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TAs Share Their Classics: NOVEMBER 2010 (pg. 35)
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| epicaricacy |
finally, here is the tracklist.
if you want descriptions, i provide them with my annoying voice...i'll add the label info later if anyone wants, those records and tracks are just not out right now...and i don't feel like doing them:p
Le Freak Does The Classics.
Les Colocs - Juste Une Ptite Nuite
Jean Leloup - Isabelle
Dubmatique - Soul Pleureur
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
Etta James - I'd Rather Go blind
Bobby Hebb - Sunny
Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life
John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues
Little Walter - My Babe
Muddy Waters - Boom Boom Boom
Howling Wolf - I'm The Wolf
Ali Farka Toure - Ai Du
The Tragically Hip - 38 Years Old
Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
David Bowie - Starman
Babe Ruth - The Mexican
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Chic - Le Freak (System J Freak Out Because i'm Drunk) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Erm... the last track is Chic - Le Freak (Freak Out). |
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| epicaricacy |
i'm going by memory...fuuuuuuuuuuuu
will fix.
Le freak should still get top billing :mad: |
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| dj christian |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I still have those files, but my perma-hosting has gone the way of all things. I can re-upload them for you. |
Yea that would be nice of you :) |
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| netroM |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj christian
Yea that would be nice of you :) |
He isn't very nice, is he?
If things go well, I'll have it uploaded on rghost within half an hour :)
Finding it was a chore though;
What kind of name is "ta_classics.mp3", anyway? Luckily it had ID3 tags...
edit: http://rghost.net/2331448 |
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| dj christian |
| quote: | Originally posted by netroM
He isn't very nice, is he?
If things go well, I'll have it uploaded on rghost within half an hour :)
Finding it was a chore though;
What kind of name is "ta_classics.mp3", anyway? Luckily it had ID3 tags...
edit: http://rghost.net/2331448 |
No he was a bit tardy it seems.
Thanks! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Sorry about that, I kept forgetting to do it. |
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| Seppuku |
| haven't checked this thread in a while...d/ling your mix jay, looks good. |
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| epicaricacy |
| i feel like doing another one.:p |
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| SYSTEM-J |
It's been exactly a year since I started this game which feels like both an eternity and five minutes ago. The game has gone pretty well, a few wobbly moments apart, and to celebrate this little anniversary I've brought in a real TA legend, someone numerous people have asked me to invite and someone who has helped and educated me many times in my time on TA. You asked, I delivered. It's...
Grim Reaper
First a little warning for those expecting perfect transitions or modern day elite DJ trickery as in a conventional DJ mix.. you won't find any of that here!!!!!.
All transitions were made as simply as possible.
After Jackster asked me to participate in this, I decided to do it intentionally in a more lo-fi style to give it a more old skool mix tape vibe. The least reason not being the fact a) I've had all my DJ gear stored away for quite a while and didn't feel like getting them all back out again and set up just for this and b) I don't own any of the pro mixing software and not even planning to get them as I'm not that much into software mixing in usual.
The most lo-fi part was the computer I did the whole thing with - only a mere ~15 years old piece which had been sitting in the corner for years serving as a table for some flowers. Took "a while" to get this mixed, sequenced and edited with some ancient software featuring minimal amount of knobs to fiddle with. Some transitions are intentionally made awful for a little snicker, probably because they've been too insane to be mixed properly. Be warned!
PS. The dual release years just mean I've grabbed the track from some other than the original release due being unable to rip or use vinyls at the moment..
Grimmy - (S)lacking Classics
1. Deep Purple : Child In Time [Harvest, 1970/EMI, 1995] + 1a. Jules : Ezekiel 25.17 (MCA, 1994)
- By far my fav piece of all the old hard rock I've heard over the past 25 years of my music listening. For me it has all the elements of great, timeless rock that never really gets old even if does sound old by today's standards. Couldn't resist adding Samuel L. Jackson's famous lines from Pulp Fiction into the beginning, which IMO gave a funny addition to the intro. I know the quote is cheesy for being so overused allover but I used it anyway so booyah!
- I first heard Child In Time long before first grade in early 80s and still loving it as much as I did when I was a kid. The whole DP album "In Rock" is absolutely amazing (if you like their sound of course) and the full 10+ minute version of Child In Time is easily the highlight of the album for me. I know Ian Gillan's voice and singing style isn't for anyone but oh well.. can't please all of yous. The last quarter of the song doesn't really offer anything you hadn't heard during the first 7.5 mins so I cut the finale out and went onwards with the next tune rather than make a terrible chaos with the transition.
2. Bomfunk MCs : B-Boys & Fly Girls (Jori Hulkkonen Deep 'n' Smooth Remix) [Epidrome, 1999]
- When everyone else around here were OMG OMG OMG about the happy poppy electro grooves of Bomfunk's original tunes (produced by Jaakko "JS16" Salovaara) such as this one or the much more successful Freestyler, most of the time I was rather into the remixes. Hulkkonen's totally different approach on the track isn't a surprising move from him at all as he does that quite often. The only thing remaining from the original are the little snippets of vocals.
- He often drifts away from the originals while remixing and uses his talent to do something equally fantastic out of the source material yet something totally different and original. His talent have been proven several times over the years with some of his mighty fine original productions, collabs and remixes. A brilliant tune overall, still one of my fav remixes from the man. Never get tired of listening to it.
3. De La Soul : Keepin' The Faith [Tommyboy, 1991]
- De La Soul's 1991 album De La Soul Is Dead wasn't my first experience with their sound in the early 90s but it's still my fav. Sadly long gone are the days when hiphop was cheerful and made you smile while the laid back groove drove the tracks onwards suppoerting the rapping without cheesy synth lines added on top, unlike most hip hop and rap today which make me want to shoot myself in the ears at times because they're so uninteresting.
- Bob Marley's Could You Be Loved and a bunch of other old tunes sampling Keepin' The Faith is a perfect example of the kind of hip hop I've always enjoyed listening along with some Wu-Tang, Beasties, Tupac, Public Enemy, Sugarhill Gang, EPMD,.. most of the hip hop and rap I like is oooold, long before bling bling and stupid diva attitudes came around and the recent releases are more or less just from artists whom I've been following a long time.
4. Pet Shop Boys : King's Cross [Parlophone, 1987]
- Always liked PSB's lighter approach to synthpop, pop and dance and how smoothly they've collaborated and co-produced music with countless high profile producers and remixers over their long career. Neil Tennant's voice has also always sounded very pleasant to my ears. As a whole their albums Actually (1987) and Behaviour (1990) are still probably my favs while some of their other albums feature a bunch of great tunes each but as a whole they're not equally well thought of. The closing track of Actually, King's Cross always stood out for me with it's sweet 'n' mellow atmosphere. Most played out track off the album for me.
5. Ray Charles : Ain't That Fine [Swing Time, 1950/Atlantic, 1991]
- Got the original 12" single (featuring Ray's autograph) with this tune from my grandpa a long time ago as a present and strangely have liked Ray Charles on and off for over 20 years now. Lots of his music does sound a bit samey tho; a simple little groove at the bottom, vocals and piano on top. Hard to think of a favorite but a lot of his works are still groovy and entertaining nevertheless. Ain't That Fine is one of his early days works from a few years before he got signed on Atlantic and made most of his bigger and better known hits. Such a shame he never got to "see" the finished version of the movie Ray which I liked alot.
6. RinneRadio : Osaka (Album Edit) [Rockadillo, 2002]
- What you get when you combine one of the country's leading jazz saxophonists and a bunch of talented music producers? You get RinneRadio - an eclectic Finnish project lead by a multitalented jazz musician Tapani Rinne accompanied by a bunch of guest artists, producers and engineers, sometimes with amazing results, sometimes not so much. Some of these guest producers have also included Veikka "Ercola" Erkola and my great fav Jori Hulkkonen who both have produced a few tracks and remixes for RinneRadio over the years. The prior some of you probably remember best from a tune called Ercola vs. Heikki L - Deep At Night from a few years ago.
- Osaka isn't even nearly as much praised as the other similar track, Nao from a previous album by the same title but I like Osaka much more. This laid back, breaksy style isn't all RR is known for.. they've done lots of jazz, nu-jazz, techno, house, deep house, ambient, electro and whatever else. The main thing in common with them all is Rinne's bass clarinet and/or tenor saxophone which are around in most of their discography since the late 80s.
7. Electric Light Orchestra : One Summer Dream [Jet, 1975/Jet, 1987]
- It was either Evil Woman or One Summer Dream off ELO's 1975 album Face The Music and in the end I went with the latter for its slow and calm beauty.
- The main man behind ELO, Jeff Lynne surely has listened his share of Beatles or how else would lots of ELO's music sound so much like some of Beatles' songs? Anyways, ELO was one of the bands I got to hear on a daily basis while growing up. Easily accessible gentle and lighter side of rock. Not too many sharp edges and heavy guitar riffs can be found anywhere.. just smooth vocals and well thought out chord progressions.
8. Jean Michel Jarre : Rendez Vous II (Part 3 - Live In Lyon '87) [Disques Dreyfus, 1987]
- Couldn't miss out on one of the analog synth pioneers but wanted to use something else than the overhyped Oxygene. I prefer the whole Rendez-Vous suite over the much more hyped Oxygene or Equinoxe anyway. Have seen Jarre live a few times and once managed to hear also this piece performed live. It's short but I love it oh so much.
- The Houston/Lyon concert album was my 2nd Jarre vinyl purchase after Oxygene, I think I was 10 when I bought it. I'm pretty sure at the time I didn't even quite understand half the music I was listening.. just that it sounded cool and only in later years I've really understood all about the music I like and liked.
9. Zyon : No Fate (Struggle Continues Mix) [Eye Q, 1992]
- This is THE trance track that 99.47% sure got me into trance in the early 90s along with Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace and Jam & Spoon - Stella. Still works like a charm today, nearly 20 years on from when I first heard it. I'm wondering how many tunes by today's producers can say the same 20 years from now?
- Zyon is actually a German rapper, only produced by the "Eye Q posse" (Matthias Hoffmann aka A.C.Boutsen aka Brainchild, Steffen Britzke aka Stevie B-Zet and Ralf Hildenbeutel) and this isn't the original version which features much more of Zyon's rapping but a remix by B-Zet and Hildenbeutel with some minor additional tweaking by Sven Väth - NOT a Sven Väth remix as often mislabeled on the net and youtube. Sven Väth had a much bigger remixer role on Back From Goa Mix which is another remix, by Väth and Hoffmann. The "Eye Q posse" have done so many fantastic tracks and remixes in the 90s I can hardly remember them all.
10. The Shamen : Possible Worlds (Stick Mix) [One Little Indian, 1991]
- This time around we don't move any mountains, our destination isn't Eschaton and Ebeneezer ain't so Goode either.. Possible Worlds is my fav piece from the old UK project Shamen and especially their own sweet'n'sour Stick Mix is brilliant, ahh the ever so lovely squeeking 303s.. One of the first Shamen singles I got during the early years of my journey into EDM and one I won't be departing with anytime soon.
11. Orbital : Open Mind (Orbital's Funky Alternatives Remix) [Concrete, 1991]
- The Hartnoll brothers' slightly less talked about track from their early days yet one of my favs from them. The original Open Mind was a b-side track on their 2nd single Omen in 1990. They made the remix version exclusively for the 6th volume of the Funky Alternatives compilation series in 1991 but since then it has found its way onto a bunch of other compilations and as a bonus track on the '92 remix rerelease of Chime. The remix is also circulating around by a few alternative titles; Orbital Remix, Funky Alternatives Mix and F.A. Mix. Individual will!!!!
12. Pluto : Sueño Plutino [i.t.p., 1995]
- There are a million and one remakes, remixes and covers of Sueño Latino's Sueño Latino or Manuel Göttsching's original E2-E4 suite but around the latter half of the 90s I found Rich McGinty's (Pluto) version on his album and it has remained as my most beloved one of all the re-versions I've heard. Funnily enough I lost the album at some point and managed to forget all about it for some years until in around 2001-02 I rediscovered it again and was sooo happy to find this version once more. The hypnotic groove is so addictive.
13. Erykah Badu : On & On (Blu Mar Ten Remix) [Universal, 1996]
- Always loved Erykah's soulful voice and Baduizm which features the original version is a fantastic album. After I got the On & On single I was quite surprised she had lended her voice for jungle and d'n'b producers like BMT. Even if only a short snippet of her vocals are being used in the remix, the result is 100% perfected smoothness.
- The remix itself features all the trademark sounds, drums, chirps and other key elements of the early -mid 90s more laid back, atmospheric style of jungle that was prominently released by such names as LTJ Bukem, Goldie and the labels they were on at the time. Bukem's Good Looking Records was also the home of BMT until in the early 2000s a bunch of label staff there managed to get a compilation of BMT's material out without telling to Bukem that they hadn't actually asked any kind of permission from them for the release, not even telling them about a release of such compilation.
14. Dire Straits : Brothers In Arms [Vertigo, 1985)
- Dire Straits and its head vocalist and guitarist, Mark Knopfler is another artist (of so so many) I've got to listen for countless of hours while growing up. Usually such long lasting exposures lead to people liking the listened artists and albums or passionately hate them. "Luckily" for me I don't think I hate much of any artists my dad was playing back then.. not many anyway. Quite funny really.
- Brothers In Arms is one of my top 5 rock albums and its title track remains my fav song from Dire Straits.
15. Tangerine Dream : Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) (MCA, 1977/MCA, 1993)
- William Friedkin's 1977 movie Sorcerer had a huge effect on me as a kid, for my liking of certain type of music and movies. Tangerine Dream's strangely haunting, relentless score was perfect for the dark and intensive movie, especially in the 2nd half when the exhausting journey through the jungle and mountain roads begins. Betrayal is the end titles piece and it gave the movie a nice closure.
- Lots of music from this prehistoric German act is too weird and just too "kraut rock" for me, especially their more recent material which I'm not really a fan of but the older stuff just like this one, is much easier to get into.
16. Cold : Strobe Light Network (Blue Glass Remix) [Electrolux, 1997]
- The 15-minute original version was one of my most memorable encounters with a proper minimal techno track back in around '96-97 but it was this, even more hypnotic percussive dubby breaks remix by a duo again from the Eye Q label headquarters, Ralf Hildenbeutel and Sven Väth whose work has always managed to maintain my interest in this track. Just like a lot of proper deep techno and ambient, it doesn't really go in any specific direction but slowly builds up and adds more elements into the hypnotic rhythm driving you slowly and surely towards the end.
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Enjoy or don't, what do I care. I had lots of fun doing something slightly different with some very different equipment. :p
- Jyri |
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| Sushipunk |
| Nice. Checking it out. |
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