AbstractRadio Session - early january 2015

Even further adventures into the Abstract world...

The second, more extensive, half of our most recent session recordings of odds and sods that have been knocking around the Abstract studio. Not too heavy on the mixer - just a bunch of lovely house trax, all for your listening pleasure.

As ever, all the tunes are gems, but please check out in particular: Session Victim - "Never Forget", Flight Facilities - "Crave You", Chris Lum - "Big Tool", Dj Romain - "One Step", La Fleur – "Kattflickan", Aldo Cadiz – "Thunder", Art of Tones - "It's You" and a previous tune of the week - Mark Brickman's "Rhythm is Love".

As a special note, we'd like to thank Frank Manno and Mark Brickman for their wonderful contributions - loving the work guys.

Enjoy.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.

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Deep

Funky

House

Choice

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000.00	Session Victim	never forget	delusions of grandeur
004.03	Flight Facilities	crave you	future classic
010.13	Kenny Summit	loves me loves me not	good for you
015.10	The Shazam Experience	venus to mars	rambunktious
021.07	Doorly	the sleazy drummer	toolroom
024.57	Homero Espinosa	give it to me	mouton
030.47	Terrence Parker	when loves the feeling	gfy black
037.23	S Def	infatuation	mi casa
041.16	Vhyce	ostil	no brainer
044.53	Chris Lum	big tool	tango
053.14	Koe	just a feeling of love	tasty
057.33	Doorly	groove me	cajual
060.00	DJ Romain	one step	metrotrax
067.09	Joris Delacroix	be who you want	timid
073:24	Cleavage	need someone	spinnin deep
078.10	Vidaloca & Piem	I’m a man	almibar
083:06	Mia Dora	jezebel	glasgow undergound
090:58	The Checkup	in your soul	large
097.45	La Fleur	kattflickan	power plant
101.51	Shades of Grey	747	beef
106.53	Doorly	rush	toolroom
111.46	Aldo Cadiz	thunder	off spin
118.50	DJ Face Off	ain’t nobody	yaiza
124.13	Art of Tones	it’s you	notonlabel
129.14	DJ Zimmo	disco bizness	pink fish
132.56	Felix Da Housecat	frankie meets pauline	cdr
137.58	Twism	he’s a friend	disco legend
144.16	Soneec	sunworshippers	purple music
150.48	DJ Mark Brickman	rhythm is love	rambunktious

-- Total running time – 158.13 --

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Tune of the Week - No.4 - 12.01.15

With so much wonderful music knocking around here in the Abstract studio, we thought we'd take the opportunity to showcase a few very special items that are close to our hearts. Our choices for Tune of the Week may be fresh through the door, or decades old - our aim is that they will always epitomise the ethos of AbstractRadio...

"Prokofiev, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis,
John Coltrane, The Rolling Stones
... all at the same time."

Coeo
- Native Riddim -
Original and alternative mix
Toytonics TOYT028

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The long holiday break has never been the best time to release new material, so we have to profusely thank Toytonics for brightening up what would be an otherwise dreary time of the year with this absolute gem of a track.

Their website bio has little to say about the Coeo boys except that they're based in the Munich area and already have a couple of well received EPs under their belts. This, their latest release, demonstrates that, if nothing else, they also have a fond appreciation of classic house.
Native Riddim has two major components - firstly, a delicious groove wrapped around a sweet piano riff that has been (very) heavily lifted from an old-school Abstract favourite - the perpetually wonderful Reachin' by Phase II, who were the mighty Blaze recording under a different guise.

The second part of note is the spoken word interview snippet appearing in the break half-way through the track, where Patrice Rushen elaborates on her musical influences, name-checking the sort of eclectic roster we would be proud to present here on AbstractRadio.

The flip features a pretty fine alternative version, with a different piano groove also reminiscent of something from times gone by - sadly, after quite a significant amount of head-scratching, we haven't been able to identify what it is as of yet.

So, a 25-year old piano sample and some bird wittering on about her daddy's record collection - doesn't really sound like much? Well, we dropped this to a packed room on NYE, and the place went suitably ballistic.
And frankly, we weren't surprised.

A lovely start to the year - here's hoping there's many like this to follow.

Happy new year folks.

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Here's the original

And here's the alternative version

And here's the original vocal sample