Electronic music old and new
I'm notoriously slow when it comes to recording DJ mixes, but over the past few months I've been unusually productive by my usual standards. Aside from the Drum & Space Redux mix that I posted at the weekend, here's what else is available now: Spillway Podcast A guest mix for this deep techno crew who… Continue reading Some recent mixes
In 1995 I recorded the first of a series of mixtapes featuring some of the drum & bass records I’d started buying obsessively. I was a 16-year-old with a set of cheap belt-drive decks in a suburban Cardiff bedroom, whose burgeoning interest in techno and house was rapidly expanding in all directions. UK bass music… Continue reading Drum & Space Redux
Here’s the first in an unapologetically nostalgic sub-series of my Sunday Selections mixes devoted to ‘golden era’ deep UK techno. I have to admit I was feeling pretty miserable about the state of the nation last week; digging out the records that blew my mind in the early/mid-90s transported me to happier times and I… Continue reading Golden Era Techno, Part 1
Three years ago I started a series to showcase some of my favourite jazz, soul, hip hop and downtempo records, with a smattering of ambient electronics and deep techno. I hesitate to call them DJ mixes, as there wasn't much in the way of beat-mixing, but they were carefully programmed and designed to reflect what… Continue reading Sunday Selections X
Just in the nick of time for 2018 comes this virtually flawless collection of electro tracks by one of the most consistent cats in the game, Gerard ‘Convextion’ Hanson in his E.R.P. guise. It’s not reinventing the wheel by any means - it sounds like it could have been released at almost any point in… Continue reading 18 for 2018, #18: E.R.P. – Afterimage
Yet another one I have Rubadub to thank me for: Mark ‘Mother’ Maxwell was playing this in the shop during one of my visits this year and it caught my ear in between listening to a stack of vinyl on one of the listening posts. Beautifully packaged (with the LP including a CD copy), it’s… Continue reading 18 for 2018, #17: XVARR – Beyond Illuminism
This Japanese-inspired EP was released under a new variation of the Vakula alias, and it’s beautiful stuff from start to finish. While the opening title track is a superb slice of late-night deepness for the discening DJ, I’ve found myself coming back again and again to the psychedelic, beatless closing cut, The Eve of Metaphors,… Continue reading 18 for 2018, #16: Vakulism – Edelweiss Reflection
