Dave Clarke - World Service 2 Coming off the back of his well-received Devil's Advocate and Live albums and recent remixes for DJ Hell and Terence Fixmer, Dave Clarke is on blistering form with this sequel to 2001's opening salvo of World Service. As with the original World Service, which sold over 70,000 copies across the globe, Clarke raises the bar for techno and electro DJs everywhere. Completely mixed on his beloved Technics DZ 1200 CD decks, World Service 2 is chopped, scratched and cut up with devastating hip hop-influenced panache. Clarke is at the top of his game. Wowing crowds internationally, from 25,000 ravers in Brazil to ever-welcoming fans packing Belgium's FUSE Club, his knowledge of cutting edge music remains honed and tight, his attitude as invigoratingly enthused as ever. Techno and electro isn't just dance music, he says, It's a challenging alternative to all the music that bleeds kids dry and doesn't progress anything, the music I call opium music. I don't want my albums to be racked in shops next to all that I've got absolutely no respect for it whatsoever; I want to be the alternative. On these two CDs he lives up to such fighting talk. The Electro mix starts out twisting through tracks by his old International Deejay Gigolo muckers David Caretta and the Hacker before diving into tough British grit represented by the likes of Chris McCormack and The Advent from Billy Nasty's Electrix label. Naturally there's the requisite dose of sexn sleazing on board right from the very start when Kim Peers requires a motherlode of rude lovin', as does the equally lewd Junesex on Fast Food Messiahs. Clarke also throws in a surprises which hark back to his post-punk roots on tracks such as GDX's version of 'This Corrosion' (originally by iconic goth band the Sisters Of Mercy), or the closing hip-as-fuck punk-funk of New Yorkers Silicone Soul asking a question relevant to many who ve taken to the dancefloor as Clarke performs a peak-time DJ set 'Who Needs Sleep Tonight?' Clarke's take on techno is no less refreshing. Over 26 tracks he journeys through a huge variety of styles, embracing the dark rude humour of Detroit's booty-tek but never losing sight of a thread of crunching four-to-the-floor dynamism. The pace seldom lets up from the opening demands by Underground Resistance's Mad Mike Banks to find your strength in the sound and make your transition to the echoing outer space robot fade-out of AJ McGhee's 'Octapie' at the CD's close. Along the way DJ Rush asks us to 'Sex Me All Night Long', DJ Funk wants you to 'Put Yo Back N 2 It' and there's even a track from 1980 by Japanese electronic legend Ryuchi Sakamoto. The majority of techno DJs have an unbridled passion for it, says Clarke by way of explanation, and they also have technical skills that are way above other genre DJs. His underground techno selection throbs with restless adrenalin, not concerned with titles or individual artists, it does what techno does best gives computer music a raw funk and contagious punch that hauls listeners and dancers in. "If I don't do this", says Dave Clarke of his music and DJing, I can't even judge myself as a human being it's in my blood and bones. One listen to these two energy-jammed CDs and it will be in yours too. ELECTRO SIDE 1. Kim Peers -Tell Me More- (David Carretta Remix) International Deejay Gigolo 2. Hacker & Millimetric & David Carretta -Moscow Reisen- GoodLife 3. Boys Noize - The Bomb!- International Deejay Gigolos 4. Dynarec - Eisodual - Nomorewords.net 5. Alden Tyrell - Disco Lunar Module - Clone 6. Chris McCormack - What Kind Of Sound Pt. 1 - Electrix 7. Volsoc Compuphonic Intelligence - (mutated by Basskittens and Singlecell Orchestra) World Electric 8. The Advent - Light Years Away - Electrix 9. Imatran Voima - Techno Slut - Imatran Voima 10. Mr. De - Y2K Bug - Electrofunk Recordings Inc 11. B. Calloway - Late Night Ride - Electrofunk Recordings Inc 12. RA-X -Kontrol - V. Koreman 13. Blotnik Brothers - Ergo - Satamile 14. Anthony Rother - When The Sun Goes Down - Datapunk 15. Junesex - Fast Food Messiahs - (Carl A. Finlow Mix) popup-records 16. GDX - Corrosion - Interdimensional Transmissions 17. Vicarious Bliss - Theme From Vicarious Bliss - (Justice Remix) Ed Banger 18. Nude - Dead Sexy - Memory Boy 19. Silicon Soul - Who Needs Sleep Tonight - (Original Mix) Disko B TECHNO SIDE Acappella Underground Resistance - Transition - Music 1. Ryuichi Sakamoto - The End Of Europe - ALFA MUSIC, INC. 2. Len Faki - Just A Dance - (Technasia's Filter Dub) Len Series/Figure 3. Sterac - Storm - N.E.W.S. 4. Elektrabel - Crocks - Axis 5. Joey Beltram - It Works - Tresor 6. Heiko Laux - Snitch - Kanzleramt Music / Uturn Records 7. DJ Rush - Sex Me All Night Long - (Charlie Hall s Fixed Mix) Victoria Music Ltd. 8. Max Walder and Manu Kenton - Adrenaline - N.E.W.S. 9. OR & 2nd Reality - Black Bird - Jaxx 10. DJ Bone - Dark Days - Mindance Music 11. Hugo Moya - Move - Relief 12. The Underground Track Master - Battle Cry - Mix Records Inc. 13. D.J. Funk - Put Yo - Back N 2 It - Charles Chambers 14. Video Dave - Booty People - (Wilko Remix) Pimp 15. Turntable Hype - Turntable Hype - Roadrunner 16. Co-fusion - Tokio Funky Beat - Victoria Music Ltd. 17. MU - Paris Hilton - Output Recordings Limited 18. DJ Deeon - What Ya Wanna Do? - Victoria Music Ltd. 19. MANASYt - Punchwave - Petar Tassev 20. DJ Urban - You Work It - (Ben Sims Remix) Rees Urban 21. Manuel Tur - Brickster - UFOF Music 22. Alex Peace - Michael Jackin - FADEDMUZIK, Inc. 23. Bam Bam - Damaged Goods - Bam Bam / Columns Of Knowledge 24. DJ Godfather - Lookin - On Da Flo - (Instrumental) Databass Records Twilight 76 25. DJ Shortstop - Club Jumper - Databass Records / DJ Godfather / B. Gillespie 26. A.J. McGhee - Octapie - Thorn Entertainment CATCH DAVE CLARKE THIS FRIDAY @ DISCO NOIR! :evil:
Looking forward to both Yous sorted for the cd decks? Might be able to swing something if you aren't already
Good to see DC throwing some Electrofunk/Godfather/DJ Funk on there. Alot of people listening won't have heard that kind of shit before. Some decent tracks on there, some not so decent - looks better than the first one. His style of mixing makes his sets almost unlistenable sometimes though.
Dave Clarke is playing in Leeds this Saturday night at the Mint Club in case anyone's interested!!! He's actually a bit too much for me... ..I can totally see why people love his music but personally I prefer my techno a bit more minimal a la Steve Bugg
