Album Review: Playing Around

Made To Play: Playing Around
A compilation of Made to Play tracks and remixes + bonus cd mixed by Oliver $

Release Date: 28th April 08
Available from all good record shops including Juno

cd1/
Unmixed Tracks
01/ Li'll Bo Tweak - K-Rizzle
02/ Alfonso Mango - Can You Feel
03/ Izit? - Should It? (Original Mix)
04/ Oliver $ - Hotflash
05/ Buckley - Block Party
06/ Izit? - Heavy What? (Our Version)
07/ Jesse Rose & Oliver $ - Wake Up
08/ Jesse Rose & Sinden - Me Mobile (Duckbeats Instrumental Pass)
09/ Izit? - Heavy What? (Honky Version)
10/ Sinister Industry - Morning (Deadset Play Hip)
11/ Izit? - Would It?
12/ Elon - Movin' In (Riton Rerub - Jesse's Made To Play Edit)
13/ Magik Johnson - Scanning For Viruses (Claude VonStroke's Coffee On Your Motherboard Mix)

cd2/
Mixed by Oliver $
01/ Sinister Industry - Morning (Deadset Play Square Remix)
02/ Alfonso Mango - Can You Feel
03/ Jesse Rose & Oliver $ - Wake Up
04/ Izit? - Heavy What? (Oliver $ Edit)
05/ Oliver $ - Rib It
06/ Li'll Bo Tweak - K-Rizzle
07/ Oliver $ - Hotflash
08/ Izit? - Could It?
09/ Elon - Movin' In (Riton Rerub - Jesse's Made To Play Edit)
10/ Buckley - Block Party
11/ Magik Johnson - Scanning For Viruses (Claude VonStroke's Coffee On Your Motherboard Mix)


MySpace alerted me to this album when I seen a bulletin posted by Jesse Rose, it got me excited, Made To Play being one of my favourite labels and all. About a week after and it dropped through my letter box and since then it hasn't been out of my car.

The album itself is a double cd packed full of Made To Play's back catalogue (as you can see from the tracklists above), cd1 is a dj's dream with 13 unmixed select cuts from the German label, my favourites from the bunch being "Heavy What", "Wake Up", "Block Party" and one gem which some how passed me on it's release, Jesse's Made To Play edit of "Movin' In (Riton Rerub)".

cd2 is mixed by on form producer Oliver $ and this time contains Oli's select 11 from the back catalogue mixed to perfection, one being his own edit of "Heavy What?" which I found very interesting!

Overall this debut album from jesse's label is a must for all Made To Play fans, you will not be disappointed. The one thing I think it's missing is a few new exclusive bits and piece's that a music lover like me needs.