Recording of my 2021 Essential Mix for BBCR1, originally broadcast in September.

Ben UFO - Essential Mix 25.09.21

On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

Recording of Call Super's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

"Thank you for letting me do this, and much love to those who joined me. This set is dedicated to the memory of Steve Bronski."

Call Super at Dekmantel Festival 2022

This is Part 2 of my Mystery of the Motherbeat series of DJ mixes. I’ve wanted to record this mix for a long time as a follow-up to my 2018 mix by the same name. Both are a fusion of styles used to build a psychedelic hypnotic soundscape for deep listening and personal synchronization with the heart of Motherbeat. No big hands in the air moments to speak of here, just deep mixing and some of the most beautiful records in my collection. My Journal of the Motherbeat Substack explores the selections and intentions behind this 2 hour and 19 minute mix: https://journalofthemotherbeat.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-dj-mix. The track list is below.

1. LaTour - Blue (XX Records, 1992)
2. @geotaguchi - Deep Blue  (Coymix, 2023) 
3. Caldera - 30 Friends (Freude Am Tanzen, 2022)
4. Y.M.C. - Subway (Yoshitoshi Recordings, 1998) 
5. Brian Tanseau - Relativity (Carl Craig Urban Affair Dub, 1993)
6. @satoshi_tomiie - Un Peu (Abstract Architecture, 2023)
7. @edmondsonandon - On & On (Lissoms, 2023) 
8. Cris. P - Lemon (Psy Section, 2021)
9. @dreamcycleuk - All the Things (Idle Hands, 2021) 
10. Yaw Evans - Only Spirit (GD4YA, 2022) 
11. Todd Edwards - Winter Behavior (i Records, 1995)
12. Toka Project - One Day (Filter Flow, 1999)
13. Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom  (Mary’s Birthday Mix) (Opal Records, 1992)
14. Thurlow Joyce - Varial (NAFF, 2023)
15. Hoodwink  - Trip From The Hip (Mute, 1997)
16. The Heavyweight Kru  =  The Drea-mm (Not On Label, 1999)
17. @perkopair - Prang (Numbers, 2023)
18. Way Out West - The Gift (album version) (Deconstruction, 1997)
19. Anunaku @gu_tsvi - Celeste (WHYT, 2023)
20. Head High - Break Away (Power House, 2023)
21. Kenny Dope - Tom Beat (Dopewax, 2005)
22. S.R. - Dosemeter (Ruffset Records, 2022)
23. Knopha - Corundrum (Mood Hut, 2023)
24. Molen - Molecular Machine (Flight Mode, 2023)
25. Satoshi Tomiie - Proody-106 (Phonogramme, 2023)
26. DJ Tonka - Radical Noise (Force Inc., 1995)
27. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VI (Not on Label, 1999)
28. Ruffneck Revival - My Knight VII (Not on Label, 1999)
29. Transformer 2  - Fruit of Love (Profile, 1992)
30. American Freedom Train - Cab Ride (Soundbird, 1975)
31. Way Out West  - Earth (Deconstruction, 1997)

Eris Drew’s Mystery of the Motherbeat Part 2

Recorded at Radio Radio, Westergas, Amsterdam. 
https://www.instagram.com/radioradio.fm/
https://radioradio.radio/
Photo by Clara Monacelli.

Skatebård at Radio Radio, Amsterdam

Cormac at Praia - Waking Life '24

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 

Aired 23.11.2024

Paula Tape - Essential Mix - BBC Radio 1

the worlds gone crazy™️ and 85% of shit has changed since 1992.

but this hasn’t, not really. this is what i do, and have been doing every night since i was 17.

i find records i love, i fly to a city. i take a nap. i play the records for people. they dance. i get paid i go home.

sometimes i actually think there might be something wrong with me to STILL be doing this. am i stupid?

HOW…. how could you STILL be playing records for people at 5am. shouldn’t you have developed an APP? A line of Wellness Products? surely you should have “sold your company” by now? WRITE A DECK? raise capital!!!! Get bored.
but then i play a set like this (link above) and remember that this is, in fact, as good as it gets, that the core idea i had as a 16year old was actually the BEST idea: to live a life surrounded and protected by MUSIC. armed with your favourite songs, the ones that keep you young and confidant, the ones you want to share with friends.

so that is DJing for me. simple. not particularly revolutionary… except for the fact that to be excited and happy seems revolutionary these days.

also: i’ve played about 4500 parties. and most are like 6 or 7 on tens….. sometimes an 8.

THIS WAS A 10. And the 10s never get recorded. there are lots of exclusives and THREE of my new tracks. and its been recorded WITH all the crowd noise…. trust me its a good one.

if you only listen to one of my 4 hour sets this year…. make it this one.



love from montreal via Offenbach/RJ (one of the best clubs on earth)

t

Tiga 4hr live from Robert Johnson with full crowd audio. Nov 2024

A wildly exuberant moment in the oddest of timelines. One of my first gigs after a year of global Covid lockdowns. We needed this. A step back into the light. Thanks for the energy!

To re-live a dream is to live forever.

Much Love to all the dreamers out there - let's keep this thing alive!
Hunee

Ps. Thanks to all my friends sending me the most beautiful music - u know who u are! ❤️

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 - Beach Stage Closing

Agra ft. Deepak  - Gandhi’s Prayer (Dub)
Filippini - Listen To Your Heart (Instrumental)	
Chandra Simmons - We Can Dance (Manhattan Club)	
Maldwyn Pope - Altered State
Jean Jacques Gaston - Nadia
Annick Et Jean-Claude - Remember (Tracksuit Edit)
Vincent Fortuné - Bouc Emissaire (Tracksuit Edit)	
Articulat - Badaouiah
Ko Saba - Douga (Praktika Remix)	
Daniele Baldelli - Gandharva (Original Mix)	
The Soundstealers - Steal It An' Deal It (Sahara Dub Mix)
Elkie Brookes - Rising Cost Of Love (Prins Thomas Mix)
Herb Alpert - Red Hot
Bahia - Meu Amigo (Instrumental)	
Argentina - Let’s Play Sexy Games (Instrumental)
Double Face - Tengo La Sangre Caliente (Base Version)
Hugo Moolenaar - Big Man Cry
Caribbean Sextet - Caribbean Sextet_Gomez Edit
Optimo - Optimo (Mike Wilson Edits)
4X4 - Miss Doctor (Original Mix)
Shohjo-Tai & Red Bus St Project - Electric City
Aashid Himons - Gods & I (extended remaster)
Sha' D Underground Trax - Scalpel Track 01
Stevie B - In My Eyes (Radio Edit)
Larry Tee - What Am I Gonna Do? (MLiR Extended Edit)	
Combi - I’m Feeling Excite
Bastedos - Sit On Dub
Eiswolf - Der Hexer
Manouch-Ka - Diabolo (Instrumental)
Hi-Tension - Objects (Slam Jam Edit)
3 Winans Brothers & The Clark Sisters - Dance (Louie Vega Latin Soul Version)		
Lars Bartkuhn - Transcend	
Isolee - Mad Marauder	
Instant House - Awade (Vocal Part Three)
Mount Liberation Unlimited - Lord Of The Floor
Latin Force - Leyla (Deep Underground Dub)
Jonny Rock - Same As It Ever Was - Mashup One Acid a Life Time			
Isolee - Pisco
Theo Parrish & Carl Craig - Falling Up (Carl Craig 2013 Remaster)		
Pris - Vanity
Jump Source - Empathy Dub 1
Frequency - Panic Mode (1993 Version)
Frequency - Panic Mode (2020 Version)
Santiago Salazar - Arcade (SG Remix)

Hunee - Live at Dekmantel Selectors 2021 (Beach Stage Closing)

Antagonism is the result of a studio session with:
Fred T. Baker ( Bass )
Mark Hewins ( Guitar
Javier Paxariño ( Saxophon )
and Ullip on Drums and Fender Rhodes piano)
A piece out of the Album „Agitation Free“
A piece of contrasts and therefore polarising at the same time. A mixture of four completely different musical styles, characterised by free improvisation and an intuitive approach. It is a piece of incomparable dynamism and joy of playing by the protagonists. A piece to fall in love with, to appreciate jazz rock, progressive and psychedelic music. Not a piece to just listen to in passing. It will challenge you. Get involved and you will experience a rapid flight through time with all its antagonisms.

Agitation Free

Antagonism

@vynehall

Last May, we invited Leon Vynehall to play a rare 'open to close' set at Honey Soundsystem. There are not many selectors that we can trust to not only DEBUT themselves at a HSS party but also take on a room entirely to themselves. His set exceed our expectations and the recording ACTUALLY came out.

Honey fans know we don't release many live-recordings, but when we do they often have a life of their own (see Jennifer Cardini at Burning Man, Silent Servant at Holy Cow, Black Madonna at Deviants, Doc Sleep at the 9 Year Anniversary) 

You can check out the past live-sets here: https://soundcloud.com/honeysoundsystem/sets/recorded-live-at-honey

This set has been on repeat since that May 26th night and after some serious cajoling, Vynehall agreed to release the first couple of hours. Vynehall does not really release live mixes so we know how special this is and thank him for letting us go with it.

The set went on for another 3.5 hours but included some material Vynehall can't have out in the world yet. So... here is an exceptionally good 3.5 hours at one of our traditional Sunday night, holiday weekend, Honey Soundsystem parties in San Francisco.

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

Leon Vynehall @ Honey Soundsystem SF [5-26-2019] (first half of all night set)

https://avalonemerson.com/andthecharm

Now one of dance music’s most respected DJs, Avalon Emerson first made a name for herself in the storied warehouse scene of her birthplace, San Francisco, before relocating to Berlin in 2013. Over a decade of performances at the famed Berghain led to appearances at numerous festivals around the world which all cemented Emerson, and her evocative, genre- and decade-spanning sets, as perennially in demand. 

In 2020, she released her first full-length collection: a contribution to the longrunning DJ-Kicks series (which Resident Advisor described as “The sound of a well-honed DJ at the top of her game.”), nestled alongside a steady stream of remix releases for the likes of Four Tet, Slowdive, Robyn and more.

Next up was 2023’s Avalon Emerson & The Charm, an instant classic which saw Emerson exploring her singing voice and more traditional songwriting outside of the boundaries of her dance music work.  Created after a move to New York, the resulting & The Charm album was released to critical acclaim, landing on numerous critics’ best-of-the-year lists.

The stage is now set, then, for her to carve out a wholly unique path, and with the help of new label home and indie giant, Dead Oceans, Emerson is poised to connect her various musical endeavors to create an untouchably rich output of material. First up is Perpetual Emotion Machine, consisting of songs created for her DJ sets, delivered via a living, evolving project and announced ahead of her worldwide tour.