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absolutemoron
01-06-2005, 03:15 PM
Leo Belchetz (Chibuku Shake Shake)
Chart: June 2005

1. Harri & The Revenge – Freex Squeex/See Saw [Bosh]
Two years old before it was picked up for release, this sounds fresher than most.
2. Roland Clark pres. Urban Soul – Where Were You [King Street]
I was still in short trousers, Roland, but you’ll see my face in the club tonight!
3. Roísín Murphy – Sequins EP 2 [Echo]
‘Sow Into You’ still kicking it on the floor – this deserves chart success.
4. Rabbit In The Moon – Floori.D.A. (Q-BAM/Grumptronix Mix) [Hallucination Ltd]
How trance should sound: hypnotic, delicate & driving; not a cheesy riff in sight!
5. Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Cold Blooded (Big Hair Remix) [CDR]
Low-slung, high-bleeped & a bit odd – Big Hair and ODB make a fine threesome.
6. Wighnomy Bros. – Gottogoaway/Nativetonguetwisterhood [WB]
Superb remixes of Marvin Gaye and the Jungle Brothers on this anonymous 12”.
7. Phil Weeks – 4 Ways Of Tweaking The 909 Kick EP [Robsoul Ltd]
Ranging from the annoyingly bleepy (‘Okay’) to the infectiously acidic (‘Cruising’).
8. Brett Johnson – Un-Quantize Mindz EP [Magnetic]
Only Brett can bring ideas this odd from his head onto vinyl with such success.
9. Samim & Michal ft. Lil’ Dirrty Ghetto Bastard – Angel [Tuning Spork]
I’ve seen this reviewed as electro, but this is pure quirk-house à la Freaks.
10. Mister J. – Ride Equis [Missive]
The proggy bassline is offputting until the beautiful keys and muted horn kick in.
11. Robbie Hardkiss – Get Up Part One [Hallucination Ltd]
Doesn’t do much, but what it does it does very well: great deep, uplifting groove.
12. Tominaga – It’s Your Time (Alex Attias Freedom Soundz Remix) [Diaspora]
I’d written Attias off as a generic broken beat producer – how wrong I was!
13. John Dahlbäck – On The Stove EP [Brique Rouge]
Four cuts of powerful, and sometimes emotive, tech-house.
14. Trina Tru-Luv & Vicki B – True Love [Body Music]
This big vocal manages to combine funky and trippy sounds to great effect.
15. Hawkeye & Bal Cath – El Disco Acido 02 [Heading Home]
If you like your house music a bit left of centre, this label is well worth checking.
16. Kenny Dope – Frenzy [Dopewax]
I’m two years late on this, well, frenzied mish-mash of familiar & classic samples.
17. Various Artists – Guns & Butter EP [D’lectable]
A diverse quartet of Chi-town flavours; Stacy Kidd and Deep Code my picks.
18. Kerri Chandler – A Demo By 6:23 [UK Promotions]
For the purest of mesmerizing deep house, look no further than Kerri C.
19. Barfly – This Ain’t The Place [Coco Machete]
Disco & dub united & brought to the 21st Century with devastating results.
20. Park Street Productions – Sunday Joint [Striking Hand]
Lovely deep house, Alex Attias on hand again with a quirky analogue re-rub.


This month I have rediscovered:

Beltram – Energy Flash [R&S 1990]
Those filthy stabs, whispered vocals and dark bassline sending a shiver down my dancefloor’s spine once again.

jam the box
01-06-2005, 03:56 PM
8. Brett Johnson – Un-Quantize Mindz EP
I like stroking kittens. This sounds mental on a loud soundsystem. Very twisted indeedy. Spoilt only by that unnecessarily cheesey speech sample about people taking LSD.

18. Kerri Chandler – A Demo By 6:23
Haven't heard this one yet - but I'm loving his "Bar A Thym." Proper raw house music.

generaljimmy
03-06-2005, 03:15 PM
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4. Rabbit In The Moon – Floori.D.A. (Q-BAM/Grumptronix Mix) [Hallucination Ltd]
How trance should sound: hypnotic, delicate & driving; not a cheesy riff in sight!
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back to ur routes then, :lol:

absolutemoron
03-06-2005, 04:52 PM
4. Rabbit In The Moon – Floori.D.A. (Q-BAM/Grumptronix Mix) [Hallucination Ltd]
How trance should sound: hypnotic, delicate & driving; not a cheesy riff in sight!

back to ur routes then, :lol:

Yeah, make no bones about it, at certain times there's nothing better than stripped down, melodic, trippy trancey tunes - you only have to have seen Derrick May at the birthday to know that. I still listen to some of my old trance tapes in the car, a lot of the tracks stand up as great music (usually the 'warm up' section!). I do hang my head in shame at some of the cheesy stuff I listened to but there were an awful lot of really good trance records that I listened to as well, so I make no apologies for my roots. Don't forget that trance originated as a sub-genre of techno!

To be honest I can see some stuff like this becoming popular in the next couple of years, so be careful what you diss - nobody likes a bandwagon jumper! Well, that's not strictly true, I know of plenty of popular acts who have jumped on bandwagons, so let me rephrase that: I don't like bandwagon jumpers (the majority of people into "electro" or "electro-house" take note)!

absolutemoron
03-06-2005, 04:57 PM
8. Brett Johnson – Un-Quantize Mindz EP
I like stroking kittens. This sounds mental on a loud soundsystem. Very twisted indeedy. Spoilt only by that unnecessarily cheesey speech sample about people taking LSD.

18. Kerri Chandler – A Demo By 6:23
Haven't heard this one yet - but I'm loving his "Bar A Thym." Proper raw house music.

For me Brett is second to none as a producer of that kind of slightly twisted jacking sound.

The 'Demo' track is in that deep, hypnotic, trippy vein that I'm talking about - it ain't "trance" as it is now known, but it certainly acts to put the dancefloor in a trance. Gonna have to look out for that 'Bar A Thym' - I picked up The System - 'You're In My System' on Ibadan and that is some lovely deep shit too (although I believe I am thoroughly late on that too).

Cheeky lad
04-06-2005, 06:28 PM
Beltram – Energy Flash [R&S 1990]
Those filthy stabs, whispered vocals and dark bassline sending a shiver down my dancefloor’s spine once again.
Ooooooooooooooh Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Bassline heaven!

fogues
07-06-2005, 12:40 PM
sasha used ot play alot of stuff by rabbit in the moon back in the day.
quality producer/s (?)

generaljimmy
08-06-2005, 11:25 AM
ur right theres nothin worng with certain aspects of trance, jeff mills has been known to drop the old dragonfly or transient record and some of the earlier, shimmering stuff was the bomb. and some of the the eraly oakey cream era stuff is still proper good, like groovezone eisbaer and some of the solar stone tunes. get on some more glowtsick madness at chibuku even if its on the sly!

absolutemoron
09-06-2005, 08:56 AM
groovezone eisbaer and some of the solar stone tunes!

TBH they're some of the records I'm ashamed to own! :lol: A lot of Superstition and Hardfloor stuff was awesome though. Rabbit In The Moon have done some class tunes - their remix of Goldie - 'Inner City Life' is pure class, I have a decent mix of 'Fools' Gold' by them too.

philcharnock
09-06-2005, 04:50 PM
I still listen to some of my old trance tapes in the car, a lot of the tracks stand up as great music (usually the 'warm up' section!). I do hang my head in shame at some of the cheesy stuff I listened to but there were an awful lot of really good trance records that I listened to as well, so I make no apologies for my roots.

Sounds like me and hardcore. Hardcore will never die!

phattannedphil
09-06-2005, 05:10 PM
Phil what about that special tape you have that you played to me and Ste Hodge on the way to Scotland... the one with your early tracks and MCing on... its dope!!!

The Downtown Hustler
09-06-2005, 08:55 PM
The tape! i forgot about that, Phil - That was some bad ass shit from the young dance pioneer Charnock - and the mc-ing over the top.... choice!!!! :D

garyfontaine
09-06-2005, 09:51 PM
some of the the eraly oakey cream era stuff is still proper good, like groovezone eisbaer and some of the solar stone tunes!

Yeah Eisbaer is quality, still makes have shivers down my spine.
Although it might have a lot to do with a fair few chemicals and reminiscing the old days.

CJ Bolland - The Prophet also falls into that category for me.
Saccoman - Metamoroph :oops:

Ben.Morgan
10-06-2005, 11:27 AM
4. Rabbit In The Moon – Floori.D.A. (Q-BAM/Grumptronix Mix) [Hallucination Ltd]
How trance should sound: hypnotic, delicate & driving; not a cheesy riff in sight!

back to ur routes then, :lol:

Yeah, make no bones about it, at certain times there's nothing better than stripped down, melodic, trippy trancey tunes - you only have to have seen Derrick May at the birthday to know that. I still listen to some of my old trance tapes in the car, a lot of the tracks stand up as great music (usually the 'warm up' section!). I do hang my head in shame at some of the cheesy stuff I listened to but there were an awful lot of really good trance records that I listened to as well, so I make no apologies for my roots. Don't forget that trance originated as a sub-genre of techno!

To be honest I can see some stuff like this becoming popular in the next couple of years, so be careful what you diss - nobody likes a bandwagon jumper! Well, that's not strictly true, I know of plenty of popular acts who have jumped on bandwagons, so let me rephrase that: I don't like bandwagon jumpers (the majority of people into "electro" or "electro-house" take note)!

I'm sure there's good "trance" out there that crosses over well with more melodic bits of tech house or the hypnotic end of west coast house. I could see a lot of dancefloors playing more stuff that could be classed like this as a move from the European electrohouse sound. It's just taking it a bit deeper.

generaljimmy
10-06-2005, 11:49 AM
eisbaer is a fuckin tune, end of story, i dont mind getting fuckin held up against that!
:lol:

its quite wierd anyway because trance has made a bit of a comeback in underground circles, although in one fucked up manner with james holdens border community label. petter stuff was absolutely awesome and holdens remix of the sky is pink was the toast of berlin, and not the vandit lovers! not essentially tarnce and prpob more progressive, but wickjed to see that the bloke behind horizons is now bheing bummed by the underground of the most exciting city in dance music. however tiesto, armin et al are still fookin flogging last decades dead horse (just browsed on htfr and theres a new remix of rank 1 airwave, ha ha) so its so deeply hgidden it'll be slept on by most of us

absolutemoron
13-06-2005, 09:24 AM
OK, enough talk of trance - although some of the stuff I play has trance-inducing qualities, I am ALL about house music! :lol:

philcharnock
13-06-2005, 02:53 PM
Oh yes, the tape...

The Downtown Hustler
13-06-2005, 08:26 PM
"oh yes, the tape", he says....... ! that shit is so old skool, it's practically ripe for slaying the '05. Go on phil, get it posted up on here and let the people get blessed with the sounds of a teenage Charnock cranking it up 8)

absolutemoron
13-06-2005, 08:34 PM
Yes let's get it heard Phil!

bifti
13-06-2005, 10:38 PM
that john dahlback number is a peach. has been said elsewhere but his brother would be a choice dj selection for chibuku. ikea house is the future.

mr wafer
15-06-2005, 02:58 AM
hey leo hope all is good, like your latest chart :wink:
saw you played with q burns last weekend, thats quality mate!! :D
some new mixes up on our site aswell

dave
www.downinthebasement.co.uk

absolutemoron
04-07-2005, 02:01 PM
Cheers Dave la - will hopefully be seeing you soon!