180 / Balearic Social / First Birthday Mix
Andy Pye is the man behind Balearic Social, a one man balearic machine. He is far better than us at getting in touch with people and he’s getting results. His radio show is going from strength-to-strength and has had many guests since he last did a mix for us including The Seahawks, Jolyon Green, Sally...
179 / TOKYO TRACKS 012 / TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE / 1ST ANNIVERSARY / MARCH 11 / 2012
Today is the first anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake, and I wanted to do something. Not a collection of sad songs, or conversely defiant anthems of solidarity. Not an in depth investigation or update on the state of Japan, North of Tokyo, South of Hokkaido. But something. How could I do nothing on this day?...
178 / Jan Hammered / Your Place Or Mine
Jan Hammered (aka Ian Williams) has been doing mixes for us for some time now and have to say, as I’ve said before, they sit the line perfectly between music for the heads and music everyone can get. Here he is again with a new mix. Download While I have you Ian is soon moving...
177 / Salinas Jockey Club / Whispering Waves
Salinas Jockey Club is a new Soft Rocks related project from Chris Galloway & Andy Simms. They are currently working on rounding off their new material and have releases penned in with Soft Rocks label ‘Kinfolk’ and the Roots Unit house label ‘Vibrations’. Musically the project runs from beautiful ambiance to chilled house with some...
XTC / Nearly Africa / Apiento Cut
Here’s an edit from the vault. Bit of a Baldelli cosmic classic. Would love to have heard this one in that time and place. Hope you like. Download
176 / PRODUCERS SERIES #16 / HARRY HOSONO
Having been with Psyche rockers Apryl Fool and Folk rockers Happy End during the late 60s and early 70s, a then successful but still pretty conventional singer song-writer, Haroumi Hosono, famously put together the Yellow Magic Orchestra, recruiting session players Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, and in doing so changed the face of Japanese popular...
175 / Yozo / EAD Anniversary Mix
A while back we ran some anniversary mixes by DJ Yozo from Japan’s EAD record shop. We are happy to say he is back with a new one to celebrate this years anniversary. I get the feeling there might be some very expensive records on this mix. Download
174 / Bing Ji Ling / Mex-i-coastin’
This is a perfect mix for the weekend. Some of you may know Bing Ji Ling from his work with Incarnations and also the Phenomenal Handclap Band with next up a new release from his Paqua project alongside Paul Murphy and Alex Searle on the Claremont label. Some hot debuts on this mix – the...
173 / Steve Kotey / Disco Honest
Haven’t done a mix this year so happy to welcome Steve Kotey to get the ball rolling. I like the way when Steve sent the mix through he’d put the genre as ’1976 Porno Soundtrack’. If that doesn’t give you a clue where its going we are talking full on sleazy disco. Steve is pretty...
Jah Wobble / Influences / Work
This was an experiment. Something I planned to do last January after reading Jah Wobble’s “Memoirs Of A Geezer”. Then the events of last year took over, and it lost its place in the “To Do” list, but with the “Metal Box In Dub” gig coming closer I thought it might be good time resurrect...
The Hardway Brothers / A Diabolical Liberty / I`m A Cliché / 2011
A Balearic Version Excursion, at their Satanic Majesties’ request. J.B.C – We Love You (Creation) 1990 Steven Proctor being boiled. An Andy Blake favourite. Ryuichi Sakamoto – We Love You (Virgin) 1990 Robert Wyatt on vocals and highlife guitars. West India Company – O Je Suis Seul (Editions EG) 1989 Dr Patterson & Mr Weatherall...
171 / PRODUCERS SERIES #15 / TREVOR HORN
A Trevor Horn record probably sits somewhere in your record collection or laptop so we decided he’d be the perfect producer to focus on in the first of our Producers Series for this year. Horn has had a very long career starting off working with disco acts Tina Charles and Biddu in his early days...
170 / Joel Martin – Quiet Village / Velvet Vibrations
Joel Martin is a man of principles and probably one of the most knowledgable people I know in the world of synth-based soundtracks. He’s also part of underground heroes Quiet Village who, as their name suggests, like to slowly get on with things in their own particular way. He’s soon off to Berlin to finish...
169 / Peter Visti / Live At Qvist Grammofon Cafe
New mix from Peter Visti here, a DJ for over 20 years and producer of releases on Music For Dreams, Eskimo and Mindless Boogie as well as one of the men behind one of the underground hits of the last few years ‘Stars’ alongside Jakob Meyland. Early next year he’ll release his solo album ‘Illusions...
Lexx On The Remedy
Our man Lexx has done a guest mix for the good Dr Robs radio show in Japan, The Remedy. Get it here for some Monday morning sounds.