'lo list,
I'm doing this mixed compilation for some friends and I'm looking
for a good techno/electro track that halfway through changes to
drum'n'bass. I have one from the Jacob's Optical Stairway album on
R&S, but I'm looking for others. Any recs?
There are a few Jacobs Optical Stairway releases worth checking out.
JOS have quite a bit of detroit relavence as well. A few other JOS's
other guises include 4Hero, Tek9, and the very detroit-esque Nu Era
(check their amazing Beyond Gravity album if you can find it).
Ok back to the JOS info you were after...
* Jacob's Optical Stairway - s/t cd/2xlp (R&S) 1996 (including a
track co-produced by Juan Atkins)
* Jacob's Optical Stairway - solar feelings cdep/12" (R&S) 1996
(including two mixes by Claude Young)
* Jacob's Optical Stairway - jacob's story cdep/12" (R&S) 1997
(including Juan Atkins+Dave Angel mix)
Other tech-d'n'b-jazz tracks i might recommend...
* Innerzone Orchestra - bug in a bassbin rmxs cd, 3x12", 10" (MoWax)
(includes mixes by carl craig, claude young, 4hero [sound familiar],
future/past, and peshay) - the best mix is claude's 31st Century Jazz
Mix on the 10" all released in 1996
* Florence - the vinyard 12" (Eevolute) 1995 (with nice peter ford mix)
* Reload - autoreload vol 2 cdep (Infonet) 1993 (with amazing mixes
by Black Dog and Global Communications)
* Lamb - cottonwool rmxs (Fontana) 1996 (with nice fila brazilia &
guy called gerald mixes)
* Sensorama - Zu Gast auf der Welcome Insel cd/2xlp (Ladomat) 1996
(claude mix is the d'n'b-ish track but highlights also include mixes
by Born Under a Rhyming Planet and Move D)
And last but hardly least...
* A Guy Called Gerald: black secret technology (Juice Box) (one of
the great d'n'b tech releases)
* A Guy Called Gerald: essence (Studio K7!) (a few highlights like
'humanity' and 'fever' - good rmxs by black dog, ashley beedle, too)
* A Guy Called Gerald: to all things what they need (Studio K7!) (new
one. nice spacy ambient moods and less vocals)
While on the topic of AGCG, anybody know if the Juice Box represses
of the back catalog ever came out? gerald mentioned on his website
last year that he was planning represses of them all but i have yet
to see them. i've always wanted copies of hot lemonade, 28 gun bad
boy, and all the other early Juice Box 12"s i was never able to find.
Also any reviews on Gerald's new Sugoi Recordings label? supposedly
it will be more on the detroit-techno-acid tip. The first release on
the label 'Flo-Ride' was due out this month. Any details or reviwes
out there?
ok, class dismissed. back to work for me...
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