Terry Francis

Monday, 29 March 2010 06:44

The quest is complete. The tech house holy grail is secure. For three years we chased Terry Francis, the king of Fabric’s legendary Room 2, for a DJ chart but he fought the waves of Beatport crusaders back from the Wiggle shadows with silence.

And then on one delightful spring day in Berlin, as the sun suddenly appeared after months of winter gloom, our tech house specialist Mike Chapman received an email from Francis that, low and behold, contained the elusive DJ chart.

No more sleepless nights for Little Mike then, but there are plenty more for you as Francis’ chart contains 10 head swirling tech house and techno gems that will suffocate any desire you have for being horizontal.

Like Room 2’s impenetrable smoke, TF’s beats run deep, with warbling techno cuts like Daniele Papini and Riccardo Ferri ‘Fragments’ and Psycatron’s ‘Is What It Is’ flashing through the haze of chaos.

The trip gets stronger, with Francis’ own acid collaboration with Klunk inspiring the exact opposite of its tongue-in-cheek title ‘Relax’.

Dark holes aside, there are plenty of lighter moments to be found as you squeeze your way through the noise.

Pezzner’s remix of Milton Jackson’s ‘Breathe’ offers welcome respite from the techno hardship before, whilst Guy Gerber’s wonky house affair ‘So Close, Far Away’ centers around a dainty deep house groove.

Newcomer Nooncat provides the chart’s deepest melodic moment on the hard-to-pronounce ‘Ks?n’, a magical bass-heavy techno record that many probably missed when it was released back in December.

The chart’s house highlight comes via way of Arnaud Le Texier, who remixes Lemos’ ‘Kalooo’ into a beautiful roller of tight drums and sexy bleep lines. Like an unstoppable steam roller, it oozes with undying funk.

Coming next, a chart from the Dalai Lama himself.

Source: beatportal

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