Great Scott

Most blogs and websites I visit regularly post podcasts, so I thought I'd get in on the action. Being a lazy person (or maybe I'm just time poor), rather than asking people to do mixes for the site, I decided to post links to sets I stumbled upon on the net and which I rate. I'm going to try to do this every week (depending on whether I find something worth posting). I'm starting off with Patrice Scott, one of my favourite producers of the past few years. You often hear about great producers who can't DJ and vice versa, but it sounds like Patrice is an exception, as this set, which orginally appeared on deepershades.net, has the same mysterious, evocative feeling as his releases on Sistrum. I first heard this mix earlier this week waiting for a bus into work as a snow blizzard started. The visibility was poor, and for a while, as I waited at the bus stop, all I could see were the blurred grey shapes of traffic passing, accompanied by Scott's layered sounds. Like all the best electronic music from Detroit, there is something sad yet austere, steely yet organic about this mix - it tugs at the heart strings but also has an aloofness that makes it even more fascinating. One of the big problems with this music is trying to describe it words -  maybe it's better if you just listen to it. I'll sort out more links to this mix over the next day or so....

edit: here's another link to the mix..

Comments

[chrisdisco]

brilliant. thanks. been meaning to track down a scott mix.

and to be honest, i think it's a good thing you chose not to start up a podcast. it is ridiculous how many 'casts are popping up now. they are becoming horribly generic. without even trying i could name you at least 5 new podcast series which have appeared in the last few weeks. earlier this week i even suggested shutting up shop on the ssgcasts (my fellow ssgs didnt take kindly to that idea). but when does the 'casting format become redundant through saturation?

[Kenny]

Nice one, same as chris been meaning to get a scott mix. he was excellent in Dublin before christmas. quality dj, and one of the best producers at the moment.

[scott]

thanks for this. i downloaded a so called patrice scott mix via djhistory earlier in the week called "deep in detroit" but when i played it i just couldn't believe it was him (it was very generic euro house/borderline trance at times). i've just downloaded this one, and following a quick skip through this sounds like the real deal, i'm so relieved that someone who i rate highly didn't churn that other mix out.

[shuja x]

scott are you sure about that? i'm pretty sure i got the same megaupload link from a post on the resident advisor forum, and it sounds exactly the same as the yousendit link. which is to say, not remotely trancey, and thoroughly great.

i listened to this four times in a row the day i got it, good move sharing it richard.

[tom/pipecock]

i think that calling something a "podcast" is really pretty silly. we just call them "guest mixes" to go along with our own writers' mixes on ISM, no one gets any preferential treatment in title! you will usually find that in detroit, the artists were always deejays first. there are some exceptions, but that's how it gets done there. nice one sharing this link, DLing now........

[chrisdisco]

got this on again. really quality mix... anyone else have any other scott mixes?

[Brophy]

Yeah, I hate the term podcast too - I suppose it is a broader term to describe spoken word, unmixed music etc.

I added a new link to the set if anyone had difficulties with the first one...