First Choice ~ Let No Man Put Asunder
Sylvester ~ I Need You
Faze Action ~ I Wanna Dancer (Reflex dub)
The Popular Peoples Front ~ Loose In Lisboa
Filipsson & Lindblad ~ Pleasure Treasure
Shahrohk Sound of K ~ Love Happens
Chalk Hill ~ Nobody Can Do What You Do
Supersonic Lovers ~ Driving On Broadway
Shit Robot ~ Simple Things
Bent ~ Comin’ Back (Reverso 68 dub)
James Curd ~ We Just Wont Stop
Italo Stallion vs Cloned In Vatican ~ Antartide
Canyons ~ Blue Snakes
Lindstrom ~ The Magnificent
Crimea X ~ 10PM
Phreek Plus One ~ That’s It
Outmode ~ Dark Journey (Toby Tobias mix)
Desire ~ Don’t Call
Depeche Mode ~ It’s No Good
Lindstrom & Christabelle ~ Music (Harvey mix)

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So back at the end of 2006 Mr Black  got in touch with a load of us on the Big Chill Forum and asked us to put a mystery mix together in the same vein as the ones done on the wonderful DJ History board. The plan was to upload them in a ‘hidden’ state to the ace Mixdownloads site that Kris Burford had put together and at 10 o’clock on a Thursday night unhide them and everyone would start listening in at the same time and attempt at guessing the tunes first on the forum. Now that we have the 24/7 radio stream going it all seems a bit archaic but it actually worked pretty well. Anyway mine was about the 5th one to go and at that time I wasn’t really playing out or putting mixes together but as ever was still collecting tunes. The mix went down well and really raised my enthusiasm for DJ’ing for other people instead of my close circle of friends.  Here’s the mix I did ….

Jean-Luc Ponty – Eulogy To Oscar Romero
No-Man – Days In The Trees(Reich)
Jam & Spoon Hispanos In Space
Raul Orellana – Entre Dos Aguas (The Night Time Mix)
Izit – Stories (The Mellow Mix)
The Times – Lundi Bleu (The Grid “Praise The Lord” Mix)
Supermax – African Blood (Part II)
Paul McCartney – Check My Machine
Cash Money & Marvelous – Find An Ugly Woman
Dexter B & Malarky – Drug Talk
Lord Cobra & Pana-Afro Sounds – “Rocombey”
Paul Davidson – Midnight Rider (Tropical)
Gregory Isaacs – Cool Down The Pace
Tony Tuff – Have Good Times; Ranking Joe – Big Long Cock (Greensleeves)
Jah Wobble’s Invaders Of The Heart – Wine, Women And Song

Download :  http://www.divshare.com/download/7983043-396

Anyway off the back of the success of all the Mystery Mixes Blackie got a monthly  Sunday session together down at the Big Chill Bar in Brick Lane, London where all Mystery Mixers could go and play some of these tunes to a real audience. I was lucky enough to be put on the very first one…

Being from the Wirral I had hardly been in London much so this was ace. A couple of mates came along with me and we got wrecked and had a boss time. Anway the reason for the whole of this post is that my mate Jules has just given me this little video from that day which amused me and I thought if you were there you may enjoy…….

Watch Video :  http://www.divshare.com/download/7982818-3b4

**For some reason you’ll have to cut and past the links to your browser**

Darlesia – Everlasting (16B Drowning Rhodes Mix)
Daso & Pawas – Det
Roberto Rodriguez – Besomebody
Joseph Malik – Believe & See (Plastic Avengers Remix)
Eddu Reig – Stahlblau
The Rurals – The Music
Will Saul ft Ursula Rocker – Where Is It?
Someone Else – You Don’t Got Me
Robotman – Do Da Doo
Wally Lopez – Tribute To Acid House
Vincenzo – Shonen Jump
Oscar Barila – Utopia
Williams – Picadilly Circus
Julian Sanza – Changua
Jamie Anderson & Owain K – Freerider (Rodskeez Dub Remix)
Tony Lionni – This Feeling
Soul Minority – Everything (original)
Tweek – Power Of Love (Cue Kids remix)
Still Going – Still Going Theme
Yello – Lost Again

I’ve been really getting into a lot of “Skweee” recently, a relatively new musical style with it’s origins lying in Sweden and Finland and I thought I share a few of my choice finds so far. The Skweee sound is loosely described as being 8-bit funk, but that really doesn’t do it justice. Best just take a listen and make your own mind up I reckon.

The first track I heard that made me really stand up and take notice was a track called Leisi Ellis by Finnish artist Eero Johannes. This was released on Harmonia Records, and is a great example of the Skweee sound, coming across like a futuristic take on P-Funk – you can hear it on Eero’s myspace page.

Skweee music is predominantly instrumental, though there are a few tracks out there with vocals on, notably “Adult Games” by Randy Barracuda (what a name!!) & Mesak – check it out on Randy’s myspace.

My most recent discovery has been a Swedish musician called Beem whose album “The Future” is free(!) to download from his website… best money I’ve never spent. Highlights on the album include the wonderful “Is This The Future”, another great slice of future funk, and “Mount Everest”, a track that sounds like an r’n'b version of Four Tet. Direct link to the DL here. 

Further Reading/Listening:
Labels: Flogsta Dancehall, Harmonia, dodpop, Lo Fi Funk, MAZOUT
Bleep is good for buying anything from the labels above – though the vinyls tend to sell out damn quick!
Loads of interviews with Skweee artists at skweeelicious.

Beem’s Depot Mix
Beem has very kindly donated his brilliant “Depot Mix” to our 24-7 server – keep your ears peeled for it! Many thanks to Beem/Fredrick. Here’s the tracklist:

ESG – The Beat | Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Dolby Sisters, Saliva Brothers | Bow Wow Wow – Do You Wanna Hold Me? | Pylon – Weather Radio | Maximum Joy – White & Green Place | Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Sun’s Jive | Godwin Ezike & The Ambassadors – Torri Wow | Lokonon Andre & Les Volcans – Mi Kple Dogbekpo | Lonnie Givens – Galaxy | Arto Lindsay & The Ambitious Lovers – Let’s Be Adult | Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business | Deux – Game and Performance | Lio – Le Banana Split | Paul McCartney – Coming Up | Digital Dance – Human Zoo | Buzzcocks – Love You More | The B-52’s – 52 Girls | Bangles – Going Down To Liverpool | Cristina – Smile

1) James Brown – It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World (Regrooved by Parker)
2) Kitachi – Spirit (Hip-Hop mix)
3) Cold Cut – Atomic Moog (The Bomb) (additional construction by Luke Vibert)
4) Lamb – Gorecki (Global Communication mix)
5) Ursula Rocker – Circe (Jazzanova mix)
6) Omar Feruk Tekbilek – Shashkin (Hefner remix)
7) Dobie feat. Ninety 9 – Cloud 98 3/4 (Milo Minder remix)
Spacek – Eve (JayDee mix)
9) Moloko – Fun For Me (DJ Plankton’s Pondlife mix)
10) Deep Season – Jesus Christ Almighty (Pylon King & Dunderhead remix)
11) Ariel M – Wedding Song (Flacco mix)
12) Shantel – Bucovina (Omfo dub)
13) Naughty By Nature – Hip-Hop Hooray (Pete Rock remix)
14) Afu Ra – Big Acts Little Acts (DJ Premier remix)
15) Iconz – Get Cronked Up (Lil Kim remix)
16) Eric B & Rakim – Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em (12″ Vocal Version remix)
17) Small Arms Fiya feat. Ayah – Gotta Decide (Domu remix)
18) Mo’ Horizons – A Y N’ama (DJ Day remix)
19) Fauna Flash – Mother Erth (dZihan & Kamien remix)
20) Beanfield – The Season (Swag’s Vocal mix)
21) Rephrase – Funky Little So & So (Basement Freaks mix)
22) Fun Lovin’ Criminals – I Can’t Get With That (Schmoove versi

Dub Kult (live), Jon Hopkins (DJ set), Tentonatom, BarryDark and Remote

Visuals: Parallax + Dr Mo
9pm till 3am – Free entry all night long

Audio-visual party poppers, Digital City return to the all new T Bar with our unique brand of swanked-up warehouse revelry. And boy, do we return with a treat.

When a young producer by the name of Jon Hopkins first played for us, he commuted from his mum’s house in the countryside. This time he returns from Sydney where he’s been playing in the Opera House in a one-off band with Brian Eno and Underworld. It was Brian Eno that ‘discovered’ his bold electronic walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles a few years back (no it wasn’t- it was Digital City!). Anyways, since then Mr Eno’s got him producing Coldplay’s last album, collaborating and exchanging remixes with the likes of Herbie Hancock and David Holmes, touring the world and getting invited to all manner of high-brow musical showcases from Sonar to Saddlers Wells to Ether.

Did we say this would be a treat!? Add to this a live set from Dub KULT- the legendary producer of sometimes deep, sometimes hard techno- but always infused with some kind of off-kilter alien funk. Dub KULT doesn’t just do looping bangers, and he doesn’t get lost in self-indulgence, but he does produce superbly funky, danceable yet lush music that has both attitude and soul. No wonder he gets such props from the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Andy Weatherall and Sven Vath and now records on influential German labels Traum and Raum…Musik.

Support comes from Digital City’s resident DJs, BarryDark, Tentonatom and Remote fusing all that is electronic from afro to electro. Flanked by a matrix of projection screens, the visual quality is represented by Big Chill resident VJ, Dr Mo and Parallax.

This is a rare (legal) Digital City foray into East London, having started life in the bedraggled penthouse of an industrial tower block overlooking Canary Wharf many moons (and spangled dawns) ago.

T-Bar, 32-38 Duke’s Place, Aldgate, London

Bob Marley - Lively Up Yourself (Radical Roots Dublate mix)

Tricky - Aftermath

Modonut - Not Afraid feat Jessica Fitoussi

Plantlife - We Can Get High

Sir Jablonsky - Juck Juck pt1

Kazi - Average

Blackbeard -  Holding On (Phil Asher re-edit)

Subterrenean - My Style is Phreaky

Recorded Delivery - I Found My Danger

DJ Prao-D - Coolin With The P

Kollabo Brothers - My Flows To Blow

Common -  The Light

The Menheads - La Politique

Los Silvertones - Tamborito Swing

Debruit - I’m Goin With You

Nod Navigators - Anyway the Wind Blows

Zero 7 - Lo

Paul White - Hustle (Bullion remix)

Architeq - Birds of Prey

Nadsroic - Leopards

Bullion – Young Heartache

Kelpe - Half Broken Harp

Lone - Midnight Feast (Bibio remix)

William Onyeabor - Better Change Your Mind

Hugh Masekela - Afrobeat Blues

Shades of Love ~ Body to Body
Orlando Johnson ~ Turn The Music On
Unlimited Touch ~ I Hear Music In The Streets
The Commodores ~ Machine Gun (Situation edit)
Atlantic Conveyor ~ We Are
Leo Elstob ~ How High
Casinoboy ~ Jobsagoodun
Melba Moore ~ You Stepped Into My Life
Prins Thomas ~ Is It Big Enough
Boogie Corporation ~ Dirty Rips
Craig Smith ~ The Soul (Part II)
Azari & III ~ Hungry For The Power
Soulboy ~ Harmonica Track
The Popular Peoples Front ~ Ron & On & On
Mikki ~ Dance Lover (Dub)
Prins Thomas ~ Goettsching
The Sunburst Band ~ Man o War (Idjuts mix)
Partners In Crime ~ Get Into It
Hi Gloss ~ You’ll Never Know
Amii Stewart ~ Friends

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Toby Tobias – Bugle Love
Visti & Meyland – Yes Maam(All night long)
Quixote Feat.Lisa Li-Lund – Before I started to dance(Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Reggie Dokes – I wear the Mask
Isolee – Albacares
Shit Robot – Simple Thngs(Todd Terje version)
Bill Withers – Who is he and what is he to you(Henrik Schwarz edit)
Permenant Vacatio Feat Kathy Diamond – Tic Toc
Code breaker – Follow Me(Bottin Mix)
Leo Zero – Let’s Go
Saccha Drive – Jed Clayton(Samuel Davis mix)
Martin Eyerer – Salsa Roja
Alton Millar Inner8(DXR remix)
Kink & Neville Watson – Blueprint
Anthony Collins – Rabouine House(Dyed Soundorom Tropical remix)
Dyed Soundorom – I care
Logo – La Vie Moderne
Joris Voorne – Sweep the floor
Josh Wink – Airplane Electronique

Download : http://www.divshare.com/direct/7921488-0d6.mp3

Guey Purple Radio 12-7-09

Annette Peacock – The Succubus
Erykah Badu/Quincy Jones – On & On (Summer In Sydney mix)
Sofa Surfers – Sofa Rockers (Kruder & Dorfmeister mix)
Linda Di Franco – TV Scene (12″ mix)
Bomb The Bass – Keep Giving me Love (Brighton Daze mix)
DJ Disse – Eia
Terranova – Contact
As One feat Diverse – Believer (Harmonic 33 mix)
Nightmares On Wax – Know My Name (Mark Pritchard mix)
Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder (Pressure Drop mix)
Macy Gray – When I See You (Bugz In The Attic mix)
Grace Jones – Cry Now, Laugh Later (Steven Stanley mix)
Chaser – Blue Planet (Fila Brazillia mix)
Global Communications – The Groove (Palmskin Productions mix)
Peace Orchestra – Domination (Raw Deal mix)
Soul Ascendants – Tribute