Appreciation mix in memory of the late and great Christine Vaccine, gone one year ago today. Genre defining pioneering producer in multiple dimensions - leftfield, saccharine and dreamlike productions with razor sharp clarity and soaked in reverb.

Went with one track from each release - nice n easy mellow vibes for focusing, porching out and the cooldown as the sun comes up and the world awakens.

One of my absolute all time favorites, rest in power. Your music is immortal.

Vaccine - Atrium [Mary Anne Hobbs Free DL]
ASC - The Touch (Vaccine Remix Feat. Riya) [Auxiliary]
Portishead - Strangers [Vaccine RMX] [White Label]
Vaccine - Fever (High Grade Mix) [Vaccine Recordings]
Vaccine - Wishful Thinking (VIP Mix) [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Breathless [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Bad Habit [Auxiliary Transmissions]
Sub - Skadi (Vaccine Dubstep Remix) [Subtle Audio Recordings]
By Proxy - 68 (Vaccine Remix) [Car Crash Set]
Vaccine - Signal to Noise [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Anaesthetic [Hotflush Recordings]
Vaccine - Radiate [Offshore Recordings]
Vaccine - Irradiate [Veil]
Vaccine - Ochre [Nonplus Records]
Badawi - The Axiom (Vaccine Remix) [theAgriculture]
Vaccine - Oubliette [White Label]

All Vaccine Mix

"Developmentally acquired or learned information - information that is likely to be useful to future generations - can be passed on. In today's unicells, fungi, plants, and lower animals, evolution is based on information transmitted through the genetic and epigenetic systems, and some of this information is acquired and targeted. With animals that have behavioral transmission, the capacity to generate and pass on acquired adaptive information is far greater. Some learned behaviors can create traditions which interact with and guide evolutionary changes through the genetic system. In these animals, epigenetic inheritance continues to be important in development, although the transmission of epigenetic variants between generations is probably of little significance when so much information is transmitted behaviorally. With the emergence and elaboration of the symbolic systems, even the genetic system has taken an evolutionary back seat."

Yoko Shimomura - Kyrie [DigiCube]
Distance - V (Pinch Remix) [Chestplate]
EVA808 - Wannabe [Encrypted Audio]
Von D - Analog Sound [Scrub A Dub]
Sub Basics - Memories [Tuba NYC]
Mungo's Hifi - Rules of the Dance feat. Charlie P (JD Mix) [Scrub A Dub]
Bukez Finezt - Paranoia [Uprise Audio]
Indiji - Purity [Uprise Audio]
Kloak & Ill Chill - Fallout (Mesck Remix) [Dub]
Asylum - Always Love [Uprise Audio]
Breakage - Hard (Caspa & The Others Police Takeover Remix) [Digital Soundboy]
Jubei - Ungrounded [Metalheadz]
Chad Dubz - Stay [Foundation Audio]
Vivek - Feel It [Deep Medi Musik]
Nyan - Honey Milk feat. Bijou [Self-Released]
Freeze & LX One - Foreseen [Osiris Music UK]
Seven - DDD [Deep, Dark & Dangerous]
Deafblind - End of Line [Encrypted Audio]
DJG - The Gate [LoDubs]
Vex'd - 3rd Choice (Loefah Remix) [Planet Mu]
SP:MC & LX One - Hunted [Tempa]
Juss B - Dime [Uprise Audio]
Proxima - Trapped [Tempa]
Paragon & Chad Dubz - Nasty [Foundation Audio]
Mala - Changes (Distance Remix) [Deep Medi Musik]
Flowdan - Horrorshow Style (Sleeper Remix) [Dub]
Lefty - Slag [Vulcan Audio]
Wiley - Speakerbox [Wiley]
Bukez Finezt - Soundman Ting [Subway Recordings]
Commodo, Kahn, Gantz - Crystal Collect [Deep Medi Musik]
The Bug - Iceman feat. Riko Dan [Ninja Tune]
Distinct Motive - 40hz [Deep, Dark & Dangerous]
Mala - Level Nine [Hyperdub]
StarGazer - Tryaal by Obsidian [Nuclear War Now! Productions]


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Transformations of Darwinism

Final studio mix from the Barrel Cooper house days; had this tracklist shelved for some time but could never get a take I was sufficiently satisfied with until this one. Out to my neighbors for being okay with the ruckus over all those sessions haha.

Inverloch - Within Frozen Beauty [Relapse Records]
Flowdan - Horrorshow Style (Audhentik Remix) [Self-Released]
Indiji - Release [Uprise Audio]
Distance - Nomad [Hotflush Recordings]
Headland - Cold Warning [Innamind Recordings]
LAS - Blood [Mean Seed Records]
Bukez Finezt - The Main Rule [Deep Medi Musik]
CLZ - Recursion [DeepEnd!]
J:Kenzo - Cross Polarity [Artikal Music UK]
Asylum - Hypnosis [Crunch Recordings]
Benga - Roller [Tempa]
Vaccine - Fever [Hotflush Recordings]
LX One - Not Good For Me [Wheel & Deal Records]
Wiley - And Again (Audhentik Remix) [Self-Released]
Wiley - Morgue (Instrumental) [Avalanche Music]
The Others - Freakshow [Tempa]
JME - Man Don't Care Feat. Giggs [Boy Better Know]
J:Kenzo - Asutoraru [Artikal Music UK]
Asylum - Artificial Reality [Crunch Recordings]
Goth Trad - Air Breaker [Deep Medi Musik]
Vaccine - Breathless [Hotflush Recordings]
Khiva - In The Quiet [Deep, Dark & Dangerous]
Boofy - Dead Stylus [Innamind Recordings]
Levelz - Front Face [Self-Released]
SP:MC & LX One - Hunted [Tempa]
Icicle & Youngsta - Momentum [Self-Released]
Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep Feat. Alys Be [Osiris Music UK]
Asbo - Dog Money (Lovemix) [Tectonic]
Loefah - Disko Rekah [Deep Medi Musik]
Distance - Dark Crystal [Boka Records]
Photek - Lost Blue Heaven Feat. Simone Simone [Astralwerks]

Start As You Mean To Go On

Been deep in thought with this one for some time, really satisfying to bring it to fruition.

The Meditator - I Wanna Know (Hold A Medz Mix) [Meditator Music]
Perverse - NY State of Mind [Artikal Music UK]
Skeptical - Something in the Sound [Exit Records]
Consequence - Injunction [Tempa]
Vicious Circle - Hibernation [Crunch Recordings]
Vaccine - Concussion [Vaccine Recordings]
Boylan - Start Up feat. Flowdan [Nomine Sound]
Drone - Flooded [System Music]
Gantz - Garam feat. Amos [Exit Records]
Dailiv & Cryptographic - Stator [Vykhod Sily]
Forest Drive West - Never For Tomorrow [Rupture London]
Homemade Weapons - Keelhaul MVP [Weaponry]
Shiken Hanzo - Kali Ma [Repertoire]
Nucleus & Paradox - Love Her [Esoteric]
AMIT - You Look Better Dead feat. Rani [Exit Records]
Polarity - Stronghold [Self-Released]
Dom & Roland - Hunter [Dom & Roland Productions]
J:Kenzo - Intalek (Resound Remix) [Artikal Music UK]
Psycho Mantis - Sing to Me [Subtle Audio Recordings]
Ricky Force - Suburban Nights [Repertoire]
Goldie - Kemistry (Doc Scott Mix) [London Music Stream]
Stompz - Fade Out [Self-Released]
The Meditator - I Wanna Know [Meditator Music]

Protocols of Sonic Warfare

DC area native. Recalibration through percussion, atmosphere, space and sub bass pressure. Heavy music knows no genre.

Contact: nirabatabass@gmail.com

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