You would love DJ Marky from Brazil as well and of course Bukem... ---------- >From: Matt MacQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 313 <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: (313) detroity DnB >Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 2:38 PM >
> 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 >
