Hey there, returning once more with the 3rd and final chunk from our Kings Day DJ set in Amsterdam this year, this time a couple of hours from right near the end of the day, so everything's getting decidedly ravey, but we're still chucking in plenty of favourites and curveballs alongside the remixed and re-edited classics - hope you enjoy!

Big thanks to everyone who came along and boogied with us, it was an absolute pleasure!

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Kings Day Amsterdam 2025 (Part 3)

Recently I had the pleasure of performing at Crystal Palace Bowl in London as part of the South Facing Festival, alongside a bunch of heroes & influences of mine, namely DJ Shadow, UNKLE (James Lavelle & Ronin), Morcheeba, Zero 7, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) & A Skillz, as well as my good friend DJ Cheeba.

Here is a 33-track 90-minute mix including some of the music I played during my sets at the event, and tracks from the artists that performed. One-take business.

Incidentally, last time I was at Crystal Palace Bowl was back in 1996, when I was an extra in the video to Chemical Brothers & Noel Gallagher's No.1 single 'Setting Sun' (!), so it was quite the trip to be back nearly 30 years later for this event! So as a bonus, for pure self-indulgence, I included that track too.

The mix also kicks off with a nod to Busta Rhymes, who headlined the festival the following day.

It was nice to be able to play some of the music on big speakers that I was playing in my bedroom way back when, along with being on stage with some of the artists that dominated my record collection around about that period too.

Shout to Rob Soundcrash & team, New Analog Design, Ishani Chakra, Big Martyn, Lauren & Ben, all the artists, and to all those folks that showed love. This one's for y'all! x

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Caravelli x Busta Rhymes - L'Etrange D'Busta (BobaFatt IntroVersion)
Portishead - Over
UNKLE - UNKLE (Main Theme)
Run The Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry
Tipper - Tepid Blue
Jon1st & Tehbis - Atmosphere Flip
Leftfield ft. Nicole Willis - Swords
Kaytranada ft. BadBadNotGood - Weight Off
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke - ...And The World Laughs With You
Oh No - Creepers
Morcheeba - The Sea
Zero 7 ft. Sophie Barker - In The Waiting Line
Handsome Boy Modelling School ft. Roisin Murphy & J-Live - The Truth
Harold Alexander - Mama Soul
Clipse - So Be It
DJ Krush ft. CL Smooth - Only The Strong Survive (Dillinja Remix)
DJ Krush x Blahzay Blahzay - Kemuri Danger (BobaFatt Blend)
Massive Attack - Sly (Underdog Mix)
Transglobal Underground - Temple Head
Barbatuques x Clyde Stubberfield - Funky Baiana (BobaFatt Blend)
Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (SuckaSide Needs Therapy Rebuild / BobaFatt Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
Strata 3 - (It's Not) A Man's World (BobaFatt Nixon Edit)
Brian Jackson & Masters at Work ft. Black Thought - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Macklemore - Hind's Hall
BadBadNotGood - The World Is Yours
J Dilla - Workinonit
Jurassic 5 - What's Golden
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
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Chemical Brothers ft. Noel Gallagher - Setting Sun
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Don Leisure - Almost Lost It

This South Facing Festival event took place on Thursday August 14th 2025.

South Facing Beats

Opeing Hour four Hugo Kant at Club Gretchen.

Thank You!

05.09.25 @Club Gretchen

PRE-ORDER - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen-years-of-leng-records

When Leng Records founders Paul ‘Mudd’ Murphy and Simon Purnell marked the imprint’s 10th birthday, they did so via a celebratory compilation that mixed classic catalogue cuts, remixes and exclusives. Five years on, and with the label’s 15th birthday upon us, they’ve decided to look to the future via a compilation made up entirely of fresh productions from Leng’s roster of current and new artists.

Presented on limited-edition gatefold double vinyl with a bonus 10” single, the collection offers an updated showcase of Leng’s much-loved trademark sound, a distinctive fusion of mid-tempo sleazy-disco, Balearica and chugging house interspersed with elements of electronic psychedelia and synth-powered space disco.

Fittingly for a compilation that wholeheartedly looks to the future, you’ll find first contributions from a handful of label newcomers. Fast-rising duo Flying Mojito Bros give their spin on ‘Smoke Signals’ by label debutants Joe Harvey-Whyte and Bobby Lee, turning in a heady and inspired revision that sits somewhere between dusk-ready cosmic disco and flash-fried desert blues. There’s also an appearance from Swedish producer Bo Wosticz with the dreamy and ultra-deep nu-jazz of ‘Bs As’.

Naturally, you’ll also find plenty of heat from those who have already proved their mettle through prior releases on Leng. Danish duo Liminal, who made their debut earlier this year with the much-played ‘Keep Coming Back To Me’, open proceedings with the tactile, slow-disco flex of ‘Tzatziki Bay’ where sweet synth melodies and a heady electric piano riff ride a warming groove.

Roberto Intrallazzi and Dario Piana from Italy’s original Afro-cosmic movement return with ‘Plutos’, a typically deep dubbed-out cosmic chugger. Then there’s Rose Robinson AKA Tigerbalm, whose ‘Mexicana’ featuring singer Joi N’Juno is presented across the package in two different forms. Pete Herbert, who contributed to some of the earliest Leng releases, drops a driving dub disco take on the main compilation, while Robinson’s original mix – a more organic, percussive and horn-heavy affair blessed with plenty of hallucinatory intent – opens the bonus 10”.

There’s a welcome return to Leng for the brilliant Payfone, whose ‘Dime Algo’ is a typically classy, analogue-rich affair in which attractive Rhodes riffs, atmospheric female vocals and pitched-down house pianos rise above shuffling drum machine beats and a slow-motion bassline. Long-serving label contributor Lex (Athens) delivers the loose-limbed nu-disco breeze of ‘Stolen Dance’, while the imprint’s San Francisco connection ¬– the ever-brilliant 40 Thieves collective – drop the dubbed-out Bay Area brilliance of ‘Such A Great Trip’.

Then there are the contributions of the label’s most storied artist, Andrew Meecham AKA Emperor Machine with ‘Eumig’, a deliciously slow, synth-rich chugger full of colourful chords, bubbly electronic melodies and jaunty electronic bass. Then, to round off the bonus 10” single, Meecham joins forces with Paul Murphy (as Mudd) on ‘Road To Nikko’, an extended, Japanese musical culture-influenced slab of pitched-down alien-funk packed to the rafters with squelchy synth sounds, effects-laden percussion, chiming melodies and rubbery bass guitar.


D1 40 Thieves - Such A Great Trip

A mix inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNightFeeling/ and autumn evenings.

Image: painting by Ramsha Tariq: https://www.reddit.com/user/Idontknow649/submitted/ https://www.instagram.com/ramshatariq2/ 

Tracklist
The Chocolate Jam Co. - Suite Chocolate (Mounds)
Brittany Davis - Amid the Blackout of the Night
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Naima
Chip Wickham - Lost Souls
Chico Hamilton - Gengis
O'Donel Levy - Sierra Lonely
Oscar Peterson - Solar Winds
George Otsuka - Castaly
Ryojiro Furusawa - Cum-cum
Ryo Kawasaki - Joni
Vince Guaraldi - There's Been a Change (alt version)
Audrey Powne - Sleep
Batida - Autumn Remains
Elmer Bernstein - Night Mood
Herbie Hancock - Tell Me a Bedtime Story
New Life Trio - Empty Streets

The Night Feeling

I'm a  Wolf Man (Round Robin vs. Freddy Fresh re-)  1965 Free DL

Recorded live (live!) at JJ Cale’s 'Crazy Mama' studios, Nashville on 18 September 1975 as part of his Troubadour album sessions, the mysterious, quite spectacularly divine and languid 'Durango' was born unto this earth from the kingdom of music heaven.

Very little more is known about this instrumental gift from the gods. Beyond that, it is to us a set-in-stone fixture of the FMB musical mindset; the sonic tapestry; The Sound.

We were in two minds therefore about sacrilegiously refrying it… except it slots so god damn good into poolside, rooftop and trailer park DJ sets from canyon to coast.

And lo, having sinfully kept it to ourselves for so long, we seek absolution from Our Lord Cale as we pass this spiritual spin over to you.

https://flyingmojitobros.bandcamp.com/track/durango-flying-mojito-bros-refrito

Get it here

Durango (Flying Mojito Bros Refrito)

Basement Freaks Remix of "Is It Possible" from Wet Cookies' 2009 album Soul Protection.

https://open.spotify.com/album/79k9URSarIyaz0lhIBD6Es

Is It Possible (Basement Freaks Remix)

It's the Beatnuts! One of the best crate digging hip hop artists from the 90's given the re-funk treatment

Free Download

Off The Books | Ross Go Re-Funk

My Baby

Dinner 4 Two

https://linktr.ee/basementfreaks

Booty shakin low slung badass electronic funk with hip house tendencies. 

If you’ve been paying any attention to the world of funky breakbeats then you’ve no doubt heard of Basement Freaks – the brainchild of George Fotiadis, a major force in the scene for well over ten years. Not only does he DJ regularly all over the globe to sold out crowds, he produces more music than almost any other DJ in the scene and also finds time to run his own label, Bombastic Jam. After more than 20 successful vinyl releases, 5 full albums, over 45 remixes and countless digital EPs, George has been called “The hardest working man in Funk”. His music has been praised all over the globe, with every respectable future funk DJ regularly including a Basement Freaks track in their set.

Basement Freaks headlined the world’s largest and best breakbeat festival – Shambhala – in Canada and Nave Groove in Brazil. During the last couple of years has performed in Ibiza ,Paris, Bangkok, Sydney, Calgary, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the Lo Slung Electrofunk World tour witch found him performing in nearly every continent of the globe!

From 2017 and on Basement Freaks have released many unique and acclaimed sample packs for Black Octopus Sound, often incorporating global influences and traditional instruments, such as their "Argonautica – Kemençe of the Black Sea" and "Middle East Trap Percussion" packs.