FFRR Part 5

Let's finish off the series of FFRR posts with a bang! Put on your dancing shoes, its Friday night (well it might be when you're reading this - if not, pretend) and the weekend starts here:


Download:
Nightwriters - Let The Music Use You 
Sterling Void - Runaway Girl 
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling (Feel My Bicep Edit) 
Lil Louis and The World - French Kiss 
Zero B - Lock Up 

FFRR Part 4

Everyone should already own at least half a dozen mixes of Inner City Life / Timeless through its various guises that have been on the single, the remix single, the album, the re-edit etc. So instead I thought I'd give you something different; firstly the shortest mix of it which I always liked Paul Oakenfold's use of in the Goa mix - the beatless last bit and then just for fun, a little mix I did as my very first attempts at using ableton when I first heard of Sbtrk's remix but hadn't actually heard it, I used the vocals again from the end of the track with some grime beats. Do not take this too seriously!

Goldie - Inner City Life (Paul's Oakenfold inspired edit) 

FFRR Part 3

Another classic that Pete Tong picked up re-released and made a hit. I'm not sure he was great at finding records that weren't already released but when he put them out with the FFRR stamp on, they usually went on to bigger and better things.


Download: Orbital - Chime (12" Mix) 

FFRR Part 2

Part two of an as yet undecided length of series of posts on FFRR and today its a bit of hip hop from Salt-N-Pepa's 1987 breakthrough single. I guess this was signed due to the Oakenfold / Champion records connection. Just avoid all the remixes / re-issues, none are a patch on the original mix

Download: Salt-N-Pepa - Push It http://www.mediafire.com/?b45rdqyz7type8b

FFRR Part 1

Inspired by Cubikmusik's show last night dropping a bit of jungle including different mix of Leviticus - Burial than I knew, I thought I'd go back and take a look at one of the influential labels of my youth. As I've said before Pete Tong, FFRR, the essential selection and essential mix were my introduction many of the djs, artists and styles of dance music that I still listen to today. Even though I guess it must be about 4 or 5 years since I last listened properly to the show ie when the sound went too far towards commercial (I know the whole point of the show was about breaking tracks that eventually became mainstream but still) I still like catching bits of it if I'm out and its on. Really though, he probably should have quit the show around the same time the label went in the early '00s. I preferred it when the show and to the same extent the label covered everything from house, rave, jungle, hip hop, downbeat and all point in between.

So over the next few days I'll pick out a few personal favourites from across the styles, all of them will of course be big hits but that was kind of the point of the label I guess.

Download: Leviticus - Burial (Chronic 1 Edit) http://www.mediafire.com/?v48swqcoh8hve18