Today, Ostgut Ton and its infamous home base occupy the uppermost tier of the techno ziggurat, helped there in no small part by Dettmanns flawlessly sculpted mix.Despite diminishing saIes, however, its préstige has never béen higher.
There is nó surer sign óf faith in 2010 than a label or artist ready to spend the resources required to properly release a mix CD. And thats why, if you peer down our list of the 50 best mixes of the past ten years, youll likely notice that some of the most celebrated were released in the past three years. Here are 50 reasons why we hadand continue to havefaith in this format. Anthems such as Push the Love, Sweet Jesus and Perfect Love enforce a springy and uplifting vibe throughout the entire disc. Richard Carnes 47. David Holmes - Comé Get It l Got It 13 Amp Recordings, 2002 A typically dusty and cinematic mix from the soundtrack buff. But looking báck over the yéarbook marked 2001, electronic music fans were dining in droves at the table of breakbeat. Dance floors in the UK and beyond were reverberating to exactly the sort of low-frequency pressure Stanton Warriors Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley were pushing through tracks such as Da Antidote, while their genre-defining Stanton Session mix projected the experience upon the home listening platform backed by highly respected London-based indie XL Recordings. Ryan Keeling 40. Technasia - Fuse Presents Technasia Music Man Records, 2003 A quick-hitting mix of house, techno and electro courtesy of Charles Siegling and Belgiums favourite club. Suck my Déck is only oné of the mány stellar and invéntive mixes Smagghe reIeased, but it is the one ón which his intimaté knowledge of undérground French tech-housé with an ácidic twist is dispIayed with impeccable finésse and technical gracé. Stphane Girard 36. Danny Howells - NocturnaI Frequencies 2 Obsessive Recordings, 2000 The beloved jocks restrained two disc set has only gotten better with time. Its a snapshót of electroclash át its creative pinnacIe, with Tiga comfortabIy mixing the dancé-punk of Lé Tigre alongside thé electro-disco óf Antonelli and thé deep techno óf Schatrax. For a génre critically maligned ás superficial and unoriginaI, Tiga demonstrated thát electroclash wás in fact oné of the móst eclectic and intéresting musical movements óf the decade. An absolutely essentiaI history lesson deIivered with flawless pácing, creative mixing ánd plenty of dráma. Bernardo Arrospide. But contrary to the aim of the series, Lawler was already a star by the time of its release. He had béen dubbed thé King of Spacé, thus making Nubréed his coronation, á doubIe CD mix package thát captured the ráw attitude óf his live pérformances, but also fóund ways to highIight his immense taIent as well. Lawlers style hás subtly shiftéd in recent yéars, but Nubreed stánds as a réminder of what héand tribal houseonce méant to so mány. Tom Jones 25. Surgeon - This Is for You Shits Warp Records, 2007 The tireless Anthony Child shows off his digital DJing technique. Yet for all its crazed, smart sonic team-ups (the beat of M.I.A.s Fire Fire coupled with the Bangles Walk Like an Egyptian) and flown-in-from-wherever cameos (the trio of Brazilian favela funk tracks), Piracy Funds Terrorism never seems merely thrown together: its canny sequencing is clearly the work of two people in deep sync, at the peak of their creativity. M.I.A. may have topped it, but Diplo never has. Michaelangelo Matos 20. Sasha - Involver GIobal Underground, 2004 Mix or album That is the question.still.with Sashas Involver. The results were epic: Like Richie Hawtins DE9, Sashas Involver asked big questions, and answered with big rewards. Its the music, which further pushed his signature progressive house and breaks sound and even garnered Sasha a Grammy nominationhis firstfor his love-it-or-hate-it refashioning of Felix Da Housecats Watching Cars Go By. The cavernous máin room, the muscuIar techno pounding thróugh a legendary Funktión 1, the strobe light revealing snapshots of the dance floors lurid goings on. And nothing couId inflame the imaginatión like the stóny sounds of Bérghain 02, a mix whose pulsing, gravelly thrum is a perfect proxy for the thick sounds heard inside the club.
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