Holy Cow Mix, Hannah Hammond Mix and Cake Mix

Three mixes for you today. Two for your ears and one for your kitchen.
I love it when i find or get sent a quality mix. I know instantly that any movement on public transport for the next 48 hours will be drastically improved. Working also becomes a smoother operation as well as i can immerse myself within the confinement of my ear cans for at least another 40 minutes of quality noise. The 3rd mix is there because i think everyone should know the basis of a good Victoria sponge but we'll come to that in a bit.

HOLY COW!
First up is this tidy little selection from newcomers Holy Cow. A collaboration between our good pal Shane McNamara and his other (DJ) half George Watts. These guys have been working hard on their own material over the past few months with their track "Riding the 909" featuring in the mix as well a few freebie downloads also available at their Soundcloud here.
Quality selecting going on in this one, make sure you cop an earful .

Holy Cow! Spring Mixtape by Holy Cow!

Track Listing
1) Untold - Anaconda (Tribal Guarachero Mix)
2) Mount Kimbie - Blind Night Errand
3) Boy 8 Bit - Tropical Heat
4) DJ Touche - Zombies
5) M.I.A - Internet Connection (Huoratron Rum Aid Remix)
6) T.E.E.D - Household Goods (Justin Martin Instrumental)
7) The Martin Brothers - Steel Drums (Riva Starr Mix)
8) SBTRKT - Hide or Seek
9) Holy Cow! - Riding The 909
10) Jet Project - U Know
11) Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You
12) XXXY - Ordinary Things
13) Amerie - One Thing (French Fries Remix)

Hannah Hammond
Second up is this superb mix i stumbled across this morning from Hannah Hammond. I really don't know to much about her yet but with a quality mix like this one hopefully we'll be hearing a lot more from her in the future. A fine selection of Detroit and New York tinged House gems with tracks from Todd Terry, Masters at Work, DJ Sneak and many many more. Definitely a set we'll be checking out at Gottwood and Farr Festival this summer where i believe she is also on the bill.

Sneaky Dope Mix by Hannah Hammond

T R A C K L I S T

1) C'mon Up - Dirty Harry
2) I Can't Get No Sleep (MK Dub ) - Masters At Work
3) I Thought Your Love - Todd Terry
4) Don't Get Carried Away - Todd Terry
5) Right Now (Silver City Mix) - Robert Owens, Freaks
6) When You Touch Me ft India (Monstrumental Mix) - MAW
7) Dancin' (Original Demand Mix) 1992 - Kenny Dope Gonzalez
8) Disco Breaks - DJ Sneak
9) Like Some Dream - Daniel Wang
10) Casbah Breakdown - Brad Shitt
11) Funky Souls - Robert Hood Presents Floorplan
12) Give Me The Night (MAW Disco Dub) - George Benson
13) Never Gonna Change (Never Gonna Dub ) TNT
14) I Can't Get No Sleep ft India (Fantasy Beats) - Masters at Work
15) When You Touch Me (MAW Touch Me Dub)
16) Get Up (Todd Mix) - MAW

Also,a Cheeky download of the "Casbah Breakdown" bootleg by Bradd Shitt here. Don't know if this was ever released "officially" on digital? But this rip aint to bad a quality.

And Finally..... The Cake Mix



Just thought we should add the odd bit of variation to the mixes we post and there's nothing nicer than a nice slice of Victoria sponge.
Massive big ups to Lesley Waters at the BBC who doesn't yet know I've ripped her method of cake creation.

Ingredients

· knob of butter melted

· 225g/8oz butter, softened

· 225g/8oz caster sugar

· 4 large free-range eggs

· 225g/8oz self-rising flour, sifted (you may need a bit extra)

· 6 tbsp good-quality strawberry jam

· 300ml/10½ fl oz double cream, lightly whipped

· icing sugar, for dusting

Preparation method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Gently heat the knob of butter in a pan and brush two 6in-7in/15cm-17.5cm cake tins with the melted butter. Line the bottom of the two cake tins with a circle of greaseproof paper.
3. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy, using an electric whisk or a wooden spoon. Beat well to get lots of air into the mixture (this should take a couple of minutes).

1. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add a tablespoon of flour if the mixture curdles.
2. Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon. Be careful not to over-mix it.
3. Pour the mixture equally between the two cake tins and level off the top with a spatula. Make a slight dip in the centre with the tip of the spatula if you don't want them to be pointed in the middle.
4. Place in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes, or until the cakes spring back when pressed gently with a finger and are pale golden in colour.
5. Remove from the oven and take them out of the tins after about 5-10 minutes. Place them on a wire rack to cool completely (for about half an hour).
6. Spread the sponge with the jam and the whipped cream, then carefully sandwich together.
7. Dust with icing sugar and serve.