IndustryStandard Ive had the CD for a week now and not bothered listening to it yet, based on all these reviews. lol
One observation. The packaging has been downgraded from the Quattro releases. Feels like it’s been put together by the work experience kid.
Listen to disc 3 once and then bin the lot.
His latest apple mix is 
Really not sure what to make of that mix. Plus a lot of his post lockdown mixes TBH. Seems like he has this hard techno “wonky” sound that comes across in a lot of his mixes. Maybe thats what pull in the crowds, but to me its soulless, lacking melody, lacking any edge, lacking a heads down groove and lacking any ethereal break from the madness.
Even scroll back to Quattro, tracks like DJ Sadie “Hypnoticka” . Driving, relentless , tops off coalface house (Qtd. E.Smallman Esq.) . Manis. Beatless versions of tracks thrown into the mix to add diversity. I don’t hear this coming through in the Apple mixes which is sad as he’s obvs got in in his locker. I also thought he’d change type to a degree post the Bunkers and try a few other things. A new “Choice” type CD maybe. Maybe Bunkers “Live” at smaller venues. I bought tickets for the Bedrock event in April so hope to god it ain’t this garbage.
What do I know. He’s obviously a very shrewd business man and knows what crowd he has to appeal to nowadays with his “sound” to keep the coin coming in, but would be nice if he spiced things up a bit going forward.
IndustryStandard its soulless, lacking melody, lacking any edge, lacking a heads down groove and lacking any ethereal break from the madness.
this sums up my thoughts. it’s like he’s trying to play odd records for the sake of it and maybe that works live, but it makes for an awful home listening experience. which would be the entire point of mix cds.
Totally agree. Interested to hear if this “sound” works on the floor. Its like a harder Dixon/Ame “wonky” sound….not in a good way.
Let’s be honest. His core market now is South America. Thought they were more into driving, proggier stuff.
IndustryStandard His core market now is South America. Thought they were more into driving, proggier stuff.
Not before the 6 hour mark
The package arrived in Germany on the 5th and has not moved since. Can’t blame the German DHL on Brexit lol.
Feel like a pariah for this but I rather enjoyed this one. <shrug>
Yeah, me!
I quit Apple music.
Paying ₹200 for the extended mix mixed version on iTunes, and then listening to the first three tracks unmixed thinking it was mixed, has put me off completely for this live in. Pity because I have a ton of videos on WhatsApp from my friend who was there that night, and it sounded and looked properly banging.
IndustryStandard Seems like he has this hard techno “wonky” sound
LOL at describing Diggers’ current music as “hard techno”.
I actually checked this out from Disc 3 onwards.
The only other one of Diggers’ live CDs I’d listened to prior to this was Tokyo and that was a complete slog and a chore to get through. Absolutely wretched.
This was at least vaguely listenable background wallpaper, which on Diggers’ recent output seems about as good as it gets.
There is also a track in there, Hyena ‘The Greed’, which is beyond hideous - it literally sounds like someone who’s got the squits.
