CD of the week
One of Johannesburg’s most happening clubs, always packed to capacity, is 206, with its ever-impressive line-up of top musicians on the stage and talented DJs spinning the best acid jazz, drum’n’bass, jungle and the like. Now you can take the party home with the excellent album 206 Mix (Virgin), with its 18 heavyweight tracks recreating the club’s atmosphere in a way that has not been achieved since ESP’s now classic series of dance CDs.
Kicking off in a feisty way with Monkey Mafia’s Mek Jah Music, DJ Myles mixes smoothly into the super electro sounds of tracks by Les Rythmes Digitales (Jacques Your Body (Makes Me Sweat) and the very big >From Disco to Disco), happening, frenetic ska beats from the Dub Pistols, Bentley Rhythm Ace’s wonderfully funky On Her Majesty’s Secret Whistle and industry wunderkind Fatboy Slim’s How Can You Hear Us. You’ll also groove to the Propellerheads,Electrotheque, the Freska AllStars and many more.
With such a great array of quality music, all of it obviously carefully chosen to maintain just the right sound throughout the album, this CD is one mean must-have compilation.