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Direct Download - 47 MB The Playlist
- Lawnchair Generals - Play
- Jamiroquai - Little L
- Raw Shape - My Heart
- Roger Sanchez feat. Gio - Turn on the Music (Axwell remix)
- Layo and Bushwacka! vs. Kings of Tomorrow - Finally Love Story
- DJ Zebra - Come Closer
- Deijan presents Svetla - Tazi Vecer
- Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Alan Braxe mix)
- Boomtang - Habibi
- Duoteque - Drug Queen
- Jamiroquai - Main Vein (KneeDeep Mix)
This one is totally the glitter bandit. Four to the Floor, two amazing mashups IN A ROW. And a VERY VERY Bass-heavy penultimate track.
The Lawnchair Generals, aside from their great name, contributed a few neat but brief remixes to Kaskade's House of OM and so I checked them out and found Play to be the one worth keeping. Great bass that is so fat that it just rides around in a scooter eating butter when it's not busy laying down a rhythm. I seriously have been going around repeating the lines “And remember/ Just because you got wings/ Don't mean you can fly, baby...” Which has resulted in being slapped only once.
I believe it's actually an act of UK parliament to require Jamiroquai's inclusion on any disco-house-influenced compilation. Therefore I'm avoiding my minimum fine and/or jail time by hitting up A Funk Odyssey for Little L. A casual love theme? In a house track? Why I never!
We stray into electro-house territory for My Heart as well as Turn on the Music whose singer has the heaviest lisp I've ever heard, it distracts me and I'm spoiling it for you right now. Ha HA!
Finally Love Story is one of those genius mashups that sounded like that was the way the song really should have been. It takes Layo and Bushwacka!'s track, processes it through a remix by Tim Deluxe. And then overlays the vocal track from a chillout song that couldn't have had a more contrasting sound. Afterwards, you'll be treated by a mashup called Come Closer so outrageous, yet so smoothly done, that you're gonna freak at least a little. I'm not going to spoil the source music surprises.
Maybe because I'm taking a Bollywood film course this term, or maybe it's just because Indian music has become the third strut of the Holy Trinity of House music musical influences (Next to Jazz/Funk/Blues and Latin) but it doesn't get more cardamon-soaked than Tazi Vecer.
All I have to say about Black History Month is that Alan Braxe remains my hero.
After briefly revisiting the Indian themes in Habibi we go to Duoteque's Drug Queen. I will tell you now: This needs to be listened to on a good set of speakers or headphones with a good low-end. If all you have are tinny laptop speakers than you might as well skip ahead because half the song will be missing for you.
Finally (Love Story), we close out with another Jamiroquai. I've been trying to promote remixes that essentially 'rescue' the best parts from the original production. Bless you, KneeDeep, bless you Sir.