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Dave King - A Big Night Out [2 Mixes.. Techno/Trance/Psy & Breaks/Electro/TechFunk]
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| djdk |
 
Nearly all of my favourite big clubs had a common theme when it comes to the layout. One cavernous main room and a smaller, more intimate second room, often hidden away up some narrow set of stairs. Places like the Opera House in Bournemouth, the Camden Palace, Q Club in Birmingham and the Republic in Sheffield. Inspired by this, old double CD mix compilations, and the fact that I tend to categorise the music I play into either main room or back room, I wanted to do something that captured the essence of these spaces.
The first mix is named for those huge main rooms, with their high ceilings and balconies. It's a mixture of techno and trance, moving on into some psychedelic. I've tried to pick tracks that are constructed such that you can imagine the sounds bouncing around and reverberating around in a big cathedral of entertainment. I've also attempted to keep the transitions long and smooth to try and introduce some drama.
1. Oxia - Harmonie (Healium Remix) [SoundCloud]
2. Dave Seaman & Andy Chatterley - Battery Powered (Monaque Remix) [Silence Through Music]
3. Tom Middleton - Jungle Drums (Robert Babicz Remix) [Yooshi Recordings]
4. Phase Difference - Utopia (Relaunch Remix) [Saturate Audio]
5. Dax J - Valve Systems [Parallel 125]
6. Ralph Mirto - Caustic [Nachtstrom Schallplatten]
7. Lucid - Crazy (Nalin + Kane Down On A Sit Mix Edit) [FFRR]
8. Jeff Mills - Cubango [Purpose Maker]
9. Anton Chernikov - 10 Miles To Mars [JOOF Recordings]
10. E-Clip - Equilibrium [Iono Music]
11. Zentura - Light Mutations [Iboga Trance]
12. Timewave - Do Not Stop [JOOF Recordings]
13. Hedflux - White Nights [Broken Robot]
14. Man With No Name - Teleport (Nick Sentience Remix) [Perfecto Records]
15. Wizzy Noise - Abyss [Harmonia]
16. Salt Tank - Dimension [Hooj Choons]
A Big Night Out Disc 1 - Echo Chamber by David King on Mixcloud
ECHO CHAMBER - PROPER DOWNLOAD LINK
The second mix is a bit less serious, and as the name suggests, a fairly relentless mix of breaks and electro. The mixing is much more in your face, intended to keep the energy levels high. The kind of back room sound where you pop your head in to see whats going on and emerge 3 hours later having lost all of your friends and your shirt.
1. The Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank [Virgin UK]
2. Colombo - Funk Me [iBreaks]
3. Freak Da Bass, Tom Clyde - The Game [VIM Records]
4. Soul Of Man - The Drum (Groove Diggerz Remix) [Finger Lickin Records]
5. Bsides - Mind The Break [LOT49]
6. Plump DJs - A Hip House Experiment [Grand Hotel]
7. Dynamix II & Q-Bert - Whatcha Need [Dynamix II Records]
8. UFO Project - Take Me To The Top (Beta Remix) [Elektroshok Records]
9. Orbital feat Lady Leshurr - Wonky (Plump DJs Remix) [Grand Hotel]
10. The Rogue Element - Flashback [LOT49]
11. Dylan Rhymes - Near Madness [LOT49]
12. Audio Dropout - Dont Move [VIM Records]
13. Kiro vs. Undecided feat Six Kitten B - Obsessive Nature (The Rogue Element Remix) [Mob]
14. Perpetual Present - Ship-Wrecked [Broken Records]
15. General MIDI - Audio Assault [Distinctive Records]
16. Meat Katie, Dylan Rhymes - Only You (Access Denied Remix) [LOT49]
17. Vital Substance - Getting It On [Dead Famous Records]
18. Alex Dolby - Hazy Way (Evil Nine Remix) [Mantra Vibes]
A Big Night Out Disc 2 - Sweatbox by David King on Mixcloud
SWEATBOX - PROPER DOWNLOAD LINK
Comments/criticisms/abuse welcom as always. Apologies for the lack of soundcloud but it doesn't like the fact that I used a Chemical Bros track. |
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| ziptnf |
These look terrible. Absolutely horrendous. No way would I subject my ears to this noise :p
Seriously though I'll get on these ASAP but only after you listen to mine! Absolutely nobody has reviewed it :( |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Ah, I’ve heard tales of this mix. Any chance of a tracklist that doesn’t require a jeweller’s eyeglass? |
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| djdk |
Jack - Happy now?
Nick - Now I have this out the door I have some time to listen to new stuff :) yours is actually first on my list |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Verily.
By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask... Next to your name on the Illuminaughty line-up it says “Killatunes”. What’s the story? |
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| djdk |
| I have no idea, Ive been meaning to ask them lol. |
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| Yohan |
| You're still my go to guy for breaks |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I listened to both parts of this yesterday. Being a second room citizen I naturally gravitated towards the back room first. What I found was a typically entertaining Dave King breaks mix – energetic, exciting and eminently danceable. At one point you had me dancing around the bread aisle in Sainsbury’s before I knew what was happening. The mid-set plunge into daft electro edged a little too close to the cheesy side of “fun” for me, but it was an acceptably brief deviation. Welcome shades of your last Illuminaughty set with the opening, too.
Onto the main room. I’ve never been a huge fan of the “big room” clubbing experience. I like the big room sound, and the concept of enormous booming music in a huge space filled with thousands of hedonists is irresistible, but the reality is generally more banal – sardine-tinned dancefloors with endless hordes of people shoving past and stepping on your toes while DJs play it safe with a string of big stompy tracks in front of a crowd too large to read or really interact with, all combining to create a feeling of musical, personal and spiritual disconnection and a profound sense of existential despair... anyway, what was I saying? Ah yes, the mix.
For the most part you succeeded in evoking the mythical big room experience of my imagination – a kind of clubbing version of the ending to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, but with the aliens replaced with Carl Cox. Or, in this, instance, with J00F. Musically it reached a peak with the absolutely sublime transition into Timewave, which shat all over my much-vaunted mix into Relentless from a couple of years back, although the mixing in general was pretty spectacular. However, I kinda felt it got a bit overcooked near the end. I’m ambivalent about that Nick Sentience remix of Teleport, which starts to push the malevolent darkness of the original into trance-trousers territory, and for me that Wizzy Noise track is just silly. I think part of it is because this set is quite stripped-down and slow-burning for the first half, so the massive tracks at the end sound really, really massive to the point of absurdity. I’m sure you played equally big tracks in your December “I Like This” or Tales Of The Future, but because those sets were explosive from the word go the contrast wasn’t so marked. |
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