Cr2 Present – ‘Live & Direct Miami 2010’

Cr2 Present – ‘Live & Direct Miami 2010’
Cr2
March 2010
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If you prefer handbags to horse dust and instant thrills to subtle bass kills, then this latest mix from Cr2 is just for you. An audio document which attempts to predict the big tunes at this year’s WMC, Live & Direct Miami 2010 is split into three discs ‘Day,’ ‘Night’ and Classics so, if nothing else, you certainly get plenty of beats for your bucks (44, no less).

Tracks like those found on the first disc are known as ‘upfront’ house, and that’s a good job, for they certainly have little ‘up top’ to be worried about. Instead, the ‘Day’ CD is stuffed with key saturated moments of instant gratification, pouting melodies and lip gloss synths, all under pinned by ripsaw house and electro vibes. “I wanna go deep” and other such silly vocal refrains litter proceedings and overall it’s a very cheery, bouncy affair.

Thankfully, disc 2 digs a little deeper. Things are more restrained and tracks are allowed space to breath and grow. One or two underground stylings bleed in and out, and the vibe is much more heads-down than tits-out as it was on the first disc. There are deeper, more percolating jams (Filth & Splendour) tracky, techy cuts (Dogman) and pumping, Dutch house bombs to make this the best disc of the package.

The dubiously entitled ‘Classics’ disc plots a line through all manner of frenetic 4/4, tribal tinged beats and pounding, anthemic, balls-out feel good house music. By the time the final track is done, every single pocket of accessible house music has been turned inside out. At least once.

These Cr2 mixes certainly do a job: Like the Erick Morillo Subliminal Sessions series which first drew me into slightly-less-than-commercial dance music, Live & Direct offer those with a pure passion for dance floor antics and pissed-up partying more than enough to get their teeth into. In its base form: they sum up house music.


CD1
Asle – Why People Dance (Golden Sun 2010)
Hugo Van Dyck – Give My Love A Try (Damian Wilson & Darren Crook’s Thrill Mix)
Vision Factory & Nina Hall – Music Brings You Back (Original Mix)
Tokoto Mitomi – That Ibiza Track (Vocal Mix)
Norman Doray – Tobita (Original Mix)
Cirez D – Glow (Original Mix) (Mouseville)
MYNC vs Harry Choo Choo Romero & Jose Nunez – Boogers (Avicii Dumb Dumb Remix)
Steve Haines & Chris B ft Angie Brown – The Last Time (Original Vocal Mix)
DJ Eako & Maurice P ft Patrick Duenas – Do What You Have To Do (Original Mix)
Heikki L & Sami S – I Wanna Go Deep
Last Rhythm ft Michelle Weeks – Forever (Dark Room Mix)
Damien J Carter – One
Juan Kidd & Nick Riley & Andi Durrant – Da Bass
Chuckie vs LMFAO – Let The Bass Kick In Miami Bitch
Sidney Samson – Shut Up & Let It Go (Jacob Plant Remix)

CD 2
Paul Harris vs Eurthymics – I Want You (Club Mix)
Janika Tenn – Make This Groove On (Mark Mendes Remix)
Paolo Mojo – Alhininha (Edu Imbernan Remix)
Tapesh – Chicago Groove
Medno – Morena
Hausewerk – Afrobeat
UGLH & Federico Locchi – People Underground
Patrick M – Pety
Damian Wilson & Darren Crook ft Teddy Love – Love So Strong (DJ Wady Remix)
Asle – Cirque De Bebe
Filth & Splender – Knight Rider
Dogman – The Void
Paul Darey & Alan Lockwood – Wicked In Japan
Anil Chawla – Think About It
Jewel Kid – Gabur

CD 3
MYNC Project vs Dirty South – Everybody Freakin (Piemont Remix)
Lee Cabrera vs Thomas Gold & Tara McDonald – Shake It (Move A Little Closer) (Terrace Vocal Mix)
Jason Herd ft Roland Clark – I Feel Good (Juan Kidd Remix)
Andy Chatterly – Access The Future (Original Mix)
Mark Brown – New Heights (Smith & Selway Remix)
Steve Mac & Mark Brown – The Fly (DJ Wady & Patrick M Remix)
Heikki L pres Syndicate Of Beats – Tum Tum (Botz & Flydrums & Dani Villa Remix)
Murk pres Liberty City – Some Lovin (Steve Mac Remix)
Muzzaik – Carbonate (Original Mix)
Eric Prydz vs Steve Angello – Woz Not Woz (Norman Doray & Arno Cost Remix)
Cadence – Lazy Love (Hook n Sling Remix)
Lex Da Funk – Hook Phenomina (Original Mix)
Kid Circus Presents Barbara From Brazil – O for Oranges (DMS12 Remix)
Armand Pena – Lagged (Original Mix)