Found that one of the least interesting/enjoyable of the early Fabric mixes to be honest, even though I love Kompakt and Perlon stuff.

RichM Met him a few times through a mutual mate….top bloke. Last i heard he was looking after Tenaglia? he was telling me at Plastic People that he got asked to play alongside him in NY. Said it was unreal.

    Amps Prob helped by Barry Jamieson and Dave Gardner.

    • Amps replied to this.

        Dan I guess I find it hard to believe that someone at the height of their powers would relinquish control of something so important, especially when your live performance skills are being laudered so much.

          Amps There was a big article in Mixmag about Cheeky Paul years ago.

          Seemed that he was the go to guy, the big djs often selected the tracks and sequencing and he sorted the rest out.

              bosstrabs Are we saying he just engineered it? Rather than chose the tracks and did the actual sequencing etc?

                Not sure anyone is stupid enough believe paul nolan chose the tracks, sequence of them and what parts he wanted to mix together, shirley?

                Just for the shits and giggles, which compilations are we saying that sasha and john digweed didn’t select the tunes, which order they would go in and which parts of the two tracks they wanted to mix together?

                bosstrabs “the big djs often selected the tracks and sequencing”

                Can youse lot read?

                  They don’t, ed. They will select the sections of each track where they want the transition to take place. Attempt what they can using the records, then begin the process of adding in the studio based effects that will improve the mix beyond what can be done live.

                  I thought it was common knowledge that Cheeky Paul did the sequencing on most of the GUs. He’s a pro tools maestro.

                  We aren’t a kick in the backside away from suggesting sasha and jd had absolutely fuck all squared to do with northern exposure, just stuck their names to the release. Haven’t even got a scooby do which tunes were going on it or in which order.

                    Can somebody post a parks and wilson essential mix before tempers flare, please…

                    I think Dave normally posts his fave Scumfrog Essential Mix at this point and urges us all to listen to it and we all ignore him?

                    PS I’ve not read the thread through and he may have already done this.

                    Have to say I’ve never listened to that Scumfrog Essential Mix that Dave keeps banging on about.

                    Am sure it’s absolutely rocking.

                      Smallman1 It is absolute deltoid-popping POWERPROG ™

                      Don’t know why there’s so much aversion to it.

                      Up there with Timo.

                        -si-
                        That would be equivalent to spending a weeks wages on a 3 course meal at Little Chef only to realise years later that Heston Blumenthal the lazy cunt didn’t cook it..Gutted.

                          “i remember this came out on radio1 one of the most best mix” - not my words, the words of Harold Husted, YouTube commenter.

                          I will give it a listen one day Davo. Just not today. I don’t think you do yourself many favours also recommending we listen to My Chemical Romance and assorted Kpop artistes every so often. It marks your card.

                          Dress code? Awful.

                          Trabs? Horrific.

                          Music taste? Beyond the pale.

                          The result? Dave!

                          • -si- replied to this.

                            Smallman1 possibly deadlines? Most of these DJ’s are all over the map, 360 days a year, so to get them locked down in a room for a couple of days (probably more so back then) must have been near on impossible to arrange.

                            From what I can make out from a few of the GU bits I’ve seen on youtube, one of the locations on the DJ’s schedule would be chosen in advance. The GU boys would fly out to hold an official GU party there. It would be recorded for playback purposes, and whatever music they could afford to get published from said set would then be engineered in a studio at a later date to “somewhat” recreate the party. I guess Paul Morris (mentioned above) was the go-to guy at the time to do all the engineering.
                            I assume anything they couldn’t afford to get published got binned from the sequence and replaced by something more affordable that would have been agreed with by the DJ.

                            I might be a mile off, but that’s what I’ve understood.

                            • Amps replied to this.

                                Why don’t you try being a friend for once? Millsy AND Smallman.

                                Me too. #progbrotherz4eva

                                ScottBailey Most of these DJ’s are all over the map, 360 days a year, so to get them locked down in a room for a couple of days (probably more so back then) must have been near on impossible to arrange.

                                Hmmmmmm, I’m not so sure it was quite so international back in the 90s as it is now (I could be wrong, thats just my perception), and when you don’t have a day job, I reckon they could get them together easily enough. But it sounds like others where just engineering the mixes, which, is just technical work, sat at a mixing desk / mac for a few hours, it’s not the more difficult creative stuff.

                                  -si- He’s usually boozing by 3pm nowadays, according to his recent posts.

                                      -si- Dear lord, ed with the gloves off before 3pm!

                                      Am in decent form at the moment!

                                        bosstrabs He’s usually boozing by 3pm nowadays, according to his recent posts.

                                        Dave feeling the BURN!

                                          12 days later

                                          This is such a good mix. CD2 is relentless. His latest October mixes on soundcloud are good, especially the classics one

                                          Is it underrated?

                                          I remember everyone I knew who was into clubbing raving about it at the time. For about 6 months it was our uni house’s warm-up to a big night out. That mix of Airacobra into Odessi was 😃

                                          IIRC pretty much everyone was massively into the first four NuBreeds, and I liked Lee Burridge’s as well but that divided opinion.

                                          Pappa’s NuBreed is deffo not underrated. It is my go to mix for cleaning the house.

                                            Delighted to see that it it not overrated. The fact that it’s seldom if ever mentioned on here seemed telling to me.