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Jody Wisternoff Intensified December

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

I know I keep posting up links to Jody Wisternoff mixes, but it’s because they’re so darn good.

Intensified December is particularly awesome. I love the way Jody blends deep, progressive, tech house, and even a bit of techno so well.

INTENSIFIED December 2010 by jodywisternoff

1 Jody Wisternoff Shivver
2 Vector Lovers Melodies and Memory (Marquez III mix)
3 J.Philip & Julio Bashmore Aquarium
4 Way Out West A Sheltered Place white
5 Douze Doxology
6 David Lynch I Know (Sasha remix)
7 Dino Lenny & Jenny Bae Montecassino’s deep Symphony
8 zdenko grbavac aevum (chymera remix) ftw recordingz
9 Silver Columns Brow Beaten (Kings Of Town) Moshi Moshi Records
10 Anthony Rother Man Up The Hill (Gui Boratto remix) Clash Music

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Roberto Rodriguez – Thank You (part two) – solardisco recordings

Monday, October 11th, 2010

I’ve hear this track a few times recently but by far the best remix is the one on Jody Wisternoff’s October Intensified (see next post). This really groovy house track wears it’s funk bassline well, and the cute ‘I want to thank you’ vocal sample reminds me a bit of the petshop boys.

The track is firmly in the house end of progressive house, but I feel it’s a really versatile track which would suit a variety of different DJing styles. The breakdown doesn’t really go anywhere, but the vocal carries it just fine, at nearly 9 minutes I don’t think I’d play the whole track but its simple structure gives it a load of mixing options.





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Mademoiselle Caro & Frank Garcia – Soldiers – Ben Watt Remix

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

After a hiatus in blogging due to, frankly not hearing any good records. A holiday has been the perfect excuse to download and listen to lots of mixes so I now have a load of tunes to write about.

First off is this corker featured on lots of mixes from Caro is significantly cooler, more cross-over and versatile than my fragile 30 something brain could ever understand. She seems to be up there in the Paris house scene, which while never being Zeitgeist has always been a world to watch.

Soldiers is a very versatile track that’ll do well from the dancefloors of Ibiza and Cannes to the student unions of Preston. In the modern dance music game it seems to me that versatility is the name of the game. For a track to truly dominate it needs to work at a range of BPMs. Soldiers is no exception. My first listens keep drawing me back to the Ben Watt remix as the most useful for a DJ wishing to mix things up, though I’m not sure it’s my favourite mix.

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Dirty South & Mark Knight – Stepover

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Dirty South and Mark Knight are pretty big names in house so you know you’ve got a corker of a track on your hands, and Stepover doesn’t disappoint.  On the slightly housier end of progressive this heavily influenced tech tune is a real builder.

A solid build with great chunky bass gives way to an epically progressive breakdown with a great filtered synth vocal combo building up really nicely.  It’s a record I fully expect to be an Ibiza anthem, not least because of it’s flexibility on any dancefloor from bar to club. Anooyingly I’ve had to link to the official toolroom one, which has some twat telling us off about piracy throughout the tune.

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Tomcraft Loneliness 2010

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Tomcraft’s original was just the right side of cheesy and as a result has been a firm staple on the festival, club and horrid club-bar circuit for years so I’ve often wondered how a re-work of this track would end up.  Actually I’m rather pleasantly surprised by both the Niels Van Gough and the Adam K & Soha’s Shadow remix

The former is a more proggy outing with a well filtered use of the vocal with an excellent bassline a minimal breakdown and is a really driving track

On balance I think the Adam K & Soha’s Shadow Remix has it for me, and I think this’ll be the one that gets the airplay.  It’s a muchwarmer and more upbeat track suited to a mid-set prog or house set and would probably lift  the bloody lid of a party.  I’m a particular fan of the break in this track which builds to a wicked crescendo, in fact it keeps building for nearly two whole minutes.

It’s certainly got me bopping at my desk.

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Deep Dish – Stay Gold / (The Future of The Future) AND EBTG Walking Wounded- Distinctive

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Stay Gold was one of the first pieces of Vinyl I bought and thought ‘this is going to be a goodun’. I’ve spun Stay Gold in many sets for the last 11 years and it always gets a good response, (not that I’ve spun for a while). My version is so old now that the sound’s really degraded it’s been played that often.

To be really honest one of the reasons this tune first appealed to me was because it’s a bloody easy tune to mix and always gets a good reaction. The vocal is provided by Everything But The Girl’s Tracy Thorn.  Not much more to say on this tune, EPIC….

After falling in love with Stay Gold I was lucky enough to get myself on the Decon and Virgin Records promo lists which was a bit of a win.  As a result the EBTG records rolled in.  I remember one of my faves in 1996 was Walking Wounded which I embarrassingly used to play on student radio at 10.00 am, as I thought chilled Drum and Bass was the perfect breakfast music.  Worryingly I still do.

Because EMI are complete paranoid twats, I can only link to Walking Wounded.

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Tom & Jerry feat. Abagail Bailey – Touch me

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I can sniff out a decent bootleg at a thousand paces and this track from Tom & Jerry is a great re-visit of Rui Da Silva’s Touch Me.

Tom Novy and Jerry Ropero bring the tune right up to date with a great trancey late-summer kind of vibe.  Abagail Bailey has been around the scene for a number of years and is an acomplished vocalist.

Her DJing is taking off well too.  There’s a great unplugged verision of the vocal of this track on her Myspace Player which is pretty cool.

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James Talk & Ridney do the Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

As ever I’m slow off the blocks bigging up a tune that’s been about since may, and although I’ve been listening to it lots I never quite got around to blogging it.

But I have to say I’m loving the latest outing for West End Girls.  I’m a bit of a closet Pet Shop Boys fan as they were one of the most prolific electronic acts out there when I was growing up.

The first half of West End Girls sounds a bit like the first half of the Jim Rivers remix of Glasgow Kiss, which itself is a version of Lil louis French Kiss, but the unmistakable riff for west end girls carries throughout.

What I love most about this record is the break down.  The intro note holds for a good five or six seconds before the west end girls sample comes in.  The track only once samples the grittier synth phrase that I can only describe as ‘baw baw baw’ , odd I know but  if you listen to it you’ll know what I mean, which is true to the original and would be so easy to overdo, because it’s a great sound.

This progressive/house version is great, and I also think a breaks version would work too.

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Gui Boratto – No Turning Back – Kompact – Tech House

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I’ve been listening to this track on and off for a few months, and it’s been a real grower.  On first listen I thought it to be just a decent tech house track, but as I was mixing over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself coming back to this tune more and more.

From a reasonably minimal progressive type intro the track gradually builds into a really emotive female vocal.  I think part of the reason why this track grows on you is that it has lots of subtle elements which come together to make a great tune.  It’s got a decent riff, quite a funky low range and a really quite haunting vocal.

The track is taken from Gui Boratto’s Take My Breath Away Album  which got a European release in March.  The rest of album is a mix of weird electronica and techno.  Check out Colours which is another decent track, though not one I’d DJ in a club.  There’s a particulalry apt review linked from Gui’s own site which puts it much better than I could.

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Dana B – Loveshine – Jody Wisternoff Remix – house. This will be the tune of the summer

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

UPDATE – the track is now released and available on the likes of Beatport

That’s it dance producers, the race for the Ibiza dance anthem of the summer is already done and dusted and I’m still trying to hunt down a copy with no success.  The only link I can find to it is on Jody Wisternoff’s myspace player.

Love shine is AMAZING.  Dana Bergquist‘s original house version rocks along nicely with a great little bongo sample and a melodic mid-range and along with Jody’s remix it’s going to be a killer track.

Jody Wisternoff’s  killer element is the looping of the  ‘gotta get up’ sample from Black Box’s Ride on Time and the really cool funk guitar riff which runs throughout the track.  His slightly higher BPM is more to my taste and it’d do well as a peak time track in both house and trance dancelfoors.

The tune is jumping up on a few of Jody & Nick Warrens mixes but a promo is as rare as can be.  The track will get a full release in July which makes sense for such a summer tune.  If anybody finds this tune then link a brother up please….

Here’s the house version tearing it up in Budapest

Other greatness from Dana Bergquist includes his excellent remix of Eric Prydz’s Pjanoo which is also going to be a pretty close contender for track of the summer.  Though it isn’t as good as Loveshine in my view.


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