DJ T: Fabric 51 | Album Review

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 | Album Review

Dusseldorf’s DJ T is quite the accomplished man. You may remember him from such endeavors as co-founding Get Physical and being part of that group of Germans that actually took over the world around during 2005. However for ol’ T dawg (that’s what I imagine MANDY and Bookashade might call him) that is just a notch on his extensive music bedpost which spans about 20 odd years. In those 20 years, not only has he been DJ’ing but he also founded Groove magazine, Germany’s longest running dance music magazine as well as founding Monza, originally a legendary club in Frankfurt, but now the globally recognized night that is now a staple of the Ibizan season. That’s a pretty impressive résumé he’s got himself there and one more notch he will be adding this month will be Fabric 51.

DJ T has build the mix for home listening using a wealth of off-beat, vocal and deep groove tracks that hold your interest over the usual club focused “untz untz untz” for your dancing feet. DJ T’s twenty year career shines through as the whole mix has a mature finesse about it. He skillfully holds a subtle tension throughout the mix with laser precision. Tracks like DJ T’s own Try to Understand and the brilliant TJ Kong and Nuno Dos Santos remix of Jesus Was a B-Boy just hold you at the edge making sure he’s got your full attention.

As well as keeping you on edge, DJ T peppers the landscape of the mix with memorable scenery through the use of off beat and vocal tracks. Its moments like dropping into Matias Aguayo’s Pata Pata heavy African tribal beats and voodoo-esque chant from Danton Eeprom’s slow and winding Give Me Pain that instantly grabs your attention. It moves from the slow and spacey broken beat, then pow, tribal drums kick in, stepping the mix up a gear. You’ve also got Wigald Boning’s Kobra Dance which breaks up a stretch of dark grooves with a crescendo of bright vocal harmonies and staccato horns; or the disjointed and cosmic Salax remix of A Million Secrets which adds a different dimension to the opening scene of the mix.

The whole mix is refined and breathes the full twenty years of DJ T’s experience. His tight and tidy mixes along with smart track selection reminds you of just how effective a straight up two decks and a mixer CD comp can be.

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Tracklist:
01 dOP – Wiper Law – Unreleased
02 Michael J Collins – I Just Wanna Be Your Disco Bitch – Wolf + Lamb
03 10lec6 – Drown Dogs Holidays – Cliche I am
04 Stuffa A Million Secrets (Salax Peep Show Remix) – Trunkfunk
05 Madioko N Rafika – Ellelli (Kalabrese Remix) – Innervisions
06 Danton Eeprom – Give Me Pain – Yes Is More
07 Matias Aguayo Ft. Lerato – Pata Pata -Cómeme
08 Ben Mono – Jesus Was A B-Boy (TJ Kong & Nuno Dos Santos Remix) – Compost
09 Will Saul & Tam Cooper Ft. Ursula Rucker – Where Is It (Will Saul & Tam Cooper’s Reloved Dub Mix) – Simple Records
10 Dave DK & Holger Zilske Feat. Richard Davis – You Will Find Out
11 III & Azari – Hungry For The Power – Cliche I am
12 Wigald Boning – Kobra Dance – Compost
13 Soulphiction – The Royal Pennekaums (Chocolettes Nervous Mix) – Musik Krause
14 Le Roif Ft. Roland Clarrk – I Get Deep – Deeptown Music
15 DJ T. – Try To Understand – Kindisch
16 DJ Mujava – Township Funk (Crazy P Mix) – United Recordings
17 Good Guy Mikesh – Milk & Honey (Basket Mix) – LiebeDetail
18 Bodycode – Immune – Spectral
19 Random Factor – Broken Mirror – 20:20 Vision
20 WhoMadeWho – Keep Me In My Plane (DJ Koze Hudson River Dub) – Gomma

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