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Onto the tunes, and there’s been a crapload of tunes doing it for me. Enjoying the chance to dj a little bit more of late. Too many to categorise or rank, here’s just a few favourites.

Brackles and Shortstuff’s ‘Blunted Robots’ label is always worthy of a listen, and I really like Dj Dom’s recent EP for them. Deep but bouncy UK Funky.

Sticking in the UK, and LuckyMe have another big tune in the form of Jacques Greene’s ‘Another Girl’. The original is a big, rnb based record, but my favourite from the release is Mark Flash UR’s Detroit based reworking of ‘The Look’

One more Uk based, RnB influenced tune, this time coming from Deadboy who’s been mining the rnb and uk bass sound for sometime, this time coming with an uplifting bassline which will no doubt sound massive at the various festivals over the northern summer.

Moving into more traditional house and techno territory, and Move D is on his usual fine form, recently remixing leif in a very laid back deep style with some lovely jazzy touches.

His EP from a few months back is also essential deep listening, I can’t get enough of ‘Your Personal Healer’ – lush piano chords, muted vocals and snips of acid.

Also dusting off the piano keys is Reggie Dokes. I really like his new EP on Clones’ excellent ‘Royal Oak’ sub label. ‘Haiti’ brings spritely keys and a great remix from promising new producers ‘Morning Factory’ who are named after my favourite Ron Trent track, which is a cool thing to take a name from.

Time to Express is a must check label for me since Dozzy and Cio D’ors hypnotising ‘Menta’, and their compilation has yielded some new gems including new (to me) tracks from Dozzy and Van Hoesen.

Sascha Rydell comes through with some deep heaviness on the equally awesome Fachwerk label.

Perc is another consistently strong producer, his great new track on his label features (amazingly) a remix from Chris Carter of throbbing gristle. That’s not on youtube though, so check out the equally smashing Ancient Methods mix;

Finally, Andy Stott emerges again on Modern Love with some amazing music. I really like this release, each track has something unique to it, and most of it is slowed, skewed, and dark. Great stuff.

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First up, you can’t really argue with Millions of Moments re-release of ‘wallshaker’ by Aaron Carl, who sadly passed away last year. I think this one is a favourite of Micks.. The great original is accompanied by a midnight dub, and a beautifully deep sounding dub from ‘Sven’, presumably Sven Weissemann who is doing some lovely stuff lately.

Kassem Mosse has a new release on Workshop, and as usual with work from him and workshop it is sounding impressive. Mosse has become one of my favourite producers over the past year or so and this is more solid work.

Another guy I’m always on the look for releases for is Tevo Howard, who has a nice stripped down but melodic style to his deep house. ‘The age of compassion’ came out on buzzin’ fly last month which is a big label and hopefully a sign of more recognition for his productions.

Sneaking in from last year is House of Jezebel (aka Legowelt) with his take on ‘love and happiness’. It’s a sample that’s been used so many times, yet this raw, old school sounding production just does it for me..

One more house thing is Lauer’s excellent release from Robert Johnson last month.. Both these tracks remind me of New Order for some reason, perhaps the melodies and old school sounding drums..

Over in the increasingly popular post dubsteppy/nu garagey world, things are ticking along nicely too..
Really enjoyed sepalcure’s first 12″ last year on hotflush. This new one’s sounding good too

Staying on hotflush, the new George Fitzgerald with remix from Scuba is nice

Hackman is a newish uk funky producer who’s stuff I always check of late.. Interesting how some of this more mellow end of the uk post garage/funky thing is starting to meld with more trad tech house.

Julio Bashmore also successfully pushes my deep housey/steppy buttons with his new release.

Lovely stuff from 2562 who apparently made his entire new album constructed from samples of old disco records!

Over in more techno territory, Mike Dehnert comes through with another reliably enjoyable record

Delsin come through with some lush detroit stuff

And finally, Mike Parker and Donato Dozzy come heavy and hypnotic with a new Prologue.. Can’t listen to this without imagine it booming out over the mountains in Japan, and I’m already a bit excited about that becoming a reality.

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A great 2.5 hour set from Function here, some proper techno from one of the Sandwell District boys.

Direct Link: http://www.alteperlen.org/mikrodisko/forschung/010-08-14_function_about_blank.mp3

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I thought it was probably about time I posted some mixes that I’ve been enjoying of late. It’s been awhile.

John Roberts - CB 050

1. John Roberts – Went – Dial 2010
2. Balam Acab – See Birds – Tri Angle 2010
3. Armando – We’re On The Move (Mike Dunn Snare Your Ass Off) – BBE 2010
4. John Roberts – Coming Up (Acapella) – Unreleased
5. MD III – Personal Problem – Underground 1988
6. Parris Mitchell – Follow Me Ghetto (Acid) – Dance Mania 1994
7. Fingers Inc. feat. Robert Owens – I’m Strong (Instrumental) – Clone Classic Cuts 2007
8. Mr. Fingers – Beyond The Clouds – Jack Trax 1989
9. John Roberts – Dedicated – Dial 2010
10. Girl Unit – IRL (Edit) – Unreleased
11. DJ Slugo – Doom Doom (Edit) – Unreleased
12. Omar S. – Just Ask The Lonely – FXHE Records 2005
13. Efdemin – Acid Bells (Martyn’s Bittersweet Mix) – Metisse 2009

http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/50-CB-050-John-Roberts/

Sepalcure - LWE Podcast 61

01. Kenny Larkin, “Breathe” [Peacefrog Records]
02. Twerk, “Kiu Kiu” [Mille Plateaux]
03. Shed, “Warped Mind” [Ostgut Ton]
04. Michaux, “12£ Ute-No” [Audio.nl]
05. Scuba, “On Deck” (FaltyDL Remix) [Hotflush Recordings]
06. Velour, “Kick it Til it Breaks” [Night Slugs]
07. The Hundred in the Hands, “Pigeons” (Blawan’s Bare Bones Remix)
[Warp Records]
08. Distal & HxdB, “Typewriter Tune” (VIP Mix) [white*]
09. Spatial, “100505″ [Infrasonics]
10. Sistol, “On the Bright Side” (Scuba’s Brighter Side Remix)
[Halo Cyan Records]
11. Millie & Andrea, “Gunshot” (Stripped) [Daphne]
12. Neat, “Lime & Sugar” [Airflex Labs]
13. Icicle, “Anything” [Tempa]
14. Commix, “Be True” (Burial Remix) [Metalheadz]

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-61-sepalcure/

Steffi - labyrinth ssg special

No tracklist – but excellent.

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/09/labyrinth-ssg-special-steffi.html

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Here’s 5 records I like to accompany the haze

James Blake; probably my favourite producer right now..

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Some musical enthusiasms of recent times:

This summer has been the summer of Dam Funk!

Untold brings yet another piece of awesome:

Beautiful work as usual from wax (who apparently has now pretty much been revealed to be shed):

Listening to James Blake really loud is a necessary pleasure but I think it made me hurt my neck:

Joy Orbison, best name twisting since Jichael Mackson, and some great music too!:

Lil Silva – ‘Different’ – its heavy!:

Michel Cleis – ‘Dark Glasses’ – lots of drums happening:

I’m pretty much consistently excited about music and I really miss mixing records

And that’s all for today.

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The organisers of DEMF 08 are streaming some of the sets from last years event here: http://www.paxahau.com/sounds/mp3/2008_movement.html

Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts is particularly worth a look in. As is DBX at DEMF08

You can download most of them from here if you feel the urge:  http://www.djscene.lt/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30503&sid=ede02cfcf727ea873492c809764b2df6

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A lot can change in 2 years!  At the start of 2007, I was living in an old house near a vaguely dodgy part of Auckland’s CBD.  The BMP was an as yet unacquainted and unincorporated group of disparate figures who had not yet discovered a mutual enjoyment for the triplicate vices of Beer, MUSIC, and Pizza.  My friend Mike, (aka Mick ‘the kid’) was living in Mt Albert near what I personally consider one of Auckland’s best cafes, so most weekends would see me grabbing a pile of records and heading out to his flat to piss about mixing records (usually two for two), drinking beer and eating pizza (notice a pattern?).

Pop’n'tuck emerged from around that time and is one of the rare occasions where one (or both) of us didn’t fuck up the mix too badly.  We were both happy with the mix and it garnered some pretty positive comments so we’ve brought it back to give it a good home as a stinkfinger podcast.

The tracks themselves are kinda reflective of the times, with nothing that has dated too badly (yet) in my opinion, and a nice mix of minimal with housier influenced tracks.  Mick kicks the mix off smoothly with ‘Born Again’ hitting into some Jazzanova touched percussion.  The euro influence continues with some early Mountain People and Matthias Kaden works, followed by a triple hit of fairly minimal business from Guido Schneider, M.I.A, and Alejandro Vivanco.  Milton Jackson leads into possibly my favourite track on the mix, Jennifer Cardini and Shonky’s heavy and deep ‘lies’.  Things take a housier turn, and I don’t apologise for the inclusion of Dj Fame’s ‘Name it X’, it is a fun track!   Mick keeps it funky with Dj Sneak and Jesse Rose tracks, before Basic Channel’s ur-minimal classic ‘phylyps track II’ rounds things out.

Time passed by, the BMP formed, stink-finger was created, Mick now lives in London, and I moved to Japan, but I think this mix is still a good reflection of where our musical attitudes continue to lie – house and techno. 
Enjoy.

Tracklist:

1. Ricky L feat M:ck – Born Again
2. Outlines – Listen to the drums (Jazzanova Remix)
3. Serafin – Berlin Has No Cows
4. Hemmann and Kaden – People
5. Guido Schnieder – Transmission
6. M.I.A – Happy
7. Alejandro Vivanco – Fugazz
8. Milton Jackson – Rogue Element (Milton’s Dream remix)
9. Jennifer Cardini & Shonky – Lies
10. Slope – Runnin’
11. Dj Fame – Name It X
12. Iz and Diz – Mouth (Greenskeepers remix)
13. DJ Sneak – How I Feel
14. 2020 Soundsystem – Can’t Stop the Crew (Jesse Rose Dub)
15. Basic Channel – Phylps Track II
16. Steve Bug – Loverboy (Guido Schneider remix)

Download link (right click, save as):  http://www.stink-finger.com/audio/popntuckBN1Micarl060107.mp3
Duration: 1:20:55
Size: 74Mb

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I can’t remember the last time I was quite as excited waiting for a compliation/mix to come out as I have been for Joris Voorn – Balance. As  soon as I spotted the tracklist that consisted of 103 tracks in the space of a 2cd mix – it sort of shouted that it was either going to be quite excellent, or go along the lines of being a chin stroking affair.

Happy to say that I’m only half way through listening to the first CD and this is excellent. In the space of the first 43 minutes I have already had a number of *moments* while sitting at my desk at work. 

Will write up a proper review once I’ve given it a full run though – but this is making me feel rather “special” so needed to share it on here.

Music…….sweet sweet music. How it can move you.

I really like Joris’ description of the project as well:

As you can see there’s lots of tracks on here, and it’s pretty entertaining to see what comments people have been writing about that on some forums. My intention while working on the mixes however, has not been ‘more is more’. Some of the tracks listed here have been reduced to a 2 bar loop, with some I only used the break or the intro.

The process of making this mix has been more like painting with sound rather than mixing the end of one track with the beginning of another. Working this way has been very interesting for me and made the project into something very different than a conventional dj mix cd.

I’m sure I won’t be pleasing everyone with these mixes, some listeners will be happily or uneasily surprised, but at least it’s pushing my own boundries in a technical, but even more so, in a musical and artistic way.

TRACKLIST

CD1: MIZUIRO MIX

TRACK 1
Tadeo – Circunbalation I (Alex Under View) – Cyclical Tracks 
Mikael Stavöstrand – Stol – Defrag 
Minilogue – In A Distance – Cocoon 
Minilogue – Loud – Cocoon 
Minilogue – We All – Cocoon 
Forss – Journeyman (Tricksi Remix) – Sonar Kollektiv 

TRACK 2: 
Yagya – Snowflake 2 – Force Inc. Music Works 
Basic Channel – Remake (Basic Reshape) – Basic Channel 
Basic Channel – Q 1.2 – Basic Channel 
Gel Abril – Your Face Is A Mess (Itamar Sagi Remix) – Be As One Imprint 
Ici.eme Gran-Dii-Ree – Pertin_nce 
Matthias Tanzmann – Rugby – Moon Harbour Recordings 
Minilogue – Ghost – Mule Electronic 
Heiko Laux – Waves Ahead – Kanzleramt

TRACK 3: 
Robert Babicz – Enjoy – Defrag 
Prompt – Ambee – 7noise 
Matthias Tanzmann – Keep On (Boris Werner Keep On Truckin’ Mix) – Moon Harbour 
Vitalis Popoff – Lethe 1 – Rivers Of Recording 

TRACK 4: 
Westley Matsell – Diffusion 27 – Border Community 
Model 500 – Starlight (Echospace Dub) – Echospace 
Prompt feat. Onuba – Zora – 7noise 

TRACK 5: 
Dub Kult – Crypt District One Remix – Curle Recordings 
Kenneth Graham – Fire, Water, Machine – Immigrant 
William Kouam Djoko – Hard Lovin’ (Acapella) – Thirtyonetwenty 
Johhny D – Deja Vu – 8Bit 
Je Dávu – I Zebra – Platzhirsch Schallplatten 

TRACK 6: 
Julius Papp – Bole Beats – Large Music 
Johhny D – Deja Vu – 8Bit 
Dosem – Beach Kisses Joris Voorn Edit – Green

TRACK 7: 
Linus Quick – CopyPasteCut (District One Remix) – Incase 
Cobblestone Jazz W Cocoon 
Tigerskin Peter’s Secret Weapon Dirt Crew 

TRACK 8: 
Black Rose – Solomon (Tricksi Remix) – Sonar Kollektiv 
H.O.S.H. & Stimming – Radar – Diynamic 
John Thomas, Barbara Goes – Mother’s Dance #2 – Ethique 

TRACK 9: 
System 7 – Altitude Mayday Mix – A-Wave 
The Martian – Star Dancer – Red Planet 
Ambivalent – R U OK (Acapella) – M_nus 
Polder – Topdrop – 100% Pure 

TRACK 10: 
Emmanuel Top – Stress – Attack 
Silicon Soul – 3am (Balance Beatless Version) – Soma Quality Recordings 
Dubfire – Ribcage – Desolat 
Jerome Sydenham, Tiger Stripes Elevation (Radio Slave One More Kiss Remix) Ibadan 
Elon Snorting Pinky (Justin Maxwell Remix B) Auralism 

TRACK 11: 
Sascha Funke – Mango Berlin Edit – Bpitch Control 
Paul Kalkbrenner – Moob – Bpitch Control 
Sacha Funke – The Fortune cookie Symphony Acapella – Bpitch Control 
Goldie – Timeless – Warner / FFRR 

TRACK 12: 
Joakim – Peter Pan Over The Bronx – Versatile 
Secede – Born In A Tropical Swamp – Sending Orbs 
Quiet Village – Gold Rush – Studio K7! 
Sensorama – Aspirin (Global Communication Remix) – Ladomat2000

CD2: MIDORI MIX

TRACK 1: 
Imps – Bubble And Squeek – Mule Electronic 
Âme – Doldrums – Innervisions 
Nick Solé – Children – Mojuba 
Les Chocolats – Ride The Beat – Minimalizm 

TRACK 2: 
Kaoru Inoue – The Secret Field (Todd Terje Remix) – Mule Musiq 
Nova Nova – Prayer – F Communications 
Elitechnique – Electric Evening – Clone 

TRACK 3: 
Elitechnique – Spectral Escape – NEWS / Radius Records 
Len Faki – My Blackapella – Figure 
Len Faki – My Synthapella – Figure 

TRACK 4: 
Paul Nazca – Flash – Boxer Recordings 
Mood II Swing – Move Me – Earth, Moon & Sun 
Prawler – Phat Laces (Harada Remix) – Audio Therapy 
Henrik Schwarz – Leave My Head Alone Brain (Acapella) – Sunday Music 
Minilogue – Ghost (Dub) – Mule Electronic 
Sean Deason – Psykofuk – Matrix Records 

TRACK 5: 
Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee (Smith n Hack Remix) – Playhouse 
Minilogue – Ghost (Dub) – Mule Electronic 
Agnes – Daaahhhh – Minibar 
Agnes – Treat Me Bad – Minibar 
Radio Slave – Tantakan – Rekids 

TRACK 6: 
Blamstraim – A Song For Jonas – Sending Orbs 
The Aloof – Going Home – Warner / EastWest 
Christian Smith & John Selway – Illusion (Version) – CSM 
Yagya – Change – Sending Orbs 

TRACK 7: 
Feline 9 – Heavy – Drenched Recordings 
Gegenheimer – Spiritual Love (Acoustic Raw Demo Version) – Unreleased 
Kettel – Coddle – Clone 
Carl Craig – Attitude – Planet E 

TRACK 8: 
Flying Lotus – Brainfeeder – Warp 
Raz Ohara – Hymn (Hardman Mix) – Kitty-Cuts 

TRACK 9: 
Poni Hoax – Faces In The Water – Tigersushi 
Joris Voorn – Additional Strings – Unreleased 
Robert Babicz – Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Remix) – Audiomatique 

TRACK 10: 
Joakim – Are You A Vegetarian? – Versatile 
Tantra – A Place Called Tarot (Idjut Boys Re-Edit) – Tirk 
Joakim – Peter Pan Over The Bronx – Versatile Records / K!7 
Leftfield – Rhino’s Prayer – Sony / Hard Hands 

TRACK 11: 
Rhythm & Sound – King In My Empire – Rhythm & Sound 
Marc Romboy – Elif – Systematic 
Minilogue – Old Water – Cocoon 
Markus – Dolic Blood Blood – Lo-Fi Stereo 
Martin Landsky – FM Safari (Patrick Chardronet’s Silent Snake Remix) – Poker Flat Recordings 

TRACK 12: 
Jimpster – The Last Tape – Hydrogen Dukebox 
Marcello Giordani – Respect Yourself – Mule Musiq 

TRACK 13: 
Carl Craig – At Les – Planet E 
Innerzone Orchestra – At Les – Planet E 

TRACK 14: 
Radiohead – Nude (Ripperton $9 Mix) – XL Recordings 

TRACK 15: 
Aphex Twin – Heliosphan – R&S Records 
F.U.S.E. – Into The Space – Plus 8 

TRACK 16: 
Spinvis – Mare Frigoris – Excelsior Recordings

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