Green Velvet @ Drumsheds, London
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Green Velvet plays a DJ set from the Defected party at Drumsheds, London.
Green Velvet has been intrinsically linked with house music almost since the start. Like all good stories, there have been many different chapters to the Chicagoan’s journey, each as important as the next. From seminal dance anthems to influential record labels, electrifying DJ sets to his iconic green flash of hair, he has always stood out from the crowd and is a deserving winner of our Outstanding Contribution award for 2024.
Depending on your age, you will know Curtis Alan Jones either as a freaky cyber-punk with a penchant for dark but tongue-in-cheek house anthems or as a more serious and mindful preacher who champions a religious way of life. He is one of the early pioneers whose Cajual and Relief labels were some of the most prominent and prolific in all of Chicago in the early ‘90s. They helped usher in a new wave sound after the early blueprint of Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy and the acid of Phuture. His style was to strip things back to a mean and kicking sound that laid some of the foundations for the later emergence of sub-genres like juke and footwork.
Initially, it was harder grooves that came on Cajual and more tracky fare arriving via Relief, with now household names like Boo Williams, Glenn Underground, Gemini and DJ Sneak all going on to become stars in their own right after early releases on the label. Of course, Jones’s own productions were right at the heart of the scene back then, not least the generational classic ‘La La Land’. It was originally written as a wake-up call for a friend who was doing too many drugs, but pill-munching clubbers worldwide adopted it as their own.
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Other hits such as ‘Answering Machine’ and ‘Flash’ brought Jones more acclaim, but you won't find him playing the first of those nowadays on account of its gratuitous swearing. Now a practising Christian, he has gone on record before as saying that he prefers to spread more positive messages. Religion often informed his work even back at the start, with tracks like the 1998 classic ‘Preacher Man’ hitting hard with its raw drums, but also featuring an extract of a sermon by Baptist preacher Reverend CL Franklin.
Rather than slip into the role of a heritage act playing the hits, Green Velvet has remained relevant by hooking up with several contemporary artists over the years. There have been tracks and US tours with DirtyBird boss Claude von Stroke as Get Real, he has dropped hits with Sonny Fodera, and put out several singles with Eats Everything, HI-LO and, most often, Patrick Topping, including enduring gems like ‘Voicemail’ and most recently ‘Mad Motion’.
In 2022 he sat alongside fellow Chicago titans Honey Dijon and Terry Hunter and brought real authenticity to Beyoncé’s GRAMMY-winning and house-infused album ‘RENAISSANCE’ by providing a sample for ‘Cozy’. His love of a bold and provocative vocal hasn't diminished either, with tracks like ‘Sheeple’ alongside Prok & Fitch musing on mind control, government interference and the rise of technology.
Importantly, Jones has never lost his edge in the DJ booth: to hear him play is to be dialled into a twisted soundtrack designed for maximum impact, be that with loopy house vocals or more dark and instrumental techno. He continues to play many of the world’s biggest stages but also takes his La La Land Experience to packed out crowds everywhere from Miami Music Week to Printworks in London. With credentials like these, Green Velvet's impact on the evolution of our scene cannot be compared.
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0:01 AJNA (BE) & Samm (BE) - Move
3:40 Riva Starr & Hilit Kolet- Twerq It (feat. NEZ) [Extended Mix]
9:00 Enoo Napa & DJ Merlon - Brocode
9:45 Mr.V - Jus Dance (Acappela)
11:20 Raxon - The Fall
12:30 Tatjana- Chica Cubana (Acapella)
15:00 Green Velvet - Flash (The Advent & Industrialyzer Remix)
20:00 Snap ! - The Power (Green Velvet & Dj Bluey Remix)
24:00 Green Velvet & Patrick Topping - Voicemail (Original Mix)
24:40 Sky White- Olha Você
28:45 Cajmere ft. Dajae - Brighter Days (Marco Lys Remix / Green Velvet Edit)
32:40 Marco Lys - Raving (Original Mix)
34:00 RÜFÜS DU SOL - Innerbloom
36:50 Green Velvet & Patrick Topping - Mad Motion
39:10 Hot Since 82 ft. Ron Carroll - Preach
44:40 Sharam - PATT (Party All The Time) (Adam Beyer & Layton Giordani & Green Velvet Remix)
45:30 Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Blow The House Down (ID Remix)
50:45 ID ?
53:42 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (Mark Lanzetta)
56:00 33 1/3 Queen - Searchin'
What a legend. One of the greatest of all time. 💚 💚
This music wants to tear the last 25 years of relative respectability away from me and send me running out to find some doses and an illegal warehouse party! 👽👽👽🔥🔥🔥
You spelt "Quarter of a Century" wrong. Get on it my friend. Time IS of the essence
King off House music 💚
I see a Green Velvet set.... I click download. 🎉
Incredible vibe going on this entire set. Stank face music brother. No one does it like RV. Fire.
Just to hear the Green Velvet remix of Snap - 'The Power', was worth listening to this bangin set!!!
DA💣💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 GREEN Velvet is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1st 20mins melted my face go0o0odlawdd
Que noite !!!🎉
Louco set 💥⚡️💃
🙏Dj Green Velvet
🙏Dj Mag
Green never fails to deliver incredible sets
Such tight mixes 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥
Bursting with Life! we know you well, The King of Beasts 💚 Green Velvet
simply outstanding. I have to say one of GV best sets so far.
Sr green velvet eres un gran exponente de la música electrónica
💚🎉💚🎉💚🎉 Epic Velvet
As usual... Remarkable!!! 🔥👏👏👏👏
Love It 💚
Espectacular el set de Green Velvet....
CHI TOWN HERE!!!!!!
Talk about a real rave tho 💚💚💚🔥🔥🔥
King of kingsss
Voicemail....What a tune🎉
Cackling at the lyrics but so danceable.
Gren Velvet❤❤❤🤠👽👹💯🔥🔥🔥💊☯️
I need the complete set! Green Velvet dosen't play 58-minute sets. This set was a bit alot over, I need to full set to appreciate the vibes approperly!
The King has returned 🔥
Green Velvet ist kult🎉
LEGEND❤️🔥🔥⛽️
YAZZZZZZ
✝️ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝️
❤💪🥳🙏✝ GOD BE WITH US AGAINST EVIL AND TEMPTATIONS ✝🙏⛪️🎊🕊
Trop court à mon goût !!! 😁
HIIII VELVETTTTTTTTT.
👽🎧🙌
Track ID @ 18:52 anyone??
Sundays at IKEA eh? *raises shoulders, eyebrows and palms*
The Sound quality og this rip dosent match the quality of Green Velvet😢
Filth
He's coming to Dallas next month. Crowd's gonna be pretty happy if he wears that hat. 🤠🪩
straight rippoof
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camle phat
i watched therm make this live