That Redhead Kingpin/Simply Red blend though :)

Mixtapes

We are stoked to have this sunshine selection granted to us from the Polish pioneer of the Old School Reggae, Ska and Dub sound, Dreadsquad.

Tracklisting

01 - Koffee - Toast (Dreadsquad RMX)
02 - Dreadsquad & Tom Spirals - She shook me up
03 - Dub Princess & Dreadsquad - Too much juggling
04 - Dreadsquad & Craig Crofton - Ode to Tommy
05 - Dreadsquad & Blackout JA - Any means necessary
06 - The Specials - Message to you Rudy (Dreadsquad RMX)
07 - Dreadsquad & Kasia Malenda - Soulfly
08 - Turntable Dubbers ft. Brother Culture & Campina Reggae - Get Lively Now (Dreadsquad RMX)
09 Dreadsquad & General Levy - Choo choo train
10 - Dreadsquad & Lady Chann - Money ah dem god
11 - Dreadsquad & Million Stylez - Mind travelling
12 - Dreadsquad & Dr Ring Ding - Old's cool
13 - Turntable Dubbers & Seb Skalski feat. Top Cat - I like your style (Dreadsquad RMX)
14 - Ms Dynamite vs Dreadsquad - What you talking about (Ska RMX)
15 - Dreadsquad feat. Kasia Malenda & Jman - Satisfaction (reggae ska cover)
16 - Dreadsquad & Tenor Fly - Sweet thing
17 - Timbali & Peppery - How di place a run (Dreadsquad RMX)
18 - DJ Vadim feat Killa P & Jman - No Hype Man (Dreadsquad RMX)
19 - Dreadsquad x Killa P x Long Range - If you have to
20 - Taiwan Mc - Gwaan gyal (Dreadsquad RMX)

Links

https://soundcloud.com/dreadsquad
https://www.youtube.com/user/dreadsquad
https://www.facebook.com/dreadsquadsoundsystem

Dreadsquad - Minirig Mixtape

40 years ago saw the release of the first volume of major label pop compilations that quickly became a household name, and remain so to this day, 'Now That's What I Call Music!' 

As a kid in the 80s, these albums got a ton of plays from me & my family; at home, in the car, to the walkman soundtracking my walk (or run!) to/from school.

The first 9 volumes were on vinyl or tape only, appearing on CD from No.10 onwards. They were always cheaper than buying loads of singles anyway. We didn't have internet playlists back then. If you wanted to hear a variety of the latest big hits, there was the radio, mixtapes or compilations like Now. So this is an internet radio mixtape about a compilation. 

Now! was basically the UK successor to the K-Tel / Ronco / TOTP "as seen on TV" type comps & have seen off a bunch of rivals over the years, in terms of brand recognition. They are undisputedly the most successful pop compilation series of all time, across the world.

This is a mix of 50 tracks over 100 minutes, plucked from Vol's 1-10 (Nov 1983 - Nov  1987).
A random selection of feel-good mid-80's nostalgia - pop, soul and rock chart smashes.
Some would say guilty pleasures, but standardly I feel no guilt. 

This could have been a million hours long, so I set myself some selection rules...

Criteria:
- All tracks taken from UK releases of Vol.1 (28th Nov 1983) to Vol. 10 (23rd Nov 1987) only
- I haven't included any tracks featured on my previous Xennials 80's mixes
- Nothing from spin-off comps (Now Dance etc), or ones released later on
- No more than one track from each artist, whether solo or in a group
- No re-issues (lots of older tracks charted & were featured on these comps)
- I capped it at 50 tracks precisely for this mix, for brevity. There may need to be another…

Happy birthday Now!

TRACKLIST:
(Tracy Ullman - Now That’s What I Call Music Vol.1 Ad)

Nena - 99 Red Balloons
The Cure - The Love Cats
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again (USA remix)
Eugene Wilde - Gotta Get You Home Tonight (ft. Foxy Brown)
Kool & The Gang - Cherish
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do It
Howard Jones - What Is Love
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good
Jaki Graham - Set Me Free
Level 42 - Something About You
Simply Red - The Right Thing (ft. Redhead Kingpin)
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Aurra - You And Me Tonight
Cameo - Single Life
Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Little Mystery
Tracy Ullman - They Don’t Know About
Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately
Gap Band - Big Fun
Loose Ends - Magic Touch
Rock Steady Crew - Hey You Rock Steady Crew
Julia and Company - Breakin’ Down (Sugar Samba)
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Robert Palmer - I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On
Eurythmics - Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Human League - Fascination
Boy George - It’s A Miracle
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Mel and Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)
Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!
Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection
Jermain Stewart - We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
ABC - When Smokey Sings
KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
Heaven 17 - Temptation
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
T’Pau - China In Your Hand
Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
Wham - The Edge Of Heaven
Los Lobos - La Bamba
UB40 - If It Happens Again
The Style Council - You’re The Best Thing
Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away

(Various - 5 Minute Ad Break (Now 2-10)

Now That's What I Call Xennial

The first DJ Yoda 6Mix - originally broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music 24th October 2014. Old school/golden era hip-hop mix!

Tracklisting and info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3pby

BBC Radio 6 Music - DJ Yoda 6Mix 1 - 24.10.14

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the classic 4th album from The Roots, ‘Things Fall Apart’, this is a Block Party mix comprised of the Philadelphia Hip Hop band’s finest work, headed by the core group of Soulquarian's Questlove, Black Thought & the late Malik B, and featuring the likes of Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, J Dilla, Rahzel & Jimmy Fallon.

Broadcast on BBC 6 Music's The Huey Show, Feb 24th 2024.

Mix by BobaFatt
Hosted by Huey Morgan
The Huey Show is produced by Tom 'T-Bone' Whalley
The Huey Show logo by Jamie Groovement

TRACKLIST:
Huey Morgan - 2min Intro

Intro (Do You Want More?!..)
The Roots Are Comin’
Live At The T-Connection
Table Of Contents Part 2
Essawhamah? (Live At The Soulshack)
Rising Down (ft. Mos Def)
Break You Off
Datskat
Clones
Distortion To Static
Silent Treatment (Black Thought’s 87 You & Yours Mix)
What You Want (ft. Jaguar)
Proceed (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Mellow My Man (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Stay Cool
Don’t Feel Right (ft. Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh)
? vs. Rahzel
It’s The Music
Can’t Stop This
What They Do
Love Of My Life (ft. Common) (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Right On (ft. Joanna Newsome & STS)
Dynamite
Worldwide (London Groove)
Respond / React
The Next Movement
Silent Treatment (Da Beatminerz Remix)
Don’t See Us
Double Trouble (ft. Mos Def)
Without A Doubt
Don’t Say Nuthin’
Adrenaline
100% Dundee
Swept Away
Melting Pot
Din Da Da
The Seed 2.0 (ft. Cody Chesnutt)
Thought@Work
Boom! (ft. Big Daddy Kane & Kool G Rap)
You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu & Jill Scott) (LP Version / Original Version / Live Version)

Samples:
Teen Summit, BET
Flava TV interview in London (2001)
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: Every Shout Out To The Roots Ever

The Roots Block Party Mix | BBC 6 Music

Live recording of Skool of Thought at Stanton Sessions in London 13 July 2024.

Tracklisting:

DJ Luck & MC Neat 'Little Bit of Luck' Krafty Kuts Remix
Bicep 'Apricots'
Jason Laidback ft. Valerie M 'Sound System'
Sub Focus, Wilkinson 'Just Hold On'
Borai & Denham Audio 'Make Me'
Digital Base, Andy Vibes 'Bad Selection'
Micky Finn & Aphrodite 'Some Justice' Krafty Kuts Remix
Shndo 'Itty Bitty'
Jamie XX 'Gosh' Left . Right Remix
Jaco Garner 'Luv Stuff'
Tenshake 'Coma Cat'
Lowco 'Still Feel Ya'
Mr. Oizo, Skrillex, Missy Elliott 'Ratata'
Stanton Warriors & Skool of Thought 'Bronx Posse'
Posij 'B-Boy Sonata'
Krafty Kuts & Mc Spyda 'Vibes'
Wasted Crew 'Roll The Bass'
Fred Again, Swedish House Mafia feat. Future 'Turn Down The Lights'
Frost 'Overtones'
Plump DJs 'Scram'
Gorgon City, Aura James 'Oxygen - Franky Wah Remix 
Krafty Kuts 'Four Days'
Future Flex 'Desire'
Skool Of Thought & Adsorb 'Love & Hate'
Robert Owens 'Wishing Well' Plump DJs Remix
Stanton Warriors & Skool of Thought "Afrodisiac'
Krafty Kuts 'Got The Feeling'
Freestylers 'Holden' On'
Ed Solo & Skool of Thought 'When I Was A Youth'

Skool of Thought @ Stanton Sessions, London

After the success of volume 1 it was about time I got to work on the next instalment. This has been carefully krafted (pardon the pun) with a tasty selection of music I love to listen, play out & did some digging from my huge collection. There are a ton of exclusive unreleased tracks, edits, remixes & after a few months it is finally here & I am really happy how it turned out.

Track List :

1.   MXXWLL -  Palm Trees 
2.   Jay Z - The Ruler’s Back (Acapella) 
3.   Krafty Kuts & Supastition Feat DJ Robert Smith - There Comes A Time (Inst) *
4.   Rasco - Unassisted 
5.   Nas & DJ Premier - Define My Name 
6.   Krafty Kuts - Eazy Breezy 
7.   Krafty Kuts vs Q Tip - Work It Paul 
8.   Krafty Kuts Feat Scarlett Quinn - Rocket *
9.   Noga Erez - Views (Krafty Kuts edit)
10. Ocean Valley - Confidence (Krafty Kuts Edit)
11. Too Short vs Lettuce - Bounce That Monkey (Jimi Needles Edit)
12. Joey Valence & Brae (feat Danny Brown) - Packapunch 
13. Suckaside - Edi’s Diner 
14. Krafty Kuts - Gimme Your Love 
15. Tony Terry - Forget The Girl (Acapella)
16. Jimi Needles DJ Tool 
17. Krafty Kuts - ILL Street Vibes (Inst) *
18. Faith Evans - All Night Long (Acapella)
19. Krafty Kuts - Brujeria 
20. Inner City - Good Life (Acapella)
21. The Heatwave feat. Mr Lexx & Keida - Walk Out Gyal [Acapella] 
22. Krafty Kuts vs Busta Rhymes - Step In Da Place *
23. Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah Got You All In Check (Dirty Acapella)
24. Krafty Kuts & Dynamite MC - Fela Remedy 
25. Main Source - Looking At The Front Door (Inst)
26. Skooly D - PSK (A.Skillz Inst Edit) 
27. Grand Wizard Theodore - Live Freestyle Convention 82
28. Fort Knox 5 - Brazilian Hipster (Krafty Kuts Vocal Remix)
29. Krafty Kuts & Def 3 - Mystic Kingdom *
30. Krafty Kuts vs Busta Rhymes - Thank You (Inst) *
31. Busta Rhymes - Thank You (Acapella)
32. Vaughan Mason - Bounce Skate Rock Roll 
33. De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays"
34. Richie Havens - Going Back To My Roots 
35. Degrees Of Motion - Do You Want It Right Now (Acapella)
36. Newcleus - Jam On It (Acapella) 
37. Rosalia - BIZCOCHITO (NEVER DULL EXTENDED MIX)
38. Krafty Kuts Feat TC Izlam - ILL Type Sound Remix 
39. Hot Streak - Body Work 
40. Organised Confusion - Walk Into The Sun (Inst)
41. Dave Pike - Mathar (Krafty Kuts Edit) *
42. Rakim - Juice Know The Ledge 
43. Tokischa, El Cherry Scom & Haraca Kiko - Tukuntazo 
44. Nitro Deluxe - Let’s Get Brutal 
45. Jimi Needles - Party Time 
46. Krafty Kuts - Lady Whispers *
47. Shakedown - Get Down 
48. Gorillaz - Dare (Acapella) 
49. Skool Of Thought & Stanton Warriors - Bronx Posse 
50. Krafty Kuts - Four Days 
51. Keys N Krates, Haviah Mighty - Pull Up (Krafty Kuts Edit) *
52. Krafty Kuts - Real Low 
53. Krafty Kuts - To Be Free *
54. Krafty Kuts - Badman 
55. Krafty Kuts - Roy Cubano 
56. Benga & Cooki - Night 
57. Flash & The Pan - Waiting On A Train

* Exclusives / Unreleased

Funky Side Of Things Vol 2

Broadcast on BBC 6 Music on Sat 25th Jan 2025, this one celebrates the 40th anniversary of Run DMC's sophomore album 'King of Rock', focussing on the legendary Hollis Queens trio's biggest tracks.

The 40-track mix also takes in collabs, samples and interviews, including Beastie Boys, Aerosmith, Onyx, De La Soul, The Pharcyde, Russell Simmons, Chuck D, Ice Cube, Pete Rock, Salt (Salt-N-Pepa), The Stone Roses and Bob James, plus pop culture references from CB4, Abbott Elementary, and various clips from their 2024 Grammy-nominated documentary 'Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story'.

NYC's Rev Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels & the late great Jason Mizell were true pioneers in the world of hip hop and rock, becoming the first hip hop act to appear on MTV, where they were eventually dubbed the 'Greatest Hip Hop Group of All Time', amongst various accolades. 

The 1984 self-titled debut album on Profile Records was the first hip hop album to go gold, with the follow-up ('King of Rock') the first to go platinum, and third LP ('Raising Hell') the first to go multi-platinum.

From Krush Groove to Live Aid, their style and swagger influenced a generation worldwide for decades.

TRACKLIST:
Various - 2 mins of The Huey Show (intro)

Run DMC - Son of Byford
Run DMC - Slow and Low (Demo)
Beastie Boys - Slow and Low
Run DMC - Proud To Be Black
Run DMC - Together Forever (Krush Groove 4, Live at Hollis Park '84)
De La Soul - Oooh (instrumental)
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
Run DMC - The Ave
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Run DMC - My Adidas
Run DMC - Hit It Run
Onyx - Slam (instrumental / vocal)
Run DMC - Run's House
Run DMC ft. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Down with the King
Run DMC - King Of Rock
Run DMC - Rock The House
The Pharcyde - Runnin' (instrumental)
Run DMC - Rock Box
Run DMC - They Call Us Run DMC
Run DMC - Jam-Master Jay
Run DMC - Jam-Master Jammin'
Run DMC ft. Chuck D & Ice Cube - Back From Hell (Remix)
Run DMC - Here We Go (Live At The Funhouse)
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp (acapella)
Billy Squires - The BIg Beat
Run DMC - Sucker MC's (Krush Groove 1)
Run DMC - Hollis Crew (Krush Groove 2)
Run DMC - Beats To The Rhyme
Run DMC - Peter Piper
Bob James - Take Me to the Mardi Gras
Aerosmith - Walk This Way
Run DMC & Aerosmith - Walk This Way (extended)
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Run DMC - What's It All About
Run DMC - Mary, Mary
Run DMC - It's Like That
Run DMC - It's Tricky

Samples:
Kings from Queens: The Run DMC Story (Peacock, 2024)
Abbott Elementary (2021)
CB4 (1993)
Live Aid (1985)
American Bandstand (1985)
'Jam Master Jay Talks About Onyx & Slam Dancing' (1993)

And elements of...
The Jungle Brothers - I'll House You
Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh - Ladi Dadi
Shabba Ranks - Twice My Age


Mixed and curated by Bobby 'BobaFatt' Bignell.
The Huey Show is produced by Tom 'T-Bone' Whalley.
The Huey Show is presented by Huey Morgan.

'King of Rock' by Run DMC was released 21st Jan 1985.

Run DMC Block Party | BBC 6 Music

Last week was the 50th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 10th album; released July 11th 1975. It was the first to feature the US duo Lindsey Buckingham (guitars / vocals) & Stevie Nicks (vocals), who joined two of the original members, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, along with his then-partner, the late Christine McVie (keys / vocals). Band founder Peter Green had long since left, but the rhythm section he named the band after remained.

I originally did a Fleetwood Mac tribute mix back in 2013, for the 35th anniversary of 'Rumours'. It's one of my most-streamed mixes from over the years. 

Late last year I remade the mix entirely from scratch, as a pilot for BBC Radio 2.
The commissioning editor told me he liked it, but it was never aired. 

I'm not a fan of 'hard-drive classics', so this felt a good time to upload it.

This version is slightly different to my mix from 12 years ago.
It's a little more succinct (57 mins precisely), uses a few different tracks & samples, and effectively it's all been 'remastered'.

It covers all eras of the band and it's various incarnations, telling the tales of their well-documented personal battles, and their 20+ album legacy that made them one of the most successful bands of all time. 



Tracklist (all Fleetwood Mac except *)

Tusk (Live - Intro)
The Ledge (3/13/79: 2015 Remaster)
The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) (2018 Remaster)
Oh Well (Part 1) (2018 Remaster)
Looking for Somebody
Keep on Going
Brown Eyes (2015 Remaster)
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen*
Seven Wonders (2018 Remaster)
Second Hand News (Demo | 2004 Remaster)
Don't Stop (Demo | 2004 Remaster)
Everywhere (Psychemagik Edit | 2018 Remaster)
Dreams (Take 2 | 2004 Remaster | Early Version)
Dragonfly
The Green Manalishi (Live at Paris Cinema, BBC 04/09/1970)
Gold Dust Woman (Early Demo | 2004 Remaster)
Sara (Single Edit: 2015 Remaster)
Little Lies (2018 Remaster)
Say You Love Me (Early Version | Album Version)
World Turning (Live)
You Make Loving Fun (2018 Remaster)
Rhiannon (Early Take | 2004 Remaster | Live 1976, Midnight Special)
Gypsy
Black Magic Woman
Need Your Love So Bad
Big Love (Live 1997)
Go Your Own Way (2004 Remaster)
Keep Me There (Instrumental)
The Chain (2004 Remaster)
Albatross
Never Going Back Again (Acoustic Duet | 2004 Remaster)

Samples include:

Oh Daddy (demo)
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious (acapella)*
BBC 1967: Top of the Pops
BBC 1969: Rattlesnake Shake (Live at the BBC)
BBC 1969: Monster Music Mash
BBC 1970: Live at Paris Cinema (4/9/1970)
BBC 1970: Kiln House (documentary)
BBC 1995: Rock Family Trees - The Fleetwood Mac Story (host: John Peel)
BBC 2009: Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop (documentary)
BBC 2013: Mick Fleetwood on The One Show (28/1/2013)
BBC 2017: Christine McVie on BBC Breakfast (16/6/2017)
The Rosebud Film (1977)
Stevie Nicks & Christine McVie: Happy Birthday, Warner Brothers! (Warner Bros Promo 19/4/79)
Christine McVie (Rare US TV Interview 1980)
Classic Albums - Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (1997)

30 tracks. 57 minutes. Recorded October 2024.

(Based on 'Fleetwood Mix: A Tribute to FM' by BobaFatt (2013)).

Curated, mixed & produced by Bobby Bignell aka DJ BobaFatt.

Who's The Mac? (The Fleetwood Mix, 2025 Version)

Lyrics by ButaOjiChan, music composed by SUNO AI.

ナ・ル・ホ・ド(fes)

Minirig portable speakers the only soundsystem you will ever need!!
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Ok its Friday Minirig Mixtape time and guess who's back?... yes you got it the one and only ED SOLO!

He has made this mix especially for you to enjoy with your Minirig Subwoofer, Ed had this to say:

"This Dub/Reggae mix is specifically designed to work well on the Minirig Subwoofer" (Ed Solo)

So here is the playlist, ENJOY!

01 -  Mato - Da Funk (Dub)
02 -  Taggy Matcher - Rapper's Delight - Dub Version
03 -  Adriatic Sound - Festival Jam Riddim
04 -  Mungo's Hi Fi - G20 Riddim
05 -  Culture & Don Carlos - I'm Not Crazy
06 -  Gregory Morris - Rootsman Riddim Dub Mix
07 -  Damian Marley - On the Corner Dub
08 -  Jofis - Signs Dub
09 -  Dreadsquad - Bun Dem Riddim - Instrumental
10 -  Foundation Sound - One Dub
11 -  Roots & Harmony Band - Cultivator Version
12 -  Micah Shemaiah - Dub Dread (Will Tee Mix)
13 -  Tu Va Partir (feat. Leyla Chatti) [Zeb's Dub Remix]
14 -  Ed Solo - Untitled Dub
15 -  Etherealites - El Toro

Ed Solo - Minirig Sub Dub Reggae Mixtape

Here's my brand new 1h mix!

This is a return to my How To Cut & Paste style - there's a heavy emphasis on funk, jazz, soul, reggae, latin and hip-hop, plus a shitload of samples from my favourite movies and songs all relating to LUNCH (this is my first full project since BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS). 
I included exclusives of remixes I've done recently for The Charlatans and DJ Mighty Mi w/ Grand Puba. 
And there's some rare 90s rap freestyles, including one by RZA that I feel pretty certain doesn't exist anywhere on the internet!
Also, it's no coincidence that this mix is the length of your lunch break.

http://www.djyoda.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/DJYodaUK
http://www.youtube.com/djyodauk
http://twitter.com/djyodauk

DJ Yoda - Lunch Breaks

Part 1 of the mix, really, for those with the CD, you know it's just one long mix, but we originally split it up into 2 parts for easier online delivery, well, we got both parts of this classic mix back up on the cloud now, Enjoy! see Part 2 for the lengthy write up

D/L HERE

Skratch Bastid & The Gaff - Soul SIsters Stand Up (Part 1 Stand Up!)

The next instalment of my Golden Era Podcast series is here, Including an interview with Legendary British Funk act Cymande. These are Funk tracks from the 60's - 70's which are my personal favourites and inspired me to do what I do today. Funk is a style, genre a way of life that has been the biggest influence in my career. In this mix it takes in everything that I love about how Funk can be Latin, Jazz, Folk, Rock but if it's Funky then it can fit under that bracket !!

A Golden Era Of Funk Podcast

If you enjoy this or any of my other mixtapes, you can thank me over on Ko-fi!
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Tracklist:

Introductions
Ziggy Stardust
Moonage Daydream
Starman
The Man Who Sold the World 
Sound and Vision
Golden Years
Changes
*Snippet from Stella Street*
Young Americans
Oh! You Pretty Things
*Snippet from Adam & Joe*
Star
Suffragette City
*Snippet from Extras*
Rebel Rebel
Jean Genie
Modern Love
*Snippet from Blue Jam*
Let’s Dance
*Snippet from Labyrinth*
Magic Dance
*Snippet from Flight of the Conchords*
Space Oddity
Life on Mars? (Piano Cover)
Life on Mars?
Heroes (Live in Berlin, 2002)
Memory of a Free Festival


Some notes on the mix:

I was introduced to Bowie as a kid, thanks to my Dad playing and singing his music all the time at home. He absolutely loves Bowie and we both shed a tear the day he died! I’m really, really grateful to my Dad for instilling his music into me early on, because I doubt I would have quite such profound love for it without the early introduction.

The tracks in the mix are the tracks I know and love, and probably the ones most people are familiar with - mainly the ‘hits’, I guess. While working on the mix I started to delve further into the Bowie back catalogue and have found some absolute gems. I was tempted to include them and lean the mix more toward his unknown stuff but I wanted it to reflect my own personal Bowie experience up to now and wasn’t too fussed about appearing to have a vast knowledge of his work, because in reality I’ve only scratched the surface, so far. 

It wasn’t hard to choose the tracks I wanted to include, but working out how to present them as a mixtape took some thought. I haven’t spent as long at the ‘drawing board’ stage of a mix before. It was clearly going to be quite different from one of my party mixtapes - the pace had to be slower (you can’t cut off a Bowie track after a minute as they are too epic/well known and often tell stories which need to be played out), I couldn’t add beats/acapellas as it would be sacrilege and sound bad, I couldn’t do too much mixing as it just wouldn’t work with a lot of the music - and so I decided to approach it as a documentary-style mix, using speech samples from interviews to add some extra layers and help bridge some of the tracks which changed style or tempo too dramatically to blend or drop. I also wanted to try and get some humour in somewhere, and luckily found a lot of gold from people imitating Bowie in different shows. 

I knew I had to put a turntablist/hip hop kind of stamp on this somehow, to reflect my DJ style and personlise the mixtape. I worked turntablism in by making a cut and paste intro and throwing in the odd scratch when dropping samples. Generally the whole thing was treated quite delicately so as to honour the memory of the freaky old bastard as best I could.

So yeah, that’s how it turned out! 

Enjoy :)

Sun Machine (A David Bowie Mixtape) 

"Cardiff's answer to the likes of DJ Food and DJ Yoda, Moneyshot returns with a 60 track mixtape throwing it all in the blender, from hip hop acapellas to floaty electro indie pop. Expect another top dog mixtape from the award winning DJ who's becoming a firm underground favourite" - Catapult Records "A late contender for one of the top mixes of the year. Brilliantly eclectic, but not at all disjointed, it is something you want your mix-tape to be, and Moneyshot is always right on the, erm, money. So you get Ian Dury, Terminator X, Tom Jones, Juelz Santana, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beastie Boys and The Zutons all rubbing shoulders sounds like a mess, but trust me, it ain't. Well worth seeking out" - DJ Yoda 


Intro
Jim Reeves – Welcome To My World (Bear Family)
KRS One – Step Into A World (Jive)
Jedi Mid Tricks – On The Eve Of War (Inst) (Babygrande Records)
Ripple – Sure Is Funky (acc) (Southbound Records)
The Animals – A Girl Named Sandoz (Universal)
Boca 45 feat. Reds and Retna – Without A Doubt (Grand Central)
Ian Dury – Mash It Up Harry (Edsel)
Ralph Ripshit and Mudmowth – Magnetic DJ Moneyshot (Associated Minds)
Terminator X – Mashitup (Rush)
Cutty Ranks – Limb By Limb (Fuse)
Dynamite MC – Bounce (white)
Tom Jones and The Cardigans – Burning Down The House (acc) (Gut)
Go! Team – Grip Like A Vice (acc) (Memphis Industries)
Oasis – Fucking In The Bushes (Big Brother)
Public Enemy – Can’t Truss It (Def Jam)
Big and Rich – Comin’ To Your City (Warner Brothers)
Stevie Wonder – Livin’ For The City (Motown)
Nicodemus – Cleopatra In New York (Freestyle)
Wreckx-N-Effect – Rump Shaker (acc) (MCA)
The Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street (WEA)
Ice Cube – Doin’ Dumb Shit (Priority Records)
Q Tip and Lateef The Truth Speaker – Enuff (acc) (Umvd Labels)
C-Mon and Kypski – Wildfire (Jammm Brand)
Kraftwerk – Boing Boom Tschak (Elektra)
Masterdon Committee - Funk Box Party (Collectables)
Average White Band - Oh, Maceo (live at the Fillmore Auditorium) (Liquid 8)
ADOR – One For The Treble (acc) (Atlantic Records)
Iron Butterfly – Soul Experience (Elektra)
The New Seekers – Look What They’ve Done to My Song (Umvd Import)
Criminal Minds – Baptised By Dub (World Beat Corporation)
The Go-Gos – We Got The Beat (A&M)
Juelz Santana – Oh Yes (Def Jam)
The Jam – Start (Polydor)
Ella Fitzgerald – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got that Swing) (Universal)
Freddy Fresh – Snatch it! (Southern Fried)
Johnny Osbourne – Rock With You (A1)
Hereldeduke – Dum Dum (white)
Neil Young – Old Man (Rhino)
Acen – Close Your Eyes (Production House)
Busta Rhymes – Just Getting Warm (Aftermath)
Lyrics Born – Do That There (acc) (Quannum Projects)
Extra T’s – I Like It (Corn Flakes) (Sunnyview Records)
Nas, MC Shan, Raheem and Doctor Ice – Where Are They Now? (80’s Old School mix) (white)
Hashim – We’re Rocking The Planet (Cutting Records)
SDP and Takagi Kan – Long Island Wildin’ (Tommy Boy)
Jazzy Jeff and Peedi Peedi – Brand New Funk 2K7 (BBE)
Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince – Brand New Funk (Jive)
Soup Dragons - I'm Free (Big Life)
Fatman Scoop - Get Your Hands Up (acc) (AV8)
Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies (Daft Punk remix) (Def Jam)
The Zutons – Pressure Point (Epic)
Shy FX and UK Apachi – Original Nuttah (white)
Dr. Evil – More Punanny (Greensleeves)
Link Wray – Rumble (Ace)
Beastie Boys – So What Cha Want (acc) (Def Jam)
The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night (Polydor)
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights (Sub Pop)
DJ SS – Lighter (Formation Records)
Freestyle Fellowship - Inner City Boundaries (Universal)
Outro Cuts

DJ Moneyshot - The Reach Around

A big thankyou to Barry Ashworth of Dub Pistols for recording this mix ahead of his Addict LP launch.

Tracklisting
1: Dub Pistols feat Cheshire Cat.......................................Addict...(Kouncil House remix)
2: Desmond Dekker...........................................................Shanty Town (Ed Solo remix
3: Junior Murvin.................................................................Cool Out Son (Benny Page & Issac Maya remix)
4: Benny Page...................................................................Dust a Soundboy
5: Ed Solo & Deekline........................................................Bam bam
6: Ed Issac.........................................................................Love Jah
7: Chopstick Dubplate........................................................Herbs Toast
8: Zoro feat Junior Dangerous...........................................Light It Up
9: Barrington Levy..............................................................Shine Eye
10:Dennis Brown...............................................................Sitting & Watching (Issac Maya Remix)
11:Dub Pistols feat General Jah Mikey..............................Chalice
12:Dub Pistols feat Natty Campbell...................................Sounds Sweet
13:Dub Pistols feat Rodney P............................................Mucky weekend (King Yoof Remix)
14:Benny Page ................................................................. What she Needs
15:Major Lazer...................................................................Roll The Bass Bootleg
16:Chopstick Dubplate......................................................Give Me a Dubplate

Pre-order the album here: http://orcd.co/addict

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