Music
Welcome to the Cookie-Dough Guest mix where we invite some of favourite DJ / Producers to answer a few questions and dig deep into their collections and put together a mix of their favourite records. For this episode we have invited DJ, Producer and friend of the show Liam from All My Friends (Manchester) to put together a mix of records that have influenced him over the years! Nice one Liam! All My Friends (Manchester) Evelyn King - Love Come Down (Dr Packer Remix) Pappa Told Me - Dr Packer Need Ur Love (Feat. Lorrie) - Big Danny Kane Disco love - Hurlee Rock The Discothèque - Ruff Diamond So you wanna be a star - Mannix Come on get up - The Funk District Staying Power (Feat Pete Simpson) - The Reflex Revision Free Bass - Joey Negro Acid Disco - LeonxLeon Sheros - Paulette, Chris Massey 1. What was the first record you bought that made you realise that you wanted to be a DJ / Producer? My route into Dj’ing is quite an odd one. When I was 13 I asked my mum for some decks. The next day she turned up with two Vestax PDX-2000’s which she bought of a bloke in the pub for a tenner each which were definitely stolen. Once I got them they sat under my bed for 6 years until I went to university. During my time at Uni I was big into Hip Hop and rap and the first two records I bought were N.W.A - express yourself and Beastie Boys - Intergalactic. These didn’t really cement my love of DJ’ing through, if I’m honest I had so little knowledge of the fundamentals of DJ’ing mixing hip hop like this was beyond me. Also I didn’t have any counter weights on my turntables for the first year I had them so it was a farce. As I progressed through Uni I started getting exposed to more and more dance music and house and disco really started bending my ear. I knew a former colleague from my bar job growing up who was a successful DJ in Sheffield. I listened to a lot of his mixes and at the end of one of them was the Tom Trago - Use me again. Sheer house euphoria through and through. After hearing that I went out and bought the track instantly and started building a record collection around that song. Up until this day it is still a great marker of the type of sound I like to purvey when DJ’ing, certainly in the club. 2. What record makes you most nostalgic? When I first heard Inspector Norse back in 2012. That was a big moment for me. He was closing room two in Warehouse Project back when it was located in Trafford. When that song came on it really impressed on me how powerful and euphoric dance music can be. That song completely encapsulates my post uni era. I spent two years in a flat above a ‘One Stop’ shop in Withington, bumming around in a kitchen job before I grew up and got a real one. We used to have loads of mad house parties and even built a ball pit in our box room. Although I played it to death a few years ago it still gets thrown on when the occasion calls for it. It’s a track that transports me right back to finishing uni and spending summers bouncing from party to party in Fallowfield before the bill and council finally crushed the place. 3. What is your favourite end of the night track? Do I have to pick one!? That’s so tough. Without sounding like a cop-out it does depend where I’m playing. I’m going to give you a quick list, but, honestly I wouldn’t be adverse to playing these one after another anyway ha. Ten City - The Way Love Is Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy Laurent Garnier - Man With the Red Face Ashford & Simpson - Bourgie Bourgie If I was absolutely pushed to pick one though it’d be a recent release by Jacque Renault. A 7 minute re-edit of Lionel Richie’s All Night Long 4. Do you have a guilty pleasure record? Take that - Never forget never fails to raise the roof. I recently played it and a friends wedding and there was silly scenes and arms in the air. Never forget yeah! 5. What is your most treasured piece of vinyl? Another tough one.