june 2009 mix

over the past month i have been listening to a-LOT of minimal tech, this is partially inspired by a small group of individuals that i have met through similar taste in music and have had the pleasure of attending some excellent gigs with. its great when you discover great clubs on your door step that you didn't even know existed. for me highlights include corsica studios in south london and cable at london bridge, both of which boast sound systems that rival that of fabric.

since i am on a bit of a minimal mission, i have thrown in some progressive house beats to stir things up a bit.

looking back over the past few posts, i can see a pattern emerging. some regular appearances by james holden and nathan fake (can't get enough of these boys), newcomers to this blog take the form of dead mau5 (the canadian genius and beatport god) and perfect stringer (aka yuli fershtat), both of whom provide the progressive beats to this mix. towards the end i hit the kompakt discography for all its worth, a lable full of little delights :)

enjoy x

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track listing:

folie a deux - tipper
10101 - james holden
complicated - dead mau5
clear vision 07' - perfect stranger
outhouse - nathan fake
black river (maps remix) - bomb the bass
slip - dead mau5
arquipélago - gui boratto
sonntag - robert babicz
smile & receive (apparat remix) - swayzak

you can also download this mixtape: here

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