For some dance music fans, Hamish & Toby may be their new favourite DJs thanks to a recent US tour and excellent sets at festivals like Glastonbury, Dimensions, Houghton and Freerotation. 2022 was, after all, a breakthrough year for the UK duo. But in their own, close-knit world of Discogs fanatics and vinyl purists, Hamish Cole and Toby Wareham are admired and established names. They met while studying in Leeds, bonding over a shared love of wiggly bombs at countless clubs and hazy afterparties. They ran events (Butter Side Up, Dog Eat Dog), DJ’d tirelessly and continued to dig for obscure gems. Within a few years, they were both working full-time music jobs in London, booking Dimensions Festival (Hamish) and The Pickle Factory (Toby). (Hamish is now a director at Dimensions.) All in all, they’ve dedicated the past 15 years of their lives to dance music.

For all their behind-the-scenes work, Hamish & Toby’s true love is DJing together. They’re known for their long, expressive sets that go, in their own words, “all over the map.” Their RA Podcast, which was recorded live at Philadelphia party Subsurface in May, is a four-hour odyssey through golden-era house, tech house and UK garage. Proper party music, in other words. According to the duo, they were “fully locked in, as comfortable as we’ve ever felt DJing.” It really shows.

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RA.851 Hamish & Toby

Ays takes you on a journey between notes and floats you to where smiles reign supreme. She digs up only that which brings life. Preferably with killer vocals, funky horns, basslines and groovy percussion. Let love unite your limbs to the unexplored depths of disco, funk, jazz and Brazilian boogie.

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All kinds of joy w/ Ays - 7th June 2023

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1. Young Marco - Trippy Isolator [ESP Institute]
2. The Backwoods - Hazy Moon [Smallville]
3. In Flagranti - Effective Placebo Effect [K7 Records]
4. Linkwood - Whats up with the Drums [Firecracker]
5. Two Lone Swordsmen - No Red Stopping [Warp Records]
6 . Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe [Dial]

(The Melt)
7. Luke Slater - Expectation Vol.1 [Peacefrog Records]
8. Jimpster - Seventh Wave [Freerange Records]
9. Roman Flugel - We Have A Nice Life [Dial]
10. Takuya Matsumoto - EKR's Galactic Dance Part 1 [Clone Royal Oak]
11. Julius Steinhoff - Treehouse [Smallville]
12. Wamdue Kids - Optimistique [Peacefrog Records]

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Michael Mayer Megaset Pt.8

ee right here we go! some tracks and sketches from the last few months. this one marks my 5th annual production mix, and it's an XL edition. 

1.5ish hours of new music, all moods. built through turbulence + forged in feeling. 

really hope you enjoy 🌸🤞🏿

anz - sackville street stomp
anz - lunar spiral
anz - sisi eko
anz - couch to 50k (dance mat mix)
anz - chaotic good
anz - sweet one
anz - dancefloor recalibration
anz - organic matter
anz - unravel in the designated zone
anz - stay a while
anz - in session
anz - the prospector
anz - morphing into brighter
anz - tripper's tip
anz - stone groove
anz - giant's leap
anz - speedway
anz - DMPA
anz - halved and doubled
anz - odogwu (akoni ukg)
anz - 3 quid for the wheel
anz - do right by you!
anz - double dutch
anz - iinstructions includedd
anz - the twist
anz - dream sequence
anz - 4 til eternity
anz - oshun
anz - glass gloss (ryd vocal version)
anz - GT mover
anz - rrrenegade
anz - all outta shape
anz - first one back
anz - composure
anz - here's where she returns

artwork by patrick savile (central woodblock print = morning at the hot spring resort in arayu by hasui kawase)

Defrost (The Melt) FEB 2015

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