By tubbs | Published:
August 31, 2010
I feel like such a darned hypocrite when it comes to Theo Parrish, the remixer of this record (see my rant about Billy Love for some clarification). I’ve thought him overrated for so long, yet now I think he’s a genius. Inconsistent much? Still, I continue to think his early records are crappy, but I [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged (you are) more than paradise, christopher tubbs, crue-l grand orchestra, deep, detroit, Disco, funk, heads down, house, japan, japanese, jazz, long version, only, records, techno, theo parrish, vinyl |
By tubbs | Published:
July 15, 2010
Do you remember back in the nineties when you used to describe a hot joint as being straight “gaaaangsta!”? Now don’t front, I know for a fact a lot of you know exactly what I’m talking about. Before you became the austere chroniclers of all things high end, collectable and beardtastic, you used to rock [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged bryan ferry, cage & aviary, christopher tubbs, Disco, gangsta, heads down, jimmy edgar, maurice fulton, Padded Cell, Post Punk, punk funk, you can dance |
By tubbs | Published:
July 12, 2010
Soft Rocks are four guys from Brighton with more records than you. And they know more peripherally about those records than you (or me, let’s be straight) so we should really be experiencing that internal conflict between admiration and loathing that these facts generally ignite. I’ve generally loathed them up until now (they’re so frikkin’ [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged balearic, brighton, bubble club, chris galloway, christopher tubbs, Disco, heads down, house, morning star, proto house, ron hardy, soft rocks |
By tubbs | Published:
July 2, 2010
It’s very rare for major labels to bother pulling out the big gun remixers for major artists anymore (witness the hopelessly rubbish mixes for the Gorillaz album). These days they usually get some kid who’ll do it for nothing on a crack of Reason or something; you know- a electro mix from DJ Wizzle Wozzle [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged balearic, chemical brothers, chilled, christopher tubbs, cosmic, Disco, heads down, leftfield, lindstrom, norway, prins thomas, space disco, swoon |
By tubbs | Published:
May 6, 2010
Red Rack em (or Hot Coins in this instance- check the interview) is slowly but surely becoming the master of the subaquatic bass groove. His records ‘Underground‘ on Shift, ‘In Love Again‘ on Untracked and now this absolute 4am thermonuclear destroyer ‘Voices’ are absolute proof of this. Production so raw and murky that you think [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged christopher tubbs, daniel berman, Disco, heads down, holly backler, hot coins, house, in love again, red rack'em, ron basejam, shift, techno, underground, Untracked, voices |
By tubbs | Published:
May 5, 2010
Ok. I kind of feel like I’ve been neglecting my post-punk Gauloise-smoking, Supreme Vans-wearing peeps for a while, which is why I thought I should post this upfront and infectious little pop-post-disco banger on the blog. Bottin‘s obviously like family here at Heads Down (watch the interview), so when I heard the remix I thought [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged bottin, can't get into it, christopher tubbs, Dance, Disco, heads down, la, los angeles, pollyn, pop, Post Punk, stussy, underground |
By tubbs | Published:
April 29, 2010
Even if you don’t know the name Pete Herbert, it’s highly likely you own at least one of his productions. As Reverso 68 (with Phil Mison) he became one of the most prolific remixers in the UK music industry during the last two years. He’s known for his multi-alias collaborations: Bushflange, LSB with Baby G, [...]
Posted in Interviews | Also tagged atlas, baby g, bushflange, christopher tubbs, Disco, frontera, heads down, house, interview, london, lsb, maxi discs, nu disco, pete herbert, phil mison, records, reverso 68, techno |
By tubbs | Published:
January 15, 2010
Hello everybody, and welcome back to the snug, reassuring geekery of Heads Down. I have been down (and am still down) with a cruel bout of chicken pox, so I’ve not been tending to this particular garden. I get sent a pretty much continuous stream of bilious crap from record labels, so imagine my surprise [...]
Posted in Christopher Tubbs's Hit Pick Heatrocks | Also tagged acid, carl craig remix, christopher tubbs, detroit, Disco, heads down, hot chip, new, one life stand, parlophone, Post Punk, punk funk, techno |
By tubbs | Published:
December 16, 2009
What can you say about this guy? He’s known as an elemental backbone to the modern Disco/Balearic phenomenon, one of the greatest DJ’s on the planet and a pretty decent producer to boot. DJ Harvey’s absence from UK shores has only increased his mythology (some say to absurd levels) and his reputation in Japan is [...]
Posted in Interviews | Also tagged balearic, black cock, christopher tubbs, Disco, dj harvey, edits, heads down, house, house of house, interview, re edit, re-edits, red bull music academy, techno |
By tubbs | Published:
October 16, 2009
Well I have to be honest, I’ve never really felt Aeroplane. I’ve always found their productions too laptop, the drums sort of fat, but sort of clunky, and it all a bit (I hate to say it) cheap-sounding. But here inevitably, is something I like. The synths on this dub are absolutely OUTRAGEOUS. They should [...]