Jackin' / Electroline

tom lea

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^^

btw it's a bit off topic but as you're all talking about dj q, the launch party for his new single is tonight. free entry, at alibi, late license:

dj q
louise williams
spooky
slackk b2b tom lea
bloom
dj haus/hot city b2b mumdance
dj noamz

and maybe a couple of others popping by.
 

datwun

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Daym, dissensus does jackin! V. Excited to hear the results.
All this talk of production makes me wanna get involved though!
Does anyone have a keygen for logic for me to look at and legally use for a variety of purposes that do not include illegally bootlegging very expensive software? :D

continuum: Everywhere I Turn - Craig Price & Paul Lawrence
It's on bigtunes! http://www.bigtunesmp3.co.uk/tunes/everywhere-i-turn-by-craig-price-paul-lawrence/
Paul Lawrence has been SMASHIN it up lately actually on bigtunes. I reckon he must have just released a bunch of tunes he had at the same time because these last two weeks almost half of the bangers on the site have his name to them. I wonder if he's any relation to Chris...

NATO: Yeah G, try and make it over! There's a slither of tatami floor for you to stay on~ My mate Frankie's (got some big mixes up here https://soundcloud.com/frankly-sick) living out there already and has worked his way up the Tokyo nuum/UK Bass/Rave/underground dance scene! They even ran a night called 'JACKIN X UKG', so the word's getting out already.

Corpsey: You DEFINITELY should have come to 2:31!!! It was honestly tied for the best night out I've ever had with - funny enough considering maybe my comments on UK bass (it had it's moment!) - Ben UFO & Joy O at Fabric back in 2011. Pure hardcore vybez, literally 100% of people loved up and friendly - water sharing, dancing with strangers, fishy hand dances - music was on point all night, and the soundsystem at Rainbow is orgasmically good. Brackles smashed it up actually! Did the perfect warm up set.

But yeah, as you say, it's rave music, it's literally the most fun shit to dance to in the universe and you can go all night. I went to see DJ EZ in Brixton last night, and like obviously he was good, though all the other DJs were pretty swag, bate chart hip hop, garage banger after garage banger with no respite. It made me realise that I'm kind of done with garage, at least if the DJs not going to do something interesting with it or re-contextualise it, make it strange with their mixing. For me though jackin basically feels like everything I love about garage - almost the exact same 'feeling' to it - but it's new, I've not heard the tracks played out a million times, the scene moves so fast that every time you hear one of the DJs play they'll be playing tracks you've not heard before etc.

It's interesting enough - experimentation in the warp-donk-owl zone - and it's got plenty of that post-modern buzz of just working out and through the references. The rhythm section has nice garagey inflictions and the drums has a lot more swing than most house. But yeah what it is a fully thriving, functioning rave scene. wotsnottolike.

PS. A present for everyone: http://www.sendspace.com/file/egvg22
Doin Time by James Oliver
It used to be on bigtunes but it got taken down. I got it direct from the man himself who kindly gave it to me because "it's really old and I don't do that style of music anymore", so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me passing it on!
 

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smugpolice

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
https://soundcloud.com/corpseystarks

I'm gonna have a listen in a bit

Please god no!

Most of the stuff on there is pigshit and I'm doubly ashamed cos I put generic fitbirdz pictures all over it like a slobbering 15 year old.

The only acceptable bits on there are the untitled track that Brackles played, the one with the Cronenburg picture and I have a soft spot for the teedra remix.

Ben 'n' Dave are being very kind and I'm chuffed by that cos I think they're both brilliant DJs.

I am getting a cracked copy of Reason soon hopefully, I'd just like to have a crack at it again cos I do think I was getting somewhere.

In Jackin' ''news'' - I listened to a bit of that Hannah Wants (?) mix today and I thought it was a bit weak, pretty generic/cheesy house, not much like the occasionally ace Ill Phil mix. The Cause N Effect mix definitely has its moments but again some of it seems unremarkable to me.

I need to find that marcus nasty mix with topsee and shantie on jackin' cos I'm fiending for MCs on the illphil-ish stuff so much. Does Petchy play this stuff at all? I suppose not.
 

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smugpolice
Please god no!

Most of the stuff on there is pigshit and I'm doubly ashamed cos I put generic fitbirdz pictures all over it like a slobbering 15 year old.

The only acceptable bits on there are the untitled track that Brackles played, the one with the Cronenburg picture and I have a soft spot for the teedra remix.

Ben 'n' Dave are being very kind and I'm chuffed by that cos I think they're both brilliant DJs.

I am getting a cracked copy of Reason soon hopefully, I'd just like to have a crack at it again cos I do think I was getting somewhere.

In Jackin' ''news'' - I listened to a bit of that Hannah Wants (?) mix today and I thought it was a bit weak, pretty generic/cheesy house, not much like the occasionally ace Ill Phil mix. The Cause N Effect mix definitely has its moments but again some of it seems unremarkable to me.

Nothing to be ashamed of on your SC Corpsey. Bang some Jackin' tunes out. Maybe someone on Dissensus will be able to create the first truly great Jackin' mix with some of them? The Tom Garnett Scarefest mix is still my favourite so far.

Does Petchy play this stuff at all?

I saw his name recently on a deep tech house flyer.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
http://wearecrazylegs.com/crazylegs-mix-011-brackles/

Brackles mix for Crazy Legs. Not ALL Jackin' but still relevant to this thread:

?? — ??
Funkystepz — Vice Versa
Naughty — Perfect Love
El-B — El-Brand
Sly Paul — Stay
Naughty — Don Dadda
Shay & Sinista — Back and Forth
Paranoid Resistance — Erotic Prince
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo — Snapbacks and Tattoos
Screwface vs Handi — Little Bird
Ill Phil & Lorenzo — Away We Go
Fat As Your Ego — Shake It
Dexplicit — Wifey
Preditah — Skank
Bloom — Temple Maze
Doctor & Davinche — Gotta Man
Terror Danjah — Breakdance

I'm biased cos he's my mate but I can't imagine there are many dance music DJs out there with his mixing skills (I've seen these umpteen times in clubs) and his selection is le bomb.
 

jimitheexploder

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brackles >> oneman imo

Easily.

Brackles is far too underrated as a DJ.

And if anyone is going to find the good stuff in Jackin' and play it agains stuff that makes it sound more fun and a hell of a lot better its Brackles and prob DJ Q.
 
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datwun

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Easily.

Brackles is far too underrated as a DJ.

And if anyone is going to find the good stuff in Jackin' and play it agains stuff that makes it sound more fun and a hell of a lot better its Brackles and prob DJ Q.

Agree with a lot of this - I saw him up in Brum doing a warm up slot (10-12) and he had it down PERFECT. Building up very nicely, loads of old speed garage I'd never heard before, underrated 2-step classics, absolutely nothing bate but everything bouncy and fun and perfectly mixed.

Do take some objection to the idea that he'd be the only one to find the 'good' stuff, and that it needed something extra to make it 'more fun and a hell of a lot better'!

In fact, the 'weakest' - comparatively, relatively, the whole set was sick - part of his set was where he played jackin. Just because whereas his garage selection was totally unique and really interesting his jackin section was all tunes that - if you follow jackin religiously like me - are a little played out now - 'Snapbacks and Tattoos', mostly loads of old (2-6 months old, jackin moves really fast!) Lorenzo basically.

The best jackin DJs remain the guys who produce it (although, Marcus Nasty, when he's on point, also has a magic touch for it), who will play a track like Snapbacks as the anthem it is, building up to it, surrounding it by new, exclusive tracks etc.
 

jimitheexploder

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They can both be wicked yeah, but I've just found Oneman really frustrating to listen to for a while now. Its all over the shop.

But yeah to my ears Jackin' needs something else to help push it over to make it fun for me, mixing it with stuff Brackles and DJ Q do is a step in the right direction for me. On its own its all kind of dead out for me from hearing all jackin mixes. Always suprises me when people rate Marcus Nasty, I've never found him to be that good, espesh in a club when I've heard him, I've heard some car crash funky sets from him in clubs, cant bring myeself to see him play jackin haha. He's alright on radio mind.
 
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datwun

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But yeah to my ears Jackin' needs something else to help push it over to make it fun for me, mixing it with stuff Brackles and DJ Q do is a step in the right direction for me.

I always like a mix of 4x4 and 2-step/funky/syncopation, but yeah, I've found straight jackin sets to be some of the most dancable, funnest shit I've ever heard in a club. Loads of drops, tricks, great vocals, builds etc. But horses for courses I suppose. I was just saying that like, I wouldn't elevate brackles' jackin selection above actual jackin DJs. I find the converse in fact, that brining in jackin elevates the garage and makes it feel new, while the jackin tunes he selects themselves - at least at the 2:31 rave, that mix posted above has a pretty FWD selection - are fairly pedestrian choices.


Always suprises me when people rate Marcus Nasty, I've never found him to be that good, espesh in a club when I've heard him.... He's alright on radio mind.

Yeah this.. I really enjoyed his set at Butterz/Cable last year, but otherwise I've never been impressed with his club sets. His radio show is constantly one of the best on rinse though and it one of the most fun ways of listening to jackin.

BTW on the subject - is anyone coming to Vibe Bar tonight to see MN's live broadcast? Sounds like Lorenzo, Shorterz and Hannah Wants are coming down for it... Should be big!
 
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