may 2009 mix

recently i have been listening to some of the artists that caught my attention in the late nineties and early 00's, introducing me to instrumental hip hop and down tempo ambient music. i stumbled across most of this stuff back in the early days of file sharing, when napster (RIP) ruled the roost, sitting for hours on end, downloading single tracks on my 56k modem... i can remember the discoveries that made it all worth while though, dj shadow, coldcut, hexstatic, herbaliser to name a few, and as a result introducing me to great labels like mo' wax, ninja tune, warp and tru thoughts, my independent label education so to speak ;D

i have selected a few of these and artists and thrown them together for your listening pleasure, enjoy.

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track listing:

kitchen diaries - beardyman
smith vs. smith - jon kennedy
slipped disk - luke vibert
intermission - the herbaliser
silver - bonobo
inside a mind - dj cam
transmission 2 - dj shadow
2266 cambridge - cut chemist
snakes in the grass - quantic
tally ho! - wagon christ
mushroom compost - µ-Ziq
olson - boards of canada
journey to the end of the night - aim
music 4 no musicians - coldcut
more styles - the herbaliser

you can also download this mixtape: here

march 2009 mix

this month i have been listening to a mix of the oldies & newbies of ambient techno. i have selected a few of these geniuses and slung em together in a small mix, newer artists take the form of nathan fake & james holden, who runs the awesome boarder community label. the older and more established artists include orbital, aphex twin and a guy called gerald (not so ambient, but great old song from the nineties). if you have the time you should check out these other fine labels to discover similar artists: warp, bpitch control and kompakt (direct liks to these can be found on the right hand side of this blog under 'Independent labels')

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track listing:

ageispolis - aphex twin
smile around the face - four tet
erotic discourse - bobby peru
the sky was pink (james holden remix) - nathan fake
the white flash (feat thom yorke) - modeselektor
chime - orbital
voodoo ray - a guy called gerald
i - aphex twin
the fear - µ-ziq
teared loss - kettel

you can download this mixtape: here

skins series 3 mix

i have been following the new series of skins on E4 like a crazy thing, the whole series is well polished, the actors are great and the music is fantastic. i was not so into the first and second series but for some reason this time round i got well into it.

anyway as an ode to the amazing selection of music that has been used in this series i have put together a little mixtape of tracks that have either been inspired by or used in the episodes. i hope you enjoy my selection and search out some of the great artists for more of there work x

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track listing:

dog days are over - florence and the machine
halfway home - tv on the radio
beat control - tilly and the wall
machine gun - portishead
jump in - high places
white film - noriko tujiko
postcards from italy - beirut
heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping - grouper
amo bishop roden - boards of canada
love reign over me - david holmes

you can download this mixtape: here

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