New mix – The Hello Mix

This was to be the first mix I posted here so a bit late:

Hello Beyonce and Prince - my own mash of these two and quite a bit more
Prince - Sexy Mother
Scissor Sisters with a bit of Elton- Take your mama out with a hint of crocodile rock
The Jackson Five - ABC (but loaded at the start by me)
Spice Girls etc - Rhythm of spice (spice girls, Sammy Davis Jr, Queen and The Art of Noise all come together)
Roxy Music - Street Life
The Go Team - Junior Kickstart
Jane’s Addiction meet…. - Been Caught Stealing Jackson (they get caught up in some great Michael Jackson guitar riffs and Mr Eddie Van Halen)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Goodbye

You can grab a copy of this mix here

New Mix: An Attempt At A Crowdpleaser Mix

• The Charlatans – Just When You’re Thinking Things Over
• Supergrass – Alright
• Sleeper – Inbetweener
• Elastica – Connection
• PhilRetroSpector – ELOasis
• Blurry Tender Smoke – my own mash of Tender by Blur and Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water
• Kasabian – Fire
• Boys with Guitars – my own mix of opening riffs of Radiohead, Blur and Oasis before Clapton and Cream
• Radiohead – Reckoner – theoretical remix by Auteur Theory
• Fatboy Slim – Bird of Prey
• Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun
• Kula Shaker – Drink Tea (For The Love of God)

Dedicated to Tim A – not too obscure I hope.  And for those interested it can be found here

New music time!

It really makes me happy to give some space to a great local band – World of Grace – check out the myspace page for some gorgeous songs. Just my cup of tea, and I hope they start playing live soon. Their lead singer has got one fine voice

Thanks for the link Tack

New Mix: They Walk Among Us….a True Blood mix

This mix was put together for my far better half, Linz.  She challenged me to make one inspired by True Blood.  I tried to avoid tracks from the soundtrack but HBO are far too good at that sort of thing so a few crept in

1. Philip Glass (Dracula Enters) vs Preacher vs Bill Compton             A Richard B mess
2. Angels                                                                        Black Mountain
3. Death Letter                                                            Son House
4. Praying Arm Lane                                               16 Horsepower
5. His Blood Hath Made Me Whole                  Spiritual Harmonizers
6. Sam the Man II                                                     True Blood dialogue
7. Way Down                                                              Elvis Presley
8. Shake And Fingerpop                                       junior walker & the all stars
9. expressway to your heart                              soul survivors
10. Give It Up                                                              Lee Dorsey
11. Yo Tara                                                                True Blood dialogue
12. frenzy                                                                   screamin’ jay hawkins
13. New World In My View                                King Britt
14. Hard Hearted Hannah                                   Ella Fitzgerald
15. Eric                                                                      True Blood dialogue
16. Swampblood                                                  Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers
17. Bleed 2 Feed                                                    CC Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis
18. Death, The Lover                                           Clark-Hutchinson
19. My Beautiful Bride                                       The Handsome Family
20. Good Feeling                                                  Violent Femmes

Available to download HERE

Going to an intergalactic space disco party

This one is for knobbygirl – an old mix of mine featuring some stellar tracks and some oddities, Leonard Nimoy singing has to be heard. This is the track list (double click image to make lager) but it should be played as one long track:

1 It’s raining starship troopers The Weather Girls plus lasers meet Hot Gossip (my mix)
2 popcorn Hot Butter
3 Electric Coconut Jeepster (with added Leonard Nimoy)
4 Magic Fly Space
5 Spacer (longer Ultratraxx Devotions Mix) Sheila b Devotion (with Buck’s twiki)
6 Do you have the force? Droids
7 Space Disco Universal Robot Band
8 Cantina Band Meco (with Twiki)
9 Cosmic Race Rockets
10Llamame (call me) instrumental Blondie
11Flash Gordon Queen
12Star Wars Theme Meco
13oxygene iv Jean Michel Jarre
14Save Our Love Escape from New York
15The Chase Georgio Moroder
16Genetic World Telepopmusic
17Good Vibrations (instrumental) Beach Boys
18Star Trek theme Leonard Nimoy
19Highly Illogical Leonard Nimoy
20Star Trekkin’ The Firm (but only 10 secs before a rocket blast destroys it)

And it can be found here

Minor hiatus

No new mixes for a couple of weeks but will be back with a “killer”…take care and enjoy the summer

Updated link for Welsh mix

Right you are boyos, the link for the welsh mix has now been fixed so it takes you to the right place rather than a nice picture of Ivor the Engine.

Ta

A new mix! “Do you know the letters Q, Z and K don’t appear in Welsh scrabble?”

Somebody set me a task to make a mix of music from where I’m from.  The mix below is the result – a good representation of modern Welsh music with a few oldies in there

The tracklist

1    BBC Wales vs Manics vs Rod Gilbert
2    Talk to me                                                   60ft. Dolls
3    Left to Die edit                                          Kentucky AFC
4   Hydref yn Sacramento edit                  Ffa Coffi Pawb
5    Myddyffycys Yn Bob Man                   Mc Mabon
6    KO                                                             Derwyddon Dr Gonzo
7    Er Cof Am                                                   Llwby Llaethog
8    Gethin Welsh rap
9    Mynd                                                          Datblygu
10    Stereophonics rugby advert
11    Golden Retriever                                 Super Furry Animals
12    Richard Burton on Winston Churchill

13    Merch O Gaerdydd                              Rheinallt H Rowlands
14    Cuckoo                                                      Melys
15    Ger Dy Fron                                            Mesner
16    O Bont I Bont                                         Cate Le Bon
17    Tom Jones speaks 1
18    Dallt y Dalltins                                      Tystion
19    Dinos Bangor                                         Gwilym Morris
20    Eira                                                           Jakokoyak
21    Shirley Bassey loses skirt on David Frost Show
22    Dolig                                                         Mr Huw
23    In Butcher Beynon’s                          Dylan Thomas
24    Billy The Seagull                                  Euros Childs
25    Tom Jones Speaks 2

Get it here

And to round it all off, one of the best Welsh tries I remember:

ps

If anyone wants to discover some more great Welsh music, then I’d recommend Adam Walton a BBC Wales Dj whose page is here

Plastic spoons and plastic sand

Put together when hot and sticky (weather that is)

1.Ry CooderParis,            Texas

2.Ian Pooley & Magic      JPiha

3.Gorillaz                             On Melancholy Hill

4.Gotan Project                                Paris, Texas

5.Dj DRM                             Vidambana (Chico Mann Remix)

6.Ghostface Killah            Daytona 500

7.SuperFurry Animals     Ohio Heat

8.Stereolab                         French Disco

9.A Tribe Called Quest   Electric Relaxation

10.Buena Vista Social Club            Chan Chan

11.Bomb the Bass (w Mark Lanegan)      Black River

12.The Pharcyde              Passing me by

13.DJ Center                      Center’s Groove

14.Hugh Masekela           Grazing in the Grass

Download here

And as a bonus, a video of The Gorrillaz performing On Melancholy Hill live:

A homage to LA mix

About this mix:

I wanted to put together a mix based around the early 1970s music scene of Los Angeles and the West Coast.  Seemed so glamorous to someone growing up in England but this mix reflects more the dark nature of those times.  So this is my musical essay on West Coast/LA music of the early 70s – to be played as one long track (band and song are highlighted below):

It starts with the sound of surf before morphing into the Beach Boys California Girls which then gets flanged and distorted like they did in the 70s.  Surf then takes us to that arch party animal Don Henley and the Boys of Summer, his hymn to those times.

Quick break for an LA staion ident from 1970 and then the blast of the Rockford Files (this was LA to us in England!), but then we hear the police radio before Bob Seger and Hollywood Nights.  And why go to Hollywood?  As the  Byrds say on the next track So You Wanna Be a Rock’n'Roll Star.

Supertramp seem so 70s LA to me (even though they’re British) so after the Byrds we have Dreamer.  There’s then a snippet of Stevie Nicks talking about her time with Don Henley, before his band The Eagles Take It Easy.  At the end I’ve put in a few loops of it before Don Henley talks about Hotel California.  And who could follow him but those other icons of the 70s, Fleetwood Mac with Don’t Stop which merges into Peter Frampton and Show me the Way.

Going back to gentler times there follows an excerpt from a 1930s movie travelogues on LA underneath of which are the gentle sounds of Steve Reich. Going back to the 70s next is Joe Walsh with Life’s Been Good before the Beack Boys sign off the mix with the elegiac Sail on Sailor

Hope you enjoy – I had real fun

Download here