Dj Mag have lost their plot! Open up, great techno inside!

Have I captured your already scarce attention with the headline? Has it given you a "yes I knew it Goddammit!" feeling?!? Good, than all those years reading tabloids have finally paid off. But the reasons for your reaction may be rooted deeper than you think:
Has it happened that you've felt a rush of blood to the head when you saw this year's DJ mag poll? Did you start getting all abusive in front of yer computer...eerrr, or just as yours faithful here, dismissed them instantly as being the results from 2009?
Yeah, I know, it was more like all of the three above into one, wasn't it?!?
This post is certainly not gonna go into the actual names and positions (don't think porno yet, please!:) of this yearly popularity contest; but use it as an excuse, a smoke screen if you prefer, to introduce you to a unique and truly charismatic dj, one that has been talked about in all the languages of the world: techno innovator, party animal (I'd like to hear this said in Spanish:) by night, but also a down to earth regular family man by day! No, we're not talking about American psycho you...psychos, we're talking about Luciano, the mustache wearing, police swearing and techno innovating dj: great music and great personality into one package. He doesn't look that bad either, right ?!?

Well, I must admit that until recently I wasn't into Luciano a great deal. As one that prides himself with skillfully rejecting the pr bullshit that music mags constantly push out, I remember first reading about Luciano a few years back, in the, then pretty good, Mixmag. I thought: "naaah, not really my style. pass!" Of course those were the times when I was skillfully assassinating millions of brain cells every weekend and abusing the very definition of "weekend"
But something happened...now, when "the results" of this year's Dj mag contest revealed Luciano to be on the very tail end of it, something insuide me happened. Call it sympathy for the underdog or just simply "growing up" I decided I need to give this guy a listen. I was aware that this guy is not exactly the symbol of underdog..ism (again, don't think porno, pleeease!), as he's selling out arenas from Chile to Bucharest, gigging every weekend 2-3 nights probably booked ahead for the next 5 years! But for me, as an outsider to his music, he just was.
Fabric 41_Luciano mix by Triplefiltered
I'd dig up a recent mix Luciano's done for Fabric, more exactly in 2008, a 16 track journey from techno to house, from tribal to melodic and beyond. Beautifully crafted, this is one of those mixes that even listened every morning for the past 5 days, (sometimes even 2 times a day!) just fails to become boring. It's so well put together that there's a new feeling you'll get from every listen. Tracks from Rhadoo to Reboot, Alex Picone, groovy latin Brothers' Vibe to a simply amazing Luciano mix of Inner City's "Good Love".
Listen to it, listen to it and then listen to it some more. It is just a landmark. And don't skip tracks! whatever you do...never skip tracks! let the mix do its thing: just click play at the beginning and let your ears do the rest. And after that let's all meet and pour some gasoline on a pile of DJ mags and burn'em out.

We don't need no water, let the motherf*cker burn,
Burn motherf*ckerrrrr
Burn!

Some good stuff on Luciano:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?881
http://soundcloud.com/electro-mix-memory/sets/luciano-mixes-lives

Friday restlesness. Looking for local beats in Bacau aka "stepa moldoveneasca"

Oooook, this is a post I've been so keen in writing for about two weeks now.
If this mix is anything to go by, clubbing in the foreign lands is getting fresher and more provocative than in maaaaaaany places here in London! Not criticizing (too much) the London scene right now, but many times, it all feels like it's more about the dough than the music, more about selling candy and "ceeedeees" than giving people the good time they deserve. Any healthy left orientated activist will surely back me up on this. I'm glad I got this off my chest, now I can happilly emigrate to Cuba/China, those last bastions of social "equality". Let's get this mix playing before any of you out there starts yelling "Rave-olution" and all off a sudden we get the authorities on our doorstep. Here goes...
For a well-deserved, yet very stale at times, 10 day break to my hometown of Bacau (that's Romania for you western readers), this mix has repeatedly surprised me with escalating thrills of pleasure. Why do I say surprised me: well, because anyone of you who's ever been to Bacau will know that the city looks like Cernobyl on a good day (hell! we even got the radioactive mountain to prove it) and the protagonist of our story, Alex Baciu is exactly from here; and why do I say pleasure...well that's for you to decide. All I will say is that throughout its just over 1 hour of playtime, Alex manages to keep the energy levels going gradually higher, melting minimal beats with some good (totally un-cheesy) house and even some amazing progressive bombs.
Click Play: http://soundcloud.com/djalexspace/september

Although from Bacau, Alex has moved to Bucharest (thank god) to sink in the clubbing scene there. He is probably at a stage now when he's spreading his gospel through as many gigs as possible, so if you're ever down there in "little Paris" be sure to stalk him.
I'll give you his online home:
http://soundcloud.com/djalexspace
http://www.facebook.com/miki5487d

You can defo start from here. The code word, if he asks, is b87terbf897y4389; make sure you get this right from the start, otherwise you will never be given another chance.
More about communism in the next post my comrades.

A long time coming: Craig Richards & Lee Burridge BBC Essential mix_2000.11.12

I know, I know, i should be jumped on sight! grabbed by the collar of my shirt and asked through the teeth: "where have you been you sleaze? It's been well over a month since your first post...if not even two! where's your commitment to this thing?!?! "
Well, a lot of things have happened lately, from a last minute jack rabbit race to finish my Uni dissertation and assignments just on the last moment to now juggling with 3 jobs, and getting paid only from one!
"Crazy times my fellow music junkies, ask for unconventional tactics" I would answer, maybe with a slightly shaky smile. Well, enough about me, let me give you a few words about this amazing, out-worldly and very forward thinking mix made "only" about 10 years ago!!! A two hour cut of the finest progressive mixing from 2 of the most credible and lasting figures in dance music "the Tyrant boys": Craig Richards and Lee Burridge

http://soundcloud.com/triplefiltered/craig-richards-lee-burridge-bbc-essential-mix_2000-11-12

These guys have practically written the history of the (one and only) London club Fabric with their own hands, conquering millions of hearts in the process I'm sure. Well, i guess I'm just one of the many, but nevertheless one that is now re-discovering their magic and wants to share it with the world. I think just to start talking about each is a one page exercise at minimum. So I'll leave it to the experts. All I'm saying is that these two guys were playing something TOTALLY different and new even by the over-stylized and pigeon-holed standards of today's music critics.
The mix was recorded in 2000, on the honorable decks of the BBC, presented by Pete Tong as part of his weekly Essential mix. The tracklist I haven't managed to outsource, but clearly there is something good in there for anyone looking for real substance: dub, house, techno, prog, breaks and everything in between.

One of the things I missed telling you from the beginning of this post is that during my complete and absolute disappearance from the face of Soundcloud, I have been struck and blessed by nothing short of an Act of God> I have uncovered ALL the BBC essential mixes recorded from the 1995 to our present days. That's 15 years of music, from house to techno, from breaks to DnB from trance to hard trance. E V E R Y T H I N G!
Not wanting to play on anyone's addiction, but seems like some very interesting times ahead >:)

For some good inspired writing on Craig Richards, Lee Burridge and their Tyrant check out:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=5477
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?794
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?575
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1231

Lights out for this one: John 00 Fleming's BBC Essential mix

This mix is the first one posted on Triple Filtered. Whooohooo! Woop woop! Happy first post to...me!?!? hahaha.
A great way to start anything. Now, if only I could only keep the bar constantly up this high...
It's almost an hour of seriously trippy stuff, something of a mixed up and really progressive affair. It develops from deep to tribal to melodic to tech to psychedelic trance.
Talking about higher states of consciousnesses. Hah
I've just become a fan!
If you've missed this when it was up on http://soundcloud.com/triplefiltered, it is archived under "mind expanding" on and playing on http://www.mixcloud.com/triplefilteredmusic
Tschuss tschuss!

Why triple filtered?!?

Questions:
1.Why triple filtered?!?
2.why the alleged hint to alcoholism?!?
3. or this could just as well be about some kind of censorship program that found its way all the way down from Chinaland...
Answers:
1.Because good music is harder and harder to find
2. Because bad alcohol as well as unfiltered cigarettes kill faster...and lastly
3. NO, it's not! Fortunately this blog is written from somewhere in the Western hemisphere of the world, which really means that besides Google's own bots scanning for reeeaaly weird stuff, there's nothing else to stop me from raising a bit of hell around here...ahem, musically speaking!

I am, and have been, a music lover ever since I first realized I could hold a beat by finger drumming my notebooks. Of course this was somewhere around primary school.
Things have changed...well, slightly only. I still hold beats on my notebooks, tables, feet, floors, drum machines and samplers and just about on anything that resonates when hit.
music has become part of my everyday existence. To a large extent this means that many of my neighbors harbor a great deal of restricted love for me and my music listening/mixing.
My music listening patterns are completely out of any...pattern lately, and increasingly I find my mp3 player as being my most valuable tool in my music selection arsenal. It does not have an LCD display to amaze me with colorful and gobsmaking graphics, so only the music counts. What's good stays for a bit and many times comes back to "the listening booth"; what ain't that good, it just gets swiftly squished out, erased, deleted, crushed, bits and megabits of sound that will simply never come back to "the listening booth".
So the good stuff will also have the chance to catch your ears too by just being posted on this page here, on Triple Filtered. Have a listen to the stuff posted here and see if you dig.
If not, you may as well be watching MTV...phhheeu!
Tschuss tschuss!