unbespielt C170: finishing off basanov

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In June 2015, Lithuanian DJ/producer, Marijus Adomaitis, AKA Ten Walls or Mario Basanov, published a particularly vile Facebook post about gay people. Whilst I believe everyone has the right to free speech, this was a pre-determined concrete view that rubs against the origins of club culture, a culture he milks and profits from for a living.
His ill-informed, niave statements led to much discontent being voiced in music and social media. He was rightly pulled from many festival performances but it’s too early to tell how much it has hurt his career. He will probably soon pop under a new producer pseudonym anyway.
The trouble is, I loved his work under the ‘Mario Basanov’ monica. I actively sought out and bought the tunes and he’s had more than a fair share of airtime in our gay household. Now, I find it difficult to separate the man from the music, In 2015, three/four years after release, his bottom-heavy, dreamy deep house signature has been mimicked and replicated, dating it quickly. Maybe that’s why he started releasing under ‘Ten Walls’??
Whatever, it’s time to draw a line under these great tunes, and ‘finish off Masanov’. I had a number of these future disco playlists bubbling away between 2010-2012. This session pulls together favourites from that era, and clocking in at over two and a half hours, it’s a pretty chunky one.
To dial-up the pink and stamp some queer over his music, we open with a snatch from John Waters’ 1969 movie, Mondo Trasho. Samples of this were also recently used on Hercules & Love Affair’s 2014 album track, ’43 To Freedom’. Enjoy!
Unbespielt C170 - Finishing off Basanov - 2011/2012
1. Mario Basanov & Vidis - I'll Be Gone feat. Jazzu (Mario Basanov & Vidis Redo Mix)
2. Rob Made - The Way I See feat. Pete Simpson (Original Mix)
3. Mario Basanov - Lonely Days (Original Mix)
4. Walter Jones - Living Without Your Love (Original Mix)
5. Genius Of Time - Houston We Have a Problem
6. Alexis Raphael - Kitchens and Bedrooms (Original Mix)
7. Ernesto - Care (Single Edit)
8. Milan Euringer, Tube & Berger - Lovebreak
9. Deep Fiction - Love It Like I Do (303 Mix)
10. Luca C & Brigante - Flash of Light feat. Roisin Murphy (Solomun Mix)
11. Mario & Vidis - Changed feat. Ernesto (Soul Clap Remix)
12. HNQO - Point Of View (Original Mix)
13. Go Wolf - Voices (Bubba's Speechless Remix)
14. Monte - True (Original Mix)
15. Dusky feat. Janai - It's Not Enough
16. Migosy - Skyline (Simon Mattson Remix)
17. Beckwith - Craymal (Original Mix)
18. Martin Roth - Beautiful Life (Original Mix)
19. Mario Basanov - We Are Child of Love (Mario's Redub)
20. Black Van - Moments Of Excellence (Original Mix)
21. Hercules and Love Affair & Shaun J Wright - My House (Stopmakingme Remix)
22. Chromeo - Hot Mess (Sergej Gorn Remix)
23. Benoit & Sergio - Walk And Talk (Original Mix)
24. Maceo Plex - Stay High Baby (Original Mix)
25. Dusky feat. Janai - Lost In You
26. Dusky feat. Janai - It's Not Enough (Piano Mix)
27. Cosmic Kids - Reginald's Groove (Classixx Remix)
28. Scandal - Just Let Me Dance (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix)
29. Mario Basanov - Lonely Days (Plate Dub)
382.4 MB | AAC | 320 kbps | 2'46'30
The track list also appears in the ‘Lyrics’ tab of the track info.
Use the iTunes ‘Chapters’ menu to jump between tracks in the mix.
Tunes from 2010-2012, pooled from various playlists, re-listed at InDa Hotel, Varkala, mixed & chaptered in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 25-27th July 2015. “Unbespielt” is German for “unrecorded” and it appears on the beautifully retro cassette tape artwork fronting this mix. The design is a retro as Adomaitis’ views, and ‘unrecording’ is what I’d like to do to his catalogue now this mix is complete. Haha !