Five for Friday

SM001

Oliver Koletzki - Copal / Cryptozoology [Stil Vor Talent]
Rise 1969 & Ryan K - Falling Angels [Moodmusic]
Alex Aguayo - Intuitive Confusion [Nein]
Li-Polymer - Organismic [One Of A Kind]
Agaric - Prism [We Are Records]

deathbysmurf

SM001 Agaric - Prism [We Are Records]

Slight Boards of Canada vibe :v

jonattonyeah

SM001 Agaric

That’s a really good EP from an artist and label I haven’t really liked.

erik

Charlie May - Soul Integration
Rodriguez Jr - Bliss
Forty Cats - Ledokol (Rafael & Mango remix)
Static Guru - Incognito
Lobec - 5am Nostalgia

deathbysmurf

Leo N-Silentium (Extended Mix) [La Mishka]
Ajay Kapoor-Mitch & The Ravenous Wolves (Pointbender Remix) [Denied Music]
Derk-Sandbox [Droid9 South]
Marga Sol & Darles Flow-Bedouin’s Tale [M-Sol Records]
Anton Make-Arepo (both the original & Dowden remix) [Mango Alley]

jonattonyeah

Cinthie - City Lights [Wanderist Mix] [Aus]
Naone - Space Duck [Unknown To The Unknown]
Mani Festo - Close Proximity [Sneaker Social Club]
Asquith - Laid In The Long Grass [Asquith]
Photonz - Pedra [Naivety]

Kumquat

Marino Canal - Calling Me Back (Coeus Remix) [Vivrant]
Globemaster - Atardecer - KULTO
El Mundo & Zazou - Watch Me Burn [Quetame]
Earthenware-Forever_Young
Matt Sawyer - Strange People (Parsifal Remix) [Kinesen]

Unbroken1

Alexander Church “Integration Feature” (Vincenzo Remix) [Configurations Of Self]
Marino Canal “Lost Souls Seeking Comfort” (Dominik Eulberg Remix) [Vivrant]
Valdovinos feat. Abi Ferraresi “About You” (Original Mix) [TRYBESof]
Mariner + Domingo “Starlight Lounge” (Cocho Extended Remix) [Kiksuya Records]
Luke Alessi feat. Stereo MC´s “Matter” (Aaaron Remix) [Mobilee Records]

…oldie but goldie:

Yo!Bots “I Got It” (Groove Mix) [RCA Records Label, 1990]

SM001

deathbysmurf Check out Common Factors - ‘Principle of Opposites’ too.

SM001

jonattonyeah Same. But everything is worth listening to. Even Anjunadeep! 😅

jonattonyeah

SM001 Anjunadeep

Hard pass! Them and ADID don’t release music I like. No minerals. Too floaty and whimsical for me.

SM001

jonattonyeah My OCD won’t allow it. I have to listen to everything. 🤪 Anjunadeep come out with odd good track. ADID not so much. 😐️

alistair

jonattonyeah Re ADID, the cap fits although I am partial to some of it. AD to an extent but it does have a lot more variety on its roster. Dosem, Jon Gurd, Richie Blacker, Powel, Joseph Ashworth have released recent EPs that defy that description.

jonattonyeah

SM001

Same. I even listen to fucking Defected releases. But ADID is an ignore at this point.

Unbroken1

SM001
jonattonyeah

…good releases on both, I honestly don’t get the hate. I deffo appreciate that ADID are renowned for a particular sound, but if you don’t get hamstrung by that stuff, there’s plenty to like, between them, TRYBESof and Tale&Tone they have an excellent roster of artists, Valdovinos, Tim Green, Volen Sentir, Newman etc. Do I like everything they release? no, but I do appreciate a dose of melody (mixed with other flavours, obv) and they are capable of doing it extremely well.

Anjuna are way more hit and miss IMO, mainly because they are like a fucking hits factory for anything vaguely in the melodic prog/house/trance spectrum, and a LOT of it is shite. Basically they release far too much, and its easy to miss the good stuff. Been watching Marsh’s streams over the last few months, he’s a really good DJ IMO, and his productions are strong (until he goes ‘retro’, which for him is fucking 2000’s trance).

Homegrove

No order.

Extrawelt - Email auf Klinke
Slumber - Sideways
Colors in Waves - Ultraviolet (Roman Flugel Remix)
Cinthie - City Lights (Damiano Von Erckert Remix)
Shannon - Let the Music Play (Alan Fitzpatrick 6am Terrace Mix - Extended)

Oldie:
Eat Static - Contact (De Niro Remix)

jonattonyeah

Homegrove Cinthie - City Lights (Damiano Von Erckert Remix)

I put down the Wanderist mix in my 5 but the entire EP is solid.

SM001

alistair Variety my arse. 🤣 Like jonattonyeah said, floaty and whimsical everytime.

alistair

SM001 you’re a stubborn git 😉

SM001

alistair This is true. 😅

SM001

Unbroken1 It comes down to personal taste in the end. ADID is a sound I could never get into. The whole ‘Organic House’ sound is one I can’t get into and seems to have risen in popularity these past few years with the likes of Nick Warren and Cattaneo playing that sound in their sets. With it’s rise in popularity there is more of it to wade thru which only gives rise to my aversion to it. 😅 That being said there are tracks that rise to the top but because of the shear amount being released every week they are few and far between.

I’m a big fan of your mixes Damo which are full of what i’d class as ‘Organic House’ tracks. But that has more to do with your ability to pick the best of whats out there and your skill in putting these tracks together in a mix. I wouldn’t buy most of the tracks you play but that’s just down to my own taste.

jonattonyeah

Unbroken1

It honestly might have something to do with where I live, Damo. The Burning Man thing is really a thing around this way. The ADID sound is ubiquitous and synonymous with the Burners and the greater tech industry (which many of us cannot stand). It just comes across as Instagram House or something. Dance music for people who don’t dance - House for “stories”. And, hey, I’m not telling anyone they’re not allowed to like it. It’s just not for me.

Unbroken1

SM001
jonattonyeah

..appreciate all you are saying, but not sure why ADID gets consigned to being a label with a ‘sound’ that is a rigid, closed space where no-one listens to anything else? I’ve never been to an ADID party, nor do I live anywhere where there are associations with any particular scene. They are a label among fucking thousands, but I happen to like aspects of the current melodic house sound and I think their hit rate is better than most. I don’t recognise ‘Organic House’ in the same way I don’t recognise ‘Progressive House’ (which means something entirely different from 20 years ago), all of that is bollocks innit??

I like to think that the majority are like me… ie. not wearing beads, pouting and making heart-hands for their Insta stories, but picking out the odd gem and mixing it with bangers from Jimpster, DJ T and Dominic Eulberg.

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