Amps Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent

“More than decent”?! It’s near perfect!

    Amps Nothing wrong with 006 disk one, it’s more than decent, perfectly mixed flows well… but, with 006 disk two you’re hearing something genuinely unique… John at the height of his powers, playing his toughest as fuck stuff, not for the faint hearted, flowing like each track was written for the next, and in a vintage year before the internet ruined everything… the stuff on disk two is proto vortex, proto muscular, fluxing in some ethereal doorway between the panel beaters from Prague and the dayglow kids of Sheffield. It makes my balls tighten.

    Plus, it genuinely represents what the he sounded like at that time, I’m not sure all GU defo did that? Saw a lot of John around 98, and it was with the disk two stuff that he was fucking clobbering dancefloors. If you’d seen him play a set of that stuff, you’d still be cunting on about it now, as I am. Tops off? you’d fuckin skin yourself and swing from Ed’s neck.

    If you like the stuff from the late 90s, or if the Sasha set from The Bomb does anything for you, I’d urge you to give it more than a couple of listens, it’s fuckin sublime and on par with anything from those years. Hard, driving, epic, ethereal, boom boom woosh!

    Fucking hell Amps is relentless about GU006, it’s alright mate we get it.

    It was our warm-up CD for about six months before hitting GK around 1999*, it took an absolute battering. For that reason, it has absolute classic status for me.

    *Along with this collection of bangers
    https://www.discogs.com/release/261092-Carl-Cox-Non-Stop-2000

    Now, it’s so full on I can’t listen to it.

        bosstrabs *Along with this collection of bangers

        If memory serves me correctly, that’s the mix where he fucks up a couple of the mixes on one of the disks? Proper wellies in the washing machine? Clearly didn’t give enough of a fuck to have another go. Amazing in hindsight. Some bangers on there though.

            Amps It was fairly standard back then though wasn’t it?

            Some of the early GUs are proper car-crashes mixing wise. I remember some nasty transitions even on the Essential Selection CDs, which you would think would be tidied up given they were for more of a casual audience.

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                Warren’s Brazil and Budapest are insane in retrospect. You think Jeff Mills is cement mixer? Check those out and think again.

                zackster I always loved the rumor that he had a shower built off to the side of the dj booth in Arc, so that he could bathe during his 18 hour marathon sets.

                To be fair, this is the kind of shit I would do if I was a famous dj but on the wrong side of 35, as I am now.

                A decent shower twice a day is massively underappreciated. Especially by the French.

                  bosstrabs I don’t know, I just remember it being that bad I thought, ‘what the fuck’ and laughed my head off. Don’t think I have encountered anything that bad on a GU or any other commercial CD before. Might have to try and dig it out again next time i’m in the loft.

                    To sum up, GU13 CD1 is the daddy of all mixes.

                    Thank you and goodnight.

                    bosstrabs Fucking hell Amps is relentless about GU006, it’s alright mate we get it.

                    LOL, I love the passion. 48 hours of DT riffs by the entire board but Amps is still plugging along. I have this one lines up for tomorrow. Will be making the definitive statement. Hold tight!

                      Athens is the best GU by the way.

                      Amps and Hugo make a great tag team.

                      zackster Pff thats not even Tenaglia’s best GU.

                      “Sexy, deep, dark house packed full of tracks that carry their guns slung low. No flashy tricks just a boom and a flash and another bassline from disco hell.”

                      NOT MY WORDS, THE WORDS OF DOM PHILLIPS

                        A lol for Dave.

                        And Dom Phillips!

                        Amps I hear ya, buddy. It was always a bit too fast and driving for my bedroom though, in a low ceiling dark room, then yes, break out the Vicks.

                        Give me the filthy tribal vortex all day long though in the bedroom or dark room.

                          A mix for when you have access to Mitsi Turbos on a regular basis, that one.

                          Nowadays, I’m more into drinking the old Measles, Mumps and Rubella.

                            bosstrabs I’m more into drinking the old Measles, Mumps and Rubella.

                            Are you auditioning a new rhyming slang for Stella?

                                It’s decent here at the moment, no Miley whatsoever, I can go out and have a load of MMRs, then pour myself into a Kevin Sheedy/Cheryl Tweedy.

                                This switch into Breeder - The Chain. This is the way.