First recorded mix for months... and not a lot of time on the decks since the last mix either, you can defo hear it in some of the mixes.

A slew of absolute bangers throughout though - new and old bits of the UKG variety.

No pre-planning, no warm-up and always vinyl.

Back In The Saddle - UKG

Just found the only mix I made that I ever shared with more than one or two people. This was recorded in 2010 with a tonne of pre-planning in record selection and it took a ridiculous amounts of takes... I would never have shared anything unless I was totally happy with it so I'm surprised I never wore these records out. 

I used to hate recording mixes, as soon as I used to press that record button my mixes would go to shit - I'd stop recording and started again..and again...and again.... so I just never stuck at it. 

I had a quick skim through this and the mixing seemed alright - but I'm so much prouder of my recent stuff as I dont really plan much barring picking a genre (usually based on recent purchases), and I just enjoy playing a lot more and however they come out its just fine with me... and there are some of my more recent mixes that I really enjoy listening back to.

This is an hour of relentlessly fun hard house hoover nonsense  - not stuff I play much at all (have done one mix like this in the past few years) but it brings back a lot of memories, hope someone else gets something out of it too :)

Spring Clean - Henry Hoover [old hard drive find from 2010]

This selection is all new to me, some brand and some old stuff I've picked up on discogs lately... all my kinda sound though.

Some real bangers in here - the new and the old almost indistinguishable with the quality of the latest stuff... I reckon there's more than one dodgy transition, but you know the drill - no practice just picking from a pile on the fly.

This is also my first ever recorded mix on a pair of 1210 MK2s - I've owned a pair for about a year but this is my first time plugging them both in as I really like my GRs so have only had one set-up for mates who prefer MK2s.  Previously I'd always owned vestax and only upgraded to GRs just over a year ago as well - I think this being my first mix on my own MK2s given I've been fannying around with DJing for 20+ years is quite the achievement  :D

My Kinda Sound

A combination of tunes I've bought in bundles but not got round to playing peppered with a few older bits I've probably included in previous mixes.

Although unplanned the set was from a pile I was making when doing a back to back with Justin the other week, so stuff I thought would work together - think there's one style transition that doesn't really work when it gets more tech-housey but overall still a good banger:clanger ratio :)

House for Justin Vol 2

Been a while since my last mix, I've been building up a pile of quality housey garage / garage house bits and this is an hour of it :) 

Old and new in here as always... quite a few tracks of a label called Happiness Therapy that I've not seen before but was full of decent stuff.

House and/or Garage

Load of old garage bits from my recent record shop digging.... spent ages cleaning all these and they all looked fine but the mix ends with a record that has issues - annoying as I was in the groove and had a load more to play so will do another of similar stuff soon.

Curse of someone else's garage

Been out of the groove with mixing lately... only really playing records to listen to them as they come in and saving them in the hope I'd fancy recording something (which hasn't really happened).

On the plus side... I have loads of new music to record :)
On the downside, I'm out of practice again :(

I enjoyed this mix anyway, it's old and new and everything I like.

2steps Backwards

This is one of those mixes that shows how I mix when I'm not just playing all one genre... it goes all over the place, old and new stuff and probably some bits that dont quite work but fun to do.

A couple of classics that I wouldn't get the chance to play unless I do sets like this - probably enjoyed this one more than any other mix I've had for ages.

Couple of old vinyl skips, pops and manhandled mixes - just the way you like :D

All over the gaff... again

Cleaned a load of records I bought of some guy about a year ago - this is all 90s stuff, I dont really play this sound at all but there's definitely some good stuff in here (and a few not so good!).

Hard when playing stuff you've not really heard before, especially when it's a different sound you're used to as well... I think I got away with the majority of these mixes, but a couple were less than ideal.

I really like the opening track despite it being a bit of cheesy side - not really sure what it is about it and I've never heard it before but it's got that poppy dance vibe to it.... however, if it's not for you, it defo gets more housey after that one! :D

Cleaning another man's house

A load of new UKG for this mix, some great stuff coming out on Vibesey and a few other bits and bobs, all vinyl as always.

If you dont think cabbage rhymes with garage then you're saying it wrong :D

Cabbage Rhymes with Garage

Haven't had a mix for ages let alone record anything... this is a selection of both newer and old bits, was just whatever was in a record bag I packed about 5 months ago! 

There's defo one major clang in here... as expected

bip-o-braaaap

Vinyl set from the Recycle Vinyl opening day in Elland - set from about 5 years ago now... few clangs, all bangs

Falling down the shop stairs PT1

Vinyl set recorded at Recycle Vinyls 3rd birthday - more clangs in this one than the other one... send your letters of complain to 4a Westborough Road - SS09DR

Falling down the shop stairs PT2

This mix is a load of bass heavy tunes from the late 90s/early 00s that were all over the pirate radios of London and Essex...

Just like a lot of those radio shows, the mixing is questionable in places - defo a few clangers... I was mixing like they were all 4/4 so you've got some weird and overly long transitions! you're welcome :D

These tunes remind me of bombing around dagenham in John's Nova SR with basslines literally shaking hi numberplate off!

Some of these tunes hadn't been played for 10+ years, so excuse the pops... it adds an authentic flavour

Enjoy

John's Vauxhall Nova SR Bass-Box Mega-Mix!!!! (UK Garage)

Two guys getting better at DJing in public... all mixes recorded without practice and always on vinyl.

@michael-mentessi & JC - sometimes B2B, sometimes solo

Always bangers....often clangers

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