DHS 8 (14) - H

straight in, no bollox:-
KC& Sunshine - superb
Kasabian - solid LP, ok track - better on there mind.
Rez - great addition to the lists
Bobby B - so many memories - cheesey as hell but it absolutely murdered a dancefloor when we were kids.
Chi Mai - quite supreme strings
Donner Pass - my fave of the two Momu's included.... I'm a big fan of Sunsicle too
Midland - was on my potentials. one point. oh my gosh what a track. when I first heard the elongated synths at 1:50 I was pretty far gone... then he breaks it down with that oriental sound, brings in the quirky vocal then drops the beats in again...it's just proper decent moody yet uplifting rave music. A man to watch closely.
Kasabian - i do like 'em but find i need to be in the mood for certain tracks, this being one of them.

Mine:-
Tropics - Joey Fehrenbach used this as his final track on a recent podcast and my ears pricked up... chuggy psychedelic melodic uplifting summer house
Clare Maguire - what the?! where did she come from?! this kids voice does something funny to me. I heard her live on some sh te show my missus was watching and stopped what i was doing - looked it up on Spot, lovely.... then found this remix - the sweethearts of modern poppy dubstep garage music who it seems feature heavily on Radio 1 make this tune even better than it is - quite remarkable. when it goes 4:4 I'm dancing. great track. no doubt I'll get sh tcanned for liking this. bothered.
Dual Shaman - great opener from one of Estroe's mixes.... lush big opening with no kicks...then it gets busy and deep.
Booka (Dusty Kid rmx) - very VERY close call about whether to have this or Greenville Massive's "LOST" .... this wins marginally, mainly because GM's tune is mix specific and is 13mins long which can be tiresome/too much in full. I wanted more melody from this first few times then fell in love with the understated deep dub of it and when the melody hits it gives it more impact.... check out that jittery slight echo production on the melody...lush
H.B/Mistress Barbara (Holger rmx) - first heard this on a Sasha mix and the use of the vocal sample literally poisoned my brain for days "I open my heart....." - deep and moody but full of funk.

KOKO
H

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

DHS 8 - Part 11 (H)

Some fantastic memories brought back to me by your recent selections Gents.

Applause especially worthy for Street Tuff (I'm still word perfect Duff - one of the first records I sought to buy when the digital revolution began; an all time classic school disco essential tune), Lovesky (Sasha played the original at The Bomb in Nottingham when I was there once.... tore the roof off), Goldtrix (reminds me of pre-Bedrock sessions on the turntables with the lads), Poolside (already a summer classic in my car: it's got the summer chugg factor), Eric B & Rakim (also loved the title track off this LP - class), Temper Trap (overplayed on radio and TV but that's for a reason..completely poisons your mind with its melody and build, I also loved the remix you sent many moons ago, S)

A distinctly chilled opening because that's where I'm at currently...

Eelke Kleijn - the very definition of 'short and sweet' - this, in my opinion, could be built into a truly beautiful sprawling epic melodic ambient trance track.

Guy J - I won't bang on too much about this because I don't think he's either of your cups of tea (from the overall response to him so far anyhow), but this gets included because I had an immense 'moment' when the beat dropped on this track whilst out interval training in the woods. Inspiring. God bless melody. God bless music.

Tycho - could of picked the Manual remix which is the one Zabiela used on a recent mix but the original is equally as beautiful and has provided me with many smiles whilst sat in the garden with a glass of red and a cigar.

Steve Mill (Djinxx) - another track introduced to me by Mr Mothersole... no.39 has one of the strongest three track finishes that he's put out as far as I'm concerned, this is the start of that three track finish. That rolling warm bass, clever use of a tiny vocal snippet, punching strings and an overall tight production have made this a sunshine monster for me this year.

Eddy - Friday night drive home tune. SO happy to find this on Spot, used to love it as a kid - the final track on Clivilles et Cole (aka C&C Music Factory) Ministry of Sound 3 mix comp... very uplifting - the piano is short looped but just perfect, the first time I heard that drop in as a nipper I went mental. It's a cheesy track but in a good way - I like the message - for me it's what house music has always been about and if I heard it in a club with or without the help of biccie's I'd be giving it the group hug effort; no doubt.

Whatever you're up against in life; Keep On Keepin' On

H

DHS 8 - Part 10 (S)

D&H - I write this in the only brief downtime of what is rapidly turning into a perfect day. And, as I firmly believe, no perfect day can be accurately thus described without a DHS interlude somewhere so I figured it best to get this posted.

There is a pervading sense of spring having sprung and some things in life finally turning good and it would therefore be churlish of me to say much else about the previous ten selected tunes other than I thank you both for the time, care and effort you put into them. Although the two Estroe tracks and Drums 4 Better Days all deserve my extra gratitude.

My five;

D:Ream's Ambient Remix of 'Drowning Man' by Duran Duran - from the original Renaissance mix CD by S&D - one of my absolute favourites from that time and that mix

Poolside - 'Do You Believe' - recent release - right up my alley at the moment - happy, summery, nu-skool-disco feel to it - this is the sort of thing that should be playing out of EVERY car window this summer

Eric B & Rakim - 'What's On your Mind' - recently acquired the 'Don't Sweat The Technique' album, their last release, and am thoroughly enjoying it. This is the standout slice so far but there's plenty else on there too. Rakim flows over the top of a HUGE sample ('Serious' by Serious Intention) and the beats just roll. Another summer-car-window-essential

'Sweet Disposition' by Temper Trap - think this was out Summer '09. Just screams 'late-afternoon-at-a-festival-in-the-sun-cold-beer-in-hand-feeling-knackered-but-oh-so-happy'. Love this record. And there's a MASSIVE Axwell remix (unfortunately not on Spot) - and trust me, when I say MASSIVE I actually, properly, mean it.

'The Boys Are Back In Town' by Thin Lizzy - The. Best. 'Lads'. Song. Ever.

Peace out Rabbits...

xx

DHS 8 - Part 9 (D)

Evening gentlemen, apologies once more for the inordinate delay on selecting my tracks. Its very poor form and completely unacceptable and I shall be remonstrating with myself in some punishing self-flagellation later on I can tell you. As soon as I can find a clean sock.
Although, having been in Romania for 2 weeks and the only vaguely english speaking channel being their equivalent of MTV then you're lucky im not filling my selection with the absolute nonsense they put on , and its all on heavy rotation so im word perfect in a couple of Rihanna records (i maybe bad, but im perfectly good at it), some lady ga ga track that sounds just like a madonna record, some more bruno mars nonsense and more hip-pop, this time from Dr Dre as they all seem to be doing it now although I never thought he'd ever sell-out, what price a comeback eh ? Although im sure he's done this comeback lark before with 'Still D.R.E' and thats about a zillion times better. And when did Eminem get so shouty ? Ah who knows I must be getting too old to appreciate it - my niece thinks its all ace. For the record the best pop track I have heard recently is 'Someone like You' which is an outstanding song. As Corden said at the BAFTA's "You can have all the dancers, all the pyrotechnics and whatever else but when you sound like THAT all you need is a piano" Indeed.

Right enough social commentary from me, you've waited long enough as it is. The last 10:
Oh Baby - Never really got this to be honest, not then and not now. Sounds like the early part of the first ever bedrock cd, like something Jondi & Spesh might put out. Although their track with Hawking speaking was more my thing to be fair.
Greece 2000 - legendary balearic trance tune, not a real fave of mine but definitely pleasant and this version is nice and I havent heard it before. If I ever go to Ibiza I would certainly enjoy hearing this at sunset on the cafe del mar
Day by day - not for me im afraid, its rather melancholy to these ears - never understood dance music like this
Hypnotized - Im liking this a lot - a real 4am tune, makes me think of turnmills and the regular gurnathon I used to partake in. Perhaps they played it, I dont remember, but then I wouldnt would I ? Possibly prefer with a bit less vocal but that hook is a killer.
Everytime - This seems like another record to be enjoyed on a sunny beach to me, very nice indeed. Summer days...
Emotional Rollercoaster - I like this but im not really sure why, whatever the opposite of eponymous is, is appropriate here, not sure the track has the punch the title suggests but its is nice.
Kings in Exile - its nice enough but like you say, doesnt really go anywhere - like ER above its great music to chill to
I Need a Dollar - This is great, anything full of piano gets my attention and theres plenty of funk involved. Nice lyrics and some brass in the middle - whats not to like ?
Fighting Fire - This reminds me of 'walking on fire' in some ways although this is a bit more immediate and to be fair, not as good but then theyre very different tracks. Surprised you like this Hodge to be honest, wouldnt have thought its your cup of tea. Doesnt do much for me im afraid.
Driven - This is a drug tune isnt it !! I could get very lost in this given the right set of circumstances ! Again, reminiscent of early bedrock stuff although possibly not that deep. 2nd half is really good actually.

Ok, as ever Im estimably grateful gentleman - here is my latest selection, which is a bit all over the place, but none the worse for it (to me anyway !)

Street Tuff - Double Trouble & The Rebel MC
This was an enormous track for me when I was 15/16 cant believe I found it on here - its been years since I heard it and yet I am still almost word perfect, I cant hear it without smiling. Seminal. I always remember 'rapping' along in the common room at school and at the part where he says "...hustle, Ive got muscle" one of the girls sais "really ? Where ?" Ouch. Think im a yankee, no im a londoner !!

Drums 4 Better Daze - Lovesky
Ok with the silliness out of the way lets get down to business - another great hooj release and this is the praha remix. Loads of energy and a highly original breakdown that I adored.

Its Love (Trippin) - Goldtrix feat. Andrea Brown
This was way huge back in the day, went onto quite commercial success, but the day I picked the track up in plastic I almost blew my load. Its all about that bassline isnt it ? Tune.

Electro Glide in Blue - Apollo 440
Im guessing you both know this ? But its a first for me that I stumbled across and I love it. Sampled heavily on fatboy slims 'the weekend starts here' that I used for warm up sets but this is much, much better. I just love the build and build of all the elements in the track, especially the beats and the vocal. Nice trippy elements in it too.

The Eve of the War - Jeff Wayne
You may well know this, I certainly did, well the Ben Liebrand interpretation anyway. The Cosmos remix takes it to a much better place with an absolute growler of a bassline. Turn that bad boy up !

One love my niggas !