Mix: TeemuP - Chicago

[stimpee]

Fabulous new house mix IMO.

Here's the tracklist:

DJ D - Obligato - Guidance
Gemini - The Wave - Distance
Johnny Fiasco - Subminimal - Cajual
Braxton Holmes - People Everyday - Cajual
Jungle Wonz - The Jungle - Trax
Ron And Chez D - Untitled - KMS
Gemini - If You Got To Believe In Something - Cajual
Glenn Underground - Moving (garage dub) - Nite Life Collective
GU And Cei-Bei - House Music Will Never Die (cvos bismark hotel mix) - Cajual
Mr Fingers Feat Robert Owens - Can You Feel It (vocal mix) - Trax
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (wake mix) - Strictly Rhythm
Ron Trent - Altered States (south side terrace mix) - Djax Records
Kenny Hawkes And Louise Carver - Play The Game (mazi and joshua collins remix) - Music For Freaks
Brian Harden - Break The Faze - Connection
Boo Williams - Last Call - Relief
DJ Pope - My Heart My Soul - Cajual
Brian Harden - Suede Keys - Relief
Frankie Knuckles - Baby Wants To Ride - Trax
Green Velvet - Preacher Man - Relief
Lidell Townsell - Ill Make You Dance - Trax
Club MCM - Mind Control Music - DJ International
DJ Deeon - House-O-Matic - Dance Mania
Steve Poindexter - Work That Mutha Fucker (like a tim mixx) - Djax Records
Paul Johnson - Feel My MF Bass - Dance Mania
DJ Deeon - Booty Mover - Dance Mania
DJ Sneak - Disco Erotica - Cajual
Derrick L Carter - Where U At (bhq revisionist history edition) - Classic
DJ Sneak - You Cant Hide From Your Bud (d radical rednail reconstrution) - Classic

And here's the linky (http://www.student.oulu.fi/~tpalonie/sivuraide/teemu-chicago.ogg). This one's an Ogg for maximum size/quality levels. Winamp plays Ogg natively and you can play Oggs in iTunes with the official plugin for MacOS and Windows right here (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html). If you're stupid enough to still be using WindowsMediaPlayer then the codec for that is here (http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/).

This one's worth it :)

[Leon]

144 minutes!! woah, listening now. Will tell what I think.

[Leon]

I'm sorry I don't really like it. But that's because I'm not really into this type of music.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Well I like it! Teemu P always does a good job.

[stimpee]

It does what it says on the tin. Its chicago house. If thats what you like, then you'll like it. If not, go back to whatever you were listening to, or persevere and stick it out. simple as that.

As for me, I think its damn funky. This was a live mix done for semi-weekly net radio show Sivuraide on Radio Ubik (http://www.radioubik.net/). Next show is saturday at 1900 CET and this week, its Techno/Electro which might be more your cup of tea, Leon. :p

[votingfloater]

What Leon said.

Though it says a lot that I immediately downloaded on the strength of it being him without noting the genre. (He got me at "...mude" :D)

I'll give it a whirl anyway ( >1 listen) ... who knows?

[stimpee]

There is a techno mix coming :) and its gooood.

meanwhile the highlights of this mix so far for me are:

GU And Cei-Bei - House Music Will Never Die (cvos bismark hotel mix) - Cajual (44mins)
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (wake mix) - Strictly Rhythm (56mins)
Frankie Knuckles - Baby Wants To Ride - Trax (95mins)
Green Velvet - Preacher Man - Relief (101mins)

The obligatory annoying like hell song: DJ Pope - My Heart My Soul - Cajual (86mins).

After 60mins, the mix picks up significantly, shifts away from traditional chicago house (my opinion) and might suit more people's tastes.

[Tyler]

This mix is incredible. I guess it helps that it starts with one of my favorite songs, that I'd forgotten about. Chicago House is the greatest!

[Leon]

I really do like that song with the repetitive lyrics "feel my motherfucking bass in your face" or something.. I think it must be a house-classic because I've heard it before.

[King of Snake]

i haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but what i've hear so far is ace! Keep it up! :)

[stimpee]

A few words from Teemu:

"All of the tracks are from chicago or from chicago artists"

"The point of the mix was to play as diverse a selection of chicago house as possible"

"Some people are going to like the beginning and some people the end but i feel it was a pretty decent attempt at playing a set of different styles of chicago house from whiney soulful jesus house to sexually explicit dance mania stuff"

"i was going back to my roots", he concludes :)

I love the two tracks from near the beginning (11-23mins):
Johnny Fiasco - Subminimal - Cajual
Braxton Holmes - People Everyday - Cajual

the vocal on the first one and the keyboard solo jam on the second and the backing groove are just really chilled.

[viddy]

I really love house, and especially a lot of the stuff I've been hearing from local DJs over the past couple of years, but I don't like this kind of house. I was excited to get this mix on my ipod, you all made it sound good, but I was let down. Maybe this is just a mix of older stuff, but I find this kind of house music really cheesy. The cheese factor keeps me from enjoying nearly all of these tunes. The end gets a teeny bit better, but over all, very meh.

[stimpee]

horses for courses!

[Tyler]

Just for my own enlightenment, could you be more specific about what you find cheesy about some of those songs viddy?

[King of Snake]

it's house music, it's supposed to be cheesy :D

(in a good way. Or, as mr Rick Smith once said: "there's good cheese, and there's bad cheese!")

[m.g.]

It does what it says on the tin. Its chicago house.
It is indeed, but probably the best choice I heard. I wouldn't play this every day (as I'm more into techno/electro), but it's a very good mix.



ps : thanks Stimpee for the mac plugin, .ogg files are ok EXCEPT itunes is only playing them on my G4 loudspeakers (which are shite) & is not playing it on remote loudspeakers via an airport wireless connexion (like I mostly use itunes)

[viddy]

Just for my own enlightenment, could you be more specific about what you find cheesy about some of those songs viddy?
It is the very sonic palate that this type of house uses. I think maybe because it's from much older equipment. The kicks, hats, snares and synths all sound very 80s to me. The r&b style singing men and women really puts the cheeze factor over the edge. It's not that I dislike singing over house tracks, just this kind. The singing along with the sonic palate used, sounds corny to me. There are a few tracks in the mix that don't sound like this so much, but most do.

[stimpee]

The kicks, hats, snares and synths all sound very 80s to me.Aren't some of the tracks from the 80s though?