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After the "Melodious Thunk" and "Rocking Chair" singles for England's top-rated Mo' Wax label, London producer Andrea Parker gained a reputation as being one of the country's most up-front electronic musicians. Now, on yet another installment of the mighty DJ-Kicks series, she demonstrates her mixing skills with a compilation that is as freeform and eclectic as her own productions. Starting off with her remix of Depeche Mode's "It's No Good," she slams straight into the demented stylings of Dr. Octagon's "Earth People." And it just gets weirder from there. Everything from Dopplereffekt an
After the "Melodious Thunk" and "Rocking Chair" singles for England's top-rated Mo' Wax label, London producer Andrea Parker gained a reputation as being one of the country's most up-front electronic musicians. Now, on yet another installment of the mighty DJ-Kicks series, she demonstrates her mixing skills with a compilation that is as freeform and eclectic as her own productions. Starting off with her remix of Depeche Mode's "It's No Good," she slams straight into the demented stylings of Dr. Octagon's "Earth People." And it just gets weirder from there. Everything from Dopplereffekt and Model 500 to Afrika Bambaataa and Renegade Soundwave is thrown into the mix, along with Parker's own productions and remixes, strung together by sound effects, talk-radio snippets, and skillful scratching. Like her productions, this DJ-Kicks is dark and scary, but with a playful and self-effacing edge. --Matthew Corwine
Album Description
Andrea Parker's rendition of DJ-Kicks is a deep grooving mixed phantasm melting hip hop, old school electro, breakbeats, & classic tracks into an amazing trip through the history of electro. She opens the CD with her remix of Depeche Mode's 'It's No Good' & features expertly mixed, stellar tracks by electronic music pioneers Renegade Soundwave, Carl Craig, Dr. Octagon, Model 500 (Juan Atkins), Afrika Bambaata, Drexciya, & Andrea Parker herself. Other track highlights include Man Parrish's 'Hip Hop Be Bop' & COD's 'In The Bottle'. Besides the embedded musical brilliance, Andrea Parker 'DJ-Kicks' is an essential record for every electronic music aficionado's collection.
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Manufacturer: K7
Release date: 20 October 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0730003707124 UPC: 730003707124
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