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Louisahhh! and the Ten Things Not to Say to a DJ

fluffy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:48:52 +0000

While I’m perusing my RSS reader there’s one thing that makes me cringe and move to the next post faster than anything else�bloggers sounding like A&R pplz. Unless you’re a good writer it’s really easy to tell when someone’s feigning interest in something and that usually ends up giving me a worse impression of whatever subject is at hand than if I hadn’t even heard of it in the first place. I wish people would quit doing that!

Amongst the writers on which I can always count on for good, genuinely excited recommendations is Louisahhh!; a LA-via-NY DJ who’s half of Staccato and holds it down at Turntable Lab during those ungodly daylight hours. She’s way into house music and pretty much just posts stuff she’s crazy about. Which is great because she has impeccable taste (ie: pretty much the same as me) and is pretty funny too.

Over at her current home in blogtown Dream Big Dream Free she’s just posted a brilliant track from Chicago DJ/Producer Andre Harris called Ten Things Not to Say to a DJ. If you’re not a DJ, listen and learn. If you are, catch da lulz and be all “O MAN I HEARD THESE THINGS LIKE 8 TIEMS IN AN HOUR ONCE LOL”

Andre Harris - Ten Things Not to Say to a DJ (ysi)

Love me some Juke

fluffy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:38:41 +0000

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I can’t ever remember posting about the really fast shit I love to play; pretty much whenever I get the chance to speed things up from 130-140 to 150-160 I’ll do it. Some Ghettotech and rock will probably get played, and of course some Juke. Juke’s some really fast music that’s been coming out of Chicago the past 8 years or so, characterized by rapid fire toms and hats, along with some strong sub bass. Some of it sounds pretty similar to ghettotech; some of it’s a lot more abstract and minimal.

Portishead Reimaged*

fluffy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:00:35 +0000

A project I worked on earlier this year has been in the tubes for awhile, and has just been spat out onto the internets: PORTISHEAD REIMAGINED. It’s an album consisting of remixes entirely sourced from Portishead’s album Third; released for free by my Chicago peeps Noise/Floor Crew.

The track I did is called Threads; it’s a dreary downtempo slow burner I attempted to rework into a dreary uptempo banger. Came out a little more strobe lighty than I was going for—and I did have another version in the works but I it went way too far out there into pitch slide arpeggio-land.

Anyway. Here’s my track:

Portishead - Threads (Flufftronix remix)

Check out Trash Menagerie for links to the rest of the tracks individually or just grab the .zip and call it a day.

*(yes I know it’s actually called Portishead Reimagined, but when I downloaded it I coulda sworn it said “reimaged” so imma go with that)

Field Trip!

fluffy — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:11:23 +0000

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