#11 ‘Moving House’ by Andy Grant

Mixed by: Andy Grant
Location: Washington, DC, USA
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A superb mix by Edinburgh’s own Andy Grant.

In his own words: “In May I’ll be moving permanently to my wife’s home town Washington DC from Edinburgh. Its a big move to make, and a lot of planning has been going into it. A major consideration is shipping the record collection across the Atlantic, and over the last few weeks I’ve been starting to pack up records into boxes, trying to decide what I can live without for the next few months, and what I need to have close at hand!
It was while packing up records that I started working on this mix. I just couldn’t make up my mind what kind of mix to do….then I came across a Columba Corina 2 x 12″ on Defender records from 1997 as I was packing some old records away – an amazing collection of tunes that I’d never used on a mix before, or even heard played by anyone else. I used a couple of tracks from that record as the basis for this mix, and built it up from there, trying to include as wide a variety of styles as possible, while still keeping it deep. Those Columba Corina tracks really stand out for me in this mix, but my favourite track of the bunch in Hot Chix by Mister J. Simply beautiful. Moving house is taking up a lot of my time just now, and I hope that’s what I’ve managed to capture in this mix – truly moving house.”

Playlist

00.00 Nubian Mindz feat. KJ ï¿½ Dreaming (IRMA Records / 2003)
04.48 Patchworks ï¿½ Millions Toes Interlude (Q-Tape Records / 2004)
06.18 Todd Terry ï¿½ The Music (Dub Mix) (TNT Records / 1994?)
09.52 Columba Carina ï¿½ Sun-Flowerz (Defender / 1997)
14.26 Andy Roberts ï¿½ Around the Corner (Penetrate Records / 1999?)
19.48 The Rurals ï¿½ Messages (Peng / 2002)
27.30 Columba Carina ï¿½ Silver City (Defender / 1997)
33.05 Solid Gold Playaz ï¿½ Shhhï¿½(Quiet) (Silver Network / 2003)
37.23 Alex Kid with Lissette Alea ï¿½ Come with Me (F Communications 2003)
42.23 Mister J ï¿½ Hot Chix (Missive / 2003)
47.00 Peaches ï¿½ Passin Me Byte (Guided Methods Remix) (Peaches Music / 2003)
52.52 Glenn Underground ï¿½ Trust (Underground Vocal) (Large / 2004)
62.10 Dirty Jesus ï¿½ Cut a Rug (Jazz Dat Ride Mix) (Paper Recordings / 1996)
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Andy Grant

Location: Washington, DC, USA
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Andy Grant is an experienced DJ from Washington, DC. His varied style includes house from all ends of the spectrum.

Andy mixes classic house grooves with more recent deep house sounds, never dwelling too long in one genre, celebrating the variety of quality tracks from the last twenty years â€“ even dropping the occasional disco track in diverse sets.

In the mid-nineties he dedicated a large portion of his life DJing in various clubs and parties around London. Following his move to Scotland in 1998, he spent several years playing clubs in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Following a move to Washington DC in 2004, his musical outlet has been the Internet, his sets being found across a number of Internet radio stations and web sites. His live sets as resident DJ on the Planetsoul Network have been something to look out for, and his own site DC House Grooves was established in 2004 to showcase some of his finer sets.

dchousegrooves was originally set up in 2004 as a site to host house music mixes from washington dc based dj andy grant. thatâ€™s me, by the way. over the last few years, free time has become more scarce, the mixes dried up, and the web site fell into disrepair, with dead links, unhosted mixes and seriously out of date content. welcome to the new dchousegrooves site, reincarnated in blog form. here i hope to add new mixes, photos, and commentary about whatever happens to be on my mind. will the content flow, or will it stagnate like the old site? who knows. i guess we’ll find out!

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