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- K7294CDCD £8.00
Erol Alkan
Another Bugged Out Mix / Another Bugged In Selection
The clichés about DJ mixes are well worn. It’s a journey, it’s educating the listener, it’s telling a story. All those descriptions, hackneyed though they may be, apply to Erol Alkan’s new ‘Bugged Out’ mix and ‘Bugged In’ selection, but they don’t come close to capturing the indefinable magic that makes it sing. That comes from the sixth sense all great DJs have, the unconscious force that draws them to the next song, somehow knowing it will fit with the previous one even though it might seem unlikely. Call it musical clairvoyance, seeing into the sonic future. And no-one has the gift more than Alkan.
It’s there from the start on CD1 of this two CD set – one side club-oriented, one aimed at home listening. He opens with the pulsing bass and twangy guitars of ‘To Our Disco Friends’ by Smith N Hack, a track that’s ten years old, but which sounds bang up to date. He follows it with ‘Sensation’ by legendary Chicago house DJ Ron Hardy, then ‘Gridlock’ by In Flagranti. Who else would put those three tracks together, spanning three decades in the process? No-one, that’s who.Tracklist
CD1: Bugged Out
01. Smith n Hack - To Our Disco Friends
02. Ron Hardy - Sensation (Obi Blanch edit)
03. In Flagranti -Gridlock
04. Seaside Houz Boyz -From A Man's Journal
05. Umba -Concussion
06. Jimmy Edgar - This One's For The Children
07. Model 500 - No UFO's (D-Mix)
08. Unovidual & Tara Cross - Comme Je Suis (Based in the Sling & Samo mix)
09. Agoria feat. Carl Craig & La Scalars - Speechless (Gesaffelstein Remix)
10. T.S.O.S. - Over And Over
11. Scuba - Never
12. Secondo - Discombabulate
13. Amin Peck - Girls On Me
14. N.Y. House'n Authority - Ravenswood House
15. Jared Wilson - Let Your Body Make Your Body
16. Factory Floor - Two Different Ways
17. Children Of The Night - It's A Trip (Mike Hitman Wilson's Mix)
18. Gingy & Bordello - Body Acid (KiNK's on Acid Remix)
19. Spandex - The Bull (Erol Alkan Rework)
20. Kölsch - Opa
21. Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love (Erol Alkan Rework Version 2)
CD2: Bugged In
01. Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know
02. Matthew Herbert - Leipzig
03. Bibio - All The Flowers
04. Michael Head - Queen Matilda
05. Adjagas - Mun Ja Mun (Instrumental)
06. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Miss Trudy
07. Mickey Moonlight - We'll Meet Again (Bugged In Mix)
08. The Make Up - I Am Pentagon
09. Dibidim - Badminton Bay
10. The Space Lady - Major Tom (Coming Home)
11. Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo)
12. Margot - Voci Giaga
13. Chromatics - A Matter Of Time
14. Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant
15. Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free
16. Walls - Gaberdine (Nathan Fake Ambient Version)
17. Buffalo Springfield - Expecting To Fly
18. Plush - Soaring and Boring