meet dj bo selecta! my two year old daughter bohannon seems to have taken a keen interest in rinsin’ the dub plates. the girl’s got rhythm and loves dancing to them house tunes, but today she decided to take to the decks herself. it won’t be long before i’ve got her fully trained.

teach them well

dj bo selecta!

too much tops, not enough BASS…

make some noiz!

as promised last week, the new mix is now available for download. named “back in the saddle”, as i genuinely hope to get my act together and start getting some regular output on to the revised dchousegrooves site. i really enjoyed putting this mix together - the tracks really flowed together, and there really wan’t much effort involved. as any of you who are dj’s will know, you should not have to try to do a mix….if you’re having to work on it, then it ain’t going to work out. the best mixes just flow, as if they were meant to be!

this one was the first mix i’ve done on my zoom h2 handy recorder - where has this thing been all my life? so simple to use - no messing about with pc’s or laptops…just record direct to the device and you’ve got your mix in a wav file on an sd card. when i started in this game i was recording to c90 casettes; things have come a long way since then! the only problem i ran into was that i was using an 4gb sdhc card, and my pc card reader clearly can’t read sdhc cards, so I had to transfer over usb cable from the zoom h2. never mind - we got there in the end!

so on to the mix itself; mostly new tracks picked up on a recent trip to dj hut, starting off on a deep kerri chandler tip with a track off his saucy dick dickler ep on max trax, then seguing into his latest relelease Kong on deeply rooted house. from there into a bit of standard west coast deep house from tango and grayhound, until things start getting interesting with jimpster - a hold on your soul and kimouts’ down to earth on buzzin’ fly. Then things get noisy with the drama society remix of tiefschwarz - original. We then journey into some melodic euro deepness from jay shepeard, kimouts (again) and trentemøller before starting to bang up the drummy shit for a few tracks. the eclectic contribution to the proceedings comes courtesy of ray charles and quentin harris, before we go all aciied for the finishers.

i haven’t give this one a full listen back yet, but I certainly had a good time putting it together, so i’m sure it’s be worthwhile. highlights for me are the tiefschwarz > jay shepheard transition and the trentemøller track. I hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed mixing it, and i hope there are plenty more to come from dc house grooves, back in the saddle again.

andy grant - back in the saddle (320kbps / 80 mins / 196mb)

track list (click the links to view the discogs release page):

kerri chandler – the drive (max trax)
kerri chandler - kong (deeply rooted house)
dj rasoul – candlelight affair (greyhound)
kinky movement – safe house (tango)
jimpster – a hold on your soul (freerange)
kimouts – down to earth (mymy monterrey wash remix 1) (buzzin’ fly)
tiefschwarz – original (drama society remix) (souvenir)
jay shepheard – 4nc (compost blacklabel)
kimouts – down to earth (original) (buzzin’ fly)
trentemøller – miss you (trentemøller remix)
soul clap – the giraffe (original mix) (airdrop)
jerome syndenham, texu, romantic couch - ebian (samual l session remix) (ibadan)
jon cutler & matthias heilbronn – 651 (original mix) (distant music)
ray charles – eleanor rigby (quentin harris remix)
jay shepheard – …the party’s upstairs (compost blacklabel)
kurd maverick – the rub (instrumental mix) (cr2 records)

i promised a mix this weekend….i’ve just completed it, and its uploading as we speak. i can’t really tell what the mix is yet…its kind of moody, deep and banging all at the same time…..deep housey stuff with some floaty bits, drummy shit and some aciieeed thrown in for good measure. just listening to it now, and its a fitting return for dchousegrooves! i still have to get the track list together and all that, but it should be available tomorrow. in the mean time, here’s a random picture from the dchousegrooves archives.

another day, another repost……i’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot of the dchousegrooves mix back-catalog being surfaced here over the coming weeks until I can pull my finger out and get a new mix together. i’ve got my brand new zoom h2 handy recorder ready to go, but a business trip to the uk next week stands in the way. next weekend i will do a new mix. promise. got a stack of fantastic new records from dj-hut standing by and ready to go.

anyway, i digress. here’s another mix to keep things ticking over - lack of focus. this was done over 2 years ago, but many plays later i feel it has stood the test of time. particular highlights on this one are jori hulkonnen’s “the moment” (a true timeless classic) and alonzo savoy’s “life drifts”, although in calling them out i don’t want to downplay the rest.

download:

lack of focus

tracklist:

Loco Dice - Jacuzzi Games (Ovum)
Random Noise Generation - Rock My Soul (Octave One Mix) (430 West)
Jori Hulkkonen - The Moment (F Communications)
Underground Artists United For Life - Most Precious Love (Franck Roger Beats) (King Street Sounds)
32 Project - Rule Of Humanity (Bonus Beats) (Ibadan)
Loco Dice - Menina Brasileira (Ovum)
M.o.D. Moonshine (Acapella) Soulfuric Deep
Urban Soul - Whatever Makes You Happy (Tomo’s Sincere Remix) (King Street Sounds)
Many Velasquez Feat. Clifton King - Family Prayer (Boyd’s Alternate Mix) (Deepa Grooves)
Alonzo Savoy - Life Drifts (Bridge Music)
Mark Farina - Dream Machine (Brett’s Dreaming Dub) (Om Records)
Andy Caldwell - Brand New Day (Peak Time Mix) (Swank Recordings)
Greenskeepers - Man In The House (Land Shark’s Man 2 Man Mix) (Om Records)
Johnny Fiasco Feat. Jackie - All Right (Original Mix) (Tonic Recordings)
Married Men – I’ve Got Hos (Guess Who?)
Hakim Murphy - Circle (Katrinka Records)
Heaven & Earth - Prescription Every Night (Prescription)