Compost
2004
Florian Keller Presents Party-Keller Vol. 1
About This Album
Off the wall, for sure, Florian Keller's Party-Keller mix for Compost rounds up an eclectic set of idiosyncratic rarities. Trainspotters should have a field day with this one. The selections are all noteworthy and curious -- and quite danceable and groovy -- yet they're hard to come by and probably unknown to all but the most dedicated crate-diggers. Like stateside contemporaries Theo Parrish, Danny Krivit, and Joe Claussell, Keller challenges his listeners, spinning curious, even cultish records from the past that are still relevant to present-day clubbers. He favors records with rhythms to die for, especially of the funk, fusion, electro, hip-hop, and post-disco varieties. Every one of the 14 tracks on Party-Keller is worthy of mention, but there are a few that are especially noteworthy: the sole reggae track here, an upbeat, rootsy late-'70s opener that gets the festivities underway in grand fashion (Althea & Donna's "Uptown Top Rankin"); an old-school b-girl throwdown that picks up where "Uptown Top Rankin" leaves off (Paulett & Tanya Winley's "Rappin & Rhymin"); a solid remix of an early-'90s Native Tongues also-ran (Black Sheep's "Similak Child [Homogenized Mix]"); the famous sample source for DJ Shadow's "Organ Donor" (Giorgio Moroder's "Tears," from his 1972 Son of My Father album on Dunhill); another much sought-after cult record, this one more infamous than famous (Tyrants in Therapy's debut single, "Three People [Nude Below the Waist]," which is art-trashy electroclash 20 years before the fact); another electro cut, this one similarly driven by proto-turntablism à la "Rock It," courtesy of a very young Dr.
Track List (try tracks 1,5 and 6)

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