WARP LP 18, innocuous looking numbers and the code to gold
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This compilation is a strictly 4 groovers sampler, collectively constructed during the late summer / early autumn of 1993 at s4g studios nottingham by various combinations of 14 diy dj's, engineers & personnel.
Special thanks to royski, global & free party goers.
One of my favourite slices of space displacing house cuts, prime 1993 where 3 out of 4 sides have aged very well retroactively. If I can’t represent this I may as well move to the Arctic. On Warp, it’s among DIY’s best work and, in the wake of Castlemorton, gained plenty of traction. Straddles dance floor and sofa, vehicle and Sunday pub slaughter if the landlord‘s onside
Firenze - Orange is Orange. I’d love to know where the sample is from. Bliss later put out gear as Baby Mammoth on Pork and is one of the bridges between here and Hull, along with Steve Cobby. An ethereal, mythical track with soft rhythmic touches that mixes well with Soichi Terada, any number of Italian imports and Mr Fingers material
Victor Dynagroove Ensemble (aka Jack) - Elevater, for the chords, for the beats. Soundtrack to many a road trip, comedowns at Sandbach services wearing shades due to eyes spiralling in the land of the lost
Overview - Be Still (Vickerstraat Mix). DK, Charles Webster, Digs and Woosh. Full crew nearly, delicate touches yet still locked into focus. “Up, up in the sky” looping, magical, mesmerising
Nail - Cassiopeia. An exercise is transcendental power reigned back half a degree, you’re seduced rather than pummelled or bludgeoned. For me, this track is among the very best British examples of nailing nuance. Of letting harmonics breathe and having the intuition and skill to structure flow it in such a way that you’re balls deep in it listening. Mr Tolliday has a discography to rival most and Cassiopeia is a primer of everything he put out subsequently.
GENIUS
Notable additions Essa - Up There Out There, for the key synths (well worth sampling), not the sleeve which looks far more cliched Rave than the audio enclosed