How about your own personal top 10’s? Current, all time etc etc
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Top 10 UK House:
Land of Plenty - Kid’s Aura.
Believe it is Rhythm Doctor’s fave as well so not in bad company. Nothing really touched it before or since from UK in my opinion.
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Woo… Sil - Windows. Had forgotten about that.
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Well he was right about Arthur Russell.
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That is a pretty cool selection. Always wanted the first release as think had Thumpin on other side but never got a copy. Also into Arthur Russell before it was de rigeur to be so, shame he got on one and got into House but the bank balance compensates I’m sure.
All about James Mason ‘Free’, which used to wreck the back room at the Chair.
Fuck it, here’s mine (not all new):
- Nana Yamato - Do You Wanna - erm, what is this? Andy Peek put me onto it and this could be one for where music is in 2021 thread. Oddball, 4/4 pop music released in sadly limited quantities.
- Sky Tony - Loving You - you know the vocal it samples, but the groove is unrelenting and it works really well. Not cheap as I’ve found while looking for a replacement copy.
- Jessy Dixon - Love Lifted Me - Luke Una gospel disco that would be brilliant at 7am as the sun comes up after dancing all night to chuggers and thumpers. Mix it in after the Blackjoy edit if you’re feeling brave.
- Apiento feat. Harriett Brown - Down That Road (the dubbed out remix) - sorry, the record went swimming so I don’t know the name of the remix I like but it’s the super dubbed out one that sounds like listening to a soul record after a 3 day bender trying to not pull faces in work. Superb work.
- Altz & Igaxx - Ottie- one to play after the one above. Got basement and a red light written all over it.
- Frank Harris & Maria Marquez - Loveroom - first track on the Hunee boiler room mix and it’s a beauty. Ethereal pop music for old bastards.
- Presence - This Is You - my latest hang up on a brilliant record. To my ears none of this has aged a day, still as incredible as when it was top of the pitch it down to -8 twats club charts many a moon ago.
- LOVEHRTZ - Music Makes Me High - maybe a little bit obvious but playing this loud on a Saturday morning to get in the mood to take the kids to the beach sounds just right.
- 101 Band - Crazy Kind of Feeling - just solid sunshine vibes. Perfect really.
- Gail Lou - I Still Love - sounds like best disco records that HMD et al peddle at their institutions to the baying masses and honestly I don’t know if it’s new or old? 7” doesn’t give much away but the lines about black lives and trans lives mattering makes me think it could be new. Regardless brilliant.
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Yes. This is ace. Oh and thanks heh 
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I was in the car for four hours so I figured I’d do one too. My current top 10 listens across all genres and media-
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Herb Martin “Soul Drums”- Yes I’m fully aware that this is basically a Jestofunk song with a little snippet of another sample running under it. My reply to that is not only do I not care but the simplicity and the way slight alterations and combinations of existing sounds can alchemically hit your musical sweet spot exemplifies why sample based music is so powerful and unique.
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The John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy “My Favorite Things” Copenhagen 1961- I think I’ve mention before that this is the first thing I listen to almost every morning. I feel that these two were developing a musical language together that for me personally exceeds any other expression of jazz that I’ve ever heard and of course because of Dolphy’s passing we are left with a lot of what if’s and unfulfilled beginnings. Less intellectually though I just know that in a strong visceral sense this is what I want music to be and it fills me with life.
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Todd Terje “Lumbago Boogie”- Test Pressing Forum has succeeded in being one of the most civilized online forums in the world and beyond that folks on here have been super generous with their musical knowledge instead of displaying the hoarding/I’ve got more than you mentality of “music guys” writ large. I’m mildly familiar with Terje as a producer, and cherish his edit of “can’t help it” but I know nothing about him as a dj. I grabbed this mix off a link on here and didn’t get around to listening to it until a sunny walk in to Manhattan this week. What can I say? It’s seamlessly put together, contains tons of songs I can’t ID, but not in a show-offish way, just feels like Todd got up in the morning and wanted to hear these songs and thought we might wanted to hear them too. It kept me bopping and grinning for 5 miles and if that’s not what we need from music right now then I don’t know jack.
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Mingus “Composers Workshop”- at a certain point in your love and research of your favorite artists you start to discard the conventional wisdom about what an artists “classics” are and you find that you’re forming your own personal cannon. Yeah this record is more mannered and composed than some of his better known works but that’s what’s so gorgeous about it. Teo Macero and the other dudes on here know who’s in charge and it makes for a qualitatively different listening experience-
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Mingus “Ellington Medley”- see above
. Not a day goes by where I don’t put this on. Often right before bed. Ask me what I want music to sound like and I’ll answer by playing you this.
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Ray’s Fleetwood- Ray was my grandfather. He was born in the old country and he liked really long cars. I like really long songs. I also hate the way music sounds on commercial streaming (once for fun I did a wave comparison of “I Zimbra” off a twelve inch vs off Apple Music, the record looked like a mountain range, the Apple stream looked like a straight road). So I spent a couple weeks running crates of 12”s super hot out of my circa 1979 mixer in to protools through a hot recording chain. Mixing was an afterthought and some days I did this while sitting in meetings or reading or exercising, making it back over to the mixer just in time to throw the fader. Then lo and behold a disease came along that killed and maimed my loved ones and separated me for a year from this entire portion of my record collection and what seemed like an odd extravagance suddenly became comfort food.
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Kim Lightfoot’s Twitch Stream-
This guy will go live in a few minutes like he does every Sunday and for the next five or so hours he will play his heart out and give me comfort and calm. Him, Nick Jones, Kalim Shabazz the guys I’d call sort of “Wild Pitch adjacent” or “post shelter” are some of the most under appreciated and heartfelt practitioners of their craft and I am grateful to him for his ministry-
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Bud Powell “Jazz Giant”- the Charlie Parker of piano? Reductive and silly explanation but also not off the mark. In his playing I hear echoes of EVERYTHING I love in jazz that came after.
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Dj Premier WBLS Thunderstorms- Pretty sure by now if you’re a regular poster on here you know I’m a mixtape and mix show fanatic. It’s possible that I have a tape of every one of these Thunderstorms which were mixes that sort of “broke in” to the daytime radio programming. The way Premo edits out the curses himself with two copies and his razor sharp cuts (I think he kept the mixer to one side of his set up and both tables on the other to move back from copy to copy faster) still drop my jaw sometimes even though I have listened to this so many times that I’ve essentially memorized it. When this came around I had a backpack full of dubbed over tapes, a really terrible line beard and a hand full of club flyers and all I need to do to harness that moment is to throw this on.
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Timmy Regisford at Shelter 6/26/99- #6 Hubert Street is where I got my start in the music business and also where I first heard:
Louis Vega
stretch
Merritt
Junior O
FK
Danny Krivit
Clark Kent
Timmy Regisford
Eclipse
Roc Raida
And Tony Humphries
In a club setting. Every one of them left an impression but some nights Timmy blew my fucking mind. I’m not gonna share a file of this because I’ve never seen it online and don’t want to disrespect the institution of Shelter but as always it’s a combination of what was then new and what was already classic, without much regard to genre or “cool” just straight from the heart dance floor tunes and his blends are LOOOONG and powerful. A salute to the dance floors that shaped us. May we visit them again soon enough.
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This is ace. More of this, please.
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