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

“My brother / My sister / We’ve got to come together / And we’ll make this world a better place… Happiness will come.”

One of the most well-known and respected underground dance music producers of the 1990s and noughties, Jon Carter ducked out of the music game for a decade or more — until drawn back in by a life-changing moment.

Listening to the soundtrack from the film Countryman on some newly set-up record decks where he was staying on the south coast of England, he experienced a personal event for the first time in more than a decade. “I heard something leap out from a tune which made me hear a whole new piece of music around it, but I didn’t know what it was yet,” Jon recalls. “It was there waiting to come into existence. Ten years is a long time out in the wilderness away from music, and I hadn’t had this experience for longer than that.”

He quickly rewound that section of music on the decks. “Then I saw this internal silver light turn on and travel up from my heart, through my left shoulder and into my head,” he says, “and I knew that I had to do something instantly.” He attached a lead out of the mixer into his laptop and got his old 303 out of a cupboard. “I topped and tailed the percussion loop, and just stuck a 303 into the mixer, without any timing, using the tempo control to mix it — and put a Derrick Carter beat over the top. Suddenly I was making music again after so long.”

Jon told this story to author and musician Ian Snowball, who understood what he meant, and told Jon to meet him in the studio, which happened to be just a few yards from where he previously lived in London for 30 years. All the signs were there.

“Boys Own legend, Terry Farley — who’s done a few bits over the years — was in the studio with Ian and Wade Teo, who has just made a track with house legend Marshall Jefferson with Curtis McClain on vocals,” Jon tells. “This was the partnership that made the seminal house music anthem ‘Move Your Body’, and it seemed there was a path being laid ahead which I had to follow.

“Curtis is such a talent that just the outtakes from their tune worked perfectly with what I brought to the studio,” he continues. “Thanks to Ian, Terry and Wade Teo, I was making music again, and thanks to Curtis and Marshall and the light I was loving it once more.”

So ‘Brother & Sister’ is the tune that catapulted Jon back into the music game after so long away. More music followed, including the recently released ‘Mighty Horses’ on Jack Said What and his remix of Scott Booth’s ‘The Beginning’. “Now I have a whole new love for music again, which I thought had gone,” Jon says. “Music has become a guiding force once again. Always look out for the signs — you may not see them at first, but they are there when you look, and they will guide you.

“Have faith, come together, brother and sister, and happiness will come.”

Brothers & Sisters (Space Between Remix)

Jon Carter - Brothers & Sisters (Space Between Remix)

An old skool inspired breakbeat, street-real anthem for today about the dualities of inner city life. 

One of the hottest new names in electronic music right now, Martin Badder has released on highly respected labels such as Crosstown Rebels, Repopulate Mars, Renaissance, Nervous Records, Strictly Rhythm, Toolroom, DFTD and more. For his debut release as part of the Jack Said What family, Badder has teamed up with pal MARIA to produce a street-real anthem for these times.
 
Over an old skool breakbeat, vocalist MARIA begins to drop bars about the dualities of inner city life. The track becomes more and more anthemic as it progresses, sitting somewhere between Little Simz and The Streets in its depiction of urban existence. MARIA doesn’t hold back with her rhymes — so understandably the label asked for a shorter, clean edit for radio play as part of the package. It’s old skool but it’s new skool.
 
‘No Two Ways About It’ is the first release on Out Yer Box, the sister label to Jack Said What. The new label has been launched to cater for non-4/4 material, whether it be ambient, trip-hop, breakbeat, guitar-driven or whatever. Out Yer Box tracks may not be in your rekordbox to play on the nightclub dancefloor, but the music is still well worth a listen in its varying shades and hues.

No Two Ways About It (Radio Edit)

Martin Badder & MARIA - No Two Ways About It (Radio Edit)

Jordan Bonard - Back To The Club
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Back To The Club

This Rythm #Tech house mix

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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. 

Keep the vibe alive! >> https://linktr.ee/dharkfunkh 

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

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, of course, using the latest technology to bring the sound into the future.

Jon Carter - Brothers & Sisters (Space Between Remix)

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