Scott Hardkiss was honored as one of the top international DJs when he was asked to play a 2-hour guest DJ set on the biggest electronic dance music radio show on Earth:

"Pete Tong's Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1, London, UK" 

Scott's mix is still revered by many to be one of the best Essential Mixes of all time, ground-breaking in it's innovative nature... a technicolor blend of countless sounds & styles woven together to generate a truly unique funky, celebratory vibe.

As Pete himself says in the introduction, this is an invitation for listeners world-wide to...

"Roll up, roll up then, for another titillating edition of The Essential Mix, a 2-hour fantastic voyage with the world's best DJs. This week our search for the perfect beats takes us to the West Coast of America, as we tune into the talents of California's leading exponent of hot house, Scott Hardkiss."

"...And, do enjoy!!!"


Scott Hardkiss DJs on "Pete Tong's Essential Mix BBC Radio 1" (London, UK)

What is the relationship between literature and modern art? 

Join Adam F. Bradley, English professor and co-editor of Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel, for a discussion about race and invisibility, both on the written page and beyond. Discover Ellison's iconic text, “Invisible Man”, and the ways it continues to resonate with readers (and artists) 70 years after its original publication.

Access a transcript of the conversation here: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/751

Pictured: Jeff Wall. *After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue*. 1999–2000. Silver dye bleach transparency; aluminum light box: 5 ft. 8 1/2 in. × 8 ft. 2 3/4 in. (174 × 250.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Photography Council Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund through Robert B. Menschel, and acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder and Carol and David Appel. © 2022 Jeff Wall

Ten Minutes with Adam Bradley: On Invisible Man

Those party starting baddest of boys, Leisure Allstars, drop yet another mighty fine mixtape. It’s their usual self assured mix of bass heavy beats and dutty riddims that are sure to nice up just about any dance. Tom Central, Seiji and Grand Puba are just some of the tasty ingredients. 

Check out the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.solidsteel.net/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: pointer; ">Solid Steel</a>&nbsp;website for the latest shows, plus all the news, photos and videos.



PART 1 — The Leisure Allstars

ARTIST	  	- TITLE	  	- LABEL
Breakage Ft. Roots Manuva	  	 -Run 'em Out	  	 -Digital Soundboy
Krafty Kuts Ft. Dynamite Mc	  	 -We Do This	  	 -Against The Grain
The Leisure Allstars Ft. The Good People	  	 -How We Roll	  	 -Leisure Recordings
Dub Pistols Ft. Lindy Layton & Rodney P	  	 -Im In Love	  	 -Sunday Best
Pure P	  	- Human Nature Re-touch	  	 -Gamm
Tom Central	  	 -Hillbrook Boogie	  	 -Keep Up
Seiji	  	 -I Can't Let It Go	  	 -Unknown
Kazahaya	  	 -Remember Hip-hop	  	 -Breakin' Bread
Kokolo	  	 -Soul Power (lack Of Afro Remix)	  	 -Freestyle
Niko	  	 -Party Break	  	 -Rebel Scream



PART 2 — The Leisure Allstars

ARTIST	  	-TITLE	  	-LABEL
Captain Planet	  	 -Lagos Speedway	  	 -Bastard Jazz
Boy Better Know	  	 -Too Many Man (zinc Remix)	  	 -Boy Better Know
Stanton Warriors Ft. The Beatnuts	  	 -Shake It Up	  	 -Punks
Zinc Ft. Aloe Blacc	  	 -All Your Bass	  	 -Unkown
Herve	  	 -Who Da Champ	  	 -Cheap Thrills
Boltan	  	 -Nine To Five (rico Tubbs Remix)	  	 -Party Like Us
Lennie De Ice	  	 -We Are Ie (caspa & Rusko Remix)	  	 -Y4k
Grand Puba	  	 -Get It (reso Remix)	  	 -Scion
Braintax	  	 -All I Need	  	 -Lowlife
Dj Vajra Ft. Now On & Mayer Hawthorne	  	 -Active Balanced	  	 -Colemine
The Jazz Liberatorz Ft. J Sands	  	 -When The Clock Ticks	  	 -Kif Music
  

Solid Steel Radio Show 29/1/2010 Part 1 + 2 - The Leisure Allstars

Sully at the Deli was an amazing night. Perfect vibes, every set delivered, exactly the right energy for every set. Willisist and Beatmool, then Michael Red and Donna Dada, Sully, Vasho and Kir Mokum, Captivate, Bronwyn, Iha, Kai Bradley and Anomalous.
Here's Beatmool and Willisist's sweet opening set from super mellow 10pm doors, with little uptics in energy and attitude along the way.
Liquid, rollers, vocals, with a pinch of jungle and a hint of gnarl.
Enjoy

willisist x beatmool live @ the Deli opening set for Sully

A Down Tempo Groovy Mix Of... 

The Dark & Chunky Sounds of Psy Bass, 
To take control and take you on a journey into sonic soundscapes & beyond! 

Hope You guys Dig 💜🍄💯🔥💜🚀

Psy Bass Mix #5

This was made for my friend's 40th birthday.  Its an eclectic mix of house remixed songs that my friend would have heard at her junior and senior prom which was in 2002-2003.  Think of everything from Green Day to Metallica.

2025-1-11 Erins do over prom 40 th bday

An hour long beat-tape bursting with irregular meters, wonky rhythms, bizarre voiceovers, mellotrons, moogs and musical madness.
Dandy dilettantes Sinjin and Julius preview tracks from the forthcoming "A Thousand Strands 1975-2015" album along with outtakes, mashups and reblended versions.
Pre-order the debut album here ;
http://buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-strands-1975-2015
The Dandelion Set Stolid Seal Mix March 2016

00 Dandelion Set - Stolid intro (unreleased)
01 Hatfield & the North - Big John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw (Virgin)
02 Raymond Guiot & Guy Pedersen - Rock Session (Ext) (Tele Music)
03 MF Doom - Dragon’s Blood (Shaman Works)
04 Chaquito - It’s Magic (edit) (Phillips)
05 Fuschia - Nothing Song (Ext) (Pegasus)
06 Biggabush - Cyclogyro (Lion Head)
07 Roger Roger - Frankenstein (Ext) (Crea Sound)_
08 Pink Floyd - Sysyphus (Ext) (Harvest)
09 62 Miles From Space - In This Bed (Edit) (62)
10 Javelin - Susie’s Cues (Luaka Bop)
11 Julian Rhind-Tutt/Julian Barrett/Broadcast - Stone Tape (Ext) (BBC Radio 4)
12 King Crimson - Epitaph (Ext) (Island)/Richard Burton - Under Milk Wood (Ext) (Argo)
13 Dandelion Set - Apocalypse Friday (Ext) (unreleased)
14 Dandelion Set feat. Alan Moore/The Who - Judy/Can't Explain (Buried Treasure/Track)
15 McDonald & Giles  - Tomorrow's People (Ext) (Island)
16 DJ Adlib - U&I (Melting Pot)
17 D. Set - Son of Gardense (unreleased)
18 Stanley Clarke - Concerto for Jazz Rock Orchestra Part 1 (Atlantic)/Voiceover from Ex Machina
19 BiggaBush feat. reni - Spex (Instrumental) (unreleased)
20 Rod Freeman & the Blue Men - I Hear A New World (Ext) (RPM)
21 Nino Ferrer - Mao et Moa (Ext) (Riviera)
22 Fid Mella - Bo (Melting Pot)
23 Mike Tibbert - Sky Blue (Rush Hour)/Voiceover from Inherent Vice
24 D. Set - DDL Rev (unreleased)/Voiceover from the Abominable Dr. Phibes
25 yU - Fine (Mello Music)
26 Strawberry Alarm Clock - Birds in my Tree (Ext) (Uni Records)
27 Extr from Doctor Who Episode 1 (BBC TV)
28 Andy Votel - Little Bo Peep Part 3 (unknown)
29 Projection - Abstraction (Partners In Crime)
30 Daedalus - Impending Doom (Ninja Tune)
31 Anubian Lights - Walking Eagle (Eenie Meenie)
32 D. Set - Comic Flux History (Buried Treasure)
33 Lothar & the Hand People - Space Hymn (Ext) (Capitol)
34 Jack Arel & Pierre DuTour - Top Rally (Chappell)
35 Bruno Spoerri - The Race (ext) (Finders Keepers)
36 Zappa/Mothers - Uncle Meat (Main Title Theme) (Ext). (Bizarre)
37 D. Set - Bloom (Buried Treasure)
38 Inna Pivars - Snowing 
39 Johnny Pearson - Product Efficiency re-edit (KPM)
40 Janko Nilovic - Shaking Pop (Editions Montparnasse 2000)
41 Stringtronics - Safari Park (re-edit) (Peer International Library) 
42 Keith Mansfield - Crash Course (Waiwan re-edit) (Strut)




Stolid Seal Mix (album pre-release taster)

Late Night Workshop 22

Tracklist:
Ptaki - Krystyna 

Emapea - Chilin Hard

Jad Abstract - Message

Beat Le Juice - I Control Your Body

Bazz - Vacancy City

Flamingos - Saturday Night

Creep Crawl - Between Paris

P.SUS - Party

Emapea - Funk it Up

Amin Payne X Ben Bada Boom - Uturn Meon

Arrow - Whatchagonnado

Jad Abstrock - Funky Way

Minimatic - De La Bossa

Erykah Badu - On & On (Nova Black Remix)

Nitemoves - Theme from Diego Garcia

MF Doom - Devils Shoestring 

Ronny Hammond & Then Funkee Neanderthals - Mistabobalina

Ashen Blend - Don’t Sweat a hole in the Speaker

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Tell - Because I Love You

Hunter - Over the Rainbow

Hunter - U are my earth (AGFA LNW Re-Dub)

Chuggin Edits - Let Go

Jupiter Tuning Center - TsT Rub(tomorrow starts today)

Tiger Felix - Take The Night

Late Night Workshop 22

Everything pushes forward regardless of where it exists. 
This brand new studio mix is an eclectic blend of sounds for this time of transition from warm to cold, light to dark. The journey starts with spaced-out, jazzy "good vibes" tracks and progresses deeper into the void. This mix is a bit of a throwback to some of our older Orchard Lounge mixes as far as the style and build.

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Ben Silver "Parallels" mix
November 2018

Tracklist:
Zopelar- Origini (Ripperton Bubbles Dub)
Pablo Sanchez- Easy Out (Baldo Remix)
Pablo Bolivar, Sensual Physics- Passages (Remastered)
Verdo- Big Fish (Lauer Remix)
Gnork- Yoga On E
Aimes- Bombo Espacio 
Stereocalypse- Lone Solo Drummer 
John Daly- Move (Club Mix)
Tigerskin, Alfa State- Slippery Roads (Pablo Bolivar Remix)
Sahar Z. Stelios Vassiloudis- The Day The Sky Fell In 
Dean Demanuele- Mental Love
Motions- Again Lost Soon Found
EdOne- Balsam (Stelios Vassiloudis Remix)
Carsten Halm- Mondlicht
Hardfloor- The Business Of Basslines
Lone- Temples
Fader From Borneo- Sound Fondue 
Palms Trax- Honey Lemongina

(Original photo taken by Ashley Roberts @artkaleid)

"If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen."
Max Tegmark

“The ghosts that we see, are us or our friends in another dimension.” 
― Anthony T. Hincks

Ben Silver - Parallels (November 2018)

This ones for Tim !! 
Tried to keep it groovy, vibey and evolving.
Big thank you to everyone who came out to boogie live, you sure know how to make a fella feel special :)
Hope it gets ya movin. 
Tracklist below 
Big love <3

Moan (Plank's Edit of Radio Slave's Remix) - Trentemøller
You and Me - Pele & Shawnecy
Drosera (Original Mix) - Chicola
Thinking Of You feat. Camille Safiya (Serge Devant's Floor Cut) - Serge Devant, Camille Safiya, Damiano C
Don't Stop Won't Stop (Denney Remix) - Saeed Younan
All Night Long (Original Mix) - Ninetoes 
So Long (Audiojack Remix) - Made By Pete feat. Jem Cooke
Complex feat. Josef Salvat (Serge Devant Remix) - Jonas Rathsman
Heater - Franky Rizardo
Anything (Original Mix) - Christian Nielsen, Weiss (UK)
Be Somebody (Extended Mix) - Solardo
Come Back (Original Mix) - Ninetoes
Ruckus (Club Edit) - Tube & Berger feat. Richard Judge
Evil Eyes (Catz 'n Dogz Remix) - Roisin Murphy
El Sonido (Original Mix) - Riva Starr
Rockin Shoes - CAALand Baum
Everything (feat. Meggy) [Sonny Fodera Remix] - Rampa
Boundaries (Made By Pete Remix) - Redux Saints
Aleefee (Original Mix) - Andhim
Home (Extended Mix) -  Eelke Kleijn

Strange Conclusion

Just over 2 hours of Liquid Drum & Bass, dripping with Funk, Jazz, and Soulful vocals.   This is summertime at 172 BPM!

01. Degs (ft. DeTune) - Poveglia
02. Oh Genius - Just Vibe With It (Anthony Kasper Remix)
03. Villem (ft. Leo Wood) - We Had A Song
04. Macca & Loz Contreras - Better World (Lenzman Remix)
05. RoyGreen & Protone (ft. Monologue) - Why Don't You
06. Lurch - Explain
07. Grand Puba - I Like It (Mr Joseph Bootleg)
08. Sunny Crimea - Closer
09. Rowpieces - What The Actual Funk
10. DiMINISH (ft. Chloe Payne & Mystic) - Hold Me
11. LSB - Moonshine
12. Redeyes - Back in My Soul (Encore)
13. Paul SG (ft. Undersound) - The Last Ceremony (Big Bud Remix)
14. Submorphics (ft. T.R.A.C.) - The Prize
15. In:Most & Walk:r - Silver Lining
16. Command Strange - In Love
17. Paul SG & Salem - Jazzstrophobia
18. Mustafa Akbar - Runnin' Away (Thunderball Remix Instrumental)
19. Green Vibes - Bronx
20. DJ Marky - Silly
21. Mr Joseph - Things I Need
22. Atlantic Connection - Unexpected
23. Lurch - Meant To Be
24. R.Impish - Came Back
25. Command Strange & Nizami - Summer Job
26. RoyGreen & Protone, Ben Soundscape - Cedar
27. Submorphics - Ruby Falls
28. Ben Soundscape & Rick Payne - Ever Ready
29. Submorphics - Memories Of You
30. Low:r - Not Enough Clav
31. Lurch (ft. Collette Warren & T.R.A.C) - Count The Days
32. Severity (ft. MC Astro) - The Journey