DHS 8 - Part 13 (S)

"... it's been a long time - I shouldn'a left you..."

Sorry chaps - no excuses - just been a bit of a pathetic struggle for me getting this update done for some reason. Currently got 129 tracks sitting in the 'possibles' list so I'm not without options - just couldn't get it decided, so have basically sacked it all off and gone with five that were never, until today, an option...

Before those however, the last ten collective choices;
Eelke Klein - short and reasonably sweet
Guy J - hmmm, sounds like a track left off the Paronator album - nahh
Tycho - very nice
Steve Mill - playing again as I type and I think its penny might just have dropped on me - LUSH
Eddy - very 90s sounding tune - it's ok
Gnarls Barkley - there was a point I hated this to pieces - strangely nice to hear it again though
KC & Sunshine Band - class
Kasabian - I feel like I've given this lot sufficient chances - see below - and this, like almost all of their stuff, just doesn't quite work for me - but I really can't quite explain or justify why...
Underworld - class
Bobby Brown - ANTHEM

So...

Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai - only comment I have for this is I'm ever so slightly amazed it hasn't featured before now

Momu - Donner Pass - see Chi Mai's comment

Momu - The Dive - see Chi Mai's comment

Midland - Play The Game - I have more to say about this! For me, without a hint of doubt, THE best record released in 2010 and Midland is THE best new producer/remix talent I've heard for a long time. Deep, dubby, breakbeats that almost bleed into d'n'b territory, with some Burialesque bleakness to it and yet a underlying smile that Burial never managed. The break from 3m15s and the drop that follows it are beyond sublime. Completely flawless record that I'll treasure for a very, VERY, long time.

Kasabian - I.D. - funny one this. As I said above I'd given this band enough time over the years - including trying to get into their Glastonbury '07 set in the midst of biblical rain - and just couldn't find anything to do it for me. I gave Duff's recent selection (see above!) a fair crack of the whip - but no, not really for me. And then I was watching something online a couple of days back - it doesn't specifically matter what it was (!) and anyway it was evidently rubbish as it was the music behind the video that took my attention rather than the pictures - Googled what I could make out of the lyrics and here we are. MASSIVE drum work and bassline. Plus the lyric, '...Music is my whore...', which, I think, is nice.

Stay gorgeous.
x

DHS 8 - Part 12 (D) amendment

Sorry boys, didnt see that madness was already there - great minds and all that.

Replaced it with 'two can play that game' by bobby brown - cracking piano !

Peace out

DHS 8 - Part 12 (D)

Yo whattup home boys - greetings, salutations and unnecessarily complicated handshakes. As always, a pleasure to be on the great DHS, and as ever its a bit tardy but hey so's my life right now so take a ticket and wait your turn. Much love and gratitude to my homies H & S for many things but not least the latest tunes. I dont think there was a bad one amongst them to be honest - I loved your lush direction there H and Kevs yours was very good my man - special mentions to Duran Duran, Eric B, Temper Trap (although the Axwell remix rocks my boat more) Eelke Kleijn, Guy J (Surprisingly) and Steve Mill.

Top top work gentlemen. I heartily thank you as there is always a thrill when hearing new tunes. Not that I shall provide such a thing I doubt as Im just going for some faves, but thats how I roll, bitches !!

'Crazy' Gnarls Barkley
Went to the Green Man Festival in Wales when this track was big and saw some unknown belt this out with just him and an acoustic guitar. Was immense. Loved it ever since. Try not to sing along to the chorus...

'It Must be Love' Madness
Just for the piano. Gets me every time. Songs pretty damn good when you're in the right mood for it (winks at Kev)

'Get Down Tonight' KC & The Sunshine Band
Feel good fabulousness, and a staple from when I started djing 60s 70s and 80s in a pub in Tooting way back when. Altogther now 'do a little dance...'

'Where Did All the Love Go' Kasabian
Easily their best tune for me - its immense bassline to the extra strings in the second verse. Tremendous and props to the man like Hodgson

'Rez:Cowgirl live' Underworld
Two for one here, seen them live and lost it, played the bedrock mix of cowgirl to fucking death (greatest regret ever didnt play it at my best ever gig in Gdansk for extremely pathetic reasons but so it goes) and loved this over and over. The crowd response just adds to it, I just cant not dance. Turn it up loud and prepare for mindloss when the break of cowgirl comes in (although the bedrock version is better and I could argue a very long time about why its the greatest remix of anything ever, but hey lets not argue when we were getting on so well, and anyway its not on spot). Large.

Much love to the DHS crew