Not amazing or anything, but gives a decent idea of what can be done with the thing. We were also discussing (to belatedly cite the quotes in my last post) whether or not some of the tracks had been 8-bit compressed afterwards, which was inconclusive. You can grab the comp and the mix of the tracks on the comp here.
Category Archives: Mixes
New and Old: January 18,1999
This was my first recorded mix that I was really happy with. It covers some deep house, slower Detroit house, Detroit and European techno. Originally recorded on January 18,1999.
2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.
Tracklist
Theo Parrish – Sweet Sticky [PeaceFrog]Urban Tribe – D2000 [Mo’ Wax]
Paperclip People – 4 My Peepz [Planet E]
D.S.L. – Soothe Your Soul [Chili Funk]
Roy Davis Jr. – Black River [Lazyboy]
Herbert – Going Round [Phono]
Smyglyssna – Insvept I Papper [Plug Research]
Vincent S. – Joyful Pool [Bigelow]
Midnight Drive – Remember Me? (Freaks Tunring Yellow Dub) [Classic]
YMC – F-Connection [Yoshi Toshi]
Cari Lekebusch – Omslaget Motiverat [Hybrid]
Wyndell Long – Still Photo [Elypsia]
Richard Bartz – The Traveller [Kurbel]
Mr. James Barth – Stealin’ Music [SVEK]
Clark – Clip [Planet E]
CRo2 – Can’t Let Go [Trace Elements]
Smooth ‘n Rough: Summer ’99
This is a mix I recorded some time in the Summer of ’99. Some of it’s a bit speedy, as many of my mixes at the time were. I reckon that’s an inevitable consequence of mixing with pitched decks (when you increase the range to +/-16). It was also pretty crucial to teaching me how to mix stuff from different genres together. Anyway… I really dig this mix, having not heard it for a good few years. Lots of solid Chicago house and techno. Clocks in at just under an hour.
2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.
Tracklist
Heiko Laux – … To All Believers [Yoshi Toshi]
Turnstyle Orchestra – Latin Soul (…Not So Latin…Sonic Soul Mix) [Guidance]Joshua – The Breeze [NRK Sound Division]
Paul Jacobs – Soul Grabber Pt. 3 [Aquarius Recordings]
20:20 Vision – Bob Hopefield (Urban Farmers Mix) [Soma]
Troy Brown – Feel Alright B2 [Aquarius Recordings]
Gemini – How Can I [Cyclo Records]
SunKiss – Tickle [Plastic City America]
Stewart S. Walker – Nave [Tresor]
Various Artists – #6 [Chain Reaction]
Surgeon – Oval [Downwards]
Surgeon – Learning B2 [Dynamic Tension Records]
Ian Pooley – Loopduell [Force Inc. Music Works]
Claude Young – Circumstance 2 [DJax Up Beats]
Infiniti – Electric Circus [Tresor]
Noise on KRUI: 15 February 1997
This is another one coming sort-of-by-request, as a recent thread about, “trip hop”, elsewhere on the internets bumped these mixes to the top of the archive pile. But before I get in to the detail I have to apologise for a few mixes on these tapes where I seem to think I can scratch, and hesitantly (thankfully fairly quietly) try to do so. It’s hideous. Never again, I promise.
The first (in two 30-minute segments) is a recording that was played on Noise on 15 February 1997.
2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.
Side A
F.S.O.L – Her Face Forms in Summertime [Virgin]Fila Brazillia – Bulls Dozing [SSR]
Clatterbox – Easy Does It [Clear]
Midnight Funk Association – Code [Mo Wax]
Autechre – 902 Quarter [Warp]
Sun Electric – Stimpak [Apollo]
Side B
Funky Porcini – Long Road [Ninja Tune]DJ Vadim – Headz Still Ain’t ready [Ninja Tune]
DJ Wally – Space People [Samz Jointz]
Pronoia – E ‘Rotisi (Interrogative Mix) [Groove Attack Productions]
Jaziac Sunflowers – Dazed and Confused [Black On Black Records]
Luke Vibert – Sharp A2 [Mo Wax]
I also found a similar mix, for which I have no date, and I can only assume it was from the same time period, as The Herbaliser album came out in March 1997. It’s one 45-minute segment.
The Herbaliser – Another Mother [Ninja Tune]
David Caron – Easy Afternoon [Eevo Lute Muzique]
Tek 9 – Phat Like A… [SSR]
DJ Wally – Ridiculous Sound [Home Entertainment]
Aloof – Wish You Were Here (David Holmes Instrumental) [EastWest]
DJ Cam – Innervisions [Columbia]
Snooze – The Chase (Fila Brazillia Remix) [SSR]
18 Wheeler – Stay (Dr. Rockit Remix) [Creation Records]
Snooze – The Snooze Theme [SSR]
The Wiseguys – Casino “Sans Pareil” [Wall of Sound]
Impulse – One-Six-Four-Seven (Numbers Rammed Down My Ear Mix By Autechre) [Studio !K7]
Bleep NYE 2002
This one’s getting wheeled out by request of Rob Taylor, although I reckon the memories of the night will be better than the experience of listening to it today. The beginning is drift-y (to be kind) and the rest has levels all over, etc. All that said, it was my first proper set in London so it holds some very fond memories. And the tracks are favourites of mine, so here goes!
Note: the file is wma, as that’s the format I originally received it in and I didn’t want to introduce the lossiness of decode and re-encoding. Anyway… I had to log on to the Microsoft site to claim a license to listen to it (shows how long it’s been since I’ve listened to a wma file). Apologies if that causes any problems.
Tracklist
Set starts with the tail end of Plant43’s setAmp Dog Knight – I’m Doing Fine [Mahogani Music]
Ola Jagun & The Ancestral Rhythms – Oda Oya (The Rebirth Version) [Spiritual Life Music]
Universal Tongues – Prayer for Sun [Natural Resource]
Hipnotic – Naima (Ian O’Brien Mix) [Laws of Motion]
Plutonia – Forever [Visions]
Rednose Distrikt – N.Y. Boom (Domu’s Nose-Beast Mix) [Rushhour Records]
Dom Um Romao – Lake of Perseverance (Opaque Remix) [Head To Toe Records]
Mustang – Twilight (Freedom Soundz re-edit) [Visions]
Needs – Walkin’ Through Circles [Needs Music]
Focus – Marvin Is One [Versatile Records]
Classic Man – Gentle Morning Rain [Natural Resource]
Kuniyuki – Precious Hall (Original Mix) [Natural Resource]
Convextion – Spice Tea [downLow]
Robert Hood – Quartz [Tresor]
Max Duley – Eternal Bleeding [ARC]
Thomas Kufner – Maginus [Kurbel]
The Moderator – Interstate 5 [Keynote]
Infiniti – Flash Flood [Tresor]
Sold Volume II
Not sure exactly when I recorded this, but I suspect it was some time between ’97-’99. It was all mixed from CD to minidisc, although there isn’t a great deal of mixing on this installment. I did three Sold mixes, each of which was a collection of tracks from CDs that I didn’t feel I could justify hanging on to when there was only one or two tracks on them that interested me. This was at a time when almost all of my income was devoted to paying off my music-binge-buying folly circa ’94-’96. Point being that if I could buy a few new bits from the proceeds of these, then parting with this stuff would be justifiable. The other thing behind this was that I never used my CD players for mixing anymore, so as a DJ the format was fairly useless to me even if I loved the tracks. In principle I would be buying this stuff again on wax in future but was Jonesing for some new bits right away.
The first installment was house and techno, but the mixing was mostly of the intro-over-outro style and many of the tracks look like obvious classics to my audience today, so I’ve opted not to bother with that one. This one is mostly down-tempo, and while it doesn’t actually include many distinct artists, I think it holds together as a mix tape reasonably well. I like the mood of it.
2020 note: all mixes taken down for now to re-post at higher bitrate on Mixcloud in due course. If you’re at all keen for me to do this, please let me know and I will try and get anything specific you want to hear moved over ASAP.
Tracklist
Two Lone Swordsmen – Azzolini And The Branch Brothers Meet Being [Emissions Audio Output]
Future 3 – Silver M [April Records]
Front 242 – Gripper By Fear (Bunker Mix) [Red Rhino Europe]
Front 242 – Mixed By Fear [Red Rhino Europe]
Orbital – Science Friction [FFRR]
Orbital – Adnan’s [FFRR]
Orbital – I Wish I Had Duck Feet [FFRR]
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves) [Heavenly]
Coldcut – Autumn Leaves (Irresistible Force Mix Trip 2) [Waveform]
Woob – Pond Life [em:t]
Woob – Woobed [em:t]
Two Lone Swordsmen – In The Nursery Visit Glenn Street [Emissions Audio Output]
Archives
For quite a few years I’ve been promising to unearth my mix archives. Basically, the mixes on this site have never really stretched back before 1999 (unless some of you recall the Summer in Seattle mix from ’97, which once lived here in hideously low quality Real Audio). For the most part this has never materialised because I’ve not transferred anything over from tape, but I’ve also missed a few things along the way, so they aren’t all ancient. For a while I thought I’d hold out for a good price on a PlusDeck2c on eBay but they seem to be going up in price if anything, so I decided to crack on and get this thing rolling.
The first herculean hurdle was to align tapes with cases. Far too many of the tapes had no identifiable markings, and quite a few cases with tracklists needed to be filled. This hurdle is now clear, save about ten cases that seem to have no contents, and about twenty radio archives from ’96-’97 that have no markings or tracklists – but this is miles better than where I started.
I’m now at the point where I’ve got a lot of tapes to encode, then I need to vet them before inflicting them on the public again. I imagine there will be quite a few worth resurrecting, many with painful late-teens/early-twenties geeky radio monologues. On the other hand, I read a mean Public Service Announcement.
Along the way I’ve also been reminded of some later mixes that were kicking around on minidisc and CD. These are fresher in my memory, so I’ll be shipping these out internetwards in the next few days if all goes to plan.
Assuming this plan doesn’t fizzle, this is a taste of what’s to come thereafter.
Unwound
This was the fourth mix I did last month but I figured I’d give my bandwidth and your ears a rest while figuring out if it’s good enough to post. There’s rather a few messes, but I’m getting too old to be re-doing two hour mixes. I’ve listened to it about 10 times and haven’t pulled my ears off yet, so make of it what you will. Used Traktor Scratch for five or six of the tracks – the rest is wax. Procure.
Tunes
Kazi – Pressure [B9000 Records]Claude Young – Multiplicity of Zeros and Ones [SSR]
Studio – Life’s A Beach! [Information]
Sam Prekop – C + F [Thrill Jockey]
Autechre – Flutter [Warp]
Born Under a Rhyming Planet – Analog:Heaven (On Beat Off Beat Style) [Plus 8]
Joash – Salome [Compost]
Move D – Felix [Workshop]
Hauke Freer – We Must Face Our Fears [Real Soon]
Christian Vogel – Rogue PROTOCHI [Tresor]
Unit Moebius – Chicken Pop [Disko B]
Joachim Speith – Clock (Jacek Sienkiewicz Remix) [Opossum]
Kim English – Nite Life (Basement Jaxx Nitebeats) [Polydor]
Greg Greene – Untitled [Aquarius]
Santonio – Homilies [Cyren]
DJ Genesis – Its U [Transmat]
Dave Angel – Airborne [Blunted Vinyl]
The Happy Clappies – O.D.M. [DAP]
Lester Fitzpatrick – Rush Hour [Relief]
Mike Dearborn – Atmosphere 16 [Tresor]
Violet Micro – …I Know [Tresor]
The Tuss – Synthacon 9 [Rephlex]
Depeche Mode – Mephisto [Sire]
Parametric – ES-30 [SSR]
Plant 43 – Gas Frame Canal [AI]
D5 – Lab Work [Delsin]
Shiver – Oiled Love [Shiver]
Lerosa – Regret [D1]
Russ Gabriel – Jochim’s Hour [Input Neuron Musique]
33 1/3 +3
My first Traktor Scratch mix. Mostly stuff that’s been gathering dust in my CD collection, which is the main reason I’ve got one of these digital file playing thingys at my disposal now. Still struggling a bit with not being able to look at a record to determine when the track is going to end, but whatever… Grab it here.
Tracklist
Marc Leclair – 64e Jour [Mutek]
Rhythm & Sound – Mash Down Babylon [Burial Mix]
Coil – Nasa-Arab [Threshold House]
Björk – Come To Me (Black Dog Mix) [One Little Indian]
Róisín Murphy – Love in the Making [Echo]
Skinny Puppy – Burnt With Water [Nettwerk]
Nitzer Ebb – Let Beautty Loose [Geffen]
Connection Machine – Perception Fuse [Down Low Music]
Plastikman – Koma [Nova Mute]
Mappa Mundi – Sexafari [USA Import Music]
Sun Electric – Up the Drain [R&S]
Max Duley – Dented [Unreleased]
Donor – Isolation [Miniscule]
Joey Beltram – Drome [Warp]
The Hypnotist – Pioneers of the Warped Acid [Instinct]
Silent Phase – Electric Relaxation [R & S Records]
Drax – Radiation [Trope Recordings]
Max 404 – Slut [Eevo Lute Muzique]
Speedy J – Symmetry [Warp]
New Carts II
Another imaginatively titled mix from a Sunday with new cartirdges. A bit broader than the last one. Very sorry about the hideous mix into Jus-Ed and Kevin James. Get it here.
Tracklist
Mouse On Mars – Hallo [Rough Trade]
Burial – Night Bus [Hyperdub]
Flying Lotus – Pet Monster Shotglass [Plug Research]
Dimlite – The Way Blood Travels [Sonar Kollektiv]
RJD2 – Clean Living [Definitive Jux]
Newworldaquarium – The Force [NWAQ]
Karma – Beach Towel (I:Cube Cosmix Marathon Remix) [Compost]
Daniel Meteo – Beautiful (Making Music w/u) [Kalk Pets]
Rod Modell – Lama Temple (Unreleased Version) [Styrax]
Nick Solé – World Dubbing [Mojuba]
Jus-Ed & Kevin James – Baltimore Love [Underground Quality]
K Soul & Ra.H – Untitled [Morphine]
The Oliverwho Factory – The 1 [Madd Chaise Inc]
Redshape – Steam [Delsin]
Pendle Coven – Habitual Stress [Modern Love]
Jacek Sienkiewicz – Living in Oblivion [Smallville]
Jack S. – Forgot to Tell You [Recognition]
Dettmann|Klock – Scenario [Ostgut Tonträger]
Parallel 9 – Technic [Artless]