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

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)

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dharkfunkh Tech House Mix (Peak Time Set) May 2024

In the late sixties, a young experimental performer formed a new band after he moved back to London in the psychedelic era. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown saw singer Arthur take to the stage in flamboyant costumes, freaky make-up and an ornamental helmet on his head that burned with real fire. This was especially poignant when the band performed ‘Fire’, a single that would shoot to the top of the charts in the UK, Canada and the USA when released onto an unsuspecting public in 1968.

“I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you… Fire!” sang Arthur at the start of ‘Fire’, and his performance of the song on UK TV show Top Of The Pops, complete with burning helmet, remains one of the most iconic and out-there No.1 performances of all time. Arthur has had several mishaps with his flaming helmet over the years — health and safety wasn’t such a big issue in the sixties and seventies. His wild on-stage theatrics would influence everyone from Alice Cooper to all manner of heavy metal performers over the coming decades.

Fifty-five years later, a young experimental producer named Luca recorded a tech-house track with his rapper pal, WasionKey. Sensing it needed a sample to lift it, he reached for a snippet of ‘Fire’ by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown — and reached out to Brown himself on social media, to see what he thought of it. Brown, sensing the enthusiasm and ambition of young master Luca, not only granted clearance for the ‘Fire’ sample to Luca’s ‘New Spice’ track, but began to mentor Luca and take him on tour with him to play decks and keys. What a ledge! Despite being well into his eighties now, Arthur still performs regularly and is clearly motivated by helping the next generation of musical minds to break through as well.

‘New Spice (Fire)’ is now about to drop on Jack Said What, complete with a big room remix by dharkfunkh. Luca’s original track — with WasionKey’s rhymes bringing new flavas and spice — is lifted by the ‘Fire’ sample when it hits, while dharkfunkh pours kerosene on it in his rework, teasing the flames upwards with big beats and burning bassline undertow in order to trigger dancefloor eruption. One of these missives can’t fail to set your dancefloor alight if dropped at the right moment. Burnin’ up.

New Spice (Fire) (Dub)

Luca LeBleu featuring Arthur Brown & WasionKey - New Spice (Fire) (Dub)

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

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.

Luca LeBleu featuring Arthur Brown & WasionKey - New Spice (Fire) (Dub)

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