Here are some of my ideas for mixes for 2014, across acid, house, techno, bass, dubstep, drum n’ bass, hard trance and freeform! I meant to write this, but I have failed to do so by now, hence I just recorded it into my phone and uploaded it to Soundcloud. C’est la vie.
Have a listen and give me your feedback!
Sad news this morning, as it has been announced that pioneering Chicago footwork dj/producer DJ Rashad has passed away at his Chicago home:
Chicago footwork pioneer DJ Rashad has died. While an official statement has not yet been issued, the news was broken and confirmed by Rashad’s close friends, including DJ Godfather and Chance the Rapper. Rashad, who was 35, was due to perform tonight with DJ Godfather and another longtime collaborator, DJ Spinna, at Detroit’s Inhale Art Expo.
Update: The Chicago Sun-Times reports that DJ Rashad was found dead by a friend in a West Side apartment early Saturday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene shortly after. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday. A drug overdose is suspected.
Nice tribute from Om Unit:
Whenever a musician passes away, I think that it’s always best as a fan to remember them through their music, so here are a few of my favorite tunes and mixes of his:
Sure, this is one day late. But appropriate given my Boddika mix that I posted on Saturday!
This (excellent) tune has just hit wax in time for Record Store Day, with the sad result that the usual Discogs hustlers are already selling it at farcical markups.
(I just hope I will be able to score a copy for a sane price)
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Mixed in Berlin, April 2014
100% Vinyl!
(63:54, 146 MB, 320 kbps MP3)
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Style: A 100% vinyl tribute to house/techno/electro don Boddika
So, I’ve been a bit slack in mentioning this, but Freeformatted have recently released Japanese freeform purveyor of awesomeness Le Dos-On’s remix of my track Dreaming of Berlin on the new Freeformatted EP003.
If my original was an attempt to fuse the mid-90’s hard trance sounds of Mark EG and M-Zone with freeform, Le Dos-On’s remix goes back to the early days of freeform/trancecore, with a big and bouncy party flavor.
Check it out below or head over to Soundcloud to download it, along with savage new tracks from Vyral XIII and Horzi & Alchemiist!
OK, yes, this is one day late. That’s life.
Here are three quality remixes from one of my favorite drum n’ bass dj/producers, the legendary Doc Scott of Metalheadz and 31 Records fame. At some point this year I will be doing a Doc Scott tribute mix, so watch out for that!
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Mixed in Berlin, February 2014
100% Vinyl!
(65:10, 149 MB, 320 kbps MP3)
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Style: Proper London Acid Techno – All B-Sides: The Other Side of Acid!
So, the mighty Metalheadz are going to be dropping Platinum Breakz 4 soon. One of the finest compilation series in drum n’ bass history is getting a reboot. Fuck. Yeah.
Check out a few of the tracks here:
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Mixed in Berlin, January 2014
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(51:35, 118 MB, 320 kbps MP3)
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Style: 100% Dubstep Remixes
Today in the Tuesday Time Machine we are looking back at a few tracks by two of the finest producers from the ’94/’95 glory daze of happy hardcore … Vibes & Wishdokta!
Later on Vibes would go on to become the cheesiest of the cheesy, and Wishdokta would become one of the pioneers of the UK Garage sound under his actual name, Grant Nelson, but for a brief shining period in the mid-90’s they made classic after classic after classic together. Everything that was awesome about Happy Hardcore in its initial incarnation can be heard in their music.
Propulsive breakbeats? Check.
Euphoric piano breaks? Check.
Exploding cascades of diva vocals? Check.
Deeply dub-tastic basslines? Check.
Cheeky samples? Check.
Sheer, unadulterated fun? Check, check, and check.
Don’t believe me? More fool you. Check this shit out:
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