Avenue Red Podcast #051 - Rob Cesar

After yet another intentional pause in our output, where we have left the 50th episode simmering at the surface of a rich stock of mixes for 5 whole weeks, Avenue Red are back to deliver more underground audio cargo to your iPods, hi-fi's, memories and minds! For the 51st installment we present a delightfully groovy, shiny, melodic deep House selection from Rob Cesar, a music collector, DJ, physicist and high school teacher from Luxembourg.

We had heard some of Rob's mixes before he sent this one over, with him having recently delivered the goods for our podcasting contemporaries at Hello Strange (https://soundcloud.com/hello_strange/rob-cesar-hello-strange-podcast-134), Smile This Sound (https://soundcloud.com/smile-this-sound/rob-cesar-smile-this-mixtape-49) and a stunning edition for Deep Afterhour (https://soundcloud.com/deepafterhour/rob-cesar-deep-afterhour-proposal) around a year ago. He didn't need to work too hard introducing himself to us.

Rob is an 80's kid and has been into music and specifically dance music ever since he can remember. Creating VHS-mixtapes from MTV's "Party Zone" was his favourite pastime before he fell under the spell of the Technics MKII's in the late 90's. Noted for the accuracy of his mixing style, he earned himself regular appearances in Luxembourg-based clubs and festivals in the early 2000's. Rob tells us he is less active in his night-life shenanigans today, what with the responsibilities of adult life... but he hasn't lost an inch of his interest in music, as his output on Soundcloud readily testifies.

"The story about this mix is quite simple: about two weeks ago, I was spinning some house tunes at home and, when I listened to the recording, I was like 'DAMN!! We got something going here!'. But as it was all spontaneous and stuff, there were parts in the set where mixing wasn't all good and one or two tracks didn't totally feel right, so I started a new recording, this time with a clear line in mind and then there it was, a collection of pure timeless house music, nothing more, nothing less...

Hey, you know, I come from a generation where we used tapes, in order to get our music together, you know, just, doing your own mix-tapes and stuff, and I was sitting at home, listening to the radio, and, waiting for my favourite song to come up, and, when it did, they always, the radio stations always had to fade in and fade out early so you weren't able to get the whole piece together, so what I did was trying to get, find all the missing pieces in the radio, and I spent like, hours, just to get it all together you know, and I never did, actually, because, the radio stations weren't allowed to use the beginnings, the very beginnings and the very ends, but I didn't know that as a kid so I was like naive and I was waiting and waiting for hours to fulfil my, my mix-tape, my collection of songs, you know, hum, and that was home taping for me, you know..." Rob Cesar, November 2015

https://soundcloud.com/rob-cesar

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