The follow up to the best album of 2004 is here, with a slice of what the crazy DC 10 parties are like on Monday Mornings. Check this one out!

Circoloco at DC 10 – Monday Morning Session 2 - Mixed by Clive Henry and Locodice(4:20)

One of the best CDs from 2004, had to be the Monday Morning Sessions, which was a representative of the Monday Morning Party at DC 10 in Ibiza, run by Circo Loco. The first volume had Cirillo and Tanya Vulcano and it was just plain nasty. Now Timo Maas’ label has come up with the follow-up using different deejays.

Clive Henry is best known for his partnership with Justin Drake under the name Peace Division and he’s been around the scene for at least a decade. He was picked to mix CD 1 for the 2nd volume of Monday Morning Session.

Locodice needs no introduction, for a man that practically lives in a dark dirty sounds cape, he was originally Timo Maas’ helper and then he released “Phatt Dope Shit” to the world on 4:20 and his career has taken off ever since

CD 1 – Clive Henry

DJ Fex – Mysterious Conversation (Mazi Remix)
Kalabrase – Set Me Free
Sammin and Michal feat. Lil Dirty Ghetto Bastard – Electricity
Magnetic Base presents Fireball – Maneater
Family Affair 01 Bearback – Funky Voodoo Mama
John Spring – Strange (John Spring’s 2005 Revision)
Ty Tek – Dirty
Chardronnet vs. Afrilounge – Phonix
Chloe – Take Care (Abe Duque Remix)
Dub Kult – Dip (Guido Schneider’s On and On Mix)
Trentemoller – Polar Shift
John Tejeda – Paranoia
Konrad Black – Jefferson and Braeside

CD 2 – Locodice

Carl Craig – Sandstorms
Locodice – Menina Brasilera
Ricardo Villalobos – True to Myself
Sunsetpeople – Orion
Betrieb>Mapstation feat. Ras Donovan
Marc Houle – Borrowed Gear
Robag Wruhme – Wortkabular (Tobi Neumann Remix)
Hardfloor – Glop Glop
Kat Williams – That Track by Kat
Roman Flugel – Pattern 7
Buttrich – Meeting Dave Dish

Disc 1

Clive Henry’s mix starts with the ever-weird Mazi remix of Fex’s Mysterious Conversation, which starts it on a prog house tip. Henry gently glides into the electro-tinted house from Kalabrese called Set Me Free, which uses a male vocal but it might irritate certain people. “Electricity” is next and it uses a robotic voice that tries to talk dirty and it uses an almost minimal bassline, the sound that has been prevailing in Europe for the last few months. About three tracks in, you start to wonder, where’s the dirty and very dark themed sound that Henry is so famous for playing to the masses?

Magnetic Base’s Fireball continues the electro theme; the kick is so electro and it sounds like a track that would fit in a Zabiela set. I like how it just drives itself and it seems that Henry here has gone for electro house. Family Affair continues the electro onslaught, which strangely addicts me but also repulses me in the same manner. I can’t explain it why but it just does both at the same time, if that makes any sense. John Spring’s Strange continues to push the electro house sound that Henry seems to have wanted to get across for this mix CD. Strange uses some weird sound effects but they seem to add to the atmosphere.

Ty Tek’s Dirty comes in at track seven, and it continues the electro themed house. At this point, I’m starting to cry out for the usual Clive Henry Dark N Dirty sound. He could be heading in a new direction or maybe this is what the party is like at DC 10, those Ibizan parties are pretty weird, so I’m told. Phoenix comes in at track with an addictive hook and electro bassline, coupled with a weird vocal, that sounds like some guy from a horror movie.

Chloe’s Take Care, which was remixed by Abe Duque jumps in at track number nine and yes it continues the electro onslaught. I like the water dripping noises and this is darker than the previous tracks but still the electro is starting to wear. I love electro but too much, kills the mood. “Bip” is a solid track ten with another James Zabiela style vocal and it uses the famous German Minimal Sound with loads of sound effects.

Trentemoller comes in at track eleven and its contains that sound that has made him famous over the last two years. Its bleepy but it has kick and it’s always a joy to have his tracks on CD. It’s possibly the best track on this disc because it’s just so different and Trentemoller is always great to hear on a CD. Tejeda’s Paranoia and Konrad Black’s Jefferson and Braeside end disc one and it seems that Clive Henry has caught the electro bug, its not a bad first disc, just the electro sound wears on you at times and Henry will probably never shake his dark’n’dirty tag.

Disc 2

Locodice starts with Carl Craig, who I haven’t heard much from in a long time and this is more of the minimal sound that has hit Europe by storm. It’s slow and it takes ages to build, seems that some artists never change. Locodice’s own track comes in here, with production help from Timo Maas producer Martin Buttrich. The track here is gentle house and it has that Brazilian flavor, which always gets top marks in my book. Another man that has been getting loads of airplay and mad deejay props is Ricardo Villalobos and he comes in at track three, which uses a female chant over an incredibly minimal bassline. “True To Myself” contains some real underlying funkiness here and it pushes such an addictive hook.

Sunsetpeople’s Orion comes in at track number four and here we push some melodic keys among an minimal electro bassline. Locodice certainly changed the pace with some gentle house from track 2 and 3 to bleepy electro minimalism. “New Motion” continues the bleepy electro house direction that Locodice has been going in. The melody that shakes out of the back is very nice but the electro might be too much for some people. Marc Houle’s Borrowed Gear does basically the same thin as track 4 and 5 but we don’t get the bleepy electro here but it does use some incredibly minimal bassline.

Tobi Neumann’s remix of Wortkabular comes in and yes you guessed it, bleepy electro with a minimal bassline and yes this disc is predictable but that is the sound that Locodice is using. Hardfloor return with Glop Glop, up tempo house with some fantastic bassline that just makes me want to groove and it moves away somewhat from the sound that Locodice has been pounding into you since track four, which is a nice refreshing change.

Kat Williams’s That Track By Kat starts the homestretch here, with yup electro but its not so minimal, which is also a good thing. The track about two minutes in, starts to push into more driving house, which is great because I love two records in one. Roman Flugel appears here with Pattern 7, which is German Minimal House and it ends with the always-great Meeting Dave Dish with that haunting melody

Conclusion:
If you love German Minimal stuff then this compilation will get you all wet but if you hated it, get away from it. Its not bad but its not fantastic, it showcases the sound that Circo Loco had in 2004 from what my spies tell me. Both Discs push an electro sound, different from the dark n dirty sound that Clive Henry and Locodice are known for. Definitely worth a look but get volume one before anything else, it was so overlooked by the media last year, get the gem of 2004 and then consider this one