DJ SET #11 - 05/2023 (Tech House/Minimal)

This Rythm #Tech house mix

My new peak time Tech House mix for May 2024! Turn it up loud and enjoy! :) 

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MIX TRACK LIST:

1. dharkfunkh - Rave (Out Soon on ShuK Records) 
2. Miguel Bastida - Come on Everybody 
3. Gene Farris & Sonny Fodera - We Work It (PAX Remix) 
4. dharkfunkh - Warehouse (Exclusive Early Access Version Out Now >>>) https://dharkfunkh.bandcamp.com/ 
5. Martin Ikin - Make You Sweat 
6. dharkfunkh - The Knocker (Out Soon on ShuK Records) 
7. Mabel Caamal - Move The Body
8. PAX - Is It You?
9. Mau P - Drugs From Amsterdam
10. März & R333DY D - Touch the Sky
11. Rick Silva - Jackin & Shaking (Rekonstruktion 2024 Mix)
12. Miguel Bastida - The Bug
13. Artichokes - House or Techno
14. dharkfunkh - Keep Moving (Out Soon on Jack Said What)

New Track!

dharkfunkh Tech House Mix (Peak Time Set) May 2024

Rounding up May with my new DJ mix. 

Track selection inspired by an epic week at Brighton Music Conference 2024. 

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TRACK LIST: 

1. Chris Di Perri - Body Lies 
2. Bias Miller - Glummi
3. Louis Millne - W.Y.G.D
4. Junior Pappa - Tukudu
5. And Then & Loz Seka - Work It (Loz Seka Remix)
6. Angel Lee - Pass That Dutch (Edit)
7. Leandro Da Silva - So Crazy Again
8. Prodigal People - On & On (dharkfunkh Remix) (Out Soon)
9. Sansixto - Gt
10. Riaz Dhanani & Melanie Ribbe - The Heat
11. Andrea Satta & Space Fear - Rumbah
12. Manda Moor - KarateCat
13. Miguel Bastida - Latres
14. Chris Di Perri - Rudimental Break
15. Lexa Hill - Mind
16. Chapter & Verse - Church

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dharkfunkh BMC24 'Keeping the Vibe Alive' Mix (Tech House 31st May 2024)

Established singer-songwriter Lisa Moorish follows up the success of her recent singles ‘Sylvia’ and ‘The Hunger’ with her new drop, ‘Social Pariah’ . It’s the third single taken from her new album ‘Divine Chaos’, her first major release for 20 years, and is released on Out Yer Box, the sister label of Jack Said What, headed up by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. 

Lisa has already had strong radio support for her first two singles, with plays by Lauren Laverne and Chris Hawkins on BBC 6Music, Jo Whiley on Radio 2, and Gary Crowley on BBC Radio London, amongst others.

Co-written by Zoe Devlin Love (Alabama 3), the track has an eighties electronic pop influence, from a time when Lisa may have been particularly affected by the sound of Annie Lennox and Kate Bush.

Many of Lisa’s songs carry an underlying social theme which draw from life experience, and this is no different. ‘Social Pariah’ is about those people that are avoided by everyone in social situations because of betrayal or their unpopular beliefs.

“‘Social Pariah’ is a song about the outwardly charming, but inwardly treacherous, duplicitous and narcissistic type. It's about a few people that I have come across — some of whom I have observed in the public eye. Actors, politicians, musicians, journalists, establishments, and even countries… when the truth of their real agenda and behaviour is revealed.” — Lisa Moorish

Lisa Moorish first made her name in music as a teenager, when she had a club hit in 1989 with ‘Rock To The Beat’, a track written by Detroit techno luminaries Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson that fed into the UK’s acid house explosion at the time. She went on to work with the likes of Paul Weller and George Michael before being swept up in the Britpop scene and recording vocals on tracks by some of the biggest bands of that era — Oasis, Blur and Ash. She then started her own indie electro-punk band, Kill City, in the early noughties, and they were quickly snapped up by music mogul Alan McGee and signed to his new label, Poptones. 

‘Divine Chaos’ is Lisa’s first solo album for more than 20 years. The name derives from a play that she was in, The Divine Chaos Of Starry Things, where she took the lead role as the French Revolutionary, Louis Michel. The play's title and one of its themes is reflected in one of the album’s songs too — ‘This Chaos Is Divine’. “It’s also a summary and description of an all-encompassing, heady and chaotic love experience with another,” she says. “The theme of the album, mostly.”

Other songs on the album reflect a recent relationship that Lisa had that is now over. “I fell in love, I felt the demise of it happening, the desperation to hold onto a failing relationship, and then the eventual end of it. And some other songs are about my rage at the current state of the world today. Another one is about dealing with liars, manipulators, and narcissists. There’s a lot of it about!”

With this album, it feels like Lisa has gone full circle: back to working with electronic music again, the genre that she started out releasing back in the late 1980s. The songs have attitude, indicative of a life lived on both sides of the tracks. “I came from the acid house and techno scene when I started out aged 17,” she says, “and it's like a second shot at it, without the destruction, distractions, addictions, bullshit and giving a f*ck what others think or say about me.”

Social Pariah

Lisa Moorish - Social Pariah

Do Ya Thing #House mix

A dirty live mix down of a Due South rework, in advance of the new album coming soon

I Can See Clearly Now - Due South Redreaming

The Jack Said What Radio Show features the latest releases from the labels Jack Said What and Out Yer Box. Expect anything from non-4/4 left-of-centre all the way to absolute banging house music, with some twists along the way. The show will highlight upcoming releases, JSW classics and an unexpected guest track from the world of electronic music. 

Tracklist
1 - Pattern Perception - One More Hit (Out Yer Box Records)
2 - Malcolm McLaren - World’s Famous (Virgin Records)
3 - Corserine - As Gabriel Sleeps (Out Yer Box Records)
4 - Corserine - I Know You Want Me Baby (Out Yer Box Records)
5 - Evl Tom - Give Up (Don’t) (Out Yer Box Records)
6 - Serge Santiago - Limit (Jack Said What)
7 - Chad Jackson - Get Wicked Again (KAB Records)
8 - Dave Beer, Robert Owens & The Blessed - For The Beloved (Late Night Dub) (Jack Said What)
9 - Steve Mac & Pattern Perception - The Colours Of (Jack Said What)
10 - Steve Mac & Hayze - There For You (Jack Said What)
11 - Dave Beer & The Blessed - Come Together (Jack Said What)
12 - ITHURTZ - The Sun (Jack Said What)

Jack Said What Radio Show - April 2025

Hot on the heels of ‘For The Beloved’, the first release on Jack Said What by Dave Beer & The Blessed which featured the legendary Robert Owens on vox and came with remixes by the equally legendary Todd Terry, comes this double-header.

First up, 'Come Together’ is a low-slung glitchy groover that features words by Sundiata Oba Mausi, an associate of Chez Damier and Ron Trent in Detroit. Dave met Sundiata in America and recorded some of his distinctive exclamations that, when treated via studio trickery, recall elements of David Byrne & Brian Eno’s ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ project. Its message of unity in the face of oppression couldn’t be more prescient for today’s uncertain global landscape.

‘Erectile’, meanwhile, is far from dysfunctional. Breathy beats and funky fillups rev up the track, which rises into a breezy groove resplendent with distant wildlife, a cheeky chuckle and a mysterious spoken word vox. 

This is the second release from Dave Beer & The Blessed in the lead-up to the release of the project’s debut album. As has been well documented, Back To Basics man Dave — a recent convert to Buddhism — had a cancer scare at the end of 2024 during which he nearly died, but he’s come out the other side and is back to his effervescent self once again. This single sees him back to where he belongs — at the heart of his beloved dance scene, bringing everybody together.

Come Together

Dave Beer & The Blessed - Come Together

Kick-ass electronic dance music label founded by the visionary trio of Irvine Welsh, Steve Mac & Carl Loben. We're passionate about nurturing talent and pushing boundaries, with a strong focus on quality, and are injecting the original raw spirit back into dance music. 
Many of the tracks are produced, written or mixed using original hardware boxes and mastered to analogue tape, giving a nod to the roots of electronic music production - but always using the latest technology to bring the sound into the future.