Just got an email about a future GU release: Nick Warren is going to do #31in Paris...Warren is a cool dj and I enjoyed most of his GU mixes but...I wish they would get some new djs to put together mixes. (Ex: Hernan Cattaneo, Desyn Masiello, etc)

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Why this series is still going is beyond me.

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I must admit the long time between mixes makes me wonder how they make any cash

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It would do better just to give Nick his own series like Seb had Prototype

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Imo Nick Warren isn't that great of a dj from what I've heard. Track selection is always on point but mixing wether cd, or live has never done anything for me. whichever GU it was that he did with the track "dirty" ( obscene , dirty, filthy, immoral, etc) was one of the worst mixed cd's I have ever heard. No thought put into it at all. I guess he's the only one willing to keep it going, aside from deep dish. I agree with the above, new talent or just halt the whole thing.

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I've enjoyed most of Nick's older sets... but yes we need new talent to pump up the series.

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[quote=Jenks;387875]Why this series is still going is beyond me.[/quote] why? because they dont pick shitty redneck tech house DJs?

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[quote=hambino21;387961]Imo Nick Warren isn't that great of a dj from what I've heard. Track selection is always on point but mixing wether cd, or live has never done anything for me. whichever GU it was that he did with the track "dirty" ( obscene , dirty, filthy, immoral, etc) was one of the worst mixed cd's I have ever heard. No thought put into it at all. I guess he's the only one willing to keep it going, aside from deep dish. I agree with the above, new talent or just halt the whole thing.[/quote] thats the renaissance awakenings disc...i think. i always thought that mix was one of his best. i love it!

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[quote=tiddles;387997]thats the renaissance awakenings disc...i think. i always thought that mix was one of his best. i love it![/quote]

No it was the amsterdam set i'm thinking of. the renaissance set was great I agree, I think it had a remix of that track on it. But amsterdam definitely turned me off.

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i like that one too ahaha. disc 1 at least is awesome. the 2nd one has some banging tunes, but its messy as hell, yeah

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like i said, great tracks for the most part, but mixing eh. Maybe my expectations were too high, but after san fran and sydney and the nubreed series, you'd think it would be different. speaking the nubreed series why was Zabiela never put in that set.? His style to me is one of the most unique.

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i'd imagine its the same reason hernan, fanciulli, and them aren't on GU...they got deals elsewhere. 6-7 years ago GU was what...like the only big prog comp series around? djs can get their stuff out elsewhere now. the whole city-theme thing is still awesome though.

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[quote=tiddles;388019]the whole city-theme thing is still awesome though.[/quote]

I totally agree. sometimes the cd's are worth buying just for the sleeves and such.

when it comes to zabiela I meant back when GU was stil reigning, Zabiela was around I just wondered, especially when Satoshi tomeii was put on there and that cd wasn't unique or "nu" to me at all. it sounded like Pappa's resolution.

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dirty was defo on renaissance. i didnt like his mix, but loved danny howells... man i wish i had that with me now! forgot about that one...

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GU has become a self-parody...that´s my only explanation for this.

And what the fuck is up with choosing Paris? Is Paris supposed to have a clubscene? Well that´s a laugh! 10 years ago british magazines talked about "A Paradise Called Portugal" and they still haven´t made one here. Or Madrid, for that matter.

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^^ Well, I guess that first they choose the dj and then the dj chooses the city where he likes to play most at that given time.. I noticed that Nick Warren had a couple of gigs in Paris lately.. And yeah, the city theme is still a nice idea :D

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i know everyone is bitchin about this, but i think Nick is the shit and look very forward to this. Yeah, the city idea is still awsome, i mean these guys play around the world in a different city each night, right. this way they pick their favourite and throw a party there and make a cd of it.What more could you want? Nick KNOWS how to bring it.

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[quote=Jenks;387875]Why this series is still going is beyond me.[/quote]

you got that right...and why they would want to do one with hernan is even more...

doesn't the guy already have enough cd's that come out every year. he's doing around one a year...digweed does 1 every three or so years.

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[quote=jeffrey collins;388130]

digweed does 1 every three or so years.[/quote]

Not quite true of late. . . Fabric 20 and Azuli Choice came out within months of each other in 05 and this years there been Transitions with another one due soonish (wasnt the idea 2 a year?). . . . . 3 in 18 months. . . . . but it's Digweed right!!!!!

Back to Warren. . . . I'd rather have another Warren GU then a Lavelle or Deep bloody Dish one any day,

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yeah definitely on the latter half of your post!

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thats what i was thinkin, Warren over Lavelle or even the Dish anyday.

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how long till

[QUOTE]Hey guys, does anyone know the tracklist to this?>[/QUOTE]

pops up?

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Nick Warren's Shanghai and Reykjavik have been breaths of fresh air in the recent GU stable. I dig. Sure his mixing might not be the best around, but those two comps had sweet tunes. I'm anticipating Paris. See what he comes up with.

[edit: and for a DJ who doesn't mix well and play for the 'masses,' he definitely knows how to work the floor.]

Yeah and fuck Lavelle and Deep Dish.

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Hey guys, does anyone know the tracklist to this?>

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let's go Sean Cusick - GU 32 Seattle

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Has Sean Cusick ever put a cd out?

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No.

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Clint Love - GU 32 Baton Rouge

I'm gonna use party suffle in itunes, it'll be the shit:D

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anyone else confused as to how this guy is still doing cds? i thought he said he was 'retiring' after Reykjavik...

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he changed his mind... and realized his career is hinged upon making whimsical compilation cds every few years on a dying notion of "underground"

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[quote=JK224;388291]Has Sean Cusick ever put a cd out?[/quote]

doubt he ever will. they guy is more of a dj than anything else. no regular dj's get requests to do mix cd's anymore...you have to produce along with dj'ing. Go read the article in RA with Paolo Mojo and he talks a lot about that.

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Why are the same things said everytime a new GU is released. Personally I have gave up on that series a long time. Unless digweed comes out with a new Gu, I could care less who does the next GU.

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^^^ I'll have to agree with that.

But, I'd like to think there is another decent compilation series besides EQ balance.

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... here's the great thing about personal choice, you don't have to buy the cd if you don't want to. (of course these same people who bitch about nick/gu etc will just end up downloading it via soulseek or a torrent anyway.. you know, just to "listen" to it first to see if it's "worth" buying..)

but yet here we are again. if you haven't been able to figure by now that he's not the tightest mixing dj on the planet then you're either deaf or stupid. yet this becomes a discussion point every single time his name comes up... let it go. what nick lacks in mixing skills he more than makes up for in track selection and his ability to rock a dancefloor. shit, just on the sheer amount of quality production he and jody have put out year after year after year he gets a free pass in my book. i guess i'm just getting tired of reading the same shit over and over... we're an edm board and different people have different tastes but we all support basically the same thing. i'm not bitching at anybody in this thread nor am i kissing nicks ass just trying to keep things in perspective... actually, i was going somewhere with this and just forgot... fuck. anyway, love or hate gu they have been good for the edm community.

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[quote=geoffgulley;388508]... . actually, i was going somewhere with this and just forgot... [/quote]

sounds like a GU release alright!

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[quote=geoffgulley;388508]... here's the great thing about personal choice, you don't have to buy the cd if you don't want to. (of course these same people who bitch about nick/gu etc will just end up downloading it via soulseek or a torrent anyway.. you know, just to "listen" to it first to see if it's "worth" buying..)

but yet here we are again. if you haven't been able to figure by now that he's not the tightest mixing dj on the planet then you're either deaf or stupid. yet this becomes a discussion point every single time his name comes up... let it go. what nick lacks in mixing skills he more than makes up for in track selection and his ability to rock a dancefloor. shit, just on the sheer amount of quality production he and jody have put out year after year after year he gets a free pass in my book. i guess i'm just getting tired of reading the same shit over and over... we're an edm board and different people have different tastes but we all support basically the same thing. i'm not bitching at anybody in this thread nor am i kissing nicks ass just trying to keep things in perspective... actually, i was going somewhere with this and just forgot... fuck. anyway, love or hate gu they have been good for the edm community.[/quote]

I agree with you man, but i've never been in one of these discussions about GU and nick warren so if I offended anyone with my opinion my bad. I don't spend every waking hour on this forum so therefor I haven't seen every thread. I am not not however one to use soulseek , in fact I never have used it or any other pirating source. I've pretty much owned every Nick warren cd that has been put out, multiple times. and for something to be a "mixed" compilation I guess i expect something different. Like I said before i ws just stating my opinion.

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[quote=Huggie Smiles;388520]sounds like a GU release alright![/quote]

lol... touche'

^^no worries hambino... wasn't calling you out and your opinion does matter here. at least there hasn't been a nick "sucks" remark....

...yet.

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[quote=geoffgulley;388560]lol... touche'

^^no worries hambino... wasn't calling you out and your opinion does matter here. at least there hasn't been a nick "sucks" remark....

...yet.[/quote] It's al good, man. Yeah I'm totally with you on the WOW cd's, and tracks I love all of that. I'm sure Nick warren can "bring it " when he wants to. Matter of fact I think I witnessed him"bringing it" at WMC in 2000 at the Twilo tent , if I'm not mistaken. but yeah he definitley doesn't "suck". He's been pretty integral in the EDM history. theres just a few things like I said before but , whatever.

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[quote=rewing3;388434]Unless digweed comes out with a new Gu, I could care less who does the next GU.[/quote]

I think that is probably why he went to renaissance. as they are more respected these days for the quality of cd's they put out.