Sunset

Been a bit quiet on the blogging front from me recently I'm afraid, as preparations for going off to University have rather taken over my life.  But all of that is nearly over, as is the summer - so to signpost the end of summer, a few lovely mixes for you - of the summery variety, although they'll be good all year round!

One gripe of mine at the 'Summer Mix' time of year is the influx of DJs who put together what is apparently a fairly standard mix full of peaktime bangers, albeit labelled as a summer mix.  The whole idea of a summer mix is that it should be listenable on a summers day!  So these mixes represent the antithesis of these self promoting "Summer Mixes", and are instead something truly summery and cheery, full of good tunes - both lesser known ones and the more obvious ones.  Coincidentally, one of these mixes comes from the Palms Out Sounds Summer Mix series - apologies for the poaching POS, but the mixes were so good I just felt it needed airing.

First up is a mix from the producer and DJ known as Haynes:

Haynes // The Sunset

Tracklist (non numbered tracks are just samples):
1. Moby - Porcelain (intro sample - reworked)
Sole and the Skyrider Band - Shipwreckers
2. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
3. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
4. Hotels - Near the Desert, Near the City
5. Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Luvtek Remix)
Apparat - Fractales pt II
8.  Marlena Shaw - California Soul (Diplo-Mad DeCent Remix)
9. Cheatham vs Room 5 - Get Down its Saturday Night (Haynes' Disco To Funky House Edit)
10. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Grum Remix)
11. Kelis - Milkshake (Night Drugs Remix)
Kelis - Milkshake (Acapella)
12. Stay Ali - Emotional Day
13. Duck Sauce - aNYway
14. B-Xcentric - Vice
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (A-Trak Remix) 
15. Cicada - Edge
Deekline and Ed Solo - Give it up Booty
16. D-Cup - Epic 
17. Frank Musik - Confusion Girl (Russ Chimes Remix)
18. Pony Pony Run Run - Hey You (Mondkopf Remix)

Last but in no way least we have the Mancunian duo Shadow Dancer's Summer Mix for POS.  With a bit less of a discoey vibe than Haynes' effort, SD's mix is still something to be proud of - the breadth of tunes is astounding, and some of the mixing between genres is genuinely breathtaking - the mix from Fridge --> Tunng ---> Peter Gabriel has to be heard to be believed.  The mix clocks in at just over two and a half hours, which might sound a bit weighty, but give it the benefit of your patience - one of the best mixes I've ever heard, I was kept guessing at every turn.  It may have even overtaken the Erol Alkan Bugged In Mix as my favourite non banger mix ever!  Enough chat - just make sure you download this mix - the sheer diversity of it will keep you going long after summer is over.

Shadow Dancer // Sounds of Summer

Tracklist:

BECK // Alcohol

RHYTHM & SOUND // No Partial

THE BUGGLES // I Love You (Miss Robot)

ULRICH SCHNAUSS // Wherever You Are

BANDULU // Selah

μ-ZIQ vs. THE AUTEURS // Underground Movies

THE SABRES OF PARADISE // Return Of Carter

RIC OCASEK // Jimmy Jimmy

THE FLAMING LIPS // Are You A Hypnotist??

HALF COUSIN // Tiles

JONNY L // I Let U

THE CARS // Panorama

AIR // Mike Mills

JON BRION // So Now Then

BROADWAY PROJECT // Revolution Waltz

JEAN MICHEL JARRE // Ethnicolor II

RED SNAPPER // Crusoe Takes A Trip

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE // No One Knows

MOTORBASS // Fabulous

THE CLASH // Guns Of Brixton

PLAID // Coat

HERBIE HANCOCK // Chameleon

MIKE & RICH // The Sound Of Beady Eyes

ULTRAMARINE // British Summertime

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE // Soldier Girl

BRIAN ENO // Signals

FRIDGE // Cut Up Piano & Xylophone

TUNNG // Bullets

PETER GABRIEL // Games Without Frontiers

PAVEMENT // Summer Babe

BEASTIE BOYS // Jimmy James

BOARDS OF CANADA // In A Beautiful Place In The Country

THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT // Mammagamma (Instrumental Version)

JUNIOR WALKER & THE ALL-STARS // What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?

DJ KRUSH // Meiso (DJ SHADOW Klub Mix)

REPEAT // Drifting Sounds Of Wikiki

INCOGNITO // Out Of The Storm (CARL CRAIG's Planet E Special Mix)

PAUL GIOVANNI & MAGNET // Willow's Song

SQUAREPUSHER // Tetra-Sync

GRANDADDY // The Warming Sun

MASSIVE ATTACK // Unfinished Sympathy

DOVES // There Goes The Fear

THE BYRDS // Eight Miles High

SIMIAN // One Dimension

RELOAD // Le Soliel Et La Mer (GLOBAL COMMUNICATION Remix)

BOLA // Forcasa 3

DIOS // Just Another Girl