Tbf, The Glass - Won’t Bother Me is on it, and that was my anthem for the year.

But surely you just can’t forgive that mix with the Martin Solveig track on it. I know I couldn’t.

    Lol infusion better world on it as well. This is like some now thats what you call tech house 2005 mix. Shit show.

    rhouses The Glass - Won’t Bother Me

    Anthem of the year ?? 😂Fuck me id be embarrassed to admit that. Hate to know what your worst track was. Utter bilge pump electro clash tripe.

        Cankles-McJeggings hasn’t aged well, for sure. To put things into perspective, Sasha ended every single one of his sets with some cheesy remix of the killers that year. Thin white duke, Jacques lu cont, I think.

        20 years ago, I’d struggle to find anything that was timeless from that year.

          Wow didn’t know that rhouses. Where could I have been? Are you trying to justify it just because fatso finished his sets off with it?
          That electro clash era was the absolute death of the prog and of the bald one. I never forgave him for that bollox.

            Cankles-McJeggings It was a fun time which I hold on to dearly; loads of pills, clubbing every other weekend, a full-on immersion into dance music (with my nose up at dutch trance), spending all my money on vinyl and mixed CDs (70% of which are unlistenable in 2023)… but am I mostly embarrassed by the cheese, the 135 BPM, and generally being all too excitable about dudes playing other people’s music? Absolutely.

            Back on topic, I look at Digweed’s Live In London as the fabric mix we were hoping for. Quality tech house leading up to his vortex prog. Fabric 20, however, could easily be a Funkagenda Mark Knight mixed CD from 2007… but carry on LT, please keep listening to that garbage.

                rhouses It was a fun time which I hold on to dearly; loads of pills, clubbing every other weekend, a full-on immersion into dance music (with my nose up at dutch trance), spending all my money on vinyl and mixed CDs (70% of which are unlistenable in 2023

                Ah yes, the progressive lifestyle.

                    Cankles-McJeggings Yeh, I’d say shortly after that myself with all the mnml/dreadful tech house that was about. Remember convincing some of my mates that weren’t into Digweed to go to Bedrock after I’d been going on about it for years and he bored the fuck out of them with it - which was fair. It was like John Creamer again but for longer. Awful time for music and took way too long to recover.

                      BlainSA I’m not listening to Fabric 20 after decades so I can answer this, Blain.

                          rhouses Flow/track selection, I’ll give. Not sure about ropey mixing though.

                              Saw Infusion, Evil Nine and Mark Knight in Sydney in 2004.

                              Was a decent night tbf.

                                BlainSA top of my head, I remember thinking digweed struggled with mixing tech house, just didn’t have the oomph that say someone like Lee Burridge could do with the genre at the time. You’re right though, it’s probably the flow and selection which was the issue.

                                  Smallman1 Infusion, Evil Nine

                                  Fucking hell, I bet the Aussies were going chicken oriental.

                                  If there’s five things Aussies love, it’s dingoes, footy (meaning rugby), snags, Sheilas and bad breaks outfits.

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                                      If there is one electronic band I miss seeing live it’s Infusion. Fantastic stuff.

                                      rhouses

                                      rhouses “I’ve heard a lot worse than Fabric 20 that’s for sure.”
                                      That’s my take on the CD, Rhouses. I only gave it a re-listen after your awful review. Godspeed.

                                          bosstrabs bad breaks outfits.

                                          Are you labelling infusion as a bad breaks outfit, dave?

                                          That’s an interesting take…

                                              -si-
                                              I’m assuming it’s a kind of clobber associated with antipodean breaks enthusiasts?

                                                No, I am referring to Infusion as nonsense, though mostly on the basis that Aussies love them.

                                                File with ‘the Ackerdacker’ and Men at Work. And Savage Garden.