This is an amalgam of two mixes I did for Solid Steel at the end of November, 2013. Both were 30 minutes and with a similar downbeat, electronic nature. It's the sort of thing I like to listen to late at night when I'm working on designs or writing. Both appeared on separate shows but were done around the same time so I wanted to present them in one piece like this.

Tracklisting:
Rival Consoles _ Odyssey _ Erased Tapes
Spacedog & Belbury Poly _ Quiet Industry _ Ghost Box
A Thunder Orchestra _ Diabolocal Gesture _ La Musique Fait La Force
Sinoia Caves _ Naro Way _ self released
Dark Seed _ The Bell _ Ohmega
Jokers On the Scene _ Have You Said Your Prayers Today? _ Balkan Vinyl
Russ Garcia _ Lost Souls of Saturn _ Liberty
Roland Bocquet _ Exotique _ Cobra
Belbury Poly & Spacedog _ Find Me _ Ghost Box
Tomisnever _ Reach For The Dead _ mp3
V.I.V.E.K. _ Mantra _ System Music
Machinedrum _ Centre Your Love _ Ninja Tune
Sounds & Silence _ The Lyyke Wake Dirge _ Trunk
Howlaround _ Secret Songs of Savamala _ The Fog Signals
Pye Corner Audio _ The Ever Present Hum Pt.2 (excerpt) _ The Tape Worm

A Little Night Music...

2013 marked the 25th Anniversary of Solid Steel when Matt Black and Jon More from Coldcut started broadcasting together on pirate Kiss FM in 1988. It's been a year long celebration and we'd like to thank all the guests who have contributed incredible mixes throughout the year. To see off the year, we asked our listeners to vote for their favourite guest mix from the last 25 years and also their favourite mixes from our resident DJ's.

Your favourite Coldcut mix was the 'Journeys by DJ Special' from 20th May 2002. The original '70 minutes of Madness' was released in 1995 and often considered "the best DJ mix album of all time" and this mix coincided with it's reissue in 2002. It features extra tracks that didn't appear on the original CD including the Coldcut rework of 'People hold on'

Unsurprisingly, the most popular mix for DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot and DJ Food was their epic version of the Beastie Boys‘ ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album from 31st August 2012 made entirely from the original sample sources titled ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’ . Each of them took a third of the album to work on and combined their efforts into a mix that will make you hear it in a new way. Aside from the original sample sources they’ve included commentary from the Beasties, vintage interviews, demo versions and much more.

Finally it was the Hexstatic mix from 28th January 2011 which was your favourite, with the classic Royksopp remix of KOC, leading into the lovely electronica Two Dots by Lusine. SBTRKT's remix of Modeselektors 'Art&Cash' leads perfectly into material from Robin Hexstatic's project, plus music from  Magnetic Man, Andreya Triana and Dave Angel.

Congratulations to Daniel Westlake from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, who was the winner picked at random in the competition and will receive prizes from Novation, AIAIA, Serato and Solid Steel.

Check out the brand new Solid Steel website here www.solidsteel.net/ 
and you can follow Solid Steel on Facebook and Twitter 
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PART 3	-	Coldcut  -  20/5/2002		https://twitter.com/Coldcut
				
Philorene	_	Bola	_	Organico
The Truper	_	Street Beats Vol 2	_	Streetbeats
Junior Reid	_	One Blood	_	IR Records
Newcleus	_	Jam On Revenge	_	Sunnyview
2 Player	_	Extreme Possibilities (Wagon Christ mix)	_	Ninja Tune
Funki Porcini	_	King Ashabanapal (Dillinger mix)	_	Ninja Tune
Jedi Knights	_	Noddy Holder	_	Universal Language
PlasticMan	_	Fuk	_	Mute
Coldcut	_	Mo Beats	_	Ahead of our Time
Bedouin Ascent	_	Manganese in Deep Violet	_	Rising High
Bob Holroyd	_	African Drug 	_	Six Degrees
Leftfield	_	Original Jam	_	Hard Hands
Ini kamoze	_	here comes the hot stepper	_	Columbia
Coldcut	_	Beats and Pieces	_	Ahead of our Time
Coldcut	_	Greedy Beat	_	Ahead of our Time
Coldcut	_	Music Maker	_	Ahead of our Time
Coldcut	_	Find A Way (Acapella)	_	Arista
Mantronix	_	King of the Beats	_	Sleeping Bag
Gescom	_	Mag	_	Skam
Masters at Work	_	Blood Vibes	_	Cutting Records
Raphael Corderdos	_	Trumpet Riff	_	Ninja Tune
Luke Slater's 7th Plain	_	Grace	_	Total
Joanna Law	_	First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	_	Sony
Harold Budd	_	Balthus Bemused By Colour	_	Land
Hookian Minds	_	Freshmess (Bandulu mix)	_	Ubiquity
Jello Biafra	_	Message From Our Sponser	_	Alternative Tentacles
Pressure Drop	_	Unify	_	Hard Hands
Love Lee	_	Again Son	_	Peace Feast
Red Snapper	_	Hot Flush	_	Warp
Ron Granier	_	Theme From Doctor Who 	_	BBC
Moody Boys	_	Free	_	XL
Coldcut	_	People hold on	_	Arista
				
												
				
PART 4 -	DJ Cheeba, DJ Food, DJ Moneyshot	 -	31/8/2012

https://twitter.com/djcheeba  https://twitter.com/djfood  https://twitter.com/DJ_Moneyshot  
				
 Caught In The Middle of A 3-Way Mix	- Full tracklist is here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-31-8-1

Part 5 - Hexstatic - 28/1/2011   https://twitter.com/hexstatic

Kings Of Convenience 	_	I Don't Know What I Can Save You From (Royksopp remix) 	_	Mawlaw
Lusine	_	Two Dots	_	Ghostly
Modeselektor 	_	Art & Cash (SBTRKT remix) 	_	Weapons
36 Kings	_	Spirit	_	unreleased
Magnetic Man 	_	Flying Into Tokyo	_	Sony
Andreya Triana	_	Draw The Stars	_	Ninja Tune
Al Usher 	_	Here Today 	_	MOS
Dave Angel	_	Rudiments	_	Island
Drop Out City Rockers	_	Around The World	_	Drop Out
Bibio	_	Lovers Carvings	_	Warp
Zero 7	_	Ghost Symbol (Julio Bashmore remix)	_	Warner
SBTRKT	_	Hide or Seek	_	Young Turks
Koreless and Alteria Percepsyne	_	Violet Detachment	_	Twenty/Twelve
Commix	_	Japanese Electronics (Instra Mental Moog Mix) 	_	Metalheadz

Solid Steel Radio Show 27/12/2013 Part 3 + 4 - Coldcut, DJ Food, DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot, Hexstatic

DJ Food & DK with the audio part of their "Now, Look & Listen" video mix, that they perform live on 4 decks and 3 mixers. Check out the <a href="http://www.solidsteel.net">Solid Steel</a> website or the 'Track video' button above, for the full video mix. 
Using Serato's Video-SL plug-in for Scratch Live, they mix, scratch and blend the sound AND vision for each track they play. Months were spent creating videos for each piece of music, either using the original source material or, in most cases sampling footage to create a new video entirely. Described as 'Video Turntablism', it has become a way for Food & DK to visualize their already legendary DJ sets. 
As usual, it's the diverse mix of music that they love and are known for, taking in current faves from Foreign Beggars & Noisia, Joy Orbison and Dorian Concept, but also plenty of classics that have kept dancefloors rocking from TTC, Pendulum, Luke Vibert, Think Tank and Z-Trip. Plus, Grace Jones, Archie Bell and sections from their two highly successful mix CD's that have Rakim rapping alongside the Human League and the Beat battling the drum and bass of Mask, and all in glorious video at the <a href="http://www.solidsteel.net">Solid Steel</a> website. 

PLAYLIST — 04/12/09

PART 1 — DJ Food & DK
ARTIST	  	-  TITLE	  	-  LABEL
Luke Vibert	  	 - Homewerk	  	 - Planet Mu
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force	  	 - Planet Rock	  	 - Tommy Boy
Captain Rock	  	- The Return Of Capt. Rock	  	 - Nia
Missy Elliott	  	 - Lose Control	  	 - Elektra
Think Tank	  	- Hack One (the Internet Worm Mix)	  	 - Hakattak
Common Ft Pharrell	  	- Universal Mind Control (hydroz B-boy Bass Mix)	  	 - Geffen
Mujava	  	 - Township Funk (l-vis 1990 Kwaito Dub)	  	 - This Is Music
Hashim	  	 - Al-naafiysh (the Soul)	  	 - Cutting Records
Dj Kentaro	  	 - Free (accapella)	  	 - Ninja Tune
Ttc	  	 - Travailer	  	 - Big Dada
Spank Rock	  	 - Rick Rubin	  	 - Big Dada
The Simon Sound	  	 - Tour De Mars	  	 - Project Blue Book
Achie Bell	  	- Tighten Up (bobby Labeat Re-work)	  	- Mp3
Drumattic Twins	  	- Crazy Love (peo De Pitte Remix)	  	- Finger Lickin
Leisur Allstars	  	- 35 Summers (substatic Remix)	  	- Leisure Recordings
Afrika Bambaataa	  	- Got That Vibe (accapella)	  	- Tommy Boy
Calvertron Vs Banga	  	-  Whoop - Rudders There It Isnt Remix	  	- Destination
Tag Team	  	- Whoomp! (there It Is) Accapella	  	- Life
Santogold	  	- Say Aha (tepr Remix)	  	- Atlantic
The Qemists Feat Wiley	  	- Dem Na Like Me (accapella)	  	- Ninja Tune
M.v.p.	  	 - roc Ya Body 'mic Check 1, 2 (instrumental)"	  	- Emi
Z-trip	  	- Listen To The Dj	  	- Hollywood
Timbaland & Magoo Feat. Missy Elliott	  	- Cop That Shit	  	- Unique
Eric B And Rakim	  	- I Know You Got Soul (accapella)	  	- 4th & Broadway
Human League	  	- Being Boiled	  	- Fast
Area Code 615	  	- Stone Fox Chase	  	- Polydor
Dj Shadow	  	- The Number Song (cut Chemist Litmus Test Re-remix)	  	- Mo Wax
Dj Food	  	- Dark Lady	  	- Ninja Tune
Q-tip	  	- Breathe And Stop (accapella)	  	- Arista
Dorian Concept	  	- Tropical Hands	  	- Affine
The Beat	  	- Mirror In The Bathroom	  	- 2 Tone
Mask	  	- Square Off	  	- Dope Dragon
Sub Focus	  	- Timewarp	  	- Ram Records
Freestyles	  	- Musically Dope (ganja Kru Remix)	  	- True Playaz
Pendulum	  	- Another Planet	  	- Breakbeat Kaos
Noisia	  	- Facade	  	- Ram Records
Sub Focus	  	- Join The Dots	  	- Ram Records
Haiku D'etat	  	- Mike, Aaron & Eddie	  	- Decon
The Prodigy	  	- Voodoo People (pendulum Remix)	  	- Xl
Pendulum	  	- Tarantula	  	- Breakbeat Kaos
Dj Vadim	  	- Terrorist (accapella)	  	- Ninja Tune
The Qemists	  	- Stompbox (spor Remix)	  	- Ninja Tune
Foreign Beggars & Noisia	  	- Contact (noisia Remix)	  	- Dented Records
Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith	  	- Harder Faster	  	- Technique Recordings
Shimon & Andy C	  	- Bodyrock	  	- Ram Records
D-code And Chan1	  	- Glitterstep (sub Swara Remix)	  	- Shiva Soundsystem
Ghislain Poirier	  	- Blazin Featuring Face-t (modeselektor Remix)	  	- Ninja Tune
Skream & Cluekid	  	- Sandsnake	  	- Disfigured Dubz
Albarosie	  	- Kingston Town	  	- Forward Records
Babylon System	  	- Fully Loaded	  	- Argon
Zomby	  	- Kaliko	  	- Hyperdub
Grace Jones	  	- Corporate Cannibal	  	- Wall Of Sound
6-blocc	  	- Digits	  	- Lo Dubs
Bassnectar	  	- Heads Up	  	- Amorphous Music
Dead Prez	  	- Hip Hop (accapella)	  	- Epic
I.d.	  	- Late Night Hype	  	- Passenger
Joy Orbison	  	- Hyph Mungo	  	- Hotflush
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra	  	- The Satellites Are Spinning (zero Db & Hectic Remix)	  	 - Fluid Ounce


Solid Steel Radio Show 4/12/2009 Part 1 - DJ Food & DK

90s Mix

The Gaslamp Killer - 90s Hip-Hop Mix

Nine years later and here we are……If psychedelic funk, underground hip hop, heavy dub and turntable trickery is your thing then you’re in the right place. For Volume 2 I’ve basically pulled together various bits ’n’ bobs I didn’t use the first time around, but there’s also plenty of new(ish) beats in there to keep it on point.

TRACKLIST:

Intro - Are You Really A Psychologist?
Labi Siffre - I Got The Blues (madbeats “shady skizzo” mashup) 
Gwenno - Hi a Skoellyas Liv a Dhagrow
SAULT - Fields (madbeats “stratocaster” routine)
Doctor Jeep - Abyss (madbeats “original jungle sounds” routine)
Danger Mouse & Black Thought ft. Michael Kiwanuka - Aquamarine
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Jazzanova - Coffee Talk 
Ice Cube - You Know How We Do it (madbeats “westside skills” routine)
DJ Dez - Brain (madbeats “braniac” cuts)
Phife Dawg ft. Busta Rhymes - Nutshell Pt.2
Little Simz - Boss 
Sinshape - Bad Dreams
Masters At Work - Jus a li’l Dope
Little Roy - Come As You Are
Henzo - Iron Lighter (rollin rollin rollin SKIT)
Beastie Boys - Slow & Low
Fugazi - Waiting Room (madbeats “what you know about” routine) 
Portishead - Strangers (Original / Abnormal Guys 2Dub version) 
Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean (Sabre’s 20/20 Bootleg)
Barrington Levy & Beenie Man - Murderer (Remix)
Mark Ronson - Truth (madbeats “Yo” cuts)
Skratchy Seal & Phazemega - Whatever I see I attack (match day blues SKIT)
Jay Electronica - Exhibit C (madbeats “lazer beam” routine) 
Wu Tang Clan ft. Redman - People Say 
Ian Dury and The Blockheads - What a waste (drinkers SKIT)
Main Source - Just Hangin’ Out

Here's a link to M.F.S.B vol.I
https://soundcloud.com/dj-madbeats/my-filthy-street-blues

MY FILTHY STREET BLUES (M.F.S.B) VOL.II

Recently I had the pleasure of performing at Crystal Palace Bowl in London as part of the South Facing Festival, alongside a bunch of heroes & influences of mine, namely DJ Shadow, UNKLE (James Lavelle & Ronin), Morcheeba, Zero 7, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5) & A Skillz, as well as my good friend DJ Cheeba.

Here is a 33-track 90-minute mix including some of the music I played during my sets at the event, and tracks from the artists that performed. One-take business.

Incidentally, last time I was at Crystal Palace Bowl was back in 1996, when I was an extra in the video to Chemical Brothers & Noel Gallagher's No.1 single 'Setting Sun' (!), so it was quite the trip to be back nearly 30 years later for this event! So as a bonus, for pure self-indulgence, I included that track too.

The mix also kicks off with a nod to Busta Rhymes, who headlined the festival the following day.

It was nice to be able to play some of the music on big speakers that I was playing in my bedroom way back when, along with being on stage with some of the artists that dominated my record collection around about that period too.

Shout to Rob Soundcrash & team, New Analog Design, Ishani Chakra, Big Martyn, Lauren & Ben, all the artists, and to all those folks that showed love. This one's for y'all! x

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Caravelli x Busta Rhymes - L'Etrange D'Busta (BobaFatt IntroVersion)
Portishead - Over
UNKLE - UNKLE (Main Theme)
Run The Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry
Tipper - Tepid Blue
Jon1st & Tehbis - Atmosphere Flip
Leftfield ft. Nicole Willis - Swords
Kaytranada ft. BadBadNotGood - Weight Off
Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona
Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke - ...And The World Laughs With You
Oh No - Creepers
Morcheeba - The Sea
Zero 7 ft. Sophie Barker - In The Waiting Line
Handsome Boy Modelling School ft. Roisin Murphy & J-Live - The Truth
Harold Alexander - Mama Soul
Clipse - So Be It
DJ Krush ft. CL Smooth - Only The Strong Survive (Dillinja Remix)
DJ Krush x Blahzay Blahzay - Kemuri Danger (BobaFatt Blend)
Massive Attack - Sly (Underdog Mix)
Transglobal Underground - Temple Head
Barbatuques x Clyde Stubberfield - Funky Baiana (BobaFatt Blend)
Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (SuckaSide Needs Therapy Rebuild / BobaFatt Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
Strata 3 - (It's Not) A Man's World (BobaFatt Nixon Edit)
Brian Jackson & Masters at Work ft. Black Thought - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Macklemore - Hind's Hall
BadBadNotGood - The World Is Yours
J Dilla - Workinonit
Jurassic 5 - What's Golden
DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump
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Chemical Brothers ft. Noel Gallagher - Setting Sun
The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Don Leisure - Almost Lost It

This South Facing Festival event took place on Thursday August 14th 2025.

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Superb 1998 underground hip-hop mixtape from DJs Vadim and Prime Cuts, highly highly recommended. 
I really can't do this justice but there's a worthy write-up here http://witness-this.com/sound/vadimprimecuts-architects-of-the-great/ - to paraphrase, "DJ Vadim & Primecuts did not just record a mixtape. They delivered a sound sculpture."

Side B here https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/prime-cutsdj-vadim-architects-of-the-great-side-b?in=selectabwoy/sets/uk-hip-hop-djs

Prime Cuts/DJ Vadim: Architects Of The Great (Side A)

Brainfreeze - DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist

This is a mix Cut Chemist did for the Beastie Boys exhibit that toured in 2018:  "They asked me to pull from some of their favorite dub, funk and rap records and this is the result."

I Do What I Want

Cut Chemist - Beastie Boys Book Mix 2018

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Home of my own mixes - predominantly jungle/hardcore with the odd bit of D&B, plus eclectic sample-digging, breaks and hip-hop, techno & electronica. 

Pre-2001, all mixes vinyl; Post-2016, all mixes digital (DJay 2); Post-2018, Ableton Live. Why? Why not?
I've got an old skool DJ's mentality, early influences ranging from Sublove, Ratty, Randall & Hype to Coldcut, DJ Juice, MK & Primo.  In the early 00s I turned my back on D&B, retired my turntables in favour of family/work commitments, and got into funk, soul, reggae and so on... a lot of this driven by curiosity around the sample roots of hardcore and jungle.  Forward another decade and an early mid-life crisis saw me messing around with virtual decks on my phone, and later acquiring a vinyl ripper, with one vision in mind: making mixes.
Although I'm partial to the odd DJay or vinyl mix when I get the chance, the progression into Ableton Live was a simple means to an end.  My ideas stretch further than the limitations of my physical collection and real-time mixing, and by sequencing I can pick, choose, chip away and structure mixes at my leisure. Which I do... a lot :)

Wait, there's more ... an absolute stack of classic golden era/old skool hip-hop/turntablism, jungle and d&b, hardcore, techno and house mixes retrieved from my dusty tape & CD archives.  This includes (by my reckoning) the most exhaustive collections of classic Full Cycle and Sublove Galaxy Radio shows, live Ruffneck Ting jungle tapes, loads of studio & compilation mixes, all manner of rave tapes, and so on. 

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Prime Cuts/DJ Vadim: Architects Of The Great (Side A)

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