PasoGrande 151 DeepHouse

Following recent sombre developments that our beloved Stanley Street Block Parties are no longer—cheers for that, local council!—we thought it appropriate to pay homage to the fantastic times enjoyed by all, by making available our recorded mix from last month.

(We failed to realise it at the time, but it may be the very last Block Party gracing the sacred bitumen known at Stanley Street... at least, for the foreseeable future.)

The Fazz @andrewfazzolari and I were handed a prime slot for the balmy October afternoon to do our Attic @atticsydney thing.

Within the hour-long offering, you can expect our usual blend of fun, fruity, typically disco-skewed house music, with a few fruits from yesteryear thrown in.

This is the result—hope you dig!

@pole-jam-vinyl @d-phunq @nervous-records @retromigration @ravanellidiscoclub @kai-alce @user-576421441 @1codycurrie @toytonics @daveleezr @suddenmovesmusic @slothboogie @harold-heath @s-a-s-h-sundays

Live at Stanley's Block Party (October 2023)

PasoGrande 327 Doubles

PasoGrande 365 Doubles

Brand new carve up fresh off the wheels of 
steel and this session features a very 
special guest intro from my favourite human
on this planet (My Mum) and one of the thousand daily 
messages she kindly left me….. :)  Bless Her 

Enjoy the beats.  

B Willis. xx 


Intro - MC Sue’s Daily Voicemail (thankfully she knew 
the difference between Drum and Bass and Jungle)

James Shinra - Moonlit (Analogical Force)
The Mountain People - Memorandum (Mountain People)
Ewan Jansen - Skyflakes (World Wibe Web) 
Reedale Rise - Azura (Lost Control)
Blackwhole - 1000 Seconds (Stay True Sounds)
D’Julz - Da Madness (Martinez Brothers Edit) (Bass Culture)
Mo’Cream - Im Sure (No Fuss)
C.K - Ever So (PRS)
 Felon 5 - Groove Connection (Felon 5)
Marc Romboy Vs. Blake Baxter - Freakin’ (Systematic)
Harold Heath - One More Try (Groove Pleasure)
Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym (King St. Sounds)
Edward - Vacuum Tube (Trelik)
Loft 55 - Butterfly Lips (Modern Electronic Soul) 
Spincycle - 7UP (Coin Op)
 Kirk Degiorgio - Seven Minutes Of Funk (Cyphon)
Smithmonger - Get It Oun (Oblong)
Garrett David - Play2Win (Butter Side Up)
Mitch Wellings - Choreography (Private Parts)
Medlar - Luv Interlude (Paranoid London) (Delusions Of Grandeur)
Huerta - C&T (Leizure) 
Donnie Cosmo - Space Time Surfer (Shuffle Valley)
 Sniper Mode - The Iron Raven (Rawax)
James Shinra - Poppin (Shinra Electro Company)
 Bushwacka! - Lectro (Plank)
James Holden - In The End You’ll Know (Border Community)

In Deepest BN1 Volume 17

Joe has been been trying to craft the perfect transition between two records for the last 30 years,  one day he'll get there but until then,  welcome to the official home of Brutal Willis where we specialise in the exclusive currency of Global Electronic Soul. 

I managed Vinyl Frontier Records in Woking,  Surrey for the best part of a decade..... living, breathing,  loving and sharing repetitive beats.   I have been fortunate enough to grace the platters at lots of different clubs,  events and festivals up and down the country and Europe.  I co ran the legendary night "Shuffle" (which may come back one day).  I won the coveted "bedroom bedlam" mixtape award for Muzik magazine, residencies at the Cross, The Pool , Piranah's and 333 in London and was awarded the Percy Thrower Lifetime achievement award for services to the green plant.  I have played at Glastonbury, The Big Chill, Kimberley, Orchard amongst  many others and more recenly a regular fixture at the Give ! festival for House of Honey.   These day's I can be found deep in stock pots working culinary magic for all kinds of people,  however you may still catch me behind the platters (that matter) as much as I can.  I love music with a captivating groove, a glowing warmth,  sincerity and emotion however it comes and still relish the opportunity to share my sounds manually through the medium we know as Vinyl.  As long as it's available I will continue to support it,  everything about it just works and I believe it helps strengthen our beloved scene.  



On the chill tip you can find my Orange Grove mixes below 

Safe. 

https://www.mixcloud.com/joe-shanks/

Bookings/Contact: https://www.brendanclay.com/contact/

In the spirit of defecting from the much-maligned third-person bio approach: in short, I am a Sydney-based DJ who specialises in the sounds of deeper house and disco.  I take delight in playing a solid warm-up set and revel in the success of watching a room build around it.

Since making my club debut as a fresh-faced eighteen-year-old at 'Thursday Delights' at the Icebox—a popular trance and hard dance event of the time—I have been lucky enough to play right across Sydney, enjoying bookings at Sounds on Sunday, S*A*S*H, Chinese Laundry, Plastic, Café del Mar, The Burdekin and Candy's Apartment; as well as larger-scale events such as Big Day Out and Harbour Party NYE.

In the process, I've also been fortunate enough to support some of the leading names in dance music—both locally and from around the world—including LCD Soundsystem, Booka Shade, Subb-an, Chymera, Sonja Moonear, Luke Chable, Jasper James, YokoO, Kenny Glasgow, Darren Emerson, Mark Dynamix and Kid Kenobi, to name just a few.

I like to put on the promoter hat, too, hosting and playing at events of my own: 'Attic' being my main project.

Since its inception, the Attic brand has enjoyed success in its standalone parties—for which we've toured renowned house and disco artists, Fouk, Nachtbraker, Folamour and Laurence Guy, to name a few—as well as appearing all around Sydney for invitational takeovers, radio appearances, and exclusive showcase sets.

Away from the club dancefloor, you might also find me playing an extended-length set in a low-lit bar, exercising the deeper, more eclectic selections of my record box—lower, slower and groovy, just the way I like it!

For ten years, I was heavily involved with the Internet radio game, hosting successful programs, 'Friday Night Live' and 'The M Shift'; on Indiesoundz and NSB Radio networks, respectively.  The M Shift, which ran for six years, specialised in breaks, house and drum 'n' bass, and was regularly enjoyed by thousands of live listeners, downloaders, and Podcast-listeners alike.

As above, I pride myself on playing a good warm-up set—added again for emphasis!—and believe it to be somewhat of a lost art form in this current age.

I also don't mind getting in the studio occasionally, but that facet, for now, is still very much a work in progress!

Website: https://www.brendanclay.com/

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