Jesse Rose's second stab at an annual round up, featuring mixed and unmixed CDs of tracks from the Made to Play label's last nine releases. While not as prolific as others, Rose is more concerned with quality control than most. Moving away from the fidget house sound he created as soon as it became a formula, his restless appetite to find and develop talent is demonstrated aptly by handing Zombie Disco Squad mixing duties, and including two of their productions on the unmixed disc.
The unmixed versions of these tracks serve as a useful addition, but I can't really see people buying Playing Around Again for the individual songs, unless you are label collecting obsessive or a DJ. I am more than happy to have the full length versions of songs such as Riva Stars' awesome "Squash" which updates Derrick Carter's boompty template for the 21st century, but I want to hear this in context, and that's where Zombie Disco Squad comes into their own.
Mixing from a limited pool of songs to create such an effective mix can't have been an easy task for the Pan-Berlin-London pair. While not exactly groundbreaking, the sequencing and flow shows Nat and Lucas' skills as DJs with an increasingly hectic tour schedule. Never boring, the mix starts out with low slung electro of Jan Driver's "Rat Alert" before gently tightening the tension screws bit by bit with a brace of Oliver $ before dropping the first bomb of their mix, their very own "Vie!". From there the house gets woozier and wonkier, crunching from Jesse Rose & Action Man's "Wind it up" to Idiotproof's crowd pleasing "Gorilla". As a label compilation - this serves admirably, as a DJ mix - it excels.
Tracklisting;
CD 1 - Mixed and Re-edited by Zombie Disco Squad
01. Jan Driver - Rat Alert
02. Jan Driver - Rat Alert Dub
03. Zombie Disco Squad - The Cursed
04. Oliver $ - What You Gonna Do?
05. Oliver $ - Yeah No
06. Zombie Disco Squad - Vie!
07. Riva Starr - Snatch!
08. Oliver $ - The Greatest
09. Jesse Rose and Action Man (aka Herve) - Wind it up
10. Idiotproof - Gorilla (Siriusmoʼs Ass of the Baboon remix)
11. Idiotproof - Gorilla
12. Riva Starr - Squash
13. Idiotproof - The Deacon
14. Cevin Fisher - The Freaks Come Out (Idiotproof Remix – Jesse Rose Edit)
15. Jan Driver - Rat Alert
CD 2 - Unmixed, Selected by Jesse Rose
01. Idiotproof - The Deacon (Duke Dumont “live from Brooklyn” remix)
02. Zombie Disco Squad - Vie!
03. Riva Starr - Squash
04. Oliver $ - Watcha Gonna Do ?
05. Zombie Disco Squad - Heavy Breathing
06. Idiotproof - Gorilla (Siriusmoʼs Ass of the Baboon remix)
07. Jesse Rose and Action Man (aka Herve) - Wind it Up
08. Cevin Fisher - The Freaks Come Out (Idiotproof Remix – Jesse Rose Edit)
09. Oliver $ - Whatʼs in your head ?
10. Idiotproof - Gorilla
11. Jan Driver - Rat Alert
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