Xmas Mixes Galore

It's been a week and a bit since the chaps at Rothfink posted my Christmas Mix, Merry Rustmas Vol.1, and it's done alright. It's reached the heady heights of #28 in the bootleg/mash up chart and #84 in the beats chart, which is pretty sweet.



Not sure if the full tracklisting is on MixCloud, so here you go:

DJ Shadow - Best Foot Forward (Sammyfax Xmas Edit)
Wham - Last Christmas (Slugabed Ruined It)
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (Seven Davis Jr Edit)
GFOTY - Christmas Day
Bit Shifter - Let It Snow
Devo - Merry Something To You
Yo La Tengo - Rock'n'Roll Santa
Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree On Fire
Can - Silent Night
Haim - The Chanukah Song
Brother Nature - Merry Little Christmas
Dirty Boyz - All I Want For Christmas Is To Get It Crunk
Local Business Comedy - Wrapped 2

I've also agreed to do a Xmas Mix for FamilyPoint Cymru, and this one will be considerably more non-sweary, in fact there will be no effing and blinding at all. I'm thinking of going down a funky route for this one. I plan to work on it this afternoon and it is scheduled to go on their website on Friday.

All of which doesn't leave me a lot of time to do my own Xmas Mix. So this is kind of an early warning that there might not be one this year. What must baby Jebus be feeling?

LowKey Friday Plans

Happy Friday everyone! Need some hard as nails techno and acid to get to pub time? BOOM.



It was featured in FACT's mixes of the week recently and they said: "Recorded live from a Milanese squat party for Haunter Records, it’s “a mutant mix from a mutant bastard”, exploding with jackhammer noise, twisted techno and flashes of speedcore."

I've got a long train ride ahead of me as I'm off to Falmouth to gatecrash my mum's staff Christmas party and drive off with her car on Sunday. She knows this, it's totes legit. Anyway, I plan to drop this mix around the time I cross the Tamar via the Royal Albert Bridge and crack open a cider. Enjoy.

Fuck Me Field Day

Would you look at that? I got tickets for Field Day 2017 just to see Aphex Twin. Now they add Flying Lotus, Moderat and S U R V I V E. And that's just the first wave.

I can see a follow up to my Field Day 2011 mix on the cards...

Or if you prefer SoundCloud (and to download)...

Gon Dun Another Aaronson Remix

Another week, another remix, this time I took on (Transient) off Aaronson's debut album Appearance And Reality.



You can here the original here.

The backing hiss and noise comes from datamoshing the album artwork in Audacity. Picked up on this when researching my work blog on glitch images. On datamoshing.com it says not to listen to the audio. Ignored that.

Also I deliberately used one of the choir samples on Fruity Loops (the aahs that are quite low in the mix), as Aaronson are an instrumental band and I thought it would be funny to use a choir. Well I thought it was funny.

Anyway Mark from Aaronson has suggested I tackle the other interlude tracks on Appearance And Reality, (As His Friends Remember Him) and (Do Their Hearts Not Weep Thinking About It Now?). I think this is a spiffing idea so will work on those over the next couple of weeks, maybe look at doing some sort of EP. I should probably speak with Creese about this first.

So for now, please give (Transient) Sammyfax Remix a spin, and please leave some feedback below or on SoundCloud, I'd really like to hear people's thoughts.

Glitch, Don't Kill My Vibe

As it currently stands, I've managed to crowbar in a Kendrick reference into my latest work blog. Let's see how long it lasts.

The blogpost is about making glitch images, so if you've ever wondered how I make some of the pictures on here, now you know all my secrets.