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May 8, 2012
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The sharp-edged, sexy, dance-leaning duo, the Hundred In the Hands, is soon to release LP2, and boy are we thrilled about it. We hit up the male half of the duo, Jason Friedman, who plays guitar, to give us a Classic Cuts selection and, not surprisingly, he chose an excellent jam.

I was just listening to the Carter-Tutti-Void record that came out on Mute this year and that got me thinking about Throbbing Gristle again so I’ve gone back to 20 Funk Greats recently. I love the way the mad industrial chaos gets absorbed and dubbed out into the stripped mechanical minimalism of a track like “Hot On The Heels Of Love,” which ends up like fractured Moroder disco. It’s so light and still aggressive.―Jason Friedman, the Hundred In the Hands

May 2, 2012
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About a month ago, Cosmo Vitelli came to the U.S. for a few gigs, including one in Brooklyn, New York for Let's Play House. Shortly thereafter, we asked the Parisian DJ, producer, and label head for a Classic Cuts selection and he certainly delivered one!

I've had this EP forever (I actually bought it on CD in the early 90s in a cheap secondhand store). I completely forgot it and found it by chance, checking again my CDs a few years ago. It's typical of Andrew Weatherall, with a Balearic touch, the expected piano house riff, and the unmissable early 90s breakbeat. What makes it special is Weatherall's dubby treatment, and its rock flavor. It's really what I'd expect to hear on a late night set.―Cosmo Vitelli

Apr 9, 2012
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For our latest installment of Classic Cuts, we hit up our L.A. friends Poolside to grab a track they can't live without... and it just so happens we be one we're equally in to.

This is one of our favorite tracks, we keep coming back to again and again. We play it in all our sets and feel like we'll be will be playing this for years. It fits nicely into both our daytime and our club sets as it's mellow yet still very danceable.

One thing we like is that this song manages to mix together a bunch of sounds/genres that you don't usually hear together: cellos, a disco beat, dub effects, interesting vocal melodies... and all comes together effortlessly.

It's almost more of a remix than an edit, as he completely transform the song into a new thing.―Poolside

Apr 5, 2012
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Brennan Green is spinning tomorrow night at Let's Play House alongside another Classic Cuts contributor, Ital, which reminded us that we've been meaning to tap him for a track selection of his own. The Canada-born, NYC-based DJ and producer of colossal talent opted to lob us one hell of an unexpected song, though we can't say we're too surprised as Mr. Green is notorious for being against the grain (and we say that with only love and affection).

I've always thought of disco as a bridge of two musical worlds, classical and popular. Always believing that, in order to make a piece of music immortal, it has to be universal, regardless of style. Through my experiments with sound and harmony I've found myself in summertime, that is, George Gershwin's "Summertime." One of the most covered songs in the history of music and one of the finest songs ever written. The first time I heard it, it was as if the colors of all my previous musical interests spilled out of the speakers onto the floor at my feet. I could hear Americana encapsulated: hip-hop, funk, house, techno and ambient, as if the jig was up! This instrumental of "Summertime" could be Gershwin's spiritual folk lullaby; I'm all about Americana music.―Brennan Green

Mar 20, 2012
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I remember finding this 12" in some bins of old records that Sasa from In Flagranti used to stock at his old shop Timtoum on Orchard Street in NYC, sometime in the late 90s. These were the Organic Grooves days, for all you new jacks out there. Anyways, it was a hot summer's day in the city, and from the moment those big, jubilant synths came cascading in, I was hooked. The mix creates this amazing sonic space for all of these sounds to just run around in, and you get the feeling they are so happy to be bouncing around like fools. Paul Simpson is really one of the underrated geniuses of 80s dance music, and his use of dub techniques and delay madness has few peers. Records like this are what really helped define Larry Levan's dubbier sound at the Paradise Garage. It's definitely had an influence on my own production work, and I think you can hear traces of it in my remix for LCD Soundsystem and my "Fierce Dub" of Azari & III's "Into The Night."―Prince Language

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