this is a short mix we recorded for our upcoming gigs in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece. Forget the financial crisis and celebrate life. Corruption and financial greed is a virus that is a worldwide phenomena and it´s the normal people who are suffering. Keep your head up, music is the healing. Big Up Greece !!!

tracklist:

01. Adrian Younge_1969 Organ_Wax Poetics Records
02. Adrian Younge Sound Orchestra_It´s Me_Wax Poetics Records
03. Lack Of Afro_A Time For_Freestyle Records
04. The Shaolin Afronauts_Shaolin Theme_Freestyle Records
05. The Poets Of Rhythm_Guiding Resolution_Ninja Tune
06. Bei Bei & Shawn Lee_Hot Thursday_Ubiquity Records
07. The Natural Yogurt Band_Eastern Promise_Jazzman/Now-Again Records
08. The Budos Band_Adeniji_Daptone Records
09. Vern Blair Debate_Ooh-Ah-Ee_Funk45/Jazzman
10. Ancient Astronauts_Give It To You feat. Monsoon (Subatomic Sound System Remix)_ESL Music
11. Kabanjak_Joined Forces_Switchstance Recordings
12. DJ Shadow_Stay The Course feat Posdnuos & Talib Kweli_Universal Music
13. Gramatik_Make You Better_Pretty Lights Music
14. Ancient Astronauts_Still A Soldier (DJ Brace Remix)_ESL Music
15. Gummy Soul - @questlove (Fela Soul Bonus Track)_Gummy Soul
16. The Beatstalkers_Heartcore_Foot Forward Music
17. Kabanjak_Wishcraft_Switchstance Recordings

Big Up Greece Mix

Born 1976 in a tiny village in the south of Germany. 1988 I started digging and collecting music. My first influences were bands like Run DMC, Public Enemy, EPMD, 2 Live Crew...and the whole Breakdance stuff.
But I heard also AC/DC, Guns 'N Roses, Metallica, Queen...By the time I expanded my musical tastes. Punkrock, Ska, House, D'nB were announced, but my secret passion was Hip Hop. I like dirty, rough and dull beats.
And I love Beastie Boys, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip, Common, Peanut Butter, MF Doom, GZA...
In January 2013 I began creating music with a computer program (Magix Music Maker).
It might not perfect, but it's fun and I do my best...
I hope you like it!?

The Ancient Astronauts are Kabanjak and Dogu, a bulletproof production and DJ duo hailing from Cologne, Germany. The phenomenon of “ancient astronauts, “a belief that extraterrestrial beings visited Earth in ancient times to mingle and trade ideas with early human civilizations”, isn’t an alien concept to these Ancient Astronauts.  The cross-pollination and mash-up of ideas, sounds, styles, and a collaborative spirit are their modus operandi.
Although, the long-time friends are quick to admit that they are not followers of the German music scene, Kabanjak notes, “for us music is and will always be an international phenomena”, and Ancient Astronauts are certainly not afraid to draw on influences from international artists and styles.
Self described as a “mash up of the distant past and far future”; these time travelers´ music is a mystic brew born out of an eclectic mix of ideas, sounds and styles. 
Already having remixed and collaborated with AM & Shawn Lee, Nickodemus, Fort Knox Five, Ladybug Mecca (Digable Planets), Zion I, The Pharcyde, Azeem, Analogik, Subatomic Sound System & Anthony B, Bajka, Vieux Farka Toure, Raashan Ahmad, Bajka, DJ Brace and Tippa Irie, the Ancient Astronauts always link up with a quality selection of sonic collaborators. 
 “At an early stage we realized that we are both big music heads so we started running parties in our hometown together”. Those parties became the catalyst for a production team that never forgot its roots. They specialize in diversity loosely glued together by a single thread. Like a good party, you don’t just listen to the music, you experience it. 
In 2001 Dogu of Ancient Astronauts started his own label Switchstance Recordings, which was developed as a way of allowing them total musical freedom. The label soon gathered momentum and built up an impressive international fan base. Switchstance Recordings is now famous in international club circles for the integrity of its production and style.

www.ancientastronauts.de
