Recorded in January 2004, this mix meanders through deep, dubby house and garage, kicking off with a heavy, hypnotic offering from Mark Bell.  The mix moves through deep house to more soulful, dubby garage flavas, a la Naked Music, and ends with a spacey disco wig-out.

Again, can't remember all the tracks at present, but I'm working on it!  Apologies for the quiet recording.

Dub disco

This mix was recorded in December 2002.  It begins with a slow, heavy minimal dub  track from Rhythm and Sound (Jah Rule, feat Tikiman), gradually blending in to some deep, driving dub- house.  Then we're off on a more straight-up house tip, mixin' up deep, tech, afro and soulful West Coast flavas.  

Contributing artists/labels include Inland Knights, Joshua, Osunlade, Chilli Funk, Pepe Braddock and Kevin Yost to name but a few.  Phew!

Deep Six

I started collecting records and subsequently trying to mix them in the early 90s; techno and electronica at first, but garage and house-music soon followed....

Gigs started to materialise in the mid 1990's, at first parties and pubs, but eventually night-clubs and free-parties.  Many a Saturday night was also spent hauling my record box down muddy tracks to woodland clearings around Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.  A nod and a wink go to the now long defunct Curfew Sound System for giving me many early breaks at the Broadfield Pub and The Arches night-club.

I enjoyed a spell of brief success from the late 90's through to mid 2000s, which saw regular bookings, residencies and numerous guest slots at legendary Sheffield club nights Remedy and Scuba, not to mention sets at Phonetics, Kabal and hard dance nights Headcharge and Planet Zogg.  Out of Sheffield, my record box accompanied me to the Glastonbury Festival, Sonar in Barcelona and numerous gigs in Copenhagen, thanks to my friends at Comfortable Records.

Not so much the jobbing DJ anymore, but still an avid collector of music, across all genres and formats, but still particularly vinyl - everything from Northern Soul classics to oddball electronica, retro techno cuts and anything with a heavy, hypnotic house groove.

Chris Smith, September 2013