Ryan Elliott’s record shop bills must be expensive. On his new promo mix, he burns through 40 tracks in 55 minutes, but the strange thing is it doesn’t feel rushed at all. Put this down to planning (Elliott is a big fan of preparing his setlists in Excel), as well as re-edits: “I edit about 90% of the tracks that I play,” he told RA recently. “The more that you can change or alter the music that you’re playing, the more original your set will be.”
And original it is. The set nods its head to the recent trend towards plain, functional house (Mountain People, Mara Trax), but there is still finds room for deeper, Detroit flavours by the likes of XDB, Planetary Assault Systems and Convextion, all blended into a seamless whole that is a fine representation of what’s happening in house and techno in May 2008. Recommended.
Tracklist
01 Manmadescience - Connect the Motorcities
02 The Model - Terminus Interlude
03 XDB - Espac
04 Jenifa Mayanja - Boundless (Jus Ed rmix)
05 Convextion - Ondes
06 Rhadoo - Aundi (Unanim rmix)
07 Jackmate - Male Kicks
08 STL - Moonwalk
09 Daso & Pawas - Det (Shatrax Beats)
10 Buks - Still Working
11 Mara Trax - Funk Me
12 Mountain People - Mountain 5.2
13 Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Turn Around (Cassy Smooth rmix)
14 Efdemin - Lohn & Brot (Tobias rmix)
15 DS - Orangefood (Jens Zimmerman rmix)
16 Langenberg - Estate
17 Kabale und Lauhaus - Makake
18 Move D - Quit Quittin
19 DJ Qu - Buzz
20 Trusme - War
21 Mixworks - Berlin Dub
22 Studio 1 - Silver
23 Monobox - Realm
24 Prompt - Elephant
25 Edit Select - Reduktion
26 Baby Ford - Serpentine Tail
27 Empty Set - Seclusion
28 Jackmate - Buccaneer
29 Kassem Mosse - Workshop 3 (A1)
30 Shed - Well Done (033472 Edit)
31 Shed - Well Done (030 Edit)
32 Equalized - Equalized 1 (A)
33 Matthew Styles - We Said Nothing
34 Dj Dozia - Pop Culture
35 Planetary Assault Systems - Kat
36 Dettmann and Klock - Places Like This
37 Audion - Against All Odds
38 Equalized - Equalized 1 (B)
39 Madteo - Alan Greenspin
40 Shitcluster - Doop 4
