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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