more Moonshadow: parts 3 & 4

Harvey's moon shadow mixes are deeply chilled-out, 3am outer-space epics. they involve smooth robots making love on the beach. They are great if you are interested in such activities as riding high, playing piano under the stars on LSD, and traveling to other planets in a cruise ship while drinking free mimosas. These mixes can easily serve to demonstrate everything important about being a good DJ. Here's the list: play good songs, play songs no one's ever heard before but are awesome, play songs in a good order. that's it.


Tracklist:

Pt3

Peach boys - Life is something special
Grace Jones - Pull up to the bumper
Manzel - Midnight Theme
Steely Dan - Black Cow
ELO - The whale
Track 06
Track 07
Track 08
Track 09


Pt4

Lee Oskar - Haunted House
Risco Connections - Ain't No Stopping Us Now
Track 03
Cristal - La nuit pour nous
Track 05
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Dark star
Marvin Gaye - After the dance (instrumental)


Source: Acknowledged classic

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Harvey Moonshadow Mixes 1 & 2

Harvey's sets tend to come in a variety of guises. His Moonshadow mixes for the most part fall under the chilled-out, downtempo umbrella: the track selection is unique, a muscial journey consisting of latin, folk, electro, country & disco grooves. Think Ibiza yet not the Brit-cheese buzz that so quickly comes to mind.

Tracklist:

DJ Harvey - Moonshadow - Part1

1. The Groupies - The Groupies
2. Track 2
3. Swamp - Maynard Ferguson
4. Mambo - Wally Badarou
5. Iles Dans L'Espace - Mandre
6. Light Years (Opus IV) - Mandre
7. Doing Nothing, Nothing Doing - Mandre
8. Au Lait - Pat Metheny
9. Love - Maharashi Mahesh Yogi
10. A Screaming Comes Across The Sky - Bill Laswell
11. Morning Light - Big World
12. Via Calente - Strange Cargo
13. Cafe De Flore (Charles Webster Mix) - Doctor Rockit
14. Go Forward - Chilled by Nature
15. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac


DJ Harvey - Moonshadow - Part 2

1. Novela Das Nove - Wally Badarou
2. La Telecabine - Caia
3. Do It Again - Jaffa
4. The Last Night - The Groupies/Cool Water
5. Hold on to your Dreams - Jah Wobble
6. Congo Man - The Congos
7. Track 07
8. Wild Mountain Honey - Steve Miller Band
9. What Do You See - Sven Van Hees
10.Track 10
11. Summer Madness - Kool And The Gang
12. Patchworks - Steve McQueen
13. City Lights - William Pitt
14. Greece 2000 - Three Drives

Label: Unofficial Realeases
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic, Disco
Style: Electro, Downtempo, Disco, Dub, Ambient, Trip-hop, Balearic, House



Source: Simply Good Music

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Dj Harvey - Sarcastic Disco

One of the best mixes ever brought out by record labels. Kinda slow tempo-wise, but very funky and dreamy... prime vintage psychedelic downtempo disco.Wise selection of rare tracks. Almost every track is wonderful on its own and yet mixed so smooth and lovingly that makes it even sweeter. Only 1000 copies were put out (mostly in Japan). Lindstrom actually called this mix the "album of the century". A true classic.

Dj Harvey, is a DJ from Cambridge, England. He has achieved a following the world over including places such as Singapore and Japan. Harvey is considered extremely influential in bringing over the disco/garage/house sound from America to the UK. He has released tracks under various pseudonyms on labels such as Mo' Wax, Dorado, Ministry Of Sound, Skint and Junior Boys Own. He has produced and remixed tracks for Jamiroquai, LCD SoundSystem, Brand New Heavies, Ian Brown, Stereo MCs, Electronic, The Police and Cornershop as befits his eclectic style. He is one half of the duo behind the classic and elusive Black Cock record label, on which he has recreated famous and lost edits of disco records by house music pioneers such as Larry Levan and Ron Hardy.Harvey's nine hour sets in Los Angeles for his warehouse party harveysarcasticdisco, a collaboration with Sarcastic Clothing, have attracted an assortment of enthusiastic music fans. He is currently playing DJ gigs around the planet with residencies in New York, Washington and San Francisco.

Tracklisting:
1 - Spring - Wendy Carlos
2 - Our Prayer - The Beach Boys
3 - Hollywood Symphony - Holger Czukay
4 - We Have Come To Bless This House - Severed Heads
5 - Clash (Shugyru of the Sun) - Logic System
6 - Can't Be Serious - Ginny
7 - Transfer Station Blue - Michael Shrieve
8 - Camino del sol - Isabelle Antena
9 - Don't you know I did it - John Forde
10 - My Boss - Linda Di Franco
11 - Woman of the World - Double
12 - Memories - Amadeo
13 - Love for the sake of love - Claudja Barry
14 - ??? - Relax Don't Do It
15 - Paws
16 - Fragrance - Holger Czukay
17 - Irena's theme - Giorgio Moroder w/ 'Sensuous Black Woman' accapella
18 - Nocturne - Bryan Ferry
19 - Riding to Rio - Strange Cargo
20 - 95 in the shade - Hudson Ford
21 - Pause
22 - Rendezvouz with the Sun - Howard Wales
23 - Hallucinations - Roy Budd


Label: Sarcastic – 03
Format: CD, Mixed
Country: US
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Downtempo, Disco


Sources: Discogs, Wikipedia

"Sir Coxsone" Dodd - King of The Soundsystem

Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, CD (Kingston, Jamaica, January 26, 1932 – May 5, 2004) was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. Dodd began running sound systems in 1954 after a short stint living in the U.S. exposed him to R&B music.
In the context of Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system scene is generally regarded as an important part of Jamaican cultural history and as being responsible for the rise of several modern Jamaican musical genres. The sound system concept first became popular in the 1950s, in the ghettos of Kingston. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavor.

He went back to Jamaica with a few records and started the Downbeat Sound System. Dodd would import new records from Miami and New Orleans to play for eager Jamaican audiences. Dodd eventually set up five different sound systems, each playing nightly. He would hire other DJ's to run the parties including a young Lee "Scratch" Perry.

Eventually the R&B trend died out and Jamaicans began to record their own music in search of a new sound. It was around this time that Dodd met Roland Alfonso and Don Drummond, founding members of the Skatalites and began the legendary Studio One.

It would be at Studio One where a young Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer would get their start recording classic Ska and rock steady tunes like "Simmer Down".

"Sir Coxsone" went on to record a hefty amount of classic reggae, ska and rocksteady through out the 60's and 70's and started the careers of many of the genre's heavy weight artists. Unfortunately, like many famous record producers he was also a shister and would often under pay musicians. By any account the man is a legend, and would no doubt influence the evolution of Hip Hop via a young Jamaican transplant named Kool Herc.


Sources: Honey Knuckles, Wikipedia

Danny Tenaglia: Choice - A Collection of Classics

Having made a great start to the ‘Choice’ series with Frankie Knuckles and Francois K, Danny Tenaglia is a logical next step for the third round of Azuli’s surveys. And this is the best yet by some distance. New York’s finest has spent many a painstaking hour compiling and mixing the two sets, and boy does it show. With extensive notes from Bill Brewster and comments from Tenaglia on each track, his influences and thought processes are revealed, with the renewed conviction that it’s all about making people dance. And if you were in a club listening to this set, you’d be on the floor by the second track as the soft keyboard hook behind Imagination’s ‘Changes’ kicks in, with the fantastic layered vocals that follow. Other notable inclusions on the first disc are Designer Loops’ tribal ‘I Believe’, and a classic in Nomad’s (I Wanna Give You) Devotion’. Quality cuts from Christian Falk and Blaze lend a more soulful edge to proceedings. Disc two is just as uplifting, epitomised by the soaring trumpet of Hugh Masekela’s ‘Don’t Go Lose It Baby’, the urgent Loni Clark vocal in ‘Rushin’’ and the final big number, Jomanda’s ‘Make My Body Rock’, served with a hint of Uno Mas.In typical, Tenaglia lets the music breathe and gauges the build up of each mix to perfection. A fitting showcase for one of the world’s top jocks.

Disc 1
1.Cat Stevens – Was Dog A Doughnut?
2. Imagination – Changes
3. Kris Coleman – Shine
4. Jus Friends – As One
5. Trilogy – Love Me Forever Or Love Me Not
6. Designer Loops – I Believe
7. Vicky Martin – Not Gonna Do It (I Need A Man)
8. Mr. Lee – I Can't Forget
9. Nomad – (I Wanna Give You) Devotion
10. Christian Falk Feat. Demetrius – Make It Right
11 Blaze – Elevation
12. Two Tons O' Fun – Just Us

Disc 2
1 Cloud One – Atmosphere Strut
2 Mission Control – Outta Limits
3 Tony Cook – On The Floor
4 Hugh Masekela – Don't Go Lose It Baby
5 Sylvia Striplin – Give Me Your Love
6 Adeva – Independent Woman
7 Loni Clark – Rushing (Mood II Swing Dub) Producer – Mood II Swing
8 Frankie Knuckles – The Whistle Song
9 Alicia Myers – I Want To Thank You
10 Uno Mas – Por Favor
11 Jomanda – Make My Body Rock

Label: Azuli Records
Catalog#: AZCD19
Format:2 × CD, Mixed, Compilation
Country:UK
Released:27 Jan 2003
Genre:Electronic
Style:Disco, Deep House, Garage House

Sources: Resident Advisor, Discogs

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Francois K: Choice – A Collection of Classics

London's Azuli label followed Frankie Knuckles' contribution to the Choice: A Collection of Classics series in 2002 with another fine double-disc set of varied obscurities and bona fide classics selected by dance music luminary François K. François assembles a fun jumble of tunes (unencumbered by boundaries) that spans chronologically from the early '70s through the early '90s and sequences it with finesse. The subtitle of the series is a little misleading -- not all of these tracks are classics, at least not in above-ground non-dance communities. Though the average consumer might be a little miffed about the fact that this set isn't packed solid with instant jaw-droppers, a steady quality that serves the flow is kept throughout. Chicago house gets a fair representation with Frankie Knuckles' lewd Jamie Principle vocal number "Baby Wants to Ride," Lil' Louis' "Do U Love Me," and Fingers Inc.'s "Never No More Lonely" leading the way. Shalamar's opening "Right in the Socket" and Sylvester's "Over and Over" highlight the disco herd. Floor-friendly cuts from jazz figures (Donald Byrd's "Love Has Come Around," Deodato's "Super Strut") and R&B greats (Teddy Pendergrass' "Only You," René & Angela's "I Love You More") also play a prominent role. The packaging doesn't explicitly state the fact that each song appears in full -- a fact that no doubt appeals to dance aficionados who'd love to have some of these songs in their full glory, with great sound to boot. Though it's a compilation and not a mix, the track-to-track flow is natural and makes it all function as an enjoyable listen from beginning to end.

DISK-1
01. Right in the socket - Shalamar
02. You can't hide (your love from me) - David Joseph
03. Koro Koro - No Smoke
04. I'm not gonna let you (get the best of me) - Colonel Abrams
05. Baby wants to ride - Frankie Knuckles with Jamie Principle
06. Only you - Teddy Pendergrass
07. Choosing you - Lenny Williams
08. Over and over - Sylvester (Special 12" disco mix)
09. Super strut - Deodato
10. Funky Nassau - Beginning of the end
11. Koke (Part I and II) - Tribe

DISK-2
01. Do u luv me - Lil' Louis
02. I love you more - Rene and Angela
03. Can you handle it - Sharon Redd (Francois K mix)
04. Giving up - Zulema
05. Love has come around - Donald Byrd
06. Turn me up - Keth Barrow
07. Any love - Rufus and Chaka Khan
08. Never no more lonely - Fingers Inc
09. (They long to be) Close to you - Gwen Guthrie
10. Land of hunger - The Earons
11. We all need love - Troiano

Label:Azuli Records

Catalog#:AZCD13

Format:2 × CD, Compilation

Country:UK

Released:06 May 2002

Genre:Electronic, Funk / Soul

Style:House, Funk, Disco

Source: Discogs, Allmusic.com

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Martinez - Moon Harbour Inhouse Vol. 3

In age of microfocused tastes, rare is the album that can appeal to a multitude of clubland tribes. That's doubly true when it comes to label compilations. Nowadays, most labels tend to focus their output with laser-like precision, releasing tracks for the often-tiny niche market that sucks up their every release. Moon Harbour, upon first consideration, would seem to be such a label: Founded by Matthias Tanzmann in 2000, it definitely has a sound, one that wedges into the small, whirling eddy where throbby techno, deep house and tribal rhythms rush past each other. But it's from that spot, documented on the new Moon Harbour Inhouse Vol. 3 comp mixed by Martinez, that Moon Harbour sings a siren song that's capable of mesmerizing everyone from determined minimalists to fans of party-time Latin- and Afro-house rhythms.

Label:Moon Harbour Recordings

Catalog#:MHR010-2

Format:CD, Compilation, Mixed

Country:Germany

Released:01 Apr 2009

Genre:Electronic

Style:Deep House, Tech House

Tracklist
01. Martinez - Blue Lagoon
02. Seuil - Double Room
03. Boris Werner - Feel Good
04. Matthias Tanzmann - Rugby (Mathias Kaden Penalty Kick Remix)
05. Mathias Kaden - Musica
06. Dan Drastic & Chris Lattner - Two in One
07. Matthias Tanzmann - Love-Shaped Feeling (Reboot Rework)
08. Gregor Trescher - Break New Soil
09. Luna City Express - Seven (Agnès Club Mix)
10. Matthias Tanzmann - Keep On
11. Martinez - Momomowha...
12. Dan Drastic - Slice Of Life
13. Vera - Hooked Up With Da Drums
14. Matthias Tanzmann - Left Behind
15. Dot - Kinda Strange
16. Luna City Express - Swing City

Source: Resident Advisor, Discogs