Filthy Dukes Fabriclive 48 Review

Filthy Dukes continue shaping the future of electronic indie on this latest Fabriclive album incorporating new disco and big room electro.

 

At first glimpse of the tracklist I muttered to myself  "oh well, nothing new here then". I would have thought there may have been one exclusive. No biggy, It still looked amazing!

 

The mix is perfectly set out. 

 

Starting with Emperor Machine's (I love these guys) take on Filthy Dukes popular track "This Rhythm" it quickly starts moving on into hip swaying indie disco until the track "Most Wanted" by Alan Braxe & Fred Falke and my favourite remix of Sebastien Tellier's track "Kilometer". This part of the mix you hear some sweet, sweet melodies that will remind you of the summer just gone.

 

The one thing I was suprised to see was "Serenity" (Noob remix) by Popof. It's not the sort of track you would hear half-way through such a go happy setlist having ending a set with it myself at 3 o'clock in the morning. Listening on I realised what the track had been used for. It does its job well at breaking the set up (you will know what I mean later). The following track is another morbid and vocal techno track - a remix by Vicenzo. I personally do not like this track but I suppose it does suit the last track very well indeed.

 

Right, straight from that into some electro, "Township Funk" do you? er, ok then! How about the new Noob & Brodinski track "Peanuts Club"? This will be huge this autumn.

 

What happens next is really quite amazing. All your favourite club tunes from over the years packed into a right tidy package. When the cd is released, especially listen out to the mixes from "Windowlicker" into Tiga's modern classic "What You Need" (Proxy remix), Filthy Dukes use a clever beatgrid effect with some swift crossfader action. It's oh so good when that familiar proxy bomb drops! The other one is Soulwax's remix of "Robot Rock" into Oizo's "Pourriture 7". You can tell this was rehearsed, maybe even a signature move at there club night "kill em all".

 

Jack Penate's "Tonight's Today". I would love to hear this track in a club especially the way it has been mixed in. In fact, I will be getting myself to London soon, as Filthy Dukes described Fabriclive 48 as "a representation of the ultimate kill em all night in one mix".

 

01 Filthy Dukes – This Rhythm [Emperor Machine Remix] – Fiction

02 Phenomenal Hand Clap Band - You'll Disappear - Tummy Touch

03 WhoMadeWho – The Plot [Discodeine Remix] – Gomma

04 Hockey – Learn To Lose [Filthy Dukes Remix] – Capitol

05 Sparks – Beat The Clock – Sparks/Gorgio Moroder Enterprise

06 Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Most Wanted - Vulture

07 Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer [Aeroplane Mix] – Lucky Number

08 80kidz - Miss Mars – KSR Corp

09 Filthy Dukes – Twenty Six Hundred [Album Version] – Fiction

10 POPOF – Serenity (Noob remix) – Form Music

11 Audio Soul Project - Reality Check (Vincenzo Remix) – Dessous

12 Mujava - Township Funk – This Is Music

13 Dataworx - Control (Original Mix) - Solarscape

14 Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club - Turbo

15 Joakim - Watermelon Bubblicious – Versatile

16 Zombie Nation - Worth It Part 1 – UKW Records

17 Aphex Twin – Windowlicker – Warp

18 Tiga – What You Need (Proxy Remix) – Different Recordings

19 Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Soulwax Remix) – Virgin

20 Mr Oizo - Pourriture 7 – Ed Banger

21 Jack Peñate - Tonight's Today – XL Recordings

22 Lifelike – Sequencer – Vulture

23 Filthy Dukes – Messages [Filthy Dukes Kill Em All Remix] – Fiction

 

UK release: 12th October 2009.

 

4.5/5

 

Bill Schwarz