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Slowing up a little in posting as it's the cricket season (#UpTheCavs) but we continue...

Sunshine Jones - Fall in Love, Not in Line (Love Version)

I've had this list running for a while, so not 100% where I came across this, but I'm pretty sure it was Macca on his One Glove show on NTS in April, maybe even March.

Uplifting house with a right on message, you've got to love it.

Night Works - I Tried So Hard (Gold Panda Remix)

One of the delights of upgrading the Micro SD and resetting the play count on Musicolet (though thankfully keeping the carefully crafted playlists) is that older tracks crop up in the unplayed list. And this glitchy twisty gem was one of them.

Turns out I mentioned this remix 13 years ago on this blog, and the original made my Top 10 list of 2012.

Paul McCartney - Secret Friend (Full Length Version)

Really need to pull my finger out and buy McCartney II.

Danny Brown - 30

Another Musicolet pull-up. How have I had this on my phone for like a decade and not clocked the early Metronomy sample?

Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

This came on 6Music when I was driving over to St Athan up the access road, and it just hit the spot.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Dark Star

Slapped in a few tapes as the heat got up recently. I don't know why, but hot weather and cassettes just go together for me.CSN, the third studio album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, was one of them, a tape I inherited rather than lost during a house move years ago.

Is this yacht rock? Whatever, it works in the sun.

Mos Def - Beauty in the Dark (Groove with You)

Another one made for the sun, built as it is around an Isley Brothers sample. Or made with them. I'm not clear. It's smooth AF either way.

Casey Veggies - Back For Another One feat. Tyler, The Creator

Gotta say, Odd Future also sounds good in the heat too.

Missy Elliott - WTF (Where They From) feat. Pharrell Williams

A lot of hip hop in this list, huh. Always have time for Missy though. And that long bass sound. Yes, mate.

Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Barker Wander

There's a walking challenge at work, so I've been trying to get out and about.

I even risked a stream and lost signal around Llantwit, listening to Barker's Bleep Mix 300 as I went. 

And what a lovely mix it is too; spacey and ambient and perfect for getting lost to. Whether that's a wandering to get your 10,000 steps in or grinding through a job application (truly one of the worst experiences on Earth, second only to the actual job interview).

Anyway, I'm an old, old wooden man... can you still download Bleep Mixes? Or is it streaming-only now? Because I'd love to stick Barker's mix on a USB and find it again in 10 or so years.

Jam City XLR8R Mix 219 Redux

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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• Rustie - Fact Mix 79
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Man, annual leave. Ain't it something?

Cherrelle - Saturday Love

It works, even when it's not a Saturday.

Electrelane - To The East

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?

Hans Zimmer - You're So Cool

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.

David Bowie - Young Americans

Wuzza wuzza.

The Cure - Alone (Four Tet Remix)

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.

Ben Watt feat. Estelle - Pop a Cap In Yo Ass

That's enough of this decade. 2005, please Drive!

Zed Bias feat. Nicky Prince & MC Rumpus - Neighbourhood

Scrap that Drive, 2000, now please. UKG forever. I feel good, good, good...

Hudson Mohawke - Gluetooth

Honestly, not sure how I got to 2025 without owning Butter. As featured on that Rustie Mix I posted about earlier this month.

Charli XCX - Von Dutch (Skream and Benga Remix)

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

Rustie - Fact Mix 79

 

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.

If only I found that USB sooner.