After seeing this thread develop last night, I got home and had a Spencer Kinsey evening (sorry Christian, I'll check out your winning entry tonight). The Parallel Thinking EP is excellent, especially the first track with that snippet of stutteriness in the middle and the other side that sounds like a "Love Sensation" sample. The "On the North Star" EP rocks, too. Especially "A". He's a pretty funky fella, all in all. I've also seen him DJ (at Space about 2/3 years ago now) and would go along with the observation that he's neither great nor bad, but kind of middling on that front. If you aren't aware of him at all, have a listen to Carl Craig's mix of Ultramarine, which to my ears sounds like a Gemini track (and which Spencer acknowledges as one of his favourite tracks). One of the things I love about this list is that every other day you are reminded about something you haven't heard in too long a time.
On a completely different note, I picked up a release on Yoruba records yesterday (forget the title, but it's #30). It's the first I've heard of them, and it was nice and rough around the edges (though, far too pacy for my liking). Any info on the label? (Apologies if I've missed an earlier discussion). Secondly, I've got to mention Jay Denham's "Black Nation Beats" on Choice, which I just got the other day, too. I get bored of harder techno all too easily (it seems to me that if you tune your head out of it it suddenly has no energy at all, if that makes sense) but Jay Denham seems to keep showing me the way and this one's probably one of my favourites already, I don't have the titles but the one about the Mothership (D2) (P-Funkorama!) is pretty damn good, as is B2. Check it out. Jonny. np: Gemini "Parallel Thinking" (Perspective)
