The joy of one deck being wired out of phase on one channel.

Solid Steel (23rd May) In Hour 1 we're delighted to welcome Leon Vynehall to the show. Following his recent release on Martyn's 3024 label, he delivers an exclusive mixtape of his own unreleased edits just for Solid Steel. He told us;
"I had a bit of time off after I finished Music For The Uninvited, so I pulled out a bunch of records and made some early 90s hip-hop and decided to make a mixtape. I've been fortunate enough to have some friends sing and mc on it too."
Those friends include Ava Trilling, Speelburg, Kasflow and Rosalind for a sublime selection of beats, including his 'vynedit' of the classic Broad Factor by Quasimoto.


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PART 1 + 2   -	Leon Vynehall		https://twitter.com/vynehall
				
Leon Vynehall	_	welcome	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	body&soul	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	disco one ft ava trilling	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	pain killer cocktails ft speelburg	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	rain ladeh	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	the worlds a garden	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	senoir blues ft KasFlow	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	folds	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	greene	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	coming to a groove near you ft speelburg	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	boy	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	aliccce	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	grace from dirt ft rosalind	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	skin	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	heres your trance, now prance	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	emil	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	twink	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	then it happened	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	this is ours	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	oh lonnie	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	into the andes	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	eddies grooves	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	quasimoto - broad factor (vynedit)	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	pharaoh	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	crusade	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	the expert	_	unreleased
Leon Vynehall	_	farewell	_	unreleased

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/5/2014 Part 1 + 2 - Leon Vynehall presents "Lazy Tapes"

Solid Steel (9th January) DK is back for his first mix of 2015 and after a brief intro from Doug Carn, it's straight into a batch of forthcoming music from Glenn Astro & Max Graef, Dan Snake and Anthony Naples from his album coming out on Four Tet's Text label. It's another spin for the huge Roots by Romare and classic deep house from 1995 from Marc Kinchen and Chez Damier under his Andthoney alias. 
Mix of the Year winner Clap! Clap! is remixed by Lurka Obeah, followed by a host of giveaways from Seven Davis Jr, Alex Patchwork, Photay and the Hudson Mohawke remix of Four Tet. Then more new music with Soundbwoy Killah and Beat Spacek with a track from the Modern Streets album out in 2 weeks, plus there's always time for another Fela Kuti track.


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Part 1 + 2 - https://twitter.com/DK_SolidSteel
Doug Carn	_	Acknowledgement	_	Black Jazz
Glenn Astro & Max Graef	_	Titel 08 (feat. Paul Frick)	_	Money $ex Records
Romare	_	Roots	_	Ninja Tune
Dan Shake	_	Out of Sight	_	Black Acre
Aquadrop	_	Bloko Bloko (Douster Remix)	_	Top Billin
Hodge & Facta	_	Spheres Of Costa Rica	_	Tempa
Clap! Clap!	_	Ashiko (Lurka Obeah Remix)	_	Black Acre
Anthony Naples	_	Refugio	_	Text
Andthoney & M. Kinchen	_	The Feeling	_	Prescription
Moiré	_	No Gravity	_	Werkdisc
Ross From Friends	_	Golf School	_	Breaker Breaker
Paleman	_	Beelzedub (Famous Eno remix)	_	Unknown
Seven Davis Jr	_	Get Serious	_	Unknown
Simbad  	_	Detroit De Janeiro - Part 2	_	Here and Now
Alex Patchwork	_	Untitled Keys Bootleg	_	Unknown
Amp Live	_	100,000 WATTS	_	Plug Research
Four Tet	_	Parallel Jalebi (Hudson Mohawke RMX)	_	Unknown
Soundbwoy Killah	_	The Bounce 	_	Bodyjack
Photay	_	Frosted 	_	Unknown
Fela Kuti	_	Eko Ile	_	Makossa
Beat Spacek	_	Tonight	_	Ninja Tune

Solid Steel Radio Show 9/1/2015 Part 1 + 2 - DK

Sunday Morning is a mix series dedicated to pushing artists and labels who intend on pursuing the beauty in downtempo/chill-wave music. The focus is centered on experimental yet eloquent productions. This mix series is made in order to wind down and relax after a long night out, or simply listen to something other than dance music. I grew up with record labels like M3rck and Schematic based out of Miami, and have always searched for mixes which included these sort of sounds after a long weekend of traveling. Having not found many, I decided to make this a bi-weekly ongoing series including guest mixes. 

SUNDAY MORNING - 05 - Danny Daze

Solid Steel in association with Serato (24th April) This week we launch a brand new Solid Steel website at http://solidsteel.net and we're delighted to welcome back two guests Caribou and Colleen with exclusive new mixes to celebrate. They both appeared in the same show 10 years ago and on the new website you can hear their 2005 mixes in the Featured section, along with Caribou’s mix from 2000 when he was still known as Manitoba. Also released this week will be a mix from Matthew Herbert as Doctor Rockit (1995), Autechre mix (1997) and a Juan Atkins mix and interview from 1988, plus selected shows from the last 27 years and many more to come each week.
We even have new Solid Steel jingles for the first time in ages, and, over the coming weeks, you can hear what the likes of Luke Vibert, next week's guest Four Tet and FaltyDL (which starts the show this week) have come up with. 

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You can hear the Hour 1 mix from Caribou here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2442015-hour-1-caribou

In Hour 2, Colleen is celebrating the release of her latest album 'Captain of None' which is out now on Thrill Jockey. It's a special "Thank You Jamaica" mix that is clearly dear to her heart and she tells us a little more about this love affair;

"My love story with Jamaican music is in three parts: first as a child in the late 70s/early 80s, when my parents bought (probably by accident) a tape containing mostly Lee Perry songs from 1976, which we would listen to on long car trips. Then in my mid-20s when I moved to Paris and bought and borrowed dozens of Jamaican reissues from the Paris music libraries – it was the first time I was listening to the music with a musician’s ear, but given my way of making music at that time (sampling from records) I ended up concentrating on other genres which could be of use as more “unrecognizable” sample-fodder. But in late 2012, just as I was recording my fourth album The Weighing of the Heart, I rediscovered the music and this time it hit me really deep – it was like my ears were finally in the right condition to really hear the music in all its amazing inventiveness, and I had also reached a point in my own way of making music where finally I could see how the Jamaican sense of freedom and experimentation could infuse my own music – and from that moment I knew in what direction I would take my next album, which became Captain of None.
This mix contains some of my favourite Jamaican music and showcases its incredible diversity, with everyone (singers, musicians, producers) at the top of their game and displaying real individuality. "

Hour 2 - Colleen 

COLLEEN – SPECIAL JAMAICAN MIX “Thank You Jamaica”
Glen Brown And King Tubby – Version 78 Style 
The Techniques – I’ll Be Waiting 
Noel Ellis – To Hail Salassie
King Tubby’s and the Aggrovators  - A Noisy Place 
Burning Spear - Ethiopians Live It Out
Glen Brown and King Tubby – Termination Dub
Tappa Zukie – Judgement Dub
Ronnie Davis – Run Around Girl (discomix)
Alton Ellis – I’ll Be Waiting
Stranger Cole and Bullwackies All Stars – It takes Time
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus – Jesus Christus Is The King
Rankin Devon – Change Your Folly Ground
Lee Van Cliff & Scientist - Wiser Than Solomon (discomix)
The Heptones – Sweet Talking (extended mix)
Winston Wright – Top Secret 
Prince Buster – Rock & Shake


Solid Steel Radio Show 24/4/2015 Hour 2 - Colleen

Solid Steel in association with Serato (24th April) This week we launch a brand new Solid Steel website at http://solidsteel.net and we're delighted to welcome back two guests Caribou and Colleen with exclusive new mixes to celebrate. They both appeared in the same show 10 years ago and on the new website you can hear their 2005 mixes in the Featured section, along with Caribou’s mix from 2000 when he was still known as Manitoba. Also released this week will be a mix from Matthew Herbert as Doctor Rockit (1995), Autechre mix (1997) and a Juan Atkins mix and interview from 1988, plus selected shows from the last 27 years and many more to come each week.
We even have new Solid Steel jingles for the first time in ages, and, over the coming weeks, you can hear what the likes of Luke Vibert, next week's guest Four Tet and FaltyDL (which starts the show this week) have come up with. 

And so to Caribou in Hour 1 this week and a mix, as always rich in quality music from across the years and around the world, including Rome Sithammarat, Melvin Ukachi , Percussions, Underground Resistance and Derrick May's Illusion First Mix of Sueno Latino. He had this to say about his mix;
"It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since my most recent Solid Steel mix (and even longer since my first one). A lot has happened in between then and now but even more has stayed the same - just like the mix 10 years ago, this one's made up of music old and new which I've come across recently - plus a couple favourites which I've been playing for a long long time."

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Hour 1 - Caribou https://twitter.com/caribouband

1. Oma. Irama & Rite - Biduan
2. Rome Sithammarat - Sao New Look
3. Paternoster - Old Danube
4. Melvin Ukachi - Come And Dance
5. Percussions - 07 Nov 2011
6. Marcus Mixx - Psychousic (12" Club Mix)
7. K Hand - Come On Now Baby
8. Underground Resistance - Hardlife (Aaron Carl Remix)
9. DBX - Squirrel Bait
9. Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (Derrick May's Illusion First Mix)
10. Steve Parks - Still Thinking of You
11. Magnetic Touch - Falling In Love With A Dream
12. Mike James Kirkland - Hang On In There
13. The Valentines - Breakaway
14. Nohelani Cypriano - Lihue
15. Marcos Valle - Mais Do Que Valsa
16. Darondo - Didn't I
17. Albert Ayler - Heart Love


Solid Steel Radio Show 24/4/2015 Hour 1 - Caribou

Label: 
Studio !K7 ‎– !K7046cd 
Series: 
DJ-Kicks – 
Format: 
CD, Mixed 

Country: 
 Germany  
Released: 
 19 Aug 1996  
Genre: 
Electronic 
Style: 
Downtempo, Breaks, Drum n Bass, Dub 

Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ-Kicks (1996)

5 Hour DJ set from my Band on the Wall residency in Manchester. Limited download from here.. code is 'Q8ds5w'. http://download.mrscruff.com/code/Q8ds5w

Full list of future gigs here.. http://www.mrscruff.com/gigs/

My next Band on the Wall gig is Jan 7th 2017, with special guest Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy.

Mr Scruff DJ set, Manchester Band on the Wall, Saturday 3rd December 2016

Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions™ (Vinyl) (320  Kbps)

On 2nd December 1988, Solid Steel started broadcasting on pirate radio station Kiss FM. DK celebrates 30 years with a mix of personal favourites both old and new, including music from a whole host of guests that have appeared on Solid Steel from the likes of Helena Hauff, Four Tet, Pearson Sound, Peggy Gou, Lone, MF Doom, The Bug, Leon Vynehall, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle, Caribou, Martyn, Pangaea, Mark Pritchard, Robert Owens and Juan Atkins.

Hour 1 - DK 30 Years of Solid Steel

Bicep - Glue (Ambient/Beatless Mix) - Unreleased
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) - Houndstooth
Caribou - Sun (Bowski Remix) - Unreleased
Pearson Sound - Xlb - Pearson Sound
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix) - Ninja Tune
Lone - Vengeance Video - R & S Records
Martyn - Viper (Ghost People Edit) - Ninja Tune
Juan Atkins - Flash Flood - Life’s Good
Helena Hauff - Qualm - Ninja Tune
Boddika - You Tell Me - Nonplus Records
Pangaea - Won't Hurt - Hessle Audio
Pearson Sound - Blanked - Hessle Audio
Herbie Hancock - Nobu  - Sony Japan
Reload - Amenity - Evolution
Leon Vynehall - Inside The Deku Tree - 3024
Percussions - KHLHI - Text
Moodymann - Black Mahogany - KDJ
Dan Shake & Medlar - Walk - Delusions of Grandeur
Robert Owens - Bring Down The Walls - Trax Records
Last Generation - Feel My Love (Inside) - Lower Level Records
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - Ninja Tune
Arnie Love & The Lovettes - We've Had Enough - TAP
Tarika Blue - Truth Is The Key - Chiaroscuro Records
Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark - Awake O Zion - Sound Of Gospel Records
Shirley Finney - Give Your Best To The Master - Savoy Records
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Nobody Knows - Light In the Attic
Clams Casino - I'm God 
The Bug - Tune In (Version) - Ninja Tune
James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof - Hemlock Recordings
Débruit & Alsarah - Jibal Alnuba - Soundway
Burnt Friedman - Sorcier - Latency
Czelaw Nieman - Qss - Polskie Nagrania Muza
Burial - Dog Shelter - Hyperdub
Eprom - Love Number - Rwina Records
Flying Lotus - Aqua teen 24
King Geedorah - Fazers - Big Dada
Jay Electronica - Exhibit A (Transformations) - Decon
Steve Grossman - Zulu Stomp - PM
Shamek Farrah - First Impressions - Strata East
The People's People - Fritz - The Voice Of The People Record Co.
K Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - Adam Nana (Medley) - Off Bros
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun - Strut
William Onyeabor - Love Is Blind - Luaka Bop
The Flying Lizards - Steam Away - Virgin
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels of Love - Industrial Records
Dr. Philter Banx - High Heels and Mirrored Thighs - Criminal Records
Arthur Russell - Corn - Audika
Stanton Davis - Things Cannot Stop Forever - Outrageous Records
Milton Wright - Friends and Buddies - Alston Records
Young Mods - Who You Going To Run, Where You Going To Hide - Everblack
Marvin Holmes and Justice - You better Keep Her - Brown Door Records
The Vel-Vets - I Gotta Find Me Somebody - Harmless
The Frank Cunimondo Trio - Feelin Good - Mondo
Alice Clark - Don't You Care - Mainstream
Arthur Verocai - Na Boca do Sol - Luv N’ Haight
Ginga Trio - Carcara - Chantecler
Cesar Mariano & Cia - Fábrica - RCA Victor
Toni Esposito - L'Eroe Di Plastica - Numero Uno
Sun Ra - That's How I Feel - Philly Jazz
Harold McKinney - Ode To Africa - Tribe
Calvin Keys - BK - Black Jazz
Tony Newton - Groundshaker - NCI Records
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Saturday Night Special - Strata
Ira Sullivan - The Kingdom Within You - Strings Attached
Dawan Muhammad - Taumbu - Evidence Records
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You Brother - Strata East
Yusef Lateef - Morning - Savoy Records
Lucio Battisti - La Canzone Della Terra - Numero Uno
David Axelrod - The Divine Image - Capitol Records

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 02/12/2018 Hour 1 - DK

Solid Steel returns with brand new and exclusive mixes from Four Tet and Trevor Jackson.

For this special show we have Kieran Hebden - AKA Four Tet - partnered with Trevor Jackson - founder of Output Recordings, the independent record label he ran between 1996 and 2006. 

Both artists have a long history with the show (this is Hebden’s 7th appearance and Jackson's 3rd), as well as with each other. Hebden’s early releases as part of Fridge and his first solo release - the 1997 "Double Density" single under the artist name 4T Recordings - were released on Output. The label was also home to the first releases under his Four Tet Alias, including 1998 singles "Thirtysixtwentyfive" and "Misnomer", and 1999's “Glasshead"/"Calamine" single and first full-length album “Dialogue”. Jackson also released music on the label as Skull and Open Music, and elsewhere including his work as Playgroup.

Speaking about the mix and his history with Hebden, Jackson told us: “I spend most of my time now actively searching for brand new music doing my very best to avoid the past, but for this mix decided to go back and delve through my vinyl collection for old music I haven’t listened to for ages, specifically 70’s jazz rock, fusion & strange funk, odd things that straddle genres, mostly European and also very representative of the kind of music I was totally obsessed by for many years during the early/mid 90’s . All these tracks are taken from albums I purchased during that time, things I dug out initially for strictly sampling purposes, but eventually grew to love, learn from & lovingly listen to in their entirety. Pre Youtube & Pre Discogs these tracks were stumbled upon via intense and lengthy record store & stall excursions, none of them purchased for large amounts of money, most for peanuts, and at a time when there were very few other people I was aware of interested in this stuff to gain knowledge from or share my discoveries with. 

It's been a pleasure searching through my shelves and getting a chance to rediscover them again, sitting here listening to them vividly reminds me of a precious time when I was able to retreat away from the real world for days on end in my tiny home studio, immersing myself in highly ingenious music played by some of the worlds finest musicians, painstakingly (& often clumsily) attempting to reconstruct it all into my own mutant creations. 

I started Output inspired by the progressive nature of the musicians playing on these records, when I met Keiran Hebden i’d finally met a likeminded soul who was able to channel the spirt of this music I loved into a challenging & relevant contemporary form (something I’d felt unable at the time to do myself at the time). It was massively inspiring to be able to work with him at the very start of his career and equally as inspiring to see what he’s been able to achieve via his robust passion for music, compelling natural talent and impressively consistent high quality releases.
The mix is dedicated to Ultima Thule, Honest Jon’s, Jazzman Gerald, Mole Jazz & Mark B please. ” 

You can hear the mix by Four Tet here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-030719-four-tet

There are no tracklists for the show on this occasion, the mix is instead accompanied by two photographs of the record sleeves used which you can see on Twitter twitter.com/SolidSteelRadio - one for the diggers

SOLID STEEL 03.07.19 - TREVOR JACKSON

Boiler Room w/ Awesome Tapes From Africa.

[Broadcasted on 15th June 2013]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Awesome Tapes From Africa 80 min Boiler Room mix

Ninja Tune has established itself as one of the world’s leading independent record labels. Now a bonafide global music institution, synonymous with diverse, uncompromising releases and equally visionary artists—from breaking-through to GRAMMY-winning, internationally acclaimed acts—committed to pushing the boundaries of music.

Solid Steel Radio Show 24/4/2015 Hour 2 - Colleen

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