Kicking of the first of the recordings from our day on the farm with Aaron Dempsey & Citizen Black. Check it, don’t wreck it.

Aaron Dempsey & Citizen Black

A mix by Pablo to celebrate Airbound London 2011, a boat party on the Thames with a hot line up headed by Brassroots with support from Simon Conway, External Sounds and more. Should be some party. For those who can’t make it, check out the mix:

Aye up, we had a smashing time at Discotekken last Saturday. Louis & Chris made us feel very welcome (the huge bucket of ice filled with Heineken in the booth certainly helped) and Messrs Nic & Pabs set about wrecking the gaf. The crowd were well up for it and Louis put things to bed at the end, finishing up with Outkast’s Ghettomusick which for me was one of those ‘why didn’t i think of that?’ moments. Check the mixes below:

Nick Keane FULL @ Discotekken, April 16 2011

Pablo @ Discotekken, April 16 2011

Gmos and Nico met up the other night for a few tins and a smoke with the intention of throwing down a few records with the red light on. Suitably gee’d up (and a little freaked out) after watching the People’s Potential Unlimited DVD, it made sense to kick off with Roshell Anderson’s Wild Dreams, a joint so good the lads only remembered to press record halfway through.

What follows is a refreshingly loose melee of records taking in lots of Detroit, PPU, Virgo Four, Soft Rocks, Kraftwerk, a daft latino cover of Chameleon Watermelon Man (getting my Hancock mixed up) and lots more.

Gmos+Nico_Sitdown

tracklist:

1. Roshell Anderson – Wild Dreams (Instrumental)
2. Soft Rocks – Untitled
3. Deee-lite – Vote Baby Vote
4. Deee-lite feat. Jamalski – Two Clouds Above Nine
5. Mystic SLot – No Way Back
6. Virgo Four – Crayon Box
7. Virgo Four – If You Want To Dance
8. Virgo Four – Look Into Your Eyes
9. Rick Poppa Howard – Do What You Have To Do (Instrumental Mix)
10. House Of Jezebel – Love & Happiness (Instrumental)
11. C.V.O.  - Mighty Real Groove
12. Slave – Ready For Love
13. Jesse Henderson - I Did It Again
14. Terry Callier – Love Theme From Spartacus (Kenny Dixon Jr. Edit)
15. Scherrie Payne – I’m Not In Love (Girl You’re In Love)
16. Soft Rocks – Leave Your Earth Behind (Roots Unit Hello Earth remix)
17. Virgo Four – The Rains
18. Kraftwerk – It’s More Fun To Compute
19. Jamalski – Texan Rumpus
20. Bubble Club – Morning Star (Roots Unit remix)
21. Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio feat. Sa-Ra – Equipoise
22. Theo Parrish – Stop Bajon (TP Translation)
23. Nite Jewel – Weak For Me
24. M.C.P. – Windfall
25. Candy Bowman – I Wanna Feel Your Love
26. Carl Carlton – She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)
27. Clair Hicks & Love Exchange – In The Bush (Instrumental)
28. Pyramid – Better By The Minute
29. Atmosfear – Dancing In Outer Space
30. Teaspoon & The Waves – Friday Night Special (Sofrito vs. Kilombo edit)
31. Omar S – Ultrafine 2
32. Omar S – Here’s Your Trance Now Dance!
33. 3 Chairs – Misty City
34. Roots Unit – Walter’s Pass
35. Mongo Santamaria – Watermelon Man
36. Soft Rocks – Untitled
37. Pointer Sisters – Don’t It Drive You Crazy

Finally it’s the last of the MF appreciation mixes and we felt it appropriate to get in some of the leftfield stuff. Tracks that inhabit the outer orbits of acid, incorporating anarchic use of echo/delay; the ones with arpeggios so dizzying they sound like the aural equivalent of an MDMA laced bong hit and have a kick drum ‘so hard, if it was a bowling ball… STRIKE!’ to quote the man himself.

Things calm down a bit at the end… a couple of melancholic Ladyvipb tracks capped off with an instrumental of the lauded Love Endeavor. This mix also comes with a Mu warning. If you like your dance music straight faced and regular, you may wish to sit this one out.

MF Appreciation Mix #3

1. bibi with maurice fulton – don’t you see (instrumental)
2. syclops – the fly
3. syclops – monkeypuss
4. mu – destroying human nature
5. mu – extreme
6. mu – hello bored biz man
7. ladyvipb – you gave away my everything
8. ladyvipb – pain in my brain
9. alice smith – love endeavor (instrumental)

A wise man (whose name I fail to recall right this minute) once said to be good at music one needs to play at least one instrument for an hour a day, every day no matter what. It is a well known fact that Maurice is no slouch on the bass. In fact he is so good he was recruited as part of Jimi Tenor’s touring group and according to Allmusic has ‘deployed thick and chewy funk bass so distinctive (in the 21st Century, at least) that it might as well be termed the ‘Maurice Bass’‘.

This mix is made up of tracks that heavily deploy said bass, a sound so funky it can only be achieved by tabulating the square root of Bootsy Collins times Marcus Miller. It has not failed to escape our attention that the majority of these tracks are remixes… food for thought for the Fulton anoraks out there.

MF Appreciation Mix #2

tracklist:

1. rollmottle – take a break (maurice fulton remix)
2. soul mekanik – go upstairs (maurice fulton remix)
3. kathy diamond – all woman
4. i:cube – vacuum jackers (maurice fulton remix)
5. crazy p – lie lost (maurice fulton remix)
6. simian mobile disco feat. beth ditto – cruel intentions (maurice fulton remix)
7. alessandro alessandroni, daniel paul & honesty – welcome (maurice fulton remix)
8. mim suleiman – bibi na mpu
9. hot chip – over & over (maurice fulton dub)

Automatic Tasty gave us lashings of live, self-composed jacking analog house and electro and proved just why his debut EP on Lunar Disko records sold out faster than the Greens in the last election (although there are still a few copies to be found online so do yourself a favour and pick one up before they’re all gone). Here’s hoping we don’t have to wait too long for the follow up release…

Automatic Tasty live @ Fatty Fatty Dec 11th 2010

Chris started off with a WTF?? remix of Brooklyn Express’ Spank 69 incorporating a lot of airplane effect flange plus some judicious use of the Apocalypse Now dubby chopper noise. And it got dubbier and dubbier from thereon in. With Soul Mekanik’s Relax remix getting dropped, along with some FK, Serious Intention, the hallucinogenic freakout of R.R Express and a mercilessly extended version of Teddy Pendergrass’ You Can’t Hide From Yourself, this was a set that had the Fatties groping eachother’s bums in appreciation.

If you missed out feel free to check them out and touch your bum in the comfort of your own home.

Soft Rocks @ Fatty Fatty Dec 11th 2010