Published on Feb 3, 2014
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Full Body Workout reaches its twelfth edition, and by now you should know what it's all about -- a map-check as to where the scene is now and where it's headed. This time around we've got tracks from Tom Budden, Marc Poppcke, Hallo Halo, Brett Johnson, Someone Else and yes, even a fresh cut from M.A.N.D.Y. All of this (13 tracks) is brilliantly mixed by Brett Johnson including 5 exclusive edits you will only find in the continuous mix. 

Martin Ikin - Love's Enemy (Original Mix)

Published on Feb 3, 2014
Beatport: http://btprt.dj/1eM9xyS
iTunes: http://bit.ly/1bjpITw
FB: https://www.facebook.com/getphysicalpage

Full Body Workout reaches its twelfth edition, and by now you should know what it's all about -- a map-check as to where the scene is now and where it's headed. This time around we've got tracks from Tom Budden, Marc Poppcke, Hallo Halo, Brett Johnson, Someone Else and yes, even a fresh cut from M.A.N.D.Y. All of this (13 tracks) is brilliantly mixed by Brett Johnson including 5 exclusive edits you will only find in the continuous mix. 

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Le Bain (Original Mix)

Crustation were a short-lived trip-hop group with ties to Portishead and Massive Attack; their 1997 single "Flame" was a perfectly nice, totally innocuous, and mostly forgettable contribution to the drowsy downbeat catalog. The journeymen producers Mood II Swing put their characteristically light, funky touch on a club-friendly remix of the song, as they did hundreds of times during their run as New York's most dependable remixers. But Mood II Swing also had a murkier, more abstracted side; you can hear it in productions like "Move Me," "The Slippery Track," and the eerie "Inhale," which sounds like Gary Numan's "Cars" being sucked through a Teflon wormhole. But they outdid themselves on the "Borderline Insanity Dub" of "Flame," lacing a skipping, proto-U.K.-garage beat with hiccupping vocal loops and a lithe, shadowboxing bass line; the icing on the cake comes courtesy of a swirling fog of vocal harmonies that pans from speaker to speaker. Running out of phase with the beat, it lends a sense of tidal ebb-and-flow, throwing the time deliriously out of joint. The fact that Mood II Swing never produced anything else quite like it only makes this fluid, enveloping tune all the more irreplaceable. P.S.

Crustation - Flame (Mood II Swing Borderline Insanity Dub Mix)

On paper, Curtis Jones' split musical identity reads as a classic Dr. Jeckyll/Mr. Hyde scenario. He reserves his Cajmere alias for house productions, while the green-mohawked, dress-wearing Green Velvet dishes out white-knuckled techno with a cutting sense of humor. In reality, though, the line between the two is porous; one of Cajmere's most famous tracks, "Percolator," is as punishing and twisted as the gnarliest of Green Velvet's output, and the low-slung purple funk of Green Velvet's recent "Bigger Than Prince" could easily have been released as a Cajmere production. But he's never gone deeper than on 1992's "Brighter Days," featuring the Chicago singer Dajae's gospel-inspired R&B over shuffling drum programming and uplifting organ chords.

Of the song's many mixes, Louie Vega's Masters at Work remix took it furthest, adding piano, looping and layering Dajae's voice, and stretching the whole thing out to nearly 11 delirious minutes. Made in Chicago and given a soulful New York garage twist, it also anticipates the skipping rhythms that U.K. garage would adopt later in the decade. Closer to home, the song also had an impact on plenty of kids who would grow up to become footwork DJs and dancers, as evidenced by DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn's recent track "Brighter Dayz." Cajmere and Dajae's song was a "classic hit for me and these guys," Rashad told SPIN earlier this year. "Everybody out here, really. I might have been in seventh grade when that came out. It was just a song that we always like. It was like, man, we had to do it. We just did it our own way."

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