I’m about to go away on holiday so the idea behind this was simply to get as much of my current favourite vinyl onto my iPod as possible. No other thematic pretensions of any sort! It’s broadly split into three sections: first up reggae and digi-dub, then some vaguely housey and technoey stuff, and finally a little dubstep selection which is quite varied in itself. There’s also a bit of ambient and drone stuff in there too, and a slightly silly track at the end that I think ought to be a late summer anthem. One or two of my actual beat mixes are shockingly bad - what can I say, I haven’t been practising nearly enough, I’ve been a lazy bastard sitting around reading sci-fi novels and drinking red wine instead of obsessing over bar structures and keys. Must try harder. But have a listen, these are good tunes with occasional moments of not-bad DJ-ing, and if you don’t like what you hear, fast-forward 15 minutes and it will be completely different, I promise!
Track list:
- Jackie Mittoo - Ayatollah (Basic Replay)
- Andrew Bees - Militant (Basic Replay)
- Makiko & Bush Chemists - Chazbo & Makiko In Dub (Roots Temple)
- Wailers Band - Higher Field Marshal Dub (PK)
- Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah (Hallucinator remix) (Burial Mix)
- Murmur - Magnetic (Meanwhile.)
- Freund der Familie - Sark (Taron Trekka remix) (Freund der Familie)
- October - Raw (Agnes & Ripperton’s Twisted Reshape) (Caravan / Multiverse)
- Function - Anticipation (Sandwell District)
- Sleeparchive - Baryon (Hardwax)
- Substance - Relish (Shed remix) (Scion Versions)
- Philip Jeck plays Charles Matthews - Amoroso (Touch Seven)
- Pole - Streit (~Scape)
- Mika Vainio - Behind Radiators (Touch Seven)
- Rhythm & Aound w/ Jennifer Lara - Queen In My Empire (Burial Mix)
- BJ Nilsen - Viking, Cromarty… (Touch)
- BJ Nilsen - Black Light (Touch)
- Ramadanman - Blimey (Hessle Audio)
- TRG - Less Music (Tube 10)
- Calenda - Forever (Heavy Artillery)
- Digital Mystikz - Shake Out Your Demons (Disfigured Dubz)
- Cluekid - Hovercraft (White label)
- Ramadanman - ? (White label)
- ? - ? (sorry, can’t get my shit together, probably TRG or Ramadanman)
- Martyn - Suburbia (Apple Pips)
- Ramadanman - Carla (White label)
- Geiom feat Marita - Reminissin’ (Berkane Sol)
- RSD - Speeka Box (Punch Drunk)
- Scanone - Skip (Combat)
- Bar 9 - Murda Sound (Z-Audio)
- Pleated Lemon - Cocks & Fannies (Hand On The Plow)
I made this using one shiny new SL-1210, one ancient Kam BDX-180 belt drive turntable, a Vestax mixer I bought off eBay on the basis of Appleblim’s recommendation in the sleeve notes for his Dubstep Allstars mix, plus my iPod for one or two tracks. Recorded onto my laptop using Audacity, where I made one teeny weeny edit to undo a tiny but annoying cueing mistake i made at the end of Black Light.