The Orb founder Dr Alex Paterson has been an extremely busy man of late. Having helmed the prolific ambient house collective for over three decades, he's now adding several new ventures to his evergrowing arsenal.

Among these are a fresh new label, Orbscure Recordings, which will be a platform for Alex's output under his various guises. Launched under Robin Collins' Cooking Vinyl imprint, the label will also be an opportunity for Alex to show off his A&R skills, an area he cut his teeth in for EG Records. First up is a collaborative release from himself and fellow Orb member Andy Falconer under the name Sedibus, which was predominantly masterminded remotely and marks the pairs first work together in almost 30 years.

On top of the new label and the fresh collaboration, Alex has also announced the release of ‘Babble on an' Ting: Alex Paterson's Incredible Journey Beyond the Ultraworld with The Orb’, a book written by close friend and journalist Kris Needs that documents his life from childhood through to The Orb's activities and his brand spanking new label.

It's a wonder he managed to find the time to steer the ship for this week's Monday Is OK mix. It is literally what the doctor ordered—he also prepped the Hors d'oeuvres, set the table and paired it with an interview about various bits and bobs—so get yourself comfortable and let Alex helm the boat safely out of Plymouth...

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Dr Alex Paterson (The Orb): The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

Solid Steel (1st November) Having announced that Four Tet will be joining the line up for the Solid Steel 25th Anniversary night at Fire in London on 6th Dec, we now hand over the decks to him for a 2 Hour exclusive mix. 
Four Tet's history with the show extends back to his first mix in 2001 and part of the Solid Steel US Tour that year with DJ Food, DK and Bonobo. He was also the first guest at the monthly Solid Steel club night in 2004, with more mixes to follow and his music has been consistently played on the show. 

As with all our 25th Anniversary guests, we asked for something different and here's what he said about his mix;

"This mix is made from unofficial edits and mixes.  I guess these edits were mainly made to be played in clubs and I've always like the tradition of DJs extending and rearranging to make things work in their sets.  Most of the edits here are unreleased because they are just tools for DJs really.  The Black Unity one was done for the Solid Steel US tour that I did in 2001.  Thanks to Daphni, Floating Points and Happa for the edits I got from them."

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Four Tet - Solid Steel Mix November 2013 https://twitter.com/FourTet
 
The unofficial mix
 
1. Playboy Mommy edit
2. Musiq - Photomachine H.E.R raw edit
3. HR Groove (J Rocc edit)
4. Marcos Valle Floating Points edit
5. K54 - Aight Aight Aight!
6. Sweet Love (volca edit)
7. Ain't no need (Zernell and Goodking edit)
8. Give it up and turn it loose (Black Cock edit)
9. Girl you need a change of mind (Bobby Busnach edit)
10. Marvin time to get it together (Daphni edit)
11. Everyday Extended Edit
12. Joni Mitchell Dreamland edit
13. Arthur Russell Flagrant Foul edit
14. Jerry Green Daphni edit
15. Weather Report - Non stop edit
16. Peaches and Prunes edit Ron Hardy
17. Funky Nassau (KH edit)
18. Teddy Pendergrass - Sunshine Sound edit
19. Happy song or dance (FK edit)
20. Ugly Edit 6
21. Kikrokus Ron Hardy edit
22. Edie and the Eggs edit
23. Jack Your Big Booty (Happa edit)
24. Canned Heat Daphni Edit
25. Pharoah Black Unity club mix
26. What's going on extended loud drums
27. silence
28. Peter Finger loop
 

Solid Steel Radio Show 1/11/2013 - Four Tet

4 hours of uninterrupted Mr.Scruff from the basement

Mr. Scruff (4h set) – Live  at Jaeger 09.12.2022

5 Hour DJ set from my regular residency. Top night as always! 

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On 2nd December 1988, Solid Steel started broadcasting on pirate radio station Kiss FM. DK celebrates 30 years with a mix of personal favourites both old and new, including music from a whole host of guests that have appeared on Solid Steel from the likes of Helena Hauff, Four Tet, Pearson Sound, Peggy Gou, Lone, MF Doom, The Bug, Leon Vynehall, Autechre, Throbbing Gristle, Caribou, Martyn, Pangaea, Mark Pritchard, Robert Owens and Juan Atkins.

Hour 1 - DK 30 Years of Solid Steel

Bicep - Glue (Ambient/Beatless Mix) - Unreleased
Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) - Houndstooth
Caribou - Sun (Bowski Remix) - Unreleased
Pearson Sound - Xlb - Pearson Sound
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix) - Ninja Tune
Lone - Vengeance Video - R & S Records
Martyn - Viper (Ghost People Edit) - Ninja Tune
Juan Atkins - Flash Flood - Life’s Good
Helena Hauff - Qualm - Ninja Tune
Boddika - You Tell Me - Nonplus Records
Pangaea - Won't Hurt - Hessle Audio
Pearson Sound - Blanked - Hessle Audio
Herbie Hancock - Nobu  - Sony Japan
Reload - Amenity - Evolution
Leon Vynehall - Inside The Deku Tree - 3024
Percussions - KHLHI - Text
Moodymann - Black Mahogany - KDJ
Dan Shake & Medlar - Walk - Delusions of Grandeur
Robert Owens - Bring Down The Walls - Trax Records
Last Generation - Feel My Love (Inside) - Lower Level Records
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - Ninja Tune
Arnie Love & The Lovettes - We've Had Enough - TAP
Tarika Blue - Truth Is The Key - Chiaroscuro Records
Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark - Awake O Zion - Sound Of Gospel Records
Shirley Finney - Give Your Best To The Master - Savoy Records
Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Nobody Knows - Light In the Attic
Clams Casino - I'm God 
The Bug - Tune In (Version) - Ninja Tune
James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof - Hemlock Recordings
Débruit & Alsarah - Jibal Alnuba - Soundway
Burnt Friedman - Sorcier - Latency
Czelaw Nieman - Qss - Polskie Nagrania Muza
Burial - Dog Shelter - Hyperdub
Eprom - Love Number - Rwina Records
Flying Lotus - Aqua teen 24
King Geedorah - Fazers - Big Dada
Jay Electronica - Exhibit A (Transformations) - Decon
Steve Grossman - Zulu Stomp - PM
Shamek Farrah - First Impressions - Strata East
The People's People - Fritz - The Voice Of The People Record Co.
K Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas - Adam Nana (Medley) - Off Bros
Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun - Strut
William Onyeabor - Love Is Blind - Luaka Bop
The Flying Lizards - Steam Away - Virgin
Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels of Love - Industrial Records
Dr. Philter Banx - High Heels and Mirrored Thighs - Criminal Records
Arthur Russell - Corn - Audika
Stanton Davis - Things Cannot Stop Forever - Outrageous Records
Milton Wright - Friends and Buddies - Alston Records
Young Mods - Who You Going To Run, Where You Going To Hide - Everblack
Marvin Holmes and Justice - You better Keep Her - Brown Door Records
The Vel-Vets - I Gotta Find Me Somebody - Harmless
The Frank Cunimondo Trio - Feelin Good - Mondo
Alice Clark - Don't You Care - Mainstream
Arthur Verocai - Na Boca do Sol - Luv N’ Haight
Ginga Trio - Carcara - Chantecler
Cesar Mariano & Cia - Fábrica - RCA Victor
Toni Esposito - L'Eroe Di Plastica - Numero Uno
Sun Ra - That's How I Feel - Philly Jazz
Harold McKinney - Ode To Africa - Tribe
Calvin Keys - BK - Black Jazz
Tony Newton - Groundshaker - NCI Records
The Lyman Woodard Organization - Saturday Night Special - Strata
Ira Sullivan - The Kingdom Within You - Strings Attached
Dawan Muhammad - Taumbu - Evidence Records
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Peace Go With You Brother - Strata East
Yusef Lateef - Morning - Savoy Records
Lucio Battisti - La Canzone Della Terra - Numero Uno
David Axelrod - The Divine Image - Capitol Records

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Solid Steel Radio Show 02/12/2018 Hour 1 - DK

Full tracklisting available here:
https://bleep.com/Bleep-Mix-65-Hot-Chip

Hot Chip celebrated the release of their first new LP for four years with ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy’ this week. It’s a record that puts the band’s love of golden-age house front and centre.

Their mix for Bleep carries on this theme and is directed primarily at the dance floor, featuring a number of exclusive Felix Martin edits. Definitely one to stick on again and again as the summer months finally roll in.

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A Bath Full of Ecstasy

Bleep Mix #65 - Hot Chip

Solid Steel returns with brand new and exclusive mixes from Four Tet and Trevor Jackson.

For this special show we have Kieran Hebden - AKA Four Tet - partnered with Trevor Jackson - founder of Output Recordings, the independent record label he ran between 1996 and 2006. 

Both artists have a long history with the show (this is Hebden’s 7th appearance and Jackson's 3rd), as well as with each other. Hebden’s early releases as part of Fridge and his first solo release - the 1997 "Double Density" single under the artist name 4T Recordings - were released on Output. The label was also home to the first releases under his Four Tet Alias, including 1998 singles "Thirtysixtwentyfive" and "Misnomer", and 1999's “Glasshead"/"Calamine" single and first full-length album “Dialogue”. Jackson also released music on the label as Skull and Open Music, and elsewhere including his work as Playgroup.

Speaking about the mix and his history with Hebden, Jackson told us: “I spend most of my time now actively searching for brand new music doing my very best to avoid the past, but for this mix decided to go back and delve through my vinyl collection for old music I haven’t listened to for ages, specifically 70’s jazz rock, fusion & strange funk, odd things that straddle genres, mostly European and also very representative of the kind of music I was totally obsessed by for many years during the early/mid 90’s . All these tracks are taken from albums I purchased during that time, things I dug out initially for strictly sampling purposes, but eventually grew to love, learn from & lovingly listen to in their entirety. Pre Youtube & Pre Discogs these tracks were stumbled upon via intense and lengthy record store & stall excursions, none of them purchased for large amounts of money, most for peanuts, and at a time when there were very few other people I was aware of interested in this stuff to gain knowledge from or share my discoveries with. 

It's been a pleasure searching through my shelves and getting a chance to rediscover them again, sitting here listening to them vividly reminds me of a precious time when I was able to retreat away from the real world for days on end in my tiny home studio, immersing myself in highly ingenious music played by some of the worlds finest musicians, painstakingly (& often clumsily) attempting to reconstruct it all into my own mutant creations. 

I started Output inspired by the progressive nature of the musicians playing on these records, when I met Keiran Hebden i’d finally met a likeminded soul who was able to channel the spirt of this music I loved into a challenging & relevant contemporary form (something I’d felt unable at the time to do myself at the time). It was massively inspiring to be able to work with him at the very start of his career and equally as inspiring to see what he’s been able to achieve via his robust passion for music, compelling natural talent and impressively consistent high quality releases.
The mix is dedicated to Ultima Thule, Honest Jon’s, Jazzman Gerald, Mole Jazz & Mark B please. ” 

You can hear the mix by Four Tet here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-030719-four-tet

There are no tracklists for the show on this occasion, the mix is instead accompanied by two photographs of the record sleeves used which you can see on Twitter twitter.com/SolidSteelRadio - one for the diggers

SOLID STEEL 03.07.19 - TREVOR JACKSON

Solid Steel returns with brand new and exclusive mixes from Four Tet and Trevor Jackson.

For this special show we have Kieran Hebden - AKA Four Tet - partnered with Trevor Jackson - founder of Output Recordings, the independent record label he ran between 1996 and 2006. 

Both artists have a long history with the show (this is Hebden’s 7th appearance and Jackson's 3rd), as well as with each other. Hebden’s early releases as part of Fridge and his first solo release - the 1997 "Double Density" single under the artist name 4T Recordings - were released on Output. The label was also home to the first releases under his Four Tet Alias, including 1998 singles "Thirtysixtwentyfive" and "Misnomer", and 1999's “Glasshead"/"Calamine" single and first full-length album “Dialogue”. Jackson also released music on the label as Skull and Open Music and elsewhere including his work as Playgroup.

Speaking about the mix and his history with Jackson, Hebden told us: “This is a mix of music from all over the place that I’ve been enjoying and getting inspired by in recent times.  A snapshot of my personal listening world. Some of the way I search for music and the way I DJ was learnt from Trevor Jackson so his influence is always in what I do in some way.  I met him when I was a teenager and he introduced me to loads of records with all different styles and origins and also showed me ways to bring these sounds into the future through sampling and DJing. This open minded approach to listening and sound I think is one of the great strengths particularly of producers who came from hip hop in the 80’s and 90’s because there was such a strong incentive to explore all types of music in the search for samples. The passion and enthusiasm for listening and discovering music that comes from this is something I have huge respect for"

You can hear the mix by Trevor Jackson here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-030719-trevor-jackson

There are no tracklists for the show on this occasion, the mix is instead accompanied by two photographs of the record sleeves used which you can see on Twitter https://twitter.com/SolidSteelRadio - one for the diggers

SOLID STEEL 03.07.19 - FOUR TET

As heard on NTS Radio, Khruangbin live from Love International 2018. 

Love International returns in 2020 from July 15th - 21st, tickets available now at: www.loveinternationalfestival.com/

Live from the Adriatic 2018: Khruangbin DJ Set



iK7s Dj Kicks Presents Nightmares on Wax
Tracklist:

1. Slow Progress - Type
2. Breakneck - Only Child
3. Ay, Ay Studder - Saukrates
4. Break It Down - DJ Paul Nice
5. Shake Up (Jaddle Remix) - Grand Unified
6. Ease Jimi - Nightmares On Wax
7. Flash $ - Jerry Beeks
8. Thick - D.I.T.C.
9. Burn Me Slow - Nightmares On Wax
10. Play On - Nightmares On Wax
11. Get On Down - Kenny Dope
12. Superkat - Kenny Dope
13. Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
14. Swamp Fever - John Cameron
15. Alphabet Aerobics - Blackalicious
16. This Place - DJ Trax
17. It's A Latin Thing - Freddy Fresh
18. Underground Crownholders - Aim
19. Catchwrecka - Deckwrecka
20. Sand Steppin - Martin Brew
21. Overooped - Smokers Blend
22. Pick Me Up - Deadbeats
23. Chocolate - Syrup

  


Dj Kicks - Nightmares On Wax

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