These made me lol -
His profile picture appeared to show some kind of prematurely balding turtle in spazzy glasses with an ice cream t-shirt.
Zola’s legs have gone and it’s time for Chelsea to get rid!
Listening to and reviewing all 1997's Essential Mixes
03-02 Daft Punk and 03-16 DJ Sneak
The problem with this sort of filter house is it gets samey and repetitive quite quickly over a 2 hour set. DJ Sneak does it slightly better IMO because he adds some latin flavours here and there. There’s no disputing he is the king of this subgenre really (8/10). Daft Punk add some annoying bounce in parts that even a scouse house DJ would probably cast off. Still, it won Essential Mix of the Year, so maybe I am missing something. 8/10 just to have Millsy absolutely FEWMIN.
03-09 Ashley Beedle and 03-15 Seb Fontaine
(At the time) Cream Resident and future Cream Resident. Ashley Beedle’s set (7/10) is the more interesting while Seb Fontaine knocked out a 3 hour live set here without pissing his pants so deserves credit for that (6.5 upgraded to 7/10).
Looking like a deflated airbag 3 months in.
Bitten off more than you can handle.
Bite the bulket and send an SOS to JohnnyYeah Dave, before it’s too late.
I do wish Jonattan Yeah would come back, to be fair.
I would absolutely LOVE Canles McJeggings to do a guest spot for April too.
Cheers Hugo.
Into the weeds we go!
The Snr weeds too!
Hugo has just PMd me, volunteering to do April and May.
Who wants to see that?
Imagine having to be bailed out by Hugo.
Dave doing his usual ‘hold my beer’ and then fucking off out the tradesman’s. Tatters.
Fair play for making it the whole way through the year to March, dave, before submitting double reviews, no tracklists and a writing tone that suggests you’ve completely lost the will to live. With only 9 of the 12 months of the year left to cover, this will end up a board classic.
Dec 1 No idea who it was. Shite.
Dec 8 Fucked if i know. Didn’t check. Don’t care.
Dec 15 Fuck my life.
Dec 23 I want to die…
Dec 30 “anyone heard from dave?” The jonny yeah curse of the ess mix reviews strikes for a second time!
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bosstrabs 02-23 Nick Rowan
Gave this a spin, partly as the tracklist looked baffling.
I thought the mix itself was as baffling as the tracklist suggested. All over the place with a lack of cohesion and a fair bit of guff. ‘Song to the Siren’ over ‘Offshore’ is a mess that does neither track justice. I thought my ears were playing tricks with me.
bosstrabs Enough screen time! Nick went back to the Essential Mix he was also supposed to be delivering to Tongy that week, rage coursing through his veins. He cued up banger after banger, an eclectic set with focused mixing:
I agree that it sounds like the mix of a man filled with rage, but more in a ’having a mental breakdown trying to complete a jigsaw and chucking the pieces across the room" kind of way. I think the relative quiet from Tong-y was less out of respect and more out of just wishing to stand back as Warren has his meltdown.
It’s still not a complete failure, a mix which peaks with ‘Hidden Sun of Venus’ would struggle to be, but 8.5 seems generous.
Mad_Cyril As part of X-Press 2 I think Amps
Hmmmm. Maybe @bosstrabs can clarify here, as I think he was resident just as himself.