What's your top five mixes of all time?

[Ted Striker]

downloading disco not disco now... can't find a tracklisting, but lists for his other sets are impressive...

You see, I can't really say I'll ever find a perfect disco mix as for me, the definition would imply that it woudl cover all the vast bases of disco, which is pretty much impossible, but I can say with complete assurance and confidence that there will never be a set recorded ever that will beat this one

Each record gives me goosebumps, but when track 3 drops, any shitty day situation of feeling is instantly rectified

http://dhpmixes.com/mixes/Rahaan_Disconotdisco0906.mp3

Was (Not Was) "Oh, Mr. Friction!"
Ron Trent-Love to the world (love dub)
Talking Heads-Pull up the Roots
Time Bandits-Live it up
Talking Heads-I Zimbra
Nancy Nova-The Force
Marsha Hunt-The Other Side of Midnight
Gino Soccio-S-Beat
Dj Rush-I Wanna
Magnifique 'Magnifique'
Divine-Love Reaction
Kebekelektrik's Wardance with 'Sensuous Black Woman'
Lanier-25 Hours(nick the record edit)
Was (Not Was)-Wheel Me Out
Rinder & Lewis-Arabella
El Coco - Afrodesia
?
Hott City-Ain't love grand
Barbara Mason & Bunny Sigler-Locked In This Position
Cerrone-Love In C Minor
Queen-Body Language

(Actually, the (especially the second CD) of the Larry Levan Live at the PG http://www.discogs.com/release/21473 is the only other one I can think of that gets similar stature, but I digress...)

 

[killer b]

(Actually, the (especially the second CD) of the Larry Levan Live at the PG http://www.discogs.com/release/21473 is the only other one I can think of that gets similar stature, but I digress...)

yeah, that levan mix is probably my number 1... it just makes you want to be black, gay, and living in new york in 1979...

 

[stethoscope]

(Actually, the (especially the second CD) of the Larry Levan Live at the PG http://www.discogs.com/release/21473 is the only other one I can think of that gets similar stature, but I digress...)

Damn, I need this!

 

[killer b]

it's out of print, so i don't see why you can't pirate it from somewhere - here for example...

 

[kyser_soze]

Hum...

Coldcut JDJ
Loxy & Gremlinz B2B Live@Renegade Hardware at The End
Renaissance Mix Collection 1, CD 1&2
Hawtin Dex&FX
Lenny Dee Live, Inter-Dance @ Sterns in Worthing with Stevie Hyper-D MCing
Easygroove, Fantasia, Woodcote Manor NYE 1992/93.
H.E.L.P.M.E. by Exit (who posts as Liveist on the mixes thread)

Loads more but I'd need to have a squirrel around My Music to remember them!

 

[stethoscope]

it's out of print, so i don't see why you can't pirate it from somewhere - here for example...

*cough* thanks

 

[kevkaos]

prob my fave ever mix
outlaws-Follow The Rainbow, Stay On The Snake

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

Lenny Dee Live, Inter-Dance @ Sterns in Worthing with Stevie Hyper-D MCing
QUOTE]

Thats a cracker of a mix - got me in to techno after hearing that. I remember walking round school with it on my head phones giving people 10 second blasts of it and not telling anyone what it was.

 

[kyser_soze]

Lenny Dee Live, Inter-Dance @ Sterns in Worthing with Stevie Hyper-D MCing
QUOTE]

Thats a cracker of a mix - got me in to techno after hearing that. I remember walking round school with it on my head phones giving people 10 second blasts of it and not telling anyone what it was.

I'm partly in awe that someone else knew exactly what I was talking about!!

Top set, which I was there for. People were literally pleading at the DJ booth for him to keep playing...some truly, truly awesome tunage...and top MCing too...Stevie (RIP) was one of the few MCs to really understand how to MC over a techno set...

'Take one more ecstasy and rush with me...'

'Movement movement in the place! Girls, girls rock your waists!'

 

[porno thieving gypsy]

 

[D'wards]

Easygroove - Hyperspace (about 92)

I had that - it had the Jaws tune on right?

My faves are the Defection FM ones from 92 - Rat Pack and Lt Stitch and MC Chatterbox - fucking brilliant

 

[AndyO'C]

Coldcut JDJ
Chemical Bros. Live at the Heavenly Social
Solid Steel presents DJ food & DK
D/L'd a load of essential mixes recently and the ones that stood out are coldcut from 06, weatheall from 93, all the David holmes ones, Ed Rush & Optical from 99, Andy C from 05 and Sub Focus.

 

[Grandma Death]

Jon Pleased Wimmin-Crystal Rooms Feb 1995
Steve Lawler-Lights out Volume 1
Sasha & John Digweed-Northern Exposure Volume 1
Sasha-GU San Fransisco
Steve Lawler-Wasted Volume 1

 

[Dan U]

Lenny Dee Live, Inter-Dance @ Sterns in Worthing with Stevie Hyper-D MCing

i went for lunch in the place that was Sterns with my dad the other week

as for mixes a lot of the ones i like have been mentioned already

there is a really good Bryan Jones Acid mix i like but i can't remember the name of it

 

[Cloo]

Richie Hawtin Decks, EFX and 909 is a bit of a work of art. I'm not a minimal techno fan, but this is just done so brilliantly.
I also love Darren Emerson's Global Underground mix
And everything I've heard by Pure Science, though I'm not sure if they really count as a mix!

 

[sam/phallocrat]

Judge Jules' mix from this album http://www.discogs.com/Various-An-Introspective-Of-House-1st-Dimension/release/158549 - it was the first dance music compilation I ever bought and his CD is packed full of cracking house music

Technohead 4 - Sound Wars The Next Generation - just utterly, utterly nails

Stu Allan and MC Connie, Kintetic NYE 95/96 - tune, after tune, after tune, after tune

Tuff Jam - Underground Frequencies Vol. 1 - the best proper speed garage/early UKG mix ever http://www.discogs.com/Tuff-Jam-Underground-Frequencies-Volume-1/release/483231

DJ Disowned's closing set from the big fuckoff leaving party I had in August (after a 7 year stint in Sheffield) - proper fresh, innovative UK Hardcore from one of the best DJs I've ever heard - download here http://web.mac.com/distortedpanda/TINNITUS/MIXES/Entries/2009/8/14_DJ_Disowned_.html

 

[killer b]

Technohead 4 - Sound Wars The Next Generation - just utterly, utterly nailshttp://web.mac.com/distortedpanda/TINNITUS/MIXES/Entries/2009/8/14_DJ_Disowned_.html

this is brilliant. i doubt i'd have ended up into gabber if it weren't for this mix.

i had an amazing dj freak mix from around then too, but lost it years ago. forget where it was recorded.

 

[killer b]

this looks good

 

[stethoscope]

Tuff Jam - Underground Frequencies Vol. 1 - the best proper speed garage/early UKG mix ever http://www.discogs.com/Tuff-Jam-Underground-Frequencies-Volume-1/release/483231

Need that too!

Gabrielle - Roy Davis Jr

 

[Pieface]

yeah, that levan mix is probably my number 1... it just makes you want to be black, gay, and living in new york in 1979...

I'm going to get that one in - I really like disco and Jefe never seems to play any in the house funnily enough

 

[speed-it-up]

That on mp3?

Would love some mixes from Basics, was pretty regular there around that time. Some Alistair Cooke (RIP) mixes definitely wouldn't go amiss.

no its only on cassette sadly.

 

[themonkeyman]

Need that too!

Gabrielle - Roy Davis Jr

That is an amazing tune

 

[killer b]

You see, I can't really say I'll ever find a perfect disco mix as for me, the definition would imply that it woudl cover all the vast bases of disco, which is pretty much impossible, but I can say with complete assurance and confidence that there will never be a set recorded ever that will beat this one

Each record gives me goosebumps, but when track 3 drops, any shitty day situation of feeling is instantly rectified

http://dhpmixes.com/mixes/Rahaan_Disconotdisco0906.mp3

Was (Not Was) "Oh, Mr. Friction!"
Ron Trent-Love to the world (love dub)
Talking Heads-Pull up the Roots
Time Bandits-Live it up
Talking Heads-I Zimbra
Nancy Nova-The Force
Marsha Hunt-The Other Side of Midnight
Gino Soccio-S-Beat
Dj Rush-I Wanna
Magnifique 'Magnifique'
Divine-Love Reaction
Kebekelektrik's Wardance with 'Sensuous Black Woman'
Lanier-25 Hours(nick the record edit)
Was (Not Was)-Wheel Me Out
Rinder & Lewis-Arabella
El Coco - Afrodesia
?
Hott City-Ain't love grand
Barbara Mason & Bunny Sigler-Locked In This Position
Cerrone-Love In C Minor
Queen-Body Language

sweet jesus - this is fucking brilliant. good call.

 

[pootle]

Gotta have a proppa think about this but the following imediately spring to mind:

CD2 of Laurent Garnier's Laboratoire Mix
An old Monkey Mafia Live at the Heavenly Social mix
The Caspa & Rusko FabricLive

 

[killer b]

An old Monkey Mafia Live at the Heavenly Social mix

the one which finishes on shabba ranks? good call, twas a class mix.

carter's essential mix (one of the albums they released, not the radio show) was also superb...

 

[dlx1]

try to narrow down to 5 but not

• DJ Impact 92 on Colin Faver Show [The fun house - helter skelter][Sound Corp - Security Overload]
• DJ Dash "Jorneys In Acid on abstract dance colin Dale 25min of madness [INFLUX - Braineater]
• GTO mix one think aired on Colin Faver Show know it was an Xmas time [Source Code - I Am Not A Number] & [Disintegrator - Lock On Target]
• Laurent Garnier at TG 93
• Ashly Morlow on Colin Faver show 92
• Dave Angel at TG 92 or 93 back to back of gems
• Unkle Mix R1 Essential Mix the full one that end with Doors the end Vs Leftfield

 

[Ted Striker]

Speaking of which...Levan fans should have a look at this gem:

http://bouncefm.com/index.php?optio...-live-paradise-garage&catid=114:mp3&Itemid=92

Levan. Live. Levan style mixing and classic Levan tunes. Utter utter disco perfection!

 

[Orang Utan]

Speaking of which...Levan fans should have a look at this gem:

http://bouncefm.com/index.php?optio...-live-paradise-garage&catid=114:mp3&Itemid=92

Levan. Live. Levan style mixing and classic Levan tunes. Utter utter disco perfection!

brilliant - thanks ted!

 

[Sweet FA]

ooh, and check out greg wilson live at the dolphin - epic!

I got 3 excellent GW Dolphin mixes off here a few months ago. The 1st one (mellow; starts with La Vie en Rose) was my family's sound of this summer. Played it one afternoon on holiday and ended up with half a French campsite requesting it the next day. Mrs FA slightly less impressed as Lil'FA shouted for "the cocaine one daddy"

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah - i probably posted that - that's one long set, rather than 3 seperate ones