The Fabric Live series has built a solid reputation of putting out some premium deep mixes by such calculated artists as John Peel, J Majik, and Bugz in the Attic. Now on #29, the club calls on trio Cut Copy for the group's unique taste, chiefly centered around Dan Whitford's early passion for record collecting which led him from DJing properly to putting the group together.
The short of it is that Fabriclive 29 is collection of both more recent electro tracks, disco punk, and vintage 80s rare cuts. Maybe this speaks on this reviewer's ignorance or age, but I previously knew of none of the songs contained and so was elated at so many songs that would've took years of crate digging to come across, if ever. There's some recognizable names such as Goldfrapp, Daft Punk, and Roxy Music, but the selections aren't the ones or mixes you're hearing all the time, which again is this compilation's strength. Though the record starts out with a bizarre guitar driven Latin Playboys track with Joakim's "I wish you were gone," Cut Copy's own "Future Unlimited" gets things paced with it's early Joy Division-ish instrumental where you can almost picture Stephen Morris drumming on a Manchester roof. And what follows is a steady string of high-energy tracks, including notable cuts by Munk, New Young Pony Club, and Mstrkrft.
Fabric live has proved itself again with it's employing Cut Copy for this solid electro mix.
