New Mixtape for Dartmouth Arms / Disappearing Dining Club

Posted on by

It was an honour to be invited to create a mixtape for the lovely crew at the Dartmouth Arms / Disappearing Dining Club, as they’ve previously shared mixes from some top selectors like Ray Mang, Phil Cooper, Moonboots, Chris Coco, Pete Gooding, Phil Mison and their excellent residents Neil Thornton and Stuart Langley. Their taste in music is matched the quality of their venue and the hospitality they offer, all top quality from the vintage Celestion soundsystem to the stylish modern cooking, get along if you get the chance. It’s two hours of super chilled, beautiful music, enjoy…

Tracklist…

1. The Soft Rain Falls – Chris Coco

2. Starlight Lullaby – Los Days

3. Sunset Village – Beverly Glenn Copeland

4. The Eighth Wave – Suzanne Ciani

5. Pleasure Joy & Happiness – Eddie Chacon

6.Un Vida Llarga I Tranquila – Joan Bibiloni

7. Pharoah – RAS

8.Give the Light Back to the Night – Plastic Fantastic (Feat. Sally Rodgers)

9. Noche de San Juan – George Solar & Chris Coco

10. Liquid Deep – Dreamcast

11. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown – Braces Tower Dub

12. Patchouli – James Bright

13.Starseeds  – Seahawks

14. Reclaim Landscape – Clandestino Beach Version – OOFT

15. Citations – Mildlife

16. Honey Rooftops – Blair French

17. The Advisory Circle – Sundial

18.Pharaohs – Tears for Fears

19.Conversational – Domenic Leone

20.Cafe del Mar – Frank Fischer

21. Tinseltown in the Rain – The Blur Nile

22. Regnantem Sempiterna – Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble

23. After the Storm – Greg Foat

Music for Swimming Pools Vol 1 & 2

Posted on by

A vintage mix by me from 2000, inspired by a legendary trip to Greek island Naxos with Pete Lawrence and the Big Chill crew. Look out for an appearance from Quentin Crisp…

‘I have been to restaurants in Soho whose denizens have crossed social and geographical barriers to reach them. In one, I have seen a girl sitting amid musical pandemonium with a book open on her knees and her little finger entwined with that of her true love. Of course she was not really listening and not really reading and not communicating with her friend in any way that required effort or style.

It would be hard to say whether the jukebox caused the death of human speech or whether music came to fill an already widening void. But unless the music is stopped now, the human race, mumbling, snapping its fingers and twitching it’s hips, will sink back into an amoebic state where it will take a coagulation of hundreds of teenagers to make up a single unit of vital force, which, once formed, will only live on sedatives, consume itself on the terraces of football stadia, and die.’

1. Sean Flynn – The Clash
2. Augustus Pablo – Braces Tower Dub
3. A Tune For Jack – Lemon Jelly
4. This World – Zero 7
5. Cast Your Fate to the Wind – David Axelrod
6. Dawning- – 23 Skidoo
7. Persopolis – Deep Dish
8. Loving You – Minnie Ripperton
9. Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys
10. Sontags Beste – Rune Lindbaek

1. Music – John Miles
2. This Pullover – Jess Conrad
3. One to One Religion – Bomb the Bass
4. Debra – Beck
5. Paint the Stars – Jimi Tenor
6. Universal Unfolding – Lenny Ibizarre
7. Sunshine – Handsome Boy Modelling School
8. Aeo – Brian Biggs
9. Love Serenade – Barry White
10. Petra – John Beltran
11. Light My Fire – Shirley Bassey
12. Yoshinori Sunahara – Theme from Take Off

Cafe del Mar Mixtape Vol 2 1991

Posted on by

Del Mar Tapes

I recently found a couple of Cafe del Mar mixtapes, vols 2 & 8, I’m guessing they were bought in Summer 1991 (?) from legendary resident DJ Jose Padilla who used to sell them from behind the decks. He got bored of my nagging him for track id’s so he let me copy the track lists from his notebook. Maybe I’ll dig out the cassette deck and digitise them sometime, but for now here’s the track list and some links for volume 2. It’s a seminal collection, the Balearic blue print of ambient, electronics, classical, new-age, film scores and rock all going into the mix…

Update November 2020, finally got round to digitising one of the tapes, this is Vol 8, sides 1 & 2

1. Spiritual High – Moodswings
2. Hoomba Hoomba – Voices of Africa
3. David Morley – Birth
4. Opus for 4 – Art of Noise
5. My Father was a Teacher – Megabyte
6. Cafe del Mar – Frank Fischer

7. Good to See You – Vangelis
8. Marimba Dream – Reed Maidenberg
9. Twilight – Vangelis
10. The Big Blue Overture – Eric Serra
11. Adagio  – Shankar
12. Passion – Peter Gabriel
13. Do You Be? – Meredith Monk
14. Before Night Falls – Peter Gabriel
15. Release the Pressure – Leftfield
16 Struggle for Pleasure – Wim Mertens

Update April 2021 – Finally managed to digitise Vol 2, side 1…

  1. Wally Baderou – Mt. Fuji and the Mime
  2. Jean-Michel Jarre – Souvenir of China
  3. Yello – Blue Green
  4. Wally Baderou – The Dachstein Angels
  5. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
  6. Jon & Vangelis – I hear you now
  7. Steve Miller – Wild Honey
  8. Laurie Anderson – White lily
  1. Laurie Anderson – Radar
  2. Marianne Faithfull – The Hawk
  3. Astor Piazolla – Regresso al Amor
  4. Mark Isham – Interest Persued
  5. Art of Noise – Moments in Love
  6. Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene

Andrew Weatherall Essential Mix 1996

Posted on by

Proper…

The Hydronaut vs Morgan Geist – Deep In The Feeling [Aquarhythms]
Nimbus Quartet – Hep Cat Speaketh [Sounds]
Two Lone Swordsmen – Glide By Shooting [Emissions Audio Output]
Two Lone Swordsmen – Spin Desire [Emissions Audio Output]
Two Lone Swordsmen – Bim, Jack And Florence [Emissions Audio Output]
Deanne Day – The Long First Friday [Emissions Audio Output]
Communication X – Duality (Phase Two) [Muzique Tropique]
Urban Farmers – Last Chance To Dance [20:20 Vision]
Aphrodisiac – Earth Whispers [BPM]
Nail – Try [DiY Discs]
N.Y. Connection – Bless The Funk [Evolution/Universal Language Productions Ltd]
Q-Burns Abstract Message – Mess Of Afros (Glenn Underground Remix) [SSR]
Boo Williams – Make Some Noise [Relief]
Stacy Kidd – Think Of You (Paul’s Party Mix) [Peacefrog]
Wyndell Long – She Heard Me Cry [Peacefrog]
Motorbass – Neptune [Basenotic]
Discocaine – Keep On [Zoom]
Two Lone Swordsmen – Turn The Filter Off [Emissions Audio Output]
Freaks – One For The Diary [Phono]
Restless Soul – Sykodelik [Basement 282]
Kenlou III – What A Sensation (Sensational Beats) [MAW]
DJ Camacho – Renegade (The Dance Tracks *Fugitive Version*) [Sumo]

https://www.discogs.com/lists/Andrew-Weatherall-Essential-Mix-96/476782

Coldcut vs The Orb – 31/12/91 Kiss FM

Posted on by

‘…sticking on just the Rickie Lee Jones spoken word [version] of ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ over some other music. They also played a lot of abstract, cool spoken word/cut-up stuff, which seemed really impressive and weird. We were like, “F***, how did they make that?” then found out it was mainly The Tape-beatles CD [Music With Sound] which we then tracked down afterwards and used a lot ourselves. That CD had a big influence on me, which fed into the later “alien sphinx”-style shows… it was just quite arty and clever and odd, looping spoken word, and showed anything goes in radio trip-style collage. It was after that I started collecting the weirder spoken word [material], like that exorcism speech (sourced from Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, I think) and The 500,000 Year Old Wisdom of E Yada di Shi-ite.

“I think we also played the ‘Eine Kleine Hed Music’ track for the first time on that show, which I remember was a fave of yours… the Invisible Man stuff for that, and a lot of the rest, was just done in a one man live mix, literally running round the studio, turning decks on and off! Raw but fun. Those were the days.”

http://thequietus.com/articles/13976-solid-steel-dj-food