Squarepusher Mixes

Squarepusher is the fucking daddy. I can still remember the shock & awe I felt when I saw the "Come On My Selector" video for the 1st time on late night MTV (when MTV still showed music videos, WTF happened there?!?!?!).
These 2 mixes are a celebration of that feeling of being smashed repeatedly around the head with a 2lb lump hammer. In a good way.

Squarepusher Mix 1.0

Squarepusher Mix 2.0



If you like the mixes why not go spend some cash.
Tom deserves it!
Boomkat
Bleep
Warpmart
Also, why not check out some of Toms brother Andy 'Ceephax Acid Crew' Jenkinsons stuff while your there, especially the Exidy Tours CD or the Acid Quakers EP if you can get hold of em.

Dubstep Mix

This mix is a redux of a mix I did last year with all the filler taken out and fresh dub put in. Dubstep is easily the best and fastest moving genre of the noughties. From its origins in two step garage, grime and drum & bass it has branched out over the last year or 2 to encompass Berlin dub techno, minimal, hip hop, digidub & loads of bits of other stuff without losing touch with its core dancefloor responsibilities. This mix is mainly a primer for Dubstep newcomers but I think there's plenty for the most hardened stepper to enjoy. Tracklist available on request.


Dubstep 2008 Redux

Some further Reading/listening -
Dubstep Wiki
Skull Disco
Bass Clef
Burial
Pinch
2562
Soul Jazz
Hyperdub
Dubstep Allstars 6 Mixed by Appleblim
Classic Tectonic compilation
See the 2007 album reviews as well.

Ween Live @ The Village Dublin Pictures

Photo's of the mighty Ween in action in Dublin on the last night of their European tour.

If you squint hard enough on one picture you might make me and my better half out!

WEEN IN ACTION

Massive props to Beana Bern for taking these pictures.

[Edit]
The Full Set list all 3 glorious hours of it...
The one I have here may not be that accurate. Memories are hazy.

Fiesta
Take me Away
Transdermal Celebration
Nan
Common Bitch
Bananas
Spinal Meningitis
Learnin to Love
Piss up a Rope
Voodoo lady
Your Party
AIDS
Light me Up
Buckingham Green
Johnny on the Spot
Object
Zoloft
Even if you Don't
Touch my tooter
Fat Lenny!
Goin gets tough from the getgo
Ocean man
Gabrielle
Pandy
My own bare hands
Final Alarm
Booze me up & Get Me High
Blarney Stone

Encores:
Stallion Pt3
Tick
You Fucked Up
Mister Richard Smoker
LMLYP (About 20 minutes long)

Discotech 103-130

Discotech 103#

Discotech 130#

Super mega party dance mix time!! As promised (months ago) this is primed for the dancefloor & sounds quite nice blasting out of a good car stereo. Hip hop, disco, funk, breaks, house and a splash of indie.

The Horror

Hello!!

Major pace change here. Instead of the usual beats & stuff this mix is a sedate and at times quite moody piece. It utilizes a combination of Soundtrack music (Some of which was downloaded from the excellent Manchester Morgue blog) and original material from a few different sources (Including the Type & Digitalis samplers from Boomkat)
There are some lovely piano pieces on there as well as some drone & some electronics & orchestral stuff.
May post something a bit more upbeat next (or maybe not). I've been going through the hard drive and will pop up something good ASAP.

The Horror 01

The Horror 02

The Horror 01
Donald Rubinstein - Halloween (Martin OST)
Ennio Morricone - Gli Occhi Freddi Della Paura (Cold Eyes Of Fear OST)
Peter Broderick - Another Glacier (Type Records)
Sylvain Chauveau - Composition 8 (Type Records)
Unknown - Figments Park (Dawn Of The Dead OST)
Ennio Morricone - Humanity Part 1 (The Thing OST)
Xela - Drunk On Salt Water (Type Records)
Howard Shore - TV Or Not TV (Videodrome OST)
Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi - The History Knocks My Bedroom Door (Digitalis Records)
Earth - Lens Of Unrectified Night (Southern Lord Records)

The Horror 02
Thendof - --- (Mobeer Records)
Ennio Morricone - Fondate Paure (Ipecac Records)
Marc Wilkinson - Angel Naked (Blood On Satans Claw OST)
Stars of the Lid - Hiberner Toujours (Kranky Records)
Donald Rubinstein - Modern Vamp (Martin OST)
John Carpenter - Mirror Image (Prince Of Darkness OST)
Claro Intellecto - Beautiful Death (Modern Love Records)
The Lost Domain - Breaking The Days Comes To Me (Digitalis Records)
Ennio Morricone - Un Uomo Da Rispettarre (Titoli) (Ipecac Records)
Stars of the Lid - The Daughters Of Quiet Minds (Kranky Records)

The Official Soundtrack To The Zombie Apocalypse

Spartak Mixtapes On The Wheels Of Steel Vol. 1

Hello. Well its a little late but here is my latest mix, and unlike all of the other mixes this has been mixed live on my decks from slabs of real vinyl. It has been part inspired by receiving a mix from my far east bound buddy Barrington James III which his mate had done. And the other part inspired by the computerised mixes not really coming together as planned.

I will apologize for the (lack of) mixing but "it's all about the tunes man", and there are some top songs on here, some old, some new all quality. It has a mostly Hip Hop feel but stretches out to fit some Dubstep, Techno and even a nice surprise at the end.

Hope you like it.

wheels of steel.mp3

Tracklist -

Harmonic 313 - Problem 1
Hud Mo - Oops
Rustie - Jagz The Smack
Anonymous - Special Blends Track 03
Bass Clef - Zamayatin Tapes Vol 1 Track 01
John Carpenter - Assault on Precinct 13 (Main Theme)
Unkle - Drums of Death (Feat Kool G Rap)
Kid Acne - Eddy Fresh (Gescom Dub)
Hud Mo - Jelly & Jam
Brothomatates - Arcola 001 Side A
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final
Pole - Winklestreiben (Peverelist Remix)
Appleblim - Vansan
Panda Bear - Take Pills
The Happy Hammond - Can't Buy Me Love

This Mix is the Soundtrack when William S. Burroughs
plays his favourite game - William Tell
(a game he is very bad at)

Sorry for the lack of updates (although I doubt anyone is checking here with any regularity) but rest assured plans are in place for a fresh mix to go up ASAP. I've got 2 mixes in my head at the moment swimming around with all the rest of the shite in there. 1 is a nice Dubstep/Techno mix mainly because thats what i'm listening to a lot of, and 2 is a mental dance mix that is all about the ass shaking tunes. I've just got to get em on the 'puter and knock em into shape. I'll try to make a start this weekend, I promise. If I don't I'll pop up an old mix from the Hard drive on Monday.

Happy Birthday To Me! + Cheeky Minimal Techno Mix

Hello fellow freak & geeks and welcome to my 1st annual birthday message and mix. Just been out to Manchester buying all sorts of stuff I didn't need (trainers [Stan Smiths], t-shirt [Superdry], records & cds [Pinch & Emperor Machine], I would have bought some comics too if they had issue 43 of The Walking Dead) I received some pretty cool stuff too (A book & CD of photographs & music from the films of Dario Argento & the soundtrack to Blood on Satans Claw [not got this yet but it does count!] + peanut M&M's and Erdinger)


Went to see I Am Legend on the IMAX screen at the printworks which was a lot better than I thought it would be, and although not a patch on the peerless original novel or NOTLD which took influence from the novel, was an enjoyable waste of 2 hours.



Anyway onto the mix. To provide contrast with the slightly populist nature of my previous mix this is a full on minimal techno workout that starts off nice and easy before becoming more complex in the middle, adds a touch of dubstep/techno then goes totally mental at the end.

Cheeky Techno - Right Click & Saveas

This mix is required listening aboard the Satellite of Love.




& because its my birthday here's a picture of Ween for no other reason than I like Ween.
A lot.

Verfremsdungseffekt The Mixes

This is my version of the I'm sorry I haven't got a clue game "one song to the tune of another". In simpler terms I got hold of a load of Hip Hop accapellas (the rapping without the music) and splashed them liberally over a load of instrumental stuff. Some of it is obvious and poppy as hell but other bits are fairly underground. Its one for parties where you want to please everyone especially yourself. Hope you like them as I worked damn hard putting them together.

Struggling as I am to get my box net to post to my blog I've decided to go old skool on your ass and added direct links to the files.

Part 001

Part 002

Part 003

The meaning of Verfremsdungseffekt

The crew of Outpost 31 have had this mix on while playing computer chess and arguing.

Best Of 2007 (Not necessarily in the correct order)

1 Disrupt - Foundation Bit (Werk)
Digital laptop reggae made in the former East Germany! Top beats & bass action with all manner of binary code dub slop thrown on top. This is exactly what King Tubby would sound like if he was raised in the film Tron. Can you really get any better than a computerised cover version of Lee Scratch Perry's Doctor On The Go with the Bomb #20 scene from Darkstar sampled on top? The Jahtari website (Disrupts home turf) has a free download of a dub version of the International Karate + theme! Geek Dub heaven!

2 Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
Mysterious Dubstep/2-step producer Burials 2nd album follows on from where the 1st left off but with a little more light & shade. The vocal samples that adorn the majority of the record give it a poppier feel that never lapses into cheesey, and it still carries the Bladerunner sheen that made the first record so good. Deserves to be talked of in the same hushed reverence as 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92', 'Timeless' & 'Leftism'. Class.

3 Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights (City Centre Offices)
Static drenched ambience, narcotic lullabies, 70's wildlife film soundtracks. This is the sort of music that Boards of Canada used to promise in the late 90's but dont really deliver anymore. PTS's 3rd album brings equal amounts of atmosphere, melody and mischief to the table. The only problem is the very silly band name which always gets laughed at when people ask me what i'm listening to. Other than that there is plenty to recommend here (however difficult that is).

4 Ween - La Cucaracha (Rounder)
Classic Ween! All the stuff that makes Ween so great is right here. Whatever they turn their hands to comes up purest brown in the very best way. Particularly surprising is Geners cheeky English sneer on the new wave rocker Shamemaker and his Anthony & the Johnsons type croon on Lullaby. Deaner comes correct too with the balls out offensive rocker My Own Bare Hands and the sweet philly soul of Sweetheart In The Summer. (I am biased though because Ween are my favourite band in the world ever. Hail the Boognish!).

5 Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric)
Minimal Techno / Ketamine House! Not Rickys best (That honour IMO goes to 2005's Achso EP) but still offers the highest quality minimalism you can lay your hands on in 2007. Ostensibly a mix CD for the Fabric series, it actually holds all brand new Villalobos material and should be considered as his latest album. 4/4 beats with rattling, at times ethnic percussion builds to euphoric proportions without ever submitting to the bloated excesses of most modern dancefloor house.

6 Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments Vol. 1 (Skull Disco)
The ascent of Dubstep in 2007 has thrown up some weird and wonderful styles, none more so than Shackleton & Appleblim on their own Skull Disco label. Eschewing the UK garage & D&B breakbeats of most Dubstep in favour of African styled drums & elements of dub techno, the soundboys also knock out bass drops that could fell elephants from 50 metres. This is the compilation of the 1st 4 Skull disco 12"s along with tracks for other labels and (IMO) it's a truly original psychedelic dance record that sounds like nothing else in 2007 (or any other time).

7 Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline (Kranky)
I heard one track on this album from a Kranky sampler last year and fell for Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie straight away. This double album has a majestic quality without being overbearing, too tuneful to be considered ambient but too spacious to be modern classical. Songs start and seem to hover around melodies before woodwind and brass cut through the electronic fuzz. Every melody is beautiful and never outstays its welcome & theres a deadpan sense of humour at work, exemplified by the Fulhum FC sample and title reference on Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage.

8 Various - Now We Are Ten - A Trunk Records Sampler (Trunk)
Not really much you can say about Jonny Trunks label other than its one of the the most consistent and challenging labels on earth. His amazing ability to uncover buried treasure has seen him accused of being a witch or a timetraveller! Although a bit too heavy on the flute at times, Trunk 1st cut price sampler shows the spread of music they have gifted us from weird jazz to horror soundtracks, primitive electronica to 70's kids tv folk music and a cheeky (at times filthy) sense of humour. (includes the number 27 smash hit The Ladies Bras, at 36 seconds the shortest song ever to chart!).

9 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
With a printed influence list longer than most peoples record collections, Panda Bear (Noah Lennox to his mates) could be accused of stretching himself too thin. On repeated listening however, all the distinct strands of music from 60's pop through to Berlin dub techno mesh together to make a record that is as lovely as it is (at times) disorientating. The stock comparison of "Brian Wilson with a sampler" isn't too wide of the mark especially considering how ace that would be.

10 Xela - For Frosty Mornings & Summer Nights (2007 Edition) (Type)
Recorded between 2000 & 2002 while Xela was working at Halfords then released in 2003, then re-released in 2007 with new artwork and a couple of extra tracks. Despite the years involved it still sounds remarkably fresh. Glitchy electronics and hip hop beats frame the sublime melodies but the joy here is how understated the whole lp is. The best track Bobble Hats In Summer moves at a snails pace with a drum loop that sounds like it was built from heavy machinery before a classical piano interlude sparks the song into life about 5 minutes in. Pure class from one of the best electronic artist in music today.

Honourable Mentions

11 Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season (Modern Love)
Deep wintery dub techno.

12 Kid Acne - Romance Ain't Dead (Lex)
South Yorkshire Hip Hop!

We Got It Covered

The cover version is much maligned artform mainly thanks to total tosspots like Mark Ronson. Its not all bad though as the attached mix demonstrates. Lots of cool tunes you'll know and some you won't. On some you might know the tune but not who's doing it or recognise the song and not know it was a cover. You can have some fun by trying to identify the song, who's covering it and who recorded the original (If thats what gets you off!) Guaranteed Ronson free!

Tracklist - 1. The Slits - heard it thru the grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
2. Devo - (I can't get no) satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
3. The Clash - police and thieves (junior Murvin)
4. Squarepusher - love will tear us apart (Joy Division)
5. The Beach Boys - walk on by (Dionne Warwick)
6. Massive Attack - be thankful (for what you've got) (William DeVaughn)
7. Erma Franklin - light my fire (the Doors)
8. Stevie Wonder - we can work it out (The Beatles)
9. Dexys Midnight Runners - breaking down the walls of heartache (The Bandwagon)
10. Morrissey - thats entertainment (The Jam)
11. Dinosaur jr - just like heaven (The Cure)
12. Dean Carter - jailhouse rock (Elvis Presley)
13. Dead Kennedys - viva las vegas (Elvis Presley)
14. The Dickies - paranoid (Black Sabbath)
15. Ananda Shankar - jumping jack flash (Rolling Stones)
16. The Fall - mr pharmacist (The Other Half)
17. Ella Fitzgerald - sunshine of your love (Cream)
18. The Housemartins - he ain't heavy (he's my brother) (The Hollies)
19. George Faith - I forgot to be your lover (William Bell)
20. The Beat - tears of a clown (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)
21. A Certain Ratio - shack up (Banbarra)
22. Cake - I will survive (Gloria Gaynor)
23. Scott Walker - Jackie (Jacques Brel)
24. The Jam - batman theme (Neal Hefti)

We Got It Covered - Right click & saveas

Day Of the Derp 3

Day Of The Derp 003.mp3

Day Of The Derp 2

Day Of The Derp 002.mp3

Day Of The Derp Part 1

3 part mix that starts at a mid pace and ends up banging. A bit more indie and hip hop than my other mixes & has one or two surprises as well as a couple of mixes that wound up in the funky Redux.

Bub says "uuuurrgh uuuuuurgh" which can be loosely translated as "Bub like music, Bub like brains" We salute you Bub!

Day Of The Derp 001.mp3

The Funky Redux

This mix combines the best bits and pieces of mixes I did this year combined with lots of new stuff I like to form probably the best mix I have ever, ever done.

Punky funk, funky punk, hip hop, house, minimal techno, pop, northern soul, dubstep, indie, garage rock and I think thats it. If you have a passing interest in dancey sorts of music there should be something there for you. If you would like a tracklisting drop me a line and we'll get it done.

My main man Dolemite says "Check out the mix, you no-business, born insecure, jock-jawed, mutha f**kas!"

The Funky Redux.mp3

First Tings First

Here is the first bit of a mix I knocked together earlier this year. It uses A number of Beastie Boys Accapellas they gave away on their website a while ago and I've spliced them with some cheeky dance tracks and some of their own stuff to passable effect. In time I hope to post the other 2 mixes that complete the set but I wanted to post a favorite of mine as the first addition.

Cheeky Cheeky!

003 Beastie mix.mp3

First Post!!

Welcome to my crappy blog spot which as yet is pretty pointless. Come back soon and hopefully I'll have some content worth downloading or reading. Until then check out this picture of my personal hero Reggie Bannister of Phantasm fame!
I'll take a Callipo Reggie!



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