Ooh lawdy, I approve of this! Interesting to see how this will work on decks.

This should be dope.

LONG AWAITED.

Loving his new steez.

just heard a promo of this! its gooooood...

Picked up Infinity last week (sweet mix); Fabriclive should be in my mailbox some time this week. A-Trak overload, baby.

Damn...french house, mnml techno, electro, juke, house and uk garage. Normally not a big fan of the blog-house scene but I have got to recognize that A-trak definitely knows how to put together a nice mix...

Enjoying this more than the Fabric mix.

compare to his Dirty South Dance EP this is a joke!
hugely disapointed.

4 stars? really? i thought this kind of hipster kids house doesn't get along well with RA.

A-Trak one of my guilty pleasures, if I need to call it that. Man has got skills...

need to hear this

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I don't think is unfriendly to it, its just that 90% of the tracks in that genre have recently been pretty uncreative, derivative and way over-the-top. However A-trak has definitely set himself apart in selecting the better stuff and mixing it in pretty interesting and creative ways...But yeah, sometimes it definitely feels like a guilty pleasure...

What is happening to ? You give this commercial gear a 4/5 and Stimming a 3.5 ?

Whatever next ?

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4 stars? really? i thought this kind of hipster kids house doesn't get along well with RA.

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I don't think is unfriendly to it, its just that 90% of the tracks in that genre have recently been pretty uncreative, derivative and way over-the-top. However A-trak has definitely set himself apart in selecting the better stuff and mixing it in pretty interesting and creative ways...But yeah, sometimes it definitely feels like a guilty pleasure...

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agree with that. i used to enjoy this so-called blog house before realizing that there's little to no creativity left. i stull love tracks like 'beeper' though.

i don't like it, it sounds dated at this point
i'm sure my friends in williamsburg will be creaming their pants to this 'forward thinking' music

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4 stars? really? i thought this kind of hipster kids house doesn't get along well with RA.

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I don't think is unfriendly to it, its just that 90% of the tracks in that genre have recently been pretty uncreative, derivative and way over-the-top. However A-trak has definitely set himself apart in selecting the better stuff and mixing it in pretty interesting and creative ways...But yeah, sometimes it definitely feels like a guilty pleasure...

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ding ding ding. nice descriptionn bernardo.

i used to dj one place more this more eclectic style but i found it tiresome as well. i think a lot of americans (both dj's - like a-trak - and american "hipsters") coming from a more hip-hop/hip-pop oriented music culture here have been led to this style as a natural option outside of being "mainstream."

i call much of it "hipster pop," not to say some of it isn't good.

dj's at most regular clubs are expected to be a sort of "mobile/wedding dj"...or in other words mix every genre that can appeal to such audiences.

i can understand fabric giving this guy his shot, no doubt would be a good friday night set...but...it is crap.

this guys about 12, trying to come on all old school

give me a break, and he djs for kanye west (nuff said)

I couldn't even listen to it all the way through, totally dissapointed and a waste of good dj talent..

so. bad.

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Totally agree. This music is complete crap. A-Trak does some cool tricks, but by track 4 even that couldn't keep me from skipping through the cd to see if there was anything good on it...there wasn't.

Another Fabric cd that will never see my cd player again and that I consider a big waste of my hard-earned cash alongside Sinden and Simian Mobile Disco. This is not why I became a Fabric member!!! (I was hoping for a continuation of the (underground) sounds of Craig Richards, Terry Francis, Adam Beyer, Villalobos, etc).

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Totally agree. This music is complete crap. A-Trak does some cool tricks, but by track 4 even that couldn't keep me from skipping through the cd to see if there was anything good on it...there wasn't.

Another Fabric cd that will never see my cd player again and that I consider a big waste of my hard-earned cash alongside Sinden and Simian Mobile Disco. This is not why I became a Fabric member!!! (I was hoping for a continuation of the (underground) sounds of Craig Richards, Terry Francis, Adam Beyer, Villalobos, etc).

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You used to be able to select to only receive Fabric or Fabriclive, no such luck anymore.

Having said that I don't miss the £7 a month and there are good Fabriclive mixes on occasion (Death in Vegas, Marcus Intalex, Noisia, Commix)

I was a bit disappointed by the Intalex one. Commix is one of the few recent F-Live mixes that I really consider a worthy addition to my collection. Before that, Tayo and the Stanton Warriors discs were really good. Recently listened to #12 again too, which is soooo relaxing

The problem is that so many of these discs are filled with such incredibly nerve-racking music. All this electro house and 'eclectic' crap are annoying the hell out of me.

Intalex fabriclive mix is gotta be one of the best in the series

thought commix was ok but intalex, calibre, martyn way ahead moving the scene forward

it is very funny when people who love dum'n'bass & breaks start to comment techno or electro albums like 'this is crap'. some people consider your lovable ones as a crap. music goes forward, you can stay on your station or try to hop on the train & get something different, if you are open minded enough.

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What is happening to ? You give this commercial gear a 4/5 and Stimming a 3.5 ?

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Erm, since when did "commercial" automaticly mean shit??? My understanding of the ratings are they're based on musical merit/content not how "underground" the artist or track is.

As it goes this mix was slightly over-rated by 1½ marks and sold my copy on a certain auction site for the princely sum of £1.66...

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it is very funny when people who love dum'n'bass & breaks start to comment techno or electro albums like 'this is crap'. some people consider your lovable ones as a crap. music goes forward, you can stay on your station or try to hop on the train & get something different, if you are open minded enough.

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Funnier still is that I don't recall seeing any posts that complain about the fact that this cd isn't d&b. My complaint is very simple: I think this music is nervous shite. It's a personal opinion. What isn't a personal opinion is the fact that being a Fabric member makes it kinda difficult to "get something different". Rest assured, if I had a choice in this matter, this music would never get played anywhere near me and I wouldn't be complaining about it.

If it weren't for the fact that I had Claude VonStroke and LTJ Bukem to look forward to, this cd might have been the last straw for me. Now, I'll just have to give that away to someone who does appreciate it (if I can find them...)

You might say "it's only 8,50 Euro", but what the hell, that's 25,50 Euro's worth of horrible music that I have lying around my house now.

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pap. enough said.

While I prefer the Fabric.45 to Infinity+1, they both are strong and taken together highlight A-Traks high degree of comfort in the hip-hop and dance music worlds. 'The two sets also illustrate how adept he is at drawing smooth connections between the two types of music. A-Trak also shows a remarkable subtlety of touch in bridging to dance music from a predominantly hip-hop base on Infinity+1 while doing precisely the opposite on Fabriclive 45.'
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agree, if Alix Perez have fabriclive mix is gonna be good !