Another tired old topic... Best Fabric CDs?

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.

Not every mix has to ‘build to a climax’ chaps.

Listening to a mix isn’t an alternative to wanking

bosstrabs
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against hand-based relief at all.

But there’s other ways to get your kicks from a DJ mix.

Mad_Cyril Not every mix has to ‘build to a climax’ chaps.

While this is true, Hong Kong Disc 2 builds but doesn’t really have a climax, while fabric doesn’t build, yet attempts a climax anyway with ‘Vertigo’ at the end.

hugopal
This is known as the ‘prostate massage’ approach to compiling a mix

Mad_Cyril which?

You formulate your 300 word posts with a build and climax in mind, Hugo, but ultimately all you do is clear the dancefloor, the bar and the cloakroom plus various streets around the venue with your catastrophic shite.

hugopal
Have a play around and find out?

LT42 I’m sure that post sounded better in your head than it turned out written down.

Mad_Cyril I’d rather not do something which might feel like how Diggers’ fabric sounds.

If you know then you know. As expected, it goes right over your quiff.