A collection of miscellaneous DJ mixes I have recorded over the years. I have been collecting and spinning the wax since 1997.

Alec Pritchard - DJ Mixes  [>222 hours of eclectic music! 💥]

Deep Tech Sounds

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Old MiniDisc recordings of various DJ sets from 2000-2004 that I have kept in a box in some dusty dark cabinet and much later recorded into a WAV format to upload here on Soundcloud. Note that all of these mixes were recorded from vinyl via a DJ mixer into ATRAC, the native lossless compression format for MiniDisc. The quality is not perfect but it's great, it was the best affordable option for recording DJ mixes back in this era. Think of it as a digital tape :)

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Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics

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The next in a tall pile of MiniDiscs to be recorded in and uploaded to Soundcloud. I really had to scratch my head and dig for a while to get this tracklist together as a lot of these records I have not heard for over 10 years! Thanks to Discogs and YouTube for helping me to fill in the blanks!

This one was recorded on 3rd November 2000. I have no memory of recording it at all...

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01 Skydiver - Blood Brother // Weekend World (1999)
02 Mobile Space Unit - Eruption // Electrocute (1998)
03 The Traveller & In Motion - Believe (Wookie Slut Remix) // Five AM (2000)
04 Three Drives - Greece 2000 (Farmatronic Genetic Mix) // Hooj Choons (1998)
05 DATAR - B (Christian Smith & John Selway Remix) // Hooj Choons (2000)
06 Steve Lawler - Rise 'In (16B Dub Mix) // Bedrock (2000)
07 Roland & Danny - Twisted // Sim (2000)
08 Cliff Hanger - Vibrations // Underwater (1996)
09 Roland & Danny - Switch // Sim (2000)
10 The M-Men - Feel Real // Tune Inn LTD (2000)
11 The Fuzz - Question Time // Cluster (1999)
12 Stretch & Vern - Michel Lombert // Spot On (2000)
13 The Unknown - Merchandise // Black Ice (1999)
14 Circulation - Amber (Mix 2) // Circulation (2000)

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 02 (03-11-2000)

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Daniel Avery Essential Mix (March 2014)

I hadn't uploaded one of these old MiniDisc recordings for a while... so thought the time had come. This was a recording of a live set I played at a really nice 4-storey old venue in Leicester called "Original 4" that was in a mock-tudor building that split a street into two (a bit like Times Square, NY). This set was in the main ground floor room of the venue, which had a really nice booth and soundsystem.

I remember getting this gig simply by taking them a demo MiniDisc and they got back to me to say they liked it. You could do that back then and this was how I got most of my gigs, taking them something with a personal touch... I don't think it works like that these days. This was recorded on Saturday 3rd May 2003.

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 03 - Live @ Original 4, Leicester (03-05-2003)

#054 Extreme On Mondays 20/04/98 n°1

Yet another old MiniDisc recorded in, this one was labelled "Deep, Trippy Tech House Mix! :-|", pretty self-explanatory. Used to have a vast amount of this kind of deep, dubby, techy house music and stupidly sold most of these kinds of records around 2006-2007. To this day I am constantly buying them back again... I have learned my lesson not to sell any records because even though you may have become bored with them after a while, they become part of your soul and you miss them when they are gone.

Still more MiniDiscs to be recorded in and uploaded, which I will do sporadically over time rather than all in one quick burst. Hope you enjoy the mix, I'll try to remember track ID's for anyone interested! :)

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 04 (23-10-2003)

So we had a brilliant weekend in Manchester with the Quadrant Soundscape crew for Dub Explorations, hosting a live set from the wonderful Mike Schommer.   I had the fortune of playing a couple of sets; as part of the warm up and then going in harder later in the night.   here's a redo of my record bag once back home, before putting it all to bed!  Hope you like the vibes, with my trying to present all forms of deep dub techno!    

Please ask for any IDs but welcome comments, shares or critique. 

Deadbeat /This Bitter Dub (No Limits / No Boundaries)
Rising Sun /Lift Up Your Faces (Faux Pas)
Lawrence /Gravity Hill (Smallville)
Shinichi Atobe /Dub(6) (DDS)
Drain Pipe /Low Life (Driftwood)
4.32am with Pete Mitchell  /Soft August Rain (Dreamflight)
Dorisburg & Fabian Bruhn /Miru (Aniara)
Mike Schommer /Ltd Edition Dub for Andy (Private Press)
Unknown /Untitled (Chikyu-u) [EP1]
BvDub /I Never Cried A Tear (Third Wave Black)
Romar /Chasing Dreams (Blue Ciel)
Miles Sagnia /Perseverance [Monotix Remix] (Flyance Records)
Aron /Æbleskivar (Abartik)
Slowhouse /Slowhouse 2A (Slowhouse)
Peter Macaluso /Feel Me [Deep Mix] (Courtesy of Balance)
JS Zeiter /State (MCMLXV)
Conforce & Steve O’Sullivan & Prince Morella /Elemental Dub (Sushitech)
SAM /Hibernation (Dahlia)
Asphalt Layer /Journey To The Other Place [Ulf & Ralf’s Delta Drift] (Verdant Recordings)
Feral /Chiromanzia 3 (Aube Rouge)
Atomic Moog /Planet (Delsin)
Dycide /Raijin (Lowless)
Juho Kahilainen /We Heard it Coming (MRec Ltd)
Advanced Dreams /Blurred Trip [Blasej Malinowski Remix] (Minimood Extra]
Insync /Subway Route (Delsin Reissue)
Teste /The Wipe [Sonic Dub] (Probe)
Deepchord /Luxury i (Soma Quality Recordings)
Gunjack /From Within (Planet Rhythm Dub Wars)
Deas /Confusion (Bau Musik)
Yan Cook /Cold Spots (Artscore)
Adlas /Convergence (artless)
DD 2 /Infinite (The Final Experiment)
Altinbas /Radiance (Observer Station)
Viktor Apo /Flow (artless)
Ohm & Kvadrant /Precious Little Diamond [Levon Vincent Remix] (Kontakt)
Luke Hess & Omar S /Michigan Central Station (Echocord Colour)
Havantepe /Guidance (200 Black)
Steven Hitchell /For Convextion (Echocord)

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VR may 2024

DE MCR Remnants

Here's a mix from exactly 3 years ago that I just stumbled across in my files, a weirdo summery groovy kind of mix. Some abstract, hypnotic stuff in there too. Thought it sounded alright, so here it is.

Alec Pritchard - Titled (Vinyl Only) (26-06-2021)

Mixed especially for Dianne... a spontaneous vinyl mix of fine deep house music to provide a backdrop for the warm, easy-breezy moments of summer 2024 - https://soundcloud.com/dianne-connah

01 The Truth - Unknown Call // Laws Of Motion (1998)
02 Oscar - Brazil 2030 (St. Barth Mix) // Clear Cuts (2000)
03 Andrés - Reality // Mahogani Music (2003)
04 Oscar - Brazil 2030 (Korben Dallas Sense Remix) // Clear Cuts (2000)
05 Peter Hecher - Disco Tek Is Bumpin' // Afterhours (2001)
06 Mood II Swing - All Night Long // Groove On (1996)
07 Deep Freeze Productions - Melting Point // Sure Shot Records (1996)
08 Pawel Kobak - I Feel // Cartridge (2001)
09 Hecher & Ward - Disco Fantasy // Tonite Records (2002)
10 Bob Sinclar - Rock Solid // Yellow Productions (1997)
11 Chez Damier - Help Myself // Network Records (1992)
12 Uschi Classen with Robert Owens - Only In Your Eyes (Expression Mix) // Earth Project (2002)
13 DiY & Joel Zoch - Lemon Drops (Original Well Mix) // Fair Park (1996)
14 Plastic Soul Junkies - You Took My Love (That Grand Moment Mix) // Serious Grooves (1993)
15 Mellow Man - Everyday (Deep Dub Journey) // Club U Nite Records (2023)
16 Nikki St Nicolas - Music Is My Life (Justin Strauss Dub) // Maxi Records (1998)
17 Filthy Rich - Secrets // Hipbone Records (2000)
18 Souldoubt - Allright // Freaked Records (2001)
19 The Timewriter - In My Father's Arms // Plastic City (2023)

Alec Pritchard - Summer Breeze (Mix For Dianne) (VINYL ONLY) (19-07-2024)

On 28-09-2024 Avenue Red crew hosted another in an endless series of one-off sessions with friends and cohorts @ techno pub OverDraught in Manchester’s Levenshulme area.

Expect all shades of underground house, deep house, techno, dub techno, electro, electronica, IDM and more! VINYL ONLY! 💥

~~~ Lineup 🚨 ~~~

Alec Pritchard [The weird one from Gloucester]
Lou Start [Deep House wizard over from Hull]
Robert Vigh [Slovakian 🇸🇰 prisoner unleashed for techno purposes]
Wilson Logan [Quadrant Soundscape/Dub Explorations, Emerald Isle 🍀 crew 🙌]

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Avenue Red Live Session #009 - Alec Pritchard, Lou Start, Robert Vigh & Wilson Logan @ OverDraught, Manchester (28-09-2024)

Avenue Red Live Session #009 - Alec, Lou, Robert & Wilson @ OverDraught, Manchester (28-09-2024)

Just a lil' bit of loosey-goosey wicki-wicki wahhh-wahhh on the trusty Technics SL-1210MK5 1's & 2's. This was done expressly in order to hear some nice music songs back to myself... music songs which are in my collection of vinyl records because I had bought each of them at various times in the past. Having pressed the record button on my trusty high resolution audio recorder device before I started playing them, I had in the end precipitated the existence of a recording of about 2 hours in duration. That being because that was how long I was playing them for. Having heard back the vibes in this witches brew, I decided to upload it for me and for you.

Alec Pritchard - Gua Sha Sesh (VINYL ONLY) (03-07-2021)

Alec Pritchard - Gua Sha Sesh (VINYL ONLY)

A live recording from 2004, this would have been the first 1 hour 20 minutes of a 5-hour set at a really nice lively bar that was called The Common Room in the West End of Leicester. I used to play almost every Friday here for about 2 years... was a great little spot, brings back good memories listening to this!

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 05 - Live @ The Common Room, Leicester (05-03-2004)

One of several sets I played at the awesome Bar 25th in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸, an underground music bar/club that sits on the right bank of the Sava River at the confluence point with the Danube River. This one was recorded outside by the river bank for sunset. I later played a set inside the club but it was not recorded.

Alec Pritchard - Live @ 25th Bar, Belgrade, Serbia (Vinyl Only) (Friday 25-10-2019)

Alec Pritchard - Live @ Bar 25th, Belgrade, Serbia (VINYL ONLY) (Friday 25-10-2019)

Flor Capistran - Get Closer (Original Mix)

Time for another MiniDisc "mixtape" from the dusty old box in my cupboard! This one did not have a cover/label on it but in the metadata I wrote: "On The Cheap - Electro-House Vibes (July 2004)". Enjoy! More to come, I have an old discoey mix, a really deep Tech House one and a few others I haven't even listened to yet...

Previous episodes here:

https://soundcloud.com/alecpritchard/sets/alec-pritchard-minidisc-relics

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 06 - Electro-House Vibes, Leicester (30-07-2004)

Track list
1. Jenifa Mayanja - Time Waith For No-one (DJ Jus Ed- Hype remix)(UQ)
2. Nick Lawson - The View From Baskerville (Boe Recordings ‎– BOE023)
3. Brawther -Asteroids & Stardust(Original mix)(Balance Recordings US)
4. Patrice Scott - Raw Fusion (Sistrum Recordings SIS 002)
5. Life Recorder - Reconcentrate (Grounded In Humanity GIH 006)
6. Keith Worthy - The Dark Symphony (Aesthetic Audio 011)
7. Life Recorder - Facing Reality (Grounded In Humanity GIH 006)
8. Leonid - SD2 (Photic Fields 03)
9. Life Recorder - Flight To Motherland (Grounded In Humanity GIH 006)
10. Naoki Shinohara - Dimension (Fred P Reshape) Soul People Music-003
11. Fred P - Wave Patterns (from the album Expressing Dark Matter)
12. Ernie Minuendo - Sharepoint (Troubled Kids TKR013)



Nemanja Stanojcic 20.08.16

1. Miruga - Colder Original Mix /Badance/
2. Satore - Back Home /Future Reactions Recordings/
3. Stojche - Traveler /Tangible Assets/
4. Jayson Wynters - Science /Phoenix G/
5. Regen - Crumb /Argumento/
6. Imugem Orihasam - Beware /Balans Records/
7. Regen - Ursus /Ilian Tape/
8. Jayson Wynters - Sherella's Kiss /Batti Batti/
9. Havantepe - Robochirp /Luck Of Access/
10. Duccio - Absurdation /Batti Batti/

Nemanja Stanojcic 17.12.2018

looong snippet of "bring me home" from my upcoming release

artist: oliver koletzki
track: bring me home
label: light my fire
releasedate: 14.12.2012
https://www.facebook.com/lightmyfirerecords?ref=ts&fref=ts

I am OK

Bring Me Home

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Over the last 2 years I have been subject to several stages of totally colossal life changes. It has been hard to focus on music, even though I have continued digging and love it as ever. Music has been my lifeblood and given me a sense of meaning since I was a kid. A platform upon which I had a sense of purpose to exist. I started to DJ after my dad died when I was really young (1997). I had already been into it but after this event, collecting and playing records became a crutch, a coping mechanism. It got me through, it was a colourful, intellectually benign yet absorbing way to distract myself from the pain of existence.

One thing I have noticed is that even though privately I have always been deeply obsessed with music, my expression with it publicly has been inconsistent, stuttering based upon how I felt at any given time, allowing life events to eclipse music and stopping me from getting my ideas out there. Also, I allowed various things to block my outlet... "it's not the right style" / "it's too different to all my other mixes" / "it's not a proper underground selection" etc. BULLSHIT!

I have come to a point where I feel settled and ready to commit to a new regular series. I created a variety of DJ mix series in the past: Cement Mix, the ongoing Avenue Red Podcast among others. This one I intend to become my regular heartbeat for reflective, thoughtful, personal expressions with any kind of music.

Labelled in respect of the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (a nod to existentialism, his teachings), it is all about accepting that we are not here for a long time, we are here for a GOOD TIME! It is all about not letting ego, fear regarding acceptance or some creative apathy block access to expressing ones true self in its truest form. Unless our musical expressions are unleashed, released from our minds and committed to the physical world somehow, all of our crazy, precious and unique ideas are gone forever. Blown away and scattered with the sands of time. Once we die, there is no time left, no chance to express anything further and the universe can never know what potentially amazing things were locked up in our minds. This also represents a loss of cultural progress, as discoveries we have personally made are not being documented for posterity. This new Nietzsche Lessons series is a special zone for total freedom of musical expression.

All of the artwork is going to be my own photography from my life/travels.

Regarding guest spots, the established Avenue Red crew will always have priority - they are my clan and they are all fucking legends to me. I want 1/3 of the Nietzsche Lessons sessions to be guest spots, but we will see. Love to all, Alec xxx

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture taken in Vinca, near Belgrade in Serbia. Stray dogs are endemic in the Balkans. No owner, no collar, no lead. They exist, accept their reality, always living on raw impulse and instinct. We can all learn something from this...

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01 Bibio - Light Seep // Warp Records (2011)
02 Gramatik - Indigo Child // Cold Busted (2009)
03 Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man In Babylon // Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (2002)
04 The Long Lost - The Art Of Kissing // Ninja Tune (2008)
05 Aim - What People Do All Day // Grand Central Records (2002)
06 Daedelus - A Bloodworth // Bleep (2009)
07 Paul Hunter - The Warning // Earth (2001)
08 A.P.E. - No. 5 // Dorado (1995)
09 Seefeel - Ashdecon // Rephlex (1996)
10 Susumu Yokota - Robed Heart // Skintone (2006)
11 Prefuse 73 - Nuno // Warp Records (2001)
12 The Black Dog - Tahr // Warp Records (1995)
13 Plaid - Getting // Warp Records (1997)
14 Detroit Escalator Company - Duat // Peacefrog Records (2001)
15 Tosca - Rosa (Live) // G-Stone Recordings (2009)
16 DJ Krush - Shinjiro (with Mos Def) // Mo Wax (1997)
17 Group Home - Supa Star // Payday (1994)
18 Prefuse 73 - Invigorate (Interlude) // Warp Records (2003)

Alec Pritchard - Nietzsche Lessons #001

Well, it's now officially a series because there is a second episode. And already my friends are getting involved! I am pleased to present Álfbeat, a lady with a very interesting music mind whose mixes are endlessly eclectic and she sounds unlike anyone else I have heard... she comes from Reykjavik, capital city of Iceland and features a lot of odd, intriguing music from her homeland. This is her impulsive selection, her raw expression, big ups to the first guest on Nietzsche Lessons!

"As a philosophy teacher and a DJ I was very excited for the new Nietzsche Lessons series my friend started. This mix is a funky ride of Icelandic trip-hop with some international electronic and hip-hop gems. This kind of music has been a saviour for my existence during the post-Covid fatigue and lockdown. Good mental health is so important. Lots of Love, Álfbeat." Ása Lind Finnbogadóttir, December 2020

https://soundcloud.com/djalfbeat

"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture taken by Alec Pritchard. Multi-spectrum LED lights in a greenhouse in Offenham, Evesham, England.

Álfbeat - Nietzsche Lessons #002

Just another wish.com Eraserhead
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○ 2025
‣ Fri 05 Sep - Avenue Red @ SUPERMASSIVE, Manchester w/ @albradley3am, @alecpritchard, @robert-vigh
‣ Sat 26 Jul - Kasia's 30th Birthday @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard, @robert-vigh, @quadrantsoundscape + co.
‣ Fri 18 Jul - Avenue Red @ SUPERMASSIVE, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard
‣ Sat 7 Jun - Kim’s Kitchen & Bar, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard
‣ Sat 10 May - Avenue Red @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard, @theta_waves, @dubrovnik_uk, @tomasbexton
‣ Thu 1 May - Kim’s Kitchen & Bar, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard
‣ Sat 12 Apr - Vinyl Stall @ Basement Wax @ Ramona, Manchester
‣ Thu 10 Apr - Kim’s Kitchen & Bar, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard, @damo-b

○ 2024
‣ Sat 28 Sep - Avenue Red @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard, @robert-vigh, @quadrantsoundscape, @lou-start
‣ Sat 6 Jul - 8-11 @ Hops & Boogie, Sale
‣ Sat 1 Jun - 40th Birthday thing: Avenue Red @ Disorder Manchester w/ @alecpritchard B2B @damo-b, @quadrantsoundscape, @user-565739154-531076511, @viperfisch, Sam Burton, Spillar [ https://www.facebook.com/events/826545836198783/ ]

○ 2023
‣ New Year's Eve - Alec Pritchard - All Night Long @ The White Lion, Manchester (7-2)
‣ Sat 23 Dec - Avenue Red @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @alecpritchard + Spillar
‣ Sat 11 Nov - Avenue Red @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @quadrantsoundscape + Sam Burton
‣ Sat 9 Sep - Avenue Red @ OverDraught, Manchester w/ @damo-b @lou-start
‣ Fri 7 Jul - Avenue Red @ The Talleyrand, Manchester w/ @joshlentink @slickyrik
‣ Sat 20 May - Woodland Festival, Thetford, Norfolk w/ @enclaverecs
‣ Fri 24 Mar - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc w/ @verdant-recordings
‣ Sat 4 Mar - The Prog Lag vs Avenue Red @ The Loco Klub, Bristol w/ @guy-j @budakid @avenue-red @owaink @tomb1986
‣ Thu 19 Jan - Café Bakeliet | Rotterdam 🇳🇱 w/ @michalensink

○ 2022
‣ Fri 16 Dec - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc
‣ Fri 30 Sep - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc
‣ Sat 6 Aug - The 212 Café & Bar, Leeds w/ @enclaverecs
‣ Sat 18 Jun - Avenue Red @ Movement Bar, Tib St, Manchester
‣ Fri 27 May - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc
‣ Sun 22 May - Woodland Festival, Thetford, Norfolk (Chill-out set)
‣ Sat 21 May - Woodland Festival, Thetford, Norfolk (Night time set)
‣ Fri 11 Mar - F L ō K Bar
‣ Sat 12 Feb - Lost Minute @ Edith | Budapest 🇭🇺
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/live-session-003-alec-pritchard-lost-minute-edith-budapest-hungary-12-02-2022?in=avenue-red/sets/avenue-red-live-session
‣ Thu 3 Feb - F L ō K Bar
‣ Fri 14 Jan - F L ō K Bar
‣ Sat 8 Jan - The Prog Lag @ Folklore | London

○ 2021
‣ Thu 30 Dec - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc
‣ Sat 11 Dec - F L ō K Bar + Wilson Logan [@quadrantsoundscape]
‣ Fri 10 Dec - F L ō K Bar
‣ Thu 2 Dec - F L ō K Bar
‣ Sat 27 Nov - @damo-b pres. Nothing But The Truth @ Eastern Bloc
‣ Sat 27 Nov - F L ō K Bar pre-bar for @damo-b pres. Nothing But The Truth
‣ Fri 26 Nov - F L ō K Bar
‣ Sat 13 Nov - F L ō K Bar + @asphalt_layer
‣ Fri 12 Nov - F L ō K Bar
‣ Fri 15 Oct - Dub Explorations @ Eastern Bloc
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Music collector, DJ and occasional artist/producer. DJ'ing since 1997, I play a wide range of music that is mainly focused on the deeper/dubbier shades of house, techno & electro. I also love all kinds of eclectic stuff including disco, boogie, Italo, synth pop, nu jazz, jazzdance, lounge, trip-hop, downtempo, dub, reggae, jungle, liquid drum & bass, IDM, electronica, Warp, Ninja Tune etc.

In summer 2013 I set up the Avenue Red (@avenue-red) imprint to push quality material from a wide plethora of DJs and artists who I have particular respect for in terms of their musical output, artistry and dedication to the cause.