You made my day! special thx from Berlin <3

Dude !!!  Its POURING rain out but this house Is on FUCKING FIRE!!!!

@planet3one9 solid bumpin - hair raising shivver me timbers !! 

shack u dun out did yoself on this mix brotha i've listened a half dozen times already.  good shit

Fucking best ever, apologize for dictionary :)

Simon Shackleton

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://hypeddit.com/eliteforce/eliteforce-oct2022-djmix

It’s been three years since I last created an Elite Force DJ mix. While my focus has recently turned to my Simon Shackleton output, there’s been a nagging desire to create something a little tougher from some of the great breakbeat and techno that’s being made at the moment.

May The Force Be With You.

Elite Force (aka Simon Shackleton) - DJ Mix Oct 2022

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://hypeddit.com/eliteforce/djmixfebruary2023

This new mix showcases the sound I hear in my head when I think about a beautiful hybrid of breakbeat, techno and electro. It's also representative of the kind of Elite Force sets you'll hear from me in the live arena, as I return to the fray in 2023 after a four-year absence!

To craft a mix that had the exact feel I was looking for, I used 24 tracks in some shape or form, pulling many of them apart, rearranging them and adding liberal ly from my own extensive sample library. This set includes 11 Elite Force VIP edits, several acapellas / acidapellas and lashings of breakbeat-techno-electro love.

2023. I'm coming for you. 
Booking enquiries via - www.simonshackleton.org

DJ Mix Feb 2023

Aloha,

Here you go my friends, something different from me….

This is not a promo mix and I’m not trying to generate work off the back of it, it’s simply a mid-tempo DJ mix.  I have been collecting tracks for a while that didn’t seem to fit anywhere in my sets, but that I really love, so I decided to put them into a mix in their own right… music with a late night, deep & sleazy electronic feel, full of atmosphere, with a splattering of dark funk thrown in. 

I’ve got plenty of brand new peak time releases coming shortly on my Lowering The Tone imprint, from Pook/ & Lola, Lee Coombs, Matt Goddard/Dopamine, Ben Coda, Carbon Kingdom and myself, but in the meantime welcome to the “Den Of Iniquity” :-)

Enjoy!!

Mark (Meat Katie)

Artwork by Matthew Miles

Meat Katie 'Den Of Iniquity'  Late Night DJ Mix (2023)

An incredible day was had by all in Budapest in late May on the Cruisin / Be Massive 20th Anniversary Boat Party on the Danube. 

My great friend (and amazing DJ/Producer) Metha invited me to celebrate Be Massive's anniversary and the brief was ... 'please play some classics from across the years as well as some new stuff - and we'd love to hear a little Zodiac Cartel too'.

This is the result. 
900 people. 
Nothing but the best vibes.

For 2023 bookings, please contact lesley (at) iamcru (dot) com
Much love,
Simon

More Elite Force / Simon Shackleton
https://www.simonshackleton.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Simon.K.Shackleton
https://www.instagram.com/simonshackletonmusic

For more on Be Massive - 
https://www.instagram.com/bemassive
https://www.facebook.com/BeMassiveBudapest/

Budapest 2023 - Be Massive 20 Party

Moontribe Full Moon Gathering 30 year Live Set.  Dedicated to our dear friend Jon Bush.  RIP my friend.  Your warm smile and electric moves will live forever in our minds and hearts.

FMG 30 YEAR ANNI SET

This two-hour mix was inspired by my many visits to Black Rock Desert and is a twisty cross-genre journey designed to encapsulate the spirit of my One Series sets (without the 7-hour commitment!).

As always, I hope you enjoy the ride and I appreciate you sharing the link far & wide... and if you're heading to the Burn please accept a dusty aural hug from afar.

Much <3
Simon

August 2023 Mixtape

This is my set from the Beats 4 Love Festival which took place at Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, Czech Republic, in the summer of 2023.

Since I returned to the fray in 2023, I've been using Ableton and a number of controllers to create my sets and am loving the flexibility it gives me to do deeper dives into edits, overdubs, mashups and mixes. It wasn't uncommon during this set to have four or five audio channels running simultaneously. I hope you enjoy the ride!

Forbookings, please contact lesley (at) iamcru (dot) com
Much love,
Simon

Beats For Love Festival 2023

A RE:CONSTRUCTED set is a *long* way removed from a standard DJ set. Here's how it works.

Simon takes hundreds of tracks from his huge library, painstakingly deconstructs them (using Ai if needed to separate elements from the original tracks), and then pieces everything back together to create a hugely emotive and immersive musical story.

He uses Ableton Live and multiple controllers to trigger up to 16 individual channels of audio at any one time during the performance, and also performs live keyboard overdubs. The end result is a hugely addictive, compulsive and compelling blend of music that's often new, often familiar but always utterly unique.

This is storytelling on a giant canvas, and in 2024 we will be adding visuals and further live instrumentation to these RE:CONSTRUCTED sets.

Simon Shackleton presents Futureshock - Sci-Fi Re:Constructed - Denver, November 2023

This is the perfect time to release my Sacred Dance Reconstructed Mix, performed for the amazing Opulent Temple crew at a sold-out show in Seattle this April. With the first Remix/Reconstructed Mix from The Shadowmaker album landing this Friday, here’s a taste of the immersive storytelling and sonic deconstruction I love creating.

FREE DOWNLOAD: https://hypeddit.com/simonshackletonmusic/sacred-dance-reconstructed

You can hear the next longform Reconstructed Mix live at the post-show reception of The Shadowmaker world premiere at Denver’s Holiday Theatre on February 8th—tickets available here: www.TheShadowmaker.eventbrite.com

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Thank you for listening xoxo 

For more info: www.simonshackleton.org

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Simon Shackleton presents - Sacred Dance Reconstructed - Seattle 2024

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Atmospheric Dali-esque Progressive house, storytelling a psychedelic journey through time.  The second track on upcoming album Chronophobia by Aethogen

Black Church

Free Falling

Simon Shackleton’s Elite Force project began way back in 1996, debuting on his own newly founded Fused and Bruised label with a series of peerless 12s and remixes. After a successful five years, he put Fused and Bruised on the backburner to concentrate on production work, and following several years with Whole9Yards and Moonshine he became a mainstay recording artist for AdriftRecordings (formally known as Kingsize Records) before moving on to set up hisown hugely successful U&A imprint. 

Often credited for being a lynchpin in the developing the tech-funk genre (an amalgamation of breaks, house, techno and electro) he has released a series of highly successful singles in the past few years, finding broad support from DJs and musicians across the board, including the likes of James Zabiela, Sasha, Crystal Method, Laurent Garnier and Fatboy Slim to name but five. In 2008 released a semi-retrospective double album’s worth of remixes and re-workings of a 12-year back catalogue, with over 25 mixes coming from such luminaries as Miles Dyson, Rogue Element, Deepgroove, Dylan Rhymes & Calvertron.

In addition to these solo singles, Meat Katie has been a regular collaborator with Elite Force, a relationship that had begun in 2003 with the massive-selling 'Toba', and that will see their creative relationship come to fruition in 2009 with the launch of their new joint project under the name ‘Dustbowl’, as well as a series of singles under the ‘Meat Katie & Elite Force’ banner. 

As a remixer, Elite Force has always been in huge demand, with re-workings for the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Crystal Method, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, UNKLE, Infusion, Rennie Pilgrem, Shiloh and Dylan Rhymes all contributing to his reputation as one of the most creative and effective remixers around. 

Elite Force's music has also been the soundtrack to many a movie, with a huge list of impressive A-list credits to his name, including the likes of the Matrix, Charlie's Angels, Arlington Road, Mortal Kombat, Crow, The Bone Collector, The Jackyll, Spiderman 2 and his music has appeared on a wide array of TV shows, from CSI to Top Gear, from Football Focus to LA Doctors. He's also soundtracked a number of computer games, including no fewer than 5 FIFA games, several of the Wipeout series, The Matrix and Motorstorm 1, and he is currently writing some bespoke music for forthcoming games for Ferrari and Motorstorm2.

On the decks, Elite Force has been a prime mover since 1990 when he cut his teeth playing huge student nights and self-promoted acid house nights in the South West of England, before moving up to ....London.... and ultimately gravitating towards his tech-funk style, with which he now has a full diary of global bookings. He has become known as one of the top technicians on a circuit that has included massive shows in Belarus, Hungary, Australia, Italy, USA, Czech Republic, India, Turkey, Spain, Japan, Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China, amongst others, as well as numerous festival slots including Glastonbury, Coachella, Bloom, Wickerman, the Glade and more recently Burning Man. 

He was also responsible for the hugely influential Strongarm Sessions webcasts which became something of an institution since their inception back in 2001, receiving as they did around 20,000 downloads per show, but now put on the backburner to concentrate on other projects, such as his own blog (Techfunkmanifesto) and his other musical projects, such as Dustbowl (with Meat Katie).

Bio courtesy of http://www.myspace.com/shackforce

Artwork courtesy of Thomas Reed (www.hivemanagement.net)

For more information on http://soundcloud.com/elite-force visit www.eliteforcemusic.com or http://www.facebook.com/djeliteforce

For more information on http://soundcloud.com/spacecowboys visit www.spacecowboys.org

Elite Force - Burning Man 2010 RIPEcast Mix

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Whilst donations are by no means necessary, they are a huge help in meeting the streaming & studio costs in putting these events together for you. They also ensure that you become part of a growing group of supporters who will receive each set as a download.

In these strange and challenging times, we need friends, family, and community more than ever. For that reason, I've created a series of online gatherings under the 'We Are One' banner as a means of bringing people together from all corners of the globe to laugh, love, and dance (like no one's watching).

This set was created using 8 decks on Ableton, an APC40 Controller and a LaunchKey MIDI keyboard (with 3 channels of overdubs). What you hear is created live and on-the-fly.

Thank you for listening.

We Are One

We Are One Vol.05

A 1hr 40 minute retrospective mix featuring....

1. Intro (Snippet from Earth) - Evil Nine 
2. Less Stress - Evil Nine
3. Towards the sun (Evil Nine remix) - Future Funk Squad
4. Boadicea (Evil Nine remix) - Mason feat Roisin Murphy
5. Crooked (Instrumental) - Evil Nine
6. Broken Dreams - Evil Nine
7. Restless (Acapella) - Evil Nine feat Toastie Taylor & Darrison
8. Superfast Jellyfish (Evil Nine remix) - Gorillas feat De La Soul & Gruff Rhys
9. Under Control (Evil Nine's Graveyard smash instrumental) - Freeland
10. Roar - Evil Nine
11. Heel & Toe (Acapella) - Freeland feat. New Flesh
12. Go Go Go (Evil Nine remix) - Broke One
13. In All Nothing (Adam & The Evils remix) - Telemen 
14. The Night - Evil Nine
15. Above the Clouds (Evil Nine remix) - McMillan & Tab 
16. Technology - Evil Nine
17. The Way (Evil Nine remix) - Dylan Rhymes
18. Pearlshot (Acapella) - Evil Nine feat. Juice Aleem
19. All the cash - Evil Nine feat. El-P
20. Set it Off - Evil Nine feat. Beans
21. Raining Again (Evil Nine remix) - Moby 
22. Sabot (Evil Nine remix) - Santos
23. Sweet Disposition (Evil Nine remix) - The Temper Trap 
24. Hired Goons - Evil Nine
25. House (Evil Nine remix) - Dems

XXX.

Bingo Night At The Earthworm Church (Retrospective Mix)

🎧 A curated archive of music, DJ mixes, rare bootlegs, revamps & remixes spanning decades. 

For new music and current projects, head to my website, Instagram, Spotify, YouTube or Bandcamp (links below) for more information.

We Are One Vol.05

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