[Chart] Mr Minimax’s January 2009 Chart

I don’t do these all that often, partly because I find it near impossible to pick favourites out of all the tunes I play, and partly because I don’t buy all that much “new” music.

I have now managed to put together 10 tracks that have been making me smile more than most recently.

I’m going to try knock one of these up every month from now on. They won’t necessarily feature “new” music, and they’ll usually have tracks from a wide range of genre’s, but they’ll always be a good indication of what I’m listening to, and kind of thing you can expect from a Mr Minimax DJ set.

Here we go.

2562 – Movern [Tectonic]
A beautiful piece of deep dub techno with a half time snare drum to squeeze a bit of dubstep appeal in there.
Works equally well in the afternoon sun as it does at 4am. Top Stuff

Baobinga & ID – Jump Up Get Hype (Gella’s Hardsteppin’ Remix) [Fat!]
A cracking re-rub of a cracking tune. Virus Syndicate never fail in my opinion, and here, Gella adds a lovely set of  steppy drums, a nice amount of glitch and a new bassline that easily matches the original.

Bassbin Twins – Pig Pen [Cool and Deadly]
Anyone with their finger vaguely on the breakbeat pulse, will have heard Woppa doing the rounds over the last year or two, possibly the most hotly anticipated single ever, but yet when it finally came, I barely touched the original, due to this outstanding piece of breaks-dubstep-techno-I don’t know what. One of the most innovative tunes in recent years, anyone trying to pigeon hole this one is wasting their time!

Drop the Lime – Good Inside [trouble & Bass]
This track is pure hype. No pretence, just a mountain of rave.

Eero Johannes – HAL Manifesto [Planet Mu]
Taken from his debut album “Eero Johannes” this is probably the most DJ friendly track. Slightly bizarre and cheesy electro, with a dash of 80’s. More home listening than dancefloor, but can do brilliantly in both environments if used right.

Kid 606 – Get In The Way [Tigerbeat6]
Another track that just doesn’t want to be defined, switching between dubstep, techno, electro and god only know what else in a matter of bars, this is wonky mayhem at it’s best.

Luke’s Anger – Jerk Chicken [Tigerbeat6]
More wonky as sin techno from the Tigerbeat camp, after a couple of minutes of driving beats, wacked out sound effects, and nicely moderated glitch, it drops down into a delightfully wonky bassline

Si Begg – Are You a Big Boy DJ? [Noodles]
This one is led by the mother of all basslines, the drums stay nicely reserved, just adding a bit of step. I would have to whole-heartedly agree with the lyric: “You can’t be that big if you ent go this in your box”

the wee djs – Base [Touchin Bass]
A bit of an oldie by some people’s standards(2006). Those people are missing out. I’ve been playing the “Fear and Lothian” album to death lately, and it was near impossible to pick a favourite to go in this chart. I went with this because it’s got a deep dirty vibe that mixes perfectly with a lot of the other tracks in this chart.

TRG – Oi! Killa [Cool and Deadly]
And finally a bit of straight up step action. It’s got crunch, dirty sub bass, and a nice set of old skool rave stabs. A brilliant example of just how right Cool and Deadly is getting it at the moment.

I hope these tracks bring you as much joy as they have brought me.