After hours grooving…
1. Sebastien Tellier – La Routanella
The perfect summer balletic sunrise tune, try and imagine the first solar flare creeping over the edge of the sea as the beautiful placed vocal drifts in sync with glistening reflection into the bay.
2. Simon Dupree & The Big Sound – Kites
Like a Sahara landscape this incredible 1 hit wonder drifts effortlessly. My dad used to play this every Sunday amongst other hippy jams from his past, this one stood out the most.
3. Ludvico Einadui – Fly
Gently galloping piece of genius piano work, with a beautiful understated amount of clever fx towards the end. This guy rocks my world and a massive inspiration! Everyone should own at least one of this mans albums.
4. B52’s – Rock Lobster
By now everyone is either falling asleep or leaving cause I am obviously being too trippy and arty. So I’d slap this bad boy and get jiving…. Or more people would leave.
5. Boards of Canada – Music is Math
They (my slightly sizzled crew) then realise that anything more than a mellow hum is WAY too much man!! (They say man, because I pay them to…) and we revert back to the silky wonky chords of BOC. so sit back and let yourself melt away into this splendid spectacle.
6. Olive – You’re Not Alone
Now targeting my core age audience with one of my favourite tracks in my younger years. The chords and vocal amalgamate seductively as one blah blah blah stop talking chris you’re ruining the track… Man…
7. dOP – Happy Meal
A recent addition for me, a dirty dirty song! Has such a vibe! you can’t help but get some sorta double time wobble, nod, jerk on to this filth bringer. Only fault with this record is it’s not long enough.
8. James Bong – Kiss Kiss Bong Bong (Big Brothers Dubbing You)
This would be part of an extended back to mine session where I’d play the whole of the Kruder and Dorfmeister DJ KICKS!! album from back in the 90’s never got into weed but still this is one of my favourite relaxed anthems.
9. The Weekend – House of Balloons/Glass table Girls
The first part is pony (trap=crap) it’s the second half that’s just raw ghetto lady pest music! love this track, I tried to get my rap on but mostly fail miserably.
10. Jon Hopkins – Sun Harmonics
You know that guy who’s got an album a week before you and is like ‘oh my god man!! This guy is a genius you have to hear it Il mail it you but don’t share, please il get in trouble.. Don’t… Really..’ that’s me with this and I haven’t stopped listening to it for months, and this is a particular after party must. I never did mail it either…
Inxec & Julia Govor – Ai Need You (Superfreq)
The now well-established digital arm of Superfreq hits EP number 19 with a fine collaborative effort between Inxec and Julia Govor that takes us on a terrific trip to the outer regions of our galaxy. Derek Marin, Meandisco and Noel Jackson also all turn in fine remixes. As an ever rising, Inxec produces everything from his beloved house right through to heart breaking, thought inspiring mood sections that come on labels like this one and Leftroom, but that also get picked up for national radio plays in Germany. Russian Julia Govor, as well as being an on air personality for MTV, started DJing in legendary Moscow underground club Arma17 and has since played around the world as well as releasing on Visionquest and Get Physical. “We definitely didn’t use our brains,” say the pair on the collaborative process. “We used our emotions and Inxec worked from Barcelona, Julia from Moscow. We used found-sounds of breaking dishes, playing silver spoons, voices of the city, opening doors and closing eyes.” The one original is a relatively slow, spacious and atmospheric track with a supple bassline roaming below gently tuning percussion. Chattering little samples, abstract synth sounds and skyward melodies all help make for a darkly cosmic vibe, and the whispered vocals that bleed into the track lend the whole thing a sense of emotive intimacy that drags you in yet further. The wealth of analogue textures and fizzing lines throughout will have your spine tingling and the hairs on your arms standing up, for sure. Frequent label star and drummer turned techno producer, Derek Marin turns in the first remix, and in doing so layers in more elastic basslines and lively drums complete with horizon scanning synths. New York’s Meanddisco then opts for an unsettling remix with bold synth stabs, dub techno chords and corrugated drums that really keeps you guessing, and finally Hypertone Records boss Noel Jackson excels with his crisp and crunchy, heads down and deeply groove based tech house remake. Each of the four versions here offer something different, with the original itself being a real jewel in Superfreq’s ever more resplendent crown.
Inxec & Julia Govor – Ai Need You (Superfreq Cat. No. SFD019) out 7th July 2014
