Firstly big up to Fuck The Whiteboard for Friday night. My DJ debut as Mickey Rawkus (geddit) playing back to back with Pariah, who, if i'm honest, completely blew me out of the water. Had a great time, really want to play out as much as possible so if you're reading this and you put on a night get in touch and book me. I will play (almost) anything. But I won't play almost anything (yeah, that is a diss to that bitch who kept shouting PLAY RUSKO at us. No, i'm not playing Rusko. Nothing against the fella but REALLY?). Kept it rollin' with some garage classics and uk funky mainly, with some wonky and house thrown in for good measure. I dropped Anaconda by Untold and it went off. Got a rewind. I am very happy about this. Highlight was Pariah dropping Shystie. Or maybe when he dropped 'Detroit Falls' at the end. Anyway, enough wankery for now but please do get in touch. I want to get this dj ting well and truly up and running.
In other news I've really got into this kinda house stuff. Not really proper deep house, and I've been on UK funky for a while, but the stuff by a few guys related to the Dubstep thing, though Dubstep now seems to work as a term for good bass music, as well as loads of midrange wobble wank flannel music.
First up FaltyDL. I've ignored this dude for far too long, just heard a few tracks and neglected to actually good deep into it. It's a fusion of Garage and House with a transatlantic feel and a really strong sense of melody, but with the standard chest-breaking Bass synonymous with nearly everything I love right now. Track 'To London' is my personal favourite, though more can be found on full lengths for Planet Mu and his mix for the intimidatingly brilliant FACT Magazine.
FaltyDL has more of a garage slant than the next guy, who I've been into ever since I was turned onto him by a track on Alexander Nut's FACT mix (there they go again...). I was gutted to miss Floating Points at FWD>> yesterday. I don't know how I find it so hard to get to Plastic People on a Sunday for some reason. This is my favourite by him. The track starts well enough, establishing a luscious groove, but it's all about the bass drop later on in the track, which really does take my breath away.
Lastly, I really am not pretending to know the slightest about House (but believe me, I am doing my best to educate myself) and I am aware that the tracks I've posted so far on here are far from what many might perceive to contain the traditional notions of house, so here's a tune that is undeniably Housey. What I'm beginning to recognise in house is the ripples of energy and melody that build like a tide over the music, and this is what I look for a lot of the time in House tracks. This is a perfect demonstration of this effect by on of the masters, Omar S, who I was lucky enough to catch at Fabric months and months back.
I'll be doing my best to post on here as much as I can from this point on, I really have no excuse. Also working on my production and saving up for as many records as I can possibly grab. PLEASE SOMEONE BOOK ME :)
Peace out x
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