This is precisely why physical released trump everything else; 95% of the time. I'm going back to physical media.

Dane's Middle Eastern melody-infused set on Friday at Camp KISS in the Tea House at Burning Man 2023.🌧️🍵🎪🍑🔥💋

From Dane: 
Friday in the Tea House at KISS was magic. The rain and mud forced us to slow down and just BE with each other as we weathered the storm. It created a full range of experiences in our little tea tent. The intimacy and connection it invited created one of my favorite experiences in 15 years of Burning Man... it was an honor to create a soundscape.

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Dane @ KISS | Burning Man 2023 | Tea House Monsoon Vortex

Taking a break from normal programming this August, Luke Solomon digs into his collection of 7-inches from the last few months for your listening pleasure.

Business As Usual August 2024: Luke Solomon + 45's Special Mix

This was a really fun set, higher energy than I’ve ever gone and was well received by the crowd on the beach (though the star of the show might have been my 9 year old hype man, my son Freddie) that night at one of the most magical festivals that exists - Pachena Bay Music Festival, put on by some dear friends and very well attending , offering a great mix of diverse live and electronic music acts. Highly recommended to attend!

Tracklist  (see below)

Bonito - Dennis Cruz 
What's in Your Head? - Disclosure
A History (feat. Julian Mitchell) - Music To Dance To 
This Sound This Groove - Austin Ato
The Prophecy - Love Child
Let's Groove - George Morel
Erotic Discourse (Green Velvet Edit) - Paul Woolford
Mr. Loser - Hrdvsion
The Slip - Pangaea
Bad Boys (Humboldt Mix) - Bad Boy Bill, DJ Sneak
Rap House Jam - DJ Tjizza
Folded Reality - White Square
Move to Slow - CESCO
Honey - Caribou
Listen - Soul Mass Transit System
NUMBER 1 - NOTION
PULL UP - ODF VIP - SPECIAL REQUEST
DJ Burrito Boy - gypsy woman breaks edit
Key103 - Floating Points
Baby Trak - Arma
Pulse J (VIP VIP) - Jook
Counting (Sammy Virji Remix) - Hamdi
what a place - altrice
Up In Smoke (Extended Mix) - Dusky
Turn The Page - Overmono & The Streets

Natty - DJ Set - Pachena2024

On the back of his recent Female Planet E.P. on Paper (avail here https://hypeddit.com/kef4ei), The Secret Soul Society has dropped us a 50 min power mix of his own unique soundscape styles which you can grab a listen to here.

Cut up, jackin, wobbly, balearic and much more...tuck in!

The Secret Soul Society - Female Planet: Paper Guest Mix

Hey, I'm Andre, aka Andrew, and I'm 39 years old. I come from the beautiful little town of Münster.

I've been DJing in bars and small clubs here for about 14 years, and for the last 8 years, I've only been playing vinyl.

Electronic music is a great passion of mine, and I hope you enjoy my podcast! Enjoy!

House At Home 014 : Andrew

With All Your Soul (Onetram & Subsector )

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Red Richards & Onetram - With All Your Soul (Onetram & Subsector )

No more excuses

From latest blog post - 'Manchester Vibes In The Area':
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2011/10/manchester-vibes-in-the-area/

The Electric Chair, with its legendary residents, The Unabombers (Luke & Justin), ran from 1995-2008, hosting 151 ‘executions’. A who’s who of guests, from both sides of the Atlantic, appeared during this time, and it was the favourite UK night of so many DJ’s. After 13 years they decided to go out at the top, their beloved ‘dirty basement’ still packed to the rafters for the monthly sessions (the venue, the Music Box, was previously another seminal Manchester club called Rafters, which I first became aware of in the late 70’s when it was at the forefront of the North’s Jazz-Funk scene, with DJ’s John Grant and Colin Curtis at the helm). Luke & Justin now run a successful bar, Electrik, in Chorlton, Manchester, whilst still making DJ appearances – they also host the Electric Elephant Festival in Croatia once a year.

Playing for the first time at the Electric Chair, on February 26th 2005, was a big deal for me, not only because it was the leading night on the scene I was now a part of, but also because it represented a lineage of cutting-edge Manchester clubbing dating right back to the 60’s, including Legend and The Haçienda, 2 landmark clubs I had the good fortune to be personally associated with 2 decades earlier. 

So, as you can appreciate, there was a deeper sense of time and place, almost a sniff of destiny, about that night at the Electric Chair for me. I’d prepared in accordance, putting together some new edits for the occasion. I started off with a mash-up, ‘Soul Squelch’, which coupled a contemporary track, ‘Squelch’, by Manchester’s own Dubble D, a Chair regular, with the classic Rakim rap from ‘I Know You Got Soul’ (Eric B & Rakim), which harked back to my 80’s Hip Hop connections with the city – this would be pressed-up on the first Redux 12” as ‘Soul Squelch’ (by Dubble D & Rakim). 

My final track, again specially edited for the occasion, was Mr Bloe’s harmonica workout, a feelgood favourite from my younger years, 1970’s ‘Groovin’ With Mr Bloe’. This would later be become more widely known as the closing cut on my first ‘Credit To The Edit’ compilation, which was issued the following August. 

The recording features an additional ‘one for the road’ track, which was an extended edit I did of ‘The Word’ by The Beatles. Luke and Justin always played the last spot, but they got me to come up at the end of the night to spin a final tune, and this is what I went with. Also, the recording is presented here for the first time as a whole 2 hour mix. It was originally split into 2 CD length halves, hence the fade out you’ll hear on ‘WFL’ by the Happy Mondays at the end of what was Disc 1.
  
Prior to my initial Reels Of Steel at Band On The Wall, Stretch Disco, who were hosting the night, put a YouTube piece online, where I was interviewed about my career defining ‘Manchester Moments’ - Legend and The Haçienda first time around, and Music Is Better and the Electric Chair more recently. Here’s what I said about my Chair debut:

“I knew about the Electric Chair beforehand, and I’d recognised it as the leading night on the scene, not just in Manchester but nationally. I think Electric Chair is one of these nights that, now, I don’t think people give full credit to - it will need a separation of time, give it 10 years and people will talk about the Electric Chair in real hallowed terms because, you know, the amount of nights up and down the country that I’ve done since that have said that they got their inspiration from the Electric Chair. It was just such a great night! 

What they were doing was mixing all the different styles together and I think that reconnected to the original spirit that went back to my time (at Legend). I can remember when I first went in there, listening to some of the tracks that were being played - I knew that Justin (Unabomber) had come from an Indie side, he was in a band called The New Fast Automatic Daffodils, and I was aware of this, but I didn’t know much about Luke at the time. I thought there’s a connection back to the black scene here, but I couldn’t quite work out what it was, and then I realised what it was, it was that Luke was from Sheffield and he’d been schooled at a night called Jive Turkey, which Winston (Hazel) and Parrot were the DJs at. Now they were kids on the scene who used to come to the All-Dayers that I used to do - no doubt that they came to Legend and stuff. So it’s all within that side of things, and he (Luke) made his connection there, and that made perfect sense to me as to why that black sensibility was there within the music that was being played at the Electric Chair. 

It was an incredible night, I mean they still do one-offs now, but obviously the night was at The Music Box - not the original though, they started in pubs in the 90s. I mean it was going for a long time beforehand but eventually found its home at The Music Box with a real dedicated crowd who were really into the music and everything. So when I came to play there it was like a homecoming in a way, and in a sense it made me feel like I’d arrived as a DJ again - it had gone beyond the stage that here’s somebody from the past and there’s a novelty value aspect to it, to somebody who’s current and doing stuff now, and I felt that very much with playing at the Electric Chair, with the warmth and reception of the crowd.”

The full ‘Manchester Moments’ clip can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHJQ_mDPiU

Greg Wilson - October 2011


ELECTRIC CHAIR MANCHESTER 26.02.05 (greg wilson live mix)

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Chaos Restored 2 - Justin Martin

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Full 4 hour recording of myself and The Revenge's recent appearance at The Berkeley Suite in Glasgow. Dodgy Glaswegian banter in the background included.

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Live At The Berkeley Suite 2018

OOFT! B2B The Revenge - Live At The Berkeley Suite 05.08.2018

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But I wasn't the only one, mix cds were the soundtracks of our nights, our days, our afterparties and lives, for everyone. Yet in today's internet age, the art form has been lost (or just changed) to 2-3 hour online mixes and streaming videos, which just don't create the same magic your CD collection did. Just 60 minutes of music and incredible artwork.

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