Frankie Bones

Two years into my U.K. DJ career, I held down several resident slots and Berwick Manor was a second home to me.  In 1991 I was light years ahead as far as selections were concerned and this mix was also possibly the first straight to Digital live set recorded to a Sony Walkman Professional Dat Recorder.  This is a timeless DJ set.  As far as selection goes, Watts Music provided most of my record collection during this era.  My store Groove Records in Brooklyn was on top of the world in the early underground days.  Enjoy this.

DOCUMENTS: 001 - LIVE IN LONDON - SEPT 28 1991

1 - I LIKE IT 
2 - YOU WILL BE MINE
3 - UP OFF THE GROUND
4 - INSIDE MY HEAD 
5 - TIED MY HANDS 
6 - AROUND THE UNIVERSE 
7 - SLINGSHOT 
8 - RAKIM'S HASHIM 
9 - SUNGLASSES 
10 - 40 YEAR SET IT OFF (TRIBUTE)
11 - THAT SOUND 
12 - SUPERSHARP 
13 - MY BODY & MY SOUL 
14 - CIREN (BONES HYPERACTIVE EDIT)
15 - PLUG IT IN AND WE BEGIN 
16 - BASED ON FUTURE 
17 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE #6 
18 - AGE OF LOVE (ARIZONA MIX) 

Produced & Mixed by Frankie Bones for Brooklyn Ghetto, October 16, 2023.

MASTERWORKS / 60 MINUTES OF NEW STUDIO PRODUCTIONS

1990 really was the year i started revising hard about House & Techno after deciding i would never make it as a hip hop Dj. Some of the 1st house i would encounter would be productions from the US. Detroit Techno at the time seemed quite abstract, Chicago house although home of acid was just too vocal for me, but the sound of new york grabbed me (maybe something to do with the sound emerging coming from the debris of hip hop, freestyle electro & breakbeat culture).
That 1st wave would hijack a lot of those existing references.
Frankie Bones, Tommy Musto & Lenny Dee would be my guide & the sounds they produced were like an amplified echo of those beats but with added energy. House music but written off the back of B Boy Law. Include a bunch of whacked out edits (again, reminiscent of New York Godfathers like The Latin Rascals, Chep Nunez & Omar Santana)so you had no clue what was what & for me this was my nirvana..........This mix is a homage to those 1st house records that had me obsessing & the original NY tape edit style .........If your expecting "Hardcore" you'll find none here......but this WAS "My First Hardcore"..... & those "Amen Breakbeat" samples in THESE tunes would be the gene that would influence UK Rave....and create UK Breakbeat Hardcore......then Jungle....then Drum & Bass.........EVERYTHING comes from somewhere...Enjoy :) xxx

THE DJ PRODUCER_25 YEARS OF RAW & RAUNCHY BEATS FOR DJ'S

READ THIS!!!!! MCA DAY - 8.08.15 - Rob Gee and I were very excited about this and thankful we could take part in this tribute to The Beastie Boys. Many friends were curious to hear what we were going to play. The venue couldn't handle the amount of people that "Turnt" up. The organizers of MCA DAY are AWESOME people. The staff? Awesome. The crowd A W E S O M E. The people who played? AWESOME. The stage manager was the only person who I was disappointed with. A lot of
people wanted to see Lords Of Brooklyn perform after DMC, and nobody cared about the schedule.   The stage manager did nothing but complain.  Ricky Powell's dedication went 20 minutes over and instead of doing his job, he got rude with us, shoeing us off, going "Clear".....WTF???? This event was not about Rob and I, but about a fallen soldier, MCA. So we threw in the towel. What would have happened actually did in New Jersey at a festival called FARMBLAST.
I wasn't supposed to do the tribute there, but WOW, it was freaking insane. Rob did his "GEE-Isms" over these custom crafted creations and everyone loved it. It was a lot of fun. What the Soundcloud features are the "Unmixed" cuts which was created for the show. Minds would have melted in Brooklyn. Not that seeing DMC perform "Mary Mary" by himself was a problem, he was A W E S O M E too.....
It's just that fading war stories from an open mic session vs. what we would have played... Well see for yourself.


MCA DAY (BEASTIE BOYS TRIBUTE) - 8.08.15 - RAW TRACKS (UNMIXED)

ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL - LIVE AT EDC 2016

Frankie Bones - This Is What Defines The Underground (Free Download)

You always have to be a student of the game.  Always.  I have been a great follower of the Armory Podcast so when it became time to actually do one, there was a lot to think about.  Decades of history place me as a “Techno” DJ.  But most people who actually collect the history of DJ culture already know, Breaks have always been a part of my history.  Now my first impulse was to play cool guy and go collect the hottest breaks I could find and pretend that I could hang with anyone who came before or after me.  I’m humbled.  

I can’t do that.  Some of Iva’s mixes have totally blown my socks off.  I’ve watched Stanton Warriors Punks label become the Metalheadz of this breaks genre.  Then I hear someone like D-Bridge do a slower 130 BPM track, and it’s unfuckablewith.   That’s not a word, but it should be.  

So where does that put me with this episode? Bonesbreaks. It’s a series of vinyl which started many, many years ago as a concept in 1987, and went on to multiple volumes around a dozen, and were the first breakbeat records that fused “House” together when nobody did that.  It’s great to reminisce, but to me it always has been a sum of all parts.  So if 2000 Saturday Nights have passed and nobody cared to listen until this Saturday Night, Welcome to the future, my reality. 

The tracks here are from the new Bonesbreaks Volumes.  14, 15, 16, 17.  They are more recent then the first.  I don’t have to copy anyone else’s style in Breaks.  I don’t want to.  You hold down your lane.  I’m going to stay in mine.   I’ve been driving this way for a long time.  I’ve been able to update what I have been doing without losing the original flavor.

It’s quite interesting to hear newer styles built off the original analog method I always used. Everything is as it was.  Just cleaner and more dynamic.  Tons of crafty drums and samples, not Ableton or TRAKTOR and stem packs.   It’s more 80’s Hip Hop by design, then Trap or Dubstep.   But that is where it gets interesting, because we are out with the old and in with the new, yet maybe timeless, maybe not.  It’s subjective, so I will leave it up to you. 

Enjoy,
Peace, Love, Unity & Respect to all, 
Frankie Bones

Track List
1. Electropoliss
2. I Want The People To Know 
3. Stomp Your Feet 
4. Funky Acid Makossa (Loves The Acid Redux) 
5. Techno Dot 
6. Just The Way You Like It (Breaks) 
7. When The Bass Drops 
8. Come Closer 
9. The Bridge* - MC Shan (Boiler Room Edit)
10. Behind The Curtain 
11. Vamp And Clear 
12. Imperial Highway 
13. Long Train Running 

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Artwork by Jem Panufnik

Frankie Bones - Episode 170

Factory 2018 - A series of DJ Mixes which began on July 4, 1992 in the abandoned warehouses on the Brooklyn waterfront.  The legendary girl with the halo & the gun became the iconic branding of the series.  She came to dance.  The gun was only there to protect the dancers.  26 years later nobody got shot.  Breaking into abandoned warehouses to dance past sunrise took on a new style of Electronic Music.  Techno was the root. but Trance, Hardcore, Breaks & House  all represented.  We wind up here in 2018.  With Techno as it is meant to be.
tracklist: 
1 / roost / ron costa / octopus 
2 / julia / raxon / fryhide 
3 / meteora / tanzlife & id ensamble / connaisseu 
4 / chordal / andre crom / ovum 
5 / fractions / slam / soma 
6 / break it down / onno / inmotion music 
7 / mo 8 / mod3rn / mod3rn
8 / despite the... / juan sanchez / format 
9 / right now / d-unity / unity records 
10 / bang the box / frankie bones ghetto technics 
11 / love u / andreew / unity records 
12 / warning / alex rubino / phobiq 
13 / distraction / konrad [italy] / phobiq 
14 / the saga continues in 2018 / frankie bones / not on label 
15 / lost temple / raito / raito beats 
16 / grizzlor / t78 / autektone 
17 / paranoid dancer / unknown artist / perspektiv

FACTORY 2018 - FROM THE ORIGINAL BROOKLYN UNDERGROUND

FAITH (A DJ MIX 2019) - No matter what happens in your life, you have to have faith.  I have gone through a transformation period with my relationship and I am finally breaking free from my past.  So this goes in battle cry mode.  One of my favorite mixes in years, download it and enjoy.

* INTRO BY HOPSIN    
1 MOLLY - NOOSE BRIGADE 
2 ISLET OBSERVE -ESKAFIST 
3 ARATAK - KEVIN DE VRIES 
4 ACID OCEAN - JIM NOIZER 
5 FREE YOUR MIND - KAYA DJ 
6 AMELTHIA = THE REASON Y 
7 LOUD - T78 - SISCO ELECTROFANATIK 
8 MY HOUSE - ZDS & WILL CLARKE 
9 BOY IS BANGIN - TEFKAMP 
10 INSIDE MY HEAD - AUDIOJACK 
11 FEEL THE SAME - RADIO SLAVE (ROBERT HOOD RX) 
12 WHEATS - ALAN FITZPATRICK 
13 DANCE WITH ME - CHRIS LAKE 
14 MOVE YOUR BODY - XPANSIONS
15 CLK RECOVERY - OBJEKT
16 DYSTOPIA - INTROVERSION 

Each of the mixes in my spotlight were created during a very bad time in my life.  I call them Battlecries because they are.  I let my emotions spi;; all over the mix.  This is one of those moments.

FAITH (A DJ MIX 2019)

Jeff Mills & Frankie Bones - Live @ Panoramix, France 8-8-98
No need to much words for this 2 ,but i will say something about 1 of them guess who ;)

Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long line of Detroit-bred talent to take on an international reputation. A founding member of noted Motor City institution Underground Resistance, Mills helped build the artist roster and label ideology (as well as much of its back catalog) with partners "Mad" Mike Banks and Robert "Noise" Hood before moving to New York in 1992 to pursue more vigorously his solo and DJ career (with a resident spot at the legendary Limelight and a recording contract with the noted German label Tresor). (Although rumors of bad blood between the early UR crew have been denied by all involved, Mills' decision to split was apparently total, with Banks all but repudiating his involvement with Mills and Mills distancing himself from the continuing political militancy of Banks and the UR organization.) 
Mills' UR-related releases (including "The Punisher" and "Seawolf") are stripped-down and erratic, fusing elements of hardcore acid and industrial techno to the sparse Detroit aesthetic. Not surprisingly, his post-UR sound hasn't eased a bit, although UR's penchant for the four-track has been replaced by higher-quality production.

Prior to his involvement in UR, Mills was a DJ at Detroit public radio station WDET (he was also studying architecture at the time), spinning everything from Meat Beat Manifesto and Nine Inch Nails to Chicago house and underground Detroit techno. He began producing in the mid-'80s, working with Tony Srock on the project the Final Cut.

Jeff Mills & Frankie Bones - Live @ Panoramix,  8-8-1998

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