SOULSUCKINJERK’S TOP 5 DONK XMAS MIXES
Anyone who knows me will be aware that I’m a pretty big thing on the Festive Hardcore scene due to my love of all things beats. So without further ado, I now present to you ‘SOULSUCKINJERK’S TOP 5 DONK XMAS MIXES LIST’.
IN AT 5.
The list begins with the the surprisingly early appearance of the classic ‘Put A Christmas Donk On It’ from DJ Peanut’s ‘Double Penetration Donk’ mix, containing beats ubiquitous with the early festive Donk days. In this humble writer’s opinion, DJ Peanut should be more fittingly named DJ Sun Pat Smooth due to the slick mix of Blackout Crew’s ‘Put A Donk On It’ with Slade’s ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ and the hardcore classic ‘Boris Yeltsin’. On a side note, we all know this mix brought Slade singer Noddy Holder back into the public eye, but what you may not know that as a direct result of Peanut’s mix, Noddy attained a weekly DJ slot between 2-4 on Rinse FM where you can regularly hear him forget what he’s doing there.
AT 4.
A monumental moment for festive donk, George ‘Gazzatunes’ Michael’s remix of ‘Last Christmas’ acted as a catalyst for all things kindergarten in the world of donk.
AT 3.
Big C, inspired by the smash hit ‘Glitter’, succeeds here with his creative incorporation of minimal Donk beats and the muzzling of Mariah Carey to create ‘The Syncopation of Mimi’.
IN AT 2.
Proving that an oldie is always a goody, this T-G-B Donk mix of Mariah, uploaded onto YouTube a whole day before Big C’s effort, has the distinct honour of being described by the one and only HardcoreQuadNation of Shrewsbury as being ‘the best’. Not to mention the fact that ‘Sonic Bounce’ managed to get my bedroom wallpaper as the background for this particular video, proving yet again my love for the beats AS MY HOUSE IS BEATS.
AND AT NUMBER 1.
I remember the first time I head DJ Millzy’s ‘Christmas Mix (Donked)’; I was chewing my face off, bouncing on Wigan Pier on one of those balmy April nights that are so eponymous with Manchester. Jingle bells. Donk style. Now you have to remember, this was at a time before you’d hear any sort of belled instrument in a club, nowadays you can’t go anywhere without hearing some sort of bassed enhanced chiming. At the time I was having a rather illuminating conversation with this one lady from Worsley, discussing how we were all made from chemicals and the such, with Darwinian like progression spaced over millions of years that have concluded with us, in this current physical and mental state, sitting outside in the smoking area at ‘SlamDonking 8’; the peak of evolution. And that’s when I first heard it, shaking the smoking area like you’d shake your kid if you found him reading anything faggy - jingle bells. Donk style. And it was like a wave of noise, of beats, beats penetrating our superior brains through our ears and orifices. We knew it was momentous, we knew our shit and cos we knew, we knew we couldn’t go back, once into the breach and all that. Millzy had unearthed the path, that path for fresh new beats to bounce to. We were on the prepuce, the edge, the drawbridge hidden by Chinese mist that us hardcore dance warriors were crossing to reach the land of jingle Donk. Mythical. Timeless. Can’t go back. Can’t go back. This mix, it was that edge. This was festive Donk.
BONUS BEAT
