fair play FACT, you’ve got one hellva producer on your podcast series. Always impressed. This tracklist is music I grew up with 10/10

imagine the scene at fact hq:

‘wow, we’re really excited about your influences mix rupert’
‘yeah me too guys – i’ve really dug deep, turned up some bonafide gems’
‘great’
‘yeah, there’s this track in there i’d never heard until recently – ‘ENERGY FLASH’, i think it’s called?’
‘erm’
‘yeah, and this other guy… LFO? he’s going to be huge, trust’
‘hmmm’
‘i also dip into this up and coming genre called ”techno”? this guy kevin saunderson – just a young fella’
‘sorry, we’ve got another call coming through rupert – could you maybe put the word ‘TRASH’ in the subject line of the email when you send the file over?’
‘hold on, i haven’t given you the lowdown on afrika bambaataa yet!’
*click*

@Arnold – its not called ‘photek’s brandnew sounds never heard before’ mix. Its an influence mix -give the world a break.

the thing is, i’m cussing it out BECAUSE i have the fifteen years of loyalty. if a lesser dj/producer/whatever came out with this greatest hits of acid house mixtape, i would care less, but this is photek we’re talking about – the man is as close to godlike as they come within his sphere. so when i see he’s done an influences mix, and start getting excited thinking about how this will be his opportunity to ‘do an autonomic’ and rummage through the 20,000-odd bits of vinyl he probably has stashed away that i’ve never even smelt, let alone heard, you’ll perhaps half-understand why, when i saw ‘energy flash’, ‘radio babylon’ and renegade soundwave plugging up the tracklist, a sense of a crippling disappointment swept over me like a musty janitors brush

Wicked! Downloading now!

i admire photek for Ni – Ten – Ichi – Ryu, but the quality of this mix is far below factmag standard.

bah, photek’s casting about for some music to make. Jungle’s dead, he never made much of a dent into house, so now he’s trying to push his way into UK Bass . . .

Go bad to sleep, old man. Maybe when you wake up jungle will be on revival status and you’ll have something to do again.

He’s not talking about ‘brand new sounds’, you muppet. He’s saying couldn’t Photek – a man with an enormous record collection who has been well documented over the years as listening widely – have come up with some influences that we might not have heard? Palmer’s first post was a stupid, immature attempt at saying it though. Which is surprising, because if he really has ‘fifteen years loyalty’ he might have phrased it a little differently given that he’d be at least 30. I should know, I’ve got ‘twenty years loyalty’. Fifteen years loyalty only takes you back to 1996, Photek was mainstream by then. Go and hunt down the Certificate 18 releases under the name of Studio Pressure, the Street Beats 10″s under the name of The Truper, The Sentinel on Basement, System X on 3rd Eye etc etc..

For the avoidance of doubt, I’m 35. I bought Let It Shine, from Rupert himself, in the record shop in which he worked, when it was released in 1992.

His ’97 BBC Essential Mix still cracks me up (Goldie’s interminable ‘Mother’ took up half the damn mix!) Great producer though.

if i was 20 and heard of photek and his reputation, but not steeped in dance music – this mix is representative of lots of really great music and i’d be really grateful to hear it as all the tracks are excellent.

Sounds like this guy writes for Pitchfork. We really don’t need anymore negativity, I don’t care how old you are or how long you’ve been listening to other people’s music.

Yes, how dare he not fully think out his comment posted at the bottom of a mix. Totally unprofessional. He should be banned for his lackadaisical attitude towards the serious business of posting comments.

PS You’re an idiot.

saw this via a link on facebook and felt i had to comment. after giving 25 years of my life to buying music, selling music and djing, i think im qualified to say that this really is a bit of a poor list of tunes. not that the tunes are bad, they are all classic i guess, its just the list lacks an unimaginative eye and looks to me just to be a cynical mix of easily licensable tunes with someones name stuck on it for a quick buck. thats most likely why there is negativity surrounding this. if you ‘dont need any more negativity surrounding this’ then try a bit harder that this frankly dumb mix of obvious and im some cases chart dance music.

I think lots of people would have seen Photek’s name on a mix and looked forward to hearing some of his new stuff that’s about. OK that doesn’t happen, so you see influences, OK this will be interesting, but then it’s just ‘now that’s what I call classic dance tracks’ and it’s hard not to think be a bit m’eh.

I bet lots of younger listeners don’t know many of the tracks here.

Your download link is broken. Please fix immediately! I need to save this incredible mix for future listening.