New Year - New Mix --

selfishly just wanted to record a nice chill mix and sat down with all these 7 s - strictly reggae , dub  , digital , lovers and dancehall  7 inches from late 70s to 90s - mostly b sides - inspired by Bass , Bleeps and oddities

Happy 2022 everyone - :)

Toby Tobias _Dub Bleeps and Oddities

heres an edit i did way back in 2006 - just recovered from an old laptop that had been dead for a few years - this edit of an old italo classic got some heavy play from Greg Wilson and a few others back then and I ve had a few email messages asking me about it so when i found this wav I thought it would be rude not to share - happy Friday :)
T

Gary Low   i want you - Casinoboy edit

Toby Tobias _dub bleeps oddities part 2

syn drama part 3_1  light operated - bleep chill

In the absence of my radio show on - the station took a different angle /direction - I will be putting a few new  mixes up here  -mostly records i ve been digging lately , on the deeper side of house , techno and beyond

tt  cavernous mix july 25

Toby T La piscina mix

recorded this Show with my dudes Daddy Differently and Dirty Dave ( and  Boo ) who eased it in perfectly in the first half- had me mad diggin on discogs after - respect to those guys

my bit starts at 57.55

@ 1hr48 - preview of next track on Delusions of Grandeur - The Rain 

http://dublab.com/daddy-differently-dirty-dave-wguest-toby-tobias-esp-institute-things-of-life-06-23-17/

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Dublab -Things of Life (06.23.17)

Back in 1992  , me and my oldest friend Steve  made this track on his Roland S-50  Sampling workstation. He  was a hip hop producer and a horror film fanatic  -I was someone who to drove in convoy to warehouses , fields , seedy basements and sports centres  in London   so we could  dance all night .I spent a lot of my time recording Kiss FM , various shows -Colin Dale , Colin Faver , Steve Jackson , Paul Trouble , Fabio And Grooverider etc which helped me to discover the wider world of all  things breakbeat,   techno , rave  ,house   garage . 
It was on Colin Faver's show that had he this section called " Demo Dat Pressure " . Demos were sent in from people jus starting out in the game - one was sent in from a Richard James -  the track was called Didgeridoo . 
We had been playing around with stuff for a while - I had persuaded him to speed up the breakbeats and we proceeded to make some " techno " trax  ( thats what they were in our mind )- You can hear his horror influence and my rave influence in this one. We had about 4 tracks done which we decided to send to Colin . The next week we received a phone call telling us our track was gonna be played - we listened that Tuesday night at 10 pm - and sure enough he played it - WHAT A BUZZ - that first feeling of someone who has really inspired and excited you - supporting your work - we had thought we had made it :) 
We didn't have a clue what to do next - so I carried on listening to Kiss and got into DJing ( naturally ) and Steve carried on with his burgeoning Hip Hop career . I was playing around with bits of hardware but it wasn't til maybe 2000 that i started finishing tracks again .

I lost the recording of the Colin Faver show - but after a chance conversation recently with Ricky Swank who knew us both in those days - it turned out he had our demo cassette - so he sent it to me - and it was so nice to listen to them again - I think this one has stood up pretty well - so thought I would share it .

Steve and Tobe 1992 demo dat pressure track for Colin Faver

chris stein_15 mins _TT extended edit 1

sahara_1_rudeboy in space version

Finally got round to uploading another or my push button comps from the 2 Colins shows from around 91 /92 - ( I used to compile these cassettes from a number of recordings of there shows , and then these were used as a soundtrack for a drive into the city or way out west on a rave mission ).

This - along with the Zen Trax cassette felt like a really fertile period captured  in the techno/hardcore /trance period , with the emergence of breakbeat .
Few Classic artists / tunes in this tape including Larry Heard as Gherkin Jerks , VLSI Heaven , and the all timer - Fallout - the Morning after )

Theres definitly still a couple of here that I still haven't managed to ID after all this time , and would very much appreciate any assistance :)
Not as long as this one ,  was only recorded on 40 minute cassette - desperate times  !

tobytobias

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