Pro work, man! Good luck with release :-)

Misc

Bucky Skank is my hobby. I've loved Jamaican and Jamaican inspired / influenced music for nearly my whole musical life. I don't consider myself an expert in any way but over the years I have amassed quite a lot of this music and it is one of a very few forms of music I can listen to all day without getting bored.

I have played about a half dozen full sets of this music and it has been like learning how to dj all over again. All those sets had a slightly shambolic edge to them as I found my feet but have been wonderful, if nerve wracking fun as I scrambled in the dark to find the right 7" to play next. It's definitely not something I'd like to do all the time but doing it one or two times a year is a true joy, so a big thanks to those who have come along and danced. 

There is also the Bucky Skank label, again very much a hobby which releases a couple of 12"s each year (the first one now sold out, the second one due shortly).

Anyway, here's a two hour mix featuring some of what I played at this year's Bucky Skank in Glasgow. Half of it was recorded on the night and half after the fact, at home. Hopefully the joins aren't too noticeable. A tiny handful of the tracks were on the mix I put up a couple of years ago (The Upsetters' "Bucky Skank" will of course appear in every Bucky Skank set I do and bookends this mix albeit in different versions). if you are looking for totally obscure, ultra rare Jamaican music, this is probably not for you but if you want to hear some of the myriad sounds that have come out of that small island or that it has inspired, hopefully it will be enjoyable; plenty of hits and lots of personal favourites from across 50 years (1964 - 2014), ranging from Barrington Levy, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I and Tenor Saw to Kahn, Cutty Ranks and Lady Saw.

The mix is "augmented" with my dub siren, some space echo and Maschine being used to trigger some additional sounds and samples.

The mix is a little over two hours long, is a downloadable 256kbps mp3 and is 230mb.

JD Twitch - Bucky Skank 2014 mix (NOT for laptop speakers)

Right, sit back and hit play and we'll treat you to the story of how this whole Talamanca System 12" came into being..

International Feel's founder Mark Barrott and the loveable Mr Gerd Janson and his Tuff City partner Philip Lauer were enjoying a meal at Barrot's Ibizan hideaway. During said meal Mark somehow agreed to gift his unused Studio Electronics ´Boomstar 303´ synth. The Tuff City guys then thought it would be nice to repay the loan with a remix for Mark, which eventually turned into a full collaboration and this resulting EP. 

Keep an eye out for when it hits shelves on Nov 10th.

Talamanca System "Balanzat (Tuff City Kids Remix) Boiler Room Debuts

...a Laki Mera version of Kate Bush's beautiful song, taken from our Radio 2 Dermot O'Leary session on 9th July 2011...

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover, Radio 2 Dermot O'Leary Session)

(*) This mix is based on Chris Coco's new album "Nightbus", more info here: https://chriscoco1.bandcamp.com/album/nightbus

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Chris Coco has been working as a DJ since the acid house explosion of the late 80s.

He has edited DJ magazine, worked for BBC Radio 1 on the afterhours show The Blue Room. He has made artist albums for Warp and Distinctive Records. He has made compilations for Playboy, Ministry of Sound, EMI Classical and Trojan Records. His music has appeared on many compilations including the big ones, Cafe Del Mar and Hotel Costes. His music has been featured Sex and the City, Nip Tuck, House and many other TV shows.

He currently broadcasts and syndicates a weekly electronic music radio show called Melodica and runs his label, Melodica Recordings, out of his studio/office in London.

His music style has developed from those original house beginnings and draws on those years of experience. His club/festival/party sets are mainly proper house featuring the best of the current releases and a selection of classics with a little slo mo disco and a few eclectic surprises thrown in. His sunset/beach sets are more laid back and eclectic, and are also something special.


EGLO.003 Chris Coco

Movies For Lovers and Chaser are taken from my 8 track  EP ‘’Movies For Lovers’’.

Release date: 20.4.2015 on 12" VINYL and a week later on digital (released on NANG Records).
 
 
Thanks to Jean Pierrot for great cover photo and artwork!
 
Enjoy the music!


buy 12" VINYL here

Movies For Lovers

RELEASED 3rd Nov 2017

Slovenian Sare Havlicek returns to Nang with the first single of his eagerly awaited fourth album,"Softmachine". EFO or  "Everybody Freak Out" to go by its full title announces Sare's return with a loud disco bang.  Its full on jam packed with funky swing, brash disco swagger and catchy lead lines.
 
Remixes come from artists all over the planet.  First up we are off to Glasgow for a slow-funker groover from The Korvids (one part James Grant from Love and Money and one part Gordy Goudie from Simple Minds and Echo and Bunnymen). James adds layers of a new sly vocal and brings the Scottish funk beats to the fore.
 
Next we take our first trip to Russia with Kim And Buran's Space Disco mix. It's a vocoder, russo-disco epic full of smooth beats and robo vocals. Sare himself is next up with his 12" style Extended remix. Giving us a chance to hear that sweet instrumentation and build up in all its glory. Serbia based Tonbe is next who pairs up with Sare for the 4 to the floor, solid percussive, no-nonsense late club hard disco mix.
 
Taking things down a notch or two Budapest-Moscow alliance Kontinents chip in their squelchy, analog groove heavy rework before Sare goes Dub on us with his down and dirty low end frequency special. Its one more trip to Russia to close out the slow groove and synth wash floating keys of the Kim and Buran Space Café version.

Stay tuned for the upcoming album from Sare Softmachine.

Sare Havlicek - Everybody Freak Out [Clip]

Sare Havlicek - Everybody Freak Out (Sare Vs Tonbe Remix) [Nang]

Our remix of EFO or "Everybody Freak Out", Sare Havlicek's first single from his eagerly awaited fourth studio album, "Softmachine". Out Now on Nang Records.

@sare @nang-records

Sare Havlicek - Everybody Freak Out (Kontinents Remix)

Wait

Wait (Chromeo Remix)

Attempt to make STVC sing with a female voice, although the frozen phrase was spoken by a male. Some jitter applied in the second half, making the voice a bit creaky.

STVC - VocoderFreezeFemaleJitter

The next foursome on Tilly Jam. Once again, label-honcho Till von Sein is pushing his variously tempered, tenderly to vigorously crafted House-approaches through the sequencer. Resulting in:

“Feva” – the opener. True to its name, this cut is vitalizing Disco-fever within every detail, be it the funked up bass grounding, the pulse quickening percussions, the claps that are up for a good spank or the string glaze that certainly will disinhibit every floor that’s topped by a mirror ball.

Quick vowel switch and there we are, led into deeper realms by A2. “Fave” is built upon a yearningly keyed in piano-miniature, dense shakers, a groove laden bass and a profound string embrace. Elements that seem to aim for one thing in particular: to crank up the floor thermostat a notch or two.

The B-side is heating things up even further with “Chronic” and therefore this EP’s peaktime recommendation. It is carried out by the most evident bounce within this bunch of tunes, energised by lifted and lowered synth-chords, thickened by a highly effective groove that’s calling upon the rather deeply pumping DJ heart.

And after the closing track is through, it should be obvious which side to take in a so called ‘he said – she said’. This very “She Said” is laid out as a Soul emitting, guitar licks indulging, rimshot-pattern decorated jam, that should cover everyone in a warm, loving glow who is not yet jaded into emotional surdity.

Feva, She Said DIGITAL

Till von Sein -Fave

Dan Goldman aka JD73 9min30 jam on the upcoming Behringer Neutron with no processing anywhere in the recording chain or mix buss- this is the raw dry sound of the Neutron recorded direct through a Midas VF32 direct into Logic X. The delay effect is from the Neutron itself. NOTE: This synth is an absolute beast!!! Enjoy!

New Behringer Neutron Jam!

All sounds recorded directly from the Prophet X poly synth. No external sequencing. "Duality Theorem" by Peter Dyer,  "Joyrides" by Drew Neumann, and "Ides of PX" by Mark Wilcox are multi-tracked, all other demos recorded in a single pass directly from the Prophet X.

FantoBrass

To Rococo Rot - He Loves Me (Four Tet remix)

I used to be Sare Havlicek... now I'm Softmachine.

Movies For Lovers

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