Weekend Mixes
August 6
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You know, I've been so busy recently, I haven't even had a chance to affront your eyeballs with any pictures of unattractive brutalist architecture. Well, no time like the present, so here's a big picture of the Trellick Tower in London, which I was admiring this week on a train out of West London. It was designed by Erno Goldfinger, who was apparently the inspiration for the James Bond character. So the story goes, he was about to sue Ian Fleming the use of his name, until Fleming told him he'd just change the character name to 'Goldprick'....
So anyway. Mixes for you to enjoy this weekend. Let's start with my favourite mix of the week, from F. F is somewhat of an expert when it comes to blending deep, rolling dubstep, and melodic techno influences, and this is a great example of his stuff. It's a podcast for Concepto Radio in Spain, which looks to be a pretty good site, if you hablais Espanol.
Next up, let's stay on the deepish dubstep tip and turn to the latest Resident Advisor podcast, from Bristol's very own Peverelist. You'll likely know what to expect from him by now; this is a man fixated by rhythms, counter rhythms, polyrhythms and bass that whacks you in the gut. I often find that with Pev's tunes, if I just drop the needle down in the middle of the track, I don't really get into it. But if I play the track from the start, then by 3 minutes in I'm lost, adrift in the interplay of the snares, percussion and looping melodic motifs. So find some time and give this mix the attention it deserves.
Let's now emerge (slowly) from the deep, with this mix from Mackaveli repping the Fabric crew in Mixclouds's 'Curators Series'. Starting out with the awesome Mt Kimbie remix of Foals 'Spanish Sahara', it pretty quickly swings up towards B'more club courtesy of DJ Class, and classic 2 step from Wookie. It's a scattershot approach but they're all wicked tunes so it makes for a fun ride:
....and speaking of B'More club, one of the original players, Debonair Samir just uploaded this mix on his soundcloud; 63 minutes, 41 tunes, all produced by the man himself. It's not big, it's not clever, but my goodness is it fun. I suppose that depends on whether you consider the sound of Lil Jon shouting over a Think break to be fun - we certainly do. It also contains Samir's remix of Dizzee Rascal - 'Pussyhole' which I cained solidly in my sets for about a year. Big. Tracklist at the soundcloud page.
Last of all, oh look, it's me again. Well, if I can't plug all my hard work on this blog, where can I plug it? I've been booked to play at the Phono festival in Denmark next month, which looks sick - and as a prelude, the guys involved asked me to do a mix for their blog. This one starts out ambient with one of my favourite producers, Tim Hecker, and stays moody, cold and deep, although gets more banging later. It also involves a personal favourite tune of mine which concluded me & Bao's first album, and concludes this mix also.
Anyway, stream below, tracklist at the post on weareskitzo.
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Posted by bassmusic
