133bpm fast house reese pumper! 

Available on Bandcamp with all proceeds going to charities supporting the Ukraine.

Blunt Tip

Blunt Tip (Turbo Reese Dub) - Out now via Bandcamp!

I remixed myself under my Sydenham Knights alias...

Available to buy on Bandcamp!

Blunt Tip Sydenhman Knights Remix

Boy 8-Bit - Blunt Tip (Sydenham Knights Remix)

I borrowed a DJ Controller from work and started to put a mix together. Then I had to take it back. Then four months later i finished it off on my computer. 

A small selection of bass / funky / club tracks I have been enjoying over the last year or so, with a few demos thrown in! An easily digestible 33 minutes.

Boy 8-Bit March '22 Mix

Right, So here is my new mix.. In the month of May. Bit of a Frankensteins monster really. Part promo mix for the new material that then extended into a "club" style mix of some of the bigger "electro" tunes I have been playing out to good response (Bashmore, Sexx, Candy Apple, Noob..) Then I decide to add some new bits that were perhaps a bit warm up (Heavy Baby, Dagobah), then some warm down.. Then I wanted to highlight some of the tunes I liked last year that I haven't really heard anyone play out that much (The Ace, Jaana)..Stripped stuff (Jeri Call, Dapayak Solo).... Oh and then I decided I wanted to add a bit of the heavier techno sound I have been into lately (Tommy Four Seven etc ), but alas I'm too frightened to play out that often!! Then I wanted to put in some UK funky / "Bass" music.. All tied together with some other bits and bobs!Anyway, here it is in its 1hr 45min, loosely stitched, err glory..
 

Boy 8-Bit - May 2011 Mix



Release Date: 24th February 2015

The Roy Apron project was started in 2012 via a handful of low-key Bandcamp releases. The aim being to fuse the atmospherics and production techniques of mid 1990s Drum and Bass to the frame of 130bpm bass music, specifically a more militant and stripped take on the UK Funky sound. We decided that a proper release of this material would be a great way to start Rival Turf and a chance to get the material remixed by some of our favourite new artists.

The two original tracks on the release, ‘Two Theories’ and ’Seckrit Lab’, modulate Mackie blown 808’s through EMU filters, layering them over the top of tightly chopped and reprogrammed breaks, one note pad samples and percussion.

For the remix of ‘Two Theories' we asked one of our favourite new artists, Overlook, to take the track full circle back into 170bpm territory. His discography contains releases on some of the most forward thinking Drum and Bass labels including Doc Scott’s 31 Records and Samurai Music, but our introduction to his work was via the 2012 track ‘Three Shards’ on Blocks and Escher’s fantastic Narratives label. The track was a syncopated take on modern Drum and Bass, but with a strong feel of the same 90’s material that influenced the Roy Apron project.

For the remix he takes ‘Two Theories’ and drags it on a wonderfully claustrophobic journey through the hull of an abandoned space cruiser, gradually building the atmosphere over minimalist half-time percussion and a system thumping, incessant bass line.

Rounding up the release is the beatless ‘Ambience’ mix of Two Theories. This appeared on the original, but has been reworked for this rerelease. A perfect sound bed for any Sci-Fi horror hybrid movies you may be working on.

Early support coming from Blocks and Escher, who have included the Overlook remix in their Metalheadz podcast and Samurai Music’s Clarity, who included the remix in his recent mix for Drum and Bass Arena. The original tracks have received support from Toddla T, who has aired both on his Radio One show.


Roy Apron - Two Theories

A 30 minute mix of Various Boy 8-Bit tracks that were re-worked for a mix CD that sadly never saw the light of day.. Its a proper patchwork job as some of the tracks are cut directly out of the mix itself - you can actually hear a few other artists tracks that were in the original mix as well( I have credited them too !) I'll put the tracklist on the website as it never formats properly here.. Though most of this stuff is untitled so I'll have to make things up ! 

Boy 8-Bit Annie Nightingale 30 Min mix

An edit of Baltic Pine that appeared on my Essential Mix all the way back in 2010. It’s a free download over on Bandcamp - which I have finally managed to log back into after 10 years!!

Bit rough, but some people have asked about it over the years… 

https://boy8bit.bandcamp.com/track/baltic-pine-roy-apron-dub-demo

Baltic Pine (Roy Apron Dub) BANDCAMP FREEBIE

A track that was featured in my Quest Mix for the legendary Annie Nightingale (R.I.P.) back in 2017. Simple Funky thing with a rather incessant snare drum, a Mentasm stab and some samples from the movie Demons 2.

A few people have asked about it in the past, not sure if I still have the project so it's provided "as is" for a free download, though any change you can spare will be invested back in to music!

I'm Frightened

Please Let Me In

Who Is It?

Demons Track (Annie Nightingale Quest Mix 2017) BANDCAMP FREE DOWNLOAD

'94 Style Happy Hardcore track under my Sydenham Knights alias.

Moved distributors so a few bits have been taken off streaming / stores for now - the additional artist name fees are killing me!

Sydenham Knights - To The Light

Side project alias. Lo-Fi piano acoustic soundscapes and naive melodies. Bandcamp sooooon.

Bobby D. Davis - Sketches Vol. 1 (Bandcamp Free Download)

The third release on Rival Turf sees the debut EP from ‘Shako’, who was last seen remixing Boy 8-Bit’s ‘Timeworks’ into a acid frenzy on the 2014 EP of the same name (reverse cut, inside-out playing vinyl copies still available!)

‘Indunk’ - a live take, distortion coated acid work out, featuring broken amp drums, VHS sourced monologues, pitched up apache breaks and gabba kicks.

‘It Rotates!’  - slowly building, broken beated paranoid acid that descends into a white noise wash of ominous brass. 

Ryan James Ford of Marcel Dettmann’s MDR label supplies us with a brooding, late night take on the title track. Heads down dancing music.

Opening the release we have the ambient ‘Cylindrical’.

The Indunk EP is the first of a series of Shako releases through Rival Turf.

Shako - Indunk (Ryan James Ford Remix)

My Track 'Action Break' as played by Toddla T. Out on Roska Kicks and Snare on November 4th!

Pre Order Now

Action Break (Toddla T Radio One) out on Roska Kicks and Snares Nov 4th!

Suspense Is Killing Me EP

The Cricket Scores

Suspense Is Killing Me

Bulbs Burn Out

Sonny Wharton Radio Mix - Some time in 2005 /2006

The un-edited, un-censored, pre-broadcast version of my Essential Mix!..

A few short edits made for time and they also cut the swearing out of the Justin Martin track.. I forgot the BBC has to treat you like a child in this day and age after the Ross / Brand incident. You cant even have vocodered cuss words at 3 in the morning!.. Blame the Tories/ Daily Mail etc..

* 01. Boy 8-Bit — The Blood Tide [White]
* 02. Aleem — Get Loose Dub [NIA]
* 03. Eli Escobar — Glass House [Plant Music]
* 04. Patrick Turner — Planets Align [Inversus Records]
* 05. DJ Sprinkles — Grandcentral Pt 1 (MCDE Remix Dub) [Endless Flight]
* 06. Ali Love — Love Harder (Jokers of The scene Unreleased Remix) [White]
* 07. Gui Boratto — The Glam [Kompakt]
* 08. Kolombo — Acai [Boxer Recordings]
* 09. Liz Cirelli — Ultraviolet [LouLou]
* 10. Kaiser Souzai — Altocumulus Floccus (Piemont Remix) [Yellow Tail]
* 11. Visti &amp; Meyland — All Night Long (Trentemoller Remix) [Eskimo]
* 12. Justin Martin — Get Low [Dirty Bird]
* 13. Diamond K — Damn Track [White]
* 14. Boy 8-Bit — Tropical Heat [White]
* 15. Mele — Bombay (Nadastrom Remix) [Mixpak]
* 16. DJ Will Roc — Twilight Zone [Unruly]
* 17. Zombie Disco Squad — The Duke Sound [Made To Play]
* 18. Footsteps — Worker [White]
* 19. Detroit Grand Pubahs — Sandwedges (Unknown Mix) [White]
* 20. Ron Hardy — Sensation (Obi Blanche Remix) [White]
* 21. Carte Blanche — Black Billionaires [Ed Banger]
* 22. Alan Fitzpatrick — Green Light [Tokio]
* 23. Boy 8-Bit — Yard Birds [Turbo]
* 24. Boy 8-Bit — The Keep [This is Music]
* 25. Boy 8-Bit — Baltic Pine (Roy Apron Dub) [White]
* 26. Ink &amp; Needle — Thirteen [Tattoo]
* 27. Bookashade Vs Mandy — Donut (Boy 8-Bit Remix) [Living the Dream]
* 28. Boy 8-Bit — An Impending Sense Of Doom [White]
* 29. MMM — Nous Sommes [MMM]
* 30. Pig &amp; Dan — Terminate [Cocoon]
* 31. Leftfield — Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) [Hard Hands]
* 32. Thomas Schumacher — Red Purple [Spiel-zeug Schallplatten]
* 33. Joe and Will Ask? — The Rusty Pig [Gulp]
* 34. Florence and The Machine — Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit remix) [White]
* 35. Yousef — Come Home [Cocoon]
* 36. Josh One — Contemplation (King Britt Remix — Mat Playford Edit) [Social Problem]
* 37. Rodriguez Jr. — Pandora [Leena Music]


Boy 8-Bit -Essential Mix FULL Version

A mix I did for Mad Decent, 2008 I think..

Tracklist:

Final Fight (Amiga)
Dan Le Sac – ‘Look for the Woman’ (Fake Blood Remix)
LadyHawke – ‘Paris Is Burning’ (Peaches Remix)
The Proxy – ‘Ready To Watching’
Bodzin and Huntemann – ‘Rubin’
Popof – ‘Alcoolic’
Say Wut – ‘NFL Ho’
MIA – ‘XR’2 
Dj Sega – ‘Bodies Hit The Floor’
Oxia – ‘Domino’
Rekorder – ‘Rekorder 00′
Memphis Bleak – ‘Is That your chick’
Crookers and Boy 8-Bit – ‘The Crow’ (Aka a collab remix of Proxy's Raven that was never finished)
Late of The Pier – Focker (Boy 8-Bit Re-edit)
Alan Silvestri – Robot Romp (From Flight of the Navigator)

Mad Decent Podcast Mix! (2008)

New one! 

Out on Roska Kicks and Snares on the 28th of September!

RKS092

Boy 8-Bit - Fractal

My Mix for Diplo and friends on 1Xtra and Radio 1.

Had a lot of fun with this, a bit different to a usual club mix I would put out.. The last 20 minutes is a compilation of 90's D&B tracks from my youth that I have been looking forward to putting in a mix to inspire me to go to the gym!

A few extra bits that were cut for time (Directors Cut) but the majority is a direct Radio rip..

Roy Apron's Two Theories EP is available here: http://royapron.bandcamp.com/album/two-theories-ep

Oh and I had to record the voiceovers on my Laptop mic under a duvet, if I was too loud it distorted, so if I sound a little under enthusiastic, thats probably why!

Bonus points to anyone who can point out and name the Lucio Fulci film quote.

Tracklisting:

 
JP Rags - Talkin' (Master Classics Records)
The Griffin - Murder In The Cathedral (ABC)
Cold Blood - Kissing My Love (Warner)
J.Fiddy & S.Burdson - Industrial Menace 1 (Sonoton)
Zia - Helelyos (Finders Keepers)
Zia - Kofriom ( Taraneh Enterprises Inc )
Enoch Light - A little fuge for you and me (Project 3)
Eric Benjamin - Leer nu Zelf Scratchen en Mixen (Injection Disco Dance Label)
David M. Hanlon - Enlightenment II (Commodore 64)
Roy Porter - Party Time (Bel-Ad)
Dariush - Soghoot (?)
Boy 8-Bit - The Boys from Brazil (White)
Rey and Kjavik - All Alone (Compost)
Zinc - Goin in (Boy 8-Bit Remix) (Rinse)
Roy Apron - Seckrit lab (Bandcamp)
Roy Apron - Two Theories (BandCamp)
Boy 8-bit - We Move by night (Blood Music)
Boy 8-Bit - Acrid (White)
Boy 8-Bit - Airlock (White)
Roy & His Dad - Ode to the Baby Animals (Roys Family Records)
Prince - The Critics Love you in NY (Warner)
Boy 8-Bit - AOT (White)
Nookie - A Drum A Bass A Piano (origin Unkown remix) (Reinforced)
Johnny Jungle - killa sound (Suburban Bass)
Andy C & Shimon - Night flight (Ram)
Remark - In Da Hood (Suburban Bass)
Paradox - A certain sound 97 (Renegade Hardware)
Peshay - Predator (Metalheadz)
Boymerang - Blue Notes (Breakbeat Science)
Scorpio - Division One (V Recordings)
Prisoners of Technology - Trick Of Technology (POT)
Dillinja - Armoured D (Metal Headz)
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (Osmose)

Boy 8-Bit - Diplo And Friends 1Xtra 29-07-12

Boy 8-Bit - The Suspense Is Killing Me (Mad Decent 2008)

DJ Mujava - Township Funk ( Boy 8 Bit Remix) (This Is Music 2009)

Mika - Lollipop (Boy 8-Bits Running Man Remix) (2007)

Devils Gun - Gold Dust (Boy 8-Bit Remix) (2007)

Tommie Sunshine - Dance Among The Ruins (Boy 8-Bit Mix) (2007)

Part 1

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Goblin – ‘Waiting Death’ (Tenebre)
Rick Wakeman – ‘Campfire Tales’ (The Burning)
Alessandro Allesandroni – ‘Devils Nightmare’ (Devils Nightmare)
Nico Fidenco – ‘Zombie Parade’ (Zombie Holocaust)
Nico Fidenco – ‘Come Back! Rhythm’ ( Different version of above from Emanuelle Around The World)
Nora Orlandi – ‘Dies Irae’ (The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh)
Dialogue from the movie ‘Stagefright’
Fabio Frizzi – ‘Apoteosi del Misero’ (City of the Living Dead)
Fabio Frizzi – ‘Sequenza 8′ (Zombi 2 aka Zombi Flesh Eaters)
Dean Gitter – Skin and Bone (From the Album Ghost Ballads 1957)
Donald Rubenstein – ‘The Calling’ (George Romero’s Martin)
Walter Razzati – Monster End (House by the Cemetery)

Part 2

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The Producers – Life in Tv (Demons 2)
Keith Emerson – Taxi Ride (Inferno)
Goblin – Snip Snap (Patrick)
Ennio Morricone – 4 mosche di velluto grigio’ (Four Flies on Grey Velvet)
Goblin – ‘Bikini Island’ (Contamination)
Goblin – ‘Flashing’ (Tenebre)
Hot Ice – ‘Friday 13th pt 3 Titles’ (Friday the 13th Part 3 3D )
Ritz Ortolani – ‘Do It To Me’(House by the Edge Of The Park)
Paul_Zaza & Carl_Zittrer – ‘Prom Night Pt 2′ (Prom Night)

Boy 8-Bit - 2006 Halloween Special!!!

My remix for Swiss Lips, out in Feb along with an instrumental..


Swiss Lips - Danz (Boy 8-Bit Vocal Remix CLIP)

My remix of Niton by Pryda.. Realised not everyone would like the vocal, so kept it more of a dub. Wanted to do something like the Bookashade remix, quite droney. 

Looped one bar from the parts (multiple stems)  and did loads of automation before letting the full riff come through before the last "drop".

Chopped up lots of bits for the intro - the vocals  are in there, honest!

I had to buy the Mp3 to get the clock ticking noise as it wasn't included. REMIX TRIVIA.


Eric Prydz - Niton (The Reason)  (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

La Roux - Quicksand (Boy 8-Bit Remix)

Boy 8-Bit - Baltic Pine

Boy 8-Bit - A City Under Siege

Boy 8-Bit - Chapel Of Ghouls

R. D. Morris aka Sorcery, R. D. Maurice, Roy Apron, Shako, Rival Turf, Boy 8-Bit, Sydenham Knights, Beneath Ancient Branches.

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