Calyx & TeeBee BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (No Voice Overs)

One of my most personal mixes. For this one I really tried to go outside the box conceptually - who would have thought to do a fantasy role-playing themed drum and bass mix? Having been a life long Dungeons and Dragons fan, I thought it would be cool to basically let everyone know that I was into role-playing games. And for the intro I was able to lock down the voice of Optimus Prime himself Peter Cullen! During the recording process I was patched into his headphones when he was in the studio and was even able to direct him. It wasn't until later that I discovered he had voiced the character of Venger on the 80's cartoon series Dungeons and Dragons. Awesome! The artwork was once again handled by the legendary Akira Takahashi. One of the coolest parts of the art is the reoccurring image of a dragon which is an exact copy of the dragon tattoo on my back. I always thought Akira was very clever to incorporate that image so deeply throughout the design. Though you cannot see it here, I spent a lot of time working on the liner notes so that they kind of read like stuff you would find in Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. One of the coolest things about this project was being able to get remixes made of popular non-dnb artists like Tiësto, Sasha, Josh Wink and BT. It really sort of pushed this thing over the top at the time. Finally there is something that needs to be said about one of the tracks on here. The Paul B + Subwave remix isn't of the Tiësto tune "Flight 643". It is a remix of his track "Lethal Industry". I can't remember why this happened in the first place, but there you go! Enjoy :)

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy - Prologue
Cartridge - End Of The World
Break - Accelerate
Kaos + Karl K + Jae Kennedy - Soul On Fire (Concord Dawn Remix)
Basic Operations - White
Tech Itch - The Hand
Raiden - Infection (E-Sassin Remix)
Sasha - Immortal (Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Wink - Evil Acid (Gridlok Remix)
Teebee + Calyx - Follow The Leader
BT - Knowledge Of Self (Evol Intent Remix)
Dub Faction - Flightpath
Usual Suspects - Doorway (Gridlok + Echo Remix)
Dom + Kemal - Moulin Rouge (Dieselboy + Kaos + Karl K Remix)
Tiësto - Flight 643 (Paul B + Subwave Remix)
Concord Dawn - Take Me Away (Ill Skillz Remix)
Decorum - Contrax (Weapon Remix)
Dumonde - Human (Ill Skillz Remix)

The Dungeonmaster's Guide

Pluto (Clip)

My fourth and final CD for Moonshine. Continuing the theme of titles beginning with "F" it was released in 2002. :)



TRACKLIST

DJ SS - Curtains	
Dom & Keaton - Twisted City	
Agent Babylon - Desert Planet (DJ Ecco & Sabotage Remix)	
Randall & A-Sides - Turn It Loose	
JB - Vizion	
Universal Project - Streetlife	
Universal Project - Jackhammer
Sonic - Even When It Rains (Super Disco Mix)	
DJ Ink - Mirage	
Asend & Ultravibe - What Kind Of World (Hazard Remix)	
Rascal & Klone - Galactic Jam	
Total Science - Squash	
Specimen A - Armed And Dangerous (Dylan Remix)	
Moving Fusion - Thunderball	
John B. - Five Times In One Night	
High Contrast - Global Love	



DJ Dara - Further

Last CD I did. Right around the time people stopped buying CDs. :)The last track was originally supposed to be the Bkey remix of Final Story by Kings Of Tomorrow / Layo & Bushwacka. At the last minute, the label said "Oh, that version? Nah. That's a bootleg. We can't license that." So I hit up my Mathematics boys with the quickness and got a great replacement. 

TRACKLIST

SKC - Source 	
Optiv - Outside World 	
You Don't Know Who Did This - You Don't Need To Know 
Klute - Glue Sniffer (Hive & Echo Remix)
Chris.Su, SKC & Safir - Gonzo 	
Dusk Til Dawn - Disko Biskit 	
D. Kay - It's On The Way 	
Futurebound & Jaquan - Blind Cobbler's Thumb 	
Ebony Dubsters - Number One 	
Gridlok - Heatwave 	
Tech Itch & Kemal - The Calling (VIP)
Kathy Brown  - Share The Blame (Cookie Monster Remix)
Breakage - Disco 45 	
Total Science - Pop Psychology (D Kay Remix)
M.I.S.T. - Outer Space 	
Mathematics - Here & Now 	

DJ Dara - The Antidote

One of my favorite conceptual mixes. Back in late 2007 I was on track to have a new mix cd out by mid 2008 and I was kind of scraping my brain for cool ideas. Then one night after seeing the film “A Scanner Darkly” I knew right then and there that I was going to call my mix “Substance D”. In the film there is a psychoactive drug known as “Substance D”. I figured, why not make it seem like my mix was a new kind of drug, an “audioceutical” that you take by listening to it? I wanted the label art and liner notes to appear to be futuristic drug packaging. Since the music was intended to excite the brain of the listener I decided that a glowing neon color scheme would be appropriate (something essentially the opposite of what most modern medicine packaging looks like). When it came time to make the mix I was struggling with what the first track was going to be. Then one night I literally had a dream that I was going to use the SPKTRM remix of Demo for the intro and voila! That is what I ended up using. It was really cool to be able to get remixes made of some outside the box artists like MSTRKRFT and Meat Beat Manifesto as well (thank you Jack Dangers btw). This mix was supposed to feature a tune by myself and Gridlok called MDMX (which eventually came out in 2014) but we weren’t able to finish it in time for this. For the intro voiceover I was determined to find the most clinical and neutral person I could find and I spent a few months trying to convince Will Lyman (of PBS Frontline) to do it. In the end he refused. So I ended up working with Tom Kane, who has done tons of work including being the announcer for the Academy Awards. He nailed it. I asked my friend Jake (Ewun…now known as Kill The Noise) to add all of the necessary clicks and whirrs and FX you hear in the intro. The liner notes took me ages to work through. And when this was printed up I realized that the bright yellow text was almost impossible to read. The artwork once again was by the amazing Akira Takahashi. All in all a really fun and challenging project and something, in my mind, truly unique.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy + Ewun - Warning Label
Demo - Trauma / Cell (SPKTRM Duomix)
Limewax - One Of Them (Current Value Remix)
Technical Itch - Pressure Drop VIP
Technical Itch + Kemal - The Calling (Evol Intent + Ewun Remix)
Psidream - Death Sentence
Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Raiden Remix)
Dieselboy + Evol Intent + Ewun - Midnight Express
SPKTRM - Machine March
Current Value - Fear / Machine (Demo Duomix)
Demo - O.D.
The Upbeats - SFX
Counterstrike - Timewarp VIP
MSTRKRFT - Paris (The Upbeats Remix)
Computer Club - Load Rocket (Gridlok Remix)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter (Evol Intent + Mayhem Remix)
Dieselboy - N/V/D (Counterstrike Zentraedi Remix)

Substance D

The first in a series of budget mixed CDs we put out. 

TRACKLIST
1. ICR - Rock The Sky
2. DJ Abstract - Confidence
3. Kaos & Karl K - Street Knowledge
4. Dune - Vertical Drop (Decoder Remix)
5. ICR - Stolen Symmetry
6. G13 - Together
7. JL - Dust (Total Science Remix)
8. Kaos, Karl K & Siren - Rush!
9. Datcyde feat. Ill-Esha - Social Skills
10. Psidream - Solar Waves
11. Juju - Tribal War
12. Illformants - Artifact
13. Psidream - Identity
14. Dune - Oracle
15. Pieter K. - Under The Radar (Remix)

DJ Dara - Breakbeat Science Exercise 01

Project Human was essentially the launch point for my drum and bass label Human Imprint (the name of the cd was meant to tie in with the label name). It was a culmination of what I had been trying to do conceptually over the past few years and really set the template for all future mix projects - Big, cinematic voiceover intros. Remixes done specifically for my mixes. Big big tunes. Music that I had a hand in. Around this time I had started to get serious with making music and had partnered up with my dear friend Chris “Kaos” Ritter. He is featured on quite a few of the tunes on here. The first 12” release on Human Imprint was the Stratus tune “You Must Follow” and this provided Chris and I a remix opportunity to get our production feet wet. This was followed by our remix of a hip-hop track I really enjoyed by Styles And Beyond called “Subculture”. Originally I had this track remixed by Dylan and Ink for this mix, but I wasn’t especially fond of their effort and they unfortunately refused to put any more work into it. This inspired me and Kaos to do our own take on it, which is what appears here. Pretty proud of the details in that one to be honest. Looking over the tracklist…there was just a lot of really cool stuff that came together for this mix. Lots of remixes of disco house tunes (Robbie Rivera, Funk Parlor, Billy Lo). Remixes of seminal Moving Shadow tunes (Quadrant 6, The Shadow). I helped create a short lived North American drum and bass production “supergroup” called Weapon that has two remixes on here. Such awesome memories working on those tunes. We were actually in the middle of the Reborn remix (one of my favorite personal projects) when 9/11 happened. Never forget indeed. The artwork on this release was handled by the amazing WeWorkForThem boys (Michael Young and Michael Cina). They used images from a photoshoot I did with famed photographers Kelly and Meyers. I asked WWFT to remove my mouth in the images so I resembled the faces from the Human Imprint logo. The voiceover for the intro was my first ever voice actor hire. Aaaand it was Don LaFontaine himself, the most legendary voice actor of all time (“The Voice Of God”). I remember when he sent me the DAT with his voiceover takes on it. I listened to it in headphones and literally got the chills. So fucking amazing. Unfortunately around the time I was working on this intro, another DJ (Bad Boy Bill) made an internet promo that was supposed to sound like a movie trailer. It used a couple of the exact lines from my Project Human intro by coincidence! So I had to go back and rewrite those lines and have Don re-record them. Sad to say the version of the script was better (and the sound quality on the voice takes were better) in the original. Oh well. Of all of the mixes I have released, Project Human has seemed to resonate with drum and bass fans the most. I am quite proud of it.

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TRACKLIST

Dieselboy + Joshua Ryan - Genesis
Optical + Ryme Tyme - Shapecharge
Styles Of Beyond - Subculture (Dieselboy + Kaos VIP)
The Funk Parlor - Something For The Dancefloor (Underfire Remix)
Stratus - You Must Follow (Dieselboy + Kaos Remix)
Stakka + Skynet + Friction - Altitude (Fierce + Ryme Tyme VIP)
Dylan + DJ Ink - California Curse (Technical Itch Remix)
Billy Lo - Carjacker (Ram Trilogy Remix)
Robbie Rivera - Harder And Faster (Weapon Vs E-Sassin Remix)
Kemal + Rob Data - Hostile
Usual Suspects + Loxy - Stalker (Danny C Remix)
Rob + Goldie - The Shadow (Hive VIP)
Dom + Roland - Soundwall (Dom + Roland VIP)
Dom + Optical - Quadrant 6 (E-Sassin VIP)
Rascal + Klone - Terminal Velocity
Technical Itch - Reborn (Weapon Remix)
Bad Company - Mindgames
Dieselboy + Joshua Ryan - Revelations

Project Human

recorded live at America's legendary DnB weekly, RESPECT Thursdays in Los Angeles, California October 29th 2015. photo courtesy of R3GAL D

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My DNB 60 for Friction on Radio 1. Download and enjoy! 

City Soul EP: https://www.hospitalrecords.com/shop/release/hugh-hardie/nhs292-city-soul-ep

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Hugh Hardie - Light It Up
Calibre - Amen Tune feat. DJ Marky
Bladerunner - Studio
Logistics - Sentimentality
Hugh Hardie - Everything Was Nothing feat. Benji Clements
Whiney - Guardians
S.P.Y - Second Encounter
Spectrasoul - Glimpse feat. Bridge (Ivy Lab Remix)
Maverick Soul - Move On
Royalston - Jungle Gone Down (Kimyan Law Remix)
Ulterior Motive - Oddness
Fierce, Optiv - Surface Noise
Alix Perez, Ivy Lab - Arkestra
Logistics - Icarus feat. Hugh Hardie
Hugh Hardie - Shudder
Silence Groove - Cheeky Growler
Calibre - Down On You
Pola & Bryson - Paper Booklet
Pola & Bryson - Stolen Glances (Phaction Remix)
Logistics - Smoke Rings feat. Inja 
Sam Binga - Reclaim
Chromatic - Impact
DJ Die, Jenna G - 1000 Soul Songs (Break Remix)
Hugh Hardie - Colourful Language
Hugh Hardie - Kyoto City
DJ Marky - Medusa
Document One - Jazz Club
DJ Die, Interface - Bright Lights feat. William Cartwright (Lenzman Remix)
Silence Groove - Only You (Silence Groove Remix)
Hugh Hardie - City Soul feat. Silence Groove
Hugh Hardie - Wide Eyes
Commix - Japanese Electronics (Instra:Mental Moog Remix)
Tokyo Prose - Vanishing Point
Keeno - Nocturne (Frederic Robinson Remix)

DNB60 - Hospital Records Mixed by Hugh Hardie - BBC Radio 1 - 07.06.2016

JOURNAL ENTRY - MARCH 26 2019

“I was a wanderer on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable jungle. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances…and this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention. It looked at you with a vengeful aspect. As I slowly penetrated ever so deeper into this heart of darkness my soul was set ablaze with an infinity of wonders that I discovered…”

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Dieselboy returns to deliver another mind-bending powerhouse of visionary drum and bass programming - the electrifying HEART OF DARKNESS! 28 years of World Tour DJ’ing with an obsessive focus on clever and creative mixing has driven him to craft this STAGGERING 91 minute / 125 track subsonic BEHEMOTH that pushes the boundaries of a DJ mix. Moving far beyond the traditional “linear” mixing model, Dieselboy has perfected a style of layering tracks that can only be described as “threaded” or “braided” - songs, loops and samples twist around one another in specific ways so that every element enhances those around it. With HEART OF DARKNESS the man has created an absolutely compelling audio experience - painting vibrant peaks, deep valleys and broad vistas of dense sonic textures designed to spellbound the intrepid listener. Come and take this incredible journey with him…DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE JUNGLE!

Recorded at D.CELL, Brooklyn NY 
Graphic Design by Dieselboy
Artwork by Dan Dussault

TRACKLIST LINK >> https://tinyurl.com/y4d4om4a