#634

Her DJ Kicks is immense.

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#635

Was gonna say the same thing - one of my favourite mixes from this year.

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#636

Top 10 2020 dance related albums, EPs, 12”, mixes etc anyone? Go on then:

  1. India Jordan - For You EP (Local Action) - sometimes I have to hit the stop button immediately on this cos my mood doesn’t fit, but other times it sounds utterly fantastic and makes me very happy, so number one it is
  2. JASSS - Turbo Olé 12” (Whities 027) - Turbo Olé at 8 minutes long sounds futuristic and drives along with a hypnotic synth and flips and switches brilliantly
  3. Nikki Nair - Scuzzy 12” (Pretty Weird Records) - Dubby beat and bass with fun samples
  4. Ikonika - Your Body EP (Don’t Be Afraid) - Love this, towards the trance side of things, joyous record
  5. Jamie xx - Idontknow 12” (Young Turks) - Love a boogie to this
  6. Avalon Emerson - DJ-Kicks (!K7) - I haven’t got this excited about a DJ Kicks album in a long while. The transitions and track selection flow effortlessly and it’s just brilliant.
  7. Happa - Blue 07 12” (Whities) - Both Clip & One Three Five are adventure stories boiled down to sensational tracks
  8. Rødhåd - PHOTON Livestream ARTE Concert - Hypnotic, meditative techno. Watched this multiple times during lockdown, the best in the business for me.
  9. Helena Hauff - United We Stream ARTE Concert - Gothic techno if that is such a thing. Watched this multiple times during lockdown, the best in the business for me.
  10. Luke Vibert/Wagonchrist - bit of a cop out at the end. He has released 4 fantastic albums this year, can’t split any of them.

I’ve left out so much stuff DJ Plead, Pearson Sound, Minor Science, Surgeon, Park Hye Jin, HAAi, Theo Parrish, Hodge, DJ Pyton, Nicolas Jaar etc etc the list goes on and on, it’s been such a great year in some ways.

This type of music has pique my interest for many years now so I look forward to all the recommendations and politics in the year to come x

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#637

Some great picks there - would also go for Avalon DJ Kicks (and the recent AD93 single), Turbo Ole, Hodge album, Rodhad Photon (also really enjoyed his HOR Berlin set).

Other records, albums, mix picks I’ve enjoyed:

Bergsonist - Middle Ouest (Optimo Music)
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround (PAN)
Anz - Loos in Twos (Hessle Audio)
VA - Fuga I compilation (Token)
Russell EL Butler - Constructions Vol 2 (self-released)

NDRX - RA mix
Sherelle - Dekmantel mix
Jon Starks - Nov 9 HOR set
Blawan - United We Stream, Tempelhofer Feld
CCL, Roza Terenzi, D.Tiffany - Nov 12 HOR set

Also loved the first few tapes in the Climate of Fear mix series, from Bruce, Nkisi, Polar Inertia, Bambounou, and Elena Colombi.

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#638

Blawan’s fucked it, after complaining fairly vocally in the spring about DJs playing at plague raves, he played one in Kiev for NY, moaned about flight trouble getting home and got angry when he was called out:

Enjoyed this comment:

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#639

Perhaps generously I’m reading “you know nothing of my circumstances” as “I needed the money” but fucking hell this is a bad look.

#640

Lol. As for Peggy Gou in Mykonos in the summer or whatever, the R rate was so low and the gigs outside, they were in places populated almost exclusively young people, so y’know, folks got to get paid and stuff. Wasn’t overly critical about it but I appreciate why people are/were.

Now with the cases up, transmission rate high, gig spaces indoors etc. it’s a much more controversial decision.

I don’t personally judge DJs too harshly for playing gigs where they’re legal now either given a complete lack of work opportunities, but you have to know it’s a decision you’re likely to come under fire for, should prepare for criticism, and definitely shouldn’t be a complete dick about it. That’s my take away from this, just the guy coming across as a bit of a douche in general, rather than anything about playing the plague rave.

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#641

Helena Hauff on great form here:

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#642

At least the party was fire, was worried for a moment.

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#643

one of my favourite live stream things during the first lockdown was her playing a set from her apartment, with a fag pretty much permanently on the go and flicking the light switch on and off to simulate a strobe light

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#644

Fantastic

The B2B with L.F.T is really great

#645

Great set from Courtesy here from December

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#646

The new RA site is shite isn’t it? Looks completely bland, not user friendly, half the links are dead.

Tax payer money well spent.

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#647

Hilariously including the link to the to story on the front page about them launching a new site!

Only went to check it based on your post and it’s strangely almost the same as before but s bit shitter. At least on the listings.

I suppose they’ve had to find something to keep themselves busy for the last 9 months.

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#648

Daniel Avery on in a few mins…

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#649

I saw Them were advertising a night in May at Corsica Studios…seriously? Why not wait?

#650

Sink the Pink have tickets on sale for an event in March (admittedly, I think, announced before Tier 4 / lockdown 3)

As you say, surely people aren’t booking tickets for anything right now so why not wait?

#651

This mix from riel zetina is great

(PS time for a new thread?)

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#652

New thread started here:

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#653

Enjoyed that, Ravers mix afterwards is pretty decent as well. Lead me on to listen to a couple of others that he mentioned:

The DJ Python mix is good and the d&b set from Tom afterwards has some bangers. This from Sully on the Astrophonica label is class:

The Hodge one was enjoyable as well. Liked the Facta track.

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