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Walk On Water

Come flock together beneath the sun as we journey on a cool breeze through the rhythmic sands of time with a handpicked selection from Paul Hillery. Dip your toes into crystal blue waters while the sound of a cosmic troubadour drifts by. Glide to joyful places and wide-open spaces while dropping out to a pulse that connects us in shamanic shuffle. Reminded that we have more to connect than drive us apart.

Paul Hillery is a relentless seeker of musical treasures. Uncovering lost gems which he initially documented on the 'Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours' blog and YouTube channel. He is the creative force behind the celebrated BBE Music series ‘We Are The Children Of The Sun‘, releasing 3 critically acclaimed compilations in the last 18 months, alongside this he has curated a number of well-received reissues for the label. He has also curated 2 compilations in the ‘Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours’ series for RE:WARM. Receiving praise from all the right places, including BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne compilation of the week, Gilles Peterson giving his records plenty of airtime and rave reviews in Uncut, Shindig! Test Pressing and CLASH. He has gained a reputation for his continued deep digging and archival of lost music. And has built long-standing relationships with artists with a mission to give them the exposure they deserve.

Paul has carried his record box to many a venue, playing alongside The Polyphonic Spree, Arthur Lee & Love, Bonnie Dobson, Spiritualized, 4 Hero, Happy Mondays, Simian, The Bees, Julian Cope, Courtney Pine and many, many more. He has also graced the turntables at Spiritland, Refuge, Festival No.6, Lunar, Edinburgh Fringe, Psychemagik’s Magik Forest, The Chill Out Tent, Moseley Folk & Arts, Stowaway, We Are Love, and countless others. In addition to curating music, he writes the occasional article and provides sleeve notes for albums. We hope you enjoy this mix as much as we do. Much Love @idlecellars

Songbird - Paul Hillery

When Paul Murphy released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Claremont 56, in 2006, many thought it would be the first of many. In a way, it was, as in the years since he’s released a string of collaborative sets alongside Benjamin J Smith (as Smith & Mudd), and as part of underground ‘supergroups’ Paqua, Bison and Hillside. But that second solo album? Well, it just had to wait.

In early 2023, Murphy finally decided to scratch that itch, roping in some of his most trusted collaborators (keyboardist and bassist Michele Chiavarini, percussionist Patrick Dawes, guitarist Dave Noble and HF International’s Kashif included) to lay down a sumptuous set of tracks that not only showcases his now familiar (bit hard to pigeonhole) neo-Balearic sound, but also proves how much he has matured as a writer and producer since 2006.

In The Garden of Mindfulness is richly musically detailed, expertly arranged and full to bursting with fluid instrumental solos, with Murphy and his collaborators serving up tracks that brilliantly blur the boundaries between languid jazz-funk, downtempo, vintage synth-laden krautrock, dubby grooves and sun-splashed soundscapes.

It simply sparkles from the moment that opener ‘Eighty Three’ slowly rises like the morning sun, with gentle, undulating synth sounds ushering in a slow-motion jazz-funk excursion rich in twinkling electronics, spacey pads and warming bass. Recent single ‘Katanaboy’, a lusciously layered dub disco-infused dancefloor excursion in Murphy’s familiar style, raises the temperature a touch, before ‘Bonne Anse’ and the sublime ‘Unka Paw’ (whose combination of evocative fretless bass, extended electric piano solos, Clavinet licks and acoustic guitars is genuinely spellbinding) invite a combination of wavy shuffling and flat-on-the-back, eyes-closed appreciation.

And so it continues, with gorgeous title track ‘In The Garden of Mindfulness’ making way for the boogie-influenced, Japanese-British brilliance of ‘Hangsang’ (check the jaunty pianos, yearning breakdown and exotic melodies). Murphy’s long held love of warm, weighty bass, hypnotic disco grooves, colourful analogue synth sounds and jazzy guitars once again comes to the fore on ‘Afternoon Bob’ before the album reaches a fittingly triumphant conclusion with ‘Late In March’. 

A neat sonic summary of all that makes the set such a rewarding and entertaining experience, repeat listens reveals a wealth of musical details, from off-kilter triple-time drums and surprise bass guitar solos, to impeccable piano solos (provided by the immensely talented Chiavarini), fizzing jazz-funk synth doodles and stirring synth-strings. It’s a breathlessly brilliant way to end an album that was genuinely worth waiting for.

In The Garden Of Mindfulness

REWARM Records

1BTN Playlist Feb 24

Sea Lapping & Show Intro

1, Held By trees - In The Trees (Ambient) (RE:WARM records)
2, Natural Calamity - Have You Seen The Sun Today (RE:WARM Records)
3, Joe Hall & Eyeball Wine Co - Movable Feast (RE:WARM
Records)
4, Frank Pyne - Waco (RE:WARM Records)
5, David Kitt - Wave Of Peace (RE:WARM Records)
6, Horsebeach - A Friend By The Lake (RE:WARM Records)
7, Joan Bibiloni feat Rhys Ifans & Pep Tosar - Badia Onirica (English Version) (NuNorthern Soul)
8, Mia Doi Todd - Music Life (City Zen Music)
9, Faye Webster - Right Side Of My Neck (Secretly Canadian)
10, E.R Thorpe - Guided By The Sea (Vicious Charm)
11, Ivan Moult - Heard It All Before (Bubblewrap Recordings)
12, Heart People - In Your Eyes (Pinchy & Friends)
13, The Memory Band - Children Of The Stones (Static Caravan)
14, White Elephant - Don’t Change Your Way (Woman Records)
15, Kings Of Convenience - Misread (Source)
16, Diane Birch - Used To Lovin’ You (Légère Records)
17, Jim - Still River Flow (Generalisation Dub) (Vicious Charm)
18, Fireflies - Freeze Me (Moine Dubh)
19, Jono McCleery - Alive Again (Not On Label)
20, Kacey Johansing - I Try (Night Bloom Records)
21, Bobby Bazini - Waterfallin (Not On Label)
22, Young Gun Silver Fox - Serria Nights (Légère Records)
23, Just Us - Just A Thought (BBE Records) (Again children Of The Sun by Paul Hillery)
24, A Separate Reality - The Seagull (Hare Krishna) (Our Starry Universe)
25, A Separate Reality - Everywhere You Look (Our Starry Universe)

1BTN 1st Feb 2024

1BTN 2nd May 2024

1, Gaussian Curve - Winter Sun 
2, George Solar - Moonbeams
3, Dawn Again - Journey Through The Schoonerverse 
4, Torn Sail - Birds 
5, Boci - The Garden 
6, Huw Costin - save The World By Dawn 
7, Robert Williams - I Believe Your Thee One
8, Leonard Grandson - The Sands of Zanzibar
9, A Tribe Called Quest - Description of a Fool (GA's Acoustic Mix)
10, Trevor Walters - Blood Is Thicker Than Water
11, Another Taste - Time Is On Our Side
12, Apiento - Down That Road Ft. Harriet Brown - 03 Down That Road (Padapella into Original Version slight edit)
13, Mark De Clive Lowe - Day By Day (DJ Spinna Remix Edit)
14, Afrobuddha - Zone (Drum Mix)
15, Linkwood Family - Miles Away
16, Rhye - Feel Your Weight  (Poolside Remix)
17, F.M Inc - dub Me Anytime (Nuff Tuff Records)
18, Aritmya - Parabolic
19, Stephen Encinas - Disco Illusion - 01 Disco Illusion
20, BRS -Lovin' Me-(Dubtribe Soundsystem mix)
21, Earl Young - Take Them in Prayer
22, Woodland Atmos

1BTN 2nd May 2024

‘Eighty Three’, a sumptuous slab of slow-motion gorgeousness smothered in sun-splashed synth sounds and warming electric piano motifs, was one of the undoubted highlights of Mudd’s critically acclaimed sophomore solo album, In The Garden of Mindfulness. Now the track has been given a makeover by Conrad McDonnell, a long-time friend of the family and Claremont 56 contributor.

 

McDonnell is famous for his wild and effects-laden dub mixes, both as a solo remixer and alongside long-time musical partner Dan Tyler as the Idjut Boys. Together, they provided deliciously wayward and mind-altering takes of tracks from the Claremont 56 catalogue as part of the label’s 10th anniversary triple-CD compilation back in 2017.

Now McDonnell has gone solo to deliver an album of dubbed-out revisions of In The Garden of Mindfulness, a set that will land next year. To get us all in the mood, he’s laid down a trio if reworks of ‘Eighty Three’ in his distinctive style.

McDonnell first offers up the ‘Le Cidre Dub’, a slowly pulsating rendition in which lightly echoing and tape delay-laden guitar, synthesiser and Rhodes riffs drift across a throbbing electronic groove and low-tempo dub disco drums. The veteran DJ/producer has effectively given the track a more cosmic and spaced-out spin whilst retaining much of Mudd’s intricate and densely layered instrumentation.

Those seeking even wilder and more out-there acoustics are catered for by McDonnell’s two alternative dub takes. He successfully strips back the track to its most skeletal form on the ‘Uppity Dub’, bringing the sparsest of beats in and out of the mix whilst focusing on ambient synthesiser sounds, bubbly electronic patterns, echoing electric piano notes and Mudd’s squelchy and addictive bassline. His favoured effects are all audible in the mix but never dominate the sound space.

This celebrated side of McDonnell’s audio output comes to the fore on the EP-ending ‘Uppity Again Dub’, in which waves of trippy and picturesque electronics lap against a locked-in, delay-laden dub disco groove and flashes of reverb-heavy bass. It’s effectively a heady, mind-altering ambient dub interpretation of a sun-splashed Balearic treat. Like the other revisions on the EP, it offers a mouth-watering appetiser for the album of dubs still to come.

Eighty Three (Uppity Again Dub)

E ruscha V - reaching up
Gemini - away from earth
Inner space quartet - computer cals
John cale & terry Reilly - church of anthrax
Valcrond video - oh yea cop collar
Los ojos - spaced out (sax mix)
Sheer taft - cascades
Beppe loda - Elettronica Virtuale (Ivan Berko Remix)
Altz - gonno I got ya
Wah wah wino - heavy traffic
Conor scmutz - red lights only please
Daniel wang - file 7
Opal sunn - elastic phase 2
Felix Dickinson - widow maker
Sam redmore - woah!
Web web - apotheosis
Galambo - el dinero no lo es todo
Soft machine - soft weed
Fundido - take me to Mecca Masha mar
Fine tuning edit 11
Timetrap - yakayaka katakana edit
Mark 909 king - after dark
Lord echno - cosmic echos in dub
Dif już - no motion
Steve Jansen - the journey back
Hausfrau - dancehall days


Back before acid house changed the world, Jaye was already ploughing a unique path playing weird and wonky musics of all flavours at squat parties and industrial based do’s, she flung herself whole heartedly and without concern for her safety into the oncoming tsunami of what we would end up tagging as house, techno or the multitude of varying descriptive titles it has been given and has stayed true to ‘our thing’ ever since.

Dancing wildly at dirt box, the mutoid waste parties, the hacienda, ministry of sound, tonka, moist, sabresonic set her up for the ‘90s where, while Jaye was behind the counters of a number of soho record shops during the day and doing the ambient ‘creamy meat’ show as bish on the legendary chillin’ FM pirate radio, she was often found behind the decks at the legendary WANG parties, the back room at Golden in Stoke on Trent, her residency at London’s sadly defunct END with the ‘for your pleasure’ crew and numerous long gone all nighters and late into the night dark room parties. Getting her second wind at the start of the 00’s via the ‘softmachine’ parties she ran alongside George ‘black merlin’ and Kyle & Johnny from ‘land of light’ she’s been playing regularly across the country for numerous nights such as LOVE MUSCLE & COSMIC SLOP in Leeds, HOMO BLOC & KISS ME AGAIN in Manchester and further a field as a resident at the KALA festival as well as Field Maneuvers, Love International and dimensions in Croatia. She is also the resident at long running & fiercely loyally supported Bristol party PLU, alongside Ranks which has carved out a name for interesting left of centre guests and a distinctly gnarly music policy.

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eclectics mix - 177 | Jaye Ward | April 2025

Just some random picks first time played for a practise and a few experiments.

Jeff Mills. 
Anthony Nicholson
Glenn Underground
Mr G
Instruments of rapture
Hudson people
Johnny Hammond
faze Action
Deodato
Crackazat
Just One

That sort of thing

Wasn’t planned but mostly came out ok so don’t @me

April Randoms and experiments

1, Mike Grant - A Beautiful Thing
2, Fellows - Rise Up
3, Mark E - Swimming Through A Diamond
4, Shades Of Black - Dream On
5, Two Black Art Music - Keepin' the Groove 
6, Alton Miller - Time Waits
7, Ben Jenkins - Double
8, Steven Tang - Sunspot
9, Hayden Andre pres Subculture - Voyage (Infrared Mix)
10, Bang The Party - The Latinos Are Comin In
11, Blancmange - The Western (Cage & Aviary Fear Is nothing Dub) 
12, Walt J - Untitled
13, Addis Posse - Warrior Dance
14, Cabaret Voltaire - Searchin

House Mix January 25

Track List & BIO

Sum of its Parts : Hello High
Chaos CBD : Intercourse
Eddie C x LJ Simon : U Be Mine
Patapenka : I Feel You, I Love You
Mark Seven : My Caesar (The Message)
Jura Soundsystem : Udaberri Blues (Tapes Remix)
Frits Wentink : Shred Bread
East Coast Love Affair : Love of Mind
Frits Wentink : Rhythm & Blaze
George 808 : Sweet Spot
Captain Sky : Moonchild
Evans Pyramid : Never Gonna Leave You
Alex Kassian : Spirit of Eden
Jori Hulkkonen : Let Me Luv U (Musique Tropique)
Alex Kassian x Spooky : Orange Coloured Liquid
Quiroga : Cala Ventosa


A lifelong record collector with a deep-rooted love for music, DJing came as a natural extension of sharing that obsession. With over 35 years selecting, he’s played across the UK at parties like Got The Bug, Ultragroove, Jack Yer Boots Up, Balearic Social and Shades of Sound.

His style leans towards the exploratory: a fluid mix of Dub, House, Disco and Balearica; often shifting gears mid-set and finding unexpected links between tempos and moods.

eclectics mix - 181 | Scott Proper | May 2025 |

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House Mix January 25

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