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Bucky Skank is my hobby. I've loved Jamaican and Jamaican inspired / influenced music for nearly my whole musical life. I don't consider myself an expert in any way but over the years I have amassed quite a lot of this music and it is one of a very few forms of music I can listen to all day without getting bored.

I have played about a half dozen full sets of this music and it has been like learning how to dj all over again. All those sets had a slightly shambolic edge to them as I found my feet but have been wonderful, if nerve wracking fun as I scrambled in the dark to find the right 7" to play next. It's definitely not something I'd like to do all the time but doing it one or two times a year is a true joy, so a big thanks to those who have come along and danced. 

There is also the Bucky Skank label, again very much a hobby which releases a couple of 12"s each year (the first one now sold out, the second one due shortly).

Anyway, here's a two hour mix featuring some of what I played at this year's Bucky Skank in Glasgow. Half of it was recorded on the night and half after the fact, at home. Hopefully the joins aren't too noticeable. A tiny handful of the tracks were on the mix I put up a couple of years ago (The Upsetters' "Bucky Skank" will of course appear in every Bucky Skank set I do and bookends this mix albeit in different versions). if you are looking for totally obscure, ultra rare Jamaican music, this is probably not for you but if you want to hear some of the myriad sounds that have come out of that small island or that it has inspired, hopefully it will be enjoyable; plenty of hits and lots of personal favourites from across 50 years (1964 - 2014), ranging from Barrington Levy, Bim Sherman, Prince Far I and Tenor Saw to Kahn, Cutty Ranks and Lady Saw.

The mix is "augmented" with my dub siren, some space echo and Maschine being used to trigger some additional sounds and samples.

The mix is a little over two hours long, is a downloadable 256kbps mp3 and is 230mb.

JD Twitch - Bucky Skank 2014 mix (NOT for laptop speakers)

Right, sit back and hit play and we'll treat you to the story of how this whole Talamanca System 12" came into being..

International Feel's founder Mark Barrott and the loveable Mr Gerd Janson and his Tuff City partner Philip Lauer were enjoying a meal at Barrot's Ibizan hideaway. During said meal Mark somehow agreed to gift his unused Studio Electronics ´Boomstar 303´ synth. The Tuff City guys then thought it would be nice to repay the loan with a remix for Mark, which eventually turned into a full collaboration and this resulting EP. 

Keep an eye out for when it hits shelves on Nov 10th.

Talamanca System "Balanzat (Tuff City Kids Remix) Boiler Room Debuts

...a Laki Mera version of Kate Bush's beautiful song, taken from our Radio 2 Dermot O'Leary session on 9th July 2011...

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush cover, Radio 2 Dermot O'Leary Session)

(*) This mix is based on Chris Coco's new album "Nightbus", more info here: https://chriscoco1.bandcamp.com/album/nightbus

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Website: http://www.chriscoco.com
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Chris Coco has been working as a DJ since the acid house explosion of the late 80s.

He has edited DJ magazine, worked for BBC Radio 1 on the afterhours show The Blue Room. He has made artist albums for Warp and Distinctive Records. He has made compilations for Playboy, Ministry of Sound, EMI Classical and Trojan Records. His music has appeared on many compilations including the big ones, Cafe Del Mar and Hotel Costes. His music has been featured Sex and the City, Nip Tuck, House and many other TV shows.

He currently broadcasts and syndicates a weekly electronic music radio show called Melodica and runs his label, Melodica Recordings, out of his studio/office in London.

His music style has developed from those original house beginnings and draws on those years of experience. His club/festival/party sets are mainly proper house featuring the best of the current releases and a selection of classics with a little slo mo disco and a few eclectic surprises thrown in. His sunset/beach sets are more laid back and eclectic, and are also something special.


EGLO.003 Chris Coco

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Born in Belgium in Liège and in love with music since always, it is around the age of 15 years old that ANouch discovered the techno music of Jeff Mills, Sven Väth or DJ Rush among others…
A lot of others musical styles arrived soon and influenced her tastes (with Daft Punk, Miss Kittin, The Hacker, Vitalic, Birdy Nam Nam…).
But it is only years after, end of 2015 that she decided to start deejaying.Things fell into place on the dancefloor of the clubs in Basel in Switzerland. In love with vinyls, it is naturally this support that she choosed first to play. Her musical style is a mix of Deep House, Tech House, Deep Techno and Minimal Techno.
Since beginning of 2017 she starts to play first in clubs in Basel then in Ticino, Germany, France and Belgium.

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DJ QU

The New Jersey based producer, DJ and Strength label boss was referred to as "the dancer's DJ" in Resident Advisor's 2009 feature on the US east coast house renaissance, a title honestly earned given his background as a world traveling house dancer and resident at New York's esteemed HouseDanceConference. He's been steadily reinforcing that description ever since, with a well-received run of rhythmic, dark, stripped-down productions for his Strength Music imprint.

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To Rococo Rot - He Loves Me (Four Tet remix)

Italian fine House Italian Label of Claudio Coccoluto, since 1996.