@nightmares-on-wax “I made this mix after my interview and conversation with Ralph Moore for Mixmag, and it's inspired by lots of the music and references we were discussing. I wanted to do a mix for Mixmag you wouldn’t usually get going through soul, funk, reggae, disco, R&B and house. All the songs are tunes I’ve been digging this past year during the pandemic. I had a lot of fun digging records for this mix and recorded it live in my studio The Other Ship in Ibiza.”

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The Cover Mix: Nightmares On Wax

Every now and then I dust off the old turntables and do a mix. When that happens, I occasionally manage to record it. And then sometimes, its pretty good. So let your hair down, kick off your shoes, take off your socks, clear a space on the floor, listen and let go...

00:00 Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump (Instrumental) 
01:37 Busta Rhymes Feat. Pharrell - Light Your Ass On Fire 
04:05 Marc Mac presents Visioneers - 55 Dollars* 
06:15 Jill Scott - Golden (East Coast 107 Mix) 
07:50 Mantronix feat. Wondress - Got To Have Your Love Radio Edit 
09:17 Organized Konfusion - Let's Organize (feat Q-Tip) 
10:48 The 45 King - The 900 number 
12:15 Ultramagnetic MC's - A Chorus Line [*][Original 12" Version] 
13:10 MANTRONIX - King of the Beats 
13:57 Credit to the Nation - Call It What You Want 
14:33 Cypress Hill - Lick a Shot 
16:31 Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome 
17:25 Missy Elliot - Pass That Dutch 
19:26 Abdominal & DJ Fase - Fly Antics 
20:20 UltraMagnetic MCs - Poppa Large (Daily Diggers Remix) (1992) 
22:06 Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) (Album Version) 
24:05 NERD - She Wants To Move (dfa Remix)-rns** 
25:39 DJ Mehdi - Leave It Alone (Edit) 
28:11 Task Force - Arrest the President 
28:56 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 
30:29 Aceyalone - Supahero 
32:17 DJ Mehdi featuring Fafi - Lucky Girl Featuring Fafi 
33:29 Ultramagnetic MC's - When I Burn 
34:30 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - I'm All That 
35:25 Rick James - You And I 
36:44 Barry Manilow - Copacabana 
40:52 Chic - Le Freak (Z-Trip Golden Remix) 
42:37 Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky (Daft Punk Remix) 
44:29 Jurassic 5 - 4 Lesson 6/ The Lecture 
46:02 Jurassic 5 - 4 Lesson 6/ The Lecture 
47:35 Skitz - Rumble (feat Dynamite MC) 
52:34 DETROIT EXPERIMENT, The - Think Twice (Mark E Pressure dub) 
55:58 CHAMBOCHE - Ipso Facto (original)* 
1:04:18 Cottam - Relapse 
1:16:13 Tony Benn - Faith

April Jams With <3

Timeshift

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John Aquaviva Presents Skills

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290 - John Aquaviva presents Skills (1998)

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Late Night Tales

399 - Late Night Tales - Jamiroquai (2003)

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Tony Humphries

482 - Azuli pres. Tony Humphries - Choice - Disc 2 (2003)

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Worldwide Volume 1

540 - Gilles Peterson - Worldwide Vol.1 - AM Disc (2000)

Recorded live from the decks of Phil Perry on 28th November 1992 at Love Ranch, Maximus, Leicester Square , LONDON

Blending uplifting house and tribal beats, it's a set that would put many of today's DJs to shame...

The Love Ranch Recordings

Phil Perry - Love Ranch - London Nov 1992

Luke Solomon - Xmas Dj Mix 2 - Glitterbox Ibiza Room 2 Warm Up

Recording from socially distanced event at Escape To Freight Island @ Depot Mayfield in Manchester 08.08.20.

A socially distanced gig is strange, but it’s all we have for now. With people required to be sat at tables and dancing a no no, a different approach was required, where I could be a bit more free-flowing in what I played without a dancefloor to take into consideration. I started off at Freight Island with a Beach Boys favourite from ’68, ‘Do It Again’, harking back to their surf style of the earlier ‘60s, having scaled the heights and sailed the psychedelic seas in the intervening years, ‘Do It Again’, with those wicked drums, carried a weight of nostalgia and a hint of melancholy – an after the summer song if you will, about a time that can never return. This seemed an appropriate starter for the situation we find ourselves in – dancing in a club or a field already a memory.

This booking, my first since I got back from Australia in March, fell just a few weeks on from the death of Denise Johnson. This was a big shock – she was literally just about to release her first solo album ‘Where Does It Go’, and nobody could have imagined that this would be issued posthumously. Denise came to the clubs I was playing at in the early-‘80s and I remember her first band Fifth Of Heaven from the latter years of the decade. She guested with likes of New Order, Electronic, Ian Brown and A Certain Ratio, but will forever be remembered for her contribution to Primal Scream's ‘Screamadelica’ in ’91.

It has to be said that the Manchester Evening News and a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and the NME were shambolic in reporting her death, running a picture that wasn’t Denise. I know that Dave Haslam, the former-Hacienda resident who DJ’d before me that day was one of the first to point out this insensitive blunder on social media, which evoked long-standing black stereotypes and must have been horrible for her family and friends.

I, of course, wanted to play something in memory of Denise, as I had with Andrew Weatherall following his death earlier this year. That two of the key contributors to ‘Screamadelica’ had passed within a matter of months is still difficult to take in, the chaos of the times we’re experiencing amplifying the unreality of things.

Rather than a Primal Scream track I picked out a lesser-known personal favourite Denise recorded for Creation Records with Hypnotone, 1990’s ‘Dream Beam’. The Primal Scream hook-up came about when Hypnotone performed at Danny Rampling’s legendary acid-house party Shoom in London, with Denise impressing. Hypnotone faded into the memory as she scaled the heights with the ‘Screamadelica’ LP and subsequent recordings with Primal Scream. The Jesse Jackson speech over the top of Hypnotone was unplanned, but randomly reeled up on my tape at that point for me to appropriately add its Weatherall reference.

The mix then heads off in its own direction, which turned out to carry a recurring jazz-funk theme via big back in the day tracks from George Benson, The Crusaders, Sea Level, Rodney Franklin and MFSB. These are tracks Denise would have instantly recognised from when she first started going out to the clubs. The late-'70s Jazz-Funk scene in the city, with Colin Curtis and John Grant at Rafters and regular all-dayers at The Ritz, a far too rarely mentioned, a part of Manchester’s musical lifeblood.

My next gig was supposed to be a socially distanced Halloween fancy dress at Camp and Furnace for the Liverpool Disco Festivall, but the new COVID-19 restrictions placed on Merseyside put paid to that. The good news is that it’s now been re-arranged for the final weekend of November, which falls around on the Festival’s 4th anniversary, so all is not lost and there’s something to look forward to after restrictions are lifted. Tickets/details here: skiddle.com/e/13892893

ESCAPE TO FREIGHT ISLAND @ DEPOT MAYFIELD MANCHESTER 08.08.20 (greg wilson live mix)

The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 0:00 - 2:00 AM UK time on Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, the Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music. The show has been presented since its inception by Pete Tong and features an uninterrupted two-hour mix from a different artist each week, overlaid with occasional continuity announcements delivered by Tong. With a broadcast run in excess of 25 years, the Essential Mix is one of the longest-running programmes in the current BBC Radio 1 schedule, and is one of very few Radio 1 shows which is not broadcast live.

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Essential Mix 2007-03-18 - Groove Armada

Hey, Gareth here, I'm a graphic designer who start designing for clubs, parties, and labels in the late 90s. Back then, mix CDs were the holy grail of both design and music. I loved them.

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.

The Classic Mix CD Series celebrates these discs, their soundtrack, their box art and your memories. We hope you enjoy it.

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About Gareth:
Digital creative type, gamer, music lover and occasional DJ. Currently living between Dubai & Seoul after setting sail from Sunderland in 2010. As a young designer, club and music culture was the driving force for his work, producing artwork for local club nights and record labels in the North East of England. In particular, DJ mix cds and their packaging were always his 'holy grail of design', especially those from Renaissance, Global Underground and Good Looking Records. It's a pleasure to share these discs back with people and they still influence our tastes to this day. 

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