Blending the colourful ’summer of love’ sounds of 60s psychedelia and 90s rave, with a healthy dose of jazz, funk, reggae, and hip hop added to the melting pot, Cryptical Listening brings a variety of styles under the same cosmic umbrella - old to new, local to international.

Having aired every first Thursday monthly since 2019, Cryptical Listening seeks to free your mind from the technicality of genre-based pigeon-holes to allow an hour’s-worth of appreciation for music of all cultures, contexts, and colours, which is an ethos clearly expressed through the ‘Keep It Cryptic’ party lineups, bringing guitar-driven bands under the same warehouse roof as techno-slamming DJs. Whether it’s the darker, bass-heavy breaks, or the lighter soulful boom bap, or Turkish folk gems, or acidified disco edits - you can really expect the unexpected here.

TRACKLIST: 
Altin Gün – Supurgesi Yoncadan
Dengue Dengue Dengue – Pua ft. Penya
Neşe Karaböcek – Yali Yali (Todd Terje Edit)
Goat – Goatman
Morgan Delt – Elastic ID
DJ Click & Burhan Ocal & The Trakya All Stars – Melike (ft. Smadj)
Total Giovanni – Human Animal
Guevarism – Symbolic Logic
Polyol – Red Lines
Lalalar – Hiç Mutlu Olmam Daha İyi
Ragz Nordset – Don’t You Forget (Drumwarp & Guevarism Remix)

MELODIC DISTRACTION RADIO: Cryptical Listening with Mr Cryptic (February '21)

TRACKLIST:
Don Carlos – Mr Sun
Greentea Peng – Nah It Ain’t The Same
Common Saints – Summer Sun
Drumetrics – Gerontogeous
Kutian & Melike Sahin – Sakla Beni
Gaye Su Akyol – Isyan Manifestosu
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Pleura
Brainticket – Black Sand
Wes Montgomery – A Day In The Life
Midnight Scran – Wes Gone To Monteray
Ko Shin Moon – Antelias
Altin Gun – Macka Yollari
Serjo, Sinan Cem Eroglu, Muhllis Berberoglu – Supurgesi Yoncadan
Mama Racho – La Danza de Los Mirlos
Bunny Wailer – Dream Land
U-Roy – Natty Rebel

mr cryptic's mystic trip digs (melodic distraction radio march '21)

altin gün - goca dunya (ché edit)

love 2 turn U on (80s ladies vs 60s lennon edit)

bruk / house / garage / electro mix (live @ svara liverpool 26/01/24)

ché wax (chillout set @ spinback tent, westival 8/6/2024)

secret location london 10/10/24

Shocking Blue - 'Love Buzz' (Ché Wax Edit) // 2024 CHÉ WAX VOL 1

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buzz (vinyl only)

kashmir lounge amsterdam coffeeshop set (9th nov 2024)

you got the love

Manon McCoy (flute), Jamie Wall (bass), Ché Wilson (drums, guitar, keys).

Rubber Dub - Swan Dubula (jam 05/06/17)

IN TIME (Original Mix)

There is no dark side of the jungle really, matter of fact it's all dark.

TRACKLIST
1. LEVITICUS - THE BURIAL (REWORK)
2. DJ FOOD VS THE BEATLES VS PINK FLOYD - SCRATCH YER HEAD/STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER/ON THE RUN (MONASTIC VIP)
3. EASY STAR ALL STARS - ON THE RUN
4. RMS VS THE PRODIGY - OUT OF SPACE (CHE WILSON AND MATICA VIP)
5. BLADERUNNER - STUDIO (DUB)
6. SERUM AND VOLTAGE - CYBER FUNKIN'
7. DILLINJA - ACID TRAK
8. DAWN RAID - MAKE ME MOVE
9. DJ HYBRID - IN TOO DEEP
10. BREAK - LATE EXCLUSIVE
11. SERUM VS APHRODITE - HOLD ON/B.M. FUNKSTER (VIP)
12. ADRIAN SHERWOOD - PIECE OF THE EARTH
13. RONI SIZE - BROWN PAPER BAG
14. HYPHEN - COLD BOY STYLE
15. TERRORIST - SING TIME
16. FOREST DRIVE WEST - JUNGLE CRACK
17. FJAAK - PRAY FOR BERLIN (SPED UP)
18. ROY AYERS - EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE (HI FIDEL CARTEL REMIX)

the dark side of the jungle (dj mix)

heroic become weak

I nearly bust me head making this one.

My first venture into drum n bass production.

https://xjukebox.bandcamp.com/track/fine-fine-friday-night

fine, fine friday night

1. Rorystonelove & Samory I - Rasta Nuh Gangsta Dub
2. Dreadsquad - Caravan (Radikal Guru Mix)
3. Fat Freddy’s Drop - The Raft (Stepper’s Dub)
4. King Tubby - Flag Dub
5. Kaiju - Justice
6. Egoless - Bubble Beat
7. Magnetic Man - Ligma VIP
8. Mad Professor & Sister Aisha - Wait A Minute Dub (Josh Ray Edit)
9. Vibronics - Tribulation Dub
10. RSD - Forward Youth
11. Skream - Rutten
12. RSD - Kingfisher
13. Prince Fatty & Hollie Cook - Sugar Water Dub
14. Blind Arcade & The Reynolds - Red Stripe and a Spliff
15. Babyhead - Jungle Lore (Lupo’s Dub)
16. Kode9 & Spaceape - 9 Samurai
17. RSD - Pretty Bright Light
18. Special Request - Soundboy Killer
19. Benga & Coki - Night
20. Dub Trio - Sick Im Kid
21. The Gil Scott Heron Band - Afrika (Mr Cryptic Dub)

dub / 140 mix

Liverpool selectors Ché Wilson and Josh Ray take to the decks to spin strictly funk-fuelled chuggers.

Check out our sounds in this live DJ mix, recorded at our set at the Baltic Social in Liverpool.

Bookings: xjukeboxrecords@gmail.com

BALTIC BOOGIE pt.1 (Ché Wilson b2b Josh Ray @ The Baltic Social 28/09/18)

CHÉ b2b JOSH RAY @ SANTA CHUPITOS LIVERPOOL (live DJ set recorded 29/09/18 - pt.2)

Full-quality download available from the Fire House BandCamp here: https://firehouseliverpool.bandcamp.com/track/booker-t-the-m-g-s-melting-pot-ch-wilson-edit

melting pot (ché edit)

Another bootleg for you all, enjoy. Full-quality download via Fire House BandCamp here:  https://firehouseliverpool.bandcamp.com/track/daft-punk-crescendolls-ch-wilson-re-edit 

Needed to give this underrated classic a boost after Hot Digits' Andy Buchan brought it back to present relevance with his edit of tune that Daft Punk sampled - 'Can You Imagine' by The Imperials. In this I have used elements of both songs, added my own drum work with a bit of extending, chopping and re-mastering to fatten up the mix - ready for modern sound-systems.

I'm next DJing in Manchester on the 1st December - headlining the Lost In Music room for Gin & Disco at Brickworks. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/328375841300576/

crescendolls (ché edit)

A memorable night with @evacrystaltips in the mix for my first guest feature at my residency.

My current residency is every Saturday 02:00am - 06:00am in Liverpool's Jacaranda Club.

LIVE DJ MIX: Eva Crystaltips b2b Ché @ The Jacaranda Basement Liverpool 05/04/2019

Drumwarp b2b Hendri b2b myself, back-to-back as 'The Cryptide'.

keep it cryptic warehouse rave @ the bakery liverpool 19/04/2019

somethin' here (ché edit)

TRACKLIST:
Harvey Sutherland – Q3
Adome Nyueto – Yta Jourias (Sopp’s Party Edit)
Oby Onyioha – Enjoy Your Life
Kefaya – Indignados
Gouranga – Music De Carnaval (Discotheque Fantastique)
Dennis Bovell – Heaven
Confidence Man – Santa’s Comin’ Down The Chimney
Candido – Thousand Finger Man
Tame Impala – It Might Be Time (Che Wilson Ruff Edit)
Sampa The Great – Final Form
Don Carlos – Alone (Paradise Mix)

Focusing on the left-field, psychedelic and experimental selections in dance music, Cryptical Listening is a tour through current underground music. Hosted by the Keep It Cryptic warehouse party's primary hosts, the show gives new original music a platform to be played alongside older selections. 

With their rapidly growing party 'Keep It Cryptic' taking off, which brings a mini festival feel to secret warehouse locations outside of the city centre, the Cryptical crew have caught the imagination of a fresh and youthful art scene in Liverpool. Now with a bootleg label set to release a number of originals this year, you can expect to hear lots of unreleased material played on this show – with styles ranging from breaks and electro to dub and jungle, disco and house to jazz and punk.

This month, Ché rides solo with some feel-good winter warmers. Full bio & tracklist: https://tinyurl.com/snwwa2n

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