Another one off my 12" for Scribble Records. This time featuring the amazing Adi Dick from NZ on vocals, and some more sweet trumpet lines from Matthew Halsall.

Change - Ishfaq feat. Adi Dick

Another tune off my Scribble Records 12". Wanted to do a crazy jazz number, so went all out on it...trumpet sampled from a Clifford Brown tune, off his album with Max Roach - "Live at Basin Street".

Acuzion - Ishfaq

Unfortunately I blew my nice Tannoy monitors at my New Years party (never try and DJ when you're THAT drunk), so if there's anything in the mix that sounds weird, you wanna see what I've been doing the mixdown on - a pair of crappy little PC speakers and some well dodgy headphones. Anyways, think I just about managed. Don't know what style this is - bit of everything, as per usual...but I definitely got on a Doors type buzz for the outro, drifted off into the desert for a bit.

I Can See - Jazzanova (Ishfaq's busted speaker remix)

Decided to challenge myself by making a tune using only the sounds from the Smithsonian's "Encyclopaedia of Life" recordings. So everything you hear was made purely from the source files - a collection of field recordings of animal sounds. No other sound sources were used. All done in Maschine/Cubase, with a little Kaoss Pad thrown in at the end for good measure.

You can check the sources here - https://soundcloud.com/smithsonian-remix/sets/encylopedia-of-life-sounds

Encyclopaedia of Life - Ishfaq

Yaaba Funk - Gyae Me Na Mendwen (Ishfaq's Voodoo Refix)

My remix for the Brian Deady tune "Lightning & Thunder". Available now on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/lightning-thunder-ishfaq-remix/id777685234?i=777685355

I also remixed the video of the original tune http://youtu.be/RizGiuN6igM

Buy on iTunes

Lightning & Thunder - Deady (Ishfaq's Redlight Remix)

Bit of a last minute entry to the CDR Dimensions competition - I was away on holiday til 2 days ago (glad they extended the deadline). 

Done in Cubase/Maschine - basically just the samples below, plus an extra kick and a Novation Basstation 2. Just messed around with it til something started sounding good :-)

Samples Used:

Vladimir Radinović – Belgrade – Street Singer
Ben Houghton – Berlin Stairwell Clicks
BenAtWork – Rock Hits Glass Shard- Melbourne
Unknown - Frequency
Carlos Serintino - Belfast To Dublin Express Train
Tesselator - Elderly Erhu Busker, Swanston Street
John Morgan - Empty Bottle Of Booze - Dalston
Unknown - Skripanje Marina

Ishfaq - Two Dimes Two

This was released as part of the Reliable Sauce Vol.1 compilation on Village Live Records. Full release here:

villagelive.bandcamp.com/album/reliable-sauce-volume-one-stir-fried-jazz

Eight Cowards

Gelato

My definition of the Dream Warriors tune "My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style"...

Dream Warriors - My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style (Ishfaq Remix)

Entry for the Daphne Oram competition - <a href="http://oramics.herokuapp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://oramics.herokuapp.com</a> - using some of the stems provided, and then doing my own thing for the rest...

If you've never heard of Daphne Oram (as I hadn't before seeing this comp) then do yourself a favour and read up on her - she was an amazing woman, proper pioneer - <a href="http://daphneoram.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://daphneoram.org</a>

Check the artwork too, that's her "Oramics Machine". Mental.



Scimaro (Daphne Oram tribute) - Ishfaq

This a my complete reworking of O.Boogie's "Underwhere". I used the samples he used to make the original and did this track from scratch with them. Went all Carlos Santana on the end section. Features some lovely sounds from my RITM-2 Russian synth that died shortly after - may he rest in peace...

Don't think this ended up getting released in the end. If you want it download enabled, I'll need to ask him first...

O.Boogie - Underwhere (Ishfaq remix)

My remix of Bilal's "Fastlane". This is an extended version I did for a bootleg release that never happened. Enjoy.

Bilal - Fastlane (Ishfaq remix - extended version)

Found another beautiful Bilal acapella. Woulda been rude not to...

Bilal - Love It (Ishfaq remix)

Remix for Vindahl's "Head Over Heels". Out on the Tokyo Dawn "The Heart Volume 3" compilation - http://www.tokyodawn.net/the_heart3/

Vindahl - Head Over Heels (Ishfaq Remix)

Alvik - Close (Ishfaq remix)

Fill Me In - Craig David (Ishfaq Remix)

Very last minute remix I did for a BamaLoveSoul compilation a while back. Turned out pretty sweet.

Jay Dee feat. Frank N Dank - Pause (Ishfaq Remix)

This is a remix I did for a 12" coming out this November on Sonar Kollektiv. I spent the last while producing an album for a friend of mine, Stee Downes, that is out now on SK too. After I finished the album they decided to release a 12" of remixes. The album is very 'organic' - no synths or anything, so I really wanted to do the complete opposite for the remix...that's why it's a little crazy ;o)

Put A Little Love In My Soul - Stee Downes (Ishfaq remix)

This is a remix I did for Beatspoke, to promote their album on Inphusion Records. Rob sent me the vocals for the entire album, I had a listen through, and was really struck by guest rapper Pumpkin - she had such a nice flow and the vocals were so on point. I decided to do a laid back soulful version, using mainly her vocals, as a contrast to the hardness of the original. The end section - that came about by smoking too much and getting a bit carried away again! Took some cleaning up after!

We Don't See - Beatspoke (Ishfaq remix)

Remix of the Zed Bias tune. Absolutely love the version Kahn did, one of my favourite remixes ever. And love the vocal - even acapella it fills the room - so wanted to have a go with it myself. Kept it simple to let the vocal shine.

Maddslinky ft. Tawiah - Further Away (Ishfaq Remix)

More from the back catalogue of unreleased tunes...

Neverenuff feat. Stee Downes

More from the back catalogue...end section was inspired by the amazing Bugz "Latinfunklovesong" remix...

Romance is dead - Masterbuilders (Ishfaq remix)

Back For More - Glenn Lewis (Ishfaq remix)

Did this quite a while ago now, but still love it. Took a lot of work to get that bass sound - was so out of control and noisy I ended up having to chop all the gaps out cos they were louder than the rest of the tune. Worked out nice in the end though. Managed to squeeze in a short Bob Marley acapella too - been lying around for ages and was too short to make a whole tune out of - seemed like it was meant to go in there, and who can say no to Bob?

Summertime - Medina Green (Ishfaq remix)

Some late night, stoned as a monkey shenanigans. Just the MPC, Rhodes, and my lovely RITM-2 Russian synth - that died shortly afterwards - may he rest in peace.

Interlude part 1 - Ishfaq

My entry for a DJ Vadim remix comp a while back. Not long had my Hohner D6 Clavinet, so you just KNOW that bad boy had to be the star of the show...

Kill Kill Kill - Dj Vadim (Ishfaq remix)

Entry for a Bugz remix comp a while back. Came 3rd, whoopdy woo. Actually, I started 2 completely different versions - went for this one as the goer, obviously - but I threw in the other one at the very end as a little taster. Often wonder how it would've turned out if I'd have decided to go for the slower one. Maybe I would've made 2nd place.



Move Aside - Bugz In The Attic (Ishfaqs hefty remix)

My entry for the Indaba Erik Truffaz remix comp. Inspired by earlier Truffaz creations, with a little bit of 4hero thrown in - been a big Truffaz fan for years now, so I thoroughly enjoyed getting the chance to remix one of his tunes. 

Erik Truffaz - Big Wheel (Ishfaq remix)

A little rerub of Booty La La I did ages ago - wanted to try taking an up-tempo tune and slowing it down to hip hop speed - worked out pretty sweet. Sound is a bit rough but it's one of those things I did in a couple hours that just sounded nice, so I left it as is...

Booty La La - Bugz In The Attic (Ishfaq remix)

Another oldie - got a lot of love for this tune - still get peeps mailing me about it asking for a 12" - so anyone wanna press some up gimme a shout. D'Angelo said he's cool with it so long as he gets some weed money...

UPDATE: 12" finally happened, go search Discogs for "Lefenrite"

DOWNLOAD: https://ishfaq.bandcamp.com/track/left-right-ishfaq-remix

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Left and Right - D'angelo (Ishfaq remix)

Entry for the Tokyo Dawn remix contest. Only had headphones for the mixdown as I'm currently moving and all my stuff is in storage, so forgive any weirdness! If I get a chance to do a mixdown on someone's monitors I'll re-upload. Also, just as an interesting side note, it's my first tune using Maschine (inside Cubase) so wanted to do a full tune to try it out and figured I might as well have a go at this. Love Omar's vocals.

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