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2011 Dec "Take Your Time Young Man.."
Obviously a wink and a nod to the mini "Mama Used to Say" mix and a private message to my nine year old son..
I am almost\\u201d housed-out\\u201d running out of good material and about to venture into Tranceland to get ready for the end of year festivities... Furthermore, in light of valuable comments posted on the web, I must confess that I did listen and have consequently tamed down the \\u201cgratuitous\\u201d sampling in this episode.
The gist of \\u201cTake Your Time Young Man\\u201d is to transport the listener from a deep/techy groove (I need street cred ;) ) to a happy, funky place by the end of the set. I will have you on your tippy toes dancing around the room within a very small half hour!
We start comfortably sat in Barcelona chairs in the back room, with a low, deep underground club vibe, filtered and tweaked to the max all destined to awaken your aural senses . Do not be discouraged ! Slowly some snippets of funk are introduced and sure enough we progress to an old skool soulful place to accommodate the glucose addict residing in all of us. Finally, we leave our comfy chairs, step in the main room and shake our collective a$$es to big club tunes\\u2026
Well, at least this was the initial idea. If by the end of this set, you have not felt the urge to stamp your feet and lift your hands\\u2026 I simply failed\\u2026
A mini-mix, within the mix, with \\u201cMama Used to Say\\u201d which, I thought would be a fun old skool tune for my children to be introduced to onto a Sandy Rivera\\u2019s extravaganza to mark his full return to big tunes in 2012.
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Playlist
Highlights: there are no weak tunes in this mix and I am surprised how current it turn out to be (many tracks released in the 3rd quarter of 2011). To raise my street cred I had a play with the 2 fist tracks with filters etc.. But from " Deep House (Inside Me)" you are in pure house bliss. I absolutely love the retake of "Mama Used to Say", so melodic, so well well produced and Akram Sedkaoui has a crystal voice. Those guys brought us "Each & Everyda"y this year, they are on a roll!
In "Walk Away" ATFC teamed up with Lisa Shaw and showed that all we need is a great vocalist, a great tune and great production.. Not so hard ;).. "Stealing Love" from Grant Nelson, need I say more.. And then I had a play with Sandy Rivera\'s \\xa0great tunes of the year.. with a remix of "I Need to Love Me" not to miss.
To \\xa0sum up, it would appear that the "old guys" Grant Nelson, Rivera, Layabouts, ATFC has showing all the young ones, that they can wipe them off the charts at any time..
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Travelling to Tranceland (unless I managed to finish off one mix I have on the hard drive and can\'t wrap up) as I need to prepare a New Eve Set.. and a brand new Traktor S2 deck is waiting for me still in the box.. Panting in anticipation..
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