DJ-Kicks

by Peggy Gou

Overview

During the 2010s, Peggy Gou quickly became one of underground dance music's brightest stars due to her driving, energetic DJ sets as well as sublimely crafted tracks like "It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)" which felt like instant classics. In 2019, she achieved a career goal when she mixed a volume of !K7's lauded DJ-Kicks series. As with many of the releases in the series, Gou's is more of an eclectic blend of major personal influences, deep-crate rarities, and uncategorizable curiosities than an attempt to replicate the DJ's typical club set. There's no set tempo or genre restrictions, just a willingness to explore and uncover some overlooked gems. Perhaps most revealing is the inclusion of the first track Gou ever wrote, a low-slung house number called "Hungboo," which is filled with birdsong, plucked koto, and her own hushed vocals as well as the sampled shouts of what one assumes is a martial artist. From there, the mix spins off in all sorts of directions. There's proggy electro-jazz from the early 1980s, then it moves into a lesser-known Andrew Weatherall remix from 1990 that's filled with unabashed positivity. This kicks off the most danceable portion of the mix, which glides through thumpy minimal house, leftfield electro, and vintage breakbeat house from Shades of Rhythm. Then it suddenly switches to an early dubstep gem from Kode9, followed by a bubbly, wave-crashing electro oddity from obscure early-'80s act the System. The mix's final selections include a blinding Aphex Twin cut from the still under-acknowledged Drukqs, a pair of Detroit techno goodies from Derrick May and Carl Craig, and a pulsating live jam by I:Cube that was recorded to cassette in 1993 and begins with a strange sci-fi snippet about sending fertilized human eggs to another planet for the purpose of colonization. Gou's DJ-Kicks set, as with some of the series' most interesting volumes, feels like a music-obsessed friend enthusiastically sharing all of her favorite tracks with you, and the results are always charming and exciting. ~ Paul Simpson

Product Details

Release Date:	06/28/2019
Label:	!K7
UPC:	0730003738210
Rank:	45727

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Hungboo
2. Vampirella
3. Perseguido Por El Rayo
4. Cassette Jam 1993
5. The World According To Sly & Lovechild [Andrew Weatherall Soul Of Europe Mix]

Disc 2

6. Epirus
7. Crackdown
8. Pert
9. Vordhosbn

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Peggy Gou   Primary Artist
Pearson Sound   Primary Artist
I:Cube   Primary Artist
R-Tyme   Primary Artist
Shades of Rhythm   Primary Artist
DMX Krew   Primary Artist
Kode9   Primary Artist
Aphex Twin   Primary Artist
The System   Primary Artist,Primary Artist
Psyche   Primary Artist
BFC   Primary Artist
Spacetime Continuum   Primary Artist
JRMS   Primary Artist
Black Merlin   Primary Artist
Deniro   Primary Artist
Hiver   Primary Artist
Dorisburg   Primary Artist
Kyle Hall   Primary Artist
JR   Primary Artist
Sly & Lovechild   Primary Artist
Pegasus   Primary Artist
Psyche/BFC   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Edward Upton   Composer,Producer
Bob Lamb   Composer
George Thompson   Composer,Producer
JR   Composer,Producer
Kyle Hall   Composer,Producer
Giuseppe Albrizio   Composer
Alexander Berg   Composer,Producer
Simon Gannon   Composer,Producer
Rafael Escote   Composer
Deniro   Composer,Producer
Peggy Gou   Composer,Producer
Penelope Anne Elliott   Composer,Producer
Dave Caroll   Composer
Caio Sergio   Composer
Steve Goodman   Composer,Producer
Andrew Weatherall   Producer
Carl Craig   Composer,Producer
Derrick May   Composer,Producer
David Kennedy   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Richard D. James   Composer,Producer
Mayday!   Composer,Producer
Shades of Rhythm   Composer,Producer
Jonah Sharp   Composer
I:Cube   Composer,Producer
Darryl Wynn   Composer,Producer
Bob Wilson   Composer