All tunes

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)

Second half of this, just uploading as I've only a minute left on my account, and this is 54 secs, so should just fit nicely :-)

Interlude part 2 - Ishfaq

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Remix for Panoptik from Zagreb. Check the video I also made here http://vimeo.com/ishfaq/sve-vibrira-remix

Panoptik - Sve Vibrira (Ishfaq Remix)

Wow, I lost all the files for this "work-in-progress" remix in a HDD crash a long time ago, and thought all traces of it were long gone, but just came across this rough mp3 mixdown of it on a backup DVD from years ago.

So, here it is, in all it's unfinished glory. Praise the lord for small mercy's :-)

Adi Dick - Listen (Ishfaq's long lost rough mix)

My version of "Linguistics" by Swede:art, for the "Emotional Colors Remixes" album, out now on Tokyo Dawn (http://www.tokyodawn.net/swedeart-emotional-colors-remixes/). Decided to get some extra vocals from the uber cool Mr. Black Spade, and the planet hopping mad man that is Mr. Harry Moschops. Big up the boys for the extra verses. Big up Swede:art for the original. And big up Tokyo Dawn for being THE most professional label I've worked with so far.

Swedeart - Linguistics feat. Stray (Ishfaq remix feat. Black Spade & Harry Moschops)

DR001 Dance Regular ‘Body Music Vol 1’

6 track VA Featuring James Rudie, Xtra Brux, Trev, Szajna, Ishfaq and Captain Over.

Dance Regular is a brand new label set up by EVM128 and James Rudie of CoOp presents Selectors Assemble. 

Not wanting to be pigeon holed into one particular genre the label’s ethos is just good music that moves your body, genre spanning through House, Bruk, Soul, Jazz, Boogie, Half Time, Jungle, Raggage, and beyond.

This is the first Various Artists compilation to kick off with, then to follow this, there are EP releases throughout the year from the likes of Duke Hugh (Rhythm Section / HW&W) Xtra Brux, James Rudie (CoOp Presents / Selectors Assemble) Captain Over (XVI / Wha Wha 45’s) Trev, Ishfaq, Footshooter and more. The label has various club nights in London this year too, for more information and to keep in the loop, head to the website www.danceregular.com 
subscribe to the mailing list and follow the social links.

Body Music Vol 1 is Available on Vinyl and Digital from June 14th 2019

Early support from:

LEFTO: Worldwide FM / Studio Brussels

James Rudie : Good Fry Up
“I can’t tell if James was influenced by the Dilla or Sa-Ra Creative Partners sound of the late 90s or early 2000s but there are similar elements in that tune; the rhodes, the slightly off beat or not quantized drums and the allround crispy sound… James’ tune is maybe what these guys would be making these days if they were up to making house music dancefloor killers…” LEFTO

IG CULTURE : CoOp Presents / Selectors Assemble / Worldwide FM / Rinse FM

Body Music Vol 1 :

“Hot Music coming out of East, the new home of London Bruk beats. This debut is full of dope sounds from fresh artists. Ya’ll need this one! Keep an eye on this up and coming label” IG CULTURE`

ALEX ATTIAS : Vision recordings

Body Music Vol 1 :
"This EP is full of dope jams for the dance and for the mind. These are essential deep, funky and raw broken tunes, thanks guys!" ALEX ATTIAS

JEREMY SYLVESTER : Urban Dubz / Nice n Ripe
"Every Tune is Fiyah!"

STUART PATTERSON : Love Vinyl 
"The broken resurgence continues apace with this ace EP merging many styles, pick for me is Trev.

P&D by www.primedirectdist.co.uk

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Exclusive Premiere: ISHFAQ "Hypnosis No.9" (Dance Regular Records)

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.