Well the first mnml ssg bbq took place the other day and went down in fine style. There might be some photos of it later Anyway, as the year is coming to an end, a couple of thankyous are in order. Reflections are also needed but I am too tired for that right now, so this short post will do. Things are a bit quiet here (music-wise as well as life-wise), more regular posts once everything (re)starts in 2008. Anyway Thanks to Deep Chord for helping me return to techno dub in a big big way. Thanks to Vladislav Delay for making such wonderful, individual music.

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Maxsurf Pro 64 Bit. Thanks to Betalounge for maintaining/restoring my sanity at key moments of the year. Thanks to Troy Pierce for going deep and dark. Thanks to Dial for having so much heart and sincerity. Thanks to my fellow mnml ssg crew. All the best for the start to 2008.

Lets make it a good one. Everyone has pretty much completed their lists for 2007 (including us), but these are two releases i've just come across which are really rocking/destroying my world: Pawel - Gabriel (orphanear) pawel's first release on his new label orphanear was special, but this may be even stronger. The title track is perfectly weighted, but it is the b side 'early bird' which really does it for me. It reminds me of the lawrence aesthetic but much lighter and freer. Really fantastic stuff. Terre Thaemlitz - Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion / She's Hard Remixes (mule) i know very little about terre, and haven't listened to much (which i am starting to realise is a serious mistake).

These remixes are the bomb. The '2007 archive of silence' remix of 'terre's neu wuss fusion' is an amazing 10 minute + ambient workout while the max mohr remix of 'she's hard' just builds and builds. I could imagine this being a fantastic track to drop during the afterhours. Both are strongly recommended. About this time last year, 3 of the 4 members of this blog had just ranked ‘Bergwein’ as our track of 2006 and were tipping big things for Efdemin and the whole Dial crew.

While recognizing that the boys from Hamburg were on the verge of a special year may have been a somewhat easy spot, it has given me/us enough encouragement to think about what 2008 has in store. Here are a couple of people I think are about to have a breakout or standout year. I’d be very keen to hear who you think are worth watching closely in the new year The Mountain People The Mountain People are made up of Serafin and Rozzo, two guys from Suisse who are seriously house.

If anyone has heard one of the Mountain People releases or their dj set recorded on Rundfunk FM (which has been getting serious play on my stereo) you’d know exactly what I mean. Both in their djing and production, Serafin and Rozzo really, really know what they are doing.

They remind me a bit of Thomas Melchoir not so much in the sound (even though there is a bit of a similarity there) but more in the design – the beauty, the depth of this music comes from its feel and its simplicity. The three Mountain People records that appeared in 2007 have rightly been getting a lot of play and charting, and my feeling is that we can expect much more in 2008.

Chris’ two cents: One of the more contentious issues of 2007 has been the conversion of Dubfire, the man who has spent most of his musical life dj’ing and producing as part of the (stinky/proggy) house group Deep Dish. Then finally in 2007 he saw the light and converted to the mnml cause, with a couple of big releases, of which ‘Ribcage’ being the most played and talked about. For my mind it certainly isn’t a case of Dubfire ‘selling out’, he did that years ago when Deep Dish stopped making half decent music and they started mixing proggy house mix cds for Global Underground. So, if anything, it may be that he is now ‘buying in’, becoming part of the ever-expanding and bloated scene/genre that is mnml. And I really can’t see how this can be a matter of just piggy-backing on the popularity of mnml for purely self-interested reasons. I don’t think Deep Dish have exactly been struggling for bookings of late. They are still one of the most marketable and recognizable names about.

So perhaps he really did wake up one day and say, ‘I’m sick of playing this dishwater house. Time for me to fight the good fight and go play mnml. Those m-nus guys look like they are having fun.’ But the question of why Dubfire has converted isn’t really so interesting because at the end of the day, this is the sound he is pushing now and plenty have signed up to it. What I find more interesting is people’s reactions to Dubfire’s crossover. Ultimately, Dubfire is a threat. And why is that? Because he represents the complete breakdown of mnml as a genre.