Friday Mixtuals - Too many to mention

Summer is most definitely here. An epic Trouble Vision session awaits us tonight with John Talabot, Tensnake, Waifs And Strays plus many many more hitting the wheels of steel, so looking forward to catching up with any one heading down there later.

Got a whole bunch of mixes for this weeks Friday mixtuals so just going to list em one after the other below. They're all well worth a listen so be sure to crack into them now to get you into the right pre weekend mood.

First up...The boys at Disco Africa step up with another afro infused house and funked up treat for their latest mix recorded for the upcoming Echo festival

Kitsch & Sync returns on the 16th June for another session with very special secret guests. Get on over to the Facebook event here for more details and subject your ears to the quality house music they peddle on the latest Kitsh & Sync podcast below.

Midland brings in the true art of the mix tape on his latest splice for Little White Earbuds. Head on over to the site here for a real gem of a mix tape.

Up next a perfect selection of house with a hint (just a hint) of bass from Picture House aka Harry Benson for the Gravy. This one got me through the start of the week and will equally take you out of it in style too.

And i thought i'd also add this one as one of the greatest essential mixes of all time. 

Enjoy and safe weekends!

Glasgow Underground Spring/Summer sampler Feat. Franky Redente

So we're back. More mixes to come later in the week but thought we'd get back into things with this little treat, released last week on Glasgow Underground featuring our good buddy Franky Redente.

The release itself is a Spring/Summer sampler featuring fresh materials from Kevin McKay, Small Pyramids (his track "The Music" from the sampler is up for free download on the soundcloud player link), Admin and of course our Boy Franky.

London based Italian Franky (also one half of duo Photo 51) has spliced together a serious funked up yet driving house track for this release and the Kevin McKay edit featured lays it all out perfectly. check it on the Soundcloud player below and head on over to Phonica for the vinyl release here.

 He's also been kind enough to send us over a exclusive first free download of his track "You cover me with edits" an atmospheric deep water cut which will be sure to suck in the late night dance floor.

Listen and Download on the Soundcloud player below and check out more from Franky here and on Twitter here

Deany Seagulls - Stop Making Sense mix

Not long now until we return to the beautiful shores of Croatia along with the rest of the Trouble Vision family for 2012s Stop Making Sense session. This year is looking to be another amazing festival with a new and improved festival site and line up announcements including Deetron, Move D, Jay Shepheard and many many more meaning we are certainly in for a treat. 

Definitely one of the top overseas festivals with Chris and the SMS family really knowing how to hold down a proper shindig in the sun. Get over to the SMS site here for full line up and ticket info and get on to those flights while they are still cheap!

Deany Seagulls - Territorial Behaviour Mix

Thought we'd post this perfect summer day time selection put together by Stop Making Sense resident and king of the eclectic groove tape Deany Seagulls for Pulse Radio. 

Deany's sets were meant to played in the sunshine, preferably over a paradise beach setting and he certainly brought in the afternoon pre rave noisings with style at last years festival. Crack on the below and start dreaming of cocktails in the Croatian sun. We can't ruddy wait!

Monday's recommended mixtuals.

Straight into the new week with some fresh stand out mixes for your ears.

Lay-Far - Keep it Deep guest mix

Got this one through on recommendation just in time for my Friday afternoon trip home from work and it is probably the main cause of an intentional quiet (for once) Friday night turning into a 5am finisher.

This mix has been put together for German bloggers Keep-it-deep by Moscow based Dj/producer and Headz.fm member Alexander Lay-Far. Well worth a download with funked up sounds laid down alongside quality house and disco slices. Get it on the Soundcloud player below.

Lou Madhu - Dirty Byrd Podcast 03

Next up is this late night lay down for the Dirty Byrds pod cast by North London's Lou Madhu. Deep and atmospheric rollers throughout on this one resulting in one very fresh selection for the early hours.

Check out the Dirty Byrds family's next event taking place on the 11th May at Stoke Newington's Question Mark Bar.

Medlar (Wolf Music) - Tief 005 

One more for you today coming from the lads at Tief. I'm off on my US road trip later this week so am a little upset to be missing their next session at Corsica studios. However i will definitely be taking this mix on the ipod player to remind me of the fun everyone will be having without me. 

The mix, number 5 in the Tief series has been put together by Wolf Music's Medlar featuring a number of productions from artists who will be appearing at the next Tief session including  Chicago Damn, Casino times and of course Medlar himself.

Tief takes place this Saturday 28th May at Corsica studios with Todd Terje and Morgan Geist heading up another tieftastic line up. Face book even here and mix pon di Soundcloud below.

Friday Mixtuals - Casino Times + Leisureware

Friday.... The best day of your weekly toil, who's sister Saturday is the only comparable beauty. Well as we've been so slack at posting recently, especially on the Friday mixtuals front here's a dump truck load of super tasty fresh mixes to get you in that weekend mood from some of our favourite platter spinners about right now.

First up.....Casino Times - Wolf Music mix

These boys are on it. Rumour has it they only have to walk into a rave and things instantly become sexier (kind of like Prince if he was a duo and from Oxford). Once on the 1s and 2s they really step it up a notch. Constant quality on the remix front as well with recent gems out on Wolf Music remixing the fantastic Greymatter as well as a top quality remix of T.E.E.D's Tapes and Money.

Anyway, it's also one half of the duos birthday today, so Happy Birthday to Nick! Catch them tonight at Conershop in Shoreditch and give the below mix a very loud play to start those weekend juices flowing.

Track Listing -
1. Chocky Dayz - Mithering You 
2. Kevin McPhee - Sleep 
3. High Hopes - Tru 
4. O&A - Noho (Axel Boman Remix) 
5. Lay-Far - Down-to-Sky 
6. Manni Dee - Shifting (James Fox Shifting Remix) 
7. Frank Rodas - untitled (1) 
8. HNNY - For The Very First Time 
9. Maxim Lany feat. Katorski - Cunnie 
10. Waze & Odyssey - I Can't Hear You (Dance) 
11. Greymatter - Give It To Me Slow (Casino Times Remix) 
12. DrumTalk - Silver & Gold 
13. TEED - Tapes & Money (Casino Times Remix)

Leisureware - The Polo Neck Mix

Quality house from the Fill Yer Boots bad man throughout this one. Rumour has it he is also pushing the beginnings of a campaign to bring back the Polo neck as well. If anyone can pull it off he can.

Check him at Fill Yer Boots Sunday the 6th May at The White Horse, Hoxton alongside NTS regular Mr Beatnick.

Track Listing-

Nina Kraviz - Aus 
Kai Alce - Decay 
Avalon Emerson - Horoscope 
Mr Beatnick - Shifting Sands 
October - String Theory 
Anton Zap - Mon: 16:46 
Ron Basejam - Voices (Hot Coins Remix) 
Tokyo Black Star - Blade Dancer (Dixon Edit) 
Neurotic Drum Band - Robotic Hypnotic Adventure (Harkin & Raney Remix) 
Argy - Peace Of Me Feat. POSH! The Prince

Catch Leisureware at Fill Yer Boots with Mr Beatnick and Picture House next month!

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/339961546051542

Resident Advisor event: www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?351487

Soul Clap - The E Funk mix

Ok, a little old this one but with last weeks Soul Clap session at Plan B in Brixton and their new album hitting the shops the lovely guys over at Fact have posted it again for those of you that didn't get it the first time round. A classic example of the true mixtape here with a funked up house twist. Check it on the Soundcloud here and head over to the Fact site here for the full track listing.

DJ Sneaks #21 Arveene & Misk

Been a good few weeks since we've posted anything as things have been pretty busy so we thought we'd crash back into it with a fresh DJ Sneaks mix from Dubliners Arveene and Misk as well as a bit of Sneaker chat with ya man Arveene. 

Now I'm pretty hyped to get this one up as Arveene is one serious collector of trainers. Been meaning to post this for a few weeks now but the toils of life have drained all my precious time which is a shame as it would have been even better to get this mix out fresh from the platters.

Anyway, a bit about the boys....

Arveene and Misk hail from Dublin and certainly know there way around a DJ set. I first caught wind of one half of  this immaculate talent (Arveene) many moons ago when a new face on the turn tables of The End at the sorely missed Monday night Durrr session slipped in a ridiculously epic (and pre X factor hype) remix of Rage's Killing in the Name of. If i remember correctly the young chap behind the booth then passed Robin a promo CD featuring the remix and so his legend began..... That tune was definitely hammered in our sets for many months after.

Nowadays the boys with their combined powers are keeping themselves very busy. With past remixes for the likes of Kitsune, The Prodigy, Felix The House Cat and Mr Oizo to name just a few they certainly like to shake up the genre pot. Their own original material has also been recieving alot of attention with their track "Love and Lust" from last year being a particular favorite of mine (definitely worth checking the video as well )  Get on over to their Soundcloud page here for more of a taste of what they do.

The Kicks.

 Now like I've already said, Arveene likes his footwear and he's sent us over a pic of some very tasty Nike Air Max 1s. I'm going to leave you with the image below and a few words from the man himself about them -

"I've always been a fan of sneakers from as far back as i can remember.My dad used to rock a pair of wine Adidas 'Summits' when i was a kid in the 80's(which i wish were still mine).

They were fresh in that classic 80's way and I remember clearly thinking when can i get a pair like those bad boys. I'm all about Adidas and Nike. I developed a sneaker habit in the 

early 00's and got seriously addicted to Nike Prestos with the Rainbow Presto being the only pair of prestos i could never find in my size ( a Large if anyone has a pair willing to sell).

Ok enough about lost conquests.. I'm all about he Air Max 1, They are now the heart and Soul of my collection and the one pair i'm constantly on the look out for classic colour ways

and well cut pairs. The Aztec or Navajo tickets all the right boxes for me I've also been obsessed with Pendelton Woolen Mills in the states for time and they have the freshest and 

most original Native American Prints. So for me this is a no brainer that had my blood rushing and my addictive personality twitching till i made the purchase.. Big Up to the Dudes 

at Size Dublin for keeping my collection in check with these particular bad boys..."

The Mix -

 Pumping house and electronic beasts through out on this one featuring their own recent club battering ram "Hells Bells 2012". Get a listen on the soundcloud player below with track listing below that. Check Arveene And Misk out on Facebook here and twitter here

Intro - A&M Edit

Dualtec - '92  - 

Jagerverb - Cable

Gesaffelstein - Viol (Brodinski Mix) 

Punx Soundcheck - Turtle (Arveene & MiSK Remix)

The Hacker - Shockwave (Gesaffelstein Mix)

Arveene & MiSK - Hells Bells 2012

Cubic Zirconia - Take Me High (Bart B'More Mix)

ZZT - Partys Over Los Angeles (Attaque Remix)

Clouds - Future Blaster

Crepe City Video + Amara Por Dios

Look back at the Crepe City Event
Just a quick post to show you a short video put together with footage from last Sunday's Crepe City Sneaker sale at Bar Music Hall London. The video has been put together by James Measom and is soundtracked by AZ's "The Come Up".

Thought the rainy weather may hold a few people off but it wasn't the case. A superb afternoon of kicks and music. Make sure you keep an eye out for details of the next event coming up in the summer and big ups to Crepe City for all the hard Work.

Crepe City | London from James Measom on Vimeo.

Something else i thought you may want to check out below.

Amara Por Dios
Swedish artist/designer Amara Por Dios has some seriously cool things for you to check out and buy on her website here. Mixing up bold colours, sneaker culture and a splashing of South American/Aztec imagery has resulted in an amazingly fresh and fun portfolio. Have a look at the T design below featuring an image of the classic Jordan 3 white cements. I want one of these a lot.



More mixes to come before the end of the week or later today if i get the time :-)

O
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Missed Mixtuals - Bicep + Andy Williams

Sorry for the lack of Friday Mixtuals for you last week. A day away from the pooter screen meant we couldn't get them up here for you. So this week we thought we'd showcase two of the freshest ones we've heard in a few days.

Bicep - DJ History Mystery Mix

First up is this crackingly wonderful selection of house music from the lads over at Bicep. These guys are some of our favorite selectors and producers of the moment with their blog site "Feel My Bicep" here also keeping peeps informed to some of the freshest edits and remixes out there.



The mix has been put together for DJ History as part of the Mystery Mix series. No track list for you as that would spoil the fun. Get it on the Soundcloud player below.



Andy Williams - Lovebox Jukebox #13

Second up is a fresh Mix for the Lovebox Jukebox from Andy Williams. We featured Andy's last mix put together with the Lovebox residents "Hot Blood" back in January which took us on a trip through all that inspires the boys behind the festival.

This one however is more to Andy's own taste taking you on a trip through driving tech house beasts filled with techno glitches. Featuring jams from Trentemoller, Mark Knight and Dean Newton.
Get it on the player below and track list below that. Download also available over on the Soundcloud page alongside a mini interview from the man himself as well as all other Lovebox ifno over on the web site here



Tracklist:

Trentemoller - Prana
Orchidee - Loco Dice (Funktional Edit)
Komytea - 9 (Funktional Edit)
Lee Jones - Aria
David Ferrero - What U Want
Julien Parise - a5b
Mark Knight - Shogun
Steve Haines - Traffic
Dean Newton - Amnesia
Lissat & Voltaxx- Release
Nando & Felipe- Khetima
Tim Berg - Alcoholic
Unknown - xx
Unknown - xx
Adam Beyer - Unknown.

DJ DSK & Mystro - I Know You Got Sole (Heaven)

I Faaaaacking love Mystro and as you may know i like my kicks too.

Thought I'd post up this great little take on the classic Eric B and Rakim beauty "I Know You Got Sole" by DJ DSK and Mystro brought to you by the quality sneaker outlet Sole Heaven. Big tune and funny ass video.

Check it out on the Vimeo player below. I've snuck in a YouTube player with the original track below that as well to to maximise your Thursday funk feed.

DJ DSK & Mystro - I Know You Got Sole (Heaven) - UNCENSORED EDIT from Sole Heaven on Vimeo.

Limited Selection - Disco Africa Mix

Big ups to the Casino Times boys for alerting me to this fresh and inspiring Wednesday morning mixtual.

Turns out Limited selection aka Jake Reed, one of Bournemouth/Oxford's "Get Your Geek On" man dem crew has spliced together a very refreshing mix for tonight's midweek Disco Africa party in Bournemouth. Joining him on the bill are a whole host of fine disco and deep house peddlers including the mighty Samson (ZooLookDisco) a man who legend has it once brought a herd of stampeding cattle to bay using only his smooth mixing skills and a bag of old disco 12"s.



Also joining the line up, Disco Africa's very own Gabriel De Souza as well as the resident Disco Africa crew.

Check out the Facebook page here for more deets.

Anyway, this mix has sorted my morning right out so i suggest you let it do the same for you. Get it on the player below.

O

Oli D.A.B & Robin - The 433 Apocalypse 2012 mix

Starting this week as we mean to go on with a promo mix we've spliced together for this Friday's Apocalypse Warehouse party taking place at The 433, London.

We mentioned the Apocalypse 433 party series which opens this Friday (2nd March) a couple of posts ago for which we will be joining the opening night line up. Check the mix on the player below with download available over on the Soundcloud page. Going a little more straight up house on this one with a darker teasing of warehouse 4-4 through out.



Tickets are flying out for this one so get over to the Facebook page here to snap up one of the few remaining passes. This is looking to be a lot of fun so get on it. Flyer also below.

Crepe City 5 @ Bar Music Hall, London

Last one for this week i promise but we thought we should give you at least a weeks heads up for this one so you can free up your diary.

Crepe City 5 will be taking place at Bar Music Hall on Sunday the 4th of March. Crepe City is the UK's leading sneaker Festival and swap meet. The event will be hosting over 20 stalls pushing some of the finest, rarest and flyest Sneakers out there as well as a good wack of apparel too.




Nothing nicer that a Sunday roll around Shoreditch so why not head down and check out what's on show. Music will be provided by Crepe City residents and entry is a meager £2. Doors open from 1pm till 7pm. Web site here and Facebook event here. Check out the video of the last event below and perhaps we'll see you there.

O

Friday Mixtuals - Pelski + Coat Of Arms + Creed & Stone

As promised we're back with three top level mixes for this week's Friday mixtuals. Really spoilt for choice here as each mix is a right beaut. I've had all of them playing on constant rotation over the past few days. Definitely all well worth downloading on to your players and they're also going to leave you trying dig out a weighty bag load of tracks.

First up every ones favorite blogger Pelski steps up with his latest splice.

Pelski - "House & Disco Fix #1".
Proving that he can mix like a goodun as well as having a very sharp ear, Pelski serves up a top class mix of laid back disco funk and groove laden house treats.



Stand out selections on this one including Dave Allison's "Soda Pop" prove he's on the ball when it comes to treating us to hard to find gems. Check it on the Soundcloud player below with a fresh download link here and track listing over on the Soundcloud page here.



Coat Of Arms - "February - March 2012 Mix"

With Eats Everything taking over the World and Chris James busy slamming out jam after jam you may be forgiven for overlooking their joint Project "Coat of Arms. Their debut record and massive Summer groove "Is this something" was a staple number in pretty much every DJ set i heard towards the end of last year.



The boys have recently joined Future Boogie on the bookings front so hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of them as a duo over the nearing festival season. Check out the mix on the Soundcloud player below. Packed with Coat of Arms material taking you smoothly through a selection of sub ridden house and deep treats. Download also available here.



Creed & Stone - Sping Mix- 2012

Fresh from the Jackmode Berlin Office Creed & Stone have mixed us another big one. After meeting back in the Spring of 2011 their work for Klasse Recordings and Jackmode Agency brought together two chaps with a love for Berlin's underground house scene. Dickon Stone and James Creed decided to combine production, selection and DJ blendation skills and under the suitably appropriate name Creed & Stone haven't looked back since.



Filled with Deep percussive rollers, this one brings a slightly darker feel to the table but without loosing an inch of groove. Take an earful on the player below with download link also available over on the Soundcloud page.

Also below that check out James Creeds Solo release debut on Klasse Recordings - "The Soft Parade Ep" on the Soundcloud palyer at the bottom of the page. It's out now and available in all good download stores.

The Apocalypse is Coming......at 433

So as promised, we got loads of stuff for you this week. Today is strictly one for the London crew or anyone that may be visiting town next Friday.

We are super hyped for this one as a lot of effort is going into every aspect of the party....that and there's something special about taking a very large sound system and cracking it in the middle of ware house.

Friday the 2nd March brings the first party in the Apocalypse Survival Guide series, and what a session it is looking to be. Taking place at the 433, a new creative community venue based on Caledonian Road, N7. The guys behind it are promising to bring "a series of interactive, immersive and experimental late night clubbing events" which sounds like a sack load of fun to me.



The parties.....or chapters as they are being called open with the theme "Appeasing the gods". The 433 are enforcing a strict Mayan fancy dress theme with Mayan beauticians on the door to spruce up any one to dull or late to put in the effort for a small palm crossing of gold nuggets. Guests will be welcomed in to the warehouse-turned-temple with performances and interaction from actors/sacrificial priests thoughout the night. I've seen some sneaky pics of the DJ booth being built and it looks like this is going to be something seriously worth checking out.

We will be joining the DJ line up for the evening alongside Fife & Lex Darker (Yeah, Maybe), Ad Pan (Audio Farm) and resident Larry Sun (The 433).

Got a feeling tickets are going to fly for this one so get over to the Facebook page here for full details as well as the links below and we'll hopefully see you there!
O
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The 433

Tickets
Super Earlybird Tickets are priced from £5 and are available from:
Facebook (www.facebook.com/the433)
Skiddle (www.skiddle.com) 0844 884 29 20

DJ Sneaks #20 Too Many T's

Yes yes!

Finally back with another DJ Sneaks and hopefully a selection of superb mix tapes later in the week.

This DJ Sneaks edition we're bringing in the Hip Hop. Fresh from the Camberwell streets......well maybe a comfy bench in the Camberwell Tiger (South London's finest boozer for those that don't know).



Too Many T's step up this time round with a mix spliced together by their occasional collaborator and DJ on hand Mr Biscuits. But first a little bit about the boys themselves.

Too Many T's.... aka Ross Standaloft and Leon Rhymes are two lovable cheek mongers of an Emcee duo. After forming in the summer of 2011, Too Many T's have been gaining attention from all directions with their tight but tongue in cheek take on rap all laid down over real sounding funk and Sesame street soul influenced hip hop beats. Check out the below video for their track "Medina life" to get an example of this if my use of descriptives above has left you a little lost. The video recorded in on the streets of Marrakesh last Spring and released in December it definitely gives you an idea of what the boys are about.



The Kicks.
Was pretty hyped to get Too Many T's to step up for the kicks mix as i know Leon Rhymes is a bit of a trainer addict as well. Up Towns all the way with Leon selecting a pretty different pair of Nike Air Force 1s for show and tell. Here's his bit about them.....

"Trekking around New York's Lower East side looking for some fresh kicks at the end of 2011 I stumbles across these fresh AF1s in a vintage store - unworn but without the box - in perfect size and had to have em. Love the double set of red and pink laces and the splatter mid soles to give it that extra pop. Now i know they were release in 2008 and it turns out they're Supremes - and women's - but I'm now in touch with my feminine side, and anyway, they look fresh as fook"



The Mix -

A corker of a mix laid down from a selection of Too Many T's influential jams. Mr Biscuit brings the skills in big time as well, with every track cut, rubbed and mixed too a T....
Featuring classic Eric B and Rakim right through to classic UK beauts by artists including Jehst and Foreign Beggars. Most definitely one for the download. Check it on the Soundcloud player below also featuring the DL link.



Find more deets on Too Many Ts on the links below and for the London crew check out their high energy live show, Friday the 9th March at the Hoxton Pony, Shoreditch.

www.youtube.com/TooManyTVs
www.facebook.com/toomanyts
www.soundcloud.com/too-many-ts
www.twitter.com/toomanyts
www.toomanyts.com

We'll be back later in the week and on the usual house music tip.

Peas.
O
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