As mentioned in the Rustie Mix post, there was also a Jam City mix lurking on that old USB drive too and boy does it bang. The page for XLR8R Podcast 219 is still up from 2011, which is lovely to see, though the links to the mp3 are long gone.
My highlight is section that goes from the absolute panel beater (from Prague??) at 24 minutes in through to a Talking Heads sample via the rather rude Parris Mitchell “All Night Long” (Dance Mania).
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Man, annual leave. Ain't it something?
It works, even when it's not a Saturday.
Finally caved and bought every Electrelane album over the last couple of weeks. To The East is off their last album, 2007's No Shouts No Calls. I'm pretty sure I had this on some kind of big label compilation CD they sometimes gave away in Spillers. Long lost, so who knows?
Watched True Romance for the first time the other day. Got the DVD from the local Mind shop. Best 10p I've spent in a long time. Mind you, it's the first thing I've bought for 10p for a very long time.
Wuzza wuzza.
Not beating those 6Music Sad Dad charges. Four Tet flips a track by The Cure as part of Mixes Of A Lost World - a new remix collection coming out on 13th June. Three discs in the deluxe version with artists including Daniel Avery, Orbital, and Mogwai contributing reworkings of the 2024 album.
That's enough of this decade. 2005, please Drive!
Scrap that Drive, 2000, now please. UKG forever. I feel good, good, good...
Honestly, not sure how I got to 2025 without owning Butter. As featured on that Rustie Mix I posted about earlier this month.
Hahahaha is big dubstep back? Fuck it, I'm here for it.
Original image: Brodmann. Colured by was_a_bee., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stuck an old USB into my laptop the other week and found a folder called 'Mixes pOur Werk' on there. Amongst all the Justice, Jam City, and Julio Bashmore was the mix Rustie did for Fact Magazine in September 2009, which I completely forgot about.
It still bangs, not as much as his 2012 Essential Mix, but that's the greatest mix of all time (IMO), so a tough ask.
Only thing that bugs me is that it was released on cassette last year and is now sold out.
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If only I found that USB sooner.
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Been on the Hefe and Splanky at Caerphilly Food Festival, so strap in and lock on.
Spaced-out, tuned-in, stripped-back house (when does it become electro, I don't know). It all starts here.
Set the title and lyrics aside for a second and bathe in this other-worldly electronic noodle. Kanye West sampled it in 2019, so put that aside, too, and just go with it, it slaps, trust me.
"Lockdown took its toll on Clive. Not the isolation or sense of impending doom - that was normal - but specifically the worldwide marmite shortage in April. On the verge of a 'Driving to Dundee barefoot' style meltdown, Clive found solace in his 20 year obsession with Alan 'foot on a spike' Partridge.
Taking Musique Concrete to its textbook conclusion, Clive has made music only using sounds from TV series 'I'm Alan Partridge'. Over 100, mainly foley samples were repurposed into the two title tracks of the Alan EP."
I mean, that might be true. What is true is that Alan B is a tidy little broken-beat shuffler. With Alan's face on the label. And that's enough for me.
Right, I've had this list rumbling for a while due to my difficulties with YouTube, and I've forgotten where I came across this. I think it might've been on One Glove but I'm not 100%. Another spacey house number (at least this is from 2025). The vibe will switch in this list soon, I promise beb.
Who wants to hang around 2025, straight back to the 80s please drive! No idea how to describe this, is it synth-pop? That term doesn't quite cut it. "Inspired by the film E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial" according to Discogs.
Yerr fella that did that glitchy downtempo cover of The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, also did this glitchy downtempo gem. So there we are.
An Italo take on LCD Soundsystem's You Wanted A Hit? All day, mate, all day. Here for it.
And there's the change of vibe. Big mum banger.
Vibe shift complete. Big early-00s banger to finish. Kthxbye.
If you get a wheel* on both Sarahtonin and Flo Dill then you're doing something very right in my book. Add in a little mystery (I misheard the name of the remixer) and then make it a free download on Bandcamp when you eventually find it and you're in very special territory. Like one of the tracks of the year territory.
So, what I thought was LCD Soundsystem - Home (Tom Skarkitt remix) is actually Tom Sharkett - Just Do It Right, a light spacey edit of the LCD banger. And as it is well unofficial, you might want to get your skates on and download it now before it's pulled down...
(The other track on Futuro Edits 001 is a twist on a Paul McCartney/Wings track if that's more your bag.)
*I can't remember if it was actually wheeled but I stopped what I was doing and the chatrooms were abuzz appaz.
