Right. First off, Schwarz, it is NOT cool to start a mix CD off with Sun Ra only to chuck the piece into your digital blender with some highly inappropriate filter panning and then... then going so far as to drop a four-to-the-floor beat into the mix. Ouch. Next up comes a double-header of Henrik Schwarz remixes which instantly establish a sense of pace and full-bodied production that's rather refreshing to hear at the beginning of a mix. Strictly speaking though, this isn't really a mix per se. Instead, the tracks played out here tend to be in someway related to Schwarz himself, whether in remix form, as a solo artist, or as a collaborator. In all cases the music is coloured with the same brightened up, soulful deep house, sounding particularly fulsome alongside Ame & Dixon feat. Derrick L. Carter on a live version of their 'Where We At' collaboration. 'Jazz Book No. 2' rounds the set off in style with a nice piece of electronically treated piano swing, almost making up for the audacious Sun Ra mangling that took place an hour or so previously.
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Right. First off, Schwarz, it is NOT cool to start a mix CD off with Sun Ra only to chuck the piece into your digital blender with some highly inappropriate filter panning and then... then going so far as to drop a four-to-the-floor beat into the mix. Ouch. Next up comes a double-header of Henrik Schwarz remixes which instantly establish a sense of pace and full-bodied production that's rather refreshing to hear at the beginning of a mix. Strictly speaking though, this isn't really a mix per se. Instead, the tracks played out here tend to be in someway related to Schwarz himself, whether in remix form, as a solo artist, or as a collaborator. In all cases the music is coloured with the same brightened up, soulful deep house, sounding particularly fulsome alongside Ame & Dixon feat. Derrick L. Carter on a live version of their 'Where We At' collaboration. 'Jazz Book No. 2' rounds the set off in style with a nice piece of electronically treated piano swing, almost making up for the audacious Sun Ra mangling that took place an hour or so previously.
Right. First off, Schwarz, it is NOT cool to start a mix CD off with Sun Ra only to chuck the piece into your digital blender with some highly inappropriate filter panning and then... then going so far as to drop a four-to-the-floor beat into the mix. Ouch. Next up comes a double-header of Henrik Schwarz remixes which instantly establish a sense of pace and full-bodied production that's rather refreshing to hear at the beginning of a mix. Strictly speaking though, this isn't really a mix per se. Instead, the tracks played out here tend to be in someway related to Schwarz himself, whether in remix form, as a solo artist, or as a collaborator. In all cases the music is coloured with the same brightened up, soulful deep house, sounding particularly fulsome alongside Ame & Dixon feat. Derrick L. Carter on a live version of their 'Where We At' collaboration. 'Jazz Book No. 2' rounds the set off in style with a nice piece of electronically treated piano swing, almost making up for the audacious Sun Ra mangling that took place an hour or so previously.