Here are my picks from the smaller Richmond Record Pool shipment in January. Now that Christmas is over, I hope that we'll start seeing a flood of new music in the coming months.
Live Progressive Sets:
- Elsewhere, “Stay Tuned” (Original Mix)
Mainstream Club Sets:
- AFTC, “Give Me Love” (Ocean Trench Mix)
- Pussycat Dolls, “Bottle Pop” (Dave Aude Club Mix)
- U2, “Where The Streets Have No Name” (DJ Preach Remix)
Studio Mixes:
No suitable tracks in this shipment
Warmup Tracks:
- AFTC, “Give Me Love” (Ocean Trench Instrumental Mix)
- Expected Reaction, “Feeling” (Carlos Lopez & Luigi Rodriguez Mix)
- K-Scope, “Star Kissed”
It’s hard for me to pick a favorite track for this month’s shipment. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed in the shipment this month. There was a lot of techy, glitchy, minimalistic stuff, which I don’t really play. There were several good trance tracks, but I don’t really include those in my lists because trance does not go over well in Atlantic Canada, unlike most of the rest of the world. There certainly wasn’t a lot of normal progressive house of the type that I prefer.
Anyway, despite that, there were a few good tracks. For instance, it’s really hard to do a good remix of a conventional rock song, but Preach did an admirable job with the old U2 track. And I’m impressed with the Pussycat Dolls remixes, because there were several other remixes in the shipment that crossed into radio/urban formats, and which were well done. I find that it isn’t often you find a track that translates successfully across several formats, especially when they are at significantly different tempos.
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