Guest Mix: Scott Ferguson #4

In a break from his previous mixes for us that spanned genres in the name of mood, this time Scott brings a Detroit-style booty/bass mixup. I’ll let him do the talking on this one….

“First off a note to the listeners: I apologize for the dreadful distortion during some of the filtering I perform in the mix. You would think that after as long as I’ve been mixing I would do simple things like check my levels and make sure that the settings on my filter box were not tweaked to harshly in one direction or the other. I decided I liked the mix distortion or no distortion so, I’m sticking to this original recording rather then doing it over.

Secondly, I was inspired to do this mix for mostly the following two reasons; I recently joined FACEBOOK and also it had plainly been a long time since I mixed these particular records in my collection. Why FACEBOOK? Since joining FACEBOOK I’ve been contacted by some folks from my past that I hadn’t laid eyes on or spoken to in years. You see, FACEBOOK has been a very strange and exciting experience for me, it seems that by simply glancing at a name or viewing a photo I can be almost instantly pulled back into time. I am not much of one for reminiscing but sometimes for short amounts of time its fun and somewhat romantic to think about who, what, when, and how you got to the present time. All this recent reminiscing got me thinking about weekend nights in my early 20’s, going to parties, all night raves, clubs, and early morning after-hours, and also somewhat indirectly (or directly?) the Detroit radio station WJLB. WJLB would always broadcast live Friday and Saturday nights from some club deep within the city limits of Detroit playing House, Techno, Electro, and Booty Bass. We often would listen to J-L-B (as most called it) at the house or in the car before any function we were attending just to put us in the mood. Weekend nights on J-L-B was a large part of my younger days in Detroit and my connection to the cities music. The majority of the records I chose were staple tracks played by great (virtually unknown) Detroit DJ’s like Gary Chandler and Wax Tax’n Dre on those Friday & Saturday nights broadcast live on WJLB-Detroit. With that said, I present ISM::FERGUSON::MIX::4 my tribute to nostalgia and WJLB-Detroit. Enjoy!” – Scott Ferguson

Here’s the tracklist:

01. Percolator [Original Mix] – Cajmere – Cajual Records
02. Walk 4 Me [Original Mix] – Robbie Tronco – Henry Street
03. Blow Your House Down – A Guy Called Gerald – Swordfish Records
04. New Jersey Deep vs. Jackie Moore – Unknown – Two Brothers and a DAT
05. Disco’s Revenge – Gusto – Bumble Beats Records
06. Bubbles – DJ Milton – 5-2-Da-Head
07. House The Groove – DJ Funk – Dance Mania
08. Rollin Through Time – Erik Travis – FACT Records
09. Now Wus Up Wus Up (Moe B Mix) – Mr De’ – Wus Up, Wus Up EP
10. Ass N Titties – DJ Assault – Ass N Titties EP
11. Who U Wit – DJ Deeon – Who U Wit EP
12. The Freaks – Unknown – Back to Haunt
13. Shake It (Remix) – Unknown – Dance Mania
14. Bangin The Beat – DJ Assault – Sumthin 2 Shake Yo Azz 2 EP
15. Keys To The Whip – DJ Profit – Booty Bar Anthem EP
16. Untitled – Dj Funk – Dance Mania
17. Superior Race – Dopplereffekt – Dataphysix Engineering
18. I Can’t Wait [created especially for ISM blog] – Scott Ferguson – white label

You can download this mix here. Watch out for some definitely NSFW lyrics on this one!
Next up from Scott we have part 1 of a 2 part deep house mix which will be posted next week, the second part will be available from our man Kuri’s Energy Flash blog.