it's literally been about 9 years since I heard a 4-hero record being played by a dnb dj.
Ja'Maul Redmond 1100 S. Tryon St. Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203 t: 704.343.9900 f:704.343.9999 www.perkinswill.com Perkins+Will. Ideas + buildings that honor the broader goals of society -----Original Message----- From: Matt MacQueen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:39 PM To: 313 Subject: (313) detroity DnB a lot of great dnb i just slept on, thinking it would last forever and i'd catch up. how little i knew of UK music trends ;) now there are so many cuts i wish i'd have picked up..... Charles Noel, Titonton from Ohio, and others in detroit like Paris and DJ Rotator (even DJ Assault's early mixes to some degree!) were rocking this stuff at parties and much of it great. I had a copy of a Paris mixtape (cassette) that he reportedly created in order to hand to to Mills when he was in the D for one weekend... one side was super dope minimal detroit techno all cut-n-paste mixed Claude style.. the flip side was all very detroity feeling DnB. No idea where it is now... sigh.. but brilliant from front to back. Anyway, DnB to me, coming from a learning to Dj in a techno background, it was hard to keep up with and -- like any great imports -- a finite amount of it came to Record Time and the best of the best stuff disappeared quickly. I'd love to hear anyone/everyone take a crack at the best jungle/DnB mixes that employ that whole 'detroity feeling'... from Jacob's Optical Stairway to Lemon D to 4 Hero to LTJ to the better Photek to whoever else you feel represents the best of the (this is sad to say) 'golden era' of dnb, before it mutated into something unreconizable, something that felt like you never really knew it to begin with. I know this thread comes up once a year but i need some mixes to go with it... School me. My iPod is a yearnin' Someone in detroit get Brian Gillespie to rock a mix from this era, he had *everything*... first time i ever saw someone in the US sporting a Metalheads t-shirt to a Family Funktion party... he was all over it. -- MM http://sonicsunset.com
