James Rod (Label Owner of Golden Soul Records) joins me (Mr Wilkinson) for my second Back 2 Back mix – and I couldn’t be more excited!

James has released records with the likes of Chris Massey, Rigopolar, Copycat, Italobruto, Tulioxi, Sommerville & Wilson, Dim Zach, Javier Busto and Alex Aguayo plus produced remixes/collaborations with Pete Herbert, Shubostar, Dombrance, Daniel Monaco, Ilya Santana, Ichisan, Rayko, Celestino, Hoochie Coochie Papa and Los Fugazzi amongst many, many more.

The first hour of this mix sees me delivering my usual combo of slowed down upbeat bangers followed by James as he transforms cosmic disco, dark disco, funk and italo, into modern grooves suitable for every dance floor.

Tracklist:

Mr Wilkinson...
Ilya Santana - Sonic Journey (original Mix)
Biesmans - Dissolve (Gerd Janson Remix) 
Jeff Mental - PSYCHO WOLF
Zakmina - Digital Words
Jon.K - This Is Rockin It (Original Mix) 
Nicone - Acid Riot (Dirty Doering Remix)
Terr - Tale Of Devotion
Poulper - Shadows of Evil Guns (Parissior Remix) 
Favio Inker - Music No Pays My Pills 
Alexey Union & Jon.K - Irobhothi (Original Mix) 
Yasha F - Visualize (Original Mix)
Savin - Detection (Extended Mix)

James Rod
Arp synth intro
Yan Wagner - SlamDunk Cha cha
Kalipo & Local Suicide - Wunderbar 
Los Fugazzi & Vongold - Delete
Steve R ft Parisinos - Sate Sate Sate
Thomass Jackson - Cowbells & Temples
Arabian Panther - Garonne Express
Karl Fraunhofer - Der Anfang
Dombrance - Obama
Myrddin - II Gufo
Did Virgo - Drizze ft Morgan

Mr Wilkinson & James Rod


Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Remake)

ticitaci 086 - The Long Champs - Nostalgia For The Future

3 Brand New Tracks
- Nostalgia For The Future
- Mind Trip, Right On
- A Hungry Ghost

Released on July 28th 2023

The Long Champs - A Hungry Ghost (clip)

Cosmic Cascade

Play, download, and actually own the full length version in much better quality (and with a much fairer deal for the artist) on Bandcamp:
https://cottonbud.bandcamp.com/album/shelves-2024

Written & Produced by Rich Lane ©2024
Mixed and Mastered @ Cotton Bud Mastering

Rich Lane - Shelves (Chug Norris Decade Remix)

Résurrection

Love and Work

Shine and Shine

Written, produced and performed by Rich Lane.

Inspired by the wit of Sean O HAodha.

Additional vocal performance by Manu and Yr.1 Music Tech BTEC Students, NULC.

©R.Lane 2015

Buy on Bandcamp

Rich Lane - Sweat Out The Suicide (Cotton Bud Remix)

tici taci 023 - Iko & Gibb - Tracy

August 21st 2015 release with remixes from daWad , Slugrave, and Duncan Gray

Buy from Juno

IKO&GIBB - Tracy - (clip)

Goat - Run to Your Mama (Cage & Aviary Remix)

In Deep

tici taci - bringing you electric funk rekkids at tempos below 120 bpm. No pre-packed freeze dried loops here, all tracks have live instruments well to the fore, from funky wah-wah guitars and deep chunky bass to temperamental analogue synthesisers and live percussion.

Now 2 years later (July 2015) we're at 23 releases from a range of artists and remixers, with one release scheduled each month.


Duncan Gray (biog) : Perhaps best known as one half of the Sons of Slough along with Ian Weatherall - see discogs entry for details of releases. The Sons were a formidable Live act (see You tube) playing regularly across the UK. DG's own releases also gained some popularity, starting with cuts for Scatological (1996) Blue Black, Whole9Yards, SaltHill, through to Aquamelon (2009). Since returning to music production in 2013 he has released tracks on NEIN, Eskimo, Blindetonation, Play Pal, Rock to The Beat, plus Andrew Weatherall's vinyl only Birdscarer label. He has played guitar on half a dozen AW remixes.
DJ Bookings : julieann.smith@gmail.com

CONTACT :  ticitacimusic@gmail.com


Yes, I do want to hear new tracks. I am always interested in music which features REAL INSTRUMENTS - or electronic originality. I'm getting fussy these days...please email files to the email address above. (don't just send a soundcloud link please) If you don't know what the sound of this label is like, don't bother sending me stuff. I get quite a few demos with a note saying "I love the sound of your label" from producers who have clearly never listened to any of our releases.

PLEASE NOTE : 2020 release schedule now full, but I can always make room for something spectacular, or a really cool remix...