dance your ass off

people.

if this posts makes it through the blogger.com system i'll be somewhat aghast considering the grief the bloody thing has given me recently.

however todays chunk of words is to tell you that things @ ireallylovemusic hq are in a new mood.

as i have mentioned previously, i go through periods of disinterest. normally when this happens, i fall back on certain forms of comfort music, reggae is a good one, or in my case, my old madness records, though more recently this has been replaced with rachel stevens last cd !

well earlier this week i started to feel a little fed up with the current pile. nothing was really doing it for me.

then out of nowhere i received an email from a techno label, rednetic.

having a dig around their nice and minimal site, i came across the detail that one of their tracks ('life in widescreen' - by mint) has been licenced to the recent steve lawler mix, viva. so i dug the mix out, and gave the relevant disc a spin. wow.

i loved the pure simplicity of the grooves, with modern synthetic ambience, massive widescreen productions and the deeper than deep beats and bass lines.

i didn't have to care about the vocals, there aren't any, nor do i have to respect the variety in cutting edge production, styles etc. tis just a great set of pounding machine made noises (sometimes not so pounding) that work really well. no weird experimetal laptop crunching, no major sonic twists and turns, and so the mix became a wonderful addition to the current pile to work to.

this sonically induced pleasure then made me dig out the other dance mixes i have received recently, and, ever since, i have thoroughly enjoyed them on constant rotation to the point of concern to others around me. it's possibly something to do with the non-human aspect of the groove music, my head aint being battered by blokes and gals telling me all about their problems, or giving cause for their anger. this is perfectly disco-nnected music for the head, pure technology enhanced music where bad moods need not apply.

in fact, a lot of this is almost like ambient music. its just there on the headphones making my head bop, but not really engaging on any other level other than a rhythmic enjoyment. it has been a long time since i enjoyed pure dance music as much as this, but these mixes have totally been spot on this week :

steve lawler - lights out 3

james holden - at the controls

hernan cattaneo - sequential

john digweed - transitions

dave seaman - the masters series - vol 7

damian lazarus/matthew styles - get lost (disc 1 especially - disc 2 gets a little too weird and strange !)

steve lawler - viva (disc 3 is a more ambient set than you'd normally expect from steve)

so, please forgive the lack of updates, i'm off to have a little dance, well in my head that is.

ta.

mark e

ireallylovemusic