Get your dancing shoes on for week 5 of the OOX mix series. Next up is DJ ELI, who has packed an hour full of afro and latin bangers. Fun and funky.
Eliane played at our Cambridge freshers party last year. She had the room rocking then and we can't wait to have her back behind the decks again in the future!
In her own words:
As a child, I didn’t really explore music on my own. It was more a case of being exposed to stuff. There was one particular show on Radio 2 called ‘Sounds of the Sixties’, which was always on air when my friend and I were being picked up by her dad from our performing arts club. Between the club, where we were rehearsing for a show called ‘Rhythm and Blues’, and the car rides home, I gained a serious knowledge of and love for 1960s hits. Particularly everything and anything by the Supremes.
I was lucky that my parents both love music and so the house was full of CDs. As an only child, they were a very rewarding source of entertainment. I wouldn’t just listen, I would study the album inserts and often write down lyrics to songs. Not realising you could pause songs, I restarted the tracks after having recorded each new line, which made the whole practice very time consuming. The day my mother introduced me to the pause button was revolutionary.
This mix is full of the kind of funk that gets in your bones. When I DJ at clubs, there can seem to be a pressure to play club remixes or tracks with a very upbeat BPM, because the music has to speak to a whole crowd of people. The energy is very different here, because the dialogue is also different. Many of the tracks have lyrics that aren’t in English; I find that listening to music in other languages forces you to appreciate it in a very different, perhaps less presumptuous way. I also wanted to shift the focus away from American funk. Although Stevie appears, he is not centre stage. Recording this gave me a freedom to move away from widely recognised crowd pleasers. These are just tracks that speak to me and work together. I hope the result can be both soothing and energising.
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