When asked by James Todd and Andy Horsfield, the bosses of Boxed Records, where he'd like to go and lay the groundwork for the nineteenth in a succesful Global Underground series of compilations John Digweed opted for Los Angeles.

He could have named any location on the planet (Sidney and Hong Kong were his two other Global Underground destinations of choice), been shipped off with a crew of electronic music production specialists and had the natives doing pretty much the same thing they do everywhere else he does his stuff, but instead he targeted The Mayan Theater in downtown LA, a venue that may well have been custom built to host what turned out to be a five and a half hour performance from the English DJ.

The end result is Digweed019, a double CD set which we feel justifies inclusion in any must have list. It pretty much brings you up to date on where things are at these days, with source material from the likes of Photek, Medway and Cass to name but a few.

Rating - 847,221 (out of a possible 1,000,000)

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