dc house grooves

Another mix from the DC House Grooves archive….. I am noodling some new mixes right now, but the wheels of creativity move slowly these days. I’ll get there eventually!

In the meantime, here’s a mix from 2004 just before I moved to the US: Moving House.

Here’s what I wrote about the mix when it was originally posted on Deeprhythms.com:

“In May I’ll be moving permanently to my wife’s home town Washington DC from Edinburgh. Its a big move to make, and a lot of planning has been going into it. A major consideration is shipping the record collection across the Atlantic, and over the last few weeks I’ve been starting to pack up records into boxes, trying to decide what I can live without for the next few months, and what I need to have close at hand!

It was while packing up records that I started working on this mix. I just couldn’t make up my mind what kind of mix to do….then I came across a Columba Corina 2 x 12″ on Defender records from 1997 as I was packing some old records away – an amazing collection of tunes that I’d never used on a mix before, or even heard played by anyone else. I used a couple of tracks from that record as the basis for this mix, and built it up from there, trying to include as wide a variety of styles as possible, while still keeping it deep. Those Columba Corina tracks really stand out for me in this mix, but my favourite track of the bunch in Hot Chix by Mister J. Simply beautiful. Moving house is taking up a lot of my time just now, and I hope that’s what I’ve managed to capture in this mix – truly moving house.”

Andy Grant – Moving House (161 MB / 71 mins / 320kbps)

Tracklist:

00.00 Nubian Mindz feat. KJ – Dreaming (IRMA Records / 2003)
04.48 Patchworks – Millions Toes Interlude (Q-Tape Records / 2004)
06.18 Todd Terry- The Music (Dub Mix) (TNT Records / 1994?)
09.52 Columba Carina – Sun-Flowerz (Defender / 1997)
14.26 Andy Roberts- Around the Corner (Penetrate Records / 1999?)
19.48 The Rurals – Messages (Peng / 2002)
27.30 Columba Carina – Silver City (Defender / 1997)
33.05 Solid Gold Playaz – Shhh (Quiet) (Silver Network / 2003)
37.23 Alex Kid with Lissette Alea – Come with Me (F Communications 2003)
42.23 Mister J – Hot Chix (Missive / 2003)
47.00 Peaches – Passin Me Byte (Guided Methods Remix) (Peaches Music / 2003)
52.52 Glenn Underground – Trust (Underground Vocal) (Large / 2004)
62.10 Dirty Jesus- Cut a Rug (Jazz Dat Ride Mix) (Paper Recordings / 1996)

Watch this space for Moving House II, which I’ll post later in the weekend.

dude….i’m on a roll today. ok – so not the most imaginatively titled mix, but i was found this one buried deep in my ipod’s file system on a recent plane trip, and it blew me away. definitely one of those mixes for listening to with the lights down low with the headphones on. i can’t remember when i did this one, but i think it was before my move stateside in 2004, on a sunday no doubt. this one gets off too a real slow start with some wonderfully laid back tracks from ymc, justin harris (with a little help from timothy leary), the vogado projects then picks things up and takes you on a jouney. there’s tracks from some quality labels like svek, luxury service, moods & grooves, nrk, 20:20 visi0n…the list goes on. i wish i still had the time to put together mixes like this! you know…maybe i’ll just have to make some time

andy grant – sunday session (103 minutes / 234mb / 320kbps)

lonely satellite – ymc (nite grooves)
justin harris – part of dream (tom bone v.music)
the vogado projects – mas fuerte que el sol (a.t.f.c. summer smoothie mix) (fluid ounce)
chris j. – ritmo (svek)
allen & manoo – the good reason (alternative mix) (basenotic records)
local – deep introspection (luxury service)
ricky suarez – just a groove (nice’n'ripe)
kings of tomorrow – the sway (nrk sound division)
plastic avengers – all i want (nrk sound division)
johnny fiasco & dizzy – bottom’s up (doubledown recordings)
hakan lidbo – orgazmo (moody recordings)
thomas sahs – crunchtime (doubledown recordings)
black music – lost of love (moods & grooves)
the script kiddies – mist (backup records)
dano – do what you want (honchos music)
hakan lidbo – walkaway (20:20 vision unreleased dub two) (estereo)
riviera traxx – you better believe (antima records)
david duriez – re-born (your guide) (gourmet recordings)
h-foundation – new funk theory (soma)

while having a dig through the dc house grooves archives i found one of my favorite mixes from years gone by – winter deep. i think i originally did this mix back in 2002 / 2003 when i was living in edinburgh, scotland. there are some great tracks here from the likes of metro area, audio soul project, g-pal and kerri chandler, but i’ve always felt the original version of winter deep was too fast, clocking in at around 130 bpm….so with a little sprinkling of digital magic, here’s a new version of winter deep, dialed back to a pace more appropriate to the material

andy grant – winter deep redux (86 minutes / 196MB / 320kbps)

caught up – metro area (source uk)
electrofied – dj t (get physical music)
forget the past – cosmetix (ovum recordings)
if only it would stop raining – jay tripwire presents the dark corner (london housing benefit)
be allrite – nubian mindz (neroli)
ride the bass – h-foundation (soma)
little friends – g-pal (ovum)
memory (take you higher) – audio soul project (nrk)
the poem (remix) – delicious inc. (purple music)
west of athens – universal agents (ovum)
feel the dub – onionz & tony (siesta)
roy’s groove – francois dubois (blue recordings)
on a journey – joeski (siesta)
atmospheric dub – kerri chandler (ibadan)
someday – the beard presents deep expressions (inspirit music)

more mixes from the archives coming this weekend ….check back soon!

hi all – it’s been a while since i’ve posted a new mix on dc house grooves. here’s a new mix of deep, and sometime banging, stuff from the record collection that i threw together a couple of weeks ago.

andy grant – deep rising (70 mins / 179 MB / 320kbps)

as always, mixed on 2 x technics 1210’s and a half broken intimidation don mk ii mixer (my vestax pmc-250 died!). no cd’s or digital trickery.

track list:

inverse cinematics – pet legs (legal subs mix) (fluid ounce)
deep code – backspace (d’lectable)
young seth – moment (fxhe)
robi uppin – silent runner (driftwood)
m. pittman – skylark (late morning mix foool!!) (fxhe)
further dimensions – dancing with angels (desvio)
oasis – twenty-two (fxhe)
lil mark – do to me (instrumental) (doubledown recordings)
inner soul – pressure (deeply rooted house)
jared wheeler – maintainin’ (eargasmic recordings)
basement jaxx – samba magic (basic bastard mix) (outland)
rulers of the deep – advantage (distance)
public energy – three o’three (re-edit) (deeptec)
laurent garnier – crispy bacon (original mix) (f communications)

i recently re-discovered a whole bunch of my mixes from way back that have never been posted on dchousegrooves.com, so watch this space…they’ll be showing up here shortly.