“A decision was made to shake things up. Once that was done, says John 00 Fleming, that change took on a life its own”. The “it” JOOF refers to is ‘Editions’ – his rule-adverse compilation series, which is currently on the touchline, warming up for its fifth outing. The most apparent modification is in the number DJs mixing it, which has leapt – quadrupling (yup!) from one to four. “Originally I was just going to bring in one other, but amazing co-mixing suggestions kept coming up. Those suggestions turned into options and, well, here we are!”
“It has says John allowed for the to become a far more focussed affair”. With runtimes regularly pushing five hours, Vols. 1 thru 4 were nothing less than odysseys into the fantastic minutiae progressive. Epic, deep sonic probes, endeavouring to explore every corner an arguably limitless genre. Beatport all-genre toppers and agents scene change (they played their part in unlocking ASOT door to Progressive last year) ‘JOOF Editions’ mixes became the new apotheosis in journeys by a DJ. In 2019 however, ‘JOOF Editions’ is getting both smaller and larger. With the series’ door opened to a cadre label friends and fellow defenders the electronic music underground, joining him in 2019 are Gai Barone, Paul Thomas and Tim Penner.
To accommodate, John’s reined in the legendarily expansive limits his own mix. However the release’s overall musical length has almost doubled in size again. Each the handpicked DJs had up to two-hours with which to make the case for their own particular tract progressive. “It’s very much the best all worlds,John feels. It’s allowed me to become even more focussed on a couple bandwidths, while my co-mixers travel their own lanes, broadening the release as a whole”.
Fleming’s fifth is the perfect truncation the JOOF Editions’ you know and love. Its wonderful spacey intro calcifies swiftly into a chunkier, more groove-hardy thing. Incorporating housier undertones along the way, Basil O'Glue’s ‘Nekyia’ and – in its Facade } }, // Articles - recommendations in emotes and comments widget recommendationsWides: false, recommendationsProtocol: "", globalRecommendations: false, // Colors darkMode: false, color: "108ee9", // By Widget comments: { vuukleAuth: true, hideRecommendedArticles: false, hideCommentInputBox: false, enabled: true, commentingClosed: false, maxChars: '3000', countToLoad: '5', toxicityLimit: '80', spamLimit: '90', sorting: 'latest', transliteration:{ language: 'en', enabledByDefault: false, }, customText: { recommendedStories: 'TALK OF THE TOWN', }, }, emotes: { enabled: true, hideRecommendedArticles: false, size: '70', // icons size firstImg: '', firstName: 'HAPPY', secondImg: '', secondName: 'WTF', thirdImg: '', thirdName: 'AMUSED', fourthImg: '', fourthName: 'LMAO', fifthImg: '', fifthName:'ANGRY', sixthImg: '', sixthName: 'SAD', disable: ], customText: {}, }, powerbar: { enabled: true, defaultEmote: 1, customUrls: { facebook: '', google: '', twitter: '', linkedin: '', }, customText: {}, items: ], }, }; (function () { s.async = true; s.src = 'https://cdn.vuukle.com/platform.js'; (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s); })();