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#378 – Spotlight on Hefner

Sat 15 May 10 - by lensco - 5 Comments

This week we turn our spotlight on Lee Jones aka Hefner. Back in the nineties he made ambient (together with Fink) and drum’n’bass, but in ’98 he released the An Evening With Hefner 12″, laying the foundation for his signature downtempo sound. He went on to release the acclaimed album Residue and the remix collection Reworks, and in 2004 he produced the debut album of vocalist Josée Hurlock. After that he focussed more and more on house music with a slew of releases on Aus Music and Playhouse. For years now there have been rumors about a second Hefner album, but we didn’t wait for it to give you an overview of the Hefner era! To warm up for the mix, we inserted a bunch of harps and jazz.

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Flying Lotus – Intro//A Cosmic Drama – Warp
Erykah Badu – Incense – Motown
Bonobo – Stay The Same (feat. Andreya Triana) – Ninja Tune
Double U – Breathing The Wind – Wool
Daedelus – Stampede Me – Brainfeeder
Jamie Lidell – It’s A Kiss – Warp
Matthew Larkin Cassell – Heaven – Stones Throw
Build An Ark – Sunflowers In My Garden – Kindred Spirits

Michael White – The Blessing Song – Impulse!
Gideon Van Gelder – Wave – Kindred Spirits
The Phil Hewitt Quintet – Bullheads In My Shoes Blues – Now Again
*** Spotlight on Hefner mix
Hefner – An Evening With Hefner – Inertia (1998)
Victor Malloy – Pecan Butter – Inertia (The Musings Of Monsieur Malloy 2001)
4hero – Planetaria (Hefner Remix) – Talkin’ Loud (Two Pages Reinterpretations 1999)

Hefner – Fiendish – Inertia (Residue 2000)
Josée – U Should B – Inertia (Lost Souls Dancing 2004)
Hefner – Level Green (Alternate Version) – Inertia (Reworks 2001)
Josée – Modern Life – Inertia (Lost Souls Dancing 2004)
Hefner – Dive Into You – Inertia (Residue 2000)
Oi Va Voi – 7 Brothers (Hefner Remix) – Outcaste (2003)
Fink – Ever Since I Was A Kid It Seemed I Collected Something (Hefner Remix) – Ntone (2000)

dZihan & Kamien – Slowhand Hussein (Hefner Remix) – Couch (2001)
Cybophonia – Cut & Paste (Hefner Remix) – Irma On Canvas (2002)
The Beauty Room – Don’t You Know (Hefner Remix) – New Religion (2005)
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Fabrice Lig – Electric Beauty – Fine Art
Actress – Maze – Honest Jon’s

5 comments so far

  1. creaminal wrote May 16 2010 at 3:24 am

    loved the Hefner part! what is he doing now?

  2. mowax wrote May 28 2010 at 8:38 pm

    ah, Hefner.
    Long time no hear from that part of the woods.

  3. Dustin wrote July 1 2010 at 7:22 am

    Residue is one of my favorite albums and I’ve been waiting for the proper followup for years. I heard that the Josee album was actually supposed to be his 2nd album, but for whatever reason it was released as Josee’s debut.

    He’s been doing house since, under Lee Jones and MyMy (among others).

    If anyone is looking for more Hefner stuff, he also produced Abraham’s album “Blue for the Most” back in 2002.

    Anyone have a download link for this mix? I’m traveling and my podcasts weren’t keeping up with the flaky internet connections.

  4. lensco wrote July 1 2010 at 10:02 am

    @Dustin There’s no download button on Mixcloud unfortunately, but if you’re a bit tech-savvy you can find the direct link to the mp3. This particular mp3 should be here, although that URL may only work temporarily.

  5. Dustin wrote July 2 2010 at 6:52 pm

    @lensco Awesome thanks for the link! Worked great. I did a google to see if I could track down a way, but didn’t have any success. Much appreciated.