A set I performed at a friends birthday party (aka  'an old gits gathering') in a studio space somewhere in Brixton, London between 3 and 5:30 in the morning, unaware that it was being recorded. With such a special mix of old school friends and music-heads amongst the crowd there was an atmosphere of absolute musical freedom that I hadn't felt since back in the day at parties such as Heart and Soul. By this point in the night the system was well warmed up, sounding sweet and the reaction to the music in the room was almost palpable. These elements all combined in the moment and manifested themselves musically in what you can here on this mix. It certainly felt very special at the time and I was very pleased to find out the next day that it had been recorded.
DJ-Murfs 40th Birthday party was always going to be a special one.
It was an honour to be asked to play as I'm sure it was for all of the other DJs on the night.

Playlist:
Intro: Jaz / Chris Jackson - Bonus Acapella B3 - Jump (Selected Sessions Vol. 1)
01: Pattern Repeat - Ofetriade - Echocord Colour (Gauge Tension EP)
02: Peter Van Hoesen - Face Of Smoke - Komisch
03: XDB - Gate - Wave Music (Lost Tape EP)
04: Levon Vincent - Early Reflections - Novel Sound (Six Figures EP)
05: Pacou - Multipass - Cache
06: Microthol - Sweet Water Tank - Trust
07 Jason Fine - Half (Anton Zap Remix) - Kontra-Musik (Our Music Is A Secret Order Remixed EP)
08: STL - Silent State - Smallville Records
09: XDB - Sense - Wave Music (Lost Tape EP)
10: Jeroen Search & Dimi Angelis - Our Life With The Wave - Smallville
11: Nax_Acid & Giorgio Gigli - Depth Perception - Aconito Records
12: Marcel Dettmann - Lattice - Marcel Dettmann Records (MDR 04)
13: Roberto Bosco - Login Exact - Mowar
14: Solab - Distant Galaxy - Lifeworld
15: Brendon Moeller - Big Shot - Connaisseur
16: Mike Dehnert - Brauchbar - Fachwerk
17: Norman - Windtunnel - Synewave
18: DJ Slip - Every Time It Takes A While - Parotic Music (The Fall Of Jupiter EP)
19: Random XS - Give Your Body - Djax-Up-Beats
20: Final Exposure - Synergy 2 - Plus 8
21: Norman - The Piper - Synewave
22: Parallel 9 - Technic - a.r.t.less
23: Infiniti - Game One - Metroplex
24: Dan Curtin - I'll Take You There - Sublime Records
25: Deviance - Dis-chord - Touche
26: Kit Clayton - Driving Off The Spleen - Solid Trax
27: Convextion - Miranda - Matrix Records (Detroit)

Alex Downey Live at DJ Murfs 40th - Artspace Studios, Brixton - Dec 2009


Recorded live at the Breakfast Club, London Bridge 1st June 2014 10am-12pm.
Having been out at Ben Sims' 40th birthday party the night before, I was somewhat worse for the wear, so I decided to take the laid back approach to DJing. There were a couple of moments where I may have been a little too laid back as you will hear where records skip and mixes drift beautifully together on the offbeat ;)Still, on the whole I thought the musical content was suitable to that time of the morning on  a sunny rooftop so here it is in its full glory, warts and all as they say. Enjoy! 
Track list to follow.

The lazy approach to DJing

Kosmische 3 - 10 OKT 2024 - Ed & Gee

Nine minutes of live hardware acid, recorded at BuildBrighton's first ever Hardware Jam. The aim of the jam was to sync up as many old hardware sequencers, synths and drum machines as possible.

BuildBrighton is Brighton's hackerspace, a place where geeks, artists, musicians and tech-heads can come together to make things, share ideas, learn and teach others. For more info see www.buildbrighton.com

BuildBrighton Acid Jam

Can you smell gas???...hold on...let me turn the light on.......

A humid retro futurist journey into a pulse width modulated oppressive subsonic  breakup that all of a sudden stops and you'll have to get on all fours to crawl through the heavy undergrowth

Pulse Width Compression mix

An extended show, featuring 2.5 hours of harmonic wizardry predominantly selected from records I’ve been picking up over the past few weeks.
Lots of goodness in there: quality electro, much of it from the consistent brokntoys label, the latest Dream Diary release from my bro Anwar, a plethora of trax taken from the prolific Ilian Tape stable, Miles Atmospheric’s captivatingly beautiful new track ‘Emancipate’ Deep and Dub Tech, Classics, Rarities and Overlooked Gems, all wrapped up with Inigo Kennedy’s Christmassy sounding opus ‘Obsidian’ - it’s a veritable voyage of discovery ;)
Music is the gift that keep on giving - unwrap with abandon > 
 
Intro: Progressive Attack ‘Hypnoticharmony Part 1’ [Harthouse UK] 1993
01 Bovill ‘ "Frey’d” ’ [Meanwhile] 2016
02 Duplex ‘Below The Photic Zone’ [Harbour City Sorrow] 2012
03 B.R. Posse ‘Pump Up The Housing Benefit’ [Rephlex] 1999
04 Frak ‘Colour Cascade’ [Discos Del Quebranto] 2016
05 B.R. Posse ‘Drop Anything But Acid’ [Rephlex Records] 1999
06 Vimana ‘Savant’ [ Dream Diary] 2016
07 London Modular Alliance ‘Their Discontent’ [Brokntoys] 2016
08 Funkstörung ‘Telekom Direkt (Kritik Und Anregungen#1113)’ [Compost] 1997
09 Versalife ‘Cloaking Mod’ [Brokntoys] 2016
10 Ovatow ‘Flame’ [Harbour City Sorrow] 2013
11 Morphology ‘Vector Plant’ [Dum Records] 2016
12 Komarken Electronics ‘Bubble Theory’ [Brokntoys] 2016
13 Ray Escortienda ‘Time Waits For No Man’ [Echovolt Records] 2013
14 Komarken Electronics ‘Expanded Consciousness’ [Brokntoys] 2016
15 London Modular Alliance ‘The Mind is a Terrible Thing’ [Brokntoys] 2016
16 Versalife ‘Artificial Affection’ [Brokntoys] 2016
17 Ovatow ‘A Thought’ [Harbour City Sorrow] 2013
18 Komarken Electronics ‘Early Mornings’ [Brokntoys] 2016
19 John Shima ‘Dimensions’ [Common Dreams] 2015
20 UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE ‘Greater Than Yourself’ [UR] 1992
21 Marco Zenker ‘Motion’ [Ilian Tape] 2016
22 Underground Resistance ‘Amazon’ [UR] 1992
23 Marco Zenker ‘Isolated’ [Ilian Tape] 2016
24 Duplex ‘Dark Synthesis’ (Tyrell Remix) [DPX Recordings] 2016
25 Sciahri ‘Mysterious Love’ [Ilian Tape] 2014
26 Claro Intellecto ‘Chadderton’ [Modern Love] 2009
27 Kasper Marott ‘4370 Undervand’ [Horse on Horse] 2014
28 Bob Brewthbaker ‘When The Time Comes’ [Plumphouse Records] 1998
29 VRIL‘V6’ [Giegling] 2011
30 MOi ‘Side a - 02’ [MOi] 2015
31 Miles Atmospheric ‘Emancipate’ [Atmospheric Existence Recordings]
32 Steve O'Sullivan ‘Rubber Lover’ [Bluespirit] 1996
33 Altitude ‘Integration’ [Assemble Music] 2016
34 Traumprinz ‘Set Your Lovin' (Kasha's Bad Romance Short Mix)’ [Traumprinz] 2016
35 Marco Zenker ‘Morpho’ [Ilian Tape] 2013
36 Ian Pooley ‘Second Revival’ [Force Inc US] 1995
37 Gypsy ‘Funk De Fino’ [Limbo Records] 1994 
38 Traumprinz ‘2 Bad’ (Metatron's What If Madness Is Our Only Relief Mix) [Giegling] 2016
39 Djrum ‘Untitled 9’ [Ilian Tape] 2016
40 Inigo Kennedy ‘Obsidian’ [Token Records]

Recorded live at Trickstar Studios, Brighton, UK.
on Wednesday 14th December 2016
19:30 - 22:00
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Vivid Radio Shows 2016

Vivid Radio Show 2016-12-14 (Harmonic Convergence)

another recording of me messing around with a bass station arpeggiator and knobs backed up with a mux modular vst

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Mike The Bike

Tracklist:
01 Douglas Rain (R.I.P.) - The Deactivation of HAL 9000 [2001: A Space Odyssey]
02 Farron - 528 [XCPT Music]
03 Future Beat Alliance - Feed My Soul [Versatile Records]
04 Answer Code Request - Ab Intus [Ostgut Ton]
05 Nothus & Delikwe - Requiem [XCPT Music]
06 Stenny - Fortress [Ilian Tape]
07 Nothus & Delikwe - Red Walls [XCPT Music]
08 Inigo Kennedy - The Shard [Token]
09 Farron - Paneth [XCPT Music]
10 Jesus Jones - Zeroes & Ones (Aphex Twin Reconstruction # 1 Mix) [Food]
11 Monolake - Static [Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music]
12 F - 0907 [7even Recordings]
13 Paradox - Paragon of Virtue [Archive]
14 Skee Mask - Flyby VFR [Ilian Tape]
15 John Beltran - Moth [De:tuned]
16 D.B. - Subtleties [Flux White]
17 Seafoam - Hybrid [Stretch 2 Activate]
18 Loopdeville - Mazneishu [OdD Music]
19 Vulva - Omnec Onec [Reflective]
20 Adrian Forciniti - Class Of '94 [Syra]
21 Stenny - Corrupt 506 [Ilian Tape]
22 Late Night Approach ‎- Clarence Mews [Klakson]
23 Sensorama - Kondens [Ladomat 2000]
24 Junq - Closer [Furthur Electronix]
25 Silicon - 1094T3 [Undersound Recordings]
26 Gunnar Haslam - Vector No Campo [Lovers Rock]
27 Drexciya - Wavejumper [Underground Resistance]
28 Pacou - Trigger [Tangent] 

Recorded Live on Saturday 7th July 2018, 1:30 - 3am, in Sammy String's (Room 3) at Freerotation Festival, Baskerville Hall, Hay on Wye, UK.
Photograph by Calandra Balfour @Calandra
Audio mixdown by Charlie Tear @charlietear
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I’ve been holding back on this as I had hopes it would get picked up exclusively by online media or for a podcast series as I did with my 2017 set, but I’ve decided to put it out through my own channels before the year is out instead (as nobody seemed to be interested in anything other than studio mixes!!??).....It might also come as an early Xmas present for those who came along with me for the ride and have been eagerly awaiting the recording - better late than never I guess! 
What can I say about the gig - it’s hard to put into words, I was completely overwhelmed by the energy that I witnessed rapidly coalesce in the sweltering hot room that night. The Freerotation crowd is surely one of the world’s most musically open-minded and supportive that you could ever hope to find as a DJ, and so many inspired & magical moments promptly ensued with the distinct sense of musical freedom that had overcome me. DJ-ing on the opening night was an absolute pleasure with so much excitement in the air, and to have the opportunity to play music at this wonderful event once again, was truly an honour. 
I hope that these sentiments are reflected in this recording, and that it gives those that were there the chance to re-live some of that magic. Peace.

Gratitude to all my friends for their continued love, support and encouragement.
Respect to all the promoters who have got behind me with bookings.
Big-Ups to all the ravers for the boundless energy they’ve brought to the dance-floors I've played to.

Live at Freerotation 2018

Alex Downey Live at Freerotation 2018

for alice. First half is VSTs second half hardware synths.

Kosmische 3 - 10 OKT 2024 - Ed & Gee

Electric Ape

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