Some Podcasts and DJ Sets

So that was the final night at the Paradise Farage. Sadly the club has had to be closed down, demolished and the site turned into a giant lorry park as a result of Brexit. For our last show, we travelled to Ray Mang's studio and streamed live from deepest East London with Mr Mang himself, a Leftside Wobble guest mix and me. Enjoy and thanks so much for all the support I've received over the past 15 months, it's really appreciated. 

If you fancy coming to see myself and Raj play together in the actual flesh, we're playing at Alfresco festival in Kent on August bank holiday weekend. Ticket details here:
https://alfrescofestival.co.uk/tickets/

BILL BREWSTER, RAY MANG & LEFTSIDE WOBBLE | Live At The Paradise Farage, 12th June, 2021

Cali born Atlanta based Wahine drops a wonderful mix of disco sounds.

Enjoy the music x

Disco Deviance Mix Show 107 - Wahine Mix

Four of the sets from our Halloween party. Next party is at Corsica Studios, London Feb 12th.

RAY MANG | Low Life, Halloween 2021

B2B all night long with @jsaintil live at @jolenebar with Hugo on the lights ...(missing the last section when the batteries ran out on the recorder).

J.E.A.N. & The Revenge All Night Long At Jolene

Ray Mang drops an exclusive mix in preperation for him playing at https://fb.me/e/32SKr6hDV

Moodena Presents...Ray Mang DJ Guest Mix

here we go again, a b2b session from Lovebirds & Sirs recorded at Berlin Borchardt on Friday 27th

SIRS b2b LOVEBIRDS Berlin Borchardt 27.05.2022

Here's a guest mix from me for Andy Wilsons Balearia Show on Ibiza Sonica that aired Wednesday 29th June.
Featuring new tracks from my Far Flung EP out on 29th July..

1. Pete Herbert 'Early One Evening' (Music for Swimming Pools)
2. Space Ghost 'Inner focus'
3. James Bright 'Glaze' (Music For Swimming Pools)
4. Electronic Bodyguards 'Stronger' Pete Herbert Remix (Real Balearic)
5. Pete Herbert 'Far Flung' (Music for Swimming Pools)
6. SIRS 'Marimar'
7. Pete Herbert 'Dear Hector' (Music for Swimming Pools)
8. Processman & Cady - Sou Baiana ((Dicky Trisco Mix)
9. Pete Herbert 'Far Flung' Gold Suite Remix (Music For Swimming Pools)
10. Pete Herbert 'South Seas' (Music For Swimming Pools)

Early support on the EP from ALFOS, Horse Meat Disco, Crazy P, Faze Action, Yu Su, KZA, Bill Brewster, Dicky Trisco Selvagem, Love Drop,  Harri, DJ Rocca, Mystery Affair, Misiu, Leo Zero, Fingerman, Sean Brosnan, Get Down Edits & many more.

MUSIC FOR SWIMMING POOLS GUEST MIX FOR CAMPO SANCHO ON IBIZA SONICA

Another All Night Long Session in the club followed by another Afters With Dicky Session. 

Major wonky international sounds picked up on vinyl from around the globe on my travels. From the back of shoe shops, in damp storage units, down dark alleys, in dusty apartment blocks,  disused 80s shopping centres and from vinyl street sellers.

Wild & beautiful sofa sounds to fuel those lazy and hazy moments shared with other like minds. 

Enjoy the music x

Afters With Dicky Again

A mixed plate from mid-tempo starters to main dish bangers featuring some forthcoming creations, recent favourites, and classic fare.

MANG’S MIXED MEZE - APR 22 - BY RAY MANG

I had planned to post this in the New Year as this first instalment of Dub Disco Deli (recorded in 2008) has never been on SoundCloud, but I decided to upload it today in memory of Terry Hall. His music didn't just awaken me musically, it ignited my political awareness and educated me about the importance of social justice in a manner that was far more tangible than anything I learnt in the classroom. RIP Terry, your spirit lives on. x

BTW I've enabled downloads on this one.

Leftside Mixes

Dub Disco Deli part 1 - a statement of intent from 2008...

My set from last week's ace party in a warehouse in the suburbs of Lisbon.

BILL BREWSTER | Spiritland, Lisbon, Friday 19th May, 2023

Mine and Frankie B's set from Newcastles Lubber Fiend on Fri June 2nd. We did a Q&A in front of a tidy little audience and then played for a bit.

BILL BREWSTER & FRANK BROUGHTON | Lubber Fiend, Newcastle, Fri June 2nd, 2023

www.openlab.fm | 106.4FM in Ibiza & Formentera 
Check the full tracklist on our website:
https://openlab.fm/news/crazy-p-curate-01-ray-mang

https://soundcloud.com/crazyp Curate with https://soundcloud.com/ray-mang

Following the highly collectible vinyl series on https://soundcloud.com/2020visionrecordings, Crazy P Curate comes to OpenLab as a new series of radio shows featuring a selection of the artists representing on the project, starting with the disco don Ray Mang.
Ray brings us a wonderful mix including unreleased material from himself and friends, and the tracks that inspired him to make ‘Osea Island’, his contribution to the series.

Download our App:
IOS: bit.ly/OLappApple
Android: bit.ly/OlAppAndroid

Crazy P Curate 01: Ray Mang

'Hakkasan Hanway Place is staying up later with Hakkasan LATE. 
 
Tune in to our first LATE mix provided by Ray Mang, producer, electro-artist and remix master who has been making his mark in the dance music world since the mid 90s. His one hour mix will provide the soundtrack to our launch party this Thursday 12th March.
 
Hakkasan LATE will see the iconic restaurant transform into an intimate, latenight venue from 10pm until 2am every Thursday, with music supplied by a rotation of live DJs playing an eclectic mix of house, disco, funk and electro music alongside familiar classics.'

Hakkasan LATE DJ Mix

I first met Andrew Weatherall about 15 years ago when he played for us at Autodisco in Dundee. Dave Bowie, who I ran the night with, was a good friend of his. I had to pick him up at the airport and as always he turned up looking like a maverick man of style and attitude while demanding instant hashish. Half way through the journey he said something like this ‘Barrington (I had never been called this before but immediately took to it) my nicotine habit way exceeds the length of this current journey’ and I told him he was welcome to spark up. For years afterwards my kids used to say when they smelt cigarette smoke in the car, ‘has Andrew Weatherall been in town?’.
 
Weatherall played for us many times at Autodisco and then I started doing the ALFOS nights in Dundee with him and Sean. To be honest I loved what Sean did for Andrew. I think he allowed him to play a load of non-techno music that he had been wanting to express (again) for years.
 
I remember having a real promoter moment early on at the first ALFOS night in Dundee when someone was carried out of the packed dance floor around 11.30pm…I thought shit, what’s it going to be like at 3am!!!
 
As well as doing nights together in my city we spent quite a bit of time hanging out at festivals in the summer whether on sun beds in Croatia, stone boats in North Wales, caravans in Glastonbury or wherever.
 
I have to say he was one of those guys that kind of taught you how to do things properly. How to be a good guy. How to be a good DJ. I will not forget that. You always seemed to learn things around Andrew as well as laugh your tits off.
 
Anyway I am digressing…back to the current story.
 
For years as blanket-bombing digital promotion in dance music took hold, Andrew was the only guy I knew who preferred the personal touch to emails. So I used to text or call him on the blower and send him regular CDs of our latest stuff. He liked a hard copy. The stuff I sent was from the various labels we ran over the years and sometimes just random bits and pieces we made for DJing, which I thought he might like. After all Andrew playing it really meant something.
 
I called these CDs ‘Weatherall’s Bits’ which seemed to amuse him.
 
Anyway, recently during the non-stop lockdowns I have been switching my music over from an old laptop to a new one and I came across the ‘Weatherall’s Bits’ playlists on my itunes.
 
I cried when Andrew died. I heard about it at the airport and I cried. We didn’t know each other so well. But he was really kind and considerate to me as a producer, a promoter and a fellow human being. He encouraged me and always got back to me about my tracks. And he just seemed to have a real significance as a character in the generation of producers and DJs that he led by default, charisma and good taste.
 
He also did something that very few people do these days. He would pick a track out that no one else would play and he would make it his. He would play it until people got it. I loved that.
 
Anyway faced with deleting these playlists – ‘Weatherall’s Bits’ - I decided, as I hadn’t made any tribute to Andrew, to make a mix out of them. Mainly because I realised that, as often was the case with Andrew, he made me try to be better than I was. And the tracks I sent him were probably better than the ones I played. I certainly tried to send him the good stuff. If you thought Weatherall would like it then that was a good sign. And you always knew he would pick up on stuff other people would ignore.
 
I also just wanted to remember once more and it brought back a flood of memories doing this mix.
 
So here it is. This is my tribute to a lovely, funny, creative and truly inspiring man.
 
Cheers mate and thank you.

I hope you enjoy it.
 
Love Barrington x

Weatherall's Bits - Barrington Mix

Ray Mang is Laj is Raj Gupta. One of the premier disco producers since way back when and still clocking forwards in a future fashion with no sign of letting up. He landed his first 12” Number One in ’96 on Noid Recordings gaining widespread support in the clubs and on compilations. He has taken that wonky party sound and kept it moving on ever since.  He also runs the label Mangled and has released across too many labels to mention. He is prolific with the quality control on high.

He launched his own label Mangled in ’98 with a slew of killer 12-inches. Two albums followed: ‘Mangled’ (Eskimo) and ‘Mangled Again’ on his own imprint, as well as singles on R&S, Smash Hit and Bear Funk. Recent hits include ‘Bullet Proof’ on DFA featuring Lady Miss Kier, a disco-house reimagining of a P-funk classic; and the blissed-out Balearic gem ‘Look Into My Eyes’ which instantly became a firm favourite for many.

His many talents as a musician and producer have driven a wealth of collaborations: in bands Block 16 and Motif on seminal ’90s label Nuphonic; as Laj with the Idjut Boys on U-Star, or with Quakerman on their own Fiasco imprint; and with close musical acquaintances The Glimmers, Foolish Felix, Lee Tong and Nathan D’Troit.  More recently Ray has teamed up with Bill Brewster to form Mang Dynasty.  In all his guises Ray Mang is one of the most prolific contributors to the UK disco/house canon.

As a remixer his phone never stops ringing.  He’s notched up credits for  Lassigue Bendthaus, Banda Black Rio, Gorillaz, Shirley Bassey, Grand National, Beck, Roxy Music / Bryan Ferry, Doves, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Freddie Mercury, Bloc Party, Munk, Rob Garza, Friendly Fires, Classixx, S-Express, Daniel Grau & Los Amigos Invisibles with Dimitri From Paris to name just a few.
 
As a globe trotting DJ he plays at festivals, clubs, bars and on beaches in some of the most beautiful locations around the world.  His incendiary sets blend house, disco, boogie, cosmic, balearic, latin, afro, along with anything that takes his fancy and sneak previews of his own forthcoming monsters.  As happy playing peak time Saturday night as he is providing the soundtrack to your sunset moment in paradise.  Recent trips have taken him to Brazil, USA, Bali, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Croatia, Ibiza and all over Europe. He has also become a regular at festivals like Electric Elephant, Festival No 6, Campo Sancho and Mareh & O/NDA in Brazil. 

For bookings or other enquiries please email fergus@solarmanagement.co.uk or send a message

BILL BREWSTER, RAY MANG & LEFTSIDE WOBBLE | Live At The Paradise Farage, 12th June, 2021

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