Fabric 41 mixed by LUCIANO

[dark bark]

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Here's  the latest Fabric mix, number 41 in the series, from the Chilean maestro-of-moustaches, Luciano. Probably the most famous moustaches in the todays minimal dance scene

01. Rhadoo - 'Slagare' [Cadenza]
02. Brothers' Vibe - 'El Baile (Acapella)' [Cadenza]
Luciano wastes no time getting the Cadenza vibes going. Rhadoo's Dor Mit Oru EP has been slept on quite badly I reckon, so it's great to hear 'Slagare' getting the lead-off here. The 'El Baile' a cappella made an appearance on Luciano's much-discussed Raum Open-Air set from September last year - god knows what he's talking about, but it establishes the latin vibe I'm expecting to endure through the rest of the mix. And ah man 'Slagare' just takes me back to Ricardo last weekend!

03. D'Julz - 'Yo Momo' [Intacto]
The first D'Julz track is the newie on Intacto. The Shinedoe remix is a good cut, but here the original emerges seamlessly from Rhadoo's bounce and pop and gives stuff a bit more weight. I'm already enjoying this immensely - and now i'm really looking forward to 'Just So You Know' later on...

Los Updates - 'Getting Late [Luciano's Getting Late Remix]' [Cadenza]
Los Updates have a lot of buzz right now! Anyone associated with Ricardo's Fabric 36 is fine by me. I guess some people may not like the vocals (I've seen some people complain about '4 Wheel Drive' being vocal-heavy) but I actually like them - here they're hilariously mundane: "For the momentbeing the restrooms are busy, they are cleaning or maybe changing some kind of useful device...what do I care?" This is good party music.
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Ah man there's some great percussion clattering around here! I'm very glad the 'Andruic & Japan' vibe has found a place here. Hah and these high-pitched synths sound like Tellytubby land! Yeah I need to hear this in Fabric room 1.

05. Reboot - 'Be Tougher' [Cadenza]
Reboot's 'Be Tougher' keeps things moving nicely - I've never been totally won over by this one because it sounds a bit muddy to these ears, but here it lends a nice bit of momentum. Not sure i'd listen to the whole EP again though.

06. Alex Picone - 'Floppy' [Cadenza]
Here's ANOTHER new Cadenza track, this one the upcoming #027 from Alex Picone. I would complain if it wasn't so good. Allegations of chinstroking immediately thrown out of the window here - 'Floppy' is GROOVY. Oh yes yes yes, I think i'll be buying that one...

07. Sety - 'Mogane [Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Remix]' [Circus Company]
This is also my first listen to 'Mogane' by Sety, this time the Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts remix. Nice and gentle percussion going on in the background, and I like the handclaps...ooh and some vocals. This really is just like Luciano's set in Fabric last month - the kind of sexy swing I enjoyed at the time, but now for repeat play on a CD. Nice. I know a lot of people have criticised Luciano for not changing it up enough, but for me when the basic sound is this good...why fuck with it?

08. Johnny D - 'Orbitalife' [Oslo]
Ah and here's the big one. When 'Orbitalife' topped RA's charts a while back I couldn't work out why. I'd given it a few listens, I'd enjoyed it in Johnny D's Get The Curse podcast from last year, but still...that one note just annoyed me after a while. Then I heard it some more, then I listened to it some more, then I realised I was CHOOSING to listen to it more, then I finally worked out that I was under its spell. Then Luciano/Pedro played it out in full - TWICE - in Fabric room 1 (I'm going to be like a broken record about Fabric room 1...sorry) and then, yes, I was totally sold. I suppose some of you might be sick of it by now, but I'm not.

09. Julien Jabre - 'Jungle Beatz' [Defected]
10. M83 - 'In Church' [Gooom]
Some 'Jungle Beatz' from Julien Jabre make for a nice exit from D's antsy murmurings. This mix is mesmerising so far. I guess 'Orbitalife' could have been played for a little less time, but then that'd remove some of its hypnotic (*spits on word*) effect. OOOOOH and here's the M83. Luciano mixed 'In Church' with D'Julz's 'Just So You Know' in Fabric last month, so it's interesting to hear that he's trying it in different contexts. M83's new album has been sending me all misty-eyed and starstruck recently ('Kim And Jessie' especially) but it's nice to be reminded of the hazy days of their earlier material. With Fabric's smoke and lasers, this track really did send me dreaming! (Anyone think it should be a bit higher in the mix though? Maybe I should just turn the volume up...I think of M83 like My Bloody Valentine: more volume=more pleasure).

11. Kevin Saunderson/Inner City - 'Good Love [Luciano's Good Love Remix]' [KMS]
Immensely preferable to the A-side remix by Jesse Rose, here's Luciano's remix of 'Good Love' by Kevin Saunderson/Inner City. Where Jesse Rose goes all novelty on 'World Of Deep' and ends up slightly debasing it, Luciano just takes 'Good Love' and twists it into his own meandering worldview- there's nothing goofy about it, it's just very classy. For me this track sounds like a cut off Fourges Et Sabres but with some occasional vocals/moans and more cavernous percussion. I'm expecting this to amp things up a bit - it's an exercise in tension-building if ever there was one. Looking down the tracklist I can see Phuture and D'Julz on the way, so it looks like I'm in luck...

12. Phuture - 'Rise From Your Grave [Tiefschwarz Remix]' [Strictly Rhythm]
I haven't heard any Phuture apart from 'Acid Tracks', but here's a Tiefschwarz remix of their 'Rise From Your Grave' on Strictly Rhythm. I'm a bit ambivalent towards Tiefschwarz really...their remixes are much of a muchness to me, and I've never heard them DJ or anything...this is quite funky I guess. Shame it's not something a bit MORE though after the Inner City workout - I was expecting a bit more of a peak after 6 minutes of tension. In fact this sounds almost apologetic!

13. Schneider, Galluzzi - 'Albertino' [Cadenza]
14. D'Julz - 'Just So You Know' [Ovum]
'Albertino' is a stonecold classic for me (although it's outshone even by the B-side, 'Nora P') so I'm not averse to it appearing here. Again, i'm sure seasoned Luciano-spotters will be irked by its perceived 'oldness', but the fact is it's a great track and I'd like to think that tracks this good could have a longer shelflife than your average techno record. And I guess 'Just So You Know' could almost be described as the new 'Albertino', although it's about 10x as big and about 10x as lethal. This track destroys me every time. Stonecold dead. Annihilated. Ouch. I feel like the mix could have done without the Phuture track - going straight from the Inner City quagmire into the 'Albertino'/'Just So You Know' combo would probably be a massive payoff, although I guess if the tunes don't match then the tunes don't match.
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Seriously, what was D'Julz on when he made this monstrosity?!

15. Kenny Larkin - 'You Are...' [Planet E]
'You Are...' has a tough act to follow, and I guess this is the start of the slow wind-down to the finale. At this point I'm pleased with the mix for the most part, although I would have loved to have heard Luciano letting himself go a bit more - maybe some of the darker style he played after 7am last month, like Loco Dice's punishing 'Pimp Jackson Is Talking Now' etc. I really like how the mixture of house from Chile and Detroit has worked. Here, Kenny Larkin makes a lot of sense, vocally confirming the conclusions we should have come to from the music that preceded him over the last hour: "The outcome is whatever you choose."

16. Chymera - 'Arabesque' [Tishomingo]
I'm mighty glad to hear another Chymera track - this one from early last year. If you haven't had your mind LITERALLY BLOWN by his 'Ellipsis' release then go and get yourself sorted out. I like 'Arabesque' a lot too - a suitably whimsical finish to the mix. I can imagine this one at 9am in room 1 (there I go again...) with the lasers painting the walls and smiles all round.

Verdict
I've listened to this once. And i've written an awful lot of crap here. But, unlike many Fabric CDs, I know I'll be listening to this again quite a few times. The more familiar I get with Luciano's DJing, the more I appreciate his particular slant on the often-slapdash latin/detroit mashup. (By the way i'm writing this bit as 'Arabesque' plays out and it's getting really beautiful). The Los Updates track is massive, as is the Alex Picone one - I don't think you could accuse Cadenza of descending into chinstroking with these releases. I hope to hear both of those many times over the summer.

I expect the main criticisms of this mix will be its lack of diversion from his sets, its Cadenza-heavy lineup, its slightly meandering trajectory after the Johnny D (which does seem a bit monolithic in the middle there)...but these are all things that I think could be forgiven in the Cadenza boss. This is how he rolls, so roll with him.

Enjoy the CD!

[anggarez]

kayaknya keren nih liat dr track list nya

[Gibran]

wuidih fabric series did it again.....

[dark bark]

yg edisi 42nya bakalan ame yg ngemix...

[anggarez]

wah kalo Ame' sih di jamin deh

[7]

wihhhhh ditunggu nih fabric Ame...nyelem nih pasti ya hehe

[dunant]

fabric SEGO pasti ada deh.. gue jamin manteb

[Gibran]

Idih2 setuju sama 7, makin nyelem kalo Ame nih.....

[Robin BH]

fabric SEGO pasti ada deh.. gue jamin manteb

ditunggu ya pabrik sego nya..ehh fabric sego...hehehe..btw, sepertinya keren2 nih track list nya luciano