.. with Andrea, Mr Black & James Remote

Fat Boy Slim ~ Talking About My Baby (Midfield General’s Disco Reshuffle)
DJ Pharoah ~ Back It Up (Dj Pharoah Edit)
Sister Sledge ~ You Fooled Around (Todd Terje edit)
Eddie C ~ Let Your Mind Be Free
Royalty ~ Cookie Dough (Jimmy Edgar’s Cookie Monster remix)
Mark E ~ Call Me
Chubby Dubz ~ Takin it Back (94 Mix)
Soul Clap ~ Action/Satisfaction (Lee Jones Remix)
Jade ~ Don’t Walk Away
Faith Evans ~ Love Like This
Luke Vibert ~ I Love Acid
Jamie XX ~ Beat For
Mosca ~ Bax
Julio Bashmore ~ Battle For Middle You (Maurice Donovan Dub Mix)
Robin S ~ Show Me Love
Storm Queen ~ Look Right Through
Space Ranger ~ Keep On Movin
Greyboy ~ Help Is On The Way
Disco Tom ~ Bad For You
Cymande ~ Brothers On The Slide (Ruffy & Tuffy Edit)
Flash and The Pan ~ Midnight Man (12″ mix)
Claudja Barry ~ Sweet Dynamite
Ramsey and Co ~ Love Call
Romanthony ~ Bring U Up
The Originals ~ Down To Love Town (Dimitri Secret Re-Edit)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ~ The Love I Lost (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)
Cherrelle ~ I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
The Commodores ~ Machine Gun (Situation edit)

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Seekmagic began in October 2009 as a music blog , (www.seekmagic.wordpress.com), created as an outlet for the various mixtapes that friends, Nick Cubley (Newcastle upon Tyne) and Gavin Botton (London) had been making for various friends. The duo met in 2005 over an internet forum for Liverpool band, Shack (www.shacknet.co.uk).

“We quickly realised that we had more than just this one band in common. We were born in the same year, so we found many musical touchstones that had been part of our mutual journey of musical discovery,” says Nick.

The popularity of the blog continued to develop “through the support of friends and acquaintances”, and spiralled when the duo were asked to provide a guest slot on Sean Rowley’s BBC Radio show, ‘The Joy Of Music’.

“Sean’s show has always been a massive influence to us musically. The eclectism and ‘no boundaries’ approach was something we definitely wanted to bring to our sets. So, to be asked by him to do a guest slot was a big turning point.”

The blog hits “went nuclear” and it wasn’t long before the pair launched their promotions side of Seekmagic, with the first ‘Seekmagic Sunday’ at The Social in London last month, which featured Nouveau-folkie John Stammers, the latin-tinged acoustic psych of Amor De Dias and the sunshine pop of The Superimposers. “We really wanted to put on a special gig with British artists that we felt were under-represented. We don’t want to put gigs on all the time, but there will definitely be more, both in London and Newcastle.”

So, expect a seamless eclectic mix of music every fortnight. Americana, soundtracks, soul, folk, psych pop, Balearic grooves, Anything that provides the magic, basically.

Sundays, fortnightly 2pm -3.30pm

Ashford and Simpson ~ Don’t Cost You Nothing (12″ disco mix)

Been meaning to post this for ages but the recent (off the scale) Leftside Wobble edit of this amazing dancefloor bomb gave me a much needed kick up the arse to dig it out and rip at full fat 320 kbps for your listening pleasure.

Turn it up!

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King Britt vs. Michelle Shaprow ~ If I Lost You (Scuba mix)

A long-time favourite of many DJs on the station, this still crops up regularly on playlists and always gets a great reception at our live gigs and gurn-ups. Warm keys and that skippity beat together with super-sultry vocals from the very easy-on-the eye Ms. Shaprow make for a very tasty banger indeed.  

Turn it up and enjoy.

Cheers

Blackie

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Josh Wink ~ Dolphin Smack (Martin Buttrich remix)

Although released early last year I first heard this on Omeron’s excellent Deep Purple mix a couple of months back – and how this slipped under my radar for so long I’ll never know. A quick forum search shows that Simon (SoThisIs_) and Jez were also on it early but it’s now been picked up by plenty of Purple Radio DJs, and NoizyDan dropped it to a very appreciative dancefloor at the Christmas party in Notts. It’s moody, trippy House at its best.

Turn it up and enjoy.

Cheers

Blackie

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It’s been another great year for dirty chuggers and electronic disco (a.k.a. House with a small ‘h’), so here’s eight – count them! – hours of my favourite releases from 2010.

Thanks, as always, for all of your support and here’s to another year of bangers to come.

Cheers

Blackie

2010 retrospective pt.1

Drop Out Orchestra ~ Baby Come Home (Dub mix)
Nicole Willis ~ Holdin’ (Maurice Fulton instrumental mix)
MAM ~ Share Your Love
Joey Negro ~ Beyond The Dance
SE62 ~ Wall Ride (Eddie C mix)
Ray Mang ~ Look Into My Eyes
Odyssey ~ Hang Together (Keep Schtum re-edit)
Sir Woolfy ~ Brooklyn Creams
The Revenge ~ Forever In Their Debt (Pitched Down mix)
Superbreak ~ Afrodizzy
Cinnamon Chasers ~ The Bomb
Audit ~ Disco Ting
Mark Seven ~ Pillow Talk
DJ Spun ~ Straight To The Bar
Tornado Wallace ~ Paddlin’
Amplified Orchestra ~ Flying Sausage
John Talabot ~ Matilda’s Dream
Zoe’s Raygun ~ Last Night A Bassline Saved My Life

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2010 retrospective pt.2

Breakbot ~ Baby, I’m Yours
Tensnake ~ Get It Right
Jibaro ~ Body Talk (Organ edit)
Messalina ~ Creamy (Lucci Capri edit)
Gazeebo ~ Red Hearts
Dub Version ~ Boogie Easy
Bonar Bradberry ~ Raum Strasse (Ray Mang mix)
Glocal ~ After Midnight (Instrumental mix)
Marius ~ Jet Set (Ray Mang mix)
DJ Agent 86 ~ Microdot (Drop Out Orchestra mix)
Bonar Bradberry ~ Turning Loose (Ron Basejam mix)
Pablo Manelbrot ~ Hot Swap
Maxxi & Zues ~ MZ Medley
Ajello ~ Hot July
Davis ~ Nautica
PH Edits ~ Don Quixote
3 a.m. ~ Dream (Zopelar mix)
Zoe’s Raygun ~ Galactic Strut (Photon mix)
Dennis Jr ~ Funky Robot

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2010 retrospective pt.3

Planet Jumper ~ Stick Back
Aural Graffiti ~ Acidiscotech
Lopez ~ Lines
Hot Toddy ~ Down To Love
Midnight Magic ~ Beam Me Up
Rudy’s Midnight Machine ~ Open To Your Dub
Shit Robot ~ Tuff Enough
Space Ranger ~ Superstring
Robert James ~ Sleep Moods
Daniel Lucas ~ The Other Side of Life
Random House Project ~ The One Forever
Blacklodge feat. Guests of Nature ~ Lay It On The Line (Fred Everything Lazy dub)
Nomi & Rampa ~ Inside (Dr Dunks mix)
Azari & III ~ Reckless With Your Love (Mekish Filburt remix)
Zoe’s Raygun ~ Nitelite
Mark Seven ~ Swept Away
Discodromo ~ Ionio
Sean Brosnan ~ Sat Jam (Ray Mang mix)
Trap Avoid ~ Elevator (33HZ Disco dub)
Art of Tones ~ Breaking Bad
Martin Virgin feat. Sym ~ Intergalatic Lover (Spin Science mix)

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2010 retrospective pt.4

Apiento Co. ~ She Walks
Gorillaz ~ Stylo (Dub)
Ron Basejam ~ No Jose
Messalina ~ ‘Lectric Love (Lucci Capri edit)
Johnwaynes ~ Falling Leaves (SDC mix)
Snaskrit ~ Toothpaste Ninja
Hannulelauri ~ Super Monkey
Tad Wily ~ Low Budget
Rocha ~ Feel The Love (Instrumental)
Lorenz Rhode ~ Something Hot
Cosmonauts ~ El Toro
Golden Bug ~ Flamingo (Pete Herbert mix)
Neighbour ~ Charo Claptrap
Jibaro ~ Get A Little
Diskjokke ~ 1987 (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Jaffa Surfa ~ Disko Z (Revenge mix)
Martinho ~ Green Power
Erdbeerschnitzel ~ To An End (Tuff City Kids remix)
Tornado Wallace ~ Always Twirling
Ray Mang ~ Look Into My Eyes

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An absolute BELTER from the greatest DJ on the planet, Mr Scruff (your mileage may vary, of course – but you’d be wrong :p)

A staple of Marky’s late night sessions, it was soon snaffled by the less shameless of us on the station. Now here its is for you, gratis.

Enjoy!

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Get your lug ‘oles around the tag mix that the Purple Radio crew put together for this year’s FANTASTIC Festinho festival.

Mr Black – Blue Jam ~ Club News
Boss – Wynonie Harris ~ Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me
Andy Bgpz – BusCrates ~ Broken Pencils
Remote – Pursuit Grooves ~ Shabaps
Craigster – Diskjokke ~ 1987
Mat Hoods – Delegation ~ Heartache No 9 (Mungas 32% & Climbing Mix)
Jez Wells – David Rubato ~ Circuit (Siriusmo remix)
Melvin Pickles – Like Vibert ~ Disco Nasty
Supine – Toby Tobias ~ Fluffy Fruit
noizydan – TBC
Andy Devine – Black Devil Disco Club ~ For Hope (dub)
Brazil Banks – Parker vs P.Zilla ~ Ups & Downs
Mikeybaby – Dr Rubberfunk ~ Riding With The Ratman
Andrea – Nas/Olu Dara ~ Bridging the gap
Stu Eleventhirtyeight – Busta Rhymes ~ Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See (Eleventhirtyeight Festinho 2010 edit)

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