Ambient Trash

1. Splashh - Headpins from debut Album ' Comport' released by Luv Luv Luv Records. 
2. Discotexas - Moullinex - To be clear (RAC Remix) from debut album 'Picnic II' released by 'Discotexas' 
3. Balance Presents Guy J -  Mentol Raga (Guy J Remix) released by 'Balance Music' 

3. Balance Presents Guy J -  Mentol Raga (Guy J Remix)

In A Holding Pattern 2.0

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Back with HC number 13. The unlucky one? Well, I hope not. Just as well I'm not superstitious, isn't it?

That said, there's definitely a thread here that I can't explain in a sentence or two. Which is why it's a mix, and not an essay. Feel free to try and explain it, it would help me out...!

Everything's had a bit of a snip, naturally, however the ones titled as edits differ more significantly from the originals in terms of arrangement... I may make them available individually for your own mixing usage - if you want any one in particular let me know :)

01 Flux - The Value Of Nothing (Kleptones 'I See What You Did There' Edit)
02 African Head Charge - Unplanned
03 Wally Badarou - Mambo
04 Brian Eno - Ali Click (Rural 'Doo Gap' Mix - Kleptones 'Brianless' Edit)
05 Thompson Twins - Nurse Shark
06 The The - Soul Mining (Kleptones 'Lost Johnson' Edit)
07 Blancmange - Feel Me (Kleptones 'Feel The Count' Edit)
08 XTC - It's Nearly Africa (Kleptones remake/remodel of Apiento Edit)
09 Mental Remedy - Heartbeat Inside Of The African Womb (Outro Rhythm)
10 Keith LeBlanc / Tackhead - Mechanical Movements Dub
11 Daniele Baldelli - Cosmic Parsley
12 Thomas Leer - Saving Grace
13 The Three Johns - Downhearted Blues (Kleptones 'The Fourth John' Edit)
14 Fad Gadget - State Of The Nation
15 Pink Skull - u.g.uo.aaaahhhh
16 Bohannon - Summertime Groove (Kleptones 'Nearly No-Bo' Edit)
17 Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline)
18 Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria (Kleptones 'No Plink Plonk' Edit)
19 New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Big
20 Buzzcocks - Money

Additional riffs and beats from Nitzer Ebb, John Martyn, Grace Jones, Queen, Eurythmics, Peter Gabriel, Vera, Said Mrad and Throbbing Gristle.

Thanks to Grant Martin for the CD source of "Soul Mining" (My vinyl's past it sadly...) and Apiento for the idea on "Nearly Africa". Coincidentally, his version has just been reposted here: http://testpressing.org/2012/02/xtc-nearly-africa-apiento-cut/

Hope the listening is as much fun as the making was.

Hectic City 13 - Walking Under Ladders

Exclusive Kiwi 'KatE'

He does not play rugby nor are kiwis his favorite fruits - the  artist moniker Kiwi is the result of looking at rotten Kiwis on Alex Warren's kitchen table and the fact that he only had little time to come up with an artist name after he had signed his first record deal. Since then the Londoner has taken the scene by storm and released music on renowned labels such as Correspondant, Disco Halal, Optimo, Futureboogie and many more. His latest signing, 'LakE/ KatE' on Fort Romeau and Ali Tillett's Cin Cin label. The two tracks not only complement each other because the track-titles rhyme but also at a musical level. Kiwi continues to walk his futuristic disco influenced path with both tracks whilst 'KatE's' convincing elements are definitely the double bass slaps adding drive at the low-frequencies while the lopped synth-pads provide the same at a mid- and high-range and subsequently gain a different note with delaying distant voices.

Joe Goddard and Kiwi's split EP 'Jack Come Back / LakE' will be released February 8th, 2019 on Cin Cin.

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Laurel Halo DJ-Kicks out 22nd March 2019:  https://k7.lnk.to/LaurelHalo

The 68th edition of the DJ-kicks mix series is another landmark one, with experimental producer Laurel Halo taking the reins. The American’s adventurous 29-track trip features seven exclusives, including two of her own plus those from Rrose, Machinewoman, FIT Siegel, Nick León and Ikonika.

An electronic outlier, Halo hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan, but has been based in Berlin for a number of years. Landing on labels like Hyperdub, Honest Jon’s and Latency, Halo has released a body of work ranging in style, yet cohered by production and compositional tendencies that sound distinctly her own. Her studio work tends to be a multi-layered mix of the electronic and the acoustic, the organic and the synthetic. As a DJ, meanwhile, she lays down more floor-focussed mixes of techno, bass and worldly drum rhythms, and her live sets are similarly visceral and direct.

Halo’s DJ-kicks packs a lot in to just 60 minutes. It kicks off with the first of two of her own exclusives, ‘Public Art’, a tactile piano loop that sets the melodic tone of the mix in focus. Crunchy drums soon take over and begin what is a blistering ride through electro, trippy minimalism and textures that range from icy and dubby to steel plated and sharp from the likes of Red Axes, Parris and an exclusive from Rrose.

Another exclusive, rough and ready techno cut from Machinewoman follows, before the mid section twists and turns on surging drum patterns, frantic industrial textures and spaced out gqom sounds from the likes of Griffit Vigo, Dario Zenker and Final Cut. This is a mix forever on the move: one minute its tightly coiled and kinetic, the next it’s loose and joyful before switching into more cerebral and insular passages that keep you intrigued. Fusing together so many disparate sounds and textures is no mean feat, but like everything Halo does, here they all add up to something as thrilling and edgy as it is unpredictable and compelling.

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Laurel Halo DJ-Kicks

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Laurel Halo - Sweetie (DJ-Kicks)

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Pour (Cape Tapes Remix)

The Hundredth Anniversary - Pour (Cape Tapes Remix)

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Cape Tapes - Feel Good

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