Swayzak is of course the correct answer. A phenomenal CD and the soundtrack to me bimbling around Cape town for 2 months in 2003.

    MMII is an underrated Digweed CD, Fabric is an overrated one IMO. I’m with Hugo on that (though not to the extreme he is).

      Mad_Cyril Hugo is preparing a 27-page dossier with input from renowned musicologists and cultural commentators to prove our point.

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          I never rated myself when it first come out. But I’ve just put in the cd player. To see if my taste has changed.

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              The graphic is dancing but I’m not.. not looking good mate.

                bosstrabs MMII is an underrated Digweed CD

                Don’t thinks it’s underrated at all, it’s a masterpiece. He could do with some mixes like that over his Bedrock-based noise

                    MMII started off well but faded for me, so I wouldn’t have it up there as a Digweed masterpiece. Agree he should do more like this mind.

                    Along_the_Wire Is this your tedious opinion, or actual FACTS, Hugo? If it’s the former, we can all move on immediately, nothing to see here etc

                    It’s obviously not gospel, but to corroborate my view it does have the lowest rating on discogs of any mix CD he’d released up until that point (and those are averaged out from around 200-300 scores per CD).

                    I think the vast majority of people got in to Digweed because of his prog sound, not what he plays on this CD. The mid-late 00s was generally a crap time for music with prog dying and the electro/minimal sound not being up to replacing it (similar to maxiqum’s commnt in the other fabric CD thread). It unsurprisingly sounds pretty dated now and a clear departure from what Diggers played before (and to an extent after).

                    That’s even before you get in to the disc having no flow and jumping about all over the place. There are some tracks like ‘Venom’, ‘Knob Job’ and ‘Happiness’ that are tacky ear-rape - but if you like the sound of plodding beats, corny vocals and robots farting then go ahead. There’s also a general lack of ‘oomph’ across the disc, even by his current standards. The only decent bits were the three tracks at the start and the two at the finish.

                        Along_the_Wire 100% agree and after the bunker sets being so popular I was hoping he would do something like MMII again

                          hugopal agree it was awful, he should have given Fabric the swerve for a commercial release.

                              As has been tiresomely discussed over many years, none of the above come close to Sydney CD1. Thank you.

                              Also agree with Hugo it’s absolutely shite. It starts off with Tech house then into house then ends up with some awful electro type sounds. I can see why I disliked it when it first came out. MMll on the other hand starts brilliantly well but does fade towards the last third.

                              RichM agree it was awful, he should have given Fabric the swerve for a commercial release.

                              I dunno, I think it kind of makes sense for him to have done a fabric CD, but it was bad timing.

                              A couple of years earlier, or 7 years later, and he might have managed something vaguely listenable.

                                hugopal ‘Happiness’ tacky ear-rape

                                This is definitely a tune that is monstrous out of a big system. Wasn’t for me when I first heard it at home. Fucking ridiculously good in a club.

                                  Ideally the Fabric CDs should have been doubles to give you a real flavour of the DJs’ sets, not a highly compressed set or just an assortment of some tunes they were playing at the time, stitched together.

                                  I realise that this probably wasn’t practical due to licensing and the fact that they had committed themselves to rush one out per month.

                                  But you don’t really get the Diggers vortex from this single disc which to me also seemed like a ragtag assortment of minimal, house and electro.

                                    Tezza Francis’, on the other hand, builds beautifully, a well-crafted menacing snapshot of Room 2 (early doors) at the time, he is one of the few who pulls off what sounds like an actual set on a 70-minute single disc.

                                    bosstrabs I agree that it’s generally difficult for a DJ to show much in a single 74 minutes of music, but disc 2 of Hong Kong demonstrated Diggers is capable of creating his ‘vortex’ on a single disc.