Heroes of 2011: Number 10

The Boiler Room has been consitantly amazing all year. Picking just a few favourites was incredibly difficult as the talent that has passed through this year has been ridiculous. Enjoy the music but you will have to make up your own banter for dissing people in the background to recreate your own chatbox.


BR #73 Carl Craig (live) from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR#38 - James Blake from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR Berlin #003 Levon Vincent from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR #68 Ben UFO by BOILER ROOM


BR #69 Thom Yorke by BOILER ROOM


BR #68 Bake from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR Berlin #001 Kassem Mosse (live) from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR 1st Birthday Ben UFO b2b Jackmaster b2b Oneman from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


Live From - FACT x Young Turks - Jamie xx b2b Oneman from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR #49 Fourtet from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR #44 - Blacktronica from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR #43 Alex Chase from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


BR #42 Addison Groove (live) from BOILER ROOM on Vimeo.


NOTHING NEW #003/ Tri-Angle Records - Obsessions (circa 2001 - 2002) by BOILER ROOM

2010 : Heroes of the year Number 1

Consistently brilliant all year. Every single thing he touched, his own tracks either as Ramadanman or Pearson Sound, the remixes, collaborations - I loved the lot. I heard him on Rinse play a set with Joy Orbison a few weeks ago and he was pulling all kinds of deep stuff - Chicago house and Detroit techno. I couldn't get enough. Hessle Audio put out even more great stuff from James Blake, Blawan and of course Pangaea and both Ramadanman and Pearson Sound themselves.


I almost hope that in 2011 we don't see him moving into album territory as his productions are just so good as stand alone moments, it might shatter my illusions if an lp didn't quite work. Maybe production on someone else's albums in the style of Burial working with Jamie Woon or maybe he will take the James Blake / Darkstar / Mount Kimbie blueprint of taking the dubstep album off into new and uncharted territory. Or hopefully he'll just smash everyone again with another handful of absolute bangers.


Basically these are all the songs I have loved this year:


Glut 
Tempest 
Your Words Matter 
More Than You Know 
Grab Somebody 
Mir 
I Beg You 
A Couple More Years 
Work Them
Void 23 (Carl Craig Edit) 
Night Air 
1UP 
Blanked 
Blue Eyes 
It Takes A Muscle 

Techno Techno Techno Techno... erm, Classical?

I've put up two slightly different mixes up on mixcloud - one techno; Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Ben Klock etc, and the other of classical and modern classical pieces; Bach, Reich, Glass etc.

Check them both out below:

Autobahnmusik Eins by Paul Riley on Mixcloud

The Classics Are The Classics by Paul Riley on Mixcloud

The only tracks I could think of which might link these two disparate genres was Carl Craig (yes I know we only had him on the other day but you can never have enough of his stuff) with Moritz von Oswald reworking Ravel and Mussorgsky on their Recomposed album from 2008.

Download: Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald - Recomposed (Villalobos "Uli, Mein Ponyhof" Remix) 

Krautrock-ago-go

I should really play more kraut so here is some Can albeit in a kind of un-kraut way as it is the Carl Craig remix. More krautrock soon I promise!


Download: Can - Future Days (Carl Craig Bladerunner Remix)

DFA records

I was speaking to someone the other day about DFA records and the forthcoming LCD Soundsystem album and it got me thinking about what my favourite DFA record was. Maybe it is just me, but I had kind of forgotten just how many great records and bands there are associated with the label: The Rapture, Hot Chip, Juan Maclean, Maurice Fulton as Syclops or from last year, the Todd Terje remix of Shit Robot.


It came down to a tough choice between the following though: Frankie Knuckles remix of Blind, Happy House, Harvey's remix of All My Friends or the one stand out winner.

Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix). The 4 minute synth intro, the pounding middle, the piano, the beats, if it hadn't come out at the height of minimal techno, you would call it epic. (Indeed for the mml fans, Baby Ford's mix on the other delivered everything that was good about that scene).