This is an ‘ambient’ mix. 
A mixtape as chill as possible without it being a series of blips & soundwaves. This is SIDE A of a (bigger) mixtape concept, with SIDE B coming soon. In this mix, I’ve tried to keep things in a low orbit, minimal and shorter in running time. It’s made up of mostly interludes and bridges, pieces of songs loosely glued together for a cleansing and enlightening experience, acting a musical vitamin D: light noise against negative vibes. 

For ages now I’ve had this idea of doing a trilogy of ‘World Music’ mixes, each mix done in with Sides A & B, all in a different vein of music. So, this is Part 1 – Side A. There’ll be a total of six dj mixes all connected to each other as part of a trilogy I’m still calling it my ‘Earth, Wind & Fire Trilogy’ - as a working title. It was the first name that came into my head on this and I still can’t come up with something better. It’s a play on words as always. Wordplay. Play. 
As part of the tracklisting, I've included the actual record I've lifted it from:

01 Intro: Nest_Power Glove (off: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Video Game Soundtrack)
02 A Final Hit_Leftfield (off: Trainspotting Original Soundtrack)
03 Song for Barbara Payton_The Avalanches (off: We Will Always Love You LP)
04 Marooned _El-P & Wilder Zoby (off: Roma Original Soundtrack)
05We Are Always Alone_DJ Shadow (off: Roma Original Soundtrack)
06 When I Was Older_Billie Eilish (off: Roma Original Soundtrack)
07 Asleep From Day_Chemical Brothers ft. Hope Sandoval (off: Surrender LP)
08 Hallway_Jesse Novak (off: Bojack Horseman Soundtrack)
09 Prayer_Go Go Penguin (off: A Humdrum Star LP)
10 Where Did The Night Go_Gil Scott-Heron (off: I’m New Here LP)
11 Dayvan Cowboy_Boards of Canada (off: Trans Canada Highway EP)
12 Dandelion/13 Energy Warning_Boards of Canada (off: Geogaddi LP)
14 Kaini Industries_Boards of Canada (off: Music Has The Right To Children LP)
15 Ghost Story 2_The Avalanches ft. Orono & Leon Bridges (off: We Will Always Love You LP)
16 Within_Daft Punk (off: Random Access Memories LP)
17 Reflecting Light_The Avalanches ft. Sananda Maitreya & Vashti Bunyan (off: We Will Always Love You LP)
18 The Eternal Tao [outro]_The Voidz (off: Did My Best  7” Single)
19 Music Is The Light_The Avalanches ft. Cornelius & Kelly Moran (off: We Will Always Love You LP) 
20 Corsair [outro]_Boards of Canada (off: Geogaddi LP)

Ambient Mix (Side A)

Enchante, 
Salut, comment allez-vous? It's been a year since my last Depeche Mode mix. With the band blazing their way across Europe this summer and with a really solid new album in the bag, I just thought it was high-time to do a part two...
First of all, I'd really like to thank anyone/everyone who has played/downloaded/commented on my first mix. Soundcloud is a fantastic platform for DJs like myself (from a small town) to reach out to a broader audience and connect with other Depeche Mode/music lovers from all over le monde! Merci beaucoup from the bottom of my Irish heart x 
I'd used up a lot of crackers in 'part one' so in this mix we're set for a different course. Aboard this mixtape we'll explore hidden treasures and forgotten gems........Album tracks, B-Sides, mashed-up remixes, the occasional single, an alternative slow section, some bangin' live tunes & loaded with random DM-related samples.....An unconventional way to look at the best electronic band ever. 
I hope you enjoy the mix, have a dance, have a laugh or get off on it in any way possible, perfect for an apres party....

"Good Evening Soundcloud"


TRACKLISTING:
01 INTRO - Bienvenue dans mon monde
02 HIGHER LOVE – Live Devotional Tour '94  
03 USELESS
04 SECRET TO THE END
05 IN CHAINS – Alan Wilder Mix
06 AMBIENT WHALE Mix
07 IN YOUR ROOM – Extended Zephyr Mix
08 IT’S NO GOOD – Dominatrix Mix
09 YOU SHOULD BE HIGHER 
10 CORRUPT
11 THE SWEETEST CONDITION
12 WHEN THE BODY SPEAKS – Bare Version
13 MY JOY – 7” Mix
14 AFGHAN SURGERY – Renegade Soundwave Mix 
15 NOW, THIS IS FUN
16 FREELOVE – Flood Mix
17 PERFECT
18 DANGEROUS – 7” Mix
19 PRECIOUS – A wee bit of Aggro Mix
20 DREAM ON – Dave Clarke Mix
21 NOTHING’S IMPOSSIBLE
22 THE THINGS YOU SAID
23 POLICY OF TRUTH – Capitol Mix
24 LIE TO ME – Dominatrix Mix
25 HAPPIEST GIRL – Jack Mix
26 ALONE
27 WORLD IN MY EYES – Live Devotional Tour ‘94
28 BEHIND THE WHEEL – Spice Mix
29 I FEEL LOVED
30 NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN - 101 Live
31 ROUTE 66 – Beatmasters Mix

dEpEchE modE mix - volumE dEux

01 First Class
02 Dern Kala
03 August 10 
04 Mr. White
05 Connaissais de Face
06 Two Fish and an Elephant
07 Lady & Man
08 Texas Sun (ft. Leon Bridges)
09 Evan Finds The Third Room
10 So We Won’t Forget
11 White Gloves
12 Dearest Alfred
13 Summer Madness
14 Maria Tambien 
15 Pelota
16 People Everywhere
17 Time (You and I)


Made: Sat 3 July 2021 at Classified Records, Dundalk, Ireland. 
Equipment: Technics 1210MK2 vinyl turntables & Pioneer DJM-450 mixer
Concept: Summertime vibe homage to the trio from Houston, Texas. 
Reason why: We are what we think. We are what arises from our thoughts. We make the world.
Running time: 66.06

Khruangbin Mix

Hello and bienvenue to my debut on the Ramp Show. 

I'm both delighted and flattered to have been asked to provide a monthly mix (on last Thursday of every month) for Lebrosks Ramp Shows. It's a musical honour to be rubbing shoulders with the likes of such highly talented performers as: Dan Wilde, DJ Daigo, Rory Hoy, Zenit Incompatible, Johnny Pluse, Janette Slack, Meeloox, AJ Manns, Telephunken, Rhino Soundsystem, Audio Infunktion, VRT, Funky Mosquito, Sychosis, EZ Icarus, Lebrosk & DJ Kimble....We all have different influences, directions, styles and skills but at the end of the day, it's only about the music...   

Music is what feelings about life sound like. 
Music is an outburst from the soul. 
Music is the poetry of the airwaves. 
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music; it is the only cheap and unpunished rapture left upon earth.....Music is the medicine of the mind, the shorthand of emotion, the moonlight in the gloomy night of life......

Setlist:
01. The Verdict (Dopo La Condanna) – Ennio Morricone
02. Mack The Knife – Ella Fitzgerald
03. Money (That’s What I Want) – Barrett Strong
04. Lies (Hansi Remix) – JJ Cale
05. Outa Be A Law – Output
06. Tracks Of My Tears (Shimi Sonic Remix) – Smokey Robinson
07. Danhi Dinha Mantra (Skeewif VIP Re-Wiff) – Daniel Janin
08. Jumpin’ Jack Flash – Ananda Shankar
09. Dark Star (Kaleidoscope Jukebox) - The Grateful Dead
10. Soul Girl (Jackmaster Hawk’s Soul Shaker Re-Edit) – Jeanne & The Darlings
11. Love & Happiness (Pied Piper Regroove) – Rev. Al Green
12. As (Pied Piper Regroove) – Stevie Wonder
13. Goldfinger – Shirley Bassey & The Propellerheads
14. Manteca (Funky Lowlives Remix) – Dizzy Gillespie
15. Hard Time Travellin’ Man (Panama Cardoon Remix) – Brenda Boykin
16. Clean Up Your Own Backyard (DJ Prince Breakbeat Remix) – Elvis
17. I Can’t Get Next To You (Whiskey Barons Edit) – The Temptations
18. Bang Bang Boogie (Electro Swing Mashup) – Lebrosk
19. Return Of The Prodigal Son (DJ Twister Edit) – Byrdie Green
20. Someday Soon (Shimi Sonic Sugar Powder Mix) – Betty Everett
21. DJ Kid Stretch B-Boy Mix – Lakis Tzorntanelli
22. Apache (DJ O’Tool Remix) – The Incredible Bongo Band
23. The Peter Gunn Theme (Max Sedgley Remix) – Sarah Vaughan


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Endtroducing...The Ramp Show Vol. 1

01 Telegraph – Boards of Canada
02 Walkin’ in Hawkins  - Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
03 Seaport – Jesse Novak 
04 DRM – Kelly Doyle
05 Kelsey Apology – Jesse Novak
06 Chasing Kelsey – Jesse Novak
07 I Know That (When The Springtime Comes)  – Brilliantes del Vuelo 
08 Wherever You Go – The Avalanches
09 Fears (Cessa Mix) – Jono McCleery
10 Don’t Wait – Bonobo
11 Posthumous Forgiveness (Part 2) – Tame Impala
12 A Little Bit Different – Moon Duo
13 Staring at the Sun – Wooden Shjips
14 Fly – Low
15 The Weather – Pond
16 Post Birth – Jesse Novak
17 Baby Seahorse (Parts 1+2) – Jesse Novak
18 Nangs – Tame Impala
19 Seahorse Reunion – Jesse Novak
20 Final Kelsey Persuit – Jesse Novak
21 Breathe Deeper – Tame Impala
22 Tick of the Clock – The Chromatics
23 Ava – Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow
24 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Poem by Dylan Thomas
25 The Wormhole – Hans Zimmer


FIAT LUX ET FACTA EST LUX

Ambient Mix (Side B)

"The View from Half Way Down". 

A beautifully sad winter tale of old with themes of regret, fading light and death. On this journey we’ve selected songs from 1899-1975 and the mix is split and blended into three equal measures: orchestral, acoustic, winter atmosphere.

Soundtracking a dystopian movie would be a wonderful boffin job. With so many directions to go in sonically, it’s a broad pallet to fill with colours and downtempo textures. Winter is all around us and this is naturally reflected within the makings of this mixtape. Songs that are character-based, by that I mean, based on the voice you are hearing, for example, the depth of Scott Walkers voice, or Lee Hazlewood’s baritone bring you on journeys into their soul directly through their majestic singing voices. Lots of brilliant movies have been ‘character-based’, a sure-fire route to success once the protagonist has an interesting story of life struggles where happiness is fleeting and sadness inevitable. The overall story becomes irrelevant as we are entwined with the performers' adventure through adversity. Over time it seems that we get to know them a little, as we get used to their habits. We root for them, we feel sad for them; we wish we were them - then we don’t. We know we can never be them. 

We enter worlds we know nothing about. When we get there, we arrive at honesty. Nina Simone’s song is quite possibly one of the deepest/saddest songs ever recorded – “You’ll never know the pain of using a name you never owned”. REMs ‘Everybody Hurts’ is a sugary pop song in comparison. 

The orchestral sweeps of mid 20th Century avant-garde European love movies have a timeless sci-fi loop to them also, the duality of timelines connect in a visceral way. It’s soothing to not know where a piece of music starts and ends. Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a work for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1899 while the French composer was studying at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel published an orchestral version in 1910 using two flutes, an oboe, two clarinets (in B♭), two bassoons, two horns, harp, and strings.

Music allows the listener time to reflect on surroundings and perceptions and can shape an autodidactic worldview. This freedom of thought releases us to the happiest of margins, where powerful sensations are at once unlocked. 

Isolating harmonies really helps tunes the senses. When you’re left alone with only voices and breaths it instantly feels both close and far away, drifting on the wind like snow. A similar intimacy applies when it’s just a man and his guitar, an extension of the souls deepest feeling. Nick Drake, now a ghost in a stately mansion probably, typifies the atmosphere of late 60’s British folk music, just as David Crosby did around the same time in Southern California. How do they connect across this vast distance: spirit. This is clearly something we cannot see, visible only in another dimension. 

If you have a song written by Led Zeppelin named in your honour you might be someone pretty special, no? Well there’s a man now living in County Cork called Roy Harper, who apparently has a voice that ‘grows on you’ and this apparently puts off a lot of people, like blue food does. His tone is like no other, laced with black magik and dragons blood. Time must be invested just to get to know him, through his songs…he must have been like that in real life, cool. Sixto Rodriguez is another faintly-dimming star in the closest constellation. He brings a worldwearyness to proceedings with his moody ascending scales as he tells us that it’s good to talk about important issues, not to be afraid of our own existence. He was considered an outright rebel in 1969, his direct social commentary being at least five years ahead of its time. No mean feat that. They made a lovely movie about him. 


These are the characters starring in our soundtrack. (Setlist/Running Order listed in the comments section)

The View from Half Way Down

KRAUTROCK AND THE BUILDING OF MODERN GERMANY. 

West Germany after the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. This proved to be fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental sounds that became known as ‘Krautrock’.
Krautrock has taken its place in the firmament. From its origins in hippy circus tents around Dusseldorf in the late 1960’s, to the lofty likes of The Fall, Joy Division, Stereolab & LCD Soundsystem, it is globally revered. Whenever a new group wish to show their experimental credentials, they will reach up & pick out the word ‘Krautrock’ like a condiment to add a radical dash of cool to their press release.
Yet it is well over four decades since Krautrock petered-out, its demise practically unnoticed as the media were sent into paroxysms by punk, or confounded by the supersonic sequencers of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and the emergence of Disco, which, at the time, threatened to reset the global pulse. During this era (late 70s), Krautrock died away. 
How did Krautrock, so lightly regarded in its own day both at home and abroad, become one of the cornerstones for modern pop & rock music? Its influence has been long reaching and wide ranging, created a similarly lengthy host of styles which descended from it – ambient, hip hop, post-rock, electronic, psych-rock, trance, rave, and post-punk. Yet for all its hipness, it is still disregarded or only dimly understood. 
Krautrock signified the rebuilding of modern Germany. By the late 1960s, many cities were still in ruins & the people were shaking off the humiliation of the war; collective guilt. Starved of culture & desperately needing an injection of fresh philosophies, a new form of music was due to replace the outdated ultra-kitsch ‘Schlager’ music, Germany’s default trad music scene. Bands started emerging from Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Koln & Dusseldorf.
But, where did the term ‘Krautrock’ come from? 
It’s an absurdly offensive term to Germans, yet it’s used unselfconsciously by a generation  who would no more dream of calling Germans ‘Jerries’ or ‘Fritz’. The artists involved in this scene are bemused by the phrase. ‘Kraut’ means ‘herb’ in German = ‘Herb rock’. Over the years the word has lost the accidental pejorative connotation it once had. It’s become semantically cleaned with the wash of time. How could a single word encapsulate both the spacey, ambient extremes of Ash Ra Temple and the heavy industrial collage of Faust? The faux-bourgeois placidity of Kraftwerk and the angry, messy agitation of Amon Duul? The ecclesiastical heights of Popol Vuh and the sacrilegious depths of Can? The extreme, maximal suffocating noise of Neu! and the spare, horticultural ambient beauty of Harmonia?
There is, quite simply, something jaggedly appealing about the very way in which the word sits on the page or rolls off the tongue. It’s certainly preferable to other options that never really stuck, such as ‘Teutonic Railroad Rock n Roll’.
When Klaus Dinger & Michael Rother left Kraftwerk to form Neu!, with ‘hidden member’ Connie Plank, they created the famous “Motorik” beat, a continuous, pulsating 4/4 rhythm that became one of the musical trademarks of this experimental music. Krautrock draws on the gamut of styles – 20th Century classical, musique concrete, free jazz, progressive rock, blues, psychedelia, funk, electronic as well as its own, hand-wrought originality. 
Dinger referred to the droning motorik or komische style as the ‘Apache Beat’. Neu!’s ‘Hallogallo’ sums up perfectly the designed experience and is the quintessential sound of 1970s Germany.
This mixtape celebrates this forward-flowing music, as Dinger himself emphasized, “It is very much a human beat, it is essentially about life, how you have to keep moving, get on, and stay in motion”.

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It was only by the late 1960s, after West Germany’s commercial and industrial infrastructure had long been rebuilt that a generation was at last able to query the wilful amnesia of their elders, some of whom still occupied positions of power (also in America) despite being implicated in the Third Reich. All of this added an extra dimension to the sudden blossoming of pop and rock worldwide in the late 1960s, of which West Germany were as enthusiastic consumers as anyone. For many musicians, this simply meant imitating or doing cover versions of the work of acclaimed Anglo-American artists. For many young West Germans, this meant lapping up the works of rock behemoths like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Zappa & the Stones. 
Other musicians, however, were deeply conscious of the need to create musical forms and hybrids that rejected the templates set down by the ‘cultural occupying force’ of the Brits/Yanks who maintained a strong military presence in the country. Hence the coincidental, diverse groups popping up all over West Germany, who were all like-minded in their urge to start from scratch, thus creating new forms unspotted by their dreadful past and antithetical to the banal, head-in-the-sands kitsch of ‘schlager’ – the traditional German music. 
Paradoxically, these West German musicians engaged in the quest for inspiration or for jumping-off points; Jazz, Hendrix, UK Prog Rock, Turkish Funk, South American rhythms. The point of this ‘new music’ was to take a journey – weather it was to the interior forested heartlands of Germany, the dormant depths of its soul, or to the farthermost points of East or West, this filtered through the dire German post-war experience. It delved into the realm of electronics and the future offered was one of speculative, anti-nostalgia hope. 
All of the artists on this mixtape were in some way or other touched by this spirit, this quest of self (re) discovery. They may have had conventional upbringings – but all set out on their own, long and winding roads.

1.	LUSTWANDEL – ROEDELIUS
2.	MORGENGRUSS – POPUL VUH
3.	DAYDREAM – ASH RA TEMPEL
4.	DEVOTION – BETWEEN 
5.	EVER NEW – BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND
6.	KHALI – DZYAN
7.	SOHAM – DEUTER
8.	DRONSZ – NOVALIS
9.	DURULE – ALEX
10.	I’M SO GREEN – CAN
11.	MY STRAND-EYED GIRL – VIRUS
12.	LAILA, PART II – AGITATION FREE
13.	HIGH LIFE – IBLISS
14.	HALLO GALLO – NEU!
15.	(OUTRO): KEKSE – HARMONIA

#Krautrock #Drone #Prog #Pysch #Sonic #Oblivion #Monolithic #Undertow

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You go on a weekend to Havana, it's post-revolution, pre-bay of pigs. 
All dolled up, full of illegal tequila and you're off to a club called 'The Beat Club' to see a band called 'The Blood Group'....
Style/instruments: Canyonesque sounds played with piano, brass section, bongos, electric guitar, bouzouki, horns, double basslines, drums, sax & vocals from daughters of chaos and sons of sharks; descendants of mayhem conceived on boudoir dreams and incendiary ideas.
Admission/price: To enlist in the Beat Club will cost you one hour of your life....
Weather you retro, hetro, homo; beatnik peacenik, lovenik hatenik; a teacher, a preacher, a creature feature; a ragger, a blagger, a social ladder or Hansel & Zoolander....Settle in for sweet global pop melodies mixed with sampled rhythms about life, love & lies.

Pinata! Pinata, lets go, lets boogaloo till we puke!!

This is soundtrack de la Revolucion Cubana!! En Vivo!!


Tracklisting:
01. The Travelling Man’s Tale – The Kingston Trio & Grant Lazlo
02. Victor Dembe – Waggles
03. Mentira (DJ Snatch Edit) – Marcos Valle
04. Sale El Boogaloo (DJ Snatch Edit) – Fruko Y Sus Tesos
05. Jenny’s Bossa (DJ Snatch Edit) – Lavranos
06. Big Bold Sister (Jack Frost Edit) – Ike & Tina Turner
07. Inner City Blues (DJ Rebel Dancefloor Dub) – Sly & Robbie
08. You Don’t Love Me Like The First Time (DJ Snatch Edit) – Mairy Linda & Manolis Hiotis
09. Iranian Woman (DJ Snatch Edit) – Zoi Kouroukli 
10. Air (Soundhog Remix) – Aphrodite’s Child
11. Thousand Nights – Michael Lener
12. Une Historie de Photo – Grant Lazlo
13. Wily Kataso (Ghetto Kumbe Remix) – Amadou et Mariam
14. T Plays It Cool (DJ Prince Remix) – Marvin Gaye
15. Take It Easy (Smoove Edit) – Gilbert
16. Cuban Swing (Yukicito Remix) – Will Magid
17. Drummer Man (Sam Redmore Re-Edit) – The Brady Bunch
18. I Got A Woman Over Town (Matty Blades Re-Rub) – Ray Charles
19. Spanish Harlem (Smart Edit) – Aretha Franklin
20. Suspicious Minds (Skeewif Remix) – Elvis
21. That’s Life (Michael Lener Remix) – Frank Sinatra
22. Till Then – Michael Lener


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Endtroducing...The Ramp Show Vol. 4

“So what is Yacht Rock?”

Yacht Rock is that smooth, mellow music that emanated from Southern California in the late 1970s and early 80s. It has long served as the anthem for the “yuppies” of the 80s, since they LOVE to listen to Yacht Rock as they cruise through the harbor on the way to meet their cocaine dealer. If you’ve ever visited the dentist or been in an elevator you’ve definitely heard some Yacht Rock.

Yacht rock was one of the most commercially successful genres to emerge from the '70s and yet has managed to evade concise definition since its inception. Originally known as the West Coast sound or ‘Adult-Oriented soft rock’, it is a broad music style with a strong aesthetic drawing on sources such as smooth soul & jazz, R&B and disco. Common stylistic traits include high-quality production fluidity, clean high-pitched vocals and a focus on light, catchy melodies. Its name was coined in 2005 due to its association with the popular Southern Californian leisure activity of sailing. Officially, to be considered Yacht Rock, the song must have been released between 1975 and 1985.

The joy of Yacht Rock is just that...its joyousness. This is bubblegum music for the jet set or the wannabe Richie Rich's. It’s delightfully shallow, and part of its vibrancy is that it doesn't have a bad thought in its head. (Some of the songs obviously don't have any thoughts in their head, but if you want to have an intellectually stimulating conversation about, say, Toto's "Rosanna," then have at it.) But never forget that part of its charm lies in its inability for deeper analysis. Part of yacht rock’s charm is being many things but only to a small degree. Songs can be jazzy, but not experimental. Brass sections are great but don’t get too funky. And the songs should rock, but not rock.

Songs usually feature a signature solo cut from amaestro, builds the sleek jazz-funk into a more digital-sounding landscape, with our heroes stacking precise vocal harmonies over synth buzz and bent-note guitar leads.

Some agreed-upon elements are crucial to yacht rock: One is its fluidity, with more emphasis on a catchy, easy-feeling melody than on beat or rhythm. Another is a generally lighthearted attitude in the lyrics. Think Seals & Crofts "Summer Breeze," Christopher Cross' "Ride Like the Wind" or Bill Withers' "Just the Two of Us." Yes, as its label suggests, music that would fit perfectly being played from the deck of a luxurious boat on the high seas.

For many listeners, it boils down to a feeling or mood that cannot be found in other kinds of music: Simply put, you know it when you hear it.


1 How Long – Ace
2 Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold
3 Ride Like The Wind – Christopher Cross
4 What A Fool Believes – The Doobie Brothers
5 Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
6 Rosanna – Toto
7 Lowdown – Boz Scaggs
8 Peg – Steely Dan
9 Year Of The Cat – Al Stewart
10 The Space Between – Roxy Music
11 Eye In The Sky – The Alan Parsons Project
12 The Logical Song – Supertramp
13 Sweet Freedom – Michael McDonald
14 Miami Vice Theme – Jan Hammer
15 Valerie – Steve Winwood
16 Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
17 Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty

Recorded: 5th Sept 2022 at Classified Records, Dundalk, Ireland.
Equipment: Technics 1210MK2 vinyl turntables & Pioneer DJM-450 mixer
Concept: It's not lounge music, but it's music to lounge to
Vibe: Like my blood type always says, B positive!
Running time: 67.42

Untitled Yacht Rock Project

For the third & final installment of my Depeche Mode trilogy, I've decided upon doing a live concert mix. With the Delta Machine Tour finishing up last week (March 2014), completing 108 concerts worldwide, this is a homage to another monumental world tour and the truly unforgettable experience of going to see Depeche live in the flesh...
This is the spring of our souls and perfect time to release a 'live album' using the basic structure of this tours' setlist. To preserve it's freshness for daily consumption, I've added in other live tracks from previous tours down the years; in total, 9 different DM shows have been used for this mix. Please feel free to exceed the stated dose...
Honourable mentions to Biashead who re-mastered the live Delta Machine Tour songs and made them possible to mix. Thanks also to Lee (Boiing) & RaphMODE for the artwork inspirations & DJ Kimble for volume levellings.
This mix is dedicated to "Kylie" who worked backstage for the band on the recent tour and, thru an old friend, hooked me up with two VIP passes for the gig in Dublin (November 2013). How can I ever thank you? But if you'll allow me to boast for a moment....I met and chatted with Martin, Fletch & Peter Gordeno apres the show, been having recurring dreams about it ever since. 
A metaphysical experience yet just a moment in time...
Anyways, if you'll excuse my preamble, we'll get on with the show...

SETLIST:

01. INTRO
02. WELCOME TO MY WORLD
03. ANGEL
04. BARREL OF A GUN
05. JOHN THE REVELATOR
06. POLICY OF TRUTH
07. SOOTHE MY SOUL
08. FLY ON THE WINDSCREEN
09. CONDEMNATION
10. JUDAS (Martin)
11. IT DOESN'T MATTER TWO (Martin)
12. ONLY WHEN I LOSE MYSELF (Martin)
13. HEAVEN
14. BEHIND THE WHEEL
15. A PAIN THAT I'M USED TO
16. QUESTION OF TIME
17. BLACK CELEBRATION
18. STRANGELOVE
19. PERSONAL JESUS
Encore:
20. LEAVE IN SILENCE (Martin)
21. BUT NOT TONIGHT (Martin)
22. HALO
23. JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH
24. ENJOY THE SILENCE

dEpEchE modE mix - volumE thrEE

Different Strokes.
The Strokes records mixed together live in one take on a set of turntables. 
No overdubs, edits or acoustic re-imagining. 
(A friend request). 

I got asked recently to make a Strokes dj set. Whilst I was in the middle of another dj mix project in a totally different genre, I immediately accepted the challenge. 
The Strokes done been all up in my favourite bands so I’ve put together this setlist and tried my best not to mangle any of these precious songs. I’ve attempted to be impartial but not obvious. The big hits are absent but I’ve tried to not veer too far into indulgent fandom. This mixtape contains 15 songs, with all six albums represented, clocking in at under an hour. 

Setlist:
01 Ode To The Mets
02 Is This It
03 Automatic Stop
04 Threat Of Joy
05 You Only Live Once
06 Macchu Picchu
07 Ize Of The World
08 The Adults Are Talking
09 Hard To Explain
10 Life is Simple In The Moonlight
11 Selfless
12 1251
13 Heart In A Cage
14 NYC Cops
15 Hawaii

Different Strokes

Live dj set from the Melomania Stage, Sunday (nite!), 4th of May at Vantastival festival 2014. 
@Bellurgan Park, Dundalk, Co.Louth, Ireland.
"Just a man and his will to survive"

Setlist:
01.	Mars Introduction
02.	Kill in Black with Amelie – ViC
03.	Joans Problem – Dave Remix
04.	Gold Dust (DJ Generic Remix) – DJ Fresh
05.	Block-Rockin’ Beats – The Chemical Brothers
06.	The Power – Snap!
07.	Eye of the Tiger (Mojo Filters Volkers Edit) – Survivor
08.	Praise You – Fatboy Slim
09.	Sun (Gigamesh Remix) – Two Door Cinema Club
10.	Tongue Tied (Gigamesh Remix) – Grouplove
11.	Groove is in the Heart (Gigamesh Remix) – Deee-lite
12.	Pinball Wizard (The Reflex Stems Re-Vision) – The Who
13.	All Day & All of the Night (Kool Hertz Remix) – The Kinks
14.	Smoke on the Water (Deep Pecoe Remix) – Deep Purple
15.	Gimme Shelter (Pecoe Shot Away Remix) – Rolling Stones
16.	Once in a Lifetime (Gigamesh Remix) – Talking Heads
17.	Sally in the Galaxy (Bethnal Green Mix) – The Penelopes
18.	You Make Me Rock and Roll (The Penelopes Remix) – Tom Tom Club
19.	Let’s Dance (The Penelopes Remix) – David Bowie
20.	Just Like Heaven (The Penelopes Remix) – The Cure
21.	Summer Life (Gigamesh Remix) – The Penelopes
22.	Look Good in Leather (The Reflex Stems Re-Vision) – Cody Chesnutt
23.	Suzie Q (DJ Butcher Remix) – Creedence Clearwater Revival
24.	Just A Little More – CMC & Silenta
25.	Girls & Boys (Rory Hoy Remix) – Blur
26.	You Shook Me All Night Long (Dave Remix) – AC/DC
27.	Love Will Tear Us Apart (Justin Harris Mix) – Joy Division
28.	Everybody Hurts (Fernando Picon Evita Love Remix) – REM


Official festival website:
http://www.vantastival.com/

Online Music Tree:
http://onlinemusictree.ie/festivals/festival-preview/festivalfriday-vantastival-2014-playlists/

Evil Presidentes facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evil-Presidentes/184380221621319?ref=hl

Live at Vantastival 2014 [dj set]

Laurel Canyon was a nexus of counter-culture activity and attitudes in the mid/late 1960s & early 70s. It became home to famous L.A. musicians – Cass Elliott, Frank Zappa, Gram Parsons, Jim Morrison, The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, Carole King & the CSNY crew. This created a fusion of folk, rock, Psychedelic & country thus unleashing a new musical revolution. They slept together, took drugs together, formed bands together and left behind a forever legacy. The free spiritedness of the hippie era could be felt across the cottages and hills dotting the Laurel Canyon area – creating a “bohemian refuge”.

“When I first came out to L.A. [in 1968], my friend [photographer] Joel Bernstein found an old book in a flea market that said: Ask anyone in America where the craziest people live and they’ll tell you California. Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they’ll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live and they’ll tell you Hollywood. Ask anyone in Hollywood where the craziest people live and they’ll say Laurel Canyon. And ask anyone in Laurel Canyon where the craziest people live and they’ll say Lookout Mountain. So I bought a house on Lookout Mountain.” – Joni Mitchell.

Every mix I do has a ‘concept’. Back at the start of the year, I picked up three new records – David Crosby ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name’, John Phillips ‘The Wolfking of L.A.’ & Gene Clark’s ‘No Other’. It’s from their essence that I’ve curated this mix. I’ve grown up with a ubiquitous obsession with Los Angeles and it still plays a big part in my creative side. There’s an element of Tarantino’s recent flick in here too, so this is my homage to a place in time that will never be recreated.


Tracklisting:
1.	What Are Their Names – David Crosby
2.	Alabama – Neil Young
3.	Carry On – CSNY
4.	No Other – Gene Clark
5.	April Anne – John Phillips
6.	Traction In The Rain – David Crosby
7.	Love Hurts – Gram Parsons & Emmy-Lou Harris
8.	Jamaica Say You Will – Jackson Browne
9.	Captain – John Phillips
10.	It’s Too Late – Carole King
11.	Malibu People – John Phillips
12.	Laughing – David Crosby
13.	Lady Of The North – Gene Clark




Title: “Once Upon A Time in Laurel Canyon”
Equipment: Technics 1210mk2 vinyl turntables + Pioneer DJM-450 mixer
Liner notes: Recorded live in Classified Records, Dundalk, May 2023. 
This project started in January - while the soul has been on a long road of discovery, it’s been my companion through the spring equinox. My own personal love-letter to Los Angeles. Deep within this 50 minute/one-take mix are detailed, warm, rich, separation of sounds taking the listener on a dreamy psychedelic folk rock trip back to the 'Once Upon a time in Hollywood' timeline. 
Thanks to: OC, Euge, Tim P, JC & my First Lady.

Once Upon A Time In Laurel Canyon

One-take vinyl demo mix. 
Conceived and completed in 24 hours. 
Dream Pop for the daily nightmares. 
For broken souls everywhere.
Feelings aren't facts.


1.	Arrival – Johann Johannsson 
2.	Lifeforms – Daughter
3.	Champion – Warpaint
4.	A+E – Goldfrapp
5.	Savior – St Vincent
6.	Yr Love – Holy Other
7.	Love as a Ghost – Documenta
8.	Stereo Music – Keith Fullerton Whitman
9.	On The Subway – Roger Manning
10.	Small Poppies – Courtney Barnett
11.	Metal Heart – Cat Power
12.	Horse With No Name – Michelle Branch
13.	Flowers in December – Mazzy Star
14.	Staraflur – Sigur Ros
15.    Shibuya - Brian Reitzell
16.    Hey Maggy - David Holmes 
17.	Girls – Death in Vegas
18.	Emancipation – Helios
19.	Are You Awake? – Kevin Shields
20.	Gloomy Sunday – Die Hexen
21.    Down To The Sound - Bibio
21.	Stay With Me – Spiritualized
22.   (outro) Alone in Kyoto - Air

Bubblegum + Razorblades

01. Hidden - SnK & Snaf
02. Indeep and Dance - Way
03. Beast Day (Dj Agent 86 Edit) - Marsha Hunt
04. Balkan Express - Gramatik
05. Blue Crystal (Instrumental) - Skeewiff
06. Ain't Nothing But The Blues (Mojo Filter Remix) - Son of Dave
07. I Just Can't Help Myself (No Rulz Rolled-Out Rework) - Sweet Daddy Floyd
08. Can't Stop This (Jem Stone Remix) - Rennie Pilgrem
09. Bad Habit (DJ Rebel Edit) - Onephatdiva
10. Hey Ciao Tu (The Reflex Retouch) - Pino d'Angio
11. Thursday Night - Afrolicious
12. Love Step - Will Magid
13. Futures/Swing (Hugo Kant Remix) - Zero 7
14. La Femme de Duke - The Duke Spirit vs Air
15. Roads - Portishead
16. Teardrop - Massive Attack
17. Why Is It I Spend The Day? - Monocrome
18. No More Pain - SomehowArt
19. Royals Symphony - Lorde vs The Verve
20. Ritual Union (Adski Remix) - Little Dragon
21. Sexyflap - Jem Stone Remix
22. Dance With You (Chrispop Discoballs) - Timothy Wilson
23. Walkman Music (JR Dynamtie Edit) - Kasso Ft. J-Live
24. Mae Kha Som Tam (Dj Kid Stretch B-boy Edit) - Onuma Singsiri
25. Gyere Fogd Meg A Kezem (Dj Kid Stretch B-boy Edit) - Atlas
26. Contact (Shimi Sonic Remix) - Brigid Bardot
27. The Entertainer - Sine Sickness
28. Brouhaha - Vanessa & The O's [outro] 

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Endtroducing...The Ramp Show Vol. 5

‘B Movie Mix’ is Cinematic Crime Score Soundtrack (fictional) based on a time of conflict (fact). 

Inside this soundtrack we jump from Blaxploitation American funk to brass-led themes laid on a sonic bed of propulsive bass lines, haunting drum beats, wah wah guitars, and epic Latin strings nodding to disco. There’s also room for crime-funk pieces from Italy, France, Germany & Venezuela. 
This music was composed in an era (1971-83) of political turmoil and civil unrest as the world moved into the 3rd industrial revolution. The claustrophobia of these compositions reflect this state of flux.

My last few mixes have been more ‘mainstream’ than usual so I’ve kept this one obscure. 


Intro: The Fortunes of Virgo
Get Up Off Your Knees – David Axelrod
Free Angela (Parts 1&2) – Bayete/Todd Cochran
Il Marsigliese Fugge – Stelvio Cipriani 
Assalto In Moto – Franco Campanino
L’Intoccabile Mr.Cliff – Riz Ortolani
Montreal – Manuel De Sica
Free Angela (Part 3) – Bayete/Todd Cochran
My Family – David Axelrod
The Edge – David McCallum
Mucho Chupar – Julian Adderley
Ballade de Melody Nelson – Serge Gainsbourg
Le Temps De L’Amour – Francoise Hardy
En Melody – Serge Gainsbourg
The Lions and The Cucumber – The Vampire Sound Inc.
Killer Per Necessita – Roberto Pregadio
Dame de Comer – Miguel Angel Fuster
Delirio En Fa Menor – Daniel Grau
Mexico Melody – Helmut Zacharias
(Post movie credits outro): Vecchio Boss – Stelvio Cipriani

B Movie Mix

[side B]
1.	Heading South (Nite Sprite Mix) – Mitch Murder
2.	Stop, Drop & Roll It (Mitch Murder Remix) – Ghosthouse
3.	Just Till Midnight – Mitch Murder ft. Miranda Carey
4.	Spin – Robert Parker
5.	Al Naafiysh (DJ Butcher Edit) – Hashim
6.	Lotus – Robert Parker
7.	Into The Void – Robert Parker
8.	Starworshipper (Mitch Murder Remix) – Futurecop! Ft. Diana Gen
9.	Savage – Mitch Murder
10.	Turbo Interceptor – Quixotic
11.	The Perfect Kiss (Sample Gee Reconstruction) – New Order
12.	Abruzzo Hills – Apollo Zapp
13.	In The News (Nite Sprite Future Drive Remix) – Mitch Murder
14.	Summer Of Heat – Mitch Murder ft. Kristine
15.	Crossing Borders – Plaisance
16.	Lightweight – Freeweights
17.	Shocking Facts - Quasars
18.	I Ran (So Far Away) – A Flock Of Seagulls


Endtroducing...The Ramp Show Vol. 7 [side B]

You have been teleported into a 8-bit Atari computer car game called 'Chasing the Sun'. Your engine is revved up and you're under the starting gun of a race in the summer sunshine, complete with its own soundtrack. You clench your red, white & blue leather driving gloves on the wheel as the digital clock ticks down. The crowd roar and move in strange blocky formations. A big gold coin on a tropical island awaits the winner as the clock counts down.......Go!!!

(This is a two-part neo-futuristic 80s mix, with both sides clocking in at less than 45mins; just fitting perfectly onto a 90 minute tape!)


[side A]
1.	Introduction: Black Celebration
2.	After Hours Run – Mitch Murder
3.	Story of the Running Wolf (Lost Years Remix) – Stratospheric
4.	Wolf – Powercut
5.	Chase – Cartridge 1987
6.	Wunderbar (Le Hammond Inferno Romantic Mix) – Jeans Team
7.	Broken Dreams – Nightcrawler
8.	So Blinded (Lost Years Remix) – Furns
9.	Short Circuit – Daft Punk
10.	Get Up Stand Fresh (End of Summer Mix) – Franklean
11.	Head Over Heels (Fingerman Edit) – Tears For Fears
12.	Virtual Reality (A Space Love Adventure Remix) – Mach Rider
13.	Death Wish – A Space Love Adventure
14.	Arrival (Mitch Murder Remix) – Lazerhawk
15.	Feel The Air – Mitch Murder ft. Kristine
16.	Problems D’Amour (Alkalino Edit) – Alexander Robotnick
17.	The Promise (Dynamicron Word Edit) – When In Rome
18.	Daybreak – Mitch Murder


Endtroducing...The Ramp Show Vol. 7 [side A]

This is a VINYL ONLY mix. I've not recorded anything new/fresh in over a year; this is my re-emergence from DJing-hibernation. This recording is a reflection on what I've been listening to thru 2016, compassing sounds of acoustic pieces, 60's R&B, Psyche, Experimental Rock/Pop, Folk,  Krautrock, Avant-Garde, Art-Rock on all original pressing vinyl from the 1960's...

Setlist:
Introduction: A Better Guide To Listening
Great Gig In the Sky - Pink Floyd
Hazey Jane - Nick Drake
May You Never - John Martyn
Crucify Your Mind - Rodriguez
Sand - Lee Hazlewood
Shine On Your Crazy Diamond (Part 8) - Pink Floyd
Dernieres Impressions - Jean-Pierre Castalan
Terrapin - Syd Barrett
You Know Who I Am - Leonard Cohen
Maybe You're Right - Cat Stevens
American Dreamer - Gene Clark
Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson
Midnight Cowboy - John Barry
Here Today - Beach Boys
Wild Mountain Thyme - The Byrds
Along Comes Mary - The Association
The Letter - The Box Tops
Happy Together - The Turtles 
I'm A Man - The Spencer Davis Group
I Idolize You - Gigi & The Charmaines
SF Sorrow - Pretty Things
Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles
One Way Glass - Manfred Man
Stomping Ground - Moondog

Vinyl Mix - Made 15.12.16

A Hazy Shade Of Winter [Vinyl Mix]

With Depeche Mode releasing a brilliant new LP and just heading off around the world on tour, it's time for the next installment in my own DM series of mixes. This is #4. Made with vinyl on a set of Technics 1200s. All songs are from 1990-2017 and none of them have been used on any of my three previous mixes...

Tracklisting:
01 GOING BACKWARDS
02 CORRUPT
03 THE DEAD OF NIGHT
04 I LIKE THE WAY YOU MOVE
05 THE SINNER IN ME
06 BARREL OF A GUN
07 MERCY IN YOU
08 POISON HEART
09 USELINK
10 GOODNIGHT LOVERS
11 WAITING FOR THE NIGHT
12 COVER ME
13 SISTER OF NIGHT
14 WHERE'S THE REVOLUTION
15 MARTYR
16 SO MUCH LOVE

Depeche Mode 90>17 [Vinyl Mix]

Recorded live & instore at Classified Records, Dundalk, Sat 13.01.18 as part of the pop-up Bowie mini-festival. Three different DJs played live sets on the Technics 1210s during the day and this is part ONE performed by Neil Waters. This setlist features less obvious tracks and tries to encapsulate a mood and project a feeling of time dilation which is based (mostly) around Bowie's 1977-82 'Berlin Trilogy' period. This is the David Bowie I have musical preference for; his work with Brian Eno has a wonderfully modern dystopian feel to it and is the Bowie I love most. So, download away, this mix will also fit onto a blank CD for the car. We'll have parts TWO and THREE available as a trilogy set in the coming weeks...

01 Intro: Becalmed - Brian Eno
02 Crystal Japan
03 Sense of Doubt
04 Subterraneans
05 V2 Schneider
06 A New Career In Town
07 Cat People
08 Loving The Alien
09 Ashes to Ashes
10 DJ
11 Fashion
12 Beauty and The Beast
13 Word On A Wing
14 Right (Alternate version)
15 John, I'm Only Dancing
16 Bowie's In Space - Flight of the Conchords
17 L'air Que Je Chante - Papillon 
18 Yassassin
19 I Can't Give Anything Away

Live From Classified Records Dundalk 13.01.18

Bowiemixone

Time for something new. 

Imagine the retro version James Bond of old, in an Aston Martin DB5 with his girl, 30 years into the future. He's fighting crime, he's taking his time, he enjoys his expensive fine wines. He likes to bust balls and break hearts but tonight he's playing backgammon and going niteclubbing in Soho in 2042 with Ursula Andress in toe who has been frozen in time by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

This is his soundtrack.

01. Junior Introduction 
02. Bohemian Rhapsody (Pied Piper Mix) - Queen 
03. Je Ne T'aime Plus - Manu Chao 
04. Show Me Your Love (12" Mix) - Shimi Sonic 
05. Be A Bee - Air 
06. Paper Thin - Freqnik & WDRE 
07. Brass, Beats & Bongos - Skeewif 
08. Boen Again - 5 
09. These Boots Were Made For Walking (Schmix Mix) - Nancy Sinatra 
10. Crazy, Crazy - Skeewif 
11. Wild Waters - Skeewif 
12. (Still) Passin' Me By - JStar 
13. Bam Bam/Never Lost One - Sister Nancy vs Lauryn Hill 
14. Cold Blooded Murder - Shimi Sonic 
15. Perfidia - Phyllis Dillon 
16. Chan Chan (DJ Yamin remix) - Buena Vista Social Club 
17. Ain't No Stairway High Enough - Fissunix 
18. Fix Up My Wonderwall - Daigo 
19. As Opose - Master 
20. Rumba In The Crates (Basement Freaks vs Pedigree Cuts Blend) - Chrispop 
21. San Jose - Shmix 
22. Tic Toc (Maars Reggae Re-Dub) - The Lords of The Underground 
23. Regulate Rock - JStar 
24. Paper President (Jimi Needles Summer Cocktail) - M.I.A. vs The Honey Drippers 
25. Jump Around (Maars Reggae Re-Fix) - House of Pain 
26. The Wrong Mango - Joe Revell 
27. A Message To You Rudy (J-Sound Mix) - The Specials 
28. Uptown Top Ranking (Bashboomb Mix) - Althea & Donna 
29. Thunderbirds Sample 
30. Lithium - Little Roy

James Bond Club Boogie Mix

I've wanted to do a 'rock n roll' styled mix for a while now. Something to feed on, something to sweat over, a quick spin back to my roots. 
Lets be honest, we all love a bit of rock n roll...we all have our favourite bands that we grew up on, bands that we will be eternally loyal to no matter what they do off the stage (within morals). There are also bands & artists that we will perpetually dislike, usually for life-long irrational reasons. 
But when it comes to rock n roll, no-one is either right or wrong on their opinions, because music is not dealt in facts or statistics, there's no chart or league tables....it's a feeling. And if it was good then, it's good now....


01. Fucking in the bushes - Oasis 
02. Wreakin' Bar - The Vaccines 
03. California Sun - The Ramones 
04. Communication Sedated (Led Zeppelin vs The Ramones) - Fissunix 
05. Suffragette City - David Bowie 
06. Ode to a Black Man - Phil Lynott 
07. Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones 
08. All day and all of the Night - The Stranglers 
09. The Hardest Button to Button - The White Stripes 
10. Nineties WTF - Wick it The Instigator 
11. Same Jeans - The View 
12. Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) - Buzzcocks 
13. Complete Control - The Clash 
14. Cool for Cats - Squeeze 
15. Making Plans for Nigel - XTC 
16. I Want More - Can 
17. Five Years Ahead My Time - The Third Bardo 
18. I'm Alive - Johnny Thunder 
19. Fade Away - Rolling Stones 
20. Time of the Season - The Zombies 
21. For Your Love - The Yardbirds 
22. Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful 
23. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf 
24. Radar Love - Golden Earring

The Orange Peel Sessions (Side A)

This started out as just another mix...This ended up as something completely different.

Think of this as an old-fashioned tape someone would've made for you back in the 90s, now its time to flip over and turn to Side B. If you want to record it, head on down to Music Tapes on Park St, grab a pack of 90 minute Betamax (they cost about £1.99 punt), go home & hold down the record button on your stack system and don't forget to set your graphic equalisers right...(as this was very important?!)

Come take a bite of my mixed-up musical gumbo...Ingredientos: 70's funkrock, 80's post punk 90's electro and lots of gravy...Custard for desert. Just custard. Shoot Speed Eat Custard!

TRACKLISTING: 
01. Tightrope (Live) - Stone Roses 
02. Hitzbreaker (Fissunix Mashup) - Led Zeppelin 
03. Foxy Funky Lady - Jimi Hendrix 
04. Stand Up - The Prodigy 
05. Brown Paper Bag (12" Mix) - Roni Size/Represent 
06. Stick 'Em Up - Featurecast 
07. Loaded/LSF (DJ Detta Refix) - Primal Scream vs Kasabian 
08. Block Rockin' Beats (Sketi Remix) - Chemical Brothers 
09. Ians Delight (Bobby C Remix) - Ian Dury & The Blockheads 
10. Alternative Ulster (Live) - Stiff Little Fingers 
11. Riders On The Storm (Pecoe Remix) - The Doors 
12. Never Give Up The Funky Music (Pecoe Remix) - Wild Cherry 
13. Supermassive Word Up (Jimmy Needles Remix) - Muse vs Cameo 
14. The Word (The Captain Remix) - The Beatles 
15. All Right Now Warriors (Pecoe Remix) - Free 
16. Ten Acre Dust (Nick Thayer Mix) - The Charlatans 
17. Hello, I Love You (Freeland Dub) - The Doors 
18. A Pain That I'm Used To (Jacques Le Cont Remix) - Depeche Mode 
19. Tour De France (Francois Kevorkian Mix) - Kraftwerk 
20. Afrika Shock - Leftfield 
21. Shoot Speed/Kill Light - Primal Scream 
22. Lights Off Over Baghdad - Outkast 
23. Feel Good Hit Of Summer - Queens Of The Stone Age 
24. No Feelings - Sex Pistols 
ENCORE: 
25. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric 
26. That's Entertainment (Remix) - The Jam 
27. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group 
28. Standing On The Verge Of Gettin' It On - Funkadelic 
29. Get It On - T-Rex

The Orange Peel Sessions (Side B)

This is a psychedelic rock mix compiled from a stack of new records I've been listening to over the winter months. Music which originates from Portland, San Francisco, L.A., Alaska, Denver, Minneapolis, Sydney, Perth & Japan. Free to download or burn it onto a blank CD.
Dedicated to Andrew Maynard (RIP).

01 Intro: Challenger Part 2 – We Lost The Sea
02 Diamond In The Rough - Carlton Melton
03 Can You Imagine Nothing? – Kikagaku Moyo
04 You're The One - Magic Castles
05 Already Gone - Wooden Shjips
06 Plastic Soldiers - Portugal. The Man
07 Zond - Pond
08 Bright Lit Blue Skies - Ariel Pink
09 Back To Land - Wooden Shjips
10 Zero - Moon Duo
11 No Needs - The Entrance Band
12 Denver City - Wovenhand
13 Dawn - Kikagaku Moyo
14 Echoes - Pink Floyd
15 Smoke & Mirrors/Tree Smoke - Kikagaku Moyo
16 Outro: Challenger Part 1 - We Lost The Sea

Auto-Correct Makes Me Say Things I Didn't Nintendo

Jellyfish

Time for a DEPECHE MODE MIX. 

Depeche Mode....The best electronic band ever? Surely, no other group/band have ever come close to sustaining the level of quality for over 30 years? In this mix I've tried to capture the live feel of a DM gig and incorporate it into an extended mix. I've covered tracks from the 1st album in 1981 right through to the most recent stuff. 
Included in this mix are rare tracks, remixes, live versions, album tracks, demo versions, a Martin Gore set, the odd single, a rare cover version and a few b-sides covering the last 30 years of the boys from Basildon, sorry Santa Barbara. 


TRACKLISTING:
01. LIFE'S TOO SHORT Introduction
02. GHOST
03. NOTHING (101 Live)
04. NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN (Aggro Mix)
05. WALKING IN MY SHOES (Tour of the Universe rehearsals)
06. WRONG (Trentemoller Mix)
07. I FEEL YOU (Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2010)
08. RUSH (Devotional Tour Live 1994)
09. LILLIAN
10. PUPPETS (Royksopp Mix)
11. STORIES OF OLD
12. DIRT
13. SHAKE THE DISEASE (Touring the Angel Live 2005)
14. HOME (Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2010)
15. I WANT YOU NOW (Alan Wilder Mix)
16. CLEAN/BLUE DRESS (Evil Presidentes Clean Dress Mix)
17. THE SUN & THE RAINFALL (Black Light Odyssey Mix)
18. OH WELL
19. SISTER OF NIGHT (Ida Engberg's Giving Voice To The Flame Remix)
20. JOHN THE REVELATOR (UNKLE Reconstruction)
21. SUFFER WELL (M83 Remix)
22. A PAIN THAT I'M USED TO (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
23. ENJOY THE SILENCE (2004 Version)
24. PERSONAL JESUS (Live/Jesus Doesn't Care/Pied Piper Remix)
25. EVERYTHING COUNTS (Devotional Tour Live 1994)

dEpEchE modE mix

Scene I: ‘The First Hello’.

01 A View To A Kill (Instrumental) - John Barry / 02 For The Damaged Coda – Blonde Redhead / 03 Dead Finks Don’t Talk – Brian Eno / 04 Lady Grinning Soul – David Bowie / 05 (Interlude #1 – Unity Says Goodbye) / 06 Pale Blue Eyes – Velvet Underground / 07 Look Down From The Bridge – Mazzy Star / 08 Spider & I – Brian Eno / 09 Moss Garden – David Bowie.


Scene II: ‘Getting To Know You’.

10 Back & Forth – UNKLE / 11 Always Trying To Work It Out – Low / 12 (Interlude #2 – Tales From The Citadel) / 13 Distant Sky – Nick Cave / 14 The Orange Monkey – PJ Harvey / 15 Ballad Of Big Nothing – Elliott Smith / 16 Man On The Moon – REM / 17 Happy Birthday Johnny – St. Vincent.


Scene III: ‘Time For Goodbyes’.

18 Do You Feel It – Chaos Chaos / 19 Always Let You Down – Blood Orange / 20 Memories – Chaos Chaos / 21 (Interlude #3 – Jerry’s Rick) / 22 Infinity – The Xx / 23 Wicked Game – Chris Isaak. 

Scene IV: ‘An Empty Beach’.

24 (Interlude #4 – Breakers, waves, storms in the distance).

Nobody Belongs Anywhere

It's all aboard the soul train. Buckle up and soak your under-carriage.

This will be an 80 minute ride. 

Dance to Rocksteady Soul Stompers/Swamp Funk/Surf Swing/Disco Beats & Retro Grooves. 

Do your own karaoke, reggaeoke, jokeoke, hokekoke, socklimbooke, have your own danceoffoke....

01.	Kung-Fu Introduction 
02.	Kiss The Sky – Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra 
03.	Knocking At The Door (Dicky Trisco Mix) – Wings 
04.	Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Shimi Sonic Mix) – Esther Phillips 
05.	Playing Games With Love – Shira Chen 
06.	Feeling Alright (Morlack Remix) – Lulu 
07.	Crumbs Off The Table (Fingerman Disco Beatdown) – Laura Lee 
08.	Get Ready (Here I Come Mix) – Ella Fitzgerald 
09.	Hold On! I’m Comin’ (Dan Wilde Remix) – Sam & Dave 
10.	Soul Man (Shimi Sonic Remix) – Sam & Dave 
11.	I Got A Woman (Matty Blades Re-Rub) – Ray Charles 
12.	Psyche Doll (Fatboy Slim vs Aerosmith) – Pierre Henry 
13.	Upside Down (Skeewif Remix) – Donna Summer 
14.	Let’s Do Memories (Right Now) – DJ Dodgy 
15.	Ain’t Nothing Going On (Fingermans Edit) – Gwen Guthrie 
16.	Beat Goes On (Fingermans Classic Cut) – Whispers 
17.	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is – Rose Royce 
18.	Don’t Let This Happen To Us – Fred Hughes 
19.	Chain Of Fools (Shimi Sonic Remix) – Aretha Franklin 
20.	Higher Ground (Pied Piper Remix) – Stevie Wonder 
21.	Love The One You’re With (Apple Scruffs Edit) – The Isley Brothers

Green Eyed Soul Mix

This mix is from me to you, just as you asked for. It's a slightly longer one than usual but sure, I've got the time on my hands now haven't I? Some of the songs have personal meaning, some just fit nicely together and some are for existential emergencies only. Not all are about you & me/man & woman or any other persuasion; some songs are often about things other than love or matters of the heart. A lot of lyrics are now taking on totally different meanings, our interpretations all askew in this new timeline we suddenly find ourselves on. Music is a wonderful redeemer & helps spiritually awaken all of us: The true us. 

Life is a river and this mix runs in a similar vain....it speeds up, slows down, turns and twists, and it's long. I've played it like a 'live' set, pumping up the volume, juicing the reverb and FX. I played using my headphones for cues only and being more physical with the controls on the mixers channels, sonically pushing my luck.  Also, never used any of these songs on a recorded mix before, all fresh tunes. I really held my concentration and hammered it out like i was playing to 500 people. With you right at the front. 

Setlist......

1.	That Way Again – Mazzy Star
2.	Woman – Angel Olsen
3.	Real Love – Beach House
4.	Sound & Colour – Alabama Shakes
5.	So Good – Warpaint
6.     Born In The Echoes - Chemical Brothers ft. Cate Le Bon
7.	Beauty On The Road – Future Islands
8.	Flying – Moon Duo
9.	Burnt Out Star – Pond
10.	Creep In A T-Shirt – Portugal The Man
11.	Beverly Kills – Ariel Pink
12.	Los Ageless – St Vincent
13.	Loud Places (Barnt E-Mix) – Jamie xx ft. Romy
14.	Lost In Yesterday – Tame Impala
15.   Cover Me - Depeche Mode
16.	All Of Our Yesterdays – Mac Demarco
17.	Under Control – The Strokes
18.	Strangest Thing – The War On Drugs
19.	Heaven – Rolling Stones
20.	Champagne Coast – Blood Orange
21.	This Must Be The Place – Talking Heads
22.	Golden Years - David Bowie
23.	Venice Bitch – Lana del Rey

(Personalised, timed, edited comments on all the tracks listed on the file itself)

Alien Happiness Mix

As part of our ongoing instore DJ sessions, I've jumped on the shops decks to make a 'space jazz' styled mix combining two of my favourite hobbies; astrology and music. This is an exploration of the celestial collision between jazz, spirituality, soul, 70s politics and human resonance. It is called 'Betelgeuse' (a weird name befitting a weird mix). Danke, Neil.


Betelgeuse is a red supergiant pulsating star in the Orion constellation, popularised for sounding just like "beetle-juice". Classified as a red supergiant of spectral type M1-2, Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. If it was at the centre of our Solar System, its surface would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars & Jupiter. Estimated to be 1400 times larger than our sun, the most likely star-formation scenario for Betelgeuse is that it is a runaway star from the Orion OB1 Association. It left the main sequence about one million years ago and has been a red supergiant for about 40,000 years. The red supergiant star appears to be in no danger of imminently exploding, even though a recent, dramatic dip in brightness has baffled academics. If and when Betelgeuse explodes and becomes a black hole, it will shine as bright as the half-Moon for more than six months as all this silent brightness would be concentrated into one point in the sky, a supernova.


1.	Theme for the Irishman – Robbie Robertson
2.	The Gentle Softness – Lalo Schifrin
3.	Dew – Don Ellis
4.	Canadian Sunset – Eddie Heywood
5.	Lillemor – Francy Bolland
6.	Our Chant – Gunter Hampel Quintet
7.	Visions – Brainticket
8.	John Coltrane – Clifford Jordan Quartet 
9.	Celestial Blues – Gary Bartz Ntu Troop
10.	Tawhid – Johnny Lytle
11.	Space Jungle Funk – The Oneness of Juju
12.	Shadows – Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
13.	Dance of the Dream Man – Angelo Badalamenti
14.	Julien Dans L’Ascenseur – Miles Davis 
15.	Self-Portrait in Three Colours – Charles Mingus
16.	Broken Mirrors – Lalo Schifrin
17.	Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny

Recorded at Classified Records, Dundalk on Wednesday 19 Aug 2020. Artwork by Caleb Ogg / iso.hedron on Instagram

Classified Records - Instore Sessions #4 [ft. Betelgeuse]

The term library music might not be instantly familiar to most people, but we hear it whenever we switch on our TV to watch the likes of Mastermind, The Sweeney, Wimbledon or Kill Bill (to name but a few).  As more and more television and radio programmes were being produced in the mid 20th Century so the demand for music to accompany them increased.  TV companies couldn’t always afford to hire composers for specific projects so library music labels started popping up all over Europe to fulfil the demand. Whole albums of genre specific music were recorded and sent to the TV executives who could pick the tracks that most suited their programmes. Some of the biggest labels were KPM and DeWolfe in the UK, Telemusic in France and CAM in Italy. Notable artists such as Ennio Morricone, Delia Derbyshire, The Pretty Things, Michael Chapman and Brian Eno have all recorded library records. The heyday for this music was probably the 1960s through the 1980s but in recent times, these forgotten records have provided rich pickings for crate digging Hip Hop artists looking for obscure samples.  These records (which were pressed in small quantities and were never intended for public consumption) have predictably become collector’s items with many changing hands for four figure sums.  Almost impossible to find and technically illegal to own (the records are the property of the libraries) you can see why this music, which is often of exceptional quality and originality has captivated vinyl obsessives the world over.

Setlist:
Vibes  - Frank Ricotti
Tropicola – Nino Nardini
Jelly Roll Dance – Jean-Pierre Martin
Windmills – Reg Tilsley
Half Forgotten Daydreams – John Cameron
Rhythmiques No. 3 – P.A. Dahan
Getaway Car – Mike Vickers
Components – Rino de Filippi
La Nuit Est Unefete – Janko Nilovic
Utopia Revisited (1) – John Scott
The Free Life (B) – Alan Parker
Piano In Partyland – Marian McPartland
Riflessioni – Rino de Filippi
Soul Thing – Keith Mansfield
Soft Wind – Gary Pacific Orchestra
Beach Party – Alessandro Alessandroni
Fancy Good - Electric Machine
Gang Train – Bernard Estardy
Seven Stars  - Alessandro Alessandroni
Ophis Le Serpentaire – Vincent Geminiani
Aries – Marcello Giombini

Classified Records – Instore Sessions #6 [ft. David White]

There seems to be a little confusion on the distinction between 'art' and 'craft'. 
Is DJing something that almost anyone can learn to execute, relatively easily, from a technical standpoint? 
Absolutely. 
Can anyone then translate that into creating a strong emotional response among their audience, or pushing forward a culture? 
Nope. 
Some djs are tradespeople, some are craftsmen, some part-entertainer-part-jukebox and one in every two million people are artists. 
Us? We just love music. 


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