FILT043 DJ Q - TwentyFour7even (2000 Filter)

DJ Q's second album TwentyFour7even brings more tech house fun and also more music thanks to Outside's Matt Cooper who added some funky keys on 3 tracks. My favs though are the breakbeat exercise Halls Message and the dark downtempo soundscape The End Of The Beginning, already known from Elvis Never Meant Shit To Me.

TwentyFour7even was the last long-player released on Filter. The collection is complete with the exception of FILT029 Still Dancing On John Wayne's Head. There's still about 100 posts left before I'll be allowed to grab it from globalnoises and deliver it to you. But that's no bad news because the easiest way to get it is to make mirrors of my blog posts, so I'll be posting like crazy on Future Vintage. So.. stay tuned!

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FILT041 The Amalgamation Of Soundz - Part II (1999 Filter)

The Amalgamation Of Soundz' second and last album contains the single hit Enchant Me (featured on every good nujazz compilation since then), two variations on Keyvan's Paper theme (featuring acid jazz legend Roger Beaujolais on vibes) and a handful of tracks to ease your mind and please your ears. Less synths, more jazz, that's Part II.

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FILT035 $unship - Is This Real (1998 Filter)

Yeah, THIS is the garage house creation. That $ in $unship says it all, I guess. The rip originates from globalnoises and I didn't have the guts to listen to it properly, so don't blame me for any stains.

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FILT033 VA Elvis Never Meant Shit To Me (1998 Filter)

A compilation with such a cool name just can't be bad. Contains everything that makes a good label compilation - some hits (Sunship's Try Me Out), some B-sides (Kid Loops' Micro), some cool remixes (DJ Q's Glasgow's Jazz remixed by Derrick Carter) and a lot of exclusive tracks including Marveloso by Sunship's Ceri Evans side project The Hoops, Click 'n' Cycle remix of The Fire This Time (still some 100 posts away), Moments Like This by The Amalgamation Of Soundz, and my fav Dansak by DJ Chubby Grooves. Future vintage music at it's best!


01 DJ Q-The End Of The Beginning
02 Sunship-Try Me Out
03 Kid Loops-Crazy Lloyd
04 The Fire This Time-Reluctant Warrior (ADF Mix)
05 Trailermen-Better Love
06 The Amalgamation Of Soundz-Moments Like This
07 The Hoops-Marveloso
08 The Fire This Time-I Love The Future (Click 'n' Cycle Mix)
09 DJ Q-Glasgow's Jazz (Derrick Carter Mix)
10 Kid Loops-Micro
11 Chubby Grooves-Dansak
12 The Amalgamation Of Soundz-Keyvan's Paper (Document 3)

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FILT024 DJ Q - Face The Music (1997 Filter)

Paul Flynn AKA DJ Q knows a lot about knob twiddling and isn't afraid to use it. We Are One with all that filtering was a total floorfiller but his debut album goes far beyond that. Just listen to the techno lament She'll Be Gone and you'll see how much emotions you can put into a house groove. All those loops and bleeps are sometimes too much for my ears but Face The Music is still pretty acceptable for a 14-years old tech house album.

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FILT022 Kid Loops - TimeQuake (1997 Filter)

Jamie Lexton is just the type of musical producers I like. With just a handful of singles and one album he became strong and influential figure on drum'n'bass scene and his first single Alien Resident will always be a goldie oldie for me. TimeQuake is a must-hear for any d'n'b fan. If you like the styles of Wax Doctor or Alex Reece, Kid Loops is your guy.


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FILT017 Sunship (1997 Filter)

I must say that my musical memory failed me badly and I apologize to Sunship for accusing them of producing garage house creations. Unlike their second album (which definitely IS a garage house creation), their debut sounds more like a breakbeat pop creation with inevitable presence of kitschy female voice. This platter will please those who liked those FM-fied drum'n'bass albums that appeared in the same time, starting with Baby D and ending with Breakbeat Era. Big hug goes to Tonegent for his VBR rip and to milola for his 320kbps m4a's, which I decided to post in the end.


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FILT020 The Amalgamation Of Soundz (1997 Filter)

This eponymous debut album by the aptly named duo Mark Hartbottle & Jean-Claude Thompson AKA The Amalgamation Of Soundz is another ear-pleaser. Take the best breakbeats of all tempos, add some funky keys, a scent of trancy synths, bake until ready and serve chilled... Too bad these guys released so little after their second Filter album Part II (coming soon), but their compilations, DJ sets and remixes are also cool. I'm thinking more and more about putting their post-Filter material together as another Future Vintage Exclusive.

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FILT012 Kid Loops vs Cool Breeze - Special Projects (1996 Filter)

This brotherly cooperation between Jamie and Charlie Lexton is the first full album on Filter, the first that got to my hands, and IMHO the best Filter release. This juicy mixture of broken beats, dubby basslines and cool samples still pleases my ears just like it did 15 years ago. Don't sleep on it!


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FILT010 VA Filter Killing Music (1996 Filter)

Here comes the first Filter compilation, more of a label showcase than a conceptual set like the 1998 Elvis Never Meant Shit To Me. The sealed yellow digipack (yes, you've had to destroy it to get inside) contains a collection of early Filter singles. My favs are Ashley Beedle's remix of Sunship's The 13Th Key, the Pressure Drop remix of The Fire This Time (not on that damned album, see previous post) and one of a handful of original tracks produced by my favourite drum'n'bass couple The Underwolves. What's also remarkable is the original version of Offshore by Chicane, before it's updated version became a balearic classic. Chicane never released anything on Filter and this track was licensed probably just to raise sales, as well as Faze Action remix of D*Note, previously released on Dorado.

01 Box Saga-Blackfly
02 Sunship-Initiation
03 Kid Loops-Alien Resident
04 DJ Q-We Are One
05 Violet-Porknow Fish
06 The Fire This Time-At Least American Indian People Know Exactly How They've Been Fucked Around (Pressure Drop Version 1)
07 Sunship-The 13Th Key (The Black Science Alchemy Rebirth)
08 D Note-Waiting Hopefully (Faze Action Dub)
09 Local Zero-Bury The Hatchet
10 DJ Q-Urban Hustle (Part 1 And 2)
11 Underwolves-Nine Lives (Version Wildlife)
12 Chicane-Offshore


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Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Make Them Like It (2000 Dorado)

Make Them Like It? They couldn't pick a better title. File under Obsolete. This UK issue of the third Brooklyn Funk Essentials album is sadly Dorado's last 1990s long-player I own.

There's a lot of interesting Dorado stuff I've never had (Outside's fourth album Suspicious or the eponymous album by Cleveland Watkiss' Project 23), have lost a long time ago (A.P.E.'s brilliant album Striplight), plus a couple of those that fall off the timeframe of this blog (Outside's last album Out Of The Dark from 2001 or Natalie Walker's debut Urban Angel). Perhaps you could check your garage, cellar or attic and come up with the missing releases, but until then... Wait, there's always Dorados's prodigal offspring, Filter, as important for 90s breakbeat scene as Dorado was for acid jazz heads. Coming soon so stay tuned!

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Jhelisa - Language Electric (1997 Dorado)

Jhelisa's second album is disappointing, to say the least. In fact it's a sellout. There's no way to compare it to Galactica Rush since this album lacks everything that made Jhelisa a true acid jazz diva - energy, passion and feeling. What's left is a bunch of poorly stitched songs halfway between bar jazz and weak r'n'b, with dull instrumentation and depressive vocals. An afternoon rehearsal of a bar band, stools on the tables and bartender polishing glasses, that's the only impression on my mind. I have to admit I slept on this album back in 1997 which from today's POV seems to be the correct attitude.

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Outside - Discoveries (1997 Dorado)

The Blogger timequake seems to be over, all posts are in correct spacetime continuum, no damage done, so let's move on and finish the Dorado saga.
Despite the silly cover art, Discoveries became my fav Outside album simply because it is instrumental. These eight soundscapes made of solid beats, dark ambience and a sense for drama create a true electronic jazz masterpiece. Not a weak moment here. Enough words, try it and stay tuned!

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Jhelisa - Galactica Rush (1994 Dorado)

In the lost episode of The X-Files, Fox Mulder has no difficulty linking the late 1960's US government classified genetic project in Houston, TX and a Motown-style story of three girls of the Anderson family who became The Voices Of Acid Jazz after fleeing Texas with men in black breathing down their necks. What else is there to explain the undisputed monopoly of Pamela (D*Note, Incognito), Carleen (The Brand New Heavies, Young Disciples) and Jhelisa Anderson between 1993 and 1997? Keep it in mind while listening to this suspiciously brilliant Cool Breeze-produced acid soul album and keep on believing ;-).

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D*Note - Criminal Justice (1995 Dorado)

Criminal Justice is the second album by Charlie Lexton and Matt Wienevski AKA D*Note and imho their best. Unlike the relaxed acid-jazzy debut Babel (I wish I know where that one is..) Criminal Justice mixes raggamuffin babbling and soulful vocals with broken beats and twisted ambience to create unique atmosphere of drama and suspense. A perfect soundtrack to a life in pre-Blair Britain.

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VA Dorado - The Gold Sessions (1994 Instinct)

Dressed in americanized version of Dorado label design comes this donated disc released by Instinct Records. It's actually a compilation compiled from two compilations (A Compilation and A Compilation /2/) and despite the added "remix" tags all the tracks are the same including the bad original mastering. Suitable for those who currently experience their first encounter with Future Vintage.

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Cool Breeze - Assimilation (1995 Dorado)

Cool Breeze was a solo project of D*Note member Charlie Lexton. On his only album Assimilation you will find the legendary downtempo hits Can't Deal With This and Acoustic Blues as well as Tik Tok remix by his brother Jamie AKA Kid Loops and also funny cover version of Charlie Don't Surf by The Almighty Clash.

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Slowly - Ming (1995 Dorado/Chill Out Label)

Slowly was the first artist licensed to Dorado to cross the subtle line between acid jazz and trip hop which is not such a mystery case as their sole album Ming was originally released on short-lived (and equally legendary) Chill Out Label run by Jonathan Moore, later of Ninja Tune fame. Although this DJ/sound design trio is widely known to fans of heavy big beat sound as Headrillaz (check their album Coldharbour Rocks on Howie B's label Pussyfoot Records), Ming is a sweet collection of jazz scented breakbeats and tracks like On The Loose are guaranteed to stay in your head for days.

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VA Dorado - A Compilation (3) File Under Dorado (1994)

The third volume of Dorado Records label compilations has been donated by our reader T-Bird and features some dope acid jazz tracks including Dorado stalwarts Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Outside (King Tubby remix!), Cool Breeze and Jhelisa, as well as couple of tunes available on wax only.

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Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure EP (1995 Dorado)

I swear I have both her Dorado albums somewhere and will post them soon. In the meanwhile enjoy this lovely remix EP. The disc contains my fav remix by Ashley Beedle but as I grow older, I enjoy the Quiet Storm mix more and more.

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