Zoviet France were a big part of my life in the late 80s in New Zealand, releasing remarkable music with remarkable packaging. I was lucky enough to see them in 2012 on a boat in London, my favourite part was to see a sound being created but it taking ages to appear in the mix and travel for minutes through the track. My remixes are a homage to this idea. The tracks are a response to this project - https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

Zoviet France - Hidden - By - The - Wall (Misled Convoys Whats On The Other Side Remix

I created this set for an event in 2014, but due to technical issues I wasn't able to play it out. Fast forward to Fall 2015 - a dear friend's 40th birthday cocktail party became the perfect place to test it out. It was debuted on the BoxFrequency.fm radio show "Sun is Shining Dub & Chill" in late December 2015. Elements of trip hop, jazzy beats, and other rhythms.

1. Skalpel - Sculpture
2. Darkside - Coalicion Bilateral
3. Longman - Dub For My Wife
4. Saru - Something Stronger (Greg Long Mix)
5. Dadamnphreaknoizphunk - Socks and Strings and SP12
6. Harmonic 33 - Extraordinary People
7. Tree60 - 6Rhodes
8. Govinda - Mind Mysterium
9. Dubdiver - Rondo Ratchaburi
10. FNDMNTL - Rising Starking
11. Monophobic - Sureshot
12. Electroslide - I'm a Cadillac
13. D-Echo Project - Wind Trails
14. Don Carlos - The Sun is Shining
15. Giyo - Faux Monsoon
16. Grouch - Exile
17. Digitalis - 1992
18. The Lushlife Project - Soul Reservation Morning
19. Invisible Allies - And the Weeping Stopped
20. Cates & DPL - Through the Weekend

Electric Hullabaloo

Frequencies Fall is a collection of remixes of tracks from Pitch Black’s Ape To Angel album, which, reflecting the duo’s wide ranging tastes and styles, encompasses nearly every genre of electronica and dance music. Ape to Angel was released last summer to much critical acclaim, and many a rave review. 

The collection opens with an Indo-lounge take on Lost in Translation by International Observer meets Horace (former Thompson Twin Tom Bailey and son), glides into Friends Electrics dubby breaks mix of Freefall, before going all old school DnB with Elements Turn, courtesy of Switch & pZ. Minuit ramp it up with their Plumps meets Daft Punk version of Freefall only for son.sine’s Flex to drop it right down Rhythm&Sound style!

Hummel then takes things off on a total tangent with his eclectic take on Big Trouble Upstairs, leaving it to Spektrum drummer Isaac Tucker to pick up the pieces with his side project’s Ithz’s tech house with a touch of acid remix of Freefall. Renegade Soundwave’s Danny Briottet engineered DJ Flix vs Red Star’s sparse breaks version of The Random Smiler, followed by uber producer Youth’s festival tinged mix of Lost in Translation.

Module adds bass and beats to the formerly ambient Empty Spaces Missing Units, then left coast psybient legend Bluetech slips and slides his way through Ape to Angel, followed by minimal techno producer Peak_Shift who glitches and glides into Flex, allowing The Big Chill’s Alucidnation to take things safely home with his Orb-esque version of Freefall (already a fave of Tom Middleton’s).

Carefully sequenced to flow freely from beginning to end, this collection is both a smoker’s delight and a serious dose of audiophilia.

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Pitch Black - Lost In Translation (Youth Remix) (preview)

Cookie Cutter Feat Mercston (Crises Remix)

This month Carhartt WIP Radio is bringing you a show by Adrian Sherwood and his legendary label On-U Sound. During a career of more than 30 years, Sherwood produced and remixed artists such as Lee "Scratch" Perry, Primal Scream, Depeche Mode or Einstürzende Neubauten amongst others. His label On-U Sound, formed in 1980, is worldwide known for cutting edge releases that are rooted somewhere between dub, experimental, Reggae, Post-punk and electronica. Furthermore many On-U Sound releases greatly influenced the sounds of today like ambient and techno. Recently many On-U Sound records of artists and collectives like African Head Charge, Singers & Players or Bim Sherman got re-released and Sherwood himself produced, dubbed and released contemporary bands like the Japanese trio Nisennenmondai. For Carhartt WIP Radio Adrian Sherwood tuned in a mix that grooves between the past, present and future of On-U Sound.

Tracklist:
Ghetto Priest - Slave State (feat. Junior Delgado) [from forthcoming album "Slave State"]
Mark Stewart - Awidk [unreleased]
Nisennenmondai - 3 [from the newly released album "#N/A"]
Ital Horns with Dub Syndicate - Metropolis [from unreleased album "Blow The Man Down"]
Cha Cha - Dub No Frontiers (Excerpt) [unreleased]
Roots Manuva - Hit It (Alternative Version) [from current album "Bleeds"]
Dub Syndicate - Wadada (feat. Prince Far I) [from the 1991 album "Stoned Immaculate"]
Congo Natty - UK Allstars In Dub (Adrian Sherwood Remix) [from current album "Jungle Revolution In Dub"]
Coldcut/Adrian Sherwood feat. Junior Reid, Elan & Lee Perry [forthcoming project] - Divide And Rule
L.S.K. - Way Of The World [unreleased]
Denise Sherwood - Ghost Heart [unreleased]
Junior Delgado - None Shall Escape [unreleased classic version on "Masters of Deception" rhythm]
Missing Brazilians - Quicksand Beach Party [1981 original from the album "Warzone" reissue and also available on the Trevor Jackson compiled "Science Fiction Dancehall Classics"
Adrian Sherwood - Starship Bahia [from the album "Survival and Resistance"]

http://www.carhartt-wip.com/music/music/2016/05/artist-feature-adrian-sherwood

Carhartt WIP Radio May 2016: Adrian Sherwood - On-U Sound Radio Show

Live 1984 at the Taita Hotel, Lower Hutt, NZL.

The Gordons - Machine Song (live)

I live streamed the entire process of remixing this on www.twitch.tv/tomcosm , with the help of the chat room! You can watch the entire recorded series, including interviews with Mike (0.5 of Pitch Black) and mastering engineer Angus, over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8USgg9UE8&list=PLT4aDUdstpuyzUXABQ6SknBpPeBdGzwlX.

Always a pleasure to collab with Pitch Black! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and offered advice also, it was an amazing experience.

Visit http://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/without-the-trees to grab a copy of the Remix + the original, and another remix by Gene K

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Pitch Black - Without The Trees (Tom Cosm Twitch Itch Remix)

'The Inside Track' is side two of a 7" single recorded in February and July 1984 in Auckland, New Zealand, by Stridulators, who were Chris Burt (drums, synthesiser, vocals)and Steve Roach (guitar, keyboards, vocals). Side one was 'Queue'.

Of note: the main tracks for both sides of the single were recorded on stereo cassette tape before overdubs were added on a four-track reel-to-reel recorder.

The single was released that year on the duo's own House of Squirm label (HOS 245).

The Inside Track

Ode to 2016 Leicester City FC winning the Premier League.
A permitted but unreleased remix of Sherwood & Pinch's 'gimme some more' from the Late Night Endless album.

The Sherwood & Pinch Barmy Army - Fearless Foxes - UFOA rmx

Whitney 1 Day Dub 1.02 - 5

Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand’s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1996, they have spent the subsequent years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world. 

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor". 

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension thanks to Michael's cutting edge visuals.

They have toured the world relentlessly, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las Vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

NZ Bookings: h (at) strikeagency.co.nz
RoW Bookings: info (at) dubmissionrecords.com

Pitch Black - Lost In Translation (Youth Remix) (preview)

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