Fabric 16 - Eddie Richards
1 Old Skool Split [Ricardo Dias/Pedro Vilas Boas] "Loosely Joined" Upfront
2 Eddie Richards "Be Still" Abnormal
3 Freddie Montanez Ft Jessica Lynn "Vegas Nights [Audio Soul Project Rerub]" Movim
4 Corrie "Scorpio" Exclusive, produced by Corrie
5 MastikSoul "I Believe [MastikSoul Remix]" 4kenzo
6 Gideon A.D.D & Marky Star-High As Can Be "[Dreddteks Get Up Remix]" Household
7 Dexter "Shwing Final Rinse" Exclusive, produced by Simon Stevens
8 Little Mike "11th & Broadway" Casa Del Soul
9 Primoz "Push Me" Lunar Tunes
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DJ2 "Plural" Pancake
11 Robin Porter and Mike Carr "Fathernature" Immigrant
12 Living City "Steppin" Out [Tunnel Mix]" Living City
13 Pure Science "Do U Know House?" P.S. Communications
14 Loft 55 "Butterfly Lips" MES
There are countless versions of house music"s beginning, and most of them involve Eddie Richards. In his twenty plus years in the business, he"s charted a course to Fabric that"s included stops at the Camden Palace, Clink St., Top Of The Pops, and his very own, portable Ministry of Sound (read his Biography for more). Yet despite the historical significance of his many residencies, events and appearances (and in an industry where the past is celebrated ad nauseam), he continues to look forwards and refuses to become nostalgic. He"s currently fixtured in tech house, a productive and fraternal scene littered with white label 12"s and AirMiles vouchers. He"s as likely to be found playing for an emerging dance community in eastern Europe as at his home in Milton Keynes, and is often the first DJ to visit unheralded locations (others soon follow, normally on his recommendation).
Eddie: "I think I was the first to give other people a chance. Terry [Francis] was on our [agency"s] books and I couldn"t get him a gig because no-one knew who he was. People got greedy. DJs got greedy. The scene got really big and they started asking for more money, and they weren"t interested in playing for the small clubs that had helped build their reputations. They could play bigger places and I was disappointed with the whole thing. There was too much ego, too much greed. I didn"t want to start an agency: in fact, I asked other people to do it. But no-one would so I did. It needed to be done. I ended up doing accounts for most of the time, and working for everyone else except me, for no thanks, and no fucking money."
Although he found favour as "Evil" Eddie, a scratch-happy hardcore DJ in the late eighties, "Fabric 16" exemplifies his modern make-up; smooth, deep and untroubled. It contains the elements that make tech house such a seductive darktime soundtrack, and Eddie"s Fabric appearances essential. Its fourteen tracks use big, thick bass and dreamstate beats; Detroit strings and Chi-town grooves; twisted vox and tribal drums; lightening loops and off-key effects. Collecting the work of Eddie"s pals and peers, this is 7
minutes of upfront, downright four to the floor, packed with echo and drowned in delay. A DJ whose influence is acknowledged but whose skill is rarely acclaimed, this is Eddie Richards" first-ever commercial mix CD.
Eddie: "I don"t name-check influences. I"ve always liked and played new music, that"s what I was doing in "88, and what I do now. Nothing"s really changed. I"ve got a lot of tracks, very different things, and I"d like to get them out. I"d like to see if I can make an artist album, maybe using blues and reggae rhythms."
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