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(From discogs.com)

I’m generally terrible when it comes to remembering tracks from the night before. I’m fairly sure that the ridiculous percussion jam Maurice Fulton played at last weekend’s Mulletover vs RA party was the intro to “Let’s Get Sick”, from 2003’s insane Afro Finger And Gel release. But then again I was fairly sure I could sing along to all the 70s Paradise Garage hits he was playing, when I doubt I knew them at all. And it also felt like the 90s acid he was blasting out inbetween those disco cuts had burrowed into my brain some time before, but it’s unlikely.

What I do know is that it was one of the most innovative, surprising, madly ecstatic sets I’ve heard. Actually, I have a serious feeling he played Patrice Rushen’s glorious “Haven’t You Heard” at one point - was anyone there who can remember?

(From discorecords)

And then what at first thought seemed just coincidence, luck - i.e. that Fulton had played a set which joined in perfect union the threads of my recent readings into Larry Levan and Plastikman - that luck became some sort of fate (it’s an indication of the sheer joy I was experiencing that I’ll even entertain using that word), fate that Fulton was followed by the man Prosumer. I’ve been pummelled into submission by Richie Hawtin, I’ve been teased and tickled and ultimately tazered by Derrick May, and now I’ve had the deep pleasure of being courted and seduced before having something very personal done to me by Prosumer. I now rate him alongside those two legends in creating an experience without parallel.

His sedate pace with the kick seemed to promise something neverending, an infinite ~120bpm journey through deep house from the mid 80s to the present, that kick always coaxing you through each transition and on to the next brilliant explosion of vocals or drumfills. Ever reliable, ever novel. And I’ve never seen a human being control two decks so consistently, almost mechanically, but with such gentle ease. I’ve been sceptical about house music for quite a while, especially a lot of the deep house that I’ve seen raved about, but now I realise I’ve just been listening to the wrong people. I’ve since been listening to almost nothing but Prosumer’s Beats In Space and RA podcast sets, and you could do far worse than do the same.

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On a slightly different note, I took up a colleague’s recommendation and gave this DJ Elian set a listen. I’m not big into dub techno, and I have to confess that the first hour or so washed over me as I struggled with PowerPoint, but after an hour it suddenly dives down the epicentre of a whirlpool (you know, that middle bit where there’s nothing but air surrounded by ever quickening torrents) and I suddenly starting taking notice.

DJ Elian - Infinite Dub Mix
00:00 || Atheus - Inchain fx
03:30 || Atheus - Decaedra
06:40 || Bvdub - Alone In The Crowd
10:10 || Atheus - Deploy
13:30 || DeepChord Presents Echospace - Echospace 5
17:10 || Model 500 aka Juan Atkins - Starlight (Deepchord Remix)
21:00 || Basic Channel - Q1.1 III
24:15 || Maurizio - M4 A
27:20 || Substance & Vainqueur - Reverberation
30:50 || Substance & Vainqueur - Resonance
34:45 || T. Raumschmiere - Total
38:30 || Substance & Vainqueur - Reverberate
43:20 || Substance & Vainqueur - Immersion
46:00 || Substance & Vainqueur - Surface
49:10 || Pendle Coven - Brick Tutor
52:50 || Convextion - Ondes
55:50 || Substance & Vainqueur - Libration
61:00 || Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II A
65:00 || Infiniti aka Juan Atkins - Game one (pacou remix)
69:10 || Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio remix)
73:30 || Basic Channel - Octagon
75:25 || Model 500 aka Juan Atkins - Starlight

There are a couple of Model 500 tracks in there, so if you decide to give it a listen why not read this piece at the same time?

I’m off to Oxford for the weekend, so I’m missing out on Jichael Mackson, Audio Werner, Ralf Kollmann, Vera, Loco Dice, Jay Haze… I’ll stop now before I top myself. I really do enjoy this city. There’s a new mix from me ready to be posted after the bank holiday, with several of my current favourites, including Ben Klock, Polder, Marco Carola, Prompt and Seth Troxler. Enjoy the extra day those of you in the UK.