Guest Mixes

A3K158 Vain - April 7th, 2021

Deep grooves to soundtrack your shopping trip or a Sunday afternoon

Music for Market Shopping

Hot Wax Soundsystem's monthly radio residency at Hope St Radio.
www.hopestradio.community

SAM MARTIN - Friendly Mixtape at Hope St Radio 9

An hour of deeper, clubbier tunes from yours truly. As usual, all live, all wax, off-the-cuff mixin'.
Managed to slip a few all time favourites into this so pour yourself a nice tall glass of bubbly and have a dance. x 

Plenty more techy shit in the pipeline so I hope ya'll like doof doof.

Peace to Grotto, Greetings, Nathaniel Garry (YTD), Dem Large, the Blend crew and the Bleus Boiz.

Birthday Behaviour

After a year of self imposed hiatus and inertia we're back in the saddle for the second serving of Birthday Behaviour. Recorded live and direct, unadulterated and bottled at the source for your pleasure.

Pushing a little faster, clubbier and slipping in few left turns on this one..

Live and direct 6/10/2023
2x Audio Technica Lp120s 
1x Omnitronic 402
1x Indiana Jones read-along 7"
30x 12" Dance Records

Birthday Behaviour II

"Can you play something chill while I'm making dinner?"

Tuesday night mix with Purin & Pasta alla Norma

Purin Mix

Birthday Behaviour III

Fresh off the back of their release on Neurom Records, Your Humble Narrator, host to the inimitable Midnight Snack parties,  has graced the Vain Mix series with a gift.

The mix is brimming with deep and percussive electro earworms for the late night freaks, and for optimum results, pair with a Midnight Snack, strobe light and a smoke machine

Vain Mix Vol.8: Your Humble Narrator

After an appearance at our last party at Lounge, we couldn't get enough of her so for this instalment of the Vain Mix series we've got Subterranean Jazz Club.
Whilst they're fairly new to the scene, they've already started to hone in on a signature sound which celebrates rhythm in its rawest forms.

Subterranean Jazz Club smoothly traverses sounds and energies to create a deep, cerebral sound underpinned rolling rhythms and basslines. The mix they've brought us today is one which epitomises their broad, yet distinct sound palate which synergises DnB, UK influenced bruk, jazz and afro gems. 

Dive deep into the get amongst it. The Subterranean Jazz Club awaits..

Stay up to date with their music over at: soundcloud.com/martha-dawson-613159959

Vain Mix Vol. 12: Subterranean Jazz Club

An ode to the small furry native creatures who roam the trees and undergrowth in the moonlight.
A nocturnal creature themselves, DJ Possum’s mix is for soundtracking a cold winter morning as dawn breaks, or an warm night in the burrow or nest. There’s a handful of non-marsupial Aussie gems in the mix too, so keep an eye out, they can be hard to spot without a field guide.

Get yourself a cuppa, get cosy and enjoy.

Shnook Music

Vain Mix Vol. 13: DJ Possum's Music For Nesting

Mysterious & Based DISKMANE DEEJAY has brought us a sizzling hot platter of house music. 

In Volume 15 of the Vain Mix series DISKMANE DEEJAY dives deep into bassy electro, bubblin' basslines, pumping house and slick grooves. Well attuned to the scene, their blend are as tight as their screen-prints. A serious party mix this one is sure to have you dancin' late into the night. Don't sleep. 

Stay Vain, Stay Based.

Vain Mix Vol. 15: DISKMANE DEEJAY

Local dubby disco deviant Jack Danzey of Sunset Sounds has delivered a piping hot selection of primo tunage for the warmer months.

After killing it on the infamous Lounge balcony for our last Vanity party, we were hooked and chasing more of his euphoric guidance. There's plenty of drummage, deep bass and a few cheeky how ya garn's. 

Dinner's served.

TASCAM DR-05

Vain Mix Vol. 17: Jack Danzey

One third of the Bleus crew and long time friend big uncle al finally enters the Vain Mix fray!

Over an hour the man shows us why he's the 'cool' uncle of the family with some slick, deep house selections to cool you off on a hot day.

It's hot out there, tune in and let big uncle al guide you into the weekend.

Vain Mix Vol.18: big uncle al

Pulled from the archives "Nestled Amongst the Bass Bins" is an introverted exploration of some of our favourite deep cuts recorded early in the pandemic. Never intended for public consumption, this collection of mid-tempo cruisers has bubbled to the surface. Lay back, spark one up and enjoy.

Vain mix trainspotters may recognise a few tunes which have made their way into newer mixes.

Nestled Amongst the Bass Bins

Test subject 1.9 Vain (@vainvainvain) returns to us with a deranged, sludgy, swamp-like recording flirting between states of mania and dementia, ecstasy and misery… a journey of conflicting emotions enough to send one’s mind into disarray. Try holding onto your sanity while trawling through these bubbling, eerie blends.

"The picture was great to work off, normally my process is heavily improvised; I’ll pick a few records out and see where they take me. Having the graphic pushed to explore dubbier, subaquatic sounds which I don’t get the opportunity to play much. It was really refreshing to showcase the breadth of my collection and share some of my favourite slower/wonkier tracks in a less dance-oriented format. To quote Madteo “shit just sounds more interesting when it’s slowed down”. It was fun to put together a nice lil mong out mix. So lay back, spark up and enjoy." - Vain on his experience working with the given image.

Manifestation // Vain

For the 20th instalment of the Vain Mix series, we've stepped up with a mix of our recent favs. Slow, bassy and perfectly paired with a spliff and some sunshine, this mix'll keep you kicking through a hot summer's afternoon in the park.  Full of Balearic blah blah and smooth grooves, this one's for your next alfresco event!

Vain Mix Vol. 20: Vain's Phthalo Blue Bath

"Our alternative soundtrack to Stage 17 of this year's Tour de France, something to get the blood pumping as you reach the summit 🚵 " @vainvainvain

Art by Monika Maurer-Morgenstern

LXXXIX - vain

Lovers of smooth grooves and deep tunes.
Irregular mix series & occasional parties
 
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