The Phil-Harmonic Podcast Episode 32 - Spotlight On Ibiza

Will finally be getting to a stable connection to download/listen to this at the weekend - looking forward to it. :)
 
kimajy said:
Will finally be getting to a stable connection to download/listen to this at the weekend - looking forward to it. :)
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You were/are on fire in the Tracks For 2012 thread, kimajy. So many great suggestions. What a track Downstroke is by the way! 8O
 
Hey, guys. Just as little note to say thanks again to everyone who listened to this set. Still getting some great feedback on this. :p

My podcast episodes normally stay on my SoundCloud page for between 2-3 months - soon I'll upload it to MixCloud so it'll be available to stream permanently. But if you like to download your sets, grab it now before it disappears. ;) All other accounts/details via my sig.
 
been giving this a listen over the last few days and i have to say its top notch....well done that man ;)
 
Phil_Dicko said:
Ok, as promised in the 'Tracks For 2012' thread - here is my attempt at picking out my favourite suggestions from that thread and putting them together in a 2 hour set.

Here's part of what I've written about it in my own blog...

"My Ibiza Specials are in 4 epic parts this year, but rather than have them consecutively throughout June and July, we're going to start them off now and revisit later in July. This will quite neatly mark the start of the Ibiza season.

Actually, we've just had an abnormally glorious week of sunshine here in the UK. I was out in the garden earlier, melting in the sun with a head like a lead balloon – I closed my eyes and just for a split second I could feel that icy pool water on my skin....

Part 1 is something completely new for 2012. This year, in anticipation of my 4th trip to the White Isle, I returned to the Ibiza Spotlight forum to get all the inside gossip on the up-coming season. They have a thread on there called ‘Tracks For 2012' where users post their suggestions for big Ibiza records of the year. As the forum is regularly frequented by Ibiza veterans and cultured house and techno connoisseurs of discerning taste, the suggestions given are always of a high standard and really dissect deep into the core of something that is inexplicably ‘Ibiza'.

This was something I attempted with my ‘Ibiza Loves House Music' episode last year, but the opening 40 mins of that set really only scratched Ibiza's surface. I love house and techno, but my knowledge of it compared to trance made it difficult for me, on my own, to really capture that ‘Ibiza spirit' in a mature a way as I would have liked.

For this week's ‘Spotlight On Ibiza', I've handpicked a selection of the very best suggestions from the ‘Tracks For 2012' thread. It's made for a fantastically deep, textured and sophisticated set that builds nicely to some slightly chunkier, club-orientated grooves later on. 5 of the tracks are my own picks, mainly just to bridge a big harmonic gap between The Major and Sunday At El Row.

Given my DJing background in trance and hard dance music, this was a million miles away from my DJing comfort zone. In fact, this mix starts out at around 20+ beats per minute slower than the music I first attempted to beat-match with on those beloved Pioneer 100s back in 2007. I was really nervous about mixing this set. In reality, it's turned out as well as I could possibly have hoped and I really enjoyed doing it as well. I'm actually proud of myself for not chickening out on it.

Thanks to the members of Ibiza Spotlight for their unwitting input. If you listen, I hope you enjoy it.

In the words of Frankie Wilde, – “Ibiza is…”

On the tracklist here, I've put in brackets next to each track who suggested the tune and/or who made it known that they loved a particular suggestion. Would really appreciate your comments, one and all. :)

THE PHIL-HARMONIC PODCAST EPISODE 32 - THE IBIZA SPECIALS PART 1
SPOTLIGHT ON IBIZA


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1. Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge - Für Die Liebe [All Day I Dream] (kimajy / jimmiz / nostrum)
2. Niconé & Sascha Braemer - Run Away (Dan Caster's Dark Mix) [Stil Vor Talent] (ibizarre / nostrum)
3. Hollis P Monroe - I'm Lonely (Laura Jones Remix) [Noir Music] (Tom_Buck)
4. James Zabiela - Blame (Tom Budden's ALiVE Remix) [Hope Recordings] (Phil_Dicko)
5. Just Be - Touch Me [Get Physical] (kimajy)
6. Zeitgeist - I Dance For No Reason (Giom Remix) [Save Room Recordings] (jimmiz)
7. PBR Streetgang - Downstroke (Deetron Remix) [Hot Creations] (kimajy)
8. Gui Boratto - Destination: Education (Terranova Mix) [Kompakt] (ibizarre)
9. Pig & Dan, Mark Reeve & Dean Demanuele - Machines [Bedrock Records] (kimajy)
10. Maceo Plex - Sex Appeal [Crosstown Rebels] (robsta899 / heros)
11. Nneka - Shining Star (Joe Goddard Remix) [Decon] (kimajy)
12. Nicole Moudaber - Hair [Leena Music] (macdonsj)
13. Dub Taylor - Holy Cow [Opossum Recordings] (Charlson)
14. Sacha Robotti - The Major [Dirtybird] (macdonsj)
15. Jay Lumen - Drop That [Mistakes Music] (Phil_Dicko)
16. D-Nox & Beckers - Jacaranda (Dosem Remix) [Tronic] (Phil_Dicko)
17. Mark Knight - Alright [Toolroom Records] (Phil_Dicko)
18. Umek - Sunday At El Row [1605] (neilly303)
19. Mark Knight & Funkagenda - The Man With The Red Face [Toolroom Records] (Phil_Dicko)
20. ENCORE : Storm Queen - It Goes On (Vox) [Environ] (neilly303)

http://soundcloud.com/phil-dickinson/the-phil-harmonic-podcast-spotlight

http://www.mixcloud.com/Phil_Dickinson/the-phil-harmonic-podcast-episode-032-spotlight-on-ibiza/

http://www.philharmonicpodcast.blogspot.co.uk/
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Where can i download this one again Phil? I can't seem to get anything to work :spank:
 
As promised - it's back. Your suggestions in the Tracks For 2012 thread feeding into another 2 hour mix. Really hope this one does the first any kind of justice.

A few words from the blog....

"At the start of the year I never envisaged doing 5 Ibiza Specials. If anything, a disproportionate amount of time and effort has gone into these episodes this year, carried on by the euphoria of another trip to clubbing paradise and by a flurry of creative DJing ideas.

But such was the unanticipated buzz created by Spotlight On Ibiza earlier in the summer, my hand has been forced. For once, I'm back by popular demand. When the idea of doing a follow up was suggested to me, at least attempting to repeat the feat seemed like a fitting way to bring down the curtain on another hectic Ibiza season on behalf of my fellow Spotlighters. We are now in October and that curtain falls.

For those that don't remember Spotlight On Ibiza, the basic premise was to pull together the best track suggestions from a music thread on the Ibiza-Spotlight forum - the 'Tracks For 2012' thread. Since posting the original set, the suggestions have continued to roll in and I had plenty of excellent deep house and techno ideas to mold into a new set. And, given that I was pulling from this thread in August and September rather than May, the selections in this week's set are probably marginally more representative of people's holidays - even my own.

I knew starting out with this follow up that I had a real challenge on my hands. I said numerous times after doing Part 1 that this kind of slower house and techno - this traditional Ibizan music - had dragged me right out of my comfort zone. Moreover, by mixing the last one so well I'd set the bar uncomfortably and unnervingly high for myself.

But part of the battle with this fresh attempt was convincing myself that even if it were half as good, earning half the plaudits, it was absolutely worth doing. After all, this episode forms one half of the 2 most difficult DJing challenges I've ever set myself and is as much a marker of how far I've come as how far I've got to go. The road still stretches into the distance, but with a sunrise behind it.

Even with my limited knowledge of this music, there are a number of tunes that stand out in terms of the damage they've done on the White Isle this summer. They are HNQO's Point Of View on Hot Creations, a label generating a lot of hype and fronting big things at DC10 this season courtesy of Jamie Jones, Flashmob - Need In Me on Defected, which quite frankly has been inescapable this summer and, a tune that contains a lot of Ibiza memories from Pacha for me personally, Federico Scavo's I Do. ‘Tune Of The Episode' is the incredible By Your Side by Adriatique.

There's no doubt this effort isn't quite as well mixed as the last, but it's a reasonably solid set with a tracklist that subtly blends some highly contrasting styles of Ibiza music - some stripped down beats, some uplifting 80's synths and some dark, progressive moods. There are some very interesting percussive combinations along the way.

Undoubtedly, it's a set completely untouched by the noisy, big room sounds that are rampaging around clubs worldwide at the moment. Normally, I'm a big pusher of these big room sounds - in fact, as a trance DJ they're exactly what I'm about. But I'm hugely appreciative of this more soulful side now too. Firstly because it shows the world that club music has more than one face, more than one vision, more than one cultural soul. But, more importantly, because this music hasn't lost touch with where dance music began all those years ago. Not to mention, it's Ibiza's very essence as well."

Only other thing to add was that in doing this tracklist, I really wanted to put PBR Streetgang - You Ready in there. But alas, only released on very limited vinyl. Such a tune, that.

Apologies if I've attributed these suggestions to the wrong person or, worse, missed anybody out.

THE PHIL-HARMONIC PODCAST EPISODE 41 - THE IBIZA SPECIALS PART 5
SPOTLIGHT ON IBIZA - THE SEASON CLOSER

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1. Finnebassen - Touching Me [Noir Music] (heros / leeds79 / StroyBerries)
2. Steve Bug - Those Grooves [Poker Flat Recordings] (ibizarre / nostrum)
3. Ben Pearce – What I Might Do [MTA Records] (Phil_Dicko)
4. Guy Gerber - One Day In May [Visionquest] (OllieNotts / kimajy)
5. Flashmob - Need In Me [Defected] (white_isle_calling / Electronic_Liberalism / 1878blues)
6. Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep In Louise [Moda Black] (Phil_Dicko)
7. Martin Roth - Beautiful Life [Anjunadeep] (robsta899 / leeds79)
8. Lee Curtiss - Body Twitch [Visionquest] (Smith,)
9. Adriatique - By Your Side [Diynamic Music] (ibizarre)
10. HNQO - Point Of View [Hot Creations] (ibizarre)
11. &ME - Matters [Saved Records] (Phil_Dicko)
12. DJ W!LD - Voyage [Rekids] (kimajy)
13. Monte - True [Jeudi Records] (craig72 / ibizarre / Jam Man)
14. Tom Budden - Patball Elite [Alive Recordings] (macdonsj)
15. Samu.l - Innocent [One Records] (ibizarre / ibzbeat)
16. Bushwacka! - West Side (Christian Smith & Wehbba Remix) [Tronic] (kimajy / 1878blues)
17. Federico Scavo - I Do (Original Club Mix) [Toolroom Records] (Phil_Dicko)
18. Alex Kenji & NDKj feat. Marga Sol - Not That Kind Of Girl (Mike Vale Remix) [Hotfingers] (Phil_Dicko)
19. Mario Ochoa - Mr. Boom [Avenue Recordings] (Phil_Dicko)
20. Jay Lumen - Chicago Milkshake [Big Love Music] (Phil_Dicko)
21. ENCORE: Todd Terje - Inspector Norse [Smalltown Supersound] (Tom_Buck / kimajy / ibizarre)

http://soundcloud.com/phil-dickinson/the-phil-harmonic-podcast-soi-pt2

http://www.mixcloud.com/Phil_Dickinson/the-phil-harmonic-podcast-episode-041-spotlight-on-ibiza-part-2/

http://www.philharmonicpodcast.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks everyone!
 
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