Eclecticist Mixes

"I took a different approach to recording this mix. I often get really tech and nerdy. I mix
quickly and over utilise hot cues, loops and pad FX. On this occasion I let the music breath,
I played almost every track in full mixing more towards the end of the track.
For the past year or so, I have really been thinking about the music I really connected with
10 years prior. Around 2010 and 2011, I was captivated by what some called, ‘Future
Garage’, others called ‘Bass’ and those who care about lineage called, ‘Post-Dubstep’. I was
18/19 but already had been DJing/playing about with music equipment for around 10
years at this point; inheriting bits of my Dad’s old sound system and trying to emulate what
I heard on DJ EZ and Twice as Nice Mixtapes. I wasn’t immersed in any particular DJ scene,
especially not one that was geographically or culturally accessible to me. Discovering
music by artists like Deadboy (AKA Al Wooton), Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie, George
Fitzgerald and labels like, Hessle Audio, Hyperdub and Nonplus+, particularly when it felt
like no one around me was, felt like a real significant moment in my journey as a DJ as
music listener. I had DJed many times in commercial clubs up until this point, although
getting booked to play a night at a night called ExtraCurricular at the Cellar in Oxford in
support of George Fitzgerald felt like my first real gig as the DJ I am today.
Fast forward 10 years, I am reminiscing on that time and that music. Re contextualising
songs like the George Fitzgerald remix of Groove Theory’s Tell Me and Joy Orbison’s, ‘The
Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow’ EP. and some of the ‘Post-Dubstep’ from
Magnetic Man and ‘Purple’ from Joker. What I loved about that music was the use of vocal
samples from familiar R&B tracks, euphoric synth pads and garage drum beats which
sound like they’ve been low pass-filtered. With this, I have been really connected with
music today which has a similar recipe.
Two Shell released something this past bandcamp Friday which I have been really
enjoying, they seem to cultivate that style. Sobolik is an artist I have only heard a few things
from but I am really into the gliding baseline of the track Like Like taken from a recent
3024 compilation. There’s a Sputnik One track from a forthcoming Wisdom Teeth release
in there that transitioned really nicely into that Cameo Blush track released on Scarlet
Tiger. Speaking of Cameo Blush, he was the mysterious producer behind the first release
on the unknown - untitled label, I opened with a cut from the next release on that label (it’s
really hard to catch where the first beat of each bar is on that one). I played DJ Bogdan’s

‘Love Inna Basement’, it always feels really anthemic. Instinctively I followed that up with
the Sonique classic, i first dropped that mix at BoomTown a few years back and it felt so
good (pardon the pun), shout out OSSX who also released an edit of that this past Friday.
I also dropped a couple of Jersey club tracks, around a similar time I was really into the
energy of Jersey club, plus the tracks make great DJ Tools!
Thanks for inviting me to do a mix :D

Hope you enjoy x
Silas (Eclecticist)"


https://soundcloud.com/eclectivity

Mantissa Mix 212: Eclecticist

Tracklist:

1. Cando - 14U (Dub Mix) [Le Chatroom]
2. Tomás Urquieta - Poshlost [Insurgentes]
3. Ghost Piss - Beats in Bed [Styles Upon Styles]
4. Alec Pace - Collider [early reflex]
5. Hodge - Amor Fati (Peverelist remix) [Livity Sound]
6. Chrissy - Virgin Warehouse Location [Hooversound]
7. Cando - Clutch [Le Chatroom]
8. Amazondotcom - Gut Ritual [SUBREAL]
9. Bell Curve & Strategy - Spacey (Anna Morgan Remix) [Worst Behavior Recs]
10. Splash Pattern - Furnace [Céad]
11. queniv - What is this about? [SUZI]
12. NKC - Radio Jacker [Super Kitchen]
13. Daffy - Lost Again [Time Is Now]
14. Hodge - Do What You Need To Do [Livity Sound]
15. Bambounou x Bruce - Rai [Bambe]
16. Calvomusic - Ga$ton Rasta (feat. Dj Glo 410) [Night Slugs]
17. Talik - I See Faces in the Trees [3024]
18. Jurango - Drolle Prosse [Livity Sound]
19. Simo Cell - Whispers [TEMƎT]
20. Two Shell - Time Slice
21. Two Shell - Over U
22. Cameo Blush - §§§§§ [Scarlet Tiger]
23. Tim Karbon - Drowned Argonaut [POLAAR]
24. Lack - Constant [Livity Sound]
25. Batu - Melts Into Air [Livity Sound]
26. Batu - Inner Space [Timedance]
27. SCALPING - Deadlock (Laurel Halo Remix) [Houndstooth]
28. Prospa - WANT NEED LOVE (Cameo Blush Remix) [Polydor Records]
29. Doctor Jeep - Reflexing [DRX]
30. Neil Landstrumm - MUMbai [Sneaker Social Club]
31. Coe - Radial [Woozy]
32. Sobolik - Theater Mode [early reflex]
33. Air Max '97 - Psyllium [Timedance]
34. 21 Savage - a lot [Slaughter Gang]
35. ZULI - Bassous [UIQ]
36. Simo Cell - Yes.DJ [TEMƎT]
37. Borai - Dead Drop [VIVID]
38. ZULI - Where Do You Go [UIQ]
39. John Glacier - Trelawny Waters [PLZ Make It Ruins]
40. Park Hye Jin - Park Hye Jin Sunday ASAP [Ninja Tune]
41. Borai - Keep Steppin' [VIVID]
42. Nihiloxica - Gunjula (Metrist Remix) [Crammed Discs]
43. XRA (Bruce & Lurka) - DOINK! [forthcoming XRA]
44. Toma Kami - Sixty Frames [Livity Sound]
45. Itoa & Lean Low - Thank U (feat. Warrior Queen) [Bad Taste Records]
46. Kouslin - Dem Nah Want It (feat. Riko Dan) [Club Yeke]
47. Ray Keith - Renegade (T>I Minimal VIP) [Dread Recordings]
48. Robert Lee - Come Now Sound Boy (Coco Bryce Remix) [Rhythm Discs!]

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Eclecticist | Sitting On It Mix

Fiery club pressure from 2019 Pirate Prodigy winner Eclecticist. 

Read our interview with Eclecticist here: https://hyponik.com/mixes/hyp-395-eclecticist/

Tracklist: 

1. Cando - Bleak Dub (Wet Mix) [Livity Sound]
2. Amazondotcom - Leopard’s Dream [Subreal]
3. Metrist - OB Lopes [Timedance]
4. LOFT - And Eats Itself And Eats Itself And Eats Itself [Tri Angle]
5. DJ Plead - Salt and Pepper [Nervous Horizon]
6. Taso & Siete Catorce - California Sunshine [N.A.A.F.I]
7. NOIRE - ballas edit
8. Le Dom - Primal [Paradoxe Club]
9. Taso & Siete Catorce - 2 for $20 [N.A.A.F.I]
10. Tristan Arp - Specie [Human Pitch]
11. Nick León - Pelican Dub [!K7 Records]
12. DJ Plead - Crush and Burn [Nervous Horizon]
13. Tashi Wada - Niagara (Laurel Halo “Lilith” Mix) (Eclecticist’s Short Dick Edit)
14. Gaunt - Spacebirds [Not so Much]
15. Mr. Mitch - Shirley Temple [Gobstopper]
16. Overmono - iii’s Front [Whities]
17. Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru [Livity Sound]
18. Groove Chronicles (Noodles) - Stone Cold
19. Otik - Dioxide (Bruce’s Carbon Reduction) [Dext Recordings]
20. Jammer - Flows Like Despa (feat. Desperado)
21. Zenker Brothers - Sorting Peanuts [Ilian Tape]
22. Wilted Woman - Lon Lon Night Vision (LH Remix) [Phantasy Sound]
23. FFSYTHO - FOR FU**SAKE WHY THOUGH? (Explicit)
24. Air Max ’97 - Falling Not Walking [DECISIONS]
25. Mathis Ruffing - Sacred Club Of Ghosts [Banlieue Records]
26. LOFT - That Hyde Trakk [Tri Angle]

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Hyp 395: Eclecticist

Pirate Prodigy 2019 winner Eclecticist lives up to his name with an hour-long journey across the bass music spectrum.

Eclecticist:
@eclectivity
https://twitter.com/silecta

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CT Podcast 005: Eclecticist

The Oxford born, Bristol nurtured and London living Eclecticist has been in music for almost 2 decades, harboured by his father's Reggae & Dub soundsystem background, inheriting a mish-mash of equipment in his early years!

Alongside his undying exploration for mixing, he also had a successful spout as an MC and songwriter as a teenages under the alias S!lecta. A music Tech degree and cultural awakening followed whilst studying in Bristol where he dsicovered his passion for Radio and giving birth to the brand he currently hosts under, @Eclectivity!

Last year he was crowned one of the Pirate Studios Pirate Prodigies and also produces some of the biggest Radio Shows in the country for the BBC. 

If you haven't already checked out this guy's radio shows, make sure you do, our bet is that it won't be long til he's broadcasting on the big boys. There aren't many out there with such varied taste as well as the skills behind the Mic. 

Well known for playing Techno, UK Bass, Hybrids of UK Funky and House an Earful of Eclecticist showcases his sound to the fullest!

www.earfulofwax.com

EARFUL OF | Eclecticist

No. 10 in our Explorations Mix Series comes from the supremely talented Eclecticist (@eclectivity) who draws from a wide range of bassy sounds and styles. With the title of Pirate Studios' 2019 'Pirate Prodigy' winner under his belt and his regular Eclectivity radio show on 1020 Radio, he's been carving out his own lane.

Heavily influenced by soundystem culture from a young age, he cohesively weaves various sub-heavy rhythms together, masterfully flipping from deep, sumptuous sounds to light and euphoric shades at the drop of a hat. This one's a juicy one!