Here, for the benefit of all who have stuck with the ‘finger throughout the droughts of the last half year’ is my mix of some tracks from albums I really loved this year.

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I’m not going to go into details right now but here’s the tracklisting.. I hope if you check it out you hear something you haven’t heard before and maybe something you like a lot.

“The Suck” – Roll the Dice – From ‘In Dust’
“Chrome Vox” – Tropic Of Cancer – From ‘The End of All Things’
“Double Day” – Sandwell District – From ‘Feed Forward’
“Yama” – Dead Skeletons – From ‘Dead Magick’
“Hatred Of Music II” – Tim Hecker – From ‘Ravedeath, 1972′
“Descent to the Zenith” – Earth – From ‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I’
“Zombies Never Die (Blues)” – Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore – From ‘Beileid’
“Microon II” – Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto – From ‘Summvs’ -
“Caladan” – Roly Porter – From ‘Aftertime’
“Badmind” – Hype Williams – From ‘Kelly Price W8 Gain vol II’
“Or” – Kangding Ray – From ‘Or’
“All You’ll Never Know’ – Matthew David – From ‘International’
“Choice” – Perc – From ‘Wicker and Steel’
“Reality Drift” – Kuedo – From ‘Severant’
“Rainy Dub” – Actress – From ‘Rainy Dub’
“Seasons” – Thundercat – From ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse
“InnaFocusedDaze” – Dam Funk – From ‘InnaFocusedDaze’
“It Was Whatever” – Shlohmo – From ‘Bad Vibes’
“See You Tomorrow” – Henrik Schwarz and Bugge Wesseltoft – From ‘Duo’

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In the spirit of sharing and co-operation Mick and I have pooled our resources and put together a wee music selection for your enjoyment. We split it 50-50 well more 50-70 due to someone going long…
Enjoy!

Tracklisty:

Holy Ghost! – Static on the Wire
Black Van – Yearning
Boo Williams – Mortal Trance
Space – Deliverance (Justus Köhnckes ‘Wild Pitch’ Mix)
Azari and iii – She’s An Illusion
Cage and Aviary – Low Noise
John Talabot – Sunshine (Delorean Mix)
youANDme – You Like
John Talabot – Sunshine
Tensnake – Coma Cat
FCL – Lets Go
Fet et Moi – Paris is for lovers
Burnt Island Casuals – Truth & Temptation

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It’s times like this when you need the support of the BMP brothers. None of my close group of friends are overly keen on the idea of going out till 6 in the morning and others who could have been keen were either away for easter or not going to A Critical Mass and the Mulletover gig. No reason not to go though.

I got to Secretsundaze around 12.30, not early enough for the workshop, but seeing as i’m no producer, probably no great loss. I checked out the horsemeat disco room before heading down for the end of James Priestley’s set. Nothing overly memorible, though still good.

Dixon played for an hour from 2-3 before the rest of the Innervisions crew joined him on-stage. The crowd seemed kind of sober. It seemed like there were a few music nerds there mainly just to see Henrik play and see how well this live Innervisions thing works. Felt slightly sorry for the girl searching the floor for her bag of whateveritwasshelost and had a quick look myself..

From a silent start there was a massive applause before they went in to a couple of minutes of airy electro screams… then it was straight in to what can be seen below..

Critical Mass Secretsundaze

Dixon closest to the camera with Henrik in the middle and Kristian and Frank on the other end.

As expected they dropped D.P.O.M.P’s ‘ohh’ vocal in a few times through the hour, like how they do on the Grandfather Paradox.
Henrik was fantastic, as expected. Bobbed his head hardcore everytime something major was thrown in.

A Critical Mass Secretsundaze Easter Weekend

Kristian came on after their set but i was knackered and it was 4.30 so figured i best save myself for the long weekend and caught a few night buses home..

Sunday rolled around way too fast and it was time to go see Pedro, Rhadoo and DJ Deep after spending the whole afternoon and evening drinking champagne at a friends easter champagne ‘breakfast’.

The venue was again in Southwark, like the last mulletover i went to when Raresh played.. It was a cool venue, with the sound ranging from good to bad through the night.. I never did find room 2 where Greg Wilson was playing, which kinda pissed me off. One bouncer gave me very vague directions but i had a feeling the curtain in to the “VIP” room he was standing infront of is where Greg was behind..?

I managed to convince a flatmate to come and use the spare ticket i had but she was overly keen to indulge so i left her to it in the mainroom where Pedro and Rhadoo seemed to be going through the motions. Pedro was playing 12-2. What i saw was good but not amazing.. Rhadoo 2-4. Probably not the best time to see them (think after party). I think as a headliner Raresh is the one i’d be keen to see most again. He seems to have the most fun. DJ Deep was incredible. Started with very basic channel sounding drums which kicked off a set full of big drums and deep/thick bass. The room was much cooler than the overly hot and slightly agro/pushy (mostly due the it being so packed) mainroom where PIA:R were playing.. Unfortunately i forgot my camera so didn’t get any footage of DJ Deep but i really wish i had remembered it. There were definitely some Deeply Rooted tracks thrown in, but i was a bit too drunk to remember what exactly.

I caught the last 10 minutes of Rhadoo and it seemed like the room was thinning slightly. It was starting to get the right vibe for one of their sets but again 4.15 rolled around and Rhadoo left the stage and so off i went, collecting a Geddes promo mix on my way out, which i’ll try and listen to some time this week.

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• Pimped out boat – check
   
• Shithot Romanians – check
   
• BMP – all over that shit.

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Greg Wilson & Luciano on a boat only a 3 hour flight away. We’re there.

Huge amounts of planning went into preparing for the trip, so much so that I realised I hadn’t actually applied for leave from work until 2 days beforehand. That said, I had managed to sort out the somewhat elusive boat tickets for the BMP well in advance, so the important boxes were ticked. Next up was getting websta over to sydney following his recent trip to Europe where he quietly suffered through his long running house curse of managing to somehow miss everyone he wanted to see. Top marks to Nat & Scoot on managing to turn that one around! 

Bob, Scott & myself flew over midday on friday on perhaps the worst ever trans-tasman qantas flight (which is saying a bit). Lack of booze, utterly crap food and perhaps the worst movie ever made. On arrival we attempted to remedy this by heading straight to the pub to down a few pints. Quickly got bored with the irish boozer and headed upstairs to another bar where Bob decided to chat up the bleached blond russian woman sitting by herself who appeared to be looking for a husband…….we were quite shocked when she finally spoke and we realised she was australian. It was about this time we decided to call it a night.

Given the BMPs grave fears and week long night terrors that we would all somehow suffer from the dreaded “house curse of websta” and end up missing the boat/falling off the boat/being eaten by sharks/being attacked by samurai wielding ninjas in slow motion while Josh One – Contemplation (King Britt Remix) played in the background……..it was no surprise we were all awake promptly around 7.30am and down the road for big breakfasts and coffee to start the day.

Miss Rose then came and joined us all at the hotel before heading down to Kings Wharf. Upon picking up our passes for the day, we spotted the sole bar on the wharf that was open at 9am and took up residency under the umbrella in the already sweltering sunshine. While watching the wharf slowly filling up with boat goers, we were all quite surprised at the apparent lack of sydney fluro, but did note the distinct lack of clothing in a large number of instances. High hopes were already forming for an eventful day out.

Team NZ techno then grew in numbers when first ex-pat Mike McBean, then later Kerry & co joined our ranks and it was time to board the boat. We headed out to the bow (I’m all about the boat speak now), where it was empty and we could ease ourselves into it all as the boat headed out into the harbour. This was capped off by the excellent farewell we received from a naked man on top of the cliff who was rather enthusiastic in his waving of body parts. Be glad scott doesn’t have a zoom lens on his camera.

Once we were all comfortable with our new surroundings, it was time to checkout the rest of the setup. We wandered up to the rooftop deck which was limited to a maximum of 200 people at a time by security. As we arrived we noticed them setting up the reel to reel. So this was to be the disco deck where Greg Wilson would be playing later on. Sadly the reel to reel got put away not too long after as it was starting to melt in the heat (it was 36C for gods sake!). I’m not too sure who was warming up at the time, but they were perfect for the occasion – listening to disco on the roof in blazing sunshine in the middle of sydney harbour surrounded by smiling people is a memory that isn’t going to fade anytime soon! I’ll leave bob to expand on this one a bit more…….its a bit hazy for me.

So after catching a bit of Greg and starting to succumb to the sunshine upstairs, it was time to venture inside to the main room. Emerson Todd was warming up with some pretty banging stuff, but those already in the room seemed to be lapping it up. We chilled in the middle deck on the couches, waiting for louie to come on. It was a pretty cool layout, with a circular opening in the floor directly above the DJ so you could pull up a chair, relax and watch the crowd go nuts or watch Luciano dance around in his bare feet.

Once Emerson Todd handed over to Luciano, there wasn’t any mucking round – he launched straight into his driving tribal percussion which really got the party started.  It didn’t take long to realise that Sydney aint Auckland, as when M83 – In Church dropped, the crowd all got to the floor in typical dc10 style, spirit fingers were in full effect and BAM, Kenlou – Banging Beats smashed in and brought everyone to the roof. Good times (the clip really doesn’t do it much justice).

In comes the now infamous trompeta that gets everyone bouncing and singing along which was mixed into a Carl Craig vocal and there is the highlight of the day for me – Good Life…….you may be reading this going “yeah, yeah…heard it a million times”. Me too. But it was one of those moments that sealed it for me, and is still making me grin from ear to ear just thinking about it.

It gets slightly blurry from here for me, but thanks to decoded & the ITM folks, the tracklist looked something like this:

Catz ‘n Dogz – SF
D’Julz – Fleurette
Michel De Hey Vs Grooveyard – Compound
M83 – In Church
Kenlou – Bangin (Bangin’ Beats)
SIS – Trompeta
Inner City – Good Life (Carl Craig Remix)
Nima Gorji – Jungle Boogie
Marco Carola – Bloody Cash
Sebo K – Diva
Seuil – Double Room
Octave One Feat. Anne Saunderson – Blackwater (Alter Ego Vocal Mix)
Robbie Rivera – Feel This (Tribal Sessions Mix)
The Asphalt – 8 Mile Road (Sascha Dive Mix)
Capricorn – 20Hz (Optimo Edit)
Mirco Violi, Federico Grazzini – Strange Folks (Mirco Violi Folk Mix)
Boola – Bass Sta
Catwash – Brazil
Daze Maxim – Jat
Kabale Und Liebe – Childs Play
Ilario Alicante – Chanting Near Africa
Mathias Kaden – Perclue
Mathias Kaden – Moron
Matthias Meyer & Patlac – Skipper
Michel Cleis – La Mezcla
Michel Cleis – La Tortuga
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts – Le Tigre
Luciano & Mirko Loko – Mousa Big Band
Liapin – Basilia
Liapin – Black Mamba
Drent – Lost In Africa
Brothers’ Vibe – Unreleased Bonus 2
Danny Fiddo & Affkt – Points
Einzelkind – El Pianucho
Oddvar – Natural
Mirco Violi & Fabio Giannelli – Shakeresque
Martin Woener – On
Stefan Tretau – Killi
Nima Gorji – Green Life

Conclusion: One of those parties I’ll likely keep looking back on with a huge grin on my face. Ace. PROPER ACE.

More from the others later I’m sure.

edit: There’s a download of the luciano set here

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