Darkstar Dummy Mix

Darkstar did Dummy's 269th mix back in August but it's been on serious rotation this week at work.

There's ambient stuff, a bit of hip-hop, some rub-a-dub-dub, film dialogue and plenty of intrigue. It's a fantastic 45 minutes. Enjoy...



Tracklisting:

Mad Rush - Phillip Glass
After Soaking Two Years And Then Lying High Six Months It Was Perfectly Sound Through Waterlogged Past Dying - Shane Carruth
Chez Le Commandeur - Hector Zazou
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am - Fela Kuti
Monijitas - Soul Keita
In Principio - Ludovico Einaudi
Africa Dub - Augustus Pablo
Listening Wind - Talking Heads
Fabulous Paris - Trevor Wishart
Comin' For Datazz - Gang Starr
Subterraneans - David Bowie
Institutionalized - Kendrick Lamar
Yayla - Rezzet
Memories Of Green - Vangelis
Through The Motions - Darkstar
midipipe1csds3timecube-klonedrm - AFX
Day In Day Out - XTC
The Last Human Exist Dance - Tylervision
Breathless - Gwilym Gold
I want you - Eyrkah Badu
Interplanetary Music - Mickey Moonlight
The Hours - Phillip Glass
Opera - Daniel Lanois

The Top 10 Things I Heard In 2014

I started on my top 10 things I heard in 2015 list last night and I realised that I never published my 2014 edition, so here goes...

10. Metronomy - Boy Racers



9. Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky



8. Rustie - Attak (feat. Danny Brown)



7. DVBBS - Tsunami @ Belgian Halftime



6. Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite



5. SOPHIE - Lemonade



4. Gruff Rhys - 100 Unread Messages



3. The Soronprfbs - I Love You All



2. Dornik - Rebound



1. Robert Palmer - Johnny & Mary



<< REWIND <<

• Top 10 of 2013
• Top 10 of 2012
• Top 10 of 2011
• Top 10 of 2010
• Top 10 of 2009

This Modern Rib-Eye

As I was cooking a frankly superb rib-eye steak this evening, 6 Music played a live version of Bloc Party's This Modern Love and I was reminded of what a great song it is and quickly went to grab Silent Alarm.

Thing is though that the best live version of This Modern Love I've got is a slightly ropey yet highly charming version by Smoosh (now known as Chaos Chaos)...



[Right-click and "Download Document" for a mp3 of This Modern Love (Live in San Francisco) by Smoosh]

Glad All Over

What links my granddad's side Crystal Palace, my new favourite Scottish football team Partick Thistle (sorry Kilmarnock but they've got a David Shrigley mascot) and former Welsh rugby powerhouse Pontypridd?

They all use - according to Wikipedia, anyway - Glad All Over by The Dave Clark Five as celebration music.

And what a stomper it is...

Eyesdown, Listen Up

Coldcut were recently on Essential Mix duty to celebrate 25 years of Ninja Tune and it goes without saying that it was some top, top listening.

The mix is on the BBC iPlayer for a couple of more weeks and I have to say it's been great that the Beeb have extended the time that you can catch up on radio shows from a week to a month.

One of the highlights of the mix was 30 minutes in when they dropped Machinedrum's roller of a remix of Eyesdown by Bonobo...