As the world celebrates Hip-Hop's 50th birthday this year, I'm going to continue dropping some mixes of my favourite tunes from Hip-Hop's Golden Age (late 80s and 90s).  Here's volume 2 in the series, which is full of classics.  Pump it loud.

TRACKLIST:

Nas - N.Y. State of Mind
Jay-Z - D’Evils
Dr. Dre - Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
Smiff N’ Wessun - Sound Bwoy Bureill
Mobb Deep - Get Dealt With 
Gang Starr - JFK 2 LAX
De La Soul (feat. Cee-Lo) - Held Down
Jurassic 5 (feat. Nelly Furtado) - Thin Line
Beastie Boys - Car Thief
Biggie - Kick In The Door
Tupac - Old School
Common - Food For Funk
Wu-Tang - Triumph
Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos

Doe-ran Mixes

Doe-ran - The Golden Age of Hip-Hop Vol. 2

Listen o Col Lawton playing a LIVe set on the deep fix presents house music matters show... playing a label showcase all track from i!records...

playlist:
1.	The collective – feel it (jo paciello remix)
2.	Dubeats + b&s concept – halfway jazz
3.	Col Lawton – i’m not rushing
4.	Col lawton – RIZE
5.	Crew deep – the whole
6.	Col Lawton – groove of all grooves
7.	Manuel kane – ready to go
8.	Manuel kane – beats of no nation
9.	Crew deep – inside
10.	Kevin yost + crew deep – come around tonight
11.	Kevin yost + crew deep – easy love
12.   STP - Looking at love

Col Lawton LIVE I!records Mix Deep Fix Presents HMM 30.11.23

TinyRebel - Cutting Shapes Mix

2hour special mix
Track Listing 
Hibrid — Hypnotizin (Get Down Mix)
Gonna Get Down (Original Mix)Carl Price, Paul Hawkins	
Listen (Coflo Remix)Tasha LaRae, Arnaud D, Coflo	
Back 2 Oldschool (Darius Syrossian Remix) 		
All About Housemusic (Dilby Extended Remix)Yves Murasca	
Freak Your Body (Original Mix)DJ Shu-ma	
LEFTI - Just The Beat (Extended Mix)	
Streets (Put Them Up Mix)Stacy Kidd, Fast Eddie	
Good Ol Days (Original Mix)Demuir, DJ Sneak
Give	Lester Fitzpatrick & DJ Crip2Nite
Rock This Club (Original Mix)Roberto Parisi, Carlo Caldareri
The Real Dawgs (Original Mix)	Makson
Luv Drug (Hatiras Remix)Jay Vegas, Hatiras	
Way People	Hatiras & Angelo Ferreri
Truth (Original Mix)Eric Kupper	
Gene Farris, DJ Rae - Forever Always (Tim Baresko Remix) 
Good Life (Inner City Edit of Carl Craig Extended Remix)Inner City Kevin Saunderson Carl Craig	
Back into Time	Mr Jay
The Good Ol' Dayz (DJ Oji's Groove And Bang Mix)DJ Oji	
Wanna Dance (Original Mix)Jay Vegas	
LF SYSTEM 'All I've Got' (Extended Mix)	
Bless (Extended Mix) Mark Row, Jame Starck	
Acid Jackin (Original Mix)Vie Expo		
Shades Of Rhythm - Sounds Of Eden - (Joe Friend & Steve Friend Remix)

24:02:24 Nathan Ward 'In Session Vol 1’

Hour 1 of a recent live set from Mandacaru, Bahia. Playing after Swarup in the sunrise slot, this set spins the latest in TrippyTech House from Latin America an emerging sound over here. A from of hypnotic trance, fused with Tech House/Deep Tech vibes,with an AfroLatin twist! Hit the Like and Repost if you enjoy... Lots more music in the works... be sure to follow
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LIVE @ Mandacaru, Bahia ...Hour 1 (April 2024)

One of my favourite mixes of all time - The Brothers In Rhythm Easter Hotmix for BBC Radio 1 (Pete Tong) 30 minutes of perfectly mixed dance music fire. I distinctly remember listening & recording it on my ghetto blaster and consequently wearing out the tape. 

I've long had the idea of recreating the mix as most copies online are cassette rips from '93 complete with 1FM jingles! 

I decided rather than just redo it, I would expand on it. Tracking down the original versions and extending the original mix from 30 minutes to CD length adding in extra tunes from that era either side of the original and put together as if I was mixing it back in my bedroom as a 17 year old in 1993. 

Hope you enjoy and mad props to Dave Seaman compiling the original mix back in the day.

RE:Mixed One

free download

Barry Ashworth DJ Mix Nu  Disco Funk Mix (15 - 10 - 2015)

Recording of Greg Wilson's first live appearance of 2016, at The Nest in Dalston, London 05.02.16.

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

THE NEST LONDON 05.02.16 (greg wilson live mix)

Showcasing the best in Latin Grooves, Afrobeats, Tropical Bass, Vintage-Remix, Desert Remix, Balkan Beats, Urban Roots, Acoustic Soundclash and Brass Band Remix, the London Remix Festival are kicking Global London into the future on Saturday 2nd Feb,

Ticket Link www.londonremixedfestival.com 

The festival is a celebration of the best emerging musical talent and genres and will offer creativity, fun and madness, complete with buzzing atmosphere & music… but without the mud, rain or hassle of camping. Expect performances from over 25 cutting edge bands and DJs across 4 stages over 2 days, all in one vibrant venue nested in the heart of Shoreditch.

This mix is a taster of what to expect from Madame Electrifie in her set on the saturday.

Afro Rhythms and beats

a mix i made a couple of years ago includes a fair few edits and remixes that i have never released before or even shared out.

Leygo - Drunken mix 2

DJ's Should Dance More

As they gear up to celebrate 20 years of riotous marauding, the Dub Pistols are prepping their seventh as-yet-untitled album in 2017 and there’ll be a documentary about the band dropping at some point in the year, too. And they’ll be out on the road, as usual, of course — the hardest working band in showbiz.

A kinda 21st century equivalent of 2-Tone acts The Specials or The Beat, the Dub Pistols are the quintessential festival band. Coming over a bit like if King Tubby and The Skatalites bumped into Terry Hall at a Goldie gig, the Dubs have reached their two decade milestone with a lot of ups and downs along the way. 

They’ve worked with vocal legends like Rodney P, Busta Rhymes, Gregory Isaacs, Terry Hall, Lindy Layton, Akala and Horace Andy, while the band’s mainstays are fiercely loyal and dedicated. An unorthodox collective of musicians who each have their own personal interests and solo projects, when they come together to form the Dub Pistols some dubwise magic happens.

The rhythm section of Jack (drums) and Dave (bass) are granite-solid, and guitarist Andreas (or sometimes the rock & roll stand-in, Johnny Rockstar) provides all sorts of licks and skanking chords to nice up the dance. The brass section is on fire, and rapper Seanie Tee brings the mic skills to complement main man Barry Ashworth perfectly. They’re a proper gang of outlaws, rebels with a cause, renegade outsiders who know how to bring the good times. If you haven’t seen the Pistols yet
Barry might be the heart, face and mouth of the Dubs, but they are still very much a band — as tight as fuck, and yet able to cut loose to rock venues to the core. Tracks like epic drum & bass cut ‘Gunshot’, ska ditty ’Problem Is’, early beat-freak single ‘Cyclone’ and singalong anthem ‘Mucky Weekend’ have become firm fan favourites, and onstage see the band getting deep, down and dirty. With a nod to their ska influence, and the fact that Terry Hall was an honorary Dub Pistol for a few years, they still do a lively version of ‘Gangsters’ - The Specials’ first ever single. But otherwise it’s all their own work — the back catalogue is rich in flavas.

“The next album is actually a bit more chilled-out than the last two,” says Barry. “It’s still a classic Dub Pistols album, but ‘Return Of The Pistoleros’ and ‘Worshipping The Dollar’ were more club-orientated — leaning more towards peak-time bangers. This album is a bit more relaxed, with a smoked-out reggae vibe — although there are still a couple of bangers on there.”

The guests on the next album read like a who’s who of conscious styles. Dancehall dons Beenie Man and Cutty Ranks, reggae singer Earl16, young hip-hop act Too Many T's, seminal MCs Navigator and the Ragga Twins, and long-time collaborator Lindy Layton (and dope rapper Genesis Elijah??) all bring their unique talents. Some of these will be appearing with the Dubs live over the coming year as the band present a history lesson in all the different bases they’ve covered over the past two decades. With added bass!

Band members may have come and gone, but the progression of the core of the band is constant. “It’s never like everyone leaves at once,” says Barry. “People’s priorities change: they get married or have kids and the lifestyle isn't for them anymore, so they leave — but luckily not all at the same time. So someone new comes in, and suddenly it feels like a new band.”

Barry Ashworth DJ Mix Nu Disco Funk Mix (15 - 10 - 2015)

dub pistols