Name: Shunt Voltage Vinyl 4 Track Promo Taster by Paul Watt
Duration: 4 min 41 s
Description: First record release from Shunt Voltage. More Orange than David Dickinson, more acid than Timothy Leary. Ltd to 100 numbered 12" copies. Avaialble only via Shuntvoltage@outlook.com

Live at the Social Volume 2
"Seconds out, round two. Here come the hotstepper...
You know how the Social story goes. The Chemical Brothers took things to the 'next level', spending thirteen weeks blowing minds & rocking floors in a dank pub basement, mashing up breakbeats, old skool hip hop, acid house & wigged out rock 'n' roll to a crowd of 25 hour party people. The Albany days passed on into Heavenly history, as much a part of the equation as "Nothing Can Stop Us" or "Weekender" & moves were made onwards & upwards. Enter Jon Carter.
Jon Carter entered Social lore at The Albany, not behind the decks, but on the floor (in every sense). Jon was introduced to the club by regular face Mark Jones (the top boy in charge of the excellent Wall Of Sound label, becoming a full time bar fly at The Albany, moving from fresh faced to totally fucked every week. At the time, Jon was a studio engineer, working exclusively on jungle & dance hall tracks. Like so many of us, he got sucked into the whole Social thing - the weekend ends at 6 o'clock on Monday morning, two little birdies down & the biggest headache on the way. The week of the last Albany session, it was all back to someone's had been booted out. Since then, he's been one of the family. He'd made an odd little record for Wall Of Sound ("The Dollar", as Artery) which had the sound of a Social anthem in the making & he'd done a few DJing sessions back at people's houses after the club, blowing up ragga & bogle gear alongside Public Enemy, ZZ Top & The Jam. What was to come next was anyone's guess, which is probably why Heavenly got him on the pay roll.
At this point, Monkey Mafia was born. First came the rock 'n' roll freakbeat fest of "Blow The Whole Joint Up". Secondly, borrowing heavily from dance hall queen Patra, "Work Mi Body" arrived, seeing Jon settle into a groove previously untapped by man or woman. The 'Mafia wildstyle is radically different from the Chemicals (and, in turn, totally different to Mr. Fearless', but that's another compilation all together). The sound is best likened to that of a car full of Ganja'd up yardies driving into a brick wall at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning while listening to Funkmaster Flex, The Who, The Bassbin Twins & Gregory Isaacs. It's a big summer sound that gets the sun shining, if only in your mind. It's Monday at Notting Hill Carnival, It's party music & it's a party that everyone's welcome to, the "all back to mine, let's wake up the neighbours" kind. It's a sound we've grown to love, like some mad kid you've adopted as one of your own. Much like Jon himself...

Those who have mattered... Tom & Ed Chemical; Jon Carter, Richard Fearless; Mark Jones; Brian, Beccy & all at The Albany; Ali; Frank Perkins; John & Danny Newman; Spence, Izzy & Will @ Lazy Eye; Johnny Chandler; Rory; Martje; Vanessa; Margo; Paolo; James Bailie"

Sleeve notes by Robin Turner, 1996 for Heavenly Records

Live At The Social Vol.2 (remastered)

The Streets Turn The Page Darren Price Remix

Here The Drummer Live Desk Mix

Nu Rhythm's

Better Tomorrow (1st ruff live Desk Mix)

Homelessness Fund Raiser Album “Shelter Me - In Crisis” - All Proceeds To Be Donated Directly To UK Based Charity Crisis - Shelter Me is a compassionate and dedicated collective that, in our modest capacity, endeavors to address the challenge of the continuously expanding homeless communities across the UK.
Our primary goal is to raise funds by leveraging the platform of electronic dance music, whether it involves organizing events or, as is the case here, releasing music.
"Shelter Me - In Crisis" represents the third installment in our ongoing Shelter Me series, dedicated to supporting UK-based homelessness charities. Building upon the success of our previous albums, "Beats for Beds - The Remixes" and "Shelter Me - The Album," which collectively raised over 7K in donations for Shelter, this latest release aims to further our contributions, only this time to Crisis.
This album has assembled some of the most talented artists and producers from the renowned ALFOS scene, including Duncan Gray, Zillas On Acid, Al Mackenzie, A-Tweed, and Tronik Youth, among others. With such an impressive lineup, we are determined to exceed our past accomplishments, setting an initial fundraising goal of 4K.

PREMIERE: James Rod - Space Shadow [Paisley Dark]

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First record release from Shunt Voltage. More Orange than David Dickinson, more acid than Timothy Leary. Ltd to 100 numbered 12" copies. Avaialble only via Shuntvoltage@outlook.com

Shunt Voltage Vinyl 4 Track Promo Taster

This is a 57 minute DJ mix by Duncan Gray containing all of the tracks from his forthcoming album "Five Fathoms Full" which is released on May 30th 2024

This is DG's 5th album for tici taci and can be loosely described as "Electronic cosmiche dub disco" as all tracks feature dubby guitars, a large array of analogue synths - all recorded as Live audio takes, the so called "rhythms of the night", and more than a whiff of what used be called Kr**tr*ck .

the album will be released exclusively on bandcamp initially and will be available for a reasonable sum of money on Friday 31st May 2024

tracklist for this mix :-

mon oncle
full blag
astronomy
in the attic
best left
hot jupe
eiderdown
greenville
medicinal
shark bumps
two cold volts
five fathoms full

all playing and stuff by dg
the album was mastered by audio mage level 20 Rich Lane for his Cotton Bud enterprise.
the artwork was done by Nick Towers of Studio Towers (who has been resident designer at tici taci since 2015. Big up your bad self Mr T

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