As the year winds down, I've found myself thinking a lot about the past decade, and what a journey it's been musically. For a while I entertained the idea of writing a top-100 of the '00s, or some other equally exhausting project, but then I came to my senses. There had to be a better way to celebrate what was, by all accounts, a huge decade for music.
Whether you like or not the direction in which music (and music distribution) is heading, a lot of amazing music has come out over the past decade. Soul and Disco were being revived, Boogie came back, and House was becoming more organic (welcoming ever more real musicians and live instrumentation) even as an increasingly large percentage of it was made on laptops by bedroom producers. Innovation was underway, most notably in more experimental genres like Future Jazz, Jazzdance, Broken Beat, and Dubstep. While house was trying to get back to the raw, and techno seemed obsessed with getting back to the house, labels like Compost, Especial, Schema, Flower, Arision, File, Tru Thoughts, Comantonse, Sonar Kollektiv, and others--were out at the fringes of dance music, pushing forward some radical concepts and fresh sounds that I will here, for lack of a better word and time to come up with one, lazily call "futuristic."
DJ Offbeat (of Future History of House) and Chris Galvan (of Music Is Everything Podcast) are fellow fans of the jazzier end of the dance music spectrum, and the two came up with a much better way to honor some of the very best artists and labels of 2000-2009 than another top-whatever list: 2-hour retrospectives on their favorite artists and labels. Of course I had to get in on the action! They've already covered Jazzanova, JCR, and Compost records (You can grab the mixes and peep the playlists here), but I joined them for the Schema Records Special, and we'll be back again in a few weeks with an Especial Special. So here it is, two hours of great music from one of the very best labels out there.
Schema Records Special - Chris Galvan (tracks 1-9) OdDio (tracks 10-17) DJ Offbeat (tracks 18-25)
1. S-Tone Inc - How High The Moon
2. Rosalia de Souza - Fica Mal Com Deus (Truby Trio Treatment)
3. Nicola Conte - The in Samba (Kyoto Jazz Massive Remix)
4. The Dining Rooms - Prigionieri Del Deserto (Big Bang's I'm Going Jazz, Soon Remix)
5. The Invisible Session - To The Powerful (2 Banks of 4 Remix)
6. Beat Out Shrine - Pinkie
7. S-Tone Inc - Un Dia De Sol
8. Vuca - Cossa Notturna
9. Dr Abstract -Struck On Jazz
10. Artless - 2nd Room
11. The Dining Rooms - Milano Calibro 9 (Woman Is The Party Mix)
12. Parov Stelar - Tony Montana
13. Gerardo Frisina - Cortante
14. Gerardo Frisina ft. Candela All Stars - Calle de Candela (Vibes Version)
15. DruMagick - Malta
16. Rosalia de Souza - Maria Moita
17. The Dining Rooms - La Citta Nuda (SoulPatrol Afrolicious Mix)
18. Rosalia De Souza - Jogo De Roda (Innervision Mix by The Invisible Session)
