Fabric On A Budget, Round 2

Back to this gimmick, eh? I figured, “why not”, maybe turn it into a yearly thing, something for readers of this blog to look forward to during the early spring. Odds were good enough that at least a couple more Fabrics or Fabriclives would hit the Amazon bargain bins since my last Fabric On A Budget, perhaps even enough for a week's worth of reviews. I had to cast my net wide though, since surely I’d gotten all the cheapest mixes the year before. Thus, my conditions for 2014:

Canada Amazon: < $5
US Amazon: < $0.50
UK Amazon: = 0.01£ (because even with tons of budget-saving options in the franchise’s native land, the shipping costs totally ruin my penny-pinching concept)

My cheap trawling yielded a whopping eighteen releases. Yes, on top of repeat offerings like Tayo, Audion, and M.A.N.D.Y., eighteen more mixes hit the bargain bins. I know I keep saying this every time I set out upon a ‘DJ Series Retrospective (On The Cheap)' project, but dear Lord, what have I gotten myself into?

As before, the names cropping up are both surprising and predictable, though the years and sounds perhaps not as much. There are even a few early editions in this batch, which is nice to see, though I’m disappointed the earliest one, DJ Hype’s Fabriclive 03, seems to have disappeared into mail-order limbo. On the other hand, that means I only have to review seventeen of these mixes instead! (why oh why couldn’t one of the 2007 ones have been lost...)

I’ve a few releases to go through in my regular alphabetical backlog, and then we’ll dive into Fabric On A Budget, Round 2 (Revenge Of The Boogaloo) in earnest. Bring it on!