Red lit and smoke machine tainted club sounds. This is a bass heavy mix of dark UK house, chunky percussion and filthy electro. The mix features tracks by producers on the verge (South London Ordnance, Jook 10, My Nu Leng), underground heavyweights (Roska, Girl Unit, Boddika), and even a few old-school heroes (The Stickmen ('94 stylee!), Andrea Parker, Aux 88). It also features more instances of the words "bitch" and "pussy" than I have personally uttered in the entirety of my existence, so maybe not for banging at the office.
1) Fatima Al Qadiri - Hip Hop Spa
2) South London Ordnance - Fjord
3) DVA - Flute Tune
4) Zebra Katz (feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx) - Ima Read
5) Roska - Bassface (Breach remix)
6) Addison Groove (feat. Spank Rock) - Bad Things
7) Girl Unit - Wut (Claude Vonstroke remix)
8) The Stickmen - The Drug
9) Boddika - Basement
10) Auntie Flo - Oh My Days (Pearson Sound remix)
11) The Pearl - Flesh Eaters (Distal remix)
12) Secret Frequency Crew - Miami Eyes (Andrea Parker remix)
13) Max Durante meets Aux 88 - Body Work (Max Durante lysergic remix)
14) West Norwood Cassette Library - Get Lifted
15) Spank Rock (feat. Big Feedia) - Nasty (Addison Groove remix)
16) Jook 10 - Peng
17) Headbirds - Dead Kingdom
18) My Nu Leng - Croatian
19) Fatima Al Qadiri - D-medley (Ikonika remix)
A quick little 40min. mix of breezy, unapologetic, sub-laced House music. This one is custom built for the hazy twilight hours, sipping drinks w/ umbrellas, dancing under an open sky.
"The tracks succumb to apparitions, become porous, crackle like the celluloid burning up a the end of Persona. Degeneration = Regeneration. Sound susurrates into an electromagnetic nth world through which ghosts grow, effects superimpose and wraiths congregate."
A new bass heavy mix designed for those magical late-night/early-morning hours when spirits are summoned from obsidian and mad-beautiful ideas are conjured through key strokes. A sequel to last years Conjurers' Dub, to my ears this mix has a little more drive than its older sister but there is still enough bass and space to do the job.
My aim was an elastic mix of drag, doomjazz and dub-techno custom built for long winter nights spent trawling the abyss. Let me know what you think.
As with I did with Dog Days' Nights, I am celebrating the conclusion of Babes of the Abyssby assembling an 8Tracks mix of music I either listened to while writing the story or that I associate in some other way with the series. It is a strange and varied collection of sounds with the only common thread being a gauzy layer of decay and reverb. Many of the songs share a raw and unmastered aesthetic that matches well with both the general vibe of the Swingshift worldview and the often chaotic creative process behind the stories.
There will be more Swingshift in 2011, and Cheer is still available for depraved holiday enjoyment. As always, thanks for all of your support.
01 cv313 - Subtraktive (King Midas Sound Dub) she might be right
02 Gonasufi - My Only Friend (Hezus mix) “Please, stay even though you know my reality”
03 Rolling Stones - Dancing with Mr. D (alternate take) L-Girls theme - “A drink of Belldonna on a Toussaint night”
04 LA Vampires vs. Zola Jesus - No no no strung out soundtrack to late nights at the club El Cambion
05 s. maharba - Tell a Lie “millions of hearts have been broken, just because these words have been spoken...”
06 Demdike Stare - Bardo Thodol several stories deep below Canal St.
07 The Stone Roses - Shoot You Down (lost demo version) our man has big plans and a full moon swagger
08 Skeletons & Sobansa Mimanisa - Kiwembo / Unstuck “Things are in motion ...Get out and get lost.”
I have cobbled together a random playlist of tracks that I either listened to while writing Dog Days’ Nights or that have, in my mind, a connection to the story. I slapped the tunes into an 8Tracks mix for your enjoyment. It is interesting that these are very different sounds than my standard everyday soundtrack.
I will try to assemble another playlist at the end of Babes of the Abyss (Zola Jesus and The Rolling Stones will certainly make appearances).
00 RAW - Dog Days intial inspiration for the title (among other grander things)
01 Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses wake up on your feet vibes
02 The Whitefield Brothers (feat. Guilty Simpson) - American Nightmare lock-up at the 6-0
03 Spoek Mathambo - Control South African electro-house cover of Joy Division - perfect loft party joint
04 Gonjasufi - Duet possible theme song for CSI: Bushwick 420
05 Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike) - I’ll See You In My Dreams I’m still not sure why ukulele music is playing in the background
06 James Blake - CMYK Dee's lament
07 The Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble - Dark Night of the Soul exactly what it says on the tin
08 Bei Bei & Shawn Lee - East Rodriguez’s action theme
09 Oneohtrix Point Never (feat. Antony) - Returnal (christian fennesz remix) “you've never left, you've been here the whole time”
A sequel to my original Unified Bass Theory mix, again I tried to draw from a broad spectrum of underground BASS sounds, mining the fertile margins at the edges of UK Funky, House, Dubstep and West Coast beats.
The mix has a serious summer vibe, custom built for both sun drenched afternoons and sweat soaked late nights.
1) Gil Scott Heron - New York is Killing Me 2) Eprom - Bubble 3) Free The Robots - Orion's Belt Buckle 4) The xx - Islands (Untold remix) 5) Jose James - Warrior (SBTRKT remix) 6) Grace Jones - Love You To Life (Digital Mystikz remix) 7) Ikonika - Yoshimitsu 8) Pariah - Orpheus 9) Ramadanman - Don't Change For Me 10) F- Energy Distortion (Untold remix) 11) DJ MA1 — High Definition (Deep Teknologi remix) 12) Hardhouse Banton - Rein (Roska remix) 13) MJ Cole - Phoenix Riddim 14) MJ Cole - AO (MJ's Open Your Gob dub) 15) Girl Unit - IRL (DVA's Hi Emotions remix) 16) Karizma - I.C.U. 17) A Made Up sound - Sun Touch 18) Zero 7 - Ghost sYMbOL (Julio Bashmore remix) 19) Altered Natives - Raaatid Einstein 20) Argy & DJ Gregory - Our Drums 21) DVA - Ganja 22) Hypno - Over the Top 23) Kentphonik - Hiya Kaya (Rocco Deep mix) 24) Roska - The Sheppard 25) Hot Chip - I Feel Better (Ill Blu remix)
There is no silence in that Abyss: for all that men call Silence is Its Speech. - the book of lies
For some time now I've wanted to assemble a mix comprised of the deep, dark, dubby tunes that soundtrack my late night writing sessions and dark nights of soul. This mix rides a thick black night groove through headier Shackleton productions, stripped back dubstep and echo drenched, slow burn dub-techno. It's laced with a haunting Tikiman vocal and The Space Ape's hypnotic delivery and bookended by TKDE's glorious doomjazz.
It's built more for head-nodding meditation than peek time dancing. A sustaining anti-lullaby for babes of the abyss
(00:00) Demdike Stare - Extwistle Hall (01:40) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Seneca (05:35) Harmonia '76 - Sometimes In Autumn (Shackleton Remix) (09:50) Shackleton - Asha In The Tabernacle (15:35) Vindixatrix - Private Places (Shackleton & Mordant Music Version) (20:50) Emika - Drop The Other (Scuba's Vulpine Remix) (25:00) Pangaea - Dead Living (29:20) CV313 - Subtraktive (30:35) Rhythm and Sound feat. Tikiman - Na Fe Throw It (38:00) STL - Checkmate (cv313 Remodel) (39:35) Fever Ray - Seven (Marcel Dettmann remix) (44:15) Martyn feat. Space Ape - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Remix) (47:00) Red Shape - Dark & Sticky (50:00) Pendle Coven -Uncivil Engineering (Calm Mix) (52:05) Deadbeat - Teach The Devil's Son (58:00) Beat Pharmacy feat. Space Ape - Ghostship (Deadbeat dub) (62:00) Appleblim - Within (65:15) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Embers
I've started off the new decade by digitally recreating a 10 year old mixtape. Copies of the original tape were given to a few friends with an early version of Music For End Times.
Nearly all the tracks in the mix were released between '95 - '99. It starts out with a bit of Illbient and Asian Underground sounds easing in to a run of Metalheadz style Drum & Bass rollers and than rolling out through some banging warehouse techno and over the top trance. In the spirit of the original there are still a few dodgy mixes left in.
Some of tunes still sound fresh to my ears (Jamie Myerson, Source Direct). Other tunes make me question the effects of sustained ecstasy use on musical taste (Drop Bass Network, Binary Finary). In the end it's a fun survey of the underground electronic sounds of the late 90s.
This is my first proper mix so please excuse a ham-fisted mix or two.I tried to keep the tempo up and the genre designations fluid, touching on a bit of bassline, breaks, grime, wonky hip-hop and several flavors of dubstep with a few vocals and cheeky remixes thrown in for good measure. Unified Bass Theory: 1) Champion – No Heaven (ghislain poirier remix) 2) TRG – Horny 3) Wiley – Wearing My Rolex (agent x mix) 4) Hijack – Possessed 5) Sunship feat. Warrior Queen – Quits (sinden remix) 6) Caspa – Louder 7) Marlow feat. Bongo Chily – Everyday 8)Tes la Rok & Uncle Sam - Up in The VIP 9) Mr. Hudson & The Library – Ask The DJ (moody boyz remix) 10) Santogold – You’ll Find a Way (switch & sinden remix) 11) Flying Lotus – GNG BNG 12) Si Begg – Bangin’ 13) Rustie - Just 4 Kicks (instrumental) 14) Lukid – The Now (hudson mohawke remix) 15) Starkey – Bounce 16) Matty G – West Coast Rocks (jeep mix) 17) 6Blocc feat. Big Daddy Kane – Rawer 18) Cease – Upper Left Side 19) The Bug feat Flowdan – Ganja 20) Blackmass Plastics – Do The Mash 21) Kromestar – Dot 2 Dot 22) Joker – Snake Eater 23) Cluekid – Hovercraft 24) Cotti - Calm Down (witty boy remix) 25) Alter Ego - Fuckingham Palace (modeselektor remix) 26) Adele – Cold Shoulder (rusko remix)
WARNING: Consumption of Unified Bass Theory at high volume may result in Uncontrollable Skanking, Irreversible Bassface, and in extreme case The Jimmy Legs (known locally as the Club Love Stumble).
