01 DEEP COVER
02 ROUGH ROADS
03 BLOW
04 CLAP
05 REDUX
06 SLOPE
07 PARADE
08 SCENARIO
09 THE REAL SHIT
10 STAR
Dirt Crew aka Peter Gijselaers and Felix Eder have been Moodmusic favorites since their early days in 2004 when “Rock The House” emerged on the MBF label out of Cologne. Their electro influenced house productions soon found their way to Moodmusic creating numerous hits like “808 Lazerbeam” and “Domino”, and the all-time classic remix of “Soul Sounds” from label head Sasse.
Dwelling a few years in more dubbed out minimal sounds, Dirt Crew are back on the block with more of their original raw as fuck love of house music as we all like it.
“Blow” is showing the true roots of these pioneers of European electronic house music, with influences ranging from early Chicago warehouse traxx, sophisticated mid-90s NYC inspired house productions and pioneers of UK dub house from the likes of Warp and DIY.
“Deep Cover” is the perfect start, slowly evolving with a dubbed house feel and perfectly arranged vocal samples getting the biz done. Followed by “Rough Roads”, the theme stays the same, deep bass confiscating the groove, holding no hostages with a building arpeggiated synth line making the track as comfortable at home as well as in a hazy club at 5 am.
The title track “Blow” brings more dirt to the game, throwing old school samples and deep keys into the mix with stunning results. Keeping the pace mid-tempo the groove just keeps going on, building a perfect soundtrack for those special nights.
“Clap” is another sure shot DC production, layering synths and snippets of vocals into a frenzy of house bliss, ending in a FM synthhorn crescendo which could be from a Jovonn production from 1992. One of the highlights of the album is surely “Redux” – an old school stomper with a 2009 production to keep it fresh. Lending a touch from early Deep Dish this has the massively hypnotizing “hands in the air” factor in true Dirt Crew style. Already tested at the last Moodmusic Night at Panorama Bar, this was the highlight of the Sunday afternoon !
“Slope” is a darker affair with that well paced Berlin peak-hour frenzy without ever getting too dark or progressive, it’s a floor filler from the finest caliber.
“Parade” is the ode to those memories of deep house as we know it here at Moodmusic HQs, deep, pulsating bass and groove mixed with some tasteful keys and vocals fulfilling every deep house producers wet dream, I surely can see the guys wet themselves while doing this..
Going darker towards is the name of the game, taking “Scenario” into pitched down vocals and echoed percussion madness, keeping the groove in high alert till the keys drops and the dance floor just explodes, another DC classic for sure.
The guys show some amazing rawness in “The Real Shit” – a bouncy, almost techno production with distorted beats, true DC bleepiness and dubbed out vocals which has proven to be a demented dance floor bomb since we got our hands on this little secret weapon.
Ending the album we have maybe the finest piece of modern Dirt Crew sound, “Star” starts with mesmerizing keys and a murder bassline, evolving over minutes of modern house music at it’s best to a crazy horn break down before settling the score for good, there..s no stopping now for the Dirt Crew!
2004 Dirt Crew aka James Flavour and Break 3000 launched Dirt Crew Recordings after releasing their first EP's "Cleaning up the Ghetto Part 1+2" on MBF. The track "Rok Da House" became one of the key records of 2004, the beginning of the Electro House hype and a big hit that gave the guys worldwide recognition on the dancefloors. Also Moodmusic released two 12's with the brilliant "808 Lazerbeam" and "Darkside" in 2004 and the "Domino" E.P. in 2005, but things really got wild when they remixed Sasse's "Soul Sounds" which again went straight in the charts and was voted one of the best remixes of 2005 in the german "Groove" magazine and has been dropped by all major DJ's. They also remixed the first single of the „Who made Who“ album on Gomma in 2005 and made classic remixes for artists and labels like Jennifer Cardini, Silicone Soul, 2020 Vision, Crosstownrebels, Freerange and Breastfed.
Due to their success and productivity they decided to start up their own labels named Dirt Crew Recordings and Players Paradise. Straight from the start Dirt Crew Recordings went off into the charts with the super massive remix of "Largo" by Dominik Eulberg who has set his path for success with this particular remix and is now one of Germans leading producers. But also the hot first single by Dirt Crew "What you Want" released in October 2004 is still a highlight in the whole retro old school scene.With the massive singles of James Flavour, Break 3000, Tigerskin and Jennifer Cardini the label proved to have an excellent output. With new artist like Prudo, Adultnapper, Sian and Drum Cult the label expands its view on quality house and minimalistic sounds. Combining these new artists with well known heroes of the scene like Andre Kraml and Spirit Catcher proved to be the key of success. Dirt Crew Recordings will follow this path in the future and will keep on promoting da real house sound.
Their second label Players Paradise was launched in 2005 as an offspring of Dirt Crew Recordings because the guys wanted to promote other genres as well in their catalogue and also this label took off really fast with the first two singles by Sweet Slave and Martinez. Taking it even deeper and more towards deep house but still combining it with the new crisp sound from the minimal scenes. Big remixes from Mike Monday and Serge Santiago got the people moving to the dirty sound and with new faces like the italian producer Marcello Giordani who presents his Italo-house grooves or Glasgows Mash with his sleazy Nu-Disco tracks the Dirt Crew also shows the world that there's more to house music.
Dirt Crew Recordings turns 5 in november, to celebrate this we bring you an exclusive compilation with lots of new acts and fresh material from our main artists on the label. There will also be 2 vinyls accompaning this digital compilation, the first will be released at the same time and contains tracks by Dirt Crew, Tigerskin and Geiger, the second one will come out early december with 4 other exclusive tracks from Till von Sein, Yosa, Tigerskin and Dekay & Elie Eidelman that are not featured on the main compilation.
As we are always on the lookout for new talent at Dirt Crew we are very happy to have 8 new artist on this album, Yosa from Tokyo, Geiger, Sierra Sam, Dekay, Elie Eidelman and Jay Shepheard from Berlin, Pele from the south of Germany and Dominus from Barcelona. They will all do full releases next year and make sure that our Label keeps on bringing the deep sounds to your dancefloors. Of course we also have fresh bombs from our main men The Runners, Dirt Crew, Mic Newman, Tigerskin and Till von Sein on this great compilation.
Brothers Vibe : Well, I started writing in my favorite trax, but then I realized it was pretty much the whole compilation...Really great collection of talent! Nice one! Markus Kavka : top-compilation. man könnte die tracks im club direkt hintereinander wegspielen und hätte nen prima abend. faves sind no. 1 und 2. Magazin - Mixmag // Ed Karney: A great retrospective from one of Europe's leading underground labels Tiefschwarz Ali: great - happy birthday! Simon Beeston : More awesomeness from Dirt Crew. Happy 5 years... Can't wait to sink my teeth into this, Rraaaarrrrrr! DJ Deep: cool compilation ! all massive 4 the floor ! if You Dance by Dirt Crew is my favorite track in there, real cool! DJ Friction (Bodymovin): hey boys, gratulation zu 5 jahre dirt crew und dieser super compilation. GusGus: wowowowow! president bongo HOSH (DIY Hamburg): kompliment für die tolle compilation und glückwünsche zum 5jährigen! Afrilounge: tolle compilation! besonders stark finde ich Margaret von Yosa! Magazine - Lodown // Forty: Each and every track will just work perfectly at Watergate's waterfloor... can't wait! Brett Johnson: Nice compilation and congrats on turning 5! Besides being a bunch of nice people and good DJs the label and its releases have always kept me groov'n..... Osunlade: this is one of THE most solid comps to date..i love the dirt crew stuff! definite support! Milton Jackson (Freerange): Congratulations on 5 years, loads of great tunes in here hard to pick a fave! Shur-I-Kann: Good selection from what is a quality label. Happy birthday Dirt Crew.
Next month we celebrate our 5th anniversary here at Dirt Crew and we are very pleased to have Marc Romboy whoʼs Systematic imprint also turned 5 this year team up with Smokin Jo to deliver this marvellous two tracker. „What is This ?“ is a strong tech-house gem, slowly building, pumping groove and with a great sax sample. Very recognisable and been doing a really good job on the dancefloors in our sets over the last few months. Solid stuff !
As a B-side there is a much deeper and musically more diverse Lee Jones remix, Lee has been one of our favourite producers in the last years with his solo work on labels like Aus, Liebe * Detail and especially his My My project on Playhouse, we are very pleased to have him on our label for the very first time with this excellent re-interpretation of „What is This ?“
Brothers Vibe : Nice! Great production - both mixes are on the money : ) Jeremy P.Caulfield : >>>>>>>> Y. E .A. H. ! <<<<<<<<<<< Agnes : Love the Lee Jones remix !! super coooooool !! Adultnapper : Wow. The Lee Jones mix is a major bomb. Enough for the 5 stars alone. Dig the original as well. Nice classic house groove. great work. Posivision mag : What Is This? : galant! Lee Jones remix : show an impressively high accuracy!! Hot Chip : Great release Steve Bug : the lee jones mix is the winner for me, but the original is good also. Konrad Black : Great release...I think the project should be called smokeboy, no? Stacey Pullen : deep jazzy vibes. will support! Pulseradio.net : Heard the Lee Jones rmx of this at Tape a couple of months back and have been waiting for it come out ever since. nuff said. Phonique : will play the original 100%. remix is big too! Mike Monday : A super strong original wonderfully remixed by the maestro Lee Jones. Top drawer. Osunlade : i like it..deep, love the horn..dirt crew delivers again.. congrats! Nuno dos Santos : Lee Jones remix is crazy!! Love it! Hector Romero : Original has a wicked groove - but I'm feeling Lee's rmx here - nice one over all. Pete Tong : groovy .... 9pm or 6am! Joris Voorn : Great!!! Another track from Marc to play every set for the rest of the year ;) Deetron : Both tracks are really nice but the Lee Jones Remix wins the race for me, lovely!
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