Listening with tears in my eyes but a smile on my face. Thanks for everything from all the People from Pepperbox.  Sleep well, mate.

cool man, this sounds deeeeep and good....

I met Simon through a mate in Ibiza and again playing in Bath. Love his sets absolute legend.

Yet another wicked DK mix. Thank you Andy for posting and DK for being DK. Anyone know this track at 1.02 ??

Grace doing her stuff with the usual magic! What a party such an amazing dance floor. Let's have some more!

Harry's Book launch anniversary Stroud party... The Mighty Grace Sands Rocks the party.

Faith Spring Issue: https://defected.com/faith-spring-23.html
Faith - Aint That A Groove Vol 1: https://lnk.to/FAITH12006 

STUART PATTERSON MIX

01. Ron Trent - Nuits Sonores
02. Airborn Gav X Hurrican - Work (Ajazz remix)
03. EZ-AL - Did It All For Love (Victor+Glen's dub)
04. Sven Wenger - Sometimes I Be 
05. Somethin' Sanctified - Doesn't Only Happen (Bruise remix)
06. Dames Brown - Glory (Kelly G Love Ritual mix)
07. The Illustrious Blacks - Shook (Yoruba Soul mix 2)
08. Stefan Braatz + Virgo 4 - Everyman Jack 
09. Dino Lenny - Did This
10. Dave Mayer + Tom Chub - The Source Of Happiness
11. Kiko Navarro, DJ Pippi, Willie Graf - Esanah
12. Zach Witness - Let It Reign

ARTWORK'S MORE AMOUR MIX 
 
01. Special Occasion - Flyin’ to Santa Barbara (Pete Blake’s edit) 
02. Unknown - Celly Edit 
03. More&More - Turn Out The Lights
04. Chic - I Feel Your Love Comin’ Over
05. More Amour- Solar Flair 
06. Pauli Carman - Dial My Number (Pete Blaker Edit) 
07. Unknown - Just Like A Queen (DJ Lloyds Better extended dub rework) 
08. Cookie Watkins - I’m attracted to You (Artwork Edit) 
09. Lindstrøm - Closing Shot.

Faith 024: Stuart Patterson and Artwork guest mix

Here's a recording of Simon DK, when he played at my PENG event in Exeter, 30th June 2007.
Simon was my fave ever deep house dj, and a super lovely guy! 
His dj sets influenced the sounds of The Rurals.
He'll be missed...but, his legacy will live on through the music!!

Simon DK - Peng Records party, Exeter, 30th June 2007

Simon DK and Pete Woosh of DIY playing back to back at the awesome Cabbage Moon Free Party in May 2009 at Nympsfield nr Stroud.

Cabbage Moon Free Party - Nympsfield May 09

7.30-9.00 Simon n Pete Live at Cabbage Moon Free Party

Simon DK - “Float Laboratory” (1994)
After hearing the news of Simons passing and remembering with friends the subject of a certain mixtape came up …we all searched our boxes of cassettes without much luck and some empty cases …however Pete Slotter discovered and found what might well be the only existing copy …and as luck would have it the original tape!
Recorded at Simon DK's flat in Nottingham after the after party on a DiY Bounce night in 1994 after Bath crew John Kesecki & Pete Slotter went back to his and asked him to make a tape, which he did and named it 'Float Laboratory'. 
It's a lovely pitched down mix perfectly capturing those early hours.
It was brought down to Bath - copied and played ALOT!!. It was one of those tapes that just did the rounds and was loved by many…
So it was only right at this time to immortalise it and make it available for you to enjoy again or hear it for the first time...
Rest in peace & power the genius that is Simon DK Smith

Simon DK - Float Laboratory 1994

Deep Peace brought back 'DiY Bounce' to Bath after 23 years @ The Nest on Friday 6th Feb. 
This is the live recording from the night, of Pete Woosh & Simon DK ...for those of you were there - sweet memories & for those of you that were not, enjoy & there's always next time! ...Mr Mulatto x

DiY at the Nest in Bath - 6th Feb 2015

Ah, sweet sketchy bird of youth. The soundtrack to countless road-trip missions & after (after) hours debauchery. 94/95-ish, full of hypnotic deepness & euphoric funk.

DiY Digs & Woosh Vol.9

A very special podcast for us from the one and only Simon DK (DiY).

Recorded Live @ Earth in 1995 this podcast is still sounding fresh today capturing DiY perfectly. DiY soundsystem are one of our biggest influences and their parties are a pinnacle part of clubbing history.

Massive shout out to Simon for allowing us to re-upload this bit of magic.

Enjoy x

The DiY Sound System was one of Britain's first house sound systems. The group "divided their activities between free parties and legal club nights, acting as a bridge between counter-culture and the mainstream".

It was created in Nottingham in 1989 as a reaction against the growing number of rave promoters whose bias was towards their own financial enrichment, rather than the joy of their party-goers. They wished to form a cohesive, collective, political front against the prevailing anti-rave legislation that was beginning to come into force at that time. This became more marked around the time of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, with DiY playing a key role in the largest illegal rave ever put on at Castlemorton Common Festival prior to the Bill and a constant stream of illegal, outdoor parties (often at travellers' sites, quarries and disused airfields) all over the country. Simon Reynolds writes that DiY threw "free parties at abandoned airfields or on hilltops, drawing a mixed crowd of urban ravers and crusty road warriors".[2]

DiY also worked successfully in the realm of legitimate club nights, with their "Bounce" night touring the country as well as being a staple of Nottingham's night life. Its popularity, connected to its lack of concern for dress codes and its non-exploitation of its loyal clubbers, coupled with its very particular form of deep, soulful, often minimal house music, led to it being recognised as one of the top ten club nights in Britain by The Times.

In 1993, they also began their own record label, Strictly 4 Groovers, which later became known as DiY discs. They released house music on vinyl until 2006, which included releases by local talents Atjazz, Rhythm Plate and Charles Webster. The collectives primary DJ's - Simon DK, Digs and Woosh - still play at various nights in the U.K., Europe and United States.

DiY still occasionally hold free parties, typically to celebrate a milestone date - on 19 September 2009, DiY celebrated their 20th birthday with a free party in near their home town of Nottingham.,[3] while on 23 August 2014, they their 25th (Silver) birthday with a free party held in a field in Leicestershire.

BUY / DONATE - 4BLM

discotech Podcast 49 | Simon DK (DiY)

1993

Simon DK DIY 1993

Murk @ Sadmac - 03 Simon DK

Track List below.
Inspired by the 30th Anniversary of Nottingham's legendary DiY Collective, this mix features a collection of music created across that timespan by musicians and producers from within the DiY core,close associates & the wider house music family that drew inspiration from the trailblazing musical, hedonistic & cultural blitzkrieg that they spearheaded throughout the 1990s and beyond. Nottingham area producers such as Inland Knights / Andy Riley  , Neil Tolliday (aka Nail / Bent) - Charles Webster(aka Furry Phreaks)Rhythm Plate(also Yse Saint Laur'Ant), Ron Basejam, Schmoov- all included here -  emerged from this scene and era, many releasing their debut releases on DiY Discs. 
DiY's importance  within the house music world and the wider culture - mainly in UK but also internationally, while surely not yet fully recognised, should not be underestimated. As well as  being in the vanguard of promoting underground house music through their own early 90's club nights and parties in Nottingham , their mix tape releases and record label, DiY were one of the first to fuse house music , free festival ethos and Jamaican sound system culture, creating DiY Sound System.
Along with other like-minded maverick musical warriors they pioneered the outdoor /countryside/ under the stars/ summer free party. This irrevocably changed thousands of people's lives,  altered their way of looking at the world and suggested how we might live and socialise...
In pursuit of this utopian vision, property / drug and other laws were violated for the greater good and DiY put their personal safety/liberty on the line every weekend across those heady summers in the 90's,  to entertain and enlighten.
The well documented gathering at Castlemorton in May 1992, marked a  turning point. DiY  were one of the few systems flying the flag for underground "proper" house music....
Direct DiY action against the now infamous Criminal Justice Bill followed-  Other sound systems, notably Smokescreen, picked up the mantle in the 90s.
Of course, the utopian vision didn't materialise & as happens in such heady hedonistic worlds, there were deaths, prosecutions, jailings, social and  personal misdemeanours and casualties en route.......but hey, what a journey for those involved, and what a legacy. 
Many DiYers are still out there agitating, educating and organising to this day.
Their free party blueprint laid solid foundations, and in spite of restrictions that have curtailed the ability of anyone to recreate what DiY achieved in that decade, austerity driven Police cuts have seen a renaissance in recent years.
All of the tracks included here are made by people who have direct connection to DiY or who grew up in or adopted  Nottingham East Midlands region as their home. Includes as yet unreleased tracks from "newer" Nottingham producers such as Jamie Deep and Coxie.   
Dedicated to Pete Woosh - i will always love you xx
Be Still – Overview / Mobile Music - (DK & Damian Stanley)DiY Discs 
Keep Yr Shape (HypnoDub)- Gallery Sounds (Andy Riley & Pete Woosh)
Slummin It – Inland Knights (Andy Riley & Laurence Richie)
Need U – Coxie 
Heavy Sometimes – Rhythm Plate
Gonna Miss You – Inland Knights
Gayatri – Electric Soul Sounds. (Hayley Harrison & Andy Riley)
Decisions – Nail
Work It Out (Underwater Trumpet Mix)- Good Together. (DK and Damian O'Grady mix)DiY Discs release             
Cybele – Jamie Deep (Spiritwrestlers Bandcamp 2019)
Conquista - Conquista Del Casa -(T:me Recordings - shared Square Dance Studio with DiY in 1990s)
Gonna Find A Way (Major Dude Mix) - Furry Phreaks (Charles Webster)
Searchin for NJ – Digital Boogie - DiY Discs 
For the People, By the People (Schmoov Remix - Ron Basejam
Wax On (Andy Riley Wax Off Mix) – Phillipa.
Caught Up – Inland Knights.
Hothead (Original DiY Dub) – DiY (warp records - available Bleep.com)
Hundreds of Thousands – Jamie Deep

"It's Black O'er Bill's Mothers" - A Celebration of DiY Collective & Nottingham House Music (Part 1)

Deeply prolific Bristol-based house connoisseur Andy Compton has released over 50 albums and over 200 EPs (either under his own name or as part of his legendary group The Rurals, COMPTON or L.A.M.P, Blue Dream) on his essential Peng label and imprints like Motown, Universal, EMI, Sony, Ralf GUM’s GOGO Music, Chicago’s LARGE Music, Seasons, Viva, Hed Kandi and many others.
South Africa has embraced Andy's deep house sounds, and because of his popularity over there, and albums released via EMI, SONY, WEA, and now Universal. He has done over 20 South African tours in the past 10 years.
Since discovering house music in the early ‘90s Compton has released a dazzling array of music and worked with an army of artists. He’s been featured on the cover of the seminal DJ Magazine and had his music used in TV show Six Feet Under, while tunes like “Sweeter Sounds” have become bona fide anthems at spots like NY’s Shelter. He has worked with top class vocalists Celestine, Marie Tweek, Diviniti, Kafele, Rowan, Ladybird, Sabrina Chyld and many others!
Compton's Dj skills have turned heads and twisted bodies worldwide, with his thumping brew of electronic beats swathed in coolly-crafted melodies, with Peng becoming one of the premiere labels on the planet, garnering support from house big-hitters like Louie Vega, Larry Heard, Mark Farina and Osunlade (to name a few).
All this has solidified Compton’s reputation as one of the most respected house music players on the planet.

Simon DK - Peng Records party, Exeter, 30th June 2007

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