I got the chance to play the regular Mixology night at Gabe’s in Iowa City, and for the past few weeks I’ve been collecting tracks I wanted to play and fiddling around with a DJ setup for them in Live. I had two impulses — play current and current-ish music that I like, and to collect some of my all-time favorite tracks. I was also mercilessly stealing ideas from other DJs. I grabbed the “The It” tracks (actually Larry Heard) on Thomas Cox of Pittsburgh Track Authority’s recommendation, and the Boards of Canada remix I heard in a mix by Aidan O’Doherty.
But tracks like those by Moodymann, DBX, Basic Channel, and DJ Pierre are ones that everyone played fifteen or twenty years ago, and among the first that I got to recognize when other DJs played them. The DJ I opened for, RAfrika wasn’t even born when some of those tracks came out. But I figure if they worked in 1996, they’ll work now and the kids dancing will never have heard them.
One track that always gets me: Patrice Rushen “Haven’t You Heard?” Larry Levan did the edit, but a lot of people first heard its musical DNA in the Daddy’s Favorite track “I Feel Good Things For You.” Always like playing the original of something sampled on a big track.
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| Boards of Canada | Olson(Midland Re-Edit) |
| Virgo Four | The Dryer |
| The Black Madonna | Stay |
| Four Tet | Love Cry |
| Larry Heard | Forbidden |
| Stevie Wonder | All I Do (Todd Terje Edit) |
| Luke Hess | Real Life (cv313 Dimensional Space Edit) |
| Larry Heard | Beauty In A Picture |
| Theo Parrish | Cypher Delight |
| Salsoul Orchestra | Ooh I Love It(Love Break) |
| Omar S | Psychotic Photosynthesis |
| Aphex Twin | minipops 67 (1202)[source field mix] |
| Black Coffee | Basu |
| Moodymann | I Can’t Kick This Feeling When It Hits |
| The It | Utopian Dream |
| Kontext | Arctic Spaceship |
| Moodymann | Shades of Jae |
| DJ 3000 | Burough & Beer |
| Rick Wilhite | What Do You See (Rick’s Groove Mix) |
| The It | Somebody Somewhere |
| Ron Trent | Blood & Fire |
| Luke Hess | Transform (Marko Furestenberg Remix) |
| Black Coffee feat Siphokazi | Lo Mhlaba |
| Concubine | Luxend |
| Black Coffee feat Zonke | Garden of Eden |
| Martyn & Four Tet | The Air Between Words |
| Perkowitz | Nectar |
| Rick Wade | Angry Pimp |
| Dense Pika | Colt |
| John Tejada | RUR |
| Floorplan | Confess |
| Terrence Dixon | Dark City Of Hope |
| Reggie Dokes | Once Again(Mornign Factory Edit) |
| John Tejada | Two One |
| DBX | Losing Control |
| Patrice Rushen | Haven’t You Heard(Larry Levan Remix) |
| Basic Channel | Phylyps Track II |
| DJ Pierre | Box Energy |
| Chaircrusher | Plasma |
| Jeff Mills | The Dancer |
| DJ Slugo | DJs On The Low |
| Chaircrusher | Burundi2 |