Jon Carter 7 Live #1 CD

Sponsored by 7 magazine and DMC (home of the mixing championships), 7 Live #1 finds Monkey Mafia boss Jon Carter ranging around contemporary electronica for a pair of house sets, one an old-fashioned swinging party mix and the other a collection of harder, minimalist jacking tracks. Carter's range for a house mix is just as priceless as his ear for a great tune; after leading off with a pair of neo-jacking tracks from Chicago's Felix Da Housecat, Carter displays solid selection skills, pitting old school against new for his own Junior Cartier remix of "Break Dance Electric Boogie" by West Street Mob and the Basement Jaxx remix of Adonis' "We're Rocking Down the House." Billing the second disc to Cartier for some reason, Carter stays in a tighter groove with minimalist tracks from Luke Slater, DJ Rolando, Timo Maas, and Frankie Bones, but keeps the party going with his own greatest hit, "Women Beat Their Men." ~ John Bush