theo parrish
Could not stay long, but yoiks, a great dj — rangey house, slippery drum tools, big disco records, and I think he played three 10+ minute records back to back to back
sun, sun, sun, sun
Once more, with feeling.
2022: tracks of the year
Lots here, for some reason, but let’s get into it
two shell – Home / No Reply
wooosh. I don’t often get goosebumps at the drop at my age, but both these tunes are incandescently good.
Barbie Bertisch – I Thought This Would Be Easier
The most gorgeous & melancholy Blade Runner / Vangelis sunrise moment off a record full of them.
Daphni – Cherry
The lyrics for this are just “FM! FM! fm! fm! FM!”, and so on. I can’t count how the shift goes, or how this is counted, but it’s great just the same.
Pariah – Caterpillar
Bwooooooooooooaaooooooaoooaoaoaooaoaoaoooo.
Call Super – Swallow Me
I thought this was Cathy Berberian doing a Sequenza, and lost my shit a little. Turns out it is Kamala Sankaram, no less amazing, over a snappy flip – which is all you need sometimes.
Emma Jean Thackray – Venus (Black Science Orchestra Remix)
I don’t know if the kids would say that this slaps, nor am I sure if quasi-speed garage can in fact “slap” – but I am pretty sure it does and that it is a great record
KH – Looking At Your Pager / Gwen Stefani – Let Me Check My Itinerary (KH Remix)
I appear to be becoming someone who likes a Kieran Hebden banger … which is a bit embarrassing, but I am happy to own it.
Cruisin’ Gang – Tap Dancing
The most over the top Italo / hip-house / tap-dance-sampling record in the world – a delight in every way.
Honorable mentions of the most high order to: Reece Cox – Clang 2, Billy Lo – It’s The Life, fleet.dreams – Can’t Stop The Momentum, Kush Jones – Big Stepper, Anthony Naples – Swerve, Daphni – Cloudy, and Objekt – Bad Apples.
2022: shows of the year
Daphni (with bonus Four Tet b2b) @ Nowadays
This one was almost kinda sorta spoiled by seeing the pretty tall Kieran Hebden in the club, and thinking … will they? Will they? They did, and the last 90 minutes was a great back-to-back, but the rest of the night was awfully good too. The aggressive eclecticism, the touches back to early 2000s battletech (Holden’s ‘The Idiot’ was played, and I lost it a bit), bits of jazz, etc.
Love Injection 7-Year Anniversary @ Public Records
Bertisch and Raffaele know things, and those things sound amazing on the Public Records sound system. A deep night for deep house, disco, and soul (A small advanage is that Shazam actually works at Public Records, but then the tracks are only available on vinyl – c’est la vie)
Four Tet @ Nowadays
Not many people can start with like 4 minutes of ambience – and then play ‘Some Polyphony’ to boot, to say nothing of Angel Echoes, Moth as I was leaving, and so forth.
Kush Jones @ Good Room
Backspins, uptempo heat, and vibes for days from Kush and DJ’J.
The most honorable mentions to Ben UFO at Mr. Sunday, DJ Python & Anthony Naples at Good Room, Underground Resistance at dweller, Pearson Sound at Contrair somewhere in Belgium, AYA at Nowadays, and rrao at Nowadays