Somewhere around 2000, shortly after I broke the lease on the worst apartment ever at 148 Degraw Street in Brooklyn I moved in with my best childhood friend Jamie and his roommate Dan on 7th Ave. A railroad apartment, that was far too small for two people, let alone three, was my home for a couple months before I finally moved out into the amazing but nearly deadly ‘4th & Garfield’.
During that time I was working on a number of projects, drinking more beer than was healthy, and had set up shop in the dining room of their apartment. Jamie and his friend Steve were both DJing down-tempo music at the time and thought a collaboration on a mix blending exceptional vinyl selections with the advancements in software based synthesis and tracking was overdue. Tracks were selected, reselected, mixed, remixed and stitched into a seamless blend of great down-tempo of the time.
RLM was formed, and the Wildlife Mix was forged. Roberts, Langolf, and Marchese: an original formula for a name without doubt. This was a brief collaboration that resulted in the release of one full length mix on CD for circulation to whoever would have it. After all this time I still have a number of CDs in my studio that are collecting dust. Want one? Email me and it’s yours. Or, you can download the .mp3 below. I recently uncovered the track listing…. These are surely out of order but credit is necessary for the original artists.
- At Jazz
- Certain Peace
- Drifting
- Eclipse
- Eric Kupper
- Ginger & Fred – Voom Voom
- Lagente Urbana
- London Elektricity
- Pepper Digs
- Chattanooga Nugget
- Yoruba
- Que Domingo
- Restless Soul
- Root Down
- Slow Supreme
- T-Kolai – exodus, andulu vocal mix on ibadan
- When I Fall Weekender mix – A:Xus on Guidance.
- Welcome Home
- Two t’seven
You can find another copy on Steve’s critically reviewed music blog Scissorkick here. It’s important to add that through this project I was able to get to know Steve much better; a man with astounding knowledge of all walks of music and immense passion for his friends, family, wife, and son. All would be a better person by knowing him.
