Literally can’t get enough of Floating Points right now, been following him for a while since the amazing J&W / K&G Beat on Planet Mu…
…but the new remix of Bonobo is just something else entirely, don’t really know how to describe it but every time I listen to it it sends me in to a daze, so anthemic yet mellow. It’s like hands in the air chillout, wait for the drop at 1:58!
More people need to be making music like this, proper feel good music with a dash of cool.
Decided to do a major redesign of the site last night. Tends to be when I get bored of something I’ve done, I try and reinvent it, change the style completely and it usually inspires me to get back on with it, so hopefully this is the kick I need to get back on the blog and the podcast ting.
Got some ideas of what I want to do and where I want to go with it anyway, aiming to just fill it up with anything I’m in to rather than worrying whether people would be feeling it like I was before. So let’s just see how it goes, if past form is anything to go by this will be the last post for another four months…
I’ve been going through a mild musical revolution the last two months, listening to a lot of funky, tech dubstep and nice deep tech house, and doing loads of shopping on Boomkat. I’ve just been finding so many amazing mixes and tunes around seemingly all at once, that I’ve been overwhelmed a bit to be honest, but it’s definitely a good thing, I think the last time I got this excited about dance music was when I first started DJing out about 3 years ago. But there were twice as many tunes left out on this one than those that got in, so hopefully plenty left over for the next one.
Yea enough chatter and that, basically I’ve just gone from some dubstep which is actually slowed down a fair bit so it becomes more downtempo breaks so I could fit it at the start (those Pangaea tunes are so heavy they both crept in), into some nice beats courtesy of Geeneus, Kode 9 & Hot City, then on to some grooving tech house, before dashing back and forwards between some funky & beats and then off into mini rave territory. Check it out and let me know what you think, I’m pretty happy with it to be honest which is pretty rare for me these days…
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Running time 01:08:36
01: Zinger meets Spry – Story of The Heaviest Bassline Ever [Studio !K7]
02: Pangaea – You & I [Hessle Audio]
03: Cooly G – Love Dub (Refix) [Hyperdub]
04: Pangaea – Router [Hessle Audio]
05: Geeneus – Congo (Jung Edit) [Tempa]
06: Kode 9, Benny Ill & The Culprit – Fat Larry’s Skank [Tempa]
07: Hot City – Sweat (Jung Edit) [Ramp]
08: Luomo – Tessio (Ramon Tapia Mix) [Great Stuff]
09: Edu Imbernón – El Baile Aleman [Liebe*Detail]
10: Benga & Coki – Night (Geeneus Mix) [Tempa]
11: Gracious Napa Man K – Migraine Skank [Unreleased]
12: Vato Gonzalez – Badman Riddim [Unreleased]
13: Hot City – No More [Infrasonics]
14: Jamie Anderson & Jesse Rose & Jack Your Body [Gigolo]
15: Sisters of Transistors – The Don (Acid Girls’ Something Else Mix) [This Is Music]
16: Kaos – Panopeeps [Lektroluv]
Acapella: John Creamer & PQM – Fuck Sonnet [Amato]
If you have any sense, then this week you be mostly listening to this mix from the excitingly anonymous Sbtrkt lifted straight from the Fact podcast. Yea alright so I’m a bit late and it’s two weeks old or something, but like almost every other, I only remember to check out the Fact podcast when someone reminds me, which is why I thought I should remind you.
Anyway, literally no idea who Sbtrkt is, but considering the relatively impressive amount of coverage he’s getting already, (Benji B is all over him, and he recently played Get Familiar @ Fabric) then I reckon it has got to be an alias of an already established artist, although I could be wrong and he’s just got lucky…
Yea check it out if you want a taste of some lush house and funky, the Jack Penate mix is insane good.
Very big things for Sbtrkt this year hopefully.
01: FaltyDL – To London
02: Dimlite – Aurora Stay Close
03: F – Epilogue (Ramadanman Rerub)
04: Karizma – Necessary Madness
05: 2000 and One – Funk That
06: Nepa Allstars – The Way (Sbtrkt edit)
07: Jack Penate – Be The One (Sbtrkt remix)
08: Sbtrkt – Outbound
09: Menta – Sound Of Da Future
10: Sully – Duke St Dub
11: Goldie – Inner City Life (Sbtrkt edit)
12: Sbtrkt – Crashed Out
13: Silkie – Spark
14: Sampha – Summer
15: Little Dragon – Runabout
16: El-B – Express
17: Sbtrkt – Laika
18: Pangaea – Router
19: Ragga Twins – Spliffhead (Ramadanman refix)
20: RSD – Forward Youth
21: Sbtrkt – Soundboy shift
22: Outro
Right, well sorry about being slack last month, did a mix but wasn’t really happy with it so didn’t stick it up, admittedly I’m becoming ever so tight on quality control these days, which can be a harrowing experience when you find yourself tearing your hair out when just one tune doesn’t quite fit.
Luckily towards the back end of the month my good man the ever delectable James Fox appeared with the mix he’s been promising me since forever, luckily it’s been worth the wait.
I’ve listened to the mix just under seven thousand times, but I just couldn’t write any description that would do it justice, but luckily Rick has been a gent enough to do it for me, so here goes…
“hello. my name is rick, and i’m a friend/acquaintance of mr james fox. somewhere below this text you will be able to find and (presumably) ‘download’ his latest ‘mixtape’.
you will no doubt be delighted to know that i have done the hard work and listened to it already, my thought process being that if it was awful i could give you fine people plenty of warning to avoid it like the disgusting swine flu james himself is currently infested with. thankfully the ‘mix’ is not unlistenable, turgid dross, it is in fact an immaculately assembled voyage through the creative cranium of someone who probably has much better taste in music than you.
marvel as he gently squeezes your soft, moisturised hand and leads you through the twin peaks-inspired synth-heavy genius of instra:mental’s ‘futurist’, then on to the giddy chunk of swag’s classic ‘them drums’ before promptly and carefully tossing you to the proverbial lion that is zed bias’ epic saving of premium rate, blow job-haired prodigy hanger-on maxim’s frankly dreadful ‘scheming’. and all this before he’s so much as suggested a brief soujourn into the thunderdome of low-end pressure that is the ‘brilliantly-titled’ uk funky genre, squashing roska and rye rye together like a particularly delicious, particularly urban cake mix, then switching things up once more through the undiluted next level brilliance of musical oddball siriusmo, moniker supremo julio bashmore and all-round many-styles kings baobinga & id.
all that wordy toss aside, the glory of sir fox’s latest mix is thus: by day he may be an ambling, mild-mannered picture of northern gentility, but by night he mutates into a slathering, genre-devouring, still-ambling beast with a ‘mixtape’ that puts most every other offering i’ve heard all year to shame with it’s structure, focus and overall deluge of class. so please, download this mix – james doesn’t have long to live.”
Literally couldn’t have said it better myself. Download it instantly, if anything perhaps try and find a time machine and listen to it yesterday just so by today you could have listened to it five times rather than one.
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Running time 00:52:45
01: Instra:mental – Futurist [Naked Lunch]
02: Jason Fine – Puttin’ It Out (A Made Up Sound Remix) [Kontra Musik]
03: Shed – Another Wedged Chicken (Martyn Remix) [Ostgut]
04: Swag – Them Drums [Version]
05: Nova Lima – Yo Voy (Seiji Remix) [CDR]
06: Maxim – Scheming (Zed Bias Remix) [XL]
07: Karizma – Groove A Kordingly [r2]
08: NB Funky – Riddim Box [Urban Riddims]
09: Roska – Feeline VIP [Roska Kicks & Snares]
10: Blaqstarr – Shake It To The Ground (Acapella) [Mad Decent]
11: Modeselektor – Silikon (Sirius Mo Remix / James Fox Re-edit) [Bpitch Control]
12: Julio Bashmore – Um Bongo’s Revenge [CDR]
13: Bassbin Twins – 80808 Dub [distinctive]
14: Hot City – Setting Me Free [Infrasonics]
15: Jan Driver – Rat Alert (Dub) [Made To Play]
16: Ursula 1000 – iLove (Baobinga & ID Remix) [CDR]
17: Stacy Epps – Floatin’ [Brownswood]
For those of you who felt the wholesomeness of that mix, and need another fix of James’ pink salty crack, his most recent Problems Solve Themselves EP is out now on mmii records
This week I have been mostly listening to a couple of really slick mixes. First are a couple from Dubstep genius (although I use the term loosely in the most positive way) Martyn. First let allow me to digress…
I’ve always felt that once a genre starts to become a caricature of itself, it is close to a supernova before the final burn out, and I’ve got a hunch that Dubstep as we currently know it has probably just about hit its final ‘half time 140 bpm, lfo on the filter cut off’ crescendo.
Once this happens, two things seem to happen; the first is that after every artist alive attempts to climb on the bandwagon, the scene itself rapidly tails off into oblivion, leaving only the purists clambering at their last ditch attempt at saving the scene (read: fame and fortune, or fear of doing their own thing), whilst their loyal fans move on to the ‘next big thing’. The second, is that some of the more forward thinking artists will take what they have gained from the scene, pick out the best bits and branch out into microcosm genres. This is where the exciting things happen.
Martyn is one of these people; his recent album Great Lengths is relatively shy away from conventional Dubstep as it is, but these mixes are a step even further in the right direction.
The tempo has dropped by a few bpm (which may seem trivial), and the beats have become a lot more soulful and liquid. There’s a very distinct nod to the burgeoning funky scene in quite a few places as well. It’s almost funky broken beat with a nod towards house, which to me is a definite recipe for delicious treats.
Probably for the best if I stop writing now and let the music do the talking really, so check out the mixes here…
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Secondly is a wicked half step Drum & Bass recording of dBridge @ FWD>> in April.
Doesn’t sound that exciting when you describe it, so I’m just not really going to try. But when I listen to it, it just sounds like future music (cliché).
If the Doc drove past you in the Delorean after just visiting Fopp in 2015, this is probably what would be playing pon dem stereo…
Something maybe a little different to what I would say is the usual house and electro mash up on the podcast this month.
I’ve realised that I have an ever growing collection of really nice tech house records, that I don’t play out that often, and I guess are sometimes lost when you stick them in a mix on their own.
So I decided to just do a mix of just tech house and nothing else, really work on building it with solid tunes and programming rather than sprinkling it with sort of big tunes to get it going. Pretty happy with it actually.
The Loco Dice tune is one of the sexiest things I have heard in ages. And contrary to what everyone else may say about the Hybrid mix, I think the Müller remix of Everything In It’s Right Place is actually the definitive.
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Running time 01:17:57
01: Petter – Left Turned [Border Community]
02: Loco Dice – El Gallo Negro [Ovum]
03: James Fox – Zilch (Demo Version) [Unreleased]
04: Joakim – Come Into My Kitchen (Basement Dub) [Versatile]
05: Switch – Get On Downz [Freerange]
06: Lee Burridge & Andy Page – Do You Smoke Pot [Almost Anonymous]
07: Petter – Robotfood [Border Community]
08: Cagedbaby – Forced (Idiotproof Mix) [Southern Fried]
09: Funkagenda – What The F*ck [Toolroom]
10: Laidback Luke & A-Trak – Shake It Down [Fool's Gold]
11: Thomas Schumacher – Picanha [Get Digital]
12: Dylan Rhymes – I Am Sweet (Tom Real Mix) [Lot49]
13: Popof – The Chomper (LSD Version) [Turbo]
14: Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place (Andi Müller Mix) [Unreleased]
Everyone should also go and check out James Fox. He’s been getting support from Laurent Garnier for his upcoming EP on mmii, and biased as I may be, I predict he’s going to have a very very good year.
Yea so a couple of mates are starting a new night to next week, and already it has an exceptionally good line up considering it’s the first one ever, with a swarm of local DJ talent, and me.
I can see it being one of those things that is going to blow up in a big way as everyone seems pretty hyped on it already and it’s not even starting for another week. Gonna to be some nice grooving electro, tech and dubstep in room 1, and lovely techno and minimal in room 2
Definitely worth coming to check out if you’re around this way…
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They’ve also got a pretty decent blog on the go over at bassache.blogspot.com with some nice links to some exceptional tunes, well worth checking out. Mad respect