A sublime selection of dancefloor beats and downtempo dubs from around the globe, Mixes + Mavericks features seven remixes by Pitch Black, two live tracks that couldn’t be more different in nature or tempo, one seriously unorthodox situation (an unauthorised remix of a remix) and a track in between states, all highlighting the breadth of the duo’s sonic palette.

Whereas their previous Rarities + Remixes collection was predominantly rooted in New Zealand, Mixes + Mavericks is undoubtedly a more international affair, with all the remixed artists hailing from the northern hemisphere. Many of the connections are the result of the duo’s touring and festival appearances around the globe: they first met Gaudi at a gig in Japan, Animat and Nick Woolfson (Sounds from the Ground) at The Big Chill festival in the UK, while downtemple duo Desert Dwellers were encountered in the Californian underground. 

Other connections were more straightforward: Brighton-based Ink Project (run by Kiwi Jez Lloyd) approached them to remix “The End” and Mexico’s Sudden Reverb was introduced by label-mates Deep Fried Dub. Meanwhile Mike bumped into Radioactive Man’s Keith Tenniswood (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) while he was getting a 7” record cut. 

Uber-producer/Killing Joke bass player Youth features in two very different ways. First up is Pitch Black’s pulsating dub mix of his collaboration with Italian producer Gaudi, from their Astronaut Alchemists album. Then there is his unsolicited remix of epsilon-blue’s 1999 remix of Speech, over which he added bass, beats and blessings.  This mash-up lurked for years in the archive under the title of Helmsdub, but only as a corrupted mp3 file. Thankfully a little detective work discovered that, much to everyone’s surprise, it had been released as Speechless (Big Circle Flat Pain Remix) on a 2004 CD compilation. A copy was tracked down, the tune was carefully re-mastered and then correctly named.

Mixes + Mavericks also features two very different live offerings: Notting Pill is a dose of atmospheric moodiness from a rare ambient set at Notting Hill Arts Club in London, held to publicise the upcoming showcase of New Zealand music at Fabric in 2003. The banging G202, meanwhile, was captured by Andre Upston at Rippon Festival in Wanaka, NZ at the turn of the millennium, and later broadcast on Radio New Zealand. It was a track that, despite being a staple of the live show for many years, was never finished, and following software updates and data dumps, the only version that exists is this live recording.

It's a Future Dub is a similarly embryonic track – eventually it became It’s the Future Knocking, from the Filtered Senses album, but here it’s a fascinating hybrid caught midway between creation and completion. Many of the elements of its future self are present, but there is a whole lot more going on, making this a fascinating signpost on a possible road-not-taken. 

Beautifully accompanied by Tim Prebble's Cyanotype images, Mixes + Mavericks is a showcase of Pitch Black’s sonic diversity as remixers and maintains the trademark production aesthetic that has won them thousands of fans and filled dancefloors around the globe.

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Youth & Gaudi - The Gods Must Be Crazy (Pitch Black's Hubristic Prayerformance Mix)(preview)

2nd time playing my beloved moontribe gathering. Set was 1230p, daytime desert dance floor vibes! Slow, pretty and a little silly fun toward the end.

Nov 2021 Moontribe

Tasty house cuts to recharge the soul! It's time to reintegrate.

New Horizons

Listen to the birds from "A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean”, the second Volume in the series following on from "A Guide to the Birdsong of South America", originally released on Robin's label Rhythm and Roots. Volume I raised nearly 15,000 USD for two birding organisations and featured artists like Nicola Cruz, Dengue Dengue Dengue and Chancha Via Circuito.

For this second edition we have shifted focus north of the equator and to the vulnerability of bird species like the Momoto Carenado (Nicaragua), Ferminia (Cuba) and the Jamaican Blackbird (Jamaica), birds who have dwindled in numbers as a result of the environmental repercussions of climate change, deforestation and trapping for the pet trade.

For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged 10 of our favourite producers or musicians from the region. Working with the Xeno Canto birdsong community and the Macaulay Library, we sourced a recording of each bird’s song. Each artist was then asked to create an original piece of music inspired by the bird and its song.

In line with out vision at Shika Shika the curation of artists is specifically geared towards those bridging connections between traditional music and modernity, or between organic and electronic sounds. There are contributions from artists in eight different countries, ranging from Jamaica’s organic dancehall trio Equiknoxx, to Dj Jigüe, one of the leaders of Cuba’s burgeoning electronic scene. Belize’s critically renowned Garifuna Collective have been bringing the unique Garifuna culture and language to a global audience for many years, while Tamara Montenegro has been one of the leaders of Nicaragua’s electronic music scene for the past decade.

The project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, helping us raise £12,599 in August 2019.

Once the costs of production have been covered, all of the proceeds from this album will be donated to Birds Caribbean, La Asociación Ornitológica de Costa Rica and Fundacion TXORI in Mexico. All profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be shared between these organisations who focus on engaging local communities to help improve and grow the bird tourism sector, create awareness of vulnerable birds with young people and crucially, provide rescue, rehabilitation and breeding programmes.

El Momoto Carenado (Electron carinatum)

My sunset psytrance set from Psytopia Dose 1 in the PNW National Forest.

Tracklist

Origin // Vorg
Gossamer // Lumen
Unravelled // Sumiruna vs Terrafractyl vs Smilk vs Pka
Carrier // Lumen & Treeverb
Finalis // Kari
Crooked (Gumnut Remix) // Smilk
Wining and Dining // Smilk
Conexion // Sumiruna
San Isidro // Pantano
Frequency Initiation // Perfect Stranger & Twisted Sibling
Paranormal Boque // Nangijala
Rising Death Star (Schysto Remix) // Quantaloop, Matriöchka
Suspended In Gelatine	// Psydewise
A Fish In a Bowl // Nangijala
Forest Television // Sneaky Voodoo
Cotton Mouth // Lumen
Supersonic Donk // Psydewise
Small Beginnings // Perfect Stranger & Child
Forest Conciousness // Triforce
Oblak // Kliment
Endless // Rising Dust
A.M Burger // Dr. Strangefunk
Likes Viewz Followers // Mr.What?
Squarecase // Multiphase
Back Online // Kosta, Mr.What?
Totally Unbalanced // Kosta, Mr.What?
Treechief // Mr.What?, Dekel
Integrator // ETN

David Dewey - Psytopia Dose 1 - PsyTrance At Sunset

My closing set from Psytopia Dose 1

Tracklist

Auf Den Start Warten // Klunsh
My Regrets feat. Haptic // Jobe
Kamailiona (Marcus Meinhardt Remix) // Aaron Suiss, Peled
Vision // Jiggler
Marvelin // Daniel Rateuke
Enchantment (Hraach Remix) // Max & Nim
Serpiente Del Ritmo (CIOZ Remix) // Oliver Koletzki, ELIH
Gods Gift (Replicanth Aztech Remix) // CANCCI, Alff
Spirals Inflections (QDream Remix) // Kamilo Sanclemente, Carol Brown
Oudara (Club Mix) // Daniel Rateuke
Palenque (Drums Mix) // The Note V, Replicanth
Purple Sky // Weird Sounding Dude
Heliotrope (Slipp Remix) // Spintribe
Sunday Memories // Nosssia
Dissension (Jobe Remix) // Soul Button
Hedo // La Vue
The Blue Dot (From Outer Space Album Version) // Jay Lumen, Air Division
Just Me // Replicanth, Roddrigo Cortazar, Cristopher Cotaya
Reborn // Space Food
Vor Augen // Tantum
A Bit of Nostalgia // Electrypnose

David Dewey - Psytopia Dose 1 - Closing Melodic Techno

Bed Beats Vol. 3

After 9 months without a release, we are back at it fam! 

Enjoy Ethnic world, my latest creation following a style that I've been falling more and more in love with since The change is now! 

It makes me super excited to be back with the music creation world, its been a long time since I was able to get in the creative zone and make something, I'm very excited and I hope you are too! 

This song was actually created during one my livestreams on Twitch! 

I stream 4 times a week, Music production, Gaming, DJing and Flow Arts!

Ethnic World

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Rising Tel Aviv-born DJ and producer Ms. Elin Liso makes a powerful debut on 63b with her brand new EP Wake Up

A deep, groove-laden journey that showcases her distinct blend of classic house, UK garage, jazz and minimal touches.

Having already turned heads with standout sets across Europe and South America, Elin brings her sharp ear for infectious rhythms and soulful textures to this vibrant three-tracker. 

The lead track Wake Up is a bold statement: warm basslines, crisp percussion and irresistible late-night energy. On the B-side, Give Me The delivers a hypnotic bounce with garage-tinged vocal stabs, while Breakin Beats closes the package with a raw, percussive punch built for the dancefloor.

A fifth-generation musician with an eclectic background, Ms. Elin Liso is quickly carving out her space on the international circuit and this EP marks a serious step forward. 

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DARE TO DREAM A WICKED GAME - Passenger 10, Chris Issak, Chris Castillo (VENELEA Wave On Wave Remix)

davidDewey was banished from his home planet onto a passing meteorite. His crime? .Rocking.too.hard. While aimlessly drifting the cosmos, scattered radio warbles and strange errant snare crashes sifted into his cranial transceiver. Several millennia later, dD realized the broadcasts were coming from a tiny blue blip of a planet just four light years away. Decades have passed since he crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean where he was rescued with warm welcome by the Seattle Underground.....who just happened to be raging aboard an abandoned deep sea-oil platform. dD had found planet Earth and was instantly inspired by this new form of rocking. He immediately set off to what would become the greatest journey in the history....of ever.  Since that historic day, davidDewey has mastered the control of human emotion through his presentation of auditory bliss. Often to be found inspiring celebration and dancing among the trees, deep in the high desert or just about anywhere the vibe calls. dD will carry on with his psychedelic mind altering rocking, until one day, he is banished again.

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