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Acid House / Tech House / House / Techno

Acid house goodness, dubwise sounds, bass weight, a dash of trance. From heads down, hypnotic rollers to hands in the air, expansive moments...  groovy music for strange landscapes.

'We send spacecraft to other planets'

Sometimes Feel Like - Nuage (House of Youth)
813 - Hiss Is Bliss (Modern Hypnosis)
No One Home - Solar Suite (Strange Cargo)
Andromeda - Asa Tate (Rhythm Section International)
Chicago - Johannes Albert (Frank Music)
Future! (Joeski Remix) - Halo Varga (Hooj Choons)
Root Cause - Brennan (Dubble)
Control (Steve O'Sullivan Reconstruction) - Paul St. Hilaire & Rhauder (Sushitech)
Astromelody (Love Mix) - Paolo Mosca (Slow Life)
Oxygum (Asa Tate Edit) - Asa Tate (Asa Tate)
Beautiful Noise In My Head - Soul Wun (Gallery)
Into Dust (Still Falling) - Four Tet (XL)
Dreams - Nathalie Capello (Hot Haus)
Full Of Fools - Blu:sh (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
Mojo Rhythm - Headhunters (Strange Cargo)
Polly's Acid Kiss - Wilba (Haws)
Without Pause - Midland (Graded)
One - Sasha & Cortese (Last Night On Earth)
Atmospheric - Yoogie Van Bellen & Christian Linder (Phonica)
Apus Cosmica - Suki (Haws)
Newendam - Human Space Machine (Nous'klaer Audio)
Chez Moi ft Confidence Man (Spray's Club Spriitzz Mix) - CC:Disco! (Phantasy Sound)
U Disappear - Sasha & Cortese (Last Night On Earth)

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Selection of current favourite House / Tech House / Progressive House tunes - some old, some new, all good 😊

A homemade mix with the tunes that were in my crate for the BSS winter solstice party - kind of an extended version of my set 😊

Shout out to the BSS crew - inspirational party as always - epic photo below. 

Absolutely loving Asa Tate tunes at the moment (aka Tech Support), a few tracks on this one & he's popped up in the last several mixtapes - great stuff. 

Quality new-ish tunes on Phonica (Luca Lozano), Permanent Vacation (Pacific Coliseum & Johannes Albert) & new label Strange Cargo (Headhunters - the whole EP is really good, looking forward to the next one out soon).

Some classics that have felt right recently (Stereo MC's, Mylo & Deep Dish). Dub vibes from Akio Nagase, Ferg & Command D & plenty more goodness besides.

Tune in, have a listen, share it around if you enjoy it & then go buy all the tunes

'We don't care what's happening, we just want to have a good time'

Step It Up (Stereo Field Dub) - Stereo MC's (Gee Street)
Creation Dub - Akio Nagase (Emotional Especial)
Diplomatico - Damon Jee (Correspondant)
Stannum (Mondowski Remix) - Bird of Paradise (Beat Is Murder)
In My Arms (Linus Loves Remix) - Mylo (Breastfed)
Tucana (Extended Mix) - Asa Tate (Silver Bear)
Distort The Colour - Pacific Coliseum (Permanent Vacation)
Magic Strings - Ivan Fabra (Nang)
Feel The Fire (Deep Dish Burning Mix) - Naomi Daniel (Planet E)
Dust (Melvo Baptiste & AMicity Extended Remix) - Recloose feat. Joe Dukie (The Remedy Project)
House For All (Ruede Hagelstein Ecstatic Dub) - Blunted Dummies (Get Physical)
Morangos (Acid Pauli Remix) - Xinobi (Frau Blau)
Foreign Nature - Vhyce (Vhyce)
Higher Power - Asa Tate (Permanent Vacation)
Tropic Of Cancer - Asa Tate (Permanent Vacation)
The Magnificent - Luca Lozano (Phonica)
Feelings - dub.format (Maccabi House)
The Cure & The Cause (Dennis Ferrer Remix) - Fish Go Deep & Tracey K (Defected)
Crystalised (Bletter Maccabi Edit) - The xx (Maccabi House)
Private Dancer (Magari Fantasy Mix) - Johannes Albert feat. Iron Curtis (Permanent Vacation)
Changing Energy (Manuel Darquart Extended Remix) - Benjamin Fröhlich (Permanent Vacation)
Back In Place - Ferg (Dubble)
Fever - Command D (The Vibesmith)
I Wanna Dance - Headhunters (Strange Cargo)

On This Day - 19th of July 1986

 

On this day… 40 years ago

19th of July 1986. Festival of the Tenth Summer, the 10th Event. Greater Manchester Exhibition Centre

New Order / The Smiths / The Fall / A Certain Ratio / Cabaret Voltaire & more

This was a festival organised by Factory Records. 10 events to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Sex Pistols playing in Manchester.

It was absolutely huge for me - first time I went to Manchester, having been obsessed with Factory & the Manchester scene generally for a few years, & it was so exciting.

So many good bands - ACR on early in the day, New Order with Mac from the Bunnymen for guest vocals on Ceremony, The Smiths with Morrissey waving a ‘The Queen Is Dead’ sign. Good times :) 

1. Festival postcard / flyer

2. Festival ad clipped from NME

3. Festival ticket (Block K Row B Seat 26)

4. Festival merchandise list (note #10 'The Installation' - starting price 20K)

5. & 6. Festival badge - this would have been worn on my black overcoat for many years, battered but still going. Love that the Festival, in true Factory style, had a catalogue number (FAC 151)

On This Day - 25th of June 1988

On this day... 38 years ago

25th of June 1988. A Certain Ratio live at the Astoria, London 

As mentioned on a previous post, I love ACR, one of my favourite bands. The Astoria was a wicked venue, & ACR are always excellent live, good times 🔈 

This would also have been, I think, maybe the 4th night of the Trip - Nicky Holloway’s famous acid house party. Memory is a bit hazy, but I think we got kicked out of the Astoria pretty swiftly after ACR finished, because they needed to get ready for 100’s of incoming acid house lunatics 😆

Foolishly we didn’t stay, but I do have vague memories of heaps of people waiting to get in & a buzz in the air. Instead we jumped in @vinyl.fanclub car & sped down to Brighton to go to another acid night at the Escape. It’s very possible I’ve misremembered this, it was a long time ago, but I think this was all on the same night 😆

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Sending love & strength to Ombak Sound 🧡

Music for road trips / campfires / the South Downs / afternoon sunshine at the Big Chill / bush walks / Bouddi / watching waves / living in the trees at #35

Dub / Indie / Folk / Electronica / D&B / Reggae

'Relax & Breathe'

Psalms 25 - Xterminator All Stars (Xterminator)
Dub Latina - Calexico (Spunk)
Plains - Tycho (Ghostly International)
Light Inside Of You - Andrew Kidman (Spunk)
Lips - Sunhouse (Independiente)
Small Dub - Bill Callahan (High Note)
Under The Covers - Carla dal Forno (Kallista)
Tempest Dub - Edge Test 2 (React)
Peacock Tail - Boards Of Canada (Warp)
Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi - Bunun Tribe / David Darling (CMN)
Wild Majesty - Up, Bustle & Out (Unique)
Chant At Dusk - Mista Savona & Rootbound System (Elefant Traks)
Without Love - Mista Savona & Sugar D (Elefant Traks)
Danny's Song - PFM (Good Looking)
Flowers Bloom (Secret Lover Remix by PFM) - Mandalay (Organic)
Chasing Circles - Broken Chip (Feral Media)
Love & Some Verses - Iron & Wine (Sub Pop)
Heartbeats - José González (Imperial)
Temporary - Rogue Wave (Sub Pop)
First Day Of My Life - Bright Eyes (Saddle Creek)
Paris, Texas - Ry Cooder (Warner)
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star (Capitol)
A Gentle Heart - Neil Halstead (Brushfire)
You Got The Silver - The Rolling Stones (Decca)
Dub To The Rescue - King Tubby & Friends (Blood & Fire)
Love Light (Burning) - Gregory Isaacs (Trojan)
Magic In The Air - Wayne Jarrett (Wackies)
Drive (Remix) - Spacemen 3 (Fire)

Groovetech Radio / Haywire Sessions

Groovetech Radio

Haywire Sessions
Year 2000, early live streaming, grainy video of Weatherall (& friends) playing incredible tunes, beamed across London to my flat in Camberwell (via 1p a minute dial-up internet).
Happy days 😊

On This Day - 1st of March 1989

On this day... 37 years ago

1st of March 1989. Spacemen 3 live at Keele University

What a band! 

Was so very into them when we went to this gig, & still love & often listen to them now - just brilliant (see also post Spacemen work as Spectrum / Sonic Boom / Spiritualized).