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John Foxx – Translucence   Drift Music

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John Foxx and The Belbury Circle - Almost There (clip)

King Unique Broadcast 26 - brand new episode of the greatest mix show on earth, as voted for by you my lovely people with ears. full of beautiful ugly bass music, nu-garage & future-retro house. today is tomorrow is yesterday & i remember them all. tell your friends / tag your friends / shag your friends / share with your friends cos you are me & i am you and we are our own radio show - yes!

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Afriqua ‘Melt’ Lokee Musik

Marco Colombino ‘Grave’ Chronovision Ibiza

Marianto ‘Simple World (Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff Remix)’ Rhythmetic

Cropper ‘Drift feat. Schumen’ Blah Blah Blah Records

Parachute Youth ‘Cant Get Better Than This (Bodhi Remix)’ Sweat It Out

Shadow Child ft. Tymer ‘23 (Zinc Remix)’ Food Music

Maya Jane Coles ‘Everything feat. Karin Park (Breach Remix)’ I/AM/ME

NT89 ‘to Love (You)’ CD-R

Movement ‘Feel Real (Shadow Child Remix)’ Modular Records

Hrdvsion ‘Feel You're Fading’ Rinse

NT89 ‘Subsequent (Ray Unico Trackapella)’ Food Music

Primal Scream ‘Invisible City (Daniel Avery Kill Light Remix)’ Ignition

Rudimental feat. Foxes ‘Right Here (Hot Since 82 Remix)’ Asylum

Shit Robot ‘Feels Real (Luke Solomun Remix)’ DFA

Joe Goddard ‘Bassline ‘12’ DFA

Samaris ‘Gooa Tungl (Sei A Remix)’ One Little Indian

John Cage ‘Interview from “Écoute”‘ Facets Multimedia Distribution

King Unique Broadcast 26

Here to save you from Friday - King Unique Broadcast 27, recorded exclusively for UMF Radio. A twisting turning journey from the bottom end of your speakers to the twitching corners of your mind - all wrapped up with plenty of boom baboom boom. 

Original bag head sleeve art from that man Charlie Kirk; thanks to all the producers, full track listing below.

Eliphino ‘I Don’t Care’ Hypercolour

Spada & Bonnie Rabson ‘In All Your Glory (OBu Remix)’ Hysterical

Adam Helder ‘Sticks & Stones’ Smiley Fingers

Tom Budden ‘Come 2 Me’ Alive Recordings

Wordlife ‘Small Talk’ Club Mod

Basement Jaxx ‘What A Difference Your Love Makes (Huxley Remix)’ 37 Adventures

Pincer Movement ‘The Motion’ CD-R

Kidnap Kid ‘Survive’ Black Butter

George Fitzgerald ‘I Can Tell (By The Way You Move)’ Double Six

Anushka vs. Carl Bee ‘Constantly Maze’d (King Unique Bootdub)’ CD-R

The Presets ‘Its Cool (Andrew Bayer & James Grant Remix)’ Anjunadeep

Manuel-M ‘Insecure’ Tronic

Joris Voorn ‘Ringo’ Green

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King Unique Broadcast 27

i've done something special for this mix, two hours of King Unique tracks & remixes picked out from fourteen years & ninety releases. i've had a lot of fun pulling out old boxes of vinyl, DAT tapes & CD backups, (not to mention encountering some dodgy old press shots along the way) & even found a couple of unreleased gems from ten years back - original dubs of 'Sugarhigh' & Underworld's 'Two Months Off' anybody?

i've tried to include a little of everything, from early house days on Defected to dark tribal on Junior Boys Own & the melodic techno of Bedrock - plus the remixes for pretty much every major & indie label under the sun. it would've taken four or five hours just to include everyone's favourites in a 'definitive' mix so this is simply how KU looked to me in one week of looking back in 2013. if i missed out your essential KU i'll maybe do this again one day; & of course there's still all those bootlegs lying around doing nothing...

it goes without saying that this mix is as much about my original partner in KU Matthew Roberts as it is about me. we sat in the studio together 5 days a week 8 or 9 hours a day between 1999 & 2006 making this stuff - then scurried home to see our families briefly before heading off to the airport or motorway for the weekend. 

thanks matthew - thanks families x

extra big thank you to the folks at friskyRadio for airing this mix over the last month - here it is finally for you diehard soundclouders - & as a special thank you for waiting so long it's a 320 download 

King Unique Broadcast 28

This mix is something a bit different that I put together for my guest spot on Henry Saiz's 'Labyrinth' show, a journey through the electronic archives of my misspent youth. Anyone who ended a night crashed out back at my flat during the late 80s/early 90s will remember some of these :)

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Vangelis “Dawn” East West
Pulsation “Pulsar” Harthouse 
Brian Eno “Drift” Polydor
John Foxx & Harold Budd “Sunlit Silhouette” Edsel
Tangerine Dream “Mae’s Theme” Silva Screen
The Grid “Without Your Clarity I Would Still Be Bound By Gravity (Boundless Mix)” Virgin
Robert Fripp “Water Music I” EG Records
Brian Eno “Becalmed” Polydor
The Chameleons “I’ll Remember” Geffen
Ashra “Night Dust“ Virgin
Peter Gabriel “Slow Marimbas” Virgin
Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm “Faraway Suns” JVC Victor
Future Sound Of London “Cascade Part IV” Virgin
Primal Scream “Higher Than The Sun” Creation
Autechre “Piezo” Warp

Back in time, back to mine (King Unique on The Labyrinth pt. 2)

Here it is - KU Broadcast 29 as heard on John Digweed's 'Transitions' - a bit housey, a bit bassy, a bit garagey, a bit techy, a bit proggy - a bit fucking good in fact.

Blossomer  - To The Sea (Pedram Remix)
Corbu – We Are Sound (Doorly Remix)
Booka Shade -  Crossing Borders (feat Fritz Kalkbrenner - Booka Dub Mix)
Facundo Mohr - Twisted (Inxec Remix)
Emma Louise - Boy (Talul Remix)
CHVRCHES - Recover (SoulCircuit Remix)
Mark Henning - Soul Catcher (Original Mix)
King Unique – Raydrop ( 7 hours feat. Natalie Arnold)
Alex Parkin – Zed (King Unique Beat Edit)
Henry Saiz  – Rave Flute (King Unique Remix)
Jamie Stevens – Tribe Of The Disco Kings (King Unique Remix)
Marc Marzenit – Mystery Ocean (Original Mix)
King Unique – Westway (Original Mix)
King Unique – Yohkoh 2014 (King Unique ‘7 Years On Remix’)

First aired on the 21st March 2014 on Transitions. Sleeve art by that Two Cute Dogs geezer as always - thanks Charlie!

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King Unique Broadcast 29 - Transitions 499 Guest Mix

hardcore meets nu-garage meets prog meets tech meets - oh fuck this it's 'big' ok? beatport - get a new genre

Kastis Torrau feat. Amber Long "Menace (King Unique Remix)" Lo Qual Preview

This is another side to the KU sound, a collaboration with my erstwhile KU partner Matthew Roberts & balearic shoegazers Packard Ghost, whose members include Rupert Lyddon of Grand National fame. It's going to be released on Bedrock's "Underground Sound of Ibiza" album next month as both the intro & the closing track of the poolside chill-out disc 1.

Quite a beautiful tune this, very happy to be getting it out into the world.

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King Unique "Brakes (feat. Packard Ghost)" Lo Qual Preview

coming very soon on bedrock, my remix of ian o'donovan versus john digweed & nick muir's "dawnbreaker". big dose of old skool bleep over warped garage organs & beats - progressive house flavours from the days before the genre even existed. get it in you.

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John Digweed & Nick Muir Vs Ian O'Donovan "Dawnbreaker (King Unique Remix)" Lo Qual Preview

- -Trust You Again- - Minecraft Parody Of John Newman - Love Me Again (FACTIONS SONG)

a bit of time travel - long lost KU DJ mix from 2001, lots of dark tribal, twisted san-fran dubness, accapellas & fx. this is the sound we were playing at Yellow in Tokyo, Cream in Liverpool, Renaissance in Nottingham - get your rose tinted spectacles out & get your waaaarrrrrp on ;)

Unknown "Freaked Out Preacher"
Silicon Soul "Chic-O-Laa (H-Foundation Remix)"
Ubu "Pixels"
Eddie Amador "The Funk (King Unique Dub)"
Weekend World "Trigger Finger"
Nerva "Scorpion"
The Path "Prayin' (Accapella)"
Mix The House "In The Beginning There Was French Kiss"
Mainframe "Mainframe"
Soul Mekanik "I'll Call You"
R-Factors "G-Explorer"
Thick Dick "Welcome To The Jungle"
Kosheen "Hide U (Creamer &amp; K Mix)"
Sharpside "I Love Techno"
Chocolate Puma "I Wanna Be U (King Unique Mix)"
Unknown "Danze 2 My Beat"


King Unique Promo Mix 2001 -(KU Archive 2001)-

King Unique Broadcast 30 - it's here, it's now, it's a musical selfie-brick. download it and throw it through the windows of your mind.

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A change in the weather

BBC session version recorded in 1990 available exclusively through the RideMusic.net site, one of three session tracks not featured on the Waves CD release - along with Making Judy Smile (Mark Goodier session) and Walk On Water (Mark Radcliffe session)

Here and Now (John Peel session)

take your mind back to july 2001; dark tribal prog rules britain's superclubs & britain's sound rules the world. berlin is not yet officially cool, cigarettes are smoked on dancefloors, dance music slower than 125 bpm is punishable by death & deadmau5 has not yet been born; it is a time of great joy.

the scene is a room full of samplers, synthesizers & class c narcotics - it is chong's palace studio (mark II), lair of king unique & sweating over a remix are two young men called matthew.

ring ring!... ring ring!...ring r-

KU: "hello?"

BBC: "hello it's the bbc here, can i speak to someone from king unique please"

KU: "oh, right - um hello"

BBC: "right - you know how we asked if you'd do a king unique essential mix in the autumn for us?"

KU: "err, yes"

BBC: "well, would you like to do it a bit sooner than we discussed? quite a lot sooner in fact?"

KU: "um... maybe?"

BBC: "great! the thing is (NAME REMOVED AT BBC LAWYER'S INSISTENCE) promised us a mix months ago & they've just told us it won't be ready after all. so you'd be doing us a huge favour if you stepped in"

KU: "right. just out of interest did ali & sharam say why they couldn't do it?"

BBC: "i couldn't possibly comment"

KU: "i see. well, we are insanely busy but we'd obviously like to help.... how soon were you thinking? this month or next?"

BBC: "oh definitely this month. in fact, um, more like, you know, er, this week actually"

KU: "this week!!!!????"

BBC: "...................... yes. by friday night in fact."

KU: "& you're aware that today is wednesday????!!"

BBC: "............................................ yes."

KU: "!"

so there you have it, the behind the scenes story of how we came to turn round our first essential mix in under 72 hours from a standing start, armed only with a mountain of vinyl, several samplers & a huge computer struggling to run 4 channels of pro-tools with less than half the power of a current iphone. this is King Unique Broadcast 0 if you like, the first time we hit the airwaves & not a bad way to start :)

to add to the nostalgia i've included the handy cassette case with tracklisting that Mixmag used to print each month for all the home-tapers out there - if you'd told us about Soundcloud back then we'd have burnt you as a witch.

enjoy the flashback ;)

Essential Mix 15/07/2001 - King Unique

Recorded two years ago but finished and mixed today. One of my favourite tunes.

Long As I Can See The Light (John Fogerty / CCR cover)

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King Unique is Matt Thomas, an all round studio junkie and dj with a taste for tripped-out cosmic techno and rough-edged underground house; in a career spanning nearly a decade KU’s distinctive sound has won an enviable global following. A ceaseless schedule of dj sets and festival gigs backed up by relentless studio sessions resulting in scores of records, remixes and radio broadcasts has made the KU sound an instantly recognizable part of the music-life of millions of the world’s clubbers - and a fixture in the vinyl crates, cd wallets and laptops of the world’s most influential djs. Consistently appealing across genres the tracks have been played by everyone from John Digweed to Soulwax, Richie Hawtin to Tiesto, and have turned up everywhere from Hollywood soundtracks to mobile ringtones - not to mention countless compilations and mix albums.  

Formed in 2001 by Matt Thomas & Matthew Roberts, King Unique hit the floor running, claiming the title of Undisputed Remix Champs by scoring five Essential New Tunes in five months on Pete Tong's "Essential Selection" Radio 1 show. A US Billboard Dance Chart number 1 for the remix of Dirty Vegas’ “Walk Into The Sun”, plus two more solo Essential New Tunes for Matt under his Watkins and Mainframe alter-egos saw KU firmly cement their place amongst the ranks of first-call remixers. The King Unique production touch has been in constant demand since, appearing on more than sixty remixes and yielding some of the biggest dance floor bombs known to man - Underworld's "Two Months Off", The Killers "Somebody Told Me", Planet Funk’s “The Switch”, John Dahlback's "Late Night Worries", and Tracey Thorn’s "Grand Canyon". 

2006 saw the end of the original duo’s studio partnership, as Matt Thomas took on the King Unique role as a solo artist. The four years since have seen the KU sound rise to new heights with a mixture of euphoric acidic melodies, dark brooding techno vibes and old skool beats. This new 'cosmic techno' has found it's home on John Digweed's Bedrock label with the release of "2000000 Suns" and the KU / Anthony Pappa collaboration “Vamoosh”. Backing up the new material have been remixes of John Digweed’s “Bilder”, Hernan Cattaneo’s “Teleport”, Fergie’s “PCP” and an on-going association with James Lavelle’s UNKLE project that has so far resulted in five stunning re-workings; “Heaven”, "Heavy Drug", “The Answer”, “Reign feat. Ian Brown” & “Rabbit In Your Headlights feat. Thom Yorke” - all adding up to reaffirm Matt's status as one of the most versatile and consistent producers of the last ten years.

The renowned King Unique dj set has made KU a regular addition to the line up of some of the world's most respected clubs and biggest festivals, playing everywhere from ultra-hip blacked-out sweat boxes in Tokyo to euphoric crowds of thousands on the tropical beaches of Madeira. An increasingly hectic international schedule has seen Matt racking up enough air-miles for a free trip to the moon, with gigs in Sydney, Panama, Budapest, Seoul, Helsinki, Mexico City, Dubai, Rosario, Bogota, Kazantip, Vilnius - just to name a handful. Since the very first shows Matt has pushed at the cutting edge of the technology revolution that's swept through club culture, taking laptops, new gadgets and studio gear into the booth. 2010 saw the addition of the near mythic Monome controller to the sonic armoury - part track-mangling Ableton controller and part psychedelic light show, lovingly hand built by techno-hippies in the Catskill Mountains. 

Matt + Mac + Monome = Beats + Bleeps = KU Live 

See you by the speakers ;)