The Beast and his team of minions spent the summer chasing one of their favourite DJ's and music producers, none other than Maxxi Soundsystem. His epic grand finale at Hidden Valley on the Saturday night at Wilderness to the unlikely 'In the Air Tonight' by Phil Collins was the stuff of legend - who else could pull that off. Beastie and team were lured into a night of techno lushness and then hurled into that 80's throwback that had us buzzing from forest valley to tent lair.
So, there was much joy when Maxxi put up his Summer mixtape with the tunes that created our sizzling season's anthems. Here's the review with track timings (note that these are not approx) - Disclaimer: Beast works in analogue without a clue on techie stuff, so bear with him as his mythical hearing works its magic. Key listening cues are in the bullet points as below:
- 1.39 in and **that** heartbeat from Alpe Luisa ups the tempo and pow, you're in and on what you know is going to be a roller coaster ride.
- From 18:40 The Black Madonna remix of Tiga's Blondes Have More Fun. Fat synths and rolling soundscape echo brings in the backdrop to a lot of 2016 sunsets. Gun Finger time.
- 27:30 and time to get seduced by the honey vocals of Nonku in Andre Lodemann's remix version of Hyenah's Soak it.
- 45:20 One of the reasons why we love this mix so much is that it features the amazing collab work borne of Maxxi and Alex Banks "Lost in Memory". Combine Maxxi's fine mastery of techno tapestries with Alex's home grown glitchy synths and you have this fine example that had us raving it up in Wilderness and craving more. Take 50:01 as a punchy keyboard drop that you will want to hear over and over again.
- 1:08:30 Jamie 3:26's 'Hit it N Quit It' tail ends into Cloud Generator by Kink - what a match made in heaven which ultimately had us stomping our hooves ever more into a techno dance frenzy. Banger.
- We loved the closing track at 1:54:30 and had to double take at whether it was a Maceo Plex offering. But no, it's Autarkic's "I know". Another banger.
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Track List:
1. 0:00 "Alpe Luisa" (Robag Bodelshwing Sovar NB) by Stimming
1a. The overlaid sample is taken from the film Repo Man; Miller explains Cosmic Unconsciousness and Time Travel.
2. 7:00 "Oar003-B" by Oni Ayhun
3. 12:30 "Unknown" **Is this a potential future Maxxi release?** We don't know but we loved it and hope to hear it again. If you know this one, please comment.
4. 18:30 "Blondes have more fun" (The Black Madonna Immaterial remix) by Tiga
5. 26.50 "Soak It" (Andrew Lodemann remix - Nonku) by Hyenah
6. 33.16 "For A Memory" by Tim Green
7. 38:00 "Sundust" by Jepe
8. 45:20 "Lost in Memory" by Maxxi Soundsystem and Alex Banks
9. 51:00 "Lay Down" (Aaaron mix) by Kalyma
10. 55.50 "Searching" (Deetron remix) by Fred Everything, Dinadu, Deetron
11. 1:00:00 "Uncertain Qualities" by Krisztian Dobroscsi
12. 1:05:18 "Hit it N Quit it" by Jamie 3:26 & Cratebug
13. 1:08:30 "Cloud Generator" by Kink
14. 1:15:20: "Caminho de Dreyfus" (Rebolledo remix) by Red Axes Ft. Abrao - Maxxi version
15. 1:20:30 "Anacreon" by Human Machine
16. 1:24:14 "Unknown" or possibly a bootleg Maxxi version of "The Wrath of NIA" by DJM-Traxxx?
17. 1:31:30 "In the Turret" by PBR Streetgang
18. 1:37:20 "Burn the past" by Terr
19. 1:42:30 "Aint Me" (Spirit Catcher remix) by Bonar Bradburg, Spirit Catcher
20. 1:47:10 "Tourette" (David Mayer remix) by Terranova
21. 1:54:30 "I Know" by Autarkic
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| Maxxi Soundsystem at Hidden Valley, Wilderness 2016 |
