Jesse Rose - FABRICLIVE 85

As the owner of two record labels; A-SIDED and Play It Down, and a highly regarded international DJ, Jesse Rose is a familiar name, even for those who reside outside of dance music circles. Indeed, having produced for the likes of Hot Chip, mentored artists like Christian Nielsen and Oliver $, and with collaborations with names such as Henrik Schwarz and Claude VonStroke under his belt, Jesse is more than just a DJ/producer, he’s a tastemaker, businessman and a bonafide legend of house music.

West London-born, Jesse started DJing in Bristol in the early ‘90s before moving back to London. A run of collaborations with Switch on his Dubsided label soon followed, leading to releases on Derrick Carter’s Classic and Rose’s own imprints, with Jesse forging a reputation for mixing sounds from other genres in his own unique productions. Since then he has produced over 100 tracks on labels including Get Physical, Junior Boys Own and Simple, and recorded over 100 remixes for the likes of Masters At Work, Armand Van Helden, Kevin Saunderson, Underworld and Childish Gambino.

Upon completing a 6 year residency at Panorama Bar, Jesse moved from Berlin to Los Angeles some years ago, and he now lives between two cities – Barcelona and LA – when not on tour around the world. He has worked on many collaborative projects throughout the years with artists including the aforementioned Henrik Schwarz, as Black Rose, Ninja Tune’s Seven Davis Jr. and Leon Ware, a former producer of Marvin Gaye. He is currently working on a new project called STAYGOLD with New York house don Junior Sanchez, with their first productions being remixes for Cassius and Mathias Kaden. With all of this under his belt, plus a relationship with fabric stretching to the early days of the club, the time was right for Jesse to step up to the FABRICLIVE mantle, and he more than delivers.

"I was in the middle of a six month tour of the world when I was asked to do the mix, so I was constantly finding decks in the middle of the night in these far-flung locations, to have a mix and make sure it had the right feel. I actually ended up mixing the compilation in New Jersey, Los Angeles and Sydney. Although I mixed it in three parts which I later stitched together, it was mixed live as I wanted it to represent how I would play in the club, to sound personal to what I do and not computerised." Jesse Rose

Ed Weathers’ cheeky ‘Love The Feeling High’ acapella heralds in prime cuts from Mannheim man Johnny D, ‘90s house icons Urban Soul (with Gerd on the remix), Chicago stalwart Gene Farris and more, sitting alongside the best of Play It Down and A-SIDED from the likes of Berlin producer Sqim, rising Danish talent Christian Nielsen and of course Jesse himself, who gifts an exclusive Dub version of his own ‘Touch ‘N’ Tease’ plus the glorious, hands in the air ‘It’s Not Over’ featuring Seven Davis Jr., included here as a ‘synthapella’. The 12” mix of Steve Silk Hurley’s effortlessly rousing ‘The Word Is Love’ ends proceedings on the same high we started with, a reminder that Jesse Rose – a true house music pioneer – is also one of the best selectors in the game.

Tracklisting
01 Jesse Rose feat. Ed Weathers - Love The Feeling High (Acapella) [Play It Down]
02 Henrik Schwarz - Leave My Head Alone Brain (Mix 5) [Sunday-Music]
03 Sqim - White Flakes [Play It Down]
04 Johnny D - Believer [8bit]
05 Eric de Man - For Sunking (Melon's Sex Strip Mix) [Rejected]
+ Lil’ Mark - At That Place (Lilmukkappella) [Classic]
06 Urban Soul - Alright (Gerd Deep Remix) [Systematic]
07 Ian Pooley - Don’t You Be Afraid (2015 Edit) [Scenario]
08 Shit Robot feat. Reggie Watts - Where It's At (Johnny Aux Remix) [DFA]
09 Kask - The Right Way [Legendary Sound Research]
10 Induceve - Papillion [Classic]
11 Mathias Kaden - Rawtone (STAYGOLD Remix) [Freude am Tanzen]
12 Jesse Rose - Touch ‘N’ Tease (Dub) [A-SIDED]
13 Sean Miller - Malabar [Tsuba]
+ 3rd Face - Canto Della Liberta (Acapella) [Classic]
14 Christian Nielsen - Another Day [A-SIDED]
15 Brillstein - How About No [Play It Down]
16 Claude VonStroke & Jesse Rose - Bare Mountain [A-SIDED]
17 Gene Farris - The Way U Like [Relief]
18 Kyodai - Sin City [Lola Trax]
19 Jesse Rose feat. Seven Davis Jr. - It's Not Over (Synthapella) [unreleased]
20 Steve Silk Hurley feat. Sharon Pass - The Word Is Love [Silk Entertainment]