San Francisco Sessions, Vol. 3

San Francisco Sessions, Vol. 3

Editorial Reviews
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The third installment of this highly groovesome guide to the San Franciscan house sound saunters into your aural space with the watery Western guitar of Juan Trip's "Shadows." Wicked crew co-founder and reggae aficionado DJ Garth is at the helm this time, so it is of little surprise that the slow and stoned groove eventually gives way not to a house stormer but to Rhythm & Sound's "Never Tell You." Garth keeps it diverse with live and loose drums from the highly influential A Guy Called Gerald and Bibi's aptly titled, almost Santana-like "Summer" before finally diving into a liberal selection of faster, deeper, and funkier Bay Area treats. The roster of the record's final third flirt dangerously with some light, jazzy, and not entirely successful numbers; thankfully, Santal's kaleidoscopic "Past and Future Things" waltzes in to save the day. --Bob Michaels

Product Description
Electronic: OM Records introduces legendary San Francisco DJ/producer/remixer & Wicked Crew founder DJ Garth.

Tracks:

Shadows - Juan Trip
Never Tell You - Rhythm & Sound
Held Over - Ebe
Humanity - A Guy Called Gerald
Summer - Bibi
Shuff - BRS
Burnin' - T-Collective
Running Towards A Dream - Rob Salmon/Rob Rives
Back To Joy - Audio Soul Project
Bent Halos - Bent Halos
Rise Up & Walk - 8FatFat8
Vai Minha Tristeza - Tom & Joyce
Dave On Guitar - BRS
Ritual De Rua - Afro-Mystik
Past & FutureThings - Santal

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The third installment of this highly groovesome guide to the San Franciscan house sound saunters into your aural space with the watery Western guitar of Juan Trip's "Shadows." Wicked crew co-founder and reggae aficionado DJ Garth is at the helm this time, so it is of little surprise that the slow and stoned groove eventually gives way not to a house stormer but to Rhythm & Sound's "Never Tell You." Garth keeps it diverse with live and loose drums from the highly influential A Guy Called Gerald and Bibi's aptly titled, almost Santana-like "Summer" before finally diving into a liberal selection of faster, deeper, and funkier Bay Area treats. The roster of the record's final third flirt dangerously with some light, jazzy, and not entirely successful numbers; thankfully, Santal's kaleidoscopic "Past and Future Things" waltzes in to save the day. --Bob Michaels

Album Details

Electronic: OM Records introduces legendary San Francisco DJ/producer/remixer & Wicked Crew founder DJ Garth.

Customer Reviews:

I'd love to hear him live.......2003-02-04

I can only imagine what his fans feel when DJ Garth throws on another vinyl.

I've long been a fan of DJ Garth and owned all the mixes of his I could find. This particular mix is unique to what I've heard from him. Dub heavy has always been a trait of Garth and the ability to throw your mind into a parellel universe is another trait so very few DJ's can pull off without giving it all away to some candy raver record that DJ's often seem to have a producer's gun pointed at their heads to spin(or they are shamfully silly in their track selection).

The Chicago style house and LA style hum-bug that too often leave a semi music concious crowd waiting for an actual soul to be behind the decks are honored to have Garth on thier side.

This mix takes us to some tropical island of great psychedelic, penetrating blackness where we gather with the native tribe for a drum circle that our pineal glands seem to alone play and lay us down revibed and refreshed into our realitys.

Thats as good as I can put it. Thanks again Garth.

sweet sweet moody house.......2002-02-27

Garth's selections are excellent. The CD moves beautifully from one track to another, from some stomping tech-house into mellow deep house and back. Garth definately knows how to put together a set that has direction and emotion - the heart of house music.

The 3rd time Around.......2001-11-12

DJ Garth of Grayhound Recordings makes sort of a guest appearance for Om Records to create this delicious eclectic mix. The third installment of the successful San Francisco Sessions and a great follow-up at that. Garth, co-founder of the Wicked Crew, starts the "journey" off with some perfect downtempo reggae and eleganty mixes in some great dub infested house tracks. Although he uses simple fading techniques, the track selection is brilliant. Most are dubbed tracks but that only enhances the great eclectic atmosphere he has set in store for listeners. They work very well together and show a noticable slow change. The house first starts off with some great, jazzy dubbed out tracks and so slowly merges into some great tribal house. Then finishes off with a great work by Santal in "Past and Future Things". Overall, this is one trippy dubbed out mix that can only be done by DJ Garth. Put this into your CD player and experience it to the fullest.

West coast House "in the house".......2001-03-07

This is a real funky house CD. The beats are tight and deep enough to boom the speakers in your jeep. This sounds very much like the house sound of the west coast ie: Doc Martin. If you like house music with some kick and a light latin flavor then this will do nicely. "Burnin" and "Dave on Guitar" are two of my favorites on this CD. The mixing is good and the variety is wide, not just straight house from start to finish. A nice addition to any house music collection.

San Francisco must be a cool town.......2001-01-25

This CD is not exactly like it's two predecesors mixed by Mark Farina and John Howard, respectively. It is funkier, less Mushroom House and more funky house, with a lot of soul!! It is different but no better or worse than the first two San Francisco Sessions CD's, and thus is definately worth having in your collection. At first I was a little hesatant getting into it, but the song "Rise on up and Walk" and the one after that kept it in my CD player long enough to listen to it more and gain apreciation of the rest of the album. This is some excellent west coast house that nearly anyone can and should love!

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