Anthropause

A collection of WotD DJ mixes for several online magazines, ranging from downtempo trip hop vibes on the Decoded Sunday Mixes to gloomtonica & chuggy acid house.

WotD - DJ Sets

Thou Shalt Not Follow

Thou Shalt Not Follow (Cristobal & Jamiez Remix)

Thou Shalt Not Follow (Duncan Gray Remix)

Madness in the Method

Mos Eisley Cantina Drop (Original)

Fear of an Equal Planet

Product of your Environment

Warriors Cry

An Island Affair

Barred

Balearia - Ibiza Sonica Radio

Warriors Of The Dystotheque - Plan B Xmas Party - Belfast 22

Warriors of the Dystotheque - River Radio - Feb 23

Pop Will Eat Itself - Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA) - Unofficial World Cup Track - Warriors of the Dystotheque Official Remix 

PWEI - Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA) - Warriors Of The Dystotheque Punkamba Remix

Exactly 20 years to the day of my 1st ever DJ set in Ibiza I want to share a mix that's been one of my favs in almost 30 years of DJ'n. It was recorded on June 21st 2003 at Coastline for Sunset a special day in the calendar each year as its the Summer Solstice.

Jonny Mac (WotD) Sunset Live @ Coastline Ibiza 21/06/03

Warriors of the Dystotheque 
Ft Ashley Slater (Freak Power) - Be My Star / Beachside Drive
Label: DSPPR
Catalogue Number: DSPPR069
Release Date: July - 18th - 2023

WotD return after what was a truly amazing 18 months with several Jazz FM Playlists (Deb Grant) & BBC 6 Music Premieres (Huey) and support from Steve Lamacq as well as loads more support across local BBC stations, Dan Hegarty at RTE2 fm, and all this was  rewarded with positive press in the nationals and from tastemakers across Ireland and beyond confirming last years album Anthropause was a hit.

Off the back of the album WotD were invited out to Ibiza to DJ at the world famous Cafe del mar & the legendary Pikes Hotel, It was the Sunset DJ set that got them thinking "If I'm gonna DJ as the sun actually goes down I'm not playing anyone else's track" so they set about making a new track, On the Balcony at Sunrise was that track and it caught the attention of DSPPR records label Boss Chris Coco and was pretty much signed within a week of it getting its 1st play at the cafe, it went on the get a reimagining from Chris and was shared with the top Sunset & Balearic DJs in Ibiza and went on to have further plays at Hostal la torre, Cafe Mambo, Pikes, Amnesia, WOM and more. 
With all this love being shown for the track Jonny from WotD was back out in Ibiza in September for another round of DJ sets and this time hooked up with DSPPR label boss Chris and they came up with the idea of a WotD album for the summer of 23 which brings us to Be My Star / Beachside Drive, the 1st single off the new forthcoming album "It's a Beautiful Thing" For the 1st time in the 8 years of the WotD project instead of working exclusively online Jonny met up with the other members, firstly he hooked up in Coventry with his old friend Sean and they started the album with a few ideas, he also enrolled a new member, Kevin Sharkey who's also from Derry where Jonny is based although he's living in England and is a well respected session drummer (Groove Armada / The Undertones) this gave him the idea that he needed to make the jump and get over to the US and into Mike & Nick's studio and as luck would have it they had just moved from NY to Florida so in March he went to Florida with 9 tracks to overdub and do a few more from scratch whilst out there and things went that well he returned to Ireland with 20. This was all whilst hanging at the studio with a pool in the backyard, it sure beats Irish weather.
Jonny say's "Whilst out in Florida we drove along the A1A Beachside Drive for about 30 miles and went to Coco Beach for some food and it was truly inspiring so when we got back to the studio we wrote Beachside Drive in no time.
 On the flight home from Ireland I was listening to the demos and could hear a low baritone voice over the track and luckily I know Ashley so I sent it to him the moment I landed really.  
Ashley says "I met Jonny in the lobby of Virgin Radio in 2017 so when I got an email from him about a track I was already aware of the sort of sound I was gonna hear but I was surprised when a rather delicious, atmospheric summer track landed in my inbox.
I liked it so much I only had to think about it for a day, whereupon I fired back a demo to Jonny, who played it to the band and they evidently liked it so I set to work finishing it with my trademark baritone voice (as requested) and shimmering clumps of backing vocals, topped off with a bit of amateur trumpet. Bosh. A chillout love song for the middle aged lover’s of all things Balearic.  Stop pretending you're young and get on board with this lush production is what I say.

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Warriors Of The Dystotheque Ft Ashley Slater - Be My Star

WotD - Back to the Breaks is the 1st recorded Breaks mix since 06 other than a retrospective mix done for Waveform Transmitter several years back. 
During the 00's Jonny Mac (WotD) toured the world playing Nu School Breaks in the best clubs and festivals around as well as promoting Breaks nights across 3 UK cities.
After playing on Pikes Terrace in July 23 on A B2B with David Phillips he and David ventured into the forgotten Breaks territory and its taken a few months since then to find enough good new Breaks to record a mix , But here we have it, its taken almost 20 years, Enjoy

Warriors Of The Dystotheque - Back to the Breaks

Warriors Of The Dystotheque - We Drop At Sunset

Warriors of the Dystotheque - Gloomtronica 
Mixed By Jonny Mac 
@dysto_warriors 

WotD - Pirates of the Wasteland  Mix

The latest State Mix comes via Warriors of The Dystotheque, the brain child of Jonny Mac from Ireland who this last 15 years has regularly DJ’d across the globe alongside Phil Hartnoll form Orbital and Leeroy from the Prodigy, Happy Mondays, and many others.

Warriors of the Dystotheque grew from a love of lo-fi music and electronic culture between artists spread across Ireland France and New York. Style has no limit, these guys take in elements from 60’s garage, broken beat, jazz, downtempo, techno, electronica, noise, psyche, breakbeat and pretty much anything that opposes the mainstream beige cliches of modern music.

WotD are composed of DJ / Producer / Engineers/ Musicians Jonny Mac, Derry / Ireland  Sean Graham, Coventry / UK & Toulon / France  & The Brothers Nylon Mike and Nick Rufolo NYC / USA and have never spent time in the same country let alone the same studio when working on their music yet have released four EP's over the past two years all of which have had major support across BBC Radio on 6 Music with many plays on the following shows,Nemone's Electric Ladyland, Lauren Laverne, Huey Morgan & Shaun Keaveny more support has come on BBC Radio 1 from Phil Taggart on several occasions also back in N.Ireland from Across The Line & Derry's Stephen McCauley on his Electric Mainline show, Not forgetting Dan Hegarty on RTE 2 and many many more.

Tracklist
1. The Neville Brothers - Son & Daughters - La Decadense Edit

2. Duncan Gray - Disappear - Andrew Weatherall Mix 

3. PJ Harvey - Down By The River - La Decadense Edit

4. Toydrum - Know One Will Ever Know - Richard Norris Mix

5. Orbital - Impact - Ghettface Edit 

6. Warriors of the Dystotheque - We're Taking Control - Justin Robertson's deadstock 33's Mix

7. Warriors of the Dystotheque - The Future Is Ours - Can U Dig It Edit 

7. Leftfield - Open Up - Skream Mix 

8. Goldfrapp - Anymore - Joe Goddard Mix 

9. Underworld - I Exhale - DJ Koze Mix 

10. Bonobo - Cirrus - Skool Of Thought - Edit

11. New Order - Your Silent Face - Fat Neck Retouch 

12. Depeche Mode - Going Backwards - Difference Electric Mix

State Mix: Warriors Of The Dystotheque - A Dystopian Tale

Warriors of the Dystotheque - Cold Turkey

So our next guest mix comes from Warriors Of The Dystotheque!

Been loving their Excursions radio show on Cowbell Radio for a while now so its great to have a mix from them!!

A little bit about them:

Warriors of the Dystotheque is the brain child of Jonny Mac from Ireland, who as last 20 years DJ’d across the globe alongside Phil Hartnoll form Orbital and Leeroy from the Prodigy for several of those years, He also survived 2 tours with Shaun Ryder & Bez from The Happy Mondays,

Numerous festival appearances at V Festival after winning the XFM DJ competition in 2000 and many others across the world, not to mention several residencies in Ibiza playing Sunset & then after dark laying down Nu School Breaks as well as promoting several club nights and warehouse parties across Coventry, Leicester and The Sanctuary in Birmingham with all the top Breaks, Techno, Turntabilist’s & D&B DJ’s for the best part of a decade before relocating back home to Ireland and shelving Jonny Mac and DJ’ing in 2011. 

After taking time out for a few years he started his new project Warriors of the Dystotheque in 2015 and they’ve had major support across BBC 6 Music, BBC R1, RTE 2, BBC Foyle, BBC Ulster & even KEXP in the USA getting in on the act, 7 EP’s and an album later with remixes from Justin Robertson, Richard March (BRA) Tronik Youth and many others, collaborations & remixes for Graham Crabb (Pop Will Eat Itself), James Atkin (EMF) & more they are again about to make some noise with the new EP Thou Shalt Not Follow which comes with a rather tasty Acid remix from Tici Taci’s Duncan Gray.

The EP is a direct response to the Idea that Brexit, the Tories & Trump being in Power is a good idea.

With WotD being a unique set up this is something thats had a major impact on the band members as they are made up of Mike & Nick in New York (USA), Sean who spends his time between Coventry (UK) & Toulon (France) & Jonny in Derry on the Irish border. 

With several DJ festival appearances over the last few years and a tour of Thailand last April he’s getting back into the DJ scene and taking WotD onto the dance floors and has easily picked up where he left it in 2011. 

Thou Shalt Not Follow is released on the 20th March across the usual platforms with Bandcamp being live for pre orders from now.

CONTACT: warriors.of.the.dystotheque@gmail.com

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/w-o-d-1

FACEBOOK:  https://bit.ly/2NLfzJP

TWITTER: twitter.com/Dysto_Warriors

BANDCAMP:  https://bit.ly/2PzLA85

SPOTIFY: http://spoti.fi/2p35fR7

Tracklist:

Undefined Pattern - El Desepere

Modular Project - Supernova

Gogol - Luna

Undefined Pattern - Estrex

Curses - Back For More

Dor Danino - Melomad

Thimble - Veritas

Hino Bros - Club Sampler

Warriors of the Dystotheque - Thou Shalt Not Follow - Duncan Gray Remix

Hino Bros - Barcelona

Low Manuel - Danger 

Warriors of the Dystotheque - Bring Down The Party   

Samples by Orwell's 1984

Thou Shalt Not Follow 

Guest Mix - Warriors Of The Dystotheque

Tracklist:
Duncan Gray Chugboat - Rich Lane (Remix)
Cannibal Ink - Le Petit Prince (A Best Man Dead mix)
Andrew Weatherall - Walk Of Shame
Kalipo - Breaking Dawn (Javier Busto Remix)
Damon Jee & Darlyn Vlys - Antiheroe Rebolledo Remix
Damon Jee & Darlyn Vlys - Kronos - Chaman Remix
Damon Jee & Darlyn Vlys - Thrills
Azaria - Magoo (James Rod Remix)
Red Axes & Cowboy Rhythmbox - Tanz Exotique 
A Best Man Dead - Follow The Shoe
Tamburi Neri - Indio 
Hola Estrella - Cookies

Warriors of the Dystotheque - MTC Radio Mix

The Warriors are  forged from an alliance of transatlantic low-fi fanatics and leftfield DJ / Producers. Projecting an amalgamation of Chemical Beats, broken beat, jazz, downtempo, house, techno, electronica, noise and psyche, their unusual sound, whether laid back, or dance floor oriented, could quite easily come from a dystopic future where truly bad taste is outlawed.

Warriors of the Dystotheque

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