixing in with something else towards the end, but then you get those familiar noises coming back in every now and then to superb effect. Interested in hearing the artist for this one.

Track six appears to sample Pulp Fiction, which is kinda cool for a while, but after eight minutes I was kinda getting a bit bored with it. Sounds much more generic than the other songs I'd heard up until now, but granted it still fits in quite well with the theme of the CD as a whole, and the fact is track seven sounds so much better after this than it might have done surrounded by equally good songs - really chilled out , mellow sounding vibes coming from it that were like dollops of smooth yoghurt falling in my ears. The following two tracks also carry on this style. Really relaxing chords and harmonies - especially those of track nine. I felt like I should be doing yoga or meditating or something. Quite a contrast from the energetic beginning.

To be honest I didn't think the male vocals of the tenth track really fit in with where I thought the CD would be going from here, but I dunno, I guess it kinda works in a 'this sounds like something used in the final credits of Airport' way. Feels a bit to cheesy to me though, and maybe doesn't fit in with the next track either, which has a very jumpy beat to it and some nice high rhodes throughout. Sounds like what would happen if Paul Oakenfold did jazz. The next track has some fantastic drums. I'm not sure about the vocals though - to me they sound a little forced and don't add that much to the track as a whole. I suppose they are quite nice in a way, but for me I just wanted to hear some variation on those drums and that bassline.

The next track starts off very energetically - much like the beginning of the CD - and plays out quite well but kinda ends really suddenly and strangely. Maybe its 'cos you got it from a mix or something and needed to fade it out I dunno, but it sounds kinda strange. The next track comes in similarly to the previous track. This one sounds like something I have on my Ibiza 2000 annual. I love getting that annual out every now and then. It always reminds me of the summer and track fourteen has that beach vibe all over it like a flannel. The track switch halfway through is pretty refreshing and brings out a nice piano solo section along with a much improved beat/bass combo before dropping those latino vocals back in there. I enjoyed this one quite a bit. Sounds like something I'd put on before going to the beach or something for some beverages and a chillaxing session. I kinda liked the last track, but it was a little to similar to that earlier track where I just wished the woman would shut up and let me listen to the song without wailing over the top. It was nice though. The intermittent piano makes the track for sure. Without that there'd be very little to listen to here. Although the shakers are cool.

So yeah, overall I enjoyed the CD. The first half was pure sweetness unleashed - it was just the second half that kinda felt a bit too dance/clubby. Which is nice, but I can only take so much of that. It really depends on the material. Vocals are a definite 'no' over those kinda tracks as well I'm afraid. These are all very minor gripes though, as there was literally something in every track to enjoy. I would like to know quite a few of the artists. Especially, like, the first nine tracks. I loved all of those massively.

I'm putting track one on again and going crazy.

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