I love to listen to DJ-sets which are made for the radio (or the web) instead of the dancefloor. The music tends to be a lot more diverse if the DJ isn’t focused on keeping the crowd in the groove. Soundcloud is a treasure trove for such DJ sets and a couple of months ago I bookmarked Nathan Fake’s 6 mix as aired on BBC Radio 6 in December 2012.
Great stuff, but there was one track that I specifically enjoyed listening to; an unreleased remix of (Sign of the Fish) by IDRchitecture. I didn’t know the band, didn’t know the song -which reminds me of The Chills, somehow-, but the clicks and ticks in this remix are just mesmerizing.
So now it is on YouTube as well;
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Music from Our Tube; Nathan Fake – Stops (bye Laurent)
“It is what is is”, Laurent Garnier’s weekly radioshow, stopped airing in December. His entire last episode featured songs about “the end”, including the Doors’ epic song at the very end.
But it was this electro-thingie by Nathan Fake that jazzed me up;