Mix: Dave Begg June 2008

Knocked up a new mix last night after a few beers, as with other recent mixes it's completely unplanned, in fact I was still downloading some of the tracks on it off Beatport when I started the mix, and wasn't entirely sober. Not really how you're meant to do it, in fact I think I will try to plan the next one for a change.

128k version. Right-click and save as: Dave Begg June 2008

Will upload a 320k version to the main site soon

Dave Begg June 2008

Loco Dice - How Do I Know?! - Desolat
Argy, The Mole - Cantstandlovegetaway - Poker Flat
Freedarich, Stiggsen - Redlights (Autotune Remix) - Buena Onda Records
Partial Arts - Telescope (Radio Slave's Prenzlauer Blur Remix) - Kompakt
Rhadoo - Slagare - Cadenza
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling - Wagon Repair
Maetrik - Acid Uprock - Circle Music
Mathew Jonson - Marionette (Adam Beyer Remix) Wagon Repair
Laurent Garnier - Panoramix - Innervisions
Dantom Eeprom - Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Infiné

Website problems & CLASSICS!!

aaaaarrrrrgghhhhh!!!!

As some of you may have noticed, I've had massive problems with my website for over a month now after transferring (very unsuccessfully) to a new, disastrous host.

I am now waiting for my site to be transferred again, to a hopefully better one, but in the meantime I'll just use the blog.

At the moment there is no gigs/news section but the only thing I'd really like to push is my "Classics" gig at Ivy this Saturday. I'm not normally one for looking backwards, especially when "underground" music is concerned, but this is the first time I've done a classics set ever so I'm really looking forward to it. It's also got me thinking I should get around to doing the classics mix I've been thinking about for so long. Having dug out some huge tracks from the early Skank days, going back to 93/94 and racking my brains for some of the stuff guys like Nick Arthur, Ronnie Pacitti and Brian Hutcheon used to play, I've managed to source some amazing old stuff. Lots of Zoom and Hard Hands kinda stuff, including the obvious Shi-take, Sourmash, Flammable, Delta Lady tracks, to the less obvious including the TTP releases (unbelievably ace and still sounding fresh today), tribal stuff like The Daou, plus a few of the older Billy Nasty things like Razor's Edge and Exit EEE, and some of the Hyper Hype stuff - Mo-Tune anyone?

Anyway I will get that classics mix done soon but in the meantime if any of you can make it to Ivy on Saturday I'll be on early doors, probably 11-12.30 or so, hopefully see some of you there :)

Mix: Dave Begg Audio Porn Mix

Just did a new mix for the NoisePorn site, check it out now, cool new Edinburgh based blog with loads of new free music of all types

Anyway, I'll edit this and upload a smaller 64k version soon, but until then here's the 128k version, hope you like it. Right-click and save as: Dave Begg Audio Porn April 08

Sticking with the recent theme, it's another deep techy one. The fun thing about making this mix was that I didn't plan it at all, had no idea where it was going to go, just stuck it together on Thursday whilst killing time before the Liverpool Arsenal game.

Am quite pleased with the result, particularly from that perspective. There's something to be said for those people who spend months planning mixes meticulously, making sure every track fits seamlessly into the next, all mixed in key and timed to precision, spending weeks looking for that one elusive track to make the mix perfect.

But isn't that taking the fun out of it? And doesn't that take any form of art out of it, that is if you can even call playing other people's music an art in the first place? And does anyone really care about your perfect 3 min 43 second transitions?

I'll admit I've spent time in the past trying to perfect every mix but, as well as leading to an output of approximately one mix every 3.7 years, it really sucks the fun out of djing. A DJ mix was never meant to be about polished, perfect mixing - it's about getting new, or good, or hopefully both, music out there. And it should be about having fun. That was the key thing about this mix for me, and something I'd like to carry forward - it was fun, just me messing about on my decks for an hour or so. Who knows, I might even get another one done some time in the next 6 months :)

Anyway enough ranting... check it out, hope you enjoy it. T/L:

Dave Begg Audio Porn Mix - April 2008

Luciano – Montana (Digital Edit) [Cadenza]
Ricardo Villalobos & Jay Haze - Free Ride [Tuning Spork]
Reboot - Letters [Cadenza]
Martinez - Tool 1.6 [Re:connected]
Steve Bug & Cle - Behind The Curtains [Poker Flat]
Micha Klang - Geschichten Aus Jemineh (Mathias Kaden rmx) [Glueckskind Schallplatten]
Petre Inspirescu - Mostra [Cadenza]
Seuil - Salazie [Minibar Music]
Funk D'Void – Ginebra (Sian rmx) [Soma Recordings]
Reboot - Be Tougher [Cadenza]
Matt John - Olga Dancekowski (Audion mix) [Bar25]
Tony Lionni - Shuffle [Versatile Records]
Len Faki - Do Us Part (Par Grindvik rmx) [Drumcode]

March Chart

Been a long time since I did one of these... top 30 for March, in no particular order (well, alphabetical order if you want to be really annoying about it, but you know what I mean

Dave Begg (Beatroot) March Chart

Alex Under - -7 [Net28]
Ben Klock - Similarity [Bpitch Control]
Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann - Scenario [Ostgut Ton]
Brendon Moeller - Saviour [Third Ear]
Cassy - Somelightuntothenight (Troy Pierce mix) [Beatstreet]
Chaton - Precis 1 [Plak Records]
Danton Eeprom - Confessions Of An English Opium-eater [InFine Music]
Funk D'Void, Sian - Ginebra [Soma Recordings]
Guido Schneider, Jens Bond - In Order to Dance [Upon You Records]
Holger Zilske - Spooky Kissing (Kiki mix) [Playhouse]
Len Faki, Par Grindvik - Do Us Part [Drumcode]
Luciano - Montana [Cadenza]
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M [Cocoon Recordings]
Martinez - Tool 1.6 [Re:connected]
Mathias Kaden, Micha Klang - Geschichten Aus Jemineh [Glueckskind Schallplatten]
Matt John - Olga Dancekowski (Audion mix) [Bar25]
Pan-Pot - Faces feat. Vincenzo [Mobilee Records]
Peace Division - Voodoo (Its In The Wall) [Crosstown Rebels]
Petre Inspirescu - Mostra [Cadenza]
Pier Bucci - Chiloe [Crosstown Rebels]
Prompt - Evolve [7Noise]
Reboot - Be Tougher [Cadenza]
Reboot - Letters [Cadenza]
Ricardo Villalobos, Jay Haze - Free Ride [Tuning Spork]
Ryo Murakami - Her [Poker Flat]
Sascha Funke - Mango [Bpitch Control]
Seuil - Salazie [Minibar Music]
Steve Bug, Cle - Behind The Curtains [Poker Flat]
Substance, Vainqueur - Emerge 0 [Scion Versions]
Tony Lionni - Shuffle [Versatile Records]

mix: Matthew Dear aka Audion Essential Mix 15 Mar 08

Sometimes a mix comes along that you know is going to be something special - Matthew Dear's Essential Mix from a couple of weeks ago is one I was really looking forward to, and unsurprisingly he didn't disappoint. Sticking more to his Audion style sound, he treads a fine line between house and techno, on the minimal side of things at time but never losing a funky edge. I've probably made that sound crap but trust me it isn't! The mix features some top tracks from Cadenza label-mates Reboot and a particularly nice track from Prompt, a new discovery for me and one that will be heading straight into the Beatport cart.

Download the mix here: MEGAUPLOAD link

And check out some of these whilst you're at it:


Matthew Dear website

Ghostly International website

(whilst we're on the subject of Ghostly, I noticed that Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities play in Aberdeen on 26th April, worth checking out if you like "experimentation, and unpredictability with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir" :)

Anyway, back to the point.... the mix... link & tracklist below

Matthew Dear Essential Mix 15 March 2008

download here

TRACKLISTING:

Matthew Dear ‘Dom & Sheri’ (Ghostly)
Hot Chip ‘No Fit State (Audion Mix)’ (EMI)
Marco Da Mata & Elle ‘Circling Dub’ (Acid Milk Recordings)
Santizzo, Makka ‘Goom’ (Supernova Digital)
Dapayk & Padberg ‘Theiss (Guido Schneider Remix)’ (Mos Ferry)
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts ‘My Main Man (Flying Filter Edit)’ (Hartchef Discos)
Reboot ‘Clear Motion’ (Below)
Reboot ‘Be Tougher’ (Cadenza)
E-Contact ‘Frozen Girls’ (Stock5)
Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra ‘Kisses (Over Temperature Mix I)’ (Get Physical)
Prompt ‘Evolve’ (7Noise)
Michael Ho ‘Break Free (feat. Lil Dirty)’ (Moon Harbour)
Prompt ‘Elephant’ (7Noise)
Supermayer ‘The Art of Letting Go (Ewan's The Art of Getting Low Dub)’ (Kompakt)
Ryo Murakami ‘Rise’ (Dessous Records)
Rozzo ‘I Wish I Was a Black Cat’ (Trackdown Records)
Jichael Mackson ‘Schnurz’ (Hartchef Discos)
Tim Woestenenk ‘Sunset Love’ (Quagmire)
Elflein & Fox ‘Map (Liebe Ist Cool Remix)’ (Synket)
D-Nox & Beckers ‘Shanghigh (Minilogue Remix)’ (Electribe)
Seth Troxler ‘Love Never Sleeps’ (Crosstown Rebels)
Life Lessons ‘Lee Curtiss’ (Unreleased)
Marc Neyen ‘Mad Suit (Pheek Remix)’ (Archipel)
Jichael Mackson ‘1000 Bugz feat. Blimp’ (Stock5)
Reboot ‘Tony Der Schieber’ (Combi Int.)
Kreon ‘Shake N Make (Reboot Remix)’ (Below)
Alka Rex ‘Ghost Convertibles’ (Musique Risquee)

Mix: Terrence Dixon

Whilst checking out this cool article on MP3 blogging by Steve Mizek I stumbled upon Steve's blog, Little White Earbuds

Check it out for an exclusive mix from Detroit techno producer and dj Terrence Dixon plus loads of other cool music reviews and mp3 samples to download (low quality of course!)

James Holden cheesefest

what a way to celebrate not posting in a couple of months than by posting this.... it's not often that James Holden, one of our first "big" undiscovered guests at Area 51 (apart from the time we had an up & coming Lee Burridge play to 100 people), is mentioned in the same sentence as cheese, but this time it's more than apt, as he becomes surely the first "name" dj to play at his own cheese tasting evening. Roquefort & roll? boom tsh... i'm here all week

Anyway, check this out (link courtesy of RA)

London’s oldest Swiss restaurant St. Moritz is the venue for a unique dance-music-meets-cheese-tasting party next week: The Fondu-Fun-Do.

"During my travels around the world I've developed a bit of an obsession for different types of cheese,” explains Border Community boss James Holden. “Now it's great to finally be able to combine my two biggest passions in one night in London—music and cheese!"

Put together by the mad wags at Allez-Allez, the night kicks off with a fondue tasting party from 9 p.m. onwards—while stocks last of course. Then the main course—non-cheesy sets from James Holden and the Allez-Allez DJs until 3 a.m. Sounds pretty civilized, huh? Be quick, though: tickets are limited to 150.

nice :)



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