Article Response: Playgroup

sounds fabulous tho - was it a live mix? cant be legit as clearing that many tracks used would be impossible (as Soulwax found) - how does it compare to Gimix and 2 Many DJ's?

Tom i will gladly trade you a copy of this Playgroup mix for the Boom Selection comp (or at least the best of the 3 discs tacked onto 1)...sounds like its gonna be hard to come by

1. his skill isn't in mixing but in selecting: with so many records to play, I wouldn't have been able to resist inserting something entirely inappropriate (George Jones, or the Execution Squodd, or one of several other things I heard that night which seemed to fit together brilliantly to me) and wrecking the whole thing.

2. Ruin.

I ordered one from Other Music (othermusic.com) a week or two ago. They should have some.

I'd be VERY surprised if this was a live mix... the changes just come WAY too quick. If it is, man oh man, more power to Trevor Jackson.

So, anyone seen a tracklisting anywhere?

http://source.astralwerks.com/playgroup/sites_sounds.html

Think between us we could come up with a tracklist? There's definitely not any out there on the web and I'm dying to have a few tracks ID'ed as well.

Well here it is, finally something I could mention on that 'Disappointed' thread. I probably wouldn't have demanded someone buy the CD for me were it not for Tom's grebt article. I think part of the reason why I don't much care for the mix is in the article too - Tom says it's all the best bits from your own record collection. Well it's not my record collection. The recognition factor isn't there for me (I know maybe 40-50 per cent of the tunes?). Now, I've been carrying a lot of "the 80s were shite" baggage around with me in the last ten years. But I thought I was getting over it, thanks to the current 80s revival and in particular the nu electro scene, which has helped me (re)discover lots of the original stuff. And I really really like Jackson's DJ Kicks mix. And goddammit I do love a lot of 80s chart pop, and based on Tom's comments was expecting to find it all over this mix, but there's not nearly enough of it! In short, I question the consensus upthread about the track selection.

I also don't think much of the mix as a listening experience. I have no problem with the idea of playing only short snippets of each track (and I love e.g. the long version of Intro-inspection) but it has to lead somewhere. To be fair, there seems to be an attempt to "build", ie to start slowly and then gradually up the tempo to reach some sort of 'peak' - about 30 minutes in there's one section where it really starts to get going at last - but the second half hour meanders badly and it just fizzles out at the end.

Heh, I'd still love to see a full tracklist tho' - I obviously have some gaping holes in my early hip hop collection...

In truth I am still waiting for the spare copy of DJ Kicks which Nath promised me aeons ago grrr! ;-)

I think there was also something on his webpage saying no he doesn't have a tracklisting but when someone does one they'll get a small prize and, more importantly, the respect of everyone. heh.