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On July 21st 2013, DJ Shadow took to the decks on BBC Radio 1's "Diplo and Friends" for a very special Guest Mix. You can relive the mix here!



DJ Shadow - 'Diplo & Friends' BBC Mix (PRE-AIR Version Without Interruptions) July, 2013

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About the cd:
Taking it with back with this CD, another icon of the shelves at HMV. I remember the name 'Hard Times' burning itself into my memory, it was just sounded quality as a 17 year old kid. That alongside 'That important house guy from America called Todd Terry'. The CD was a double pack which basically recorded his set live, it's even got the MC at the start shouting out in a heavy Yorkshire accent, haha awesome stuff.

Special shout out to the man like Nick Sneddon for helping with this one. Keep them coming mate, so much good stuff to share and bring back to everyone. Thanks again!

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039 - Todd Terry (A Night In The Life Of) - Live at Hard Times (1995)

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105 - Cream Live mixed by Paul Oakenfold & Justin Robertson - Disc Two (1995)

Adam Freeland Essential Mix 2003 Re-Booted with Devil Fish

Recorded live for Cutters Choice Radio 02 Feb 2023

Really enjoyed recreating this one and putting my own twist on it hope you enjoy the remind...! 21 years ago Adam Freeland dropped his Essential Mix on the Pete Tong show on Radio One, which to this day is still one of my favourite mixes and truly stands the test of time! 

Although not really around much these days, Adam Freeland is still one of my favourite artists and I consider the godfather of Nu Skool Breaks along with Rennie Pilgrem. Head honcho of the Marine Parade label, during the late 90s and early 2000's he was prolific and was superb to see live. His Coastal Breaks and Tectonics mixes along with the Essential Mix (2003 and 2008) and Fabric Live mix compilations are still some of the best Breaks mixes you will hear. 

Tracklist

1	The Ecstacy of Gold	Ennio Morricone
2	Music (Evil Nine Remix)	ILS
3	 Not In Our Name (The Pledge of Resistance)	Saul Williams
4	Break Your Face	Bushwacka!
5	Hate	Adam Freeland
6	Crooked (Bassbin Twins Mix)	Evil Nine
7	Next Level (Karl Sav Remix)	ILS
8	Killing in the Name (Freq Nasty Remix) 	Rage Against The Machine
9	Rise Above	Freeland, Wink, Middleton
10	Hello I Love You (Adam Freeland Fabric Rmx)	Infected Mushroom
11	Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)	Sarah Vaughan
12	Right Thing / GDMFSOB (clean instrumental version)	DJ Shadow
13	They Live! (Original Mix)	Evil Nine
14	No Pussy Blues (Adam Freeland Remix)	Grinderman
15	We Want Your Soul	Adam Freeland
16	For Lovers, Not Fighters (Original Mix)	Evil Nine
17	Fear (UNKLE mix)	Ian Brown
18	Hired Goons (Original Mix)	Evil Nine
19	Evil Nine - Restless  (Dylan Rhymes Remix)	Evil Nine
20	Addicted	Alan Braxe
21	Ready for the Floor (Soulwax dub)	Hot Chip
22	Orange Alert (DFA remix)	Metro Area
23	The Shalimar	The Last Poets
24	GDMFSOB (UNKLE Uncensored)	DJ Shadow
25	Pearl Shot (feat. Juice Aleem)	Evil Nine
26	Nirvana Vs Adam Freeland / Smells Like Teen Spirit 2003	Adam Freeland
27	Plastic Dreams (Tayo & Acid Rockers Remix)	Jaydee
28	Baba O'Riley (Ils Club Mix)	ILS

Stbo Ed79 Adam Freeland Essential Mix 2003 Re Booted

The Nextmen - Bestival warm up Mix 2011

Here's my latest mix full of new, old, re-edited, exclusives, booties, originals and randoms. Hope you enjoy it! 

Cover photo - Sistymatic / Boomtick events

Beats working vol 4

Stanton Warriors - Live on Radio 1 Essential Mix (08.12.01)

Released Oct 14th 1995
Compiled and Mixed by John Digweed 
Renaissance - The Mix collection part 2 CD 1
Twenty years on still sound great. 

John Digweed The Mix Collection Part 2 CD1

Live mix recorded during Reels Of Steel presentation (where I add visuals to the music) in Rizlab Arena at Bestival on the Isle Of Wight 11.09.11.

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BESTIVAL REELS OF STEEL @ RIZLAB 11.09.11 (greg wilson live mix)

Carl Cox Old skool set Bestival 2006

Universe Mind Body and Soul 11-09-1992 Bath

mindbody+soul 92

Mickey Finn Universe Mind Body and Soul 11-09-1992 Bath

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410 - Tyrant - Craig Richards & Lee Burridge - Disc 2 (2000)

426 - Tyrant - Craig Richards & Lee Burridge - Disc 1 (2000)

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440 - John Digweed - Global Underground 006 - Sydney - Disc 1 (1998)

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439 - Layo & Bushwacka! All Night Long - Disc 1 (2003)

On this exact date, 25 years ago, I received a demo in the post from a completely unknown DJ that Dan Prince, then editor of Mixmag, had told to send it to me... I know it was this date, as it was a Saturday morning before Renaissance that night. I had listened to this demo 5/6 times during the day - and again on the way to the club that night. I knew I’d found something special the moment I heard the mix between the first 2 tracks on the B side of that tape!

After Renaissance that night, as often happened, Sasha came back to my house the next morning... I told him I'd found a DJ who I thought was amazing, and went on to play him the tape. He too was blown away! The only writing on the tape was 'DJ JD’ and a phone number, so I called John after the weekend and told him I loved the tape and wanted him to play at the club, but I told him I wouldn't put 'DJ JD' on the flyers as it sounded like a rave DJ and instead wanted to bill him as John Digweed. I booked his first date on Saturday 5th September 1992 - and spent 4 weeks before his debut gig telling everyone I'd discovered this amazing DJ - and, of course, he didn't disappoint!! The whole club was blown away by the talent on show on his first night, and I then started to regularly pair him with Sasha at Renaissance, ahead of that iconic mix compilation, 2 yrs later, that took the S&D partnership global... so here's the mixtape that started it all, a piece of clubbing history and a significant footnote in Renaissance’s history and in the career of one of the world’s finest DJs!🔊🔊🔊

John Digweed Renaissance Demo - 14.07.1992

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The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol 1

475 - The Prodigy pres. The Dirtchamber Sessions Vol 1 (1999)

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Jeff Mills

481 - Jeff Mills - Choice 'A Collection of Classics - Disc 2 (2004)

John Digweed Journeys By DJ

Simon Shackleton’s Elite Force project began way back in 1996, debuting on his own newly founded Fused and Bruised label with a series of peerless 12s and remixes. After a successful five years, he put Fused and Bruised on the backburner to concentrate on production work, and following several years with Whole9Yards and Moonshine he became a mainstay recording artist for AdriftRecordings (formally known as Kingsize Records) before moving on to set up hisown hugely successful U&A imprint. 

Often credited for being a lynchpin in the developing the tech-funk genre (an amalgamation of breaks, house, techno and electro) he has released a series of highly successful singles in the past few years, finding broad support from DJs and musicians across the board, including the likes of James Zabiela, Sasha, Crystal Method, Laurent Garnier and Fatboy Slim to name but five. In 2008 released a semi-retrospective double album’s worth of remixes and re-workings of a 12-year back catalogue, with over 25 mixes coming from such luminaries as Miles Dyson, Rogue Element, Deepgroove, Dylan Rhymes & Calvertron.

In addition to these solo singles, Meat Katie has been a regular collaborator with Elite Force, a relationship that had begun in 2003 with the massive-selling 'Toba', and that will see their creative relationship come to fruition in 2009 with the launch of their new joint project under the name ‘Dustbowl’, as well as a series of singles under the ‘Meat Katie & Elite Force’ banner. 

As a remixer, Elite Force has always been in huge demand, with re-workings for the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Crystal Method, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, UNKLE, Infusion, Rennie Pilgrem, Shiloh and Dylan Rhymes all contributing to his reputation as one of the most creative and effective remixers around. 

Elite Force's music has also been the soundtrack to many a movie, with a huge list of impressive A-list credits to his name, including the likes of the Matrix, Charlie's Angels, Arlington Road, Mortal Kombat, Crow, The Bone Collector, The Jackyll, Spiderman 2 and his music has appeared on a wide array of TV shows, from CSI to Top Gear, from Football Focus to LA Doctors. He's also soundtracked a number of computer games, including no fewer than 5 FIFA games, several of the Wipeout series, The Matrix and Motorstorm 1, and he is currently writing some bespoke music for forthcoming games for Ferrari and Motorstorm2.

On the decks, Elite Force has been a prime mover since 1990 when he cut his teeth playing huge student nights and self-promoted acid house nights in the South West of England, before moving up to ....London.... and ultimately gravitating towards his tech-funk style, with which he now has a full diary of global bookings. He has become known as one of the top technicians on a circuit that has included massive shows in Belarus, Hungary, Australia, Italy, USA, Czech Republic, India, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China, amongst others, as well as numerous festival slots including Glastonbury, Coachella, Bloom, Wickerman, the Glade and more recently Burning Man. 

He was also responsible for the hugely influential Strongarm Sessions webcasts which became something of an institution since their inception back in 2001, receiving as they did around 20,000 downloads per show, but now put on the backburner to concentrate on other projects, such as his own blog (Techfunkmanifesto) and his other musical projects, such as Dustbowl (with Meat Katie).

Bio courtesy of http://www.myspace.com/shackforce

Artwork courtesy of Thomas Reed (www.hivemanagement.net)

For more information on http://soundcloud.com/elite-force visit www.eliteforcemusic.com or http://www.facebook.com/djeliteforce

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