is there a download link for this? would love to buy it

A sublime selection of dancefloor beats and downtempo dubs from around the globe, Mixes + Mavericks features seven remixes by Pitch Black, two live tracks that couldn’t be more different in nature or tempo, one seriously unorthodox situation (an unauthorised remix of a remix) and a track in between states, all highlighting the breadth of the duo’s sonic palette.

Whereas their previous Rarities + Remixes collection was predominantly rooted in New Zealand, Mixes + Mavericks is undoubtedly a more international affair, with all the remixed artists hailing from the northern hemisphere. Many of the connections are the result of the duo’s touring and festival appearances around the globe: they first met Gaudi at a gig in Japan, Animat and Nick Woolfson (Sounds from the Ground) at The Big Chill festival in the UK, while downtemple duo Desert Dwellers were encountered in the Californian underground. 

Other connections were more straightforward: Brighton-based Ink Project (run by Kiwi Jez Lloyd) approached them to remix “The End” and Mexico’s Sudden Reverb was introduced by label-mates Deep Fried Dub. Meanwhile Mike bumped into Radioactive Man’s Keith Tenniswood (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) while he was getting a 7” record cut. 

Uber-producer/Killing Joke bass player Youth features in two very different ways. First up is Pitch Black’s pulsating dub mix of his collaboration with Italian producer Gaudi, from their Astronaut Alchemists album. Then there is his unsolicited remix of epsilon-blue’s 1999 remix of Speech, over which he added bass, beats and blessings.  This mash-up lurked for years in the archive under the title of Helmsdub, but only as a corrupted mp3 file. Thankfully a little detective work discovered that, much to everyone’s surprise, it had been released as Speechless (Big Circle Flat Pain Remix) on a 2004 CD compilation. A copy was tracked down, the tune was carefully re-mastered and then correctly named.

Mixes + Mavericks also features two very different live offerings: Notting Pill is a dose of atmospheric moodiness from a rare ambient set at Notting Hill Arts Club in London, held to publicise the upcoming showcase of New Zealand music at Fabric in 2003. The banging G202, meanwhile, was captured by Andre Upston at Rippon Festival in Wanaka, NZ at the turn of the millennium, and later broadcast on Radio New Zealand. It was a track that, despite being a staple of the live show for many years, was never finished, and following software updates and data dumps, the only version that exists is this live recording.

It's a Future Dub is a similarly embryonic track – eventually it became It’s the Future Knocking, from the Filtered Senses album, but here it’s a fascinating hybrid caught midway between creation and completion. Many of the elements of its future self are present, but there is a whole lot more going on, making this a fascinating signpost on a possible road-not-taken. 

Beautifully accompanied by Tim Prebble's Cyanotype images, Mixes + Mavericks is a showcase of Pitch Black’s sonic diversity as remixers and maintains the trademark production aesthetic that has won them thousands of fans and filled dancefloors around the globe.

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Youth & Gaudi - The Gods Must Be Crazy (Pitch Black's Hubristic Prayerformance Mix)(preview)

Here’s the first single from my new album “unlearn” it’s called Be together. 
It features a snippet of spoken word from Ram Dass…
As someone who can look at the world as an outsider looking in, I see too much separation. Amplified by recent worldwide events 
As much as this attempt to create division by the media, politicians corporations ect has worked I see that it has also brought people together in ways we couldn’t even have imagined before. Love conquers fear every time.
I’ve recently been inspired by people I would never have even heard of before. Charles Eisenstein, Aubrey Marcus, Zach Bush to name a few.
These guys have shown me there is a different path from the one of separation that seems to be currently falling apart before our eyes.
 I for one am tired of being scared looking at some dystopian future and choose to see this as an opportunity to wake the fuck up before it’s too late!
Anyway I hope you enjoy this release, I’m sorry for going off on a tangent but I think it’s important to talk about these things in a non confrontational way. 
Sending love and peace

“Be Together” is the first single off of 2econd Class Citizen’s album “unlearn”. It is available digitally as well as a limited vinyl postcard in collaboration with Postmanslove.

A few more notes about the upcoming album: 
Unlearn is the long awaited fourth album of DJ and producer 2econd Class Citizen. It marks the artist’s return back to the newly relaunched label Equinox Records. Their previous collaborations achieved high acclaim for their genre bending fusion of hip hop, electronica and folk to form a cinematic journey which is full of twists and turns.

Unlearn is an exploration of an artist journeying beyond their conventional confines. It is a musical adventure peppered with vintage samples concerning the perception of reality and our struggles with conforming to a broken society.

Un Learn

Be Together ft Leroy Horns

https://lono-rec.bandcamp.com/album/prayer-one
https://oihspd.bandcamp.com/album/prayer-one

catalog: some040
artwork: t.me/zelenovosti
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изнуряющая цикличность времени
его тошнотворные повороты вспять
штукатурка сыпется
с чьего-то пола на чей-то потолок
история предсказуемо повторяется 
кирпичные стены в пыль
вряд ли это всё ещё страх
волны низкой частоты прилетают из-за горизонта 
пронизывают позвоночник
у них свой ритм. он пленителен
плен становится массовым явлением
можно застрять в текстурах одной из этих всё ещё стен
и услышать, что за ней происходит нечто
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exhausting cyclicality
of time
its sickening reversals
plaster crumbles
from someone's floor to someone's ceiling
history predictably repeats itself
brick walls to dust
hardly this is still fear
low frequency waves arrive from behind the horizon
permeate the spine
they have their own rhythm. it is captivating
surrender becomes a mass phenomenon
you can get stuck in the textures of one of these still left walls
and hear that something is happening behind it

Pentatones - Karma Game (REDDY SAMPLE remix)

REDDY SAMPLE

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