10pm-12am Trus’me
12am-1am dOP (live)
1am-3.30 DJ Koze
3.30am-4.45am Modeselektor feat. Pfadfinderei (Live A/V set)
4.45am-6am Appleblim
6am-7am Shackleton (live)

Room Two

10pm-11pm Jozif
11pm-1am Motor City Drum Ensemble
1am-2am Lawrence (Live)
2am-4am Move D
4am-5am Thomas Melchior

We were a little weary of going back to Matter again. This time though we didn’t have to go through the horrible airport terminal that is the O2 and just walked around the waters edge to Matter.  The line wasn’t huge and within a few fairly painless minutes waiting, we were in.

Just in time for dOP. They were fun. We sat down and just drank a bottle of wine. I saw one of them after while Koze was on and congratulated him on their new ep cover -

Koze was up next, and after trying to catch some of Lawrence upstairs, i figured i’d sooner see Koze. He started of with big drummy tracks. He also played Berlin Dub, which got me pretty amped. The majority of what he played i had no clue as to what it was, but it was good! Pretty sure he played Mariposa and he definitely played his remix of Minimal.

It seemed to be a pretty knowledgeable crowd with screams and cheers coming at the closest glimpse of a recognisable track. It really felt like everyone was there to party!

After Koze we jumped between Move D, who played a blinding deep set, which included Minimal Man – Make A Move and Modeselektor who played a very similar set to what they played when they opened for Radiohead in Berlin, which included their for the girls remix of Bjork and Antony ‘Dull flame of desire‘.

Appleblim was up next. Putting all these different genres on works really well when the DJ’s understand the crowds. Given Appleblims excellent podcasts for Rinse, it’s obvious he loves all sorts of music and began his set in a farely House/Techno/Minimal fashion, before dropping in to the dupstep.

Come the end of Appleblim’s set i was sitting down. Once Shackleton’s bass literally rattled my ribcage, i was back on the dancefloor shuffling my feet for as long as could before catching the 7.30am tube home.

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1 of the joys of my employment is that I have a stereo to myself all day, every day with no cloth eared tit telling me to `turn off the gay shit’. So I get to listen to top gay shit all day long, result!

As the year comes to an end I have found myself with a few minutes spare and an ipod `mixes’ folder with 51 separate mixes in it.  So here is a list of all the ones I went back to again and again this year. This is my list of mixes I like; it doesn’t make them the best ever just the ones that resonated with me the heaviest.  I haven’t heard every mix that came out this year but I have prolly heard more than most people, so there!

I have linked as many as possible, whether those links work or not, I dunno…. That’s not my problem as I already have them and you should be happy I even bothered… the bloody cheek of you lot…. Ya go to all the effort and what thanks do ya get?  I ask you… I don’t know why I bother sometimes….

Anyways, I have a top 3, the rest are just sorta bunched up a bit…. there are no rules expect
I rulz! Oh yeah!

So heres the #1 mix of 2008 according to me!!

Vera Live @ Zunkuft/Zurich 11-01-08
http://www.djjulietta.de/ELIVERVEINE_JULIETTA_ZUKUNFT_ZURICH_110108.zip

I have mentioned this earlier in the year somewhere on te finger due to its greatness.  And greatness it has in spades!  Clocking in at around 5hrs in length you would think I would tire of it after a bit, but no!  Many a day has been whiled away at work bopping about the deep house stylings of Vera.  It doesn’t rock out, more roll around but at no point does it ever lose your attention.  Hard to beat, actually its unbeaten! That’s why its #1. Indulge this on a sunny day on the deck, add wine and friends and your off to a flier!

Next on my list, local boy done gone away
Randall Munro May Heads Down mix
Alas, I have no link to this, hopefully the man of the hour can show up with a link for us all. This ticks all the house boxes! Soulful without being super serious, bumpy without any shitty Chicago house stylings.  I dunno what to say about it other than its likely my most listened to mix this year, and if ya think about the number of great mixes by great djs below that are available to someone with rudimentary interwebs skills like myself, I think that’s high praise indeed!!

#3
Appleblim April 29 2008 Rinsefm podcast
http://www.sendspace.com/file/za5d4f
Wanked on endlessly about on the internet, here is a prime example. But still outstandingly great, the rando-meter is turned up to 11 for the 1st hour and then it just top notch dubstep to close out the 2 hr ride.  You really should have this.

Rather disturbingly, I have become a bit of a RA podcast addict this year, mostly down to the fact that they somehow appear on my itunes each week without me knowing about it…..
These are the the ones that ruled the roost at Casa Del Aquavista
Quiet Village RA podcast
Some super Balearic stuff for your Sunday mornings, including a Led Zep track!
Gerd Janson RA podcast
Never heard of him but he puts on a bloody good show here
Steffi RA podcast
Panorama bar bird does deep moody house like I wanna hear it
Motorcity Drum Ensemble RA Podcast
New and Detroithousey, I love that shit!

Its been a year or so of bleepy house and techno which was always gonna send me back to find some proper music with real instruments on them wasn’t it.

Horsemeat Disco set me up a treat with these 2 mixes, both a sort happy 80’s disco turnout….  Super stuff all-round really, ya just never know what’s gonna pop up next on these mixes, but ya know it will be great!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3d56kq
http://www.gakfoundation.org/tmp/new/HMD/05%20HMD030808James_Murphy.mp3

I also found this Disco Bloodbath mix by Dan Warwick, which is outstanding!!   Again a bit nutty, a lot different and full of surprises right till the end.  Possibly a bit hard done by not hitting the top 3, we’ll call it #4 amongst friends. http://www.zshare.net/audio/1419424060be1559/

The Ibiza Voice Podcast series was solid this year and I was super keen on getting into them as I was destined for the White Isle.  These are the 3 that I really loved.

Cassy Ibiza Voice Podcast
http://www.ibiza-voice.com/sessions/media/Cassy_Ibiza_Voice_Podcast.mp3
Cassy, like Vera and Steffi, does the deep house thing.  I like the deep house thing!  She plays a touch harder here than other mixes but the high standards are intact, Mick & I got to see Cassy in the garden Bar at Berghain this year, it was a good time!

Serge Santiago – Ibiza Voice Podcast 28-08-2008
http://rapidshare.com/files/150233648/Serge_Santiago_Ibiza_Voice_Podcast_28-08-2008_UMP3.mp3
I have become a big fan of Serge Santiago, and this podcast will make you a big fanboy as well! Get it now!

Matthias Tanzmann – Ibiza Voice Podcast 04-09-2008
http://rapidshare.com/files/142800299/01-Matthias_Tanzmann_Ibiza_Voice_Podcast_UMP3.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/142804466/02-Matthias_Tanzmann_Ibiza_Voice_Podcast_UMP3.mp3
Prolly my favourite bouncy techno/house mix I heard this year, lots of lil surprises and smooth as Bob’s waxed bum.

I have been a big Detroit house fan since ages ago and this year has sent me through 3 mixes of unsurpassed brilliance.  Fill ya boots with
Santiago Salazar, got nothing on a name here, mores the pity
Not the rubbish sept mix doing the rounds with that horrid kiwi bird prattling on about techno on it at present but 1 from earlier on.  Gonna need some help finding this 1.  If ya want it, complain and I will get someone to load it up here

Red Rack Em , Muthafucking D mix http://www.coolinthepool.com/radio
Just great Detroit deep house

Steffi – To the Bone podcast http://tothebone.co.uk/
New and more of the same!  This starts very berlin before ya find yaself happily grooving away to some disco sounds

Right, now we are into the dregs of genius mixes;

Manual Tur 08-06-2008 Mix http://www.megaupload.com/pl/?d=8SLFX2RM
Paul Ninja has been all about this guy all year, me not soo much.  But for some reason this mix has been heard again and again and again….. cos its bloody good!

FAT DOG KENNEL KLUB MIX (PT.1) http://www.kennelklub.co.uk
A chap from England, that’s all ya get.  He does a nice line in soulful quirky mixes that I truly love.  If ya like this theres plenty more!

Placid – Strings and Stuff Mix http://www.mezerik.com/output/Placid/Strings_n_Stuff.mp3
Another English chap, this time indulging my love of 90’s English techno records.  Very nice if you’re me!

Cosmo Vitelli – Get the Curse podcast
http://www.getthecurse.com/folder/podcast/(gtc40)-getthecurse-Cosmo-Vitelli-2008.10.13.mp3
This mix caught me by surprise! Its italo house and it freqn rulz!   Can’t get enough of this un, some great music that never gives ya a chance to not love it

Luciano Welcome To The Future, Amsterdam (NL) 02/08/2008
http://rapidshare.com/files/136290956/01-welcome_to_the_future-luciano_live__amsterdam_-cable-02-08-2008-1king.mp3.html
Well, duh!  If ya don’t have this ya don’t like dance music!
So obviously I have made some glaring errors and missed the best mix of all time let alone this year…..

So go on…. Lay it on me
What were yours?

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Tomorrow night (friday 15) I venture into the rain to play at the supperclub on Beresford square. I like supper – despite having a dodgy rep (thanks mainly to the antics of late morning up all night mentalist partygoers) it is generally a relaxed place where you can pretty much play whatever music you like. On an early evening in summer there are few better places in Auckland to be. On a night like tomorrow promises to be I can think of a bunch of nicer places to be, frankly, but it still should be fun.

Friday nights at supper are dubstep oriented. While I don’t mind the wobbly-bass noise sound seemingly favoured in Auckland I tend to buy the deeper/weirder/techno influenced sound. So I have assembled records from some of my favourite dubstep producers of recent times (Pinch, Shackleton, TRG, Martyn, Appleblim, Ramadanman, 2562) alongside some older 2step records on loan from the Websta collection. I am really enjoying the current deeper sound being pushed by the above artists (perhaps best showcased recently on Appleblim’s Dubstep Allstars 6). So anyway for those of you in Ak, feel free to pop along tomorrow, I believe I am playing between 10 and 11.

Saturday night brings with it a couple of gigs, I am going to kick it off at the Jet Jaguar gig at Khuja lounge, I have a Jet Jaguar album from a good few years ago which I recall as being some nice (if a little inoffensive) laid back electronic noodling. Should be a relaxing start to the night. Carrying on, Zen (the ‘new’ fu bar) has Loefah – who I know mainly from his great run of releases a few years back on DMZ. These records opened my eyes to the emergence of this style of music which was hacking away the extraneous matter and melodies and instead exploring the possibilities of pure, heavy bass. I have seen Mala (of Digital Mystikz) play twice, and enjoyed both times a lot – hopefully loefah will be another great night.

In the search for some musical goodness to link to I have found a podcast from Appleblim recorded in april. Shouts to Friedmylittlebrain.com for pointing this one out.

Appleblim – Rinse FM Podcast April 2008

Tracklisting:

Part1

• 1. A Made up Sound – D1 (unreleased)
• 2. Resilent – 1.2 (Chain Reaction ‘96) )
• 3. Shed – Warped Mind (Ostgut Ton ‘08)
• 4. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse ‘70)
• 5. Bill Conti – Reflections (off Rocky III soundtrack)
• 6. Beach Boys – Feel Flows (EMI ‘71)
• 7. Mr Fingers – Stars (Alleviated ‘87)
• 8. Fun Boy Three – Faith Hope & Charity (Chrysalis ‘82)
• 9. The Clash – Magnificent Dance (CBS ‘81)
• 10. 2 Bad Mice – Waremouse remix (Moving Shadow ‘92)
• 11. Davey Graham – I Cannot Keep From Crying Sometimes (Decca ‘64)
• 12. Advanz vs Gescom – Viral (Skam ‘98)

Part 2

• 13. Skream – Siminimal – dubplate
• 14. Ramadanman – Humber – dubplate
• 15. Shut Up & Dance – Epileptic (Martyn’s No Strobe mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Z Audio)
• 16. Geiom – Reminissin (Skream’s Time Travel mix) – dubplate(forthcoming on Berkane Sol)
• 17. Greena – Houze – dubplate
• 18. Vista – Elixir – dubplate
• 19. T++ – Audio19958 – dubplate
• 20. Jack Sparrow & Exodus – Blue – dubplate
• 21. Geiom & Appleblim – Shreds – dubplate
• 22. Calibre – Stolen Shadow – dubplate
• 23. Scuba – Systematic Decline – Hotflush
• 24. Martyn – All I Have Is Memories – Apple Pips
• 25. Komonazmuk – Bad Apple – dubplate – (fortchcoming on HENCH)
• 26. Wedge ft. Shadz – Everybody’s Movin – dubplate

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