mixes

New Mix: Chris Burgess's 50th

This is what happens when a bunch of lovely people get together in a field to celebrate the 50th birthday of someone wonderful

Tracklisting

Lextron - Night Rider (VLSI)
Underworld - Two Months Off (Junior Boys Own)
Floating Points - Grammar (Ninja Tune)
The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (Universal)
Wata Igarashi - Voyage (WIP)
Alex Banks - A Way Out (Mesh)
Martyn - We are you in the future (Brainfeeder)
Al Wootton - Mercia (Trule)
Ouxh - Agavaceae (Salt Mines)
Shun - Kishibi (CPU)
Shun - Digital Slave (CPU)
Floating Points - Vocoder (Ninja Tune)
KH - Looking at your Pager (Text Records)
Holden - Renata (Daphni Remix) (Border Community)
JETS - Lock Lock Key Key (Leisure System)

New Mix: Better Days FM Digital City 2021 Mix

Last Friday (December 3rd) I was lucky to be asked by Digital City to host their regular show on Betterdaysfm and here is the mix! There are two versions from the same set, the one on Mixcloud has my ‘bants’ on it (and is hosted on Betterdays FM’s Mixcloud so give them a follow) on it but if you just want the music I recorded one without that at the same time and that’s on my Hear This At page. Here’s the…

Tracklisting

Bunkr - Terminus 23 (VLSI)
Rival Consoles - still here (Erased Tapes
Daniel Avery - One More Morning (Phantasy Sound)
Pan-Al - Quark (Apollo)
Clocolan - Beauty, Beauty, Beauty, Beauty (Castles In Space)
The Nevermen - Mr mistake (Boards of Canada remix) (Self Released)
Loomis - Neon Drifter (part 1) (Noisy Meditation)
Sieren - Lies (Self Released)
Little dragon - Rush (Midland Remix) (Ninja Tune)
Higher Intelligence Agency - 3P (headphone)
xtal/gonno - step on the wind (Self Released)
Tipper - Off Kilter (Self Released)
Feral - Reve (Aube Rouge)
Rival Consoles - Vibrations on a string (Erased Tapes)
Wa Wu We- Ever moving in uncertainty (Hypnus)
The Field - The more we do (Kompact)
Julio Bashmore - The Moth (Fabric)
Pantha Du Prince - A Nomads Retreat (Rough Trade)
Daniel Avery - Darlinn (Phantasy Sound)
Escape Artist - Silicon Valium (Salt Mines)
Martyn - Masks (Brainfeeder)
Nereid - Undertow (Warped Core)
Kraymon -Falling (Stefan Goodchild rmx) (Triple Geek)
Prospa - Control the Party (Rave Science)
Laurence Kapinga - headrest (3024)
Onlyloveisleft - no hero (Triple Geek)
Posthuman - Ultrareal (Granthan Part Ex VIP) (Balkan)

New Old Mix: Inflight Entertainment

Back in the long, long ago. A time before time…

Well, 2004 to be almost precise. This set is based on the last set I played at The Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel for SoxaN’s Airways themed party which - i think - was on New Years Eve 2004. What I can remember is it was a tonne of fun and lots and lots of hard work. SoxaN was absolutely brilliant to be involved with but with us all juggling work and Soxan It was impossible to keep it going. It did make money and we paid everybody but it sadly wasn’t sustainable.

I did knock this mix out on CDs (as it was the style at the time) and some of you might still have the CD…. I’m not sure I do (if you do please let me know so I can fill in the gaps)! So, after an afternoon shazamming my own mixes and taking stabs in discogs and youtube, here’s the

Tracklisting

High Contrast Feat. Nolay - Angels & Fly
Syncopix - General Hospital
Kanye West - Jesus Walks (Dj Zinc remix)
Q-Project - Living with Beaker
Logistcs - Kaleidoscope
High Contrast - Racing Green
Danism - Come To You (Nu:Tone remix)
Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five vs Aphrodite - The Message (Johnny Clash Mashup )
Unknown - Unknown
Fresh & Adam F - When the sun goes down
Senor Juan B Ft. Merly B - Una Cerveza!
SKC & Safir - Free my soul
A Sides Ft. MC. MC - Keep Steppin'
B-Man - Satisfaction
Beyonce - Naughty Girl (TC Big Bad Bootleg VIP Mix)
Roni Size - Strictly Social (Nu:Tone remix)
The Goon show...

New Mix: LIve at The Drome "808" Day in Second Life

It was lovely to be asked back in to Second Life again, this time by Eliza Moody the owner and curator of “The Drome” a virtual night club that’s been running nights forever in second life, this time to celebrate one of the notable Roland days that happen through out each year - 303, 606, 808 and 909 (not forgetting 101, 202, 404, 505…). Sadly no photos were taken as apparently they were too busy giggling as I got my second life animations all confused and was breakdancing on the decks. Ah well.. you’ll just have to do with the

Tracklisting

Skee Mask - Trackheadz
Andrea - Future Atmo
Martyn - Odds Against Us
Al Wootton - Over
No Moon - Wasp City
Pan-Al - Probe Journey
Nathan Fake - Tblisi
Nathan Fake - Eris & Dysonia
Jinje - Silicon Bubbles
Tobias - The Wisdom of no Escape
Scuba - Never Forget
Reptant - Reptilian Magnetism
Shedbug - Spiralizer
Off The Meds - Belter (Joy O Belly Mix) 
AGT Rave Cru - You Shop We Drop
96 Back - Knock Out
Stenny - Swordfish
Skee Mask - Nvivo
Al Wootton - Come Close

New Mix: Live at Awamu Together 2020 House Party

This is a set recorded live for Awamu’s Together House Party 2020 - a virtual weekend festival fundraiser for the excellent Awamu Charity who’s purpose is to ensure children in the slums of Kampala, Uganda, gain the education and skills that are vital to their future:

“Many children we work with are HIV positive. Their guardians, often elderly, ill and poor, are also in need of support, as the wellbeing of children in their care is inextricably linked to theirs.

“We know that children do best when they are supported and cared for in their own communities, among extended families, friends, and neighbours so we also help those that care for them to gain new skills and the confidence to increase their income, regain control of their lives and take care of themselves and their family.

“Awamu means ‘together’ in L'uganda, the main language spoken in Bwaise and Kikoni slum areas we work. We chose it as it reflects spirit of the women and children we are lucky enough to work in partnership with there.”

Please donate. Anything you can give will mean the world of difference.

https://www.awamu.co.uk/donate

The set, played out at 7pm on a Saturday, designed to be listened during your evening meal. It's 'Dinner Jazz" for those of you who like being sworn at by potty mouth rappers talking about inappropriate subjects while you eat your meal.

Tracklisting

00:00 - Moses Boyd - Rush Hour/Elegua (feat. Kevin Haynes Grupo Elegua)
03:10 - Submerse - Power Stone
05:42 - Channel Select - Skies
07:22 - Noname - Forever (ft Ravyn Lanae)
10:48 - Open Mike Eagle - Very Much Money (Ice King Dream)
14:22 - J.Lamotta - Can’t Refuse
16:45 - Loyle Carner - Loose Ends (ft Jorja Smith )
20:49 - Oso Leone - Virtual U
23:53 - Easy Life - Earth
27: 05 - Bird Person - Salad
29:15 - Jay Z - Empire State of Mind (featuring Alicia Keys)
33:33 - Typesun - The PL
37:28 - Tycho - Skate (Pluko remix) feat. Saint Sinner 
40:09 - Phono Ghosts - A Glow in the Night
43:30 - Janelle Monae - Pynk (feat. Grimes)
47:00 - J-E-T-S - Play (feat. Mykki Blanco)
49:20 - Caribou - New Jade
52:31 - Brockhampton - Boy Bye
54:53  - Michael Kiwanuka - You ain’t the problem

(download available on the Hearthis.at page)

New Mix: Live at The Pony Club, in Second Life, 25/4/2020

It’s lovely to be invited back in to Second Life to DJ. Back in 2008 or so clubs in Second Life really nailed down how to have a socially rewarding intimate clubbing experience with a globally distant audience - you can dress up as glam or grungy as you like, go to outlandishly designed club spaces and dance the night away, chatting both publicly and privately and it never got in the way of the music. I’m delighted to sat that the scene is still there vibrant and weird and wonderful as ever.

The set played was mostly constructed to be a 90 minute studio mix but as this gig came along just as I was ready to release it so I played it out live and added another 30 minutes to the end which really fleshed it out nicely. I did fluff a mix so I’ve actually cheated and cut in the recorded bit so, if it sound’s a bit weird around the Rob Clouth/Daniel Avery tracks - it’s that. You’ll have to trust me that it’s better this way. ;) Anyway here’s the

Tracklisting

(outro) DJ Oil - Addis (R & S)
Synkro & Arovane -  Aspen (Apollo)
Sieren -  Move On (Apollo)
Ovatow - x-dub I (syncopm data)
Duplex - Isolator (Ost Ton Gut)
Jinje: Feet Up - Feet Down (self release)
Mitch Von Arc - Skim (Planet Mooncycle)
Stefan Goodchild - Something is Missing or Invalid (self release)
Duplex - Molecular (ovatow reclock) (Frustrated Drunk)
Mikron - Ghost Node (CPU Records)
Gnork - Exoteric Massage (eXXXtended pleasure mix)(Magic Wire)
Rob Clouth - Deep Field (Leisure System)
Daniel Avery -  Glitter (Phantasy)
Donato Dozzy - 12H.5 (remix) (Spazio Disponibile)
Crossing Avenue - Ortica (Spazio Disponibile)
Buran - Modulus (Cut Recs)
Reptant - Subcommunication (Salt Mines) 
GProd - Supernova (Specimen)
Lone - Young Star Cluster (R & S)
Valentina Mora - Hualien (Spazio Disponibile)
Nathan Fake - Underberg (Cambia Instruments)
Igor Dyachenkco - Disintergration (Self Release)
See Mask -  Flyby VBR (Ilian Tape)
Lone -  How can you tell? (R & S)
No Moon - Mallett Fury (Craigie Knowes)
Reptant - reptilian Magnetism (Salt Mines)  
Echaskech -  The Lost Lies (VLSI unreleased)

New Mix: "Dig Deeper" a house mix for Digger.

Way back in April this year we gathered at a new venue in Tottenham Hale - Unit 58 - to celebrate Diggers birthday and this is what I played

Tracklisting

D Train - You’re the One for Me 
Gnork - Yoga on E
Ramadanman/Appleblim - Void 23 (Carl Craig re-edit)
Lone - Temples
Orbital - Belfast
Jinje - Amya 
Agoria - Panta Rei (Max Cooper remix)
Steve Bug & Langenberg- Chord Cluster 
Underworld - Dark & Long 
Roza Terenzi - Up in Smoke 
Lone - From a Past Life 
No Moon - Infinite Dreams
Reptant - Liquid Aerobatics 
Lone - Pulsar

MIx should be downloadable from hearthis.at

New Mix: A Broad Range - Together 2018

“Here it is the groove slightly transformed Just a bit of a break from the norm
Just a little somethin' to break the monotony
Of all that hardcore dance that has gotten to be
A little bit out of control it's cool to dance
But what about the groove that soothes that moves romance
Give me a soft subtle mix...”

Here’s the “studio” cut of a mix I performed at Awamu’s third “Together” festival. It’s pretty much what I played but I added a longer introduction to it (which might help it last longer on SoundCloud) - the opening lines are from Grant Green’s amazing “Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry’s” lp - and there is a “bonus” track at the end that I really wanted to play but I knew time wouldn’t allow it, bcut for you, dear listener, you get to experience the genius of Raj Pannu’s “FSOJ”. The third track is a mashup of Skee Mask’s “Session Amp” and MJ Cole’s UK garage classic “Sincere” with extra beats and production courtesy of the ever patient Andy G from Echaskech. 

Hope you like it! Here’s the...

Tracklisting  

Louis Cole (feat. Genevieve Artadi) - When You're Ugly
Don Froth -  A Broad Range Widescreen Mix
MJ Cole vs Skee Mask - Sincere Amp (Mach And G’s mix)
LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby
Echaskech - Twich
Deft - One Eye Open
Jim-e stack - Moments Noticed
Gnork - U
Joe -  mph
Dolly Parton - Jolene (Todd Terje remix)
Maribou State - Turnmills Club Mix
LXURY (Feat. The Deptford Goth)- Square 1 (Vox DUB)
Nasaya  (feat. cehryl)- Orange
Telefon Tel Aviv - My Week Beats Your Year
Adam Port - Here is Why - Tonight (Adam Port Autobahn Edit)
Loidis - A Parade
Raj Pannu - FSOJ

 

New Mix: In Dingo Veritas

 Recorded live in Second Life at Veritas Club, warming up for the magnificent Theatre of Delays it's an over 2 hour selection weaving between electronica, deep, tech and acid house. Thanks to Carrmine and Nadia for letting me play. Oh and sorry about it being in mono at the beginning - bit of technical glitch - if you wait 20 minutes it switches over tp Super Stereo Sound eventually

New Mix: A Return To The Second Life

Well that went exceedingly well. Restart was very well attended and it was so good to see so many old faces and reminded me the genuine power and depth of Second Life friendships and how incredibly fun clubbing was (probably still is) in Second Life. There simply isn't anything else quite like it... Ok so this mix I wanted to do something with some of the longer tracks in my collection (as I knew that I might be busy chatting and saying hello to so many old friends). The recording... hmmm, there's a slight distortion on some of the bass frequencies which, without recording the whole thing again, I couldn't get rid of in 'post' which is a shame because as a 2 hour listening experience I'm really happy with the flow. I suggest you don't listen to it as closely as I do and you should be fine. ;) I should apologise for including a couple of tracks from the last mix but they are too good to just play once out. Hope you enjoy it.

As for actually returning to Second Life... I can't see me doing it. Don't get me wrong it's an amazing experience and you can spend a LOT of time in there, but technology has moved on (the graphics were never it's strong suit) and socially networked VR experiences will trounce all over this once that takes hold. And honestly I don't have the time to dedicate to it as I did. But the people are amazing and those friendships I hope they last until we leave this place...   

Simian Mobile Disco - Sun Dogs
Gonno - The Worst Day Ever
Weval - You Made It (part 2)
Echaskech - Twich
Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL rework)
Pye Corner Audio - Electronic rhythm number eighteen
Arkist/Komon - Brookfield
Space Dimension Controller -Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere
George Fitzgerald - Full Circle (bonobo remix)
Jon Hopkins - Sun Harmonics
Parra For Cuva - On A Life
Nuage - Haunting
Antenna Happy - Where Space Is
Ghosting Season - Far End Of The Graveyard (Enjoyed remix) 
Michael Mayer & Joe Goddard - For You (DJ Koze Club mix)
Michael and Kolsch - Germination
Rival Consoles - Recovery (Vessels remix) 
Kolsche - Two Birds
Portishead - Roads (Max Cooper remix)
Holden - Renata (Daphni Remix)

New Mix: Welcome to the Digital City

A studio mix based on the set I played at Digital City at The Nines, Peckham on 3rd Feb 2017 to open up the main room, warming up for Wennink. Downloads are available on the Soundcloud link. 

Oh and welcome to the new website - let me know if you find any issues 

Tracklisting

1. 00:00 Weval - You Made it (II) 
2. 06:02 Echaskech - Twich
3. 12:30 Sohn - Falling
4. 16:15 The Slow Revolt - Never Get Close
5. 19:59 Boards of Canada - Olson (Midland rmx) 
6. 24:59 Midland - Tape Burn
7. 28:12 George Fitzgerald - Full Circle
8. 31:53 Lxury Goth - square one (vocal dub) 
9. 37:42 Weval - I Don’t Need it
10. 41: 19 Antenna Happy, Vessels - Spark (vessels mix) 
11. 47:27 The Crisis Project - Dear
12. 51:18 Rival Consoles - Night Melody
13. 55:18 Bonobo - Outlier
14. 60:07 Apparat - Arcadia
15. 64:01 Echaskech - Emperors New Clones
16. 68:56 Moderat - Fondle
17. 73:17 Jon Hopkins - Collider

Newish Oldish Mix: Live at The Dance Tunnel 2013 (First Set)

Back in 2013 I was lucky to be asked to play as support DJ for a Fields LDN night promoting Max Cooper, The Ghosting Season and The Slow Revolt. Previously I uploaded the “30 minutes of techno” set but this is the first set, from the moment the doors opened to the start of TSR’s set. Sadly The Dance Tunnel is scheduled to close this August and it’s a cracking club so if you get a chance to go get your arse down there!

Track listing

Bvdub – Strength
JETS – Sin Love With You
Cut Copy – Sun God (Andy Weatherall remix)
Lusine – Get The Message
Tyco – Coastal Break (Lusine remix)
Falty DL – She Sleeps
Maya Jane Coles – Something in the Air
Alucidnation – Technically Warm
Spectra Ciera – Off Season
Midland – Tape Burn
Falty DL _ Em Cee
DJ Koze – Nices Wölkchen
Bonobo – Cirrus
Pablo Bolivar – Cool Down
Dusky – Mystics
Locked Groove – Dream within a Dream
Jack Dixon – Ps Triangle
Jack Dixon – E
George Fitzgerald – Unilateral
Julio Bashmore – Au Seve

New mix: Commission Magazine 1

After the Oval Space gig , I got approached by The Commission Webzine -  The online arts and culture journal - who were there to interview Max Cooper. They asked me for an exclusive mix and an interview, to which I obliged. It's taken a while to sort it all out and I've been very good at keeping it under wraps but today's the day I get to share it all with you The interview is here

http://www.thecommissionmagazine.com/dj-mach-v

but if you want to skip to the mix it's right here

This mix was exclusively prepared for The Commission - you can read about it all here http://www.thecommissionmagazine.com/dj-mach-v

Tracklisting

1. 00:00 SigmaFly - Danced With Wolves
2. 04:26 Essay - Crying at Day (alternate edit)
3. 07:15 Opal Tapes - Bobok
4. 10:49 1979 - #22
5. 15:50 Lucid Dream - Chortle
6. 19:20 Deft - Loqux & Past
7. 22:20 Moderat - Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze remix)
8. 26:30 Simian Mobile Disco - Dervish
9. 30:00 Nick Dow - Armour Plated
10. 37:10 Walls - Burnt Sienna
11. 42:20 Nils Frahm - For (Max Cooper remix)
12. 47:55 Dark Sky - Voices
13. 52:02 Jack Dixon - Needin U
14. 55:00 Leon Vynehall - Be Brave, Clench Fists
15. 61:27 Dense and Pika - Slowhand
16. 66:69 1979 - Go!
17. 71:50 Caribou - Can’t Do Without You (loop)

Oval Space Warm Up Set 20150305

Oval Space Warm Up Set 20150305 by Djmachv on Mixcloud

A lot can happen in a week.

Last Friday, whilst my wife and I were having afternoon tea at Ruben's in Victoria, my phone chirpred it's merry little sms chirp and there was a simple message from my friend Grant at Agency X saying "Would you like to do warmup for (Max Cooper's) Emergence? Has to stay not banging". Naturally  I jumped at the chance - this is Max Cooper's new AV one man show in a prime venue in London, under the auspicious gaze of LWE - a superb event promoter making deep impressions in the night club scene with uber hot DJs and dance music acts and as part of their London Electronic Arts Festival . "Sure, I'd love to" I replied. I was already getting excited.

I'd not been really thinking about DJing; I lost my Concrete residency last year and had turned my hand to doing weddings which is a completely different mindset to this - still fun, still rewarding, but you are playing what the couple and the audience want to hear - this would be different: I could play what I wanted within reason, I understood what a Warm Up slot means and there was the helpful remit of "Has to stay not banging".

Has to stay not banging. Not banging. HAS TO STAY.

NOT.

BANGING.

Hmmm. The words echoed around my dusty and cavernous brain, like a Deep House looping vocal hook. Why would Grant say this? He knows that I'm not really that up for the banging tunes, why would he feel he needed to stress this? After a few more texts back and forth it made sense, because Max's set would start ambient and to give it the best opportunity to grow from that point you don't want the act before to be slamming out BIG TUNES building up the audience's expectation to think that whatever follows would be EVEN BIGGER. Fair enough. This was the remit and it was a remit I was happy with. I had two hours to play with and so I set myself to quietly build for an hour and a half and then half an hour to break it down.

So... why am I telling you all of this? Well... here's the thing: This set isn't two hours long; its 2 hours 20 minutes long. That might not mean anything to you but it might go to help you understand why, from 1h 35 the mix descends into an ambient wash out for 20 minutes and then starts to pick up again at 1hr 55... which might correspond to the moment I got told that Max wouldn't be starting at 9:00 but at 9:20.

:D

This isn't a criticism nor a whinge. Far from it. At most it's an explanation of the flow of the set you're about to listen to, and more of a reminder to me (and to anyone else who cares to listen) not to plan too rigidly, not to be too prescriptive and to remind oneself that no matter what you think the plan is, it's not.

Hope you enjoy it

Tracklisting

BvDub - Strength Underworld - M.E. Speedy J - DeOrbit Trentemøller - Always Something Better Pye Corner Audio - Electronic Rhythm Number 3 Deft - One Eye Open Opal Tapes - Coffee Aphex Twin - Xtal Deft - Vapid pt1 Fybe One - Harmonic Curve Luke Hess - Evidence Everywhere Vermont - Dynamik (Prins Thomas Version 1) Eagles for Hands - Glass Hands (Slow it Down Remix) Jamie XX - Far/Nearer The Slow Revolt - Farther Deft - A Little Kiss Shadow Child - Border Town (Synkro rmx) LostLojic/Innex - Last Goodbye Datassette - Cagney XOR Lacey (Pt 2) Echaskech - Form Function (Epic Washout mix) Mountains - Choral Synkro - Memories of Love Synkro - Why Don’t You Taso & Wolfbitch - Tria Seba - Painted Sky (DFRNT remix) Taso - Exi The Village Orchestra - Lo Pencil (The Village Orchestra remix)

E2A:

I forgot to say: thanks to the numerous people who took time out to let me know how much they enjoyed my set - I know you don't have to do that, and it really makes a huge difference to my well being. Thank you, you're lovely, you are.

Also - thanks to the staff at Oval Spaces, LWE and LEAF for all the help (high 5 to Soundman Josh) as well as Hugs eternal for Grant at Agency X and of course Max for letting me do this.

New Mix: 30 Minutes of Techno (Live at the Dance Tunnel 1/6/2013)

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Last year I was lucky to get asked to be the Support DJ at Fields' night promoting Max Cooper, Ghosting Season and The Slow Revolt at the epitome of the Shoreditch cellar club: Dance Tunnel. The Club was rammed and after a brilliant set by The Slow Revolt, with half an hour before the excellent Ghosting Season I didn't know what to play. I knew what I wanted to start with - Jon Hopkins' Open Eye Signal, but after that I was going to wing it... Tracklisting

 Open Eye Signal by Jon Hopkins
African People (Jokke Ilsoe rmix) by Trentemoeller
Bubble Chamber by Rob Clouth
Delirium Tremens by Benjamin Damage
HF029A1 by Sigha
001 by NN

30 minutes of Techno - Live at the Dance Tunnel, 1/6/13 by Djmachv on Mixcloud

New old mix: Something Wonderful (1999) 93 mins free download 320mbps mp3

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Another one from the Atmo Archives - requested by Erik Z. Back from a time when this was the future, when 720 was everything, when we still mastered & distributed on cassette and delivered them by hand or by mail... and this still got round the world :) Tracklisting Dr Chandra and SAL9000 KMC: Orbiting Probes Future Engineers: Life Support KMC: Alpha Centuri Blu Mar Ten: Lunar Odyssey: Submerge Control: Seven Days Future Engineers: Components Blame: Altered Course Blu Mar Ten: Voidfield Seba: Camouflage Artemis: Fairlight Alaska & Nucleus: Nautilus (Odyssey Remix) Future Engineers: Timeshift Blame: Alpha 7 Doctor Chandra & HAL 9000

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/151896660" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]

stream and download the mix from soundcloud

Old Bootleg "Racing Spice"

As soundcloud no longer is any fun AT ALL I am going to have to upload files to my Dropbox so you can download them so... Way back in the long ago (I think maybe... 2008?), when the men still had their own teeth and the women knew great dentists, I talked my good friend Simon Strick in to doing something foolish: a mash up of Racing Green and Aphrodite. This is the result:

Racing Spice (dropbox link)

 

 

New Old Mix - From Winter To Spring (2011)

This ones from the archives, from 2011. I'd always enjoyed what I'd set out to do with the mix but was never happy with the execution of the mixes and it certainly feels like a rough, skechbook mix to my ears, but 3 years on and I've not actually gone back and tidied up all the messy blending, pulls and slides (it was done on Torq - the belt drive of DVS systems). You do deserve better, but in the meantime It's time for me to let it go. Try it on a Friday night after a bad day at work and your lacking the motivation to get your glad rags on and get out dancing. So open the wine, sit back and see if it doesn't get your toes tapping. :) http://www.mixcloud.com/djmachv/from-winter-to-spring/

Download available on request, please enquire within right here (dropbox link)

Oh. Yeah...

Hi! xx

;-)

I Love You/You Won't Let Me - New Nightbus/Drum and Bass/Ambient Techno mix - Free mp3 download 320Kbps

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If I manage to do one "proper" mix a year I'll be happy. To define what a "proper" mix is - to separate it from any other mix I upload - a "proper" mix is one that takes planning and meticulous execution. Last year's mix was "Send in the Drones" and that took a year from planning to execution and I'm still happy with it; this has taken around 6 months of working out. It started with a Guardian article about new musical genres which defined the music by the amazing Joe Synkro as "Nightbus" a term I'd not heard before but one I was happy to adopt, even if I couldn't be sure that the article was being entirely serious. What I was aware was of a new way of looking at drum and bass, a genre which I'd spent a lot of my dj career playing and one I'd pretty much given up on. Listening to tracks from artists like Synkro, Submerge, Lapalux and the amazing new releases from Apollo (R & S records "ambient" side label) it became clear that a new wave of producers were taking lessons learned from Dubstep and applying them to Ambient Techno, R 'n B, Garage and Atmospheric Drum and Bass. I was fascinated. The result of that fascination is this mix. The first 30 minutes or so of it came together pretty easily, but then I couldn't work out where to turn next and it sat on my hard drive for 4 months, taunting me as all unfinished projects do. I almost released it as a mini mix, just to get the "monkey off my back" but I'm glad I waited and am able to release something more substantial, something worth listening to, hopefully again and again.

Though I still don't know if Nightbus is the right term for it.

Tracklisting

Mario - Let Me Love You (Lapalux remix) (free download - http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/04/let-me-love-you-lapalux-bootleg Synkro - Open Arms ASC - Glass Walls Submerse - Cluster Jack Dixon - You won't let me (Synkro mix) Bop - Song about my Dog dBridge - 5th Floor Grimes - Genesis Bulb - Lonely Gravity Om Unit - Ulysses VIP (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/09/ulysses-vip) ASC + Ulrich Schnauss - 77 Lapalux - Guuurl Holy Other - Know Where dBridge - Cornered Yumi & The Weather - Not Again (Manni Dee remix) (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/12/not-again-manni-dee-remix) Marley Caroll -Woodwork (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/woodwork) Ital Tek - Pixel Haze Fybe:one - Harmonic Curve (Deft's footwork remix) (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/harmonic-curve-defts-footwork-re) Bering Strait - Apart Synkro - Reflection Reso - Aegis (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/09/aegis) Eagles for Hands - Glitterall (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/glitterall) [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85882133" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]

here is a soundcloud link (for iThings)

Now on mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/djmachv/i-love-youyou-wont-let-me/

Artwork shamefully stolen from the Internet - "Untitled" (1985) by Moebius aka Jean Giraud

 

New Mix: Live at Concrete 20130224

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Just a quick update to let you know that I've uploaded part of my recording from February's set at Concrete Bar. It's 75 minutes of "variant house" is the only way I can describe it as it's not really one particular genre (unless someone can let me know what it is. Anyway, I hope you enjoy :) Tracklisting

Mike Mago - Galactic (Broke One Remix) Jack Dixon - 10 Years Max Cooper - Heresy (Dosem Remix) P Lopez - About You Dusky - Every Day George Fitzgerald - Unilateral Two Bears - Bear Hug New Look - You & I Cassie - Me & U (Mak & Pasteman Bootleg) Breach & Midland - 101 Darling Farah - Body (Jimmy Edgar Remix) 5kin & Bones - Forest Nymphs (feat. Matrixxman) The XX - Angels (Shadow Child Unofficial VIP) Broke One - Polygons and Windows Disclosure - What's in your head (Mak & Pasteman Remix) Julio Bashmore - Battle of Middle you

(I'm struggling getting the soundcloud player to embed correctly so here's the direct link)

http://soundcloud.com/machv/live-at-concrete-20130224

Also on Mixcloud - http://www.mixcloud.com/djmachv/live-at-concrete-20130224/