Club Candy

Hey Hey... little late in the day for this one, but nevertheless it is still Monday... Just!
I've had an amazing weekend spent with old and new friends and getting down and dirty at Matter for the Mixmag Xmas Party... we got there a little late, but still got to see the likes of Fatboy Slim, Kissy Sellout, Jack Beats, Annie Mac, A-Trak, Cagedbaby and Jaymo & Andy George. Little bit peed off I missed Caspa as when he's with Rod Azlan, it is immense! Now to the tunes... going for a little bit of an Acid theme today, hope you like. :D

B.Rich - Make Me Dance (Squire of Gothos Remix)
I've been waiting a little while to get my hands on this remix... and bought it as soon as it was released, then Palms Out featured it in a post and gave it away for free... ah well, they deserve it! Top top remix and bass to make you squirm like a four year old playing with Brio.

M.I.A - XR2 (Ashburner Remix)
Ashburner is a fantastic new producer that I've been following on and off for the past few months after his 2-steppy remix of Too Many Men got my attention. He's currently got a lot of bookings in the pipeline and has releases for his own label For The Win records coming... big ups!

Myd - Train to Bamako (Canblaster Remix)
I've been waiting for the release of the Africa Saga EP from Radioclit featuring Myd, Douster and Lazy Flow for ages now... with it's release finally hitting the download stores recently. Not content on just supplying us with those fine tribal beats, however, Myd have got Canblaster to remix their contribution to the mini compilation, and its brilliant!


Mike Mind - Acid Machine
This has been by far one of my favourite tunes of the year, and since the man has been recently releasing his new 2-part EP Resonate on Turbo (see here for purchase details), I thought it fitting to deliver to you the tune that brough him to prominence in 2009. A masterclass in the art of layering the acid bass, this is just pure porn to my ears.


Savage Skulls and Andy Milonakis - Chickentown (Legobeat Hack Hack Remix)
A reall nice stripped down take on Savage Skulls' new collab with Andy Milonakis I was sent today that I will be definitely playing out soon... I'm thinking early on in the night mashed with some filthy bass to get everyone's feet pumping. Cheers lads, more of this please!

Mix Monday

Few mixes for you this morning - some old, some new, some on more of a chilled tip, some more of a heavy one.  I wanted to get my hour long radio show for University Radio Falmer up in this feature, but tragically the online stream went down (again...) today, and the AM broadcast hasn't worked for about two months.  Been working on the tracklist for the show for about 2 weeks as I missed last weeks show thanks to a meeting in London with UK hip hop MC/ head Twizzle about an upcoming collab and some live dates, so I thought I'd record the show anyway - I'll up it onto the blog later this week, when I've found my microphone.  Oh finally before we got down to mix business, thanks to Heather Jeany for the image.

First up we have a Disco mix from Dollop resident and promoter D'lex.  D'lex recorded this back in November to promote Aeroplane's appearance at Dollop that month.  Taking in some more obvious Disco picks (Paris), a classic Talking Heads B-side (Naive Melody, possibly my favourite Byrne tune) and some more obscure picks (House to House). Here's what D'lex had to say about the mix:

This month at dollop in Nottingham, we have the mighty Aeroplane playing alongside The Count & Sinden and Nero. In honour of the Belgian disco dons i have recorded this little mix featuring some of my favourite tracks of the 'cosmic / nu disco' sound (along with some guilty pleasures).

D'LEX // Disco To Disco Mix

LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great / (DFA / EMI)
Moon Ray – Comanchero / (Flarenasch)
Still Going – Still Going Theme / (DFA)
Aeroplane - Caramellas / (Eskimo Recordings)
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) / (Sire Records Company)
Holy Ghost - Hold On / (DFA)
House Of House - Rushing To Paradise / (Whatever We Want Records)
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoir Simone) / (XL Records)
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind / (DFA)
Siriusmo - High Together / (Kitsune)
Ali Love - Diminishing Returns / (Back Yard)
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane 'Italo 84' Remix) / (Record Makers)
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix) / (Modular Records)
Metro Area - Miura / (Source UK)
DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano (Joakim "Piano Debout" Remix) / (Ed Banger Records, Because Music)
Juan Maclean - Happy House (DFA)
Freeez - Southern Freeez / (Beggars Banquet)
Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights / (Casablanca Records)

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Next up we have the Zomby Rave Mix - a retro-hardcore mixtape that Zomby put this together for Dazed & Confused back in January 09 to promote his Where Were U In 92 LP.  The answer to that question for both me and Skream may be "I was in Nursery School in 92", but this sound has definitely come back in a big way recently, with producers like Redlight, Skream and many others repping it in their own productions, and when this mix popped up on shuffle last week I was reminded of how much I loved it. Thanks to the fellows over at Dazed for the upload.  A tracklist (albeit provided in prose form) can be found below, thanks to Zomby for the amusing commentary!  Also check out the youtube video for the Skream (I Was in Nursery School in 92) Remix of Zomby's Float below.  Still waiting to hear on a release date for this, if you have any info please let me know!

Zomby 'Back to 92' Mixtape

Bodysnatch - Euphony
Manix - Special request
Structural Damage - Really Living
2 Bad Mice - 2 Bad Mice (Remix)
Code 071 - A London Sumtin
Rufige Kru - Menace
4Hero - The Elements (Fire and water Remix)
DMS - Vengeance
Criminal Minds - Baptised By Dub
4Hero - Students Of The Future (4th Dimension Remix)
Studio 2 - Dirty Games
Johnny Jungle - Flammable
Inta Warriors - Your Love Is Yours
Dub II - Badman (Tuffness Mix)
DJ Trace - Lost Entity

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Cheers to the guys over at Tourist Party for this, proper quality mix from an amazing DJ - Weatherall pulls it off again - sublime tracklist, and the mixing ain't half bad.  Mixing between techno, disco and gloomy electronica.

ANDREW WEATHERALL - Bastard Dancehall Mix

Knights of the Occasional - Jahmarama
RSD - Love Of Jah Light
Brommage - Carbon Dub
Radical Majik - Direct Action (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
Chaton - 91 Ahead
Bate N’ Lemm - Cabin Fever Vol. 8
Andreas Toth - Marsalissa
Markus Homm - Transposer
Tom Clark - Ultimo
Andrew Weatherall - Built Back Higher (Radical Majik Remix)

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Finally a mix from High Horse and Blogger's Delight resident Casper C - this is his warm up set from the last High Horse night at London's T-Bar.  According to Casper, the majority of this set was played to an empty room - which seems to me to be somewhat of a tragedy given how perfect this set is as an example of a warm up set.  A few tracks in the tracklist are incomplete - they slipped Casper's mind.



Earth, Wind And Fire - Beijo (Brazilian Song)Social Disco Club, Maia - The Way You Move (Greg Wilson Edit)
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Meanderthals - Andromeda (Idjut Boys Remix)
Chamoboche - The Edge
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Stripped Down To The Bone
Lowtec - Meandyoudub
Mark E - Human
Hot Natured - Modern Amusement
Nicholas Chacona - Time Bandit (NC Dub Beats Mix)
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Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream (I Can't Stop Dreaming)
Husky Rescue - Diamonds In The Sky (Emperor machine)
Mike Dunn - Phreaky MF
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Le Loup - I Keep Secrets
A Made Up Sound - Disconnect
DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central (Deep Into The Bowels Of House (MCDE Bassline Dub)
Neworldaquarium - Tresspassers
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Hercules & Love Affair Dub)
Chip E - Like This
Chamboche - Feverish (The Revenge)
Shackleton - Next To Nothing (Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts)
Rebolledo - Marchante
Tom Trago - Passion
Omar S - U
Sideshow - African Cheri

Squeaky Bleeps Radio 06/12/09

Recording of Sunday's radio show - was meant to be broadcast on URF but technical problems prevented this - so I recorded it instead, and you can get it now!  Apologies about the lack of single tracks from me on the blog this week - its deadline week at Uni, so no full music posts until next week most likely, but I'll try to get a few more mix posts up before then.

Mixing ain't always perfect - juggling two decks and a radio studio and a recording between one of me was a bit tricky, and the tracklist isn't exactly groundbreaking in parts - but it was meant to be for student radio after all!  Minimix is a classic from Pipedown heads Sduk & Cntrst, and got grime from Wiley + Frisco, hip hop from the US + France, classic reggae and a largely unheard Radiohead track.

Ben White - Squeaky Bleeps Radio

NWA // Express Yourself

RADIOHEAD // Bangers & Mash

TAYREEB //1...2...3 Sun

CIRCLESQUARE // Hey You Guys

2 PAC // California Love (Remix)

SDUK & CNTRST // Pipedown Minimix

TREVOR LOVEYS // Organ Grinde (GreenMoney 'Lighter' Remix)

CLAUDE VON STROKE // Vocal Chords

CHEMICAL BROTHERS // Midnight Madness (EBW 10)

JOSE JAMES // Blackmagic (Joy Orbison Re-creation)

SDUK // Nappy Nora

SL-2 // On A Ragga Tip

LITTLE BOOTS // Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood Remix)

RUSTIE // Bad Science

ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD // The Dance (Andreas Remix)

JAMES BLAKE // Air and Lack Thereof

FRISCO // Man Down

WILEY // Shanghai (Instrumental)

JOE GODDARD // Lemon & Lime (Home Time)

WHITE LIES // Place To Hide

SISTER NANCY // Bam Bam

DARKSTAR // Aidy's Girl Is A Computer

MAJOR LAZER FT JAH DAN // Cash Flow

PHOENIX // Listzomania (Holy Ghost Remix)

New Aquasky!

Got a fine new mix for you today from the legendary outfit known as Aquasky! They've dropped Part Two of their Deep Fat Frequencies EP series on Passenger Records, seeing them team up with Midlands 4/4 bassline producers Slipz n Dapz for You Know We Do It Big. The EP itself is a cracker, you can preview it or buy it on Beatport here. On remix duty there's Tonka, signed to Norman Cook’s Southern Fried label, the infamous d&b legend Friction, 21 year old UK producer Raffertie plus Slipz N Dapz throwing down another bassline remix.

Aquasky - November Promo Mix

1 'Discotron' (intro) Alex Mectric
2 'Skweekee' ?
3 'Im Walking' (Lee Mortimer remix) - Tee Ski & Shab Ruffcut
4 '5 AM' (Black Noise remix) - Tommie Sunshine
5 'Outta Control' - Aquasky featuring Sporty-O - Passenger
6 'Jack Track' (Black Noise VIP remix) - Tonka - Southern Fried
7 'Move That Body' (Rico Tubbs speed garage remix) - Kid Kenobi
8 'You Know We Do It Big' - Aquasky ft. Slipz N Dapz - Passenger
9 'Hoover The Club' - Aspin & Dipace - Wearhouse
9.5 'Dem No No Wee' acapella - Aquasky & The Ragga Twins
10 'Its Going Down' - Lee Mortimer & Foamo - Wearhouse
11 'Urban Cougar' (Calvertron's Roofie mix) - Blatta & Inesha
11.5 'All In Check' acapella - Aquasky & The Ragga Twins + Cogee
12 'So Damn Tuff' - Black Noise - Southern Fried
13 'Riverside' (Black Noise remix) - Sidney Samson & Wizard Sleeve
14 'You Know We Do It Big' (Tonka remix) - Aquasky ft. Slipz N Dapz - Passenger
15 'Give It Up (Old Skool Style)' (Michael Morph's VIP remix) - Aquasky & The Ragga Twins - Passenger
16 'Invaders Must Die' (Proxy remix) - The Prodigy
17 'Invaders Must Die' (original) - The Prodigy 

Here's also a recent video of the trio being interviewed at their recent performance at Chew The Fat! in October... check it!

New AC Slater!!!

Now this is going to be short and sweet, but the man is back with a banger and one that will of course be causing bewildered and amazed faces during the breakdown worldwide. Possibly the closest thing he's made to Party Like Us, going back to his hardcore roots... hear that bassline, so trippy! Get on the download now!

AC Slater - Play The Record Again

Also here's a video from his recent UK and EU Attack of the Hams tour... I feel so sorry for the dude at 1:30 though... total internet rape! Check the vid though... awesome footage of a tour that due to a very annoying commitment that also turned out to be my biggest gig to date... I missed!

Ben White - December Mix

Ben White December Mix

Tracklist:

DARKSTAR // Aidy's Girl Is A Computer 

ZOMBY // The Lie

WILEY // My Mistakes (Starkey Remix

JOSE JAMES // Blackmagic (Joy Orbison Re-creation)

JULIO BASHMORE // Jack Got Mac

BENGA + COKI // Night (Geeneus Remix)

JAMES BLAKE // Air and Lack Thereof

FRISCO // Man Down

WILEY // Shanghai (Instrumental)

JOE GODDARD // Lemon & Lime (Home Time)

THE XX // Fantasy (Ben White Remix)

UNTOLD // Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix)

WOOKIE // Scrappy

SKEPTA // D.t.i (Terror Danjah Remix)

El-B // The Club

SL-2 // On A Ragga Tip

TEMPA T // Next Hype (Mosca Remix)

RUSTIE // Bad Science

MUJAVA // Township Funk (TRG Remix)

FLYING LOTUS // Brainfeeder

MOUNT KIMBIE // Vertical

FOUR TET // Love Cry

December Squeaks & Bleeps...

Vesper's Chart
#1. Mom & Dad // The Whole Sh-Bang (Harvard Bass Remix)
#2. Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer // Blau (Original Mix)
#3. Zeds Dead // Dark Side Dub
#4. DJ Zinc // Because
#5. Jammin' // Go DJ
#6. Plump DJs // Be Good
#7. Krafty Kuts & Skool of Thought // Sound Check
#8. Solo // Rawmania (Beataucue Remix)
#9. Youri Donatz & Franky Rizardo // I Like This Sound (Original Mix)
#10. Thør House // State Of Mind (Flatline Remix)


Ben White's Chart
#1. Geeneus & Ms Dynamite // Crackish
#2. N.W.A // Express Yourself
#3. Jose James // Blackmagic (Untold/Joy Orbison Remix)
#4. Julio Bashmore // Jack Got Mac
#5. Zinc // Because
#6. The XX //Fantasy (Ben White Remix)
#7. Redlight // Feels So Good
#8. Wookie // Scrappy
#9. Terror Danjah // Reloadz
#10. Joy Orbison // J Doe

Mix Tings...

Got 3 new mixes from you today, all from fairly well known heads - Polish peeps Supra1 (you can read the Squeaky Bleeps feature on them here), Mumdance with some big grime riddims and unreleased tunes from him and two mixes on a different, downtempo tip - one from Joy Orbison, and a hip hop mix from Mr Beatnick, who rolls with the One Handed Music crew - Alex Chase, Bullion, Paul White.

Joy Orbison // BSRkR01

Thriller – Genie
Floating Points – Love Me Like This
C.O.M.B.I. – It A Late
Eddie C – Make It Better
The Revenge – Night Flight
B.W.H. – Stop
James Pants – We’re Through
Alicia Meyers – I Want To Thank You
Fudge Fingas – DinsDins4Dada
Bumblebee Unlimited – Lovebug (DK Edit)
Arthur Russell – Hop On Down
Nite Jewel – Weak For Me
The Samps – Traincummings…..
C.B. Funk – Subway To Cologne
Kate Bush – Cloudbusting

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Mr Beatnick - Autumnal Recessiontronica

Floating Points vs Obba Supa
Clause Four - Track 3
Tokimonsta - A Sweet Day
Dot Rotten - Without You
Soundspecies - Psychedelic Xylophone
Hudson Mohawke - 3:30
Landslide - Parables (Rollin Dub)
Mount Kimbie - Sketch On Glass
LV - Don't Judge - Fantastic Mr Fox remix
Sbtrkt - 20:20
Sebastien Tellier - L'Amour Et La Violence (Floating Points Remix)
Subeena - Analyse
Delia Derbyshire - Experimental Demo (1968)
Flying Lotus & Life Force Trio - Auntie's Lock
Space - Architeq Remix
Dredi - Untitled
The Blessings - Explicit American Cinema
Mr Beatnick - Fallin Apples
Illum Sphere - Chasing The Midnight Moth
Loops Haunt - Impact Omnihammer
Paul White - All Because I'm Green

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Mumdance BBC 1Xtra Mix

"yo here is a mix I did recently for Redlight's in New DJ's we trust show. I tried to cover as much ground as possible... the mix is 30 mins long:
1st 15mins Grime with Jammer, C gritz & Diesel
2nd 15mins instrumental & deeper with some of my new bits...
hope you enjoy"

1. Mumdance - Kerplunk Part 1
2. Shazam & Slater Brockman - Forward March
3. Silencer - Dirtbag
4. P Money - Left The Room
5. Wiley - Wot U Call It? (Tease)
6. Terror Danjah - Bipolar
7. Plastician - Cha (Switch)
8. Drop The Lime - Set Me Free (Zombie Disco Squad Rmx)
9. El Guincho - Kalise (Mumdance Rmx Ft Jammer)
10. Egyptrixx - Everybody Bleeding
11. Agent X - Decoy
12. Mums Of Death (Mumdance & Drums Of Death) - Golden Axe
13. Mumdance, Shortstuff & Brackles - Sick in a Bag
15. Mumdance Ft Badness - Sacrifice Riddim

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Supra1 x Discobelle Mix

1. Royal-T – Beat Fighter (Bok Bok Remix) / Unreleased, forthcoming No Hats No Hoods
2. Brackles & Shortstuff – Saturito Faita / Planet Mu
3. Joy Orbison – Wet Look / Hotflush
4. TRG – Siberian Poker / Unreleased
5. Gemmy – Rainbow Rd / Planet Mu
6. Supra1 – Kowloon / Unreleased, forthcoming Trouble & Bass
7. Rustie – Bad Science / Wireblock
8. Mark Pritchard & Om’mas Keith – Wind It Up / Hyperdub
9. Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter (Swindle Remix) / Planet Mu
10. Supra1 – I Still Believe / Unreleased, forthcoming Trouble & Bass
11. Drop The Lime – Devils Eyes (Supra1 Remix) / Unreleased, forthcoming Trouble & Bass
12. SMD – Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix) / Wichita

Club Candy

I had a great weekend catching up with friends and seeing some friends of old that I'd not seen for over a year, whilst engaging in my residency at Rhyme & Slang @ Public Life on Saturday... I would have ended up at Egg after as well had my mate Fiona not been clobberd over the head by some twat with an obsession for leopard print and an over tense need to have SPACE on the dancefloor. Does she not realise that Public Life + Dubstep + Harvard Bass + Me = Carnage , pushing and sweatyness.
Anyway... time for some new tunes to wet your appetites for the coming weekend!

Riton & Primary 1 - Radiates
Now living up to Who's There as a follow up single is quite something to achieve, but make no mistake this is a brilliantly written tune. With Riton on instrumental duties and Primary 1 sporting some cleaver vocals, the duo have done it again. The video isn't half bad either.

Mom & Dad - The Whole Sh-Bang (Harvard Bass Remix)
I think I am actually in love with this American producer at the moment. His cuts are so fresh and his beats so divine... I do believe its love at first hark. You think something massive is coming in the drop, but it's more than big, it's also clever and it's cunning!

Solo - Minimood (Round Table Knights Remix)
Solo is the absolute final word in potent tropical techno right now, but RTK's have just added a little bounce to the picture, and created something that not only smells good, but feels good too. Warning: Only to be taken in small doses and never more than eight times a day.

Youri Donatz & Franky Ricardo - I Like This Sound
You know it's funny how much a  song can change once the tiniest of vocals has been added. Just think of Crookers - Knobbers... without the inaugural  "Now Push It" it would sound a bit pointless. The same concept applies to this tune... and don't that deep voiced individual just know it ;)


Drop The Lime - Devil's Eyes (Kanji Kanetic's B-Live Mix)
Here we have something a little bit filthier, but still carrying that trademark Kanji sound that I adored back at the start of 2009. Despite there being somewhat of a lack of this style of music in my collection, I can help but smile every time I hear it.

Gremlinz - Picks of dubstep, hip hop, reggae and grime.

Few new bits and bobs from me now - largely dubstep, hip hop, reggae and grime:

WILEY // Shanghai (Instrumental)

Classic grime tune from Wiley here, on a slightly different tip.  At the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003, as garage started to become less popular and grime developed into something definable, a sub genre of grime emerged - 'sinogrime', that took its influences from the Orient.  Wiley and Jammer were the main exponents of the genre, and this was one of the biggest tunes - check it.

UNTOLD // Stop What You're Doing (James Blake Remix)

This is one of the most extraordinary records I've heard recently - James Blake pulls it off again.  Now available on Hemlock as a 10" with the Pangea mix on the other side, this sounds like it comes from another planet - it starts off gently, but when it fizzles into life it goes off.  This quote from Ben Ufo, head of Hessle Audio pretty much sums it up for me: "the must utterly next level piece of music I've heard in years.  Please support Hemlock and James by picking up this 10" now: Boomkat.

GHOSTFACE KILLAH// Child's Play

Classic tune off the Wu-Tang Clan member's 2000 LP Supreme Clientele - it retells the pleasures and hardships of youth, accompanied by a classic rolling hip hop beat, produced by RZA. 

http://www.mediafire.com/?kmyynothdwo

DARKSTAR // Aidy's Girl Is A Computer

First featured on Hyperdub's 5, celebrating 5 years of the label, this then came out as a single on Hyperdub.  Faltering synth lines and delay infused vocals combine with a hypnotic twosteppy beat - a must have record.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5dq2djmjnmj

YT // England Story

Reggae track from UK head Yt, documenting the story of Eighties UK sound systems such as Saxon, Coxsone, Unity, Volcano, Taurus, Jah Shaka, and of much-loved DJs of the era such as Top Cat, Tippa Irie, Macca B, Tenor Fly, Prento Youth and many more.  

http://www.mediafire.com/?cwnmz0jmynz

SBTRKT // rekorda

Great tune from sbtrkt here - 2step rhythms and clipped ravey piano chord stabs, this must be one of these future garage tunes everyone is going on about. Jittery, percussive and shuffley, this one is a must have -  grab this tune here.

JOSE JAMES // Blackmagic (Joy Orbison Remix)

I'm sure most heads will have heard of Joy by now, despite this being only his second release, but the boy is bringing some serious heat here.  Difficult to pin down but robust rhythms make a seriously spine tingling listen.  This tune doesn't even drop till halfway through, but when it does, it really goes.  If 2step rhythms and swirly house keys are your ting (if not, why not?), then grab this tune now:

http://www.mediafire.com/?w0gookdywzz

SISTER NANCY // Bam Bam

Classic reggae cut from Sister Nancy, one of those tunes everyone knows. 

http://rcpt.yousendit.com/779661530/8c251aa424fccc36b5d61a2ccf637407