A sublime selection of dancefloor beats and downtempo dubs from around the globe, Mixes + Mavericks features seven remixes by Pitch Black, two live tracks that couldn’t be more different in nature or tempo, one seriously unorthodox situation (an unauthorised remix of a remix) and a track in between states, all highlighting the breadth of the duo’s sonic palette.

Whereas their previous Rarities + Remixes collection was predominantly rooted in New Zealand, Mixes + Mavericks is undoubtedly a more international affair, with all the remixed artists hailing from the northern hemisphere. Many of the connections are the result of the duo’s touring and festival appearances around the globe: they first met Gaudi at a gig in Japan, Animat and Nick Woolfson (Sounds from the Ground) at The Big Chill festival in the UK, while downtemple duo Desert Dwellers were encountered in the Californian underground. 

Other connections were more straightforward: Brighton-based Ink Project (run by Kiwi Jez Lloyd) approached them to remix “The End” and Mexico’s Sudden Reverb was introduced by label-mates Deep Fried Dub. Meanwhile Mike bumped into Radioactive Man’s Keith Tenniswood (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) while he was getting a 7” record cut. 

Uber-producer/Killing Joke bass player Youth features in two very different ways. First up is Pitch Black’s pulsating dub mix of his collaboration with Italian producer Gaudi, from their Astronaut Alchemists album. Then there is his unsolicited remix of epsilon-blue’s 1999 remix of Speech, over which he added bass, beats and blessings.  This mash-up lurked for years in the archive under the title of Helmsdub, but only as a corrupted mp3 file. Thankfully a little detective work discovered that, much to everyone’s surprise, it had been released as Speechless (Big Circle Flat Pain Remix) on a 2004 CD compilation. A copy was tracked down, the tune was carefully re-mastered and then correctly named.

Mixes + Mavericks also features two very different live offerings: Notting Pill is a dose of atmospheric moodiness from a rare ambient set at Notting Hill Arts Club in London, held to publicise the upcoming showcase of New Zealand music at Fabric in 2003. The banging G202, meanwhile, was captured by Andre Upston at Rippon Festival in Wanaka, NZ at the turn of the millennium, and later broadcast on Radio New Zealand. It was a track that, despite being a staple of the live show for many years, was never finished, and following software updates and data dumps, the only version that exists is this live recording.

It's a Future Dub is a similarly embryonic track – eventually it became It’s the Future Knocking, from the Filtered Senses album, but here it’s a fascinating hybrid caught midway between creation and completion. Many of the elements of its future self are present, but there is a whole lot more going on, making this a fascinating signpost on a possible road-not-taken. 

Beautifully accompanied by Tim Prebble's Cyanotype images, Mixes + Mavericks is a showcase of Pitch Black’s sonic diversity as remixers and maintains the trademark production aesthetic that has won them thousands of fans and filled dancefloors around the globe.

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Youth & Gaudi - The Gods Must Be Crazy (Pitch Black's Hubristic Prayerformance Mix)(preview)

It's been a long time since I've shared some music, so here's an hour of some of my past and present favorite tunes that blur the lines between house and techno. This is the type of vibe I've been enjoying lately, and I hope you can hear my enjoyment in the mix.

Flash 89 - Lose Control (Extended Mix), Lapsus Music
Paul Haro - Soda (Original Mix), Posh Records
Kevin Over - Retrovision (Original Mix), Noir Music
Sahar Z, Vic F - Olie (Extended Mix), Anjunadeep
Sobek - Ubomi (Original Mix), Balance Music
Hoito - Modern Kush (Original Mix), Balance Music
Tuccillo, Robert Dietz - Juice (Shonky Edit), Holic Trax
Tom Clark, Benno Blome, A Guy Called Gerald - Falling (D. Diggler Rmx), Bar 25 Music
Gruuve - Whispered (Original Mix), MUSE
Stacey Pullen - ROK (Christian Smith & Wehbba Rmx), Blackflag Recordings
Seth Troxler - CZ (Original Mix), Tuskegee
Patrice Baumel - This World (Original Mix), Correspondant

California Summer 2022

Please enjoy this liquid DnB set recorded live in studio.

Exolinguist - Burning Woman

What an honor it was to play with you all in dance and music this year... Noise stage and everyone who came out made the vibe unforgettable. Here are my selections from Saturday daytime, hope you enjoy the Love Long Beach vibe from wherever you find yourself. Live in Love

TRACKLIST - All tracks courtesy of their respective record labels and artists. Thank you all so much for making such love-evoking music. 
The Road Back (with Evoke) - Kalya Scintilla
Numatik - Ensename (Kalya Scintilla chill remix) - Kalya Scintilla
Silent (Original Mix) - Seathasky
Computer Brains (Bop Remix) - Bcee
Domino Effect (Original Mix) - In:Most
Don't Go (Original Mix) - External Subway
Pieces (Instrumental Mix) - Confusious
Like The Sun (Original Mix) - Disrupta
ID(Upcoming Release) - Badlama - Momentive Recordings
Dance All Night (Original Mix) - Low:r
Breath In (Waeys Remix) - Bcee
Cups (Original Mix) - Moonaddict
Mistrust (Original Mix) - 107
Run Deep (Original Mix) - Polarized, Alithis
Monotonia (Original Mix) - Electrosoul System, MSDOS
Locked Love (Original Mix) - Gunston
I know (Original Mix) - Maykors, Alyness
Sacred Temple (dela Moon Remix) - Equanimous, Geometrae, dela Moon
Mola (Original Mix) - Zombie Cats, Safra
Drift (Freshney Remix) - Zombie Cats, Freshney
Goon Squad (Original Mix) - Low:r
About This Thing (Original Mix) - Seereal
Unforgiving (Original Mix) - QZB
Never (Original Mix) - Zombie Cats
Attitude (Original Mix) - Crimson, Neve
Lesion (Original Mix) - Subdue
Acidic Love (Original Mix) - Waeys
Ignite feat. Madrush MC (Original Mix) - Annix, MadRush MC
Hypa (Original Mix) - Cecil Hotel
Radiator (Original Mix) - Mandidextrous, Matt Scratch
Flow (Original Mix) - Lok, Beterror
Far Out (Original Mix) - Furious Freaks
Warrior (Original Mix) - Solsan
Signals (Original Mix) - MidKnighT MooN
Deep Space (Data 3 Remix) - Sub Focus
40hz Funk (Original Mix) - M:FX, Iamdoomed
Ali Murda (Original Mix) - Cecil Hotel
Surrender (Original Mix) - AKA

Love Long Beach Festival - Live (July 2022 - Noise Stage Saturday)

Enjoy this Progressive Breaks mix recorded live on Involution Radio!

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RUNE151: ReTTriger - Snow Bringer (Static Guru Remix) • PREVIEW

Some funky early evening tech house vibes from the last Playground...

Playground March 25th 2023

Track list:

Joyhauser - Crawler (Original Mix) MOD
TiM TASTE - Fly (Original Mix)
Soundfile - Hypnotize (Heerhorst Remix)
Tomboyz - Operation IL (Original Mix)
Carbon - Inner Flight (Original Mix)
UMEK - Persona (Original Mix)
Aleckat - Furmidable (Original Mix)
Unknown Concept - Close Call (Original Mix) MOD
Delix - Myth (Crescendoll Remix)
Maksim Dark, Arturo (RU) - Sophisticated (Original Mix)
Maksim Dark - Radar (Original Mix) MOD
Tomchilla - Take This Bitch Sideways (Original Mix)
Moe & Melmixx - Haunted (Original Mix)
Armando Kroma - 23 (Crescendoll Remix)
Hidden Empire - Lost In Time (Original Mix) MOD
Hynamo - Spirits Away (Original Mix)
Ian Cris - In the Sun Without Leather (Crescendoll Remix)
Krypta - Collusion (Original Mix)
EEEMUS - Yunzjah (Original Mix)
Paul Thomas, Fuenka, Schieber - Figo (Extended Mix)
Sandokan - Megalithic Shapes (Original Mix)
Dominic Rumpf, Niels Petersen - Cataclysm (Stan Kolev Remix)
NAASA - Dark Mirror (Original Mix) MOD
Martin Cozar - Dribbling in the Sky (Original Mix)
Soul Alchemist - Phallos (Original Mix)
Max Freegrant, Miss Monique - Stranger Things (Extended Mix) MOD
Bitteti - 1969 (Original Mix) MOD
ES:C - Almost Human (Kay-D Extended Remix)
IsoQuant - Taziki Ozawa (Original Mix) MOD
TNTS - Dopamine (BOHO Remix)
Bitteti - Bitteti - O Corvo (Original Mix) MOD
Paul Thomas - Lights Out (Extended Mix) MOD
Luke Mandala, dela Moon - Ghostly Particles (Original Mix)
Michael Warren (PL) - Enter My People (Original Mix)
James Harcourt - Bloom (Original Mix)

Righteous Moon 2023

Captures slipping up the concrete slope back up to York Way perfectly.

5am at Bagleys (JDHD Coal Drops Yard Edit)

Hazy Stationlights Blur Windows

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PALE is about that blurry feeling between darkness and light.
When everything feels a bit heavy and unclear, but you can still see a small light through the fog.

It is about missing someone, or something you cannot really explain.
That quiet kind of loneliness. Still, you keep going.

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