Maceo Plex Mixes New DJ-Kicks

Maceo Plex has mixed the latest edition of !K7's DJ Kicks, due out on April 30th.

American producer Eric Estornel (who also produces under the name Maetrik) has enjoyed a rapid rise to fame in the past few years, as documented in a recent feature on RA. Part of that is likely due to his prolific release schedule, dropping hooky deep house tracks like "Vibe Your Love" and "Under The Sheets" on labels such as Crosstown Rebels, No. 19 Music and his own Ellum Audio.

In a press release, Estornel promises his mix will be a "little more deep and futuristic" than what he calls the "throwback" trend of early '90s house currently gripping the house scene. The disc will feature a tracks both new and old (some dating back 20 years), with almost all of them edited by Estornel himself because "a lot of them were missing percussion, or some other element I thought they could use." In addition to Maceo Plex selections, the mix also includes the likes of Move D, TV Baby and Detroit's DJ Stingray. As with all DJ-Kicks, Estornel's will feature an exclusive track: his own "Galactic Cinema."

Tracklist
01. Monsters From ID - Spatial Lobe
02. Voice Stealer - Evaluation
03. Stingray313 - Defect
04. Mathias Schaffhäuser - Nice To Meet You (Maceo Plex edit)
05. TV Baby - New York Is Alright (Blak Spun mix)
06. Maceo Plex & Mark O'Sullivan - When It All Comes To This
07. Lab Insect AKA Nomenklatür - Oh Happy Day (Maceo Plex edit)
08. Kimbu Kimra - Raise The Dead (Love From San Francisco dub)
09. Mattski - Escapism (Maceo Plex Conversation remix)
10. Eric Volta - Rez-Shifter (Maceo Plex remix)
11. Visnadi - Racing Tracks (Indianapolis Drive Mix / Maceo Plex edit)
12. Maceo Plex - Galactic Cinema (DJ-Kicks)
13. Move D - Sandmann (Maetrik edit)
14. Zeta Reticula & Freaks - Creeps (Maetrik Fusion edit)
15. Jaydee - Payback (Maceo Plex remix)
16. S.A.M. - Nangijala (Maceo Plex Reggae Edit)
17. Turner - Multiorgel (Schneider TM mix)
18. Maceo Plex - Mind On Fire

!K7 Records will release DJ-Kicks by Maceo Plex on April 30th, 2013.

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Art Department Mix Social Experiment 003

Art Department have mixed Social Experiment 003, due for release in February.

Social Experiment is a mix series on No.19 Music, the label run by Jonny White, who makes up half of Art Department alongside Kenny Glasgow. For its third edition, the duo have strung together 14 tracks mostly by friends and like-minded artists. Exclusive cuts come from Jamie Jones, My Favorite Robot, Gregorythme and Jackin Rabbit featuring Robert Owens. Tale Of Us deliver an exclusive remix of "Bongo Born" by Fuckpony. Art Department also include two of their own previously unreleased tracks.

The mix will be the first edition of Social Experiment since Soul Clap's contribution in 2010. To get an idea of Art Department's style as DJs, check out this week's RA Podcast.

Tracklist
01. Art Department - Into The Dust Intro
02. Jonny White & Nitin - La Cueva
03. Ali Love - The Jungle (Brigante's Mix)
04. Luca C. & Brigante feat Robert Owens - Tomorrow Can Wait (Art Department Remix)
05. Jonathan Lee - Senses
06. Foremost Poets - Moonraker (Accapella)
07. Jackin Rabbit feat. Robert Owens - Full Of Dreams
08. Fuckpony - Bongo Born (Tale Of Us Remix)
09. Jamie Jones - Doctor Blue
10. DJ Hell feat. Brian Ferry - U Can Dance (Carl Craig Remix)
11. Art Department, BLUD, Shaun Reeves feat. Damian Lazarus - Robot Heart
12. My Favorite Robot - Not Progress
13. Gregorythme - Artificial Tears
14. Art Department - Insomniac

No.19 Music will release Social Experiment 003 on February 18th, 2013.

Solomun is set to mix Watergate 11

Solomun has mixed Watergate 11, due for release in June.

Mladen Solomun is one of the founders of Diynamic, a label that's become a cornerstone of Hamburg's house scene and is home to artists like Stimming, H.O.S.H. and Ost & Kjex. On Watergate 11, the German DJ and producer reaches well beyond his immediate circle of friends and label mates, revisiting old tracks by Alliance Ethnik and Gaelle as well as latter day favorites like DJ Koze's remix of "I Think About You" by Heiko Voss. The compilation will be preceded by a single-sided 12-inch for a new track that's included on the mix: Solomun's own "Kackvogel" (German for "shit bird"). The launch party for Watergate 11 will happen, naturally, at Watergate in Berlin, with Solomun playing all night in the main room.

Tracklist
01. Alliance Ethnik – Respect
02. Lucy Pearl – Don't Mess With My Man
03. Solomun – Kackvogel
04. Supermen Lovers – Hard Stuff (Solomun Edit)
05. Supermen Lovers – Family Business
06. Honom – Bedcat
07. Superfunk – Endless Street
08. Vindahl – Sometimes
09. Low Motion Disco – Love Love Love (Solomun Edit)
10. Heiko Voss – I Think About You (DJ Koze Mix)
11. Mathew Jonson – Typerope
12. Sascha Funke – Forms & Shapes
13. Dax Riders – Allright
14. Serge Santiago – Atto D’Amore
15. Casino Times – That's The Truth
16. Robag Wruhme – Draw Halcyon Days
17. Gaelle – Give It Back

Watergate will release Watergate 11 on June 25th, 2012.

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Balance 21 Mixed by Nic Fanciulli

Nic Fanciulli has mixed Balance 21, due for release in May. 

The package shows two different sides of the Saved Records boss: the DJ and the label head. Disc one is full of deep and melodic house music, with Fanciulli having edited each track in an effort to lend the mix a greater coherence. Some of the artists included? Maya Jane Coles, Joris Voorn and Omar-S to name but a few. The second mix is more of a tech house affair with all of the tracks pulled from the Saved catalog including productions from Philip Bader, Robert Dietz and Fanciulli himself. Though many of these tracks come from the imprint's earlier years, there is also fresh material from some of the newer artists on the roster including Clio, &ME and Mark Fanciulli. 

Tracklist
CD 1
01. Luca & Bruno - Raindrops Intro 
02. Maya Jane Coles - Something in the Air
03. SIS - Break Down 
04. DifferentME - Back To Tomorrow
05. Iron Curtis - Goma
06. Eastmen - U Dig (Cassy & Chris Carrier Remix)
07. Jae B - Vibe
08. NTFO, Rhadow - Roots
09. Franck Roger, Mendel Turner - After All
10. Oscar Offerman - Only My Shorts
11. &ME - Purple Rain
12. Ray Okpara feat. Obi Jazz - Bounce To This 
13. And.Id - Need For Chicago 
14. SLG - I Love You But I’ve Chosen Disco (Feat. Smolny)
15. Joris Voorn - Spank The Maid
16. Nic Fanciulli - Movin' On
17. Pol_On - Heavy Rain 
18. Lovebirds - The Beast 
19. Quell - Joy
20. Ricardo Villalobos, Jay Haze - Fenlow (Haze's 2011 Re-Rub)
21. Efron, Piek - Vous Etes Fou 
22. Anonym - If Every Day Was A Sunny Day 
23. Humano - Life
24. Vernon Bara, Igor Vincente - Don't Feel No Way 
25. Martin Eyerer, Glimpse - Southern Soul (Jay Shepheard Remix)
26. Marco Basanov - Up 
27. Omar S - Here’s Your Trance Now Dance

CD 2 
01. Gianni Callipari - Whybee 
02. Simon Baker & Robert James - All Of A Sudden 
03. Guti, Livio & Roby - We Are 
04. Samu.l - Forgiven 
05. Mark Broom - Jackpot (Robert James Remix) 
06. Subb-an - This Place 
07. Philip Bader, Andrea Oliva - Girls 
08. Emerson Todd - Haere Mai 
09. &ME - Matters 
10. Robert Dietz - Bingo Wings 
11. Nic Fanciulli, Stacey Pullen - Limmo (Robert Dietz Remix) 
12. Philip Bader - Amir Loves You (Nic Fanciulli & Davide Squillace Remix) 
13. Clio - Bad Boy 
14. Harvey McKay - Showface (Acapella) 
15. Alex Tepper - Feng Shoe 
16. Boris Ross & Jeff Moore - Golden Dreams 
17. Nic Fanciulli - Wild 
18. Loco Dice - Definition (Nic Fanciulli Remix) 
19. Winx vs. Nic Fanciulli - Don't Laugh (2012 Remix) 
20. Clio - Mister Nice 
21. Nic Fanciulli, Rolando - The Test (Paul Ritch Funky Mix) 
22. Radio Slave - Grindhouse (Nic Fanciulli Remix) 
23. Hollen, Pirupa - Black Fusion 
24. Nic Fanciulli, Gary Beck - Hear Me Out (Nikola Gala Remix) 
25. Chiapet - Westworld (Skylark Remix) 
26. Mark Fanciulli - Sacrifice

Balance Music will release Balance 21 on May 7th, 2012.

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Antibalas Retrospective Mix by Martín Perna

From Antibalas.com

Formed in 1998, the Brooklyn-based music collective Antibalas has shared its dynamic afrobeat and funk sound to thirty-five countries and over 1000 performances. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn block parties and community benefits, Antibalas has since been featured at prestigious festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury, Montreux, Newport Jazz, and at venues from Rikers Island to Carnegie Hall.

Drawing on musical lineages steeped in jazz, funk, Afro-Caribbean, and West African music, Antibalas is widely recognized for its mastery of and innovation in the afrobeat musical form created in the early 1970s by Nigerian composer/activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Recently, Antibalas opened 2009 at Carnegie Hall, as part of the Tibet House Benefit. After performing original material, they backed Grammy-winning Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo and Vampire Weekend. Later that month, Antibalas met the Roots head-to-head in the Red Bull Soundclash in Boston. In June 2009, the two bands joined forces with Public Enemy to recreate the classic album “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” live at the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia. The horn section joined the Roots twice that summer on NBC’s Jimmy Fallon show with Public Enemy and Paul Simon.

In early 2010, the group made its first trip to Australia and New Zealand, performing at major rock, world music, and arts festivals as well as a cabaret show with DJ Gilles Peterson. In July 2010, Antibalas will tour the west coast, including a performance at Reggae on the River, coinciding with the rerelease of their “Who Is This America” album on Ropeadope, and a limited-edition 12” vinyl release of new material.

Antibalas members have also been at the heart of the Tony award-winning Broadway musical FELA! Born as a series of workshops with choreographer Bill T Jones in late 2006, several Antibalas musicians, including Aaron Johnson (musical director) and Jordan McLean (assistant musical director), and Stuart Bogie have helped create what associate producer Questlove has called “The most uncut funk production ever!” After a triumphant off-Broadway run, the show launched on Broadway in November 2009 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, with Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith as executive producers, attracting a cavalcade of stars including Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Sting, Robert deNiro, and Toni Morrison.

Antibalas musicians can been seen and heard with major artists across genres. Members of the group teamed up with the Dap Kings to create the grooves for Amy Winehouse’s multi-platinum “Back to Black” album and continue to work with producer Mark Ronson. The horn section is featured prominently on albums by TV on the Radio, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and won a Grammy for their work on Angelique Kidjo’s “Djin Djin” album. The group has also performed live with a diverse group of artists including Burning Spear, Baaba Maal, Sinead O’Connor, Gomez, and members of the FELA show.

Mark Radford mixes Rinse: 18

Mark Radford has mixed Rinse: 18, due for release at the beginning of March.

As a radio station and a mix CD series, Rinse's main focus is all things bass-related, from grime right through to funky, but Radford's mix shows that they dabble in European-style 4/4 as well. Though his roots are in jungle and drum & bass, the London selector has warmed more and more to house music over the years. "When I started playing this stuff, no-one else was really playing it, and people were turning their noses up at it," he says. "It wasn't until they started coming to the clubs, hearing it and seeing what it was doing at the parties, that everyone started getting into it." 

Radford mostly sticks to contemporary tech house on the mix, highlighting artists like John Tejada, Subb-an, Solomun and Steve Bug, but there is a hint of bass as well, thanks to Al Bassline's "Bouyancy." 

Tracklist
01. Alex Niggeman - Point of No Return
02. Rekleiner - Some People
03. Mark Henning- Sin City
04. Max Cooper - Dark Room (John Tejada Mix)
05. Steve Bug - Wet
06. Agoria - Speechless (Carl Craig Remix)
07. James What - In the Dark
08. Lee Brink - Over You (Wildcats Remix)
09. Noir & Haze - Around (Subb-an Remix)
10. No Artificial Colours - Girl You Know
11. Al Bassline - Bouyancy
12. Tiger Stripes - Voyage (Solomun Remix)
13. Martin Landsky - Morning Caffeine
14. Lazaro Casanova - Morning Confessions

Rinse Recordings will release Rinse: 18 on March 5th, 2012.

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DJ Sneak mixes Fabric 62

DJ Sneak will helm the next installment of fabric's long running mix series.

The self-described "house gangsta" has been a clubland staple for decades. He cut his teeth as a house jock in Chicago throughout the late '80s and '90s while working in the well-known Gramophone Records store, then went on to release several of his earliest singles via Green Velvet's Relief and Cajual imprints, after which his reputation steadily grew. The forthcoming Fabric mix sees Sneak sticking with the upbeat and vocal-heavy style he's pushed for most of his career, mostly through tracks that came out in the last few years. 

Tracklist
01. Strip Steve & Das Glow - Calcium
02. Markus Homm & Philipp Gonzales - Got To Make It
03. Basti Grub feat. Agent! - Walking In My Blues
04. Yeshua Murillo - I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Joss Moog Mix)
05. Arturo Garces - Light It Up
06. Tripmastaz - No Turning Back
07. Mike Jules - Crack Ass
08. Hector Couto - Creampie (Darius Syrossian Remix)
09. Mendo - Old School
10. Alex Tepper - In, Out, Life
11. DJ Sneak - My Love (Ramon Tapia Remix)
12. Sir James - Special (Ramon Tapia Remix)
13. Christian Burkhardt & Einzelkind - Cooper
14. Luca M - Funk My Sax
15. Muto - Wait A Minute
16. DJ W!ld feat. Hector Moralez - Take A Trip
17. Willie Graff & Tuccillo - To The Music (Tato Remix)
18. Cause & Affect - Beware Of The Swingers

Fabric will release Fabric 62 on March 1st, 2012.

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Resident Advisor Podcast: RA.278 Mike Huckaby

A Detroit favourite plays his favourite house records. 

Mike Huckaby is one of electronic music's teachers. Here's a man that recently told usthat he'd prefer to stay in his home city of Detroit tutoring kids on music production at the city's Youthville centre than playing festivals in Europe. A deep house producer who spent years honing his synthesis and programming skills only to publish his knowledge in the form of a sample CD. ("I just have a sense of compassion to help others not to be stuck regarding the music making process like I was in the past," he told LWE last year.)

Our Machine Love feature with him last year was full of anecdotes concerning this struggle to succeed in music making, yet it always ran parallel with his desire to share all he'd unearthed. If this is all beginning to sound a little too feel-good then we should also emphasise that Huckaby is pretty badass DJ and producer in his own right. He's been releasing grade-a deep house since 1995 and despite his statement to the contrary regularly finds himself touring throughout Europe among other worldwide destinations like the upcoming Decibel festival in Washington state.

As for Huckaby's mix for us? "These are the records that I want to hear for the rest of my life."
What have you been up to recently?

I'm quite busy these days. I've just finished Tresor's 20th Anniversary mix CD; remixes for Vladislav Delay and Pole; a limited release for Sushitech; Sun Ra Edits Vol 2; a sample CD for Red Bull Music Academy in Australia; a lecture and workshop there; the Decibel Festival in Seattle; as well as a European tour that starts in October. In addition to that I have several workshops in Europe and Russia too. So yeah, I'm quite busy these days.
How and where was the mix recorded?

At home in Detroit with vinyl and turntables.
Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?

These are the records that I want to hear for the rest of my life. This is also my last podcast for 2011. So the best has been saved for the last, so to speak. I found an old reel tape when I was on the Electrifying Mojo's show, so I crafted a nice little intro, and mixed from there. That was one thing my reel-to-reel came in handy for.
It's impossible to capture a city in a film. What did we miss that you think is important about Detroit in Real Scenes?

I think coverage of Ron Murphy's contribution to Detroit should have been discussed, as well as Archer's vinyl pressing plant in Detroit. Those things should have been included. J. Dilla's influence and popularity in Detroit could also have been discussed.
Has there been much of an upsurge in interest in Youthville since its premiere?

Absolutely. I am overwhelmed by the amount of feedback I have received about the documentary. People from all over the world have begun to contact me and make contributions towards my Ableton and Reaktor classes at Youthville. People have donated computers to students in need, and as well as financial donations to help students in need of purchasing software for the classes.

But the greatest thing that has been achieved after the documentary's premiere has been landing a sound design opportunity for the two students featured in the video. Being able to do sound design for Reaktor at 11 and 14 years old is mindblowing!

When the concept of the Detroit / Berlin connection is being discussed, Tresor and Hardwax is often the source of the conversation. But the next Detroit / Berlin connection beyond the millennium is a technological one that exists between Native Instruments, Ableton and the work that I'm doing at Youthville. Those companies have lent a tremendous amount of support.
What are you up to next?

I'm trying to get My Life with the Wave Vol. 2 done, and I'm soon on my way to Russia.
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