Name: Mountainside by The Forgers
Duration: 3 min
Description: The first single from the debut album by the Forgers, Embersongs, released in December 2006. An original composition by Neil McCutcheon, also featuring Rachel Wilson on bass and a sampled Brazilian drum troupe from Budapest in the mix.

This is the original demo of my song "Summer's Gone" exclusively on SoundCloud. I hope you all enjoy this one from the vault :)

#SCFIRST

Unknown album (2_26_2019 4_47_

Summers Gone (Original Demo)

Phish IT Soundcheck 2003-08-02 FM The Bunny Part 1

Phish
IT
Soundcheck (part 1)
Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine
2003-08-02

Source: FM > Nomad Jukebox 3

The Bunny - 96.1 FM WQHR
Phish IT Festival Radio
Limestone/Presque Isle, ME

Recording and mastering by Mike Wren

bt.etree > FLAC > Audacity > WAV > SoundCloud

Notes:
- FM broadcast recorded in a car while waiting in traffic to enter festival
- Cover art/picture: picture of recording setup
- Free and openly traded source (https://bt.etree.org/)

**Mondegreen Exclusive** IT Soundcheck
In preparation for Mondegreen we travel to 2003 for the IT Soundcheck. This behemoth slowly expanding jam was broadcast on Phish FM radio "The Bunny" while attendees waited in traffic to enter the festival. Here is the first 30 minutes of the hour jam ending with Fishman monitor adjustments. Thankfully some ingenuitive heads recorded the broadcast, see cover art pic.
IT Soundcheck>Mondegreen
https://soundcloud.com/grateful-archivist/
https://soundcloud.com/grateful-archivist/phish-it-soundcheck-2003-08-02-fm-the-bunny-part-1

Phish's IT Festival Radio - Limestone/Presque Isle, ME

Phish IT Soundcheck 2003-08-02 FM The Bunny Part 1

Buy us a coffee to support the page: www.buymeacoffee.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Buy it here: www.discogs.com/sell/release/36165?ev=rb

---

About the CD:
A seminal selection for our 175 episode. Featuring a CD has that mystic quality sitting on the store shelves of HMV or whichever record store you shopped in. With unforgettable artwork and a sound that has gone onto secure its classic status. And although I didn't buy this first release... I had a subconscious feeling it was something very special indeed.

Thanks to everyone for sharing this, especially the Facebook followers and good friend Ross Haswell. Oh and a special shout out to Paul for reminding me of this one!

Ps. Northern Exposure 2 is also on the site, which is a personal favourite of mine, go check it out and don't forget to buy the cds on Discogs

Turn it up, and enjoy the mix!

Buy on Discogs

175 - Northern Exposure by Sasha & John Digweed - Disc 1 (1996)

The other side of my 2011 Christmas single. I've wanted to cover this Jon & Vangelis song for a long time, and Bernardo wanted to make a Christmas record so it was a perfect opportunity. Neil Anderson on big guitar!

I'll Find My Way Home

The first single from the debut album by the Forgers, Embersongs, released in December 2006. An original composition by Neil McCutcheon, also featuring Rachel Wilson on bass and a sampled Brazilian drum troupe from Budapest in the mix.

Mountainside

Dreamflower and toadskin spell: a hidden history of drugs / written and produced by George Monbiot

"Draws together writers and scientists, mushrooms and nuts, to ask: What have Santa Claus, Alice in Wonderland, South American villages and the Indian rope trick got in common? The answer is - drugs."

-  from the New Zealand National Library cataloge entry

On a long car journey back from someplace in the early 2000s our parents flipped over one of the mixtapes we had with us and pressed play. As the haunting tones of the intro wound into life and Tom Baker's conspiratorial  narration powered-up they said something about it being a documentary that had been on the radio in the 80s how one of their mates had taped it off there. There was a photograph of the moon cut out and stuck on the inner and inscribed carefully across the spine “Dreamflower and the Toadskin Spell”. 

It blew my tiny mind: its eccentric professorial tour through the impact of drugs on culture and religion seemed deliciously subversive yet profoundly full of common sense. The feeling that I would be seen as insane if I recounted any of these “facts” to people I knew - my friends or teachers at school - only added to the sense that we had stumbled on a forgotten trove of socio-religious secrets, too dangerous – too true! - to be known publicly. Santa and fly-agaric fungi, witch's broom-sticks being used to topically apply hallucinogenic drugs – the Old Testament being the evidence of the early Christianity as a mushroom cult – all pretty entertaining information. 

As the years passed by it was periodically re-remembered. But by the time I wanted to try and reuse some of the audio, the mixtape was long-lost despite several sessions of frantic tape-digging in my parent's attic. I couldn't even remember its name. And then one day last year whilst half-hopelessly searching for it, I stumbled upon the BBC Genome Project where they have usefully scanned in every copy of the radio times ever printed and so had included the only keywords relating to the tape that I could remember: Tom Baker, drugs, documentary.

But it took another while to come across somewhere that still had a copy of the damn tape. I regret to report that none of the British libraries seem to have this tape “in stock”. A copy was sent from a special collection in the National Library of New Zealand. Time has passed since the innocent shock of the 2000s and some of the “facts” contained herein seem less convincing than they did. But all of the charm is still here. The charm may have increased even. 

As far as I know no copy of it exists on the internet. Here I am offering it up for everybody to enjoy and rework. To glory in the documentary style of another time, to revel in its odd delights and be amused and baffled by its strange proclamations.

Dream Flower and the Toadskin Spell

On this exact date, 25 years ago, I received a demo in the post from a completely unknown DJ that Dan Prince, then editor of Mixmag, had told to send it to me... I know it was this date, as it was a Saturday morning before Renaissance that night. I had listened to this demo 5/6 times during the day - and again on the way to the club that night. I knew I’d found something special the moment I heard the mix between the first 2 tracks on the B side of that tape!

After Renaissance that night, as often happened, Sasha came back to my house the next morning... I told him I'd found a DJ who I thought was amazing, and went on to play him the tape. He too was blown away! The only writing on the tape was 'DJ JD’ and a phone number, so I called John after the weekend and told him I loved the tape and wanted him to play at the club, but I told him I wouldn't put 'DJ JD' on the flyers as it sounded like a rave DJ and instead wanted to bill him as John Digweed. I booked his first date on Saturday 5th September 1992 - and spent 4 weeks before his debut gig telling everyone I'd discovered this amazing DJ - and, of course, he didn't disappoint!! The whole club was blown away by the talent on show on his first night, and I then started to regularly pair him with Sasha at Renaissance, ahead of that iconic mix compilation, 2 yrs later, that took the S&D partnership global... so here's the mixtape that started it all, a piece of clubbing history and a significant footnote in Renaissance’s history and in the career of one of the world’s finest DJs!🔊🔊🔊

John Digweed Renaissance Demo - 14.07.1992

Kusum - by Slow Design 

Slow Design are - Neil McCutcheon (Vocals and guitar), Steve Athey (Keyboards/piano) and James Forsyth (Lead and additional guitar) 
With guest musicians: Pritee Kumari Hurnam (additional Vocals), Pete Lockett (World percussion), John Hamilton EQ Studios (Bass) 

Full studio version. Recorded at EQ Studios London May 2004. 
A 12-minute epic but can be thought of as three separate tracks. 


- part one: Germination 
- part two: Growth and bud 
- part three: Flower and seed

Mountainside

The Forgers

Related tracks