DHS 12 - Part 18 (D)

Afternoon all, I thought I'd better get this in reasonably swiftly before DHS collapses under the ridiculous privacy breaches it enforces on Kev, our founding father. I'll keep it as short as I can too...

So thank you as ever for the music:

Sir Kev
Bubble Club - I can only agree with you fella on this being Utter Bliss, you can just drift away on it can't you? Beautiful and onto the Master List. Marvellous.
Turtle - Love the contrast of the soft yet almost mournful synth and the urgency of the breakbeats, goes well alongside Bubble Club too. I love a good synth sweep myself. Lovely.
Home Video - I can see why the vocal stays with you fella, real haunting number. This is only an ok for me, would be great in the background of a beach bar somewhere.
Essay - This is brilliant, love that hook and the design of the track really works. A unique sounding track for me, doesn't do much but what it does do is plenty. Sweet.
Barry Jamieson - What's not to like? He's gone to town on this one and thrown the kitchen sink at it for me. From Rez to the big synth sweeps, the breaks and the acid squelchs and the melodic hook towards the end it's like he's said 'ave it! and lumped it over. I'll have some of that.

Lord Hodge
Moby - Heller was a bit of a one trick pony for me, but the trick he did he did very very well and thus he was always distinctive. His remixes were always high quality - I remember his take on 'shed my skin' being particularly good. This is another, and was especially good on a big system. Tune.
Dirty Vegas - I hadn't heard this tune in ages! Didn't it have a video with a dude breakdancing on some lino outside a diner or something? With a narrative about waiting for his girl or something? Marvellous. Never heard it at Bedrock but this was a great tune, top selection!
Chems - You are not wrong Hodgson, I clearly remember Digweed playing this and thinking 'what the fuck?!' Also agree about it being a big system tune, that isn't quite so good otherwise - seems like a novelty track on headphones at first but it's actually a slice of classic chemical brothers. Good shit.
L.S.G. I remember the furore on the boards about this at the time, and remember Lisle's gig at the Beach pretty well, as well as Big Kev claiming the credit! Sorry to disappoint you lads but I'm clearly in the minority on this one, it's just ok for me, never really liked the kind of spacey stuff that was about a bit at the time. I mean it was ok but sounded melancholy to me, even 'Gamesmaster' which was probably the best one of its kind.
Rui Da Silva - One of my best nights at Bedrock ever was at the Beach when not only did Digweed drop 'Star Guitar' for the first time but he played this as an encore. Christ I swear I almost danced myself to death that night, it was fucking brilliant. Was at an after party that Shealan invited me to after that gig and Demi played a copy and I hounded him for the name. Also remember tidying up Lisle's copy after he played at that converted lavvy (Public something...) and then ducked when it got to the scratches, and I bugged the hell out of Plastic Fantastic to get me this too. Unbelievable record.

Gents that's almost a perfect ten, very well played indeed. I see I'm already failing at keeping this short...

As this may be my last post ever I did consider some more contemporary tracks that I've been enjoying, but as with Hodge's Bedrock theme, I was absolutely loving a mix album at Easter and have played it so many times it's ridiculous. Here are some of the tracks from it:

Hardway Brothers 'Mania Theme (Weatherall remix)'
The first track that said to me that slowish BPMs can still knock you for 6 in a dance mix. The build on this is amazing, and the soaring melody? Outstanding.
The Asphodells 'A Love from Outer Space'
Wicked tune, great vocal and slick production. Tune.
The Horrors 'Wild Eyed (Weatherall Mix)'
A bit moody this, with a lovely incessant riff that builds and builds and then an ethereal vocal that peaks over the break. And then it all kicks up a notch. Splendid.
Martin Brodin 'Badabing (diskjokke remix)'
Great build to the bassline break, lovely strings and some big energy all the way through it and then a wonderful surprise towards the end that rounds it all off nicely - fists in the air at that point for me. Play LOUD!
Walls 'Into Our Midst'
Ok, last track of DHS12 and I can't do any better than this. I love this track as you already know and so it can rightly stand in the pantheon of last record with its head held high. I would easily end a set with this so I know it's all good. After a build that does not let you know the magnitude of aural pleasure that awaits you, just before two and a half minutes it starts. Then grows, and grows and grows... I like that the melody and intensity is seemingly subtle yet utterly addictive. I hope you do too.

I'm sure you all know which mix I've lifted these from and I could not recommend it highly enough. Weatherall's Renaissance of course. Why have a I never seen him DJ??

One Love