Manufacturer: K7
Continuing the quality theme among their so far well-chosen DJ Kicks series (including contributory musical luminaries such as Andrea Parker and Stereo MC's), Studio K7 invite Composts Truby Trio on board for a 15-track round-up of the club jazz diaspora. Cutting an even jib between summer samba vocal cuts and deeper percussive feet movers, the compilation takes recent ...
Whatever happened to the Stereo MC's? After winning a Brit award in 1993 for their fun and seminal "Connected" album, they seemed to disappear without trace. Seven years later, there's still no sign of a new album, despite repeated assurances over the years to the contrary. Stereo MCs: DJ Kicks may not be the follow-up album we're all waiting for, but it is the next best thing--a non-stop ...
He might have made his name as one of the founding fathers of electroclash, but Montreal-based DJ Tiga's contribution to the DJ Kicks series proves he's got a range and talent to outlive the genre. Rather than choosing the obvious genre-defining tracks, he's hunted out some stellar remixers from the field of punk-funk and electro-pop: there's Adult twisting Jolly Music's "Radio Jolly" into ...
K7's hugely successful compilation series continues with the Metalheadz stalwarts producing DJ Kicks: Kemistry & Storm. As can be expected the mixing is beat perfect with a tracklisting which, though slanted towards the harder end of the spectrum, with tracks from Test, Full Cycle and Renegade Hardware, is kept balanced through the use of records such as Sci-Clone's much plated remix of ...
One of the earlier releases in the accomplished DJ mix series, Carl Craig's DJ Kicks sees the continuation of the techno thread already explored by CJ Bolland, Stacey Pullen and Claude Young. Despite the occasional respite--whether in the opening keyed tones of Hot Lizard's "Theme" or 4th Wave, who balance the clattering percussion with some gentle orchestration--in the main the journey is ...
