Thursday, 8 July 2010

Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary

Just a little reminder incase you have had your head buried in sand for the past few weeks, that you have just a couple of hours left to grab the Ninja Tune 20th anniversary box set at the special pre-order price, a saving of £20.
The full details, tracklisting and anything else you might possibly want to know is all on the ninjatune pages and although one or two tracks stand out as being given very unnecessary remixes (how the hell is Switch going to improve Paid In Full when he hasn't done a good job on his own records for about 5 years?), there lloks like there is going to be some gems - unreleased Floating Points, rare Four Tet remixes and new Roots Manuva more than outweigh them.
A classic Coldcut release from (worryingly already) 4 years ago with Henrik Schwarz on remix duties at the time he could not put a foot wrong in my eyes.
Download - Coldcut with Robert Owens - Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Yet more Krautrock-ago-go!!!

As promised, some more Krautrock, though again it isn't very rocky. It also isn't very warm and summery but let's not let that stand in the way of great track. This one is from Tangerine Dream main man, Edgar Froese.
Check out more Edgar Froese stuff here


Download: Edgar Froese A Dali-esque Sleep Fuse


And the picture, well we've had a couple of days of pictures for the gents so to balance, here's one for the ladies!

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Krautrock-ago-go

I should really play more kraut so here is some Can albeit in a kind of un-kraut way as it is the Carl Craig remix. More krautrock soon I promise!


Download: Can - Future Days (Carl Craig Bladerunner Remix)

Monday, 5 July 2010

Summer Madness

This morning I saw a link to a great summer mixtape by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mick Boogie. Check out the mix here


And from that mixtape, I thought I'd pick out a classic Summer track - Kool and the Gang with Summer Madness (as sampled by Jeff for Summertime if memory serves)
Download: here 

Sunday, 4 July 2010

Songs of Praise 4.7.10

Celebrate 4th july with Songs Of Praise non 4th july special. There are some American tracks in. About as many as usual to be honest. 



Roni Size/Reprazent - Heroes (Origin Unknown Remix)
Ebony Rhythm Band - Soul Heart Transplant
Darondo - Let My People Go
Hubert Daviz - Sunset Light
Billy Ball & The Upsetters feat. Roosevelt Matthews - African Suspense
Cedric IM Brooks - Africa 
Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa 
Jimmy Bo Horne - Let Me Be Your Lover
Marva Whitney - This Girl's In Love With You
Cookin' on 3 Burners -  This Girl 
The Randy Watson Experience - Can't Hide Love (Feat. Bilal)
The Roots - The Day (Feat. Blu, Phonte, Patty Crash)
Paul White - Mushroom Forest
Barbara Acklin - Am I The Same Girl 
Barbara Mason - Hello Baby
Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
David Joseph - You Can't Hide Your Love (Larry Levan Remix)
Kashif - Rumors
Syreeta & Stevie Wonder - To Know You Is To Love You (Rainer Trueby Re-edit)
Romanthony - Hold On
Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream I Can't Stop Dreaming (Break Mix)
Dj Falcon - Honeymoon
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz (Dim's Respect For The Old School Mix)
River Ocean Feat. India - Love And Happiness (Yemaya Y Ochun) (Dream Sequence)
Jermaine Jackson & Don Daniels - Erucu
Basement Jaxx - Fly Mix
Daft Punk - Phoenix
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better I'll Go To The Disco (Said The Buffalo Bunch) 
Stephanie Mills - You Can't Run From My Love (Paco & Franck Dona Dub Re-edit)
Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya (OOFT! Rework)
Archie Bell & The Drells - When the partys Over (Marbert Basement Edit)


Download: Johnny Pate - Shaft In Africa

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Happy birthday Paula and Matthew!

Yesterdays choice of Kim English with a MAW remix was actually, by complete fluke, an even better choice than I first realised. Today is the birthday for two good friends, Paula Harris of Grooveparlor TV out of Chicago (as is Kim English) and Matthew McDonald of No Requests from New York (just like Masters At Work - see, genius!)
Anyway, to mark the day I had to put a little something together for them (much cheaper easier than sending that really expensive present I had lined up for each of them :)) so I thought of doing a little mix for Paula of all my (and hopefully her) Chi-town favourites.
And for Matthew, well unfortunately I did not realise it was his birthday until today but I'm sure he would appreciate me dedicating this one to him and his home town. 
Download: Odyssey - Native New Yorker 

Friday, 2 July 2010

Kim English

Let's kick off the weekend with a classic bit of MAW! And their remix of Kim English Nite Life. Bumpin' is a guess the best description of it!


Download - Kim English Nite Life (Nite Mix)