Fragments From A Long Country - Mark O'Sullivan (Nice & Nasty) & Angeln EP - VA (Murmur)

Read my RA reviews of these two releases here and here.

Gastronomic Delights 9 Pts 1 & 2

Here is the last in the "Gastronomic Delights" series of mixes. As they're secret family recipes there's no tracklisting but tracks will be recognisable from previous installments. Any queries, leave a comment or email me.

Off on another week's holiday away from computers. Big changes for this blog to take place in about a month's time. Nowt too awe-inspiring but should improve all-round.



Download Gastronomic Delights 9 Pt 1: Mama's Lasagne here.






Download Gastronomic Delights 9 Pt 2: "Secret" Sauce here.


Unfortunately there's a fuzz throughout the first half of "Secret Sauce" that wasn't noticeable when recording. It's annoying as the mix itself is a goodie. If it does anything positive it creates a sense of damp claustrophobia, something like being dancing in front of a strobe in a black room next to an insistent insect presence.

Brick By Brick - Alland Byallo (Night Light)

Read my RA review of Alland Byallo's 'Brick By Brick' here.

Machines Are Funky: Playlist 22.8.09

Lo, and behold . . .tonight's playlist.

Things To Know About You - Jeff Mills (Axis)
Indagoo - Shake (Morphine)
Fragments - Mark O'Sullivan (Nice & Nasty)
Obey - Robert Hood (M-Plant)
2010 - Redshape (Delsin)
Rock Me - Demetino Giannice (Third Ear)
Brownies - Rudolph (Serialism)
This Is How - Jamie Jones (Crosstown Rebels)
Brothers Of Song (Yuro Trago remix) - Tom Trago (Rush Hour)




You can never have too many roast potatoes, especially on Christmas Day. Master this recipe using goose fat and parboiled potatoes and you'll want to make a roast with all the trimmings every Sunday of the year.
Serves 4 as a side dish
Ready in about 1 1/4 hours



Nutritional Information
Per serving:
244kcals
12.9g fat (1.8g saturated)
3.7g protein
30g carbs
1.1g sugar
1g salt
Ingredients
• 50g goose fat, olive oil or beef dripping
• 700g large floury potatoes, such as King Edward or Maris Piper, peeled and quartered
• Handful fresh rosemary sprigs
Method: How to make roast potatoes
1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/fan200°C/gas 7.
2. Put the fat, olive oil or dripping in a large roasting tin and pop in the oven to get really hot.
3. Meanwhile, place the potatoes in a pan of cold, salted water, bring to the boil then cook for 6 minutes. Drain well, then shake gently in the pan to slightly rough up the potatoes – this helps them become nice and crisp in the oven.
4. Carefully tip the potatoes into the roasting tin, coat in the hot fat and sprinkle with a little sea salt. Roast in the oven for 1 hour, turning each potato over halfway through cooking, or until crisp and golden all over. About 15 minutes before the end of cooking, scatter the rosemary sprigs over the roasted potatoes.
5. Serve immediately, sprinkled with a little extra sea salt if you like.


Gastronomic Delights 8: Roast Potatoes

Owe Me - No Regular Play (Wolf & Lamb)
The Wind Up - DJ Jus' Ed (Underground Quality)
Disconnect - A Made Up Sound (Clone Basement Series)
Sfaked - Laurent Zappone (Herz Ist Trumpf)
Animals Tonight - Kenneth James G (Culprit)
Backshaker (Ahmet Sendil remix) - Demer & Seymen (Highgrade Digital)
Mamadi - Noidoi (Fear Of Flying)
If This World Were Mine (E Contact remix) - Huner & Julien Chaptal (Arearemote)
A - Wax 20002 (Wax)
Euphoria - Channel X (Upon You)
Refuse Greed - Queen Atom (Dumb Unit)
Party Guilt - The Royal We (Crosstown Rebels)
Yellow Corvette - Tim Xavier (Ltd 400)
Derealization - Milton Bradley (Do Not Resist The Beat)
Detroit (Roberto Bosco remix) - Evolutive System (Snapshot)

Download this wonderful accompaniment to any evening meal here.

Or from Soundcloud.

01 Gastronomic Delights 8 Roast Potatoes by Thetreecanopy

Machines Are Funky Tonight: 22.8.09

The temperature's rising as I type, so we'll be keeping it constant in the studio with new cuts from Shake, Jamie Jones, Robert Hood and the Serialism label. The second hour or so will be a mix from myself which will be available to download from my blog "Cacophonous Bling" at www.machinesarefunky.blogspot after the show has been broadcast.

Keep it locked.


Machines Are Funky: 7-9pm GMT

105FM in Cambridge

209radio.co.uk globally

Interview With Daniel Mnookin

Back after a wonderful week in south-west France. Off again for a week on Monday. Just time to squeeze a little bit in.

I sent Siteholder's Dan Mnookin a few quessies before my trip. Got them back the other day, so here they are.


What first got you interested in music and what inspired you to start a label?

I think what first interested me in music was playing instruments. Around the age of 12 I taught myself guitar with the goal being learning to play the entirety of Guns ‘n Roses’s “Use Your Illusion 1 & 2.” Throughout high school and college I was in bands, until I spent a year abroad in London, living downstairs from a DJ who let me tag along with him everywhere he went clubbing around the city. It was a life-changing experience from a musical tastes standpoint, and the rest is history.

In regards to starting a label, Billy (Dalessandro) had mentioned the idea to me a couple of times – this was probably late-‘05/early-’06. One morning I was taking a shower before work (a time and place where all of my best and worst ideas tend to take shape), and thought, “Why not?”

At the time I was DJing 40 or so gigs a year and traveling quite a bit. I figured that starting a label would not only be an exciting challenge given everything I’d heard about the label side of things in the music industry, but would eventually lead to more DJ gigs in new and exciting places.

The former has definitely come true, the latter not so much. I found myself spending so much of my free time on the label (which has now become four labels) that I didn’t have much time to invest in DJing. Regardless, it’s been a life experience I’m proud of, given the success of our labels especially in these times.

Coming from Chicago, when did you start to become aware of it as being the birthplace of house?

To be honest with you, not until I returned home to Chicago from London in the summer of 1999. Throughout high school and my pre-London college days I didn’t listen to much electronic music outside of bigger acts such as Air, Chemical Brothers, and The Prodigy. I had friends who went to raves, but the whole thing sounded scary and a bit silly to me. I was like, “Furry suits, pacifiers, glow sticks and Vicks vapor rub, are you kidding me?”

I really feel like the electronic music side of me was born in London, and matured in Chicago.

Do you have any contact with any Chicago house legends, DJ Sneak, Derrick Carter, Diz, etc? Do you send these guys your stuff and do they play it?

Unfortunately, not really. I see many of the DJs from Chicago’s early era out pretty regularly (except Sneak, who lives in Toronto now), but I’d doubt they even knew who we were or about Siteholder. I am pretty friendly with Justin Long and Mazi, who are Chicago legends in their own rights and have been recently blowing it up as Wasted Chicago Youth. The other day I was checking out Richie Hawtin’s latest set list on Twitter (shame on me, I know), and it said he’d dropped like 4-5 of their tracks along with a couple of Siteholder jams at his latest gig. Clearly, the modern day Chitown sound is a force to be reckoned with! I’ve tried getting Derrick Carter music a bunch of times, as I think there’s some cuts (especially off of the Nymphotech album) that he would really dig…but so far, no success. Billy and I used to discuss getting Carter on board for a remix, so who knows? Maybe one of these days…

What is "house"?

That’s obviously a very difficult question to answer. I guess when I think of house in its purest form, flutes, horns, congas, and diva vocals come to mind. However, in today’s age house can mean a million different things. I suppose the only thing I can say about “house” with any particular certainty is that it’s constantly changing and what it means one year can be quite different than what it means the next.

Why set up a record label, and why still press vinyl?

First, it’s a constant challenge. The four of us all have day jobs, and therefore a very professional work ethic. However, in this industry you’re faced with all types of shady practices and unprofessional people attempting to run businesses that you are forced to interact with. Rather than just say, “F-off, I’m not going to deal with this,” we opt to try and bring some positive things to the electronic music record industry – such as paying our artists what we agreed to pay them, when we agreed to pay it.

It’s also a great way to get our sound and our own music out to the public. Most of the releases on Siteholder have been produced by us or our close-knit group of friends, so in that respect we’ve been able to put loads of good music out there that might have otherwise gone unheard.

In respect to vinyl, it’s pretty simple: pressing vinyl lends credibility to a label. That’s not to say there aren’t any solid digital-only labels out there, but when you’re pressing vinyl these days, you’ve got balls. You’re putting your money where your mouth is. And if you can be successful pressing vinyl, you’re obviously doing something right. Digital is definitely a big aspect to running a label, because for us it significantly helps pay the bills, pay the artists, and hopefully have something left over for ourselves. But I’ve always felt that if we were to stop pressing vinyl, we might as well call it quits.

Where do you shop for music, and is there still a thriving "record shop culture" in Chicago?

Believe it or not, Gramaphone Records in Lakeview still stands tall and proud. Other than that, there’s a thriving record shop culture but I’m not sure that much of it relates to house and/or techno. Sadly, I haven’t been to Gramaphone in ages. I’m kind of feeling motivated to ride over there and do some shopping as I type this – maybe I will!

As for me personally, I don’t buy a whole lot of vinyl anymore. Running our group of labels, that alone gives me a ton of tunes to play. We also get sent plenty of promos. Sometimes you’ll find gems and for whatever reason you’re not able to sign them – that doesn’t mean I’m not going to play them. This guy from France named Acumen sent us a ton of tunes that I really dig. Unfortunately I didn’t get the unanimous vote we require to sign something, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to jam these tracks out at gigs.

I also occasionally shop on Beatport and still dig through my large collection of vinyl, as I have a lot of old music that sounds as relevant today as it did when I bought it years ago.

No matter who records on Siteholder, I think the output has a recognizably "American" sound. Do you think that house particularly, but also techno, is easily distinguished from that made elsewhere?

People constantly tell us that we have this distinctly Chicago element to our labels. Personally, I try not to judge our own music as I think that sometimes when you’re involved it can cloud your judgment. That being said, I obviously like what we release, but in terms of it sounding unique or unoriginal, American or European…I’ll leave that up to the masses. As for house music in general being geographically distinguishable, there are so many people living in places other than where they were born, I think it’s impossible to say. For example, Agnes is Swiss - but if I didn’t know that, I wouldn’t doubt he was living in Chicago based upon his recent output. And you have a bunch of Americans living in Berlin that make very European sounding underground music.

You lived in the UK for a time. What did you get up to when you were over here and who did you get to know?

I definitely got immersed in electronic music. I lived downstairs from a DJ named Eric who I believe lives in San Francisco these days. Since back then pubs closed at 11pm and lounges weren’t really around, I’d go clubbing if I wanted to stay out late. Eric would let me tag along with him, and fortunately he had good taste in music. This was pre-Fabric era, but we still had The End, Bar Rhumba, and Digweed’s night at Heaven to keep us occupied. Those were some great, innocent times, and I can’t wait for the next artistic thing to hit me as hard as being introduced to electronic music via London nightlife did.

It's been said that UK audiences, and European ones generally, are more knowledgeable than those in the US. This is obviously a generalization but what's your take on this?

I believe that overall electronic music is much more immersed in European culture than it is in America. That being said, if you’re at the right place with the right people in the right city, America can represent just as well as anywhere else.

Where's your favorite place to play and what type of venue do you prefer?

Without a doubt, Smart Bar. They don’t have a whole lot of techno-oriented shows there these days, but I’ve been fortunate enough to get to spin there on a regular basis when they do. It’s one of the few venues in Chicago where they don’t cram three or four opening DJs around an out-of-town headliner, so when you’re opening you get to play a solid 3+ hour set. And when Smart Bar is going off it’s as good as any venue out there, in my opinion. It’s a pretty ideal venue for me, 300-400 people coming out just for the sake of getting down.

What's your opinion on mp3 blogs and how much of the average artists earnings are they sucking up?

Personally I don’t have much of an opinion on mp3 blogs. I don’t think they affect our label all that much, but then again I don’t read very many of them either. What affects our label the most is that what Beatport is selling is essentially available to anyone with an Internet connection and a clear conscience for free. With the ailing economy, we’ve definitely noticed a decrease in our digital sales…and sad as it is, it makes sense. When people are low on money, a vast majority of them will do what they need to do. If that means downloading music for free, or buying it at ridiculously reduced prices on illegal Eastern European music sites, they’ll do it.

Brian (Ffar) and I always joke whenever a new release of ours hits on Beatport. The very first purchase, made shortly after it goes on sale, is always for the EP or LP’s full release. Whereas most purchases thereafter will be for a cut or two, the first purchase is always for the whole package. We’ll always jokingly say something like, “Thank you for your support illegal Russian download site!”

So while mp3 blogs don’t bother me so much, these illegal sites selling music cheaply certainly do. But in the end there’s only so much time you can spend on this, time and energy are much better spent on releasing quality music and running a respectable label.

What's the motivation behind Facet?

Facet was mainly Billy’s idea. He had just gotten home from a 3-month European Tour and I think he was a little burnt out. He went on an extended hiatus from house and techno, and proposed Facet to us. We have a good group of people that love making non-club beats, and what better way to get them out there than Facet? We gave the first release away for free on our website (you can still get it at HYPERLINK "http://www.siteholder.net" www.siteholder.net) and it received thousands of downloads. Facet’s second release is currently available on our website as well, but we’re really waiting to finalize getting our music on iTunes to fully commit to the label, as we think this is going to be the best outlet for Facet.

On a related note, Billy has fortunately gotten over his aversion to house and techno ; p

Techno seems to be able to cross-pollinate with other genres easier than house. Do you think that the genre has anything new to say?

I believe techno (and house, for that matter) will always be evolving, changing, and remaining relevant. Other genres are so limited from the moment they are created, that I think it’s hard for them to evolve. That’s not to say the music is bad, but I think few genres have been able to mean so many different things as house and techno. So in answer to your question, I think techno still has plenty to say and will be saying it for years to come.

Who would you pay good money to see spin, past and present?

Ricardo Villalobos at Fabric, end of story.

How long can you see yourself doing this for and when will DJing cease to be relevant?

In respect to your first question, it’s really hard to say. On one hand, I can see myself calling it quits before the end of this year. Billy just moved to Montreal, Paul (Brown) accepted a new job with a very prestigious organization and it’s going to be taking up plenty of his time. Outside of label endeavors, Brian has two daughters, a full time job, and is pursuing his MBA. I’m getting married in October and recently made a career change as well. In other words, we’re all really, really busy. That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me if two years from now we are celebrating our labels’ Fifth Anniversary at Fogo de Chao (our anniversary celebration restaurant of choice) in Chicago. Until then, I’ve got DJ gigs scheduled and our labels have a full calendar of releases coming up. So who knows? In regards to DJing and its relevancy, I think it’ll always be a part of the global music culture, even though what it means to be a DJ will constantly evolve.

EPs and Singles:
Brian Ffar and Daniel Mnookin – Plinko – Beat Code Records (2004)
Slutbox – No Chasers – Siteholder Records (2006)
Slutbox – Nitrogen 2 Oxygen 1 EP – Siteholder Records (2007)
Daniel Mnookin – Spotted Cow EP – Siteholder UnCut (2007)
The Shocker - She Never Knew - Siteholder UnCut (2007)
Slutbox - Backseat Driver EP - Siteholder Records (2008)
Slutbox - Filthy Fibber EP - Siteholder UnCut (2008)
Daniel Mnookin - Spotted Cow - Siteholder UnCut Ltd. (2008)
The Shocker - She Never Knew - Siteholder UnCut Ltd. (2008)
Slutbox - Filthy Fibber - Siteholder UnCut Ltd. (2008)
Slutbox - Wet Food EP - Siteholder Records (TBA)

Remixes:
Punktooth – Stompenstein (Brian Ffar & Daniel Mnookin Remix) – RV Digital (2006)
Billy Dalessandro – Don’t Sleep (Slutbox Remix) – Siteholder Records (2006)
DimDJ – Dead By Night (Slutbox Remix) – Siteholder UnCut (2007)
Galuszka - Dirty Snitch (Slutbox feat. Slim Pichens Remix) - Siteholder UnCut (2008)
Donk Boys - Hold Me Tight (Slutbox "Let Me Go" Remix) - Siteholder UnCut (2009)

Compilations:
Brian Ffar and Daniel Mnookin – Bucktown Business LP – Proton Music (2006)
Various Artists – Sub Culture pres. Electronic Clubtunes Vol. 3 – ZYX Germany (2007)
Rui da Silva – DJDomain pres. Rui Da Silva Vol. 1 – DJDomain.com (2007)
Various Artists – Minimal House 2 – ZYX Germany (2007)



Here's a link to an old mix by Dan.

Sloth And Decadence

Off on holiday now. Expect next update in about ten days. No show this evening so the previous one will be repeated. Salut!

Die For A Reason EP - Matt Chester (11th Hour)

Read my RA review of Matt Chester's 'Die For A Reason' EP here.

Just A Groove - Marc Ashken (FVF)

Read my RA review of Marc Ashken's 'Just A Groove' here.

Soulful - Denny Trajkov (Logos)

Read my RA review of Denny Trajkov's 'Soulful' here.

Two Sides Of Detroit

Or the old and the new, however contrived and cliched that may sound. First for your delectation is the innovator Mr Derrick May. He put in a two-hour stint for BBC 6 t'other week. There was a lot of feverish forum activity surrounding this as it's a mix through the man's mind encompassing some of his most formative influences. Here it is. I thank yew!




25-07-2009, 2 hrs

Hi Tek Soul Mix

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Mutant Clan - Untitled
Tony Thomas - Electric People
Cadenza 34 - Untitled
Los Hermanos - Birth Of 3000
UR Samuel L Session & Martin H - The Leap Part 1
Anja Schneider & Lee Van Dowski - Deseo
Unknown Artist - Untitled
Taho - Untitled
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

Influences And All Time Favourites

Roy Hargrove presents the RH Factor - Hardgroove
Marvin Gaye - Troubleman
Reggie Dokes - Untitled
D'Angelo - Africa
Boards Of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon
Louis Haiman - Untitled
John Beltran - Untitled

Mayday Club Mix

Jean Micheal Jarre - Oxygene
Mika Vaino - Untitled
Kapuchon and Benny Rodruguez - Reel
Frank Roger - Untitled
Submission - Women Beat Their Men (Cevin's Peak Hour Dub)
Johnny D - Pako Mana
The Believers - Who Dares To Believe In Me? (Original Mix)
Solomun &Jackmate - Carnivale - Phil E/Philpot Records Reboot - Hello Sweden - Love Letters From Oslo Arne Weinberg - Untitled
African Keys - Untitled
Karizma - Darkness
Karizma - Ode To Ancestor
Quentin Harris - Untitled
KC Flight - Voices
Quentin Harris - Untitled
Karizma - Ode To Ancestors
Bohannon - Let's Start The Dance (Special Remix)
Michel CLeis & Salvatore Freda - Sassicaia
TD02 - Hearts Of Gold Are Heavy To Hold
Lil Louis - French Kiss
Epic Johnwaynes - Libertango (Llorca's Art Of Tones Remix)
Compost Black Label Pied Plat - Ode To Ede
Greg Gow - The Bridge

Download it here.





Next up it's Kris Wadsworth. Just a quarter of the length of Mr May's smorgesbord, and featured on Ben Watt's Buzzin' Fly radio show on the 22.7. House is the order of the day here.

23.7.09

Mike Dunn – God Made Me Phunky- Open-MoS
Flora Cruz – Let The Sunshine Out (Jerome Sydenham’s Dubstrumental) – Ibadan
BT – Remember (Mood II Swing Dub mix) – NRK
Son Of Raw – A Black Man In Space (Sax Mix) – Objektivity
The Martinez Brothers – Where’s Mr. Brown? (Original) – Objektivity
Argy – The Storm (Original) – Deeply Rooted House
Jay Haze Featuring D:exter – I Can’t Forget (DJ Sneak Re-Rub) – Tuning Spork

Get some Wadsworth here.

Gastronomic Delights 7: Parts 1 & 2

Two more from the home of the spontaneous and raw:

A Two-Part Feast:



Gastronomic Delights 7 Pt 1: Pho

Ingredients
• Beef bones
• 1 lb stewing beef
• 1 roasted chicken or package of chicken bones
• 1 large onion
• 2 five inch pieces of ginger, peeled and crushed
• 3 carrots
• 5 stalks of celery with leaves
• 1 six inch cinnamon stick
• 1 teaspoon of pepper corn
• 7 cloves
• 7 star anise
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of patis (fish sauce)
Directions
1. Charbroil beef bones for about 3 minutes. Rinse and remove marrow.
2. Bring 7 litres of water to boil.
3. Add the bones (again), stewing beef, roasted chicken / chicken bones, onion, ginger, carrots, celery, and cinnamon.
4. Also add in a tea strainer ball: pepper corn, cloves, star anise.
5. Once it boils again, bring down to a simmer (minimum) and cook.
6. Remove the stewing beef (as much of it as you can) after 1 hour
7. After (at least) 3-4 hours, remove broth from the ingredients and bring to a boil again.
8. Add sugar, salt, and patis (fish sauce).
9. Let it cool on its own, then refrigerate overnight and skim off fat in the morning.


Gastronomic Delights 7 Pt 1: Pho


20061019 - San Soda (We Play House Purple)
A1 - Specter (Downbeat 01)
Station 1 - Jacksonville (Doppler)
Haunted House - Kris Wadsworth (Boe)
KapTinKrunch - Galuszka (Siteholder Uncut)
The Playmaker (Dyed Soundorom Couger remix) - Anthea & Celler (Freak n' Chic)
Face To Face - Pan-Pot (Mobilee)
Homer (Dustin Zahn remix) - Sasha Carassi & Gianluca Luisi (Plastirules)
A - Traversable Wormhole 2 (Traversable Wormhole)
Applies Generics B - Forward Strategy Group (Forward Strategy Group)
Megamixx (Mr G's Movin' remix) - Jonny Rock & Luke Solomon (Disco 45)
Ten 1 - Ethyl & Huxley (Cecille Numbers)
Maddoxx - Ali Kuru (8-Bit)
Look Inside Sun - William Kouam Djoko (3120)
Right At It (Michael Cleis Deeper remix) - Baeka (Rekids)
The Medium Is The Message - Levon Vincent (Novel Sound)
A - Mofo 02 (Mofo)



Gastronomic Delights 7 Pt 2: Char Gio/Nems

To make about sixty cha gio, you'll need:

Rolls
225g cellophane (bean thread) noodles
4 carrots, grated
8 dried shitake mushrooms, soaked
8 water chestnuts
1 dressed crab
12 raw tiger prawns, peeled and deveined
350g minced pork
1 onion
5 spring onions
4 cloves garlic
6 shallots
4 tablespoons fish sauce (nuoc mam)
3 eggs
15 x 25cm discs of rice paper (available in oriental supermarkets)

Sugar and water for soaking
Oil for deep-frying
Lettuce and mint leaves for wrapping

Sauce
4 cloves minced garlic
½ cup nuoc mam
¼ cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon chili oil
1 diced red chili


Soak the noodles in boiling water and set aside, draining and rinsing in cold water after 15 minutes. Put the mushrooms, water chestnuts, crab, pork, prawns, onions, garlic and shallots in the food processor and pulse until chopped finely. Use your hands to stir in the fish sauce, the eggs, the carrots and the noodles.

Fill a mixing bowl half-full with warm water, and dissolve about six tablespoons of caster sugar in it - the sugar will help the rolls brown and help the sweetness of the carrots come through. Soak a rice-paper disc in this until it's soft and pliable. Cut it with scissors into quarters. Place a dessert spoonful of the filling on the curved edge, fold over the adjacent corners and roll up, as in these photographs.





Deep fry the little rolls (I use a wok, which helps save on oil) until they are golden brown.


To serve, wrap each one in a leaf of lettuce with some mint leaves. Dip in the spicy sauce and do your very best to nibble delicately. Delicious.

Gastronomic Delights 7 Pt 2: Char Gio/Nems

Vermillion Sun - Eve White (DNP)
Deep Sea - Story 001 (Story)
Sweeter Than - Audiofly X (Supernature)
Bebring - Alland Byallo (Nightlight)
Balkan 2 - DJ Wild (International Freakshow)
Refuse Greed - Queen Atom (Dumb Unit)
Blues Brunch (Catwash remix) - Mirco Violi & Fabio Gianelli (Adult Only)
Life Form - E.S.O.M. (Emphasis)
Cirkel 006.00 (Cirkel)
Isch - Thomas Brinkmann (Curle)
Kasmir (Peter Ford remix) - Onur Ozer (Vakant)
A. Frozen Border 003 (Frozen Border)
La Madone - Shonky (Contexterrior)
A. Odyssey - Kenny Leaven (Elenore)
Gamma - Nima Gorji (Murmur)
Just A Groove (Alex Cappelli & Leonardo Gonnelli Chic 2 Chic remix) - Marc Ashken (FVF)
A. - Horizontal Ground 01 (Horizontal Ground)
It's Funk, It's House (Damian Schwartz remix) - Frankie Flowerz (Hypercolour)

Done at Castle Corey, Haverhill, Suffolk, UK on two 1210s, two Pioneer CDJ200s an Allen & Heath XOne:32 and recorded onto a Mac Probook using Audacity. . .in the middle of coughing fits, but I'm not a swine.

Download pho here and nems here.

Machines Are Funky: 25.7.09

Here's the playlist for last night's show, which will resume in four weeks, as I'm off on my hols in the interim. Not until the 8.8 though.


All The Family - The Zohar (Quintessentials)
The Games People Play - Tony Lionni (Wave)
Habanero (without trumpet) - Sven Tasnadi (Poker Flat)
Electric Jones - Jamie Jones (Wolf & Lamb Black)
It's Because I'm Horacio - Horacio (Raum)
The Scene (Dyed Soundorom remix) - Geddes (Murmur)
Francesina - Patrick Zigon (Highgrade Digital)
Just A Groove - Marc Ashken (FVF)
Chocotox - Shonky (Contexterrior)
Casual Sax - Alland Byallo (Nightlight)
Amber - Galuszka (Siteholder Uncut)
Wet Hair -Dinky (Wagon Repair)
Menta (Peter van Hoesen remix) - Donato Dozzy & Cio d'Or (Time To Express)
Self-Reflection - Giorgio Gigli (Prologue)
The Game - Mark O'Sullivan (Nice & Nasty)
Col d'Aubisque - Matt Chester (11th Hour)
Kenton (Marcel Dettmann remix) - Mikkel Metal (Echocord Colour)
Seti - The Black Dog (Soma)
935 Lies - Mr Pauli (Clone West Coast)

Tonight's Show

The hits just keep on coming. After the previous show, which featured Sam from The Priory guesting with a mix during the second hour, we return to what could be termed as normality with a show packed with current boat floaters and grooviness. Marc Ashken's "Just A Groove" forthcoming on FVF Records out of Dublin will be present, if I can just decide on which remix to play, as well as Matt Chester on 11th Hour and Mark O'Sullivan dropping Nice and Nasty's debut album and The Black Dog representing Sheffield on Soma. It'll be deep and delectable at the start, chaotic towards the end.

Keep it locked.


Machines Are Funky: 7-9pm GMT

105FM in Cambridge

209radio.co.uk globally

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Three of The Best

Just to keep things ticking over, here are three more mixes from current electronic music luminaries who let the beats do the talking.




Marcel Dettmann live at Sonar '09.

Herr Dettmann at full throttle here in an all too rare set. Is this the first one I've found of him this year since his RA podcast in January? I'm sure I've got a mammoth Harry Kelin jobbie from him somewhere buried in cyberjunk. Anyway, the last 15-20 minutes or so isn't him, at least I don't think it is. No matter. What is is brill.




Patrice Scott live at Room Madrid 5/09

The "Deep In Detroit" mix posted a while back was great, but too short. Try this for size.




Ben Annand live at the Tropical Beach Party 27/6/09

Top house from the best tech-house spinner on the west coast, imo anyway.

This Is The Season Of Not Being Arsed . . .

. . .with anything really. A temporary, unplanned hiatus has befallen me, and at the moment things are moving very slowly indeed. Still, some reviews for Resident Advisor are in the pipeline, as is an email interview with Siteholder supremo Daniel Mnookin. Meanwhile, here are some links to a few recent mixes I've been listening to.



Efdemin At The Room, Madrid. 8.5.09




Rob Hall, Leisure System, Berghain, Berlin. 12.6.09



Harri Summer Mix



Kyle Hall At Sunday Best. 12.7.09

Machines Are Funky:11.7.09

Last night's playlist for your perusal. The second half was a guest mix from local party starter Sam of The Priory.

Space Walk - John Daly (Mule Electroniq)
Memories - Alex Agore (4Lux)
Het Zwarte Kanon - San Soda (We Play House)
Linguetta Acida - Marcello Napoletano (Mathematics)
American Jones - Jamie Jones (Hotnatured)
Macrotones - Kris Wadsworth (Boe)
Peoples (Ekkohaus' Summer Touch) - Iron curtis (Morris Audio Citysport Edition)
It's Funk, It's House (Damian Schwartz remix) - Frankie Flowerz (Hypercolour)
Stop, Space,Return (Simon Baker dub) - Crazy P (20/20 Vision)
Cosmic Rapp - James Pants & Egyptian Lover (Stone's Throw)

Sam I Am In The Mix:

Scarlet House - Loko (Soulman)
Yeah - Tiefschwarz (Souvenir)
Bofe de Elite - Mastiksoul (4Kenzo Recordings)
Detroit (C2 remix 1) - Metro Area (Environ)
Human Jungle - Maskio (Mantra Vibes)
Energy - Gene Farris (Farris Wheel)
Munich Clubbing - Lutzenkirchen (Great Stuff Recordings)
Sweep The Floor - Joris Voorn (Rejected Music)
The Game - Boomcardona (Smoker's Area)
Poltergeist - Simone Tavazzi (Analytic Trail)
Take Out - Gus Brown (Mixtape)
Willys - Juan Kue (Overline Records)
Cyclone - Technasia (Sino)
Spastik - Plastikman (Novamute)
It Doesn't Matter - Chemical Brothers (Virgin)


Download Sam's mix here.

Tomorrow Night's Show

This weekend's show will feature a mix from The Priory's Sam, and will dominate the second hour. I'll be playing a few tunes in the first, including new grooves from Kris Wadsworth on Boe, Iron Curtis on Morris Audio and San Soda on We Play House.

Keep it locked.


Machines Are Funky: 7-9pm GMT

105FM in Cambridge

209radio.co.uk globally

Ra.H

Another obscure mix from a reasonably clandestine producer.


RA.H
Ra.H is Morphosis, is Upperground orchestra producer and member. Ra.H’s name is Rabih, is renew and revival. Ra.H is Sun, is Light, and Insanity. Ra.H is a state of mind that goes beyond sound and image
You are Ra.H
Ra.H is Ra.H
Music is a Language.
Through it you will express yourself. You will be opening new frontiers and knowing more people. Discovering a whole new world.
Music is a Universal language.
Through it you will understand the meaning of life, it will guide you and save you. You will speak and comunicate your feelings. And like every language you learn, a new personality you will acquire, You will find a new world, and through this language you will guide a revolution.

(BTW: I didn't write the above. I don't think I'm capable.)

Download Ra.H Stripped Down and Raw Broken Mix 71 here

Ernie PersonalDeeperMix Summer 2009

A while ago I reviewed 'Deeptical Tracks' by Ernie. Ernie is part of a new wave of Iberian talent, making it's presence felt on the globe's discerning dancefloors. The EP's name might have sounded a bit contrived, but the production talent is very evident. Ernie heads
Minuendo Records, a Spanish label that has already attracted the likes of Jus' Ed and Patrice Scott, amomgst others, to its roster. Their next release is a various artists EP called 'The Deepfathers' and is as good a representation of the current deep house sound as it gets. This is summer music so, as we bask in a heatwave (certainly in the UK, maybe it's just par for the course everywhere else), here's a link to downbload a mix Ernie sent me a link to.

Play loud.


Abycah Soul Project – Nimba – Symple Sound
Norman Talley – The journey – Third ear
Baaz – Peeps – Quintessentials
Chicago Skyway – Heaven (mix 6) – MOS Deep
Peter Van Hoesen – Strikethough – Morse
Ordell – Untitledmann – Minuendo
Andy Ash – For my city – Stilove4music
Chez Damier – Sometimes I feel like – Mojuba GOD
Trus´me – Nard s - Stilove4music
Jayson Brothers – Moster Box – Motor City Drum Ensemble
Patrice Scott – Nuonce – Minuendo
Keith Worthy – Lost in sound - Aesthetic Audio
Juju & Jordash – Deep Blue Meanies - Dekmantel
Dj Joey Anderson – Thee Analisys – Strength
Omar S – 1 Out of 853 beats – FXHE
Ernie – Sandstorm – Morris Audio City Sport