These are some characters I drew for the folk night we put in Shoreditch. I like them a lot. We make badges available on the night so if you like them you can swing by and grab a badge if you’re in the neighbourhood. Dates and acts can be found here: kick the plug

Just found this little remix of Ether I did a while ago using a Mogwai loop. I liked it a lot at the time, I remember listening to it a few times over while sitting on a bus in the rain for some reason. Happy times! It’s pretty simple, but I prefer it to the original and I’ve got a few “who’s remix is this?” questions from folks when I’ve played it out. Hope someone out there digs it.

Oh! How the Ether Stacks Up - link

This new mix by Take was recommended to me and it is FIRE! Don’t have a tracklist, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. You might remember him from the Sounds of LA comp out last year and he has a new EP out which I think I’m going to have to check out after hearing this.

You can grab it from the Inner Current site here, or here’s a direct link.

Take’s myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/takeisme

a while back I was trying to put together a mix by using loops from intros and interludes in hip hop albums with acapellas to make full tracks. It never really came to anything as the tempo was always changing so it sounded a bit disjointed and I thought about flipping the idea by making my own little interludes between tracks using simple loops from full songs, but that is quite a big project to take on so I never found the time. These were the two best bits and I don’t think I’ll ever finish the mix so here you go. enjoy.

ghostface & madvillain

prefuse 73 & beastie boys

It’s weird, I remember being quite underwhelmed by Malcolm Catto’s first album when it came out, but since hearing the heliocentrics album this year I’ve revisited it and it really kicks arse in a few places. Metropolis in particular sticks out, but the heliocentrics LP still wins for me, it’s definitely one of my favourite records of last year.

Anyway, there’s an excellent mix by him on the WE ARE podcast site:

http://free-rein.typepad.com/we_are/
Nilo Sergio - Afro Brasilianos
The Action - More Bread to the People
Morte di Jonas - De Luca
Ocura Madagascar - Danse pour un Vuurumbee
Unknown
Sun Ra - Somewhere in Space Sun Ra
Trinidad Steel Band - Calypso Jazz Improvisation
Felo Bergaza - Descarga en do Menor
Puchito - Otre
Felix del Rosario - Carmen
King Tubby - Meets Rockers Uptown
Banda Polyphony - Initiation Song
Friendsong - Joyride
UFO - Gotta Nice Buzz
Psychedelic Aliens - We’re Laughing
Improvisational Arts Quartet - Ettenro Occlam

It’s very good, loads of loud crashing drums as you’d imagine. highly recommended as is:

The Back Handed Party mixed by Joe Beats for mondayjazz.com

direct link, right click here

1. Intro - And You Are?
2. King Tee - It’s At Your Own Risk
3. Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
4. Wu Tang Clan - Shame On A Nuh
5. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Good Life (Group Home Remix)
6. The Meters - Same Old Thing
7. Cal Tjader - Solar Heat Break (Joe Beats Chop)
8. YZ - Thinking Of A Master Plan
9. Average White Band - Person To Person
10. Downtown Science - The Topic Drift
11. Tony D - Droppin’ Funky Verses
12. The New Birth - Pretty Music
13. MC Lyte - Poor Georgie
14. Toto - Georgy Porgy
15. Bob Kames - The Chicken Dance
16. WHAT THE HELL????????????????????
17. Big Daddy Kane - Another Victory
18. Booker T & The MG’s - Melting Pot
19. Lou Courtney - Hey Joyce
20. Main Source - He’s Got So Much Soul
21. Twin Hype - Do It To The Crowd
22. Chuck Chillout & Dj Cool Chip - Rhythm Is The Master
23. The Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
24. Swamp Children - Boy
25. Outro

A wicked little hip hop party mix. Stick it on while the sun is shining and you’ll have yourself a fine afternoon guranteed.

This is my new blog for putting my mixes and remixes up on. There’s quite a few bits and pieces I get up to that don’t really fit in to the neednowater stuff so it’s nice to have somewhere to put them. In saying that though, for my first post I’ll stick up the Autumn hip hop mix I made for the neednowater site. Seeing as you found your way here, I hope you like it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3zpbcmx2yy9

The tracklist goes something like:

intro
Pagina Seis - Prefuse 73
Love Song - Da Bush Babees (acca)
Parks - Four tet
Passin me by - The Pharcyde (acca)
My Ladies House - Iron & Wine
Bouge De La - MC Solaar (acca)
Surface - Fridge
Resurrection - Common Sense (acca)
Tried by 12 - East Flatbush Project (acca)
The Science of Autumn - King Seven
C.R.E.A.M - Wu Tang (acca)
Neighbourhood (gentrified) - Express Rising
Folk song for Cello - Savath & Savalas
Da Mystery of Chessboxin - Wu Tang (acca)
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - ODB (acca)
I know there’s something going on - Dj Wally
Just to get a rep - Gangstarr (acca)
playin ya self - Jeru (acca)
Ketto (I think, but I’ve lost my CD now) - Bonobo
Stakes is high (acca) - De La Soul
Hurt - Johnny Cash (loop)
I know I can - Nas (acca)
Sleep - Automator
Still d.r.e - Dr. Dre (acca)
carnivores unite - Blockhead
Bring the Noise - Public Enemy (acca)
fix up look sharp - Dizee Rascal (acca)
forest moon - Boards of Canada
Beef - Mos Def (acca)
outro