Bits, Blips & Chimes…a dirty-fied, post-holiday thingy for the ears. It sounds seasonal for a chunk of it’s running time, before veering towards a different context as it nears the end. We are non-traditional here.

Intro:
Minami Ozaki – Wanwa Opening Theme
Zooey Deschanel & Will Ferrell (from Elf) – Baby It’s Cold Outside

01. Porn Sword Tobacco – Welcome / Sjöbodarna Står Tomma Över Jul
02. Vector Lovers – Rusting Cars and Wildflowers
03. Apparat – A Bang in The Void
04. Torb – 4Ever Young
05. Giraffage – Moments
06. Steve Hauschildt – Already Replaced
07. Dam Mantle – Movements
08. Teebs – Jahara
09. Gold Panda – Heaps
10. Ben Butler & Mousepad – Mag Mag (Shigeto Remix)
11. Nobukazu Takemura – Drittehalb
12. Tegan & Sara – Alligator (Four Tet Remix)
13. Tycho – Hours (Teen Daze Remix)
14. Pale Sketcher – Can I Go Now (Gone Version) [Donnacha Costello Remix]
15. BT feat Jes – Every Other Way (Hammock Remix)
16. Sigur Rós – Hljómalind

I was going to make a year end / new year mix, but most of my ideas sound a bit anti-climactic at the moment…so Sessions will be going on a short hiatus and be back by February(?). Stay Dirty!

minima•darc … Sparse arrangements, stripped down and slowly creeping, soulful…but on the verge of breaking down. A more modern Trip Hop session. Or how I imagine it would sound like. It’s not the sound but the feeling that remains…

01. Massive Attack vs Burial – Four Walls
02. Saint Saviour – This Ain’t No Hymn (Ghettoscraper Zombie Drone Mix)
03. Bilal – Levels (Sonnymoon Remix)
04. Ernesto – Peace of Mind (Pinku Vääty Dub Remix)
05. Aquarius Heaven – Interview
06. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX – Home
07. Robot Koch feat. Grace – Like Rain
08. Emika – Count Backwards
09. Susheela Raman – Love Lies (Hit By A Rock Remix)
10. Switch & Andrea Martin – I Still Love You (Switch & JP Remix)
11. Clare Maguire – Ain’t Nobody (Breakage Remix)
12. Josh One feat. Shenkar & Lateef The Truthspeaker – Open Up (Beat Ventriloquists Remix)
13. Sofa Surfers – Hardwire (Marcus Kienzl Remix)
14. The Weeknd – Initiation

Next Session: A Dirty-fied Holiday/Christmas sound
(Have not made up my mind yet what the end of the year/beginning of the year session will be)

This Old House Smells A Bit Funky…it’s harder on the funk in the first half of the mix, but makes way to smoother rhythms in the last half. Groovin’ on down with some classic sounds.

01. Dave Mayer – Sometimes (Bright Coffee Strictly Mix)
02. Hideo Kobayashi & Pheeko Dubfunk – Closer To Me (Afro Soul Dub)
03. Pressure Drop – Back 2 Back (Dorfmeister vs Madrid De Los Austrias Mix)
04. Cymande – Brothers On The Slide (Ruffy & Tuffy’s Extended Mix)
05. Three Kings feat. Bashy & Jaygun – Shake Dat Booty (Alix Alvarez S.O.L.E. Channel Mix)
06. Ben Watt – Lone Cat (Holding On) [Justin Martin Remix]
07. Robag Wruhme – K.T.B. (Ruhig Brauner Remix by Daniel Paul & Zky)
08. Ten City – That’s The Way Love Is (Steve “Silk” Hurley Deep House Mix)
09. The Brand New Heavies – You Are The Universe (Tuff Jam’s 2 in 1 Remix)
10. Rhythm & Sound feat. Paul Hilaire – Free For All (Soundstream Remix)
11. Artful feat. Kal Lavelle – Could Just Be The Bassline (Artful & Ridney Classic Club Mix)
12. Shonky – Kwality
13. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle (Sven Love & Catalan Fc Remix)

Chilled and beatless, maybe just a little. Sometimes I enjoy the Quiet. Could have added a bit more spoken word in there but I just left it with more air. Chillaxating while wearing flippy floppies.

01. Benfay – Allein Unter Den Arkaden (krill.minima Remix)
02. Sweetback – Powder
03. Benoit Pioulard & Rafael Anton Irisarri – Until Then (Broadcast Cover)
04. Mads Brauer & Casper Clausen – The Figment Notebook (Narrated Version)
05. Bvdub – Sanctuary
06. Laszlo – Anatolia
07. Andrew Thomas – Light On Sea (From Above The World So High)
08. Chicane – Already There
09. Bvdub – We Said Forever
10. Radio Slave – K Maze (youANDme Ambient Remix)
11. The Black Dog – Kissing Someone Elses D.O.G.
12. Ben Sage – Nangma

Needing some driving grooves to keep my head in check. A metronome, a pulse…without veering off the beat. Less house and more techno (though I was originally planning to do an uplifting old school house mix), went more Detroit than Chicago. We end with a white label mix by Mogul of Underworld’s classic, Dark and Long.

tracklist:

01. Resoe – Nachhall
02. Deadbeat – First Quarter (SCB Remix)
03. Hironori Takahashi – Kyres
04. Boddika – Warehouse
05. Harvey McKay – 69 (Harvey McKay Reshape)
06. Simian Mobile Disco – Gizzard (Psycatron Remix)
07. Miss Kittin – All You Need (Lee Van Dowski Remix)
08. Echo Vacio – Treinta
09. Robert Hood – The Family
10. Mount Kimbie – Vertical (SCB Remix)
11. Extrawelt – Swallow The Leader
12. NT89 – Syne
13. Underworld – Dark & Long (Mogul Remix 1)

Next session, we go fairly beatless…

Broken Beat / Random Beat mixtape volume (lost track of count). Abstracted beats and rhymes for the fragmentaholics. Will it blend? Beats too chunky for easy consumption. This is how you rock to it.

01. Reggie & The Full Effect – Guess Who’s Back
02. Exile – Dawn of Nothing
03. Shigeto – Look At All The Smiling Faces (Take Remix)
04. Knxwledge – Bibimbap
05. DJ Q-Bert & DJ Babu – Thelonious Funk
06. Samiyam – Return
07. Free The Robots – Inter Arma
08. Pictureplane – Goth Star
09. Hudson Mohawke – Overnight
10. Suff Daddy – 4 My Holiks
11. DJ Krush feat. The Beat Knuckles – Beataholic Reformatory
12. Fanu – Bringing Out the Evil
13. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – I’m New Here
14. Lynx & Kemo – The Raw Truth
15. Mr. Lif – Ultra/Mega
16. Cut Chemist Feat. Edan and Mr. Lif – Storm
17. Onra – The One (feat. T3 from Slum Village)
18. Mr. Chop – Main Ingredient
19. Pretty Lights – Sunday School
20. Souleance – Passarinho
21. Pariah – Detroit Falls
22. Dee Edwards – Why Can’t There Be Love? (Pilooski Edit)
23. The Gaslamp Killer feat. Mophono – Carpool Dummy
24. The Glitch Mob – Fistful Of Silence
25. The Freestylers – Music is Music

Back to beatmatched mixing next session.

We’re not out of the cold yet, Dorothy….this is sort of how my weekend sounded battling through the snifflets and slightly dry throat. Sipping on some Yorkshire Tea and packets of Vitamin C supplements.

01. Nightswimmer – The Broken Appointment
02. Silicone Soul – 3am (Ghost Mood Mix)
03. Teebs – Wind Loop
04. Jed & Lucia – Helium
05. Lunice – Hitmanes Anthem
06. Pale Sketcher – Dummy (Bahnhoff Version)
07. American Men – AM System (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
08. Everything Everything – Schoolin (Games Remix)
09. Die & Interface feat. William Cartwright – Bright Lights (Joker Remix)
10. Pictureplane – Post Physical
11. Deep Focus – Heavy Metal (TGunn Remix)
12. Cassius – I Love You So (Krusha Remix)
13. Delorean – Real Love (LightsoverLA Remix)

Was a bit under the weather hence the delay. Something a bit more upbeat and positive for the Fall. For driving in bright sunlit skies and the likes. Next few sessions will be more quirky and a bit random…

01. Context MC feat. Slof Man – Listening to Burial (Cinematic Remix)
02. Alix Perez – Contradictions
03. Brother – Autumn Light
04. Seba – Welcome to Our World
05. dRamatic & dbAudio – 6 Degrees
06. Statelapse – Guilty
07. Fred V & Grafix – One of These Days
08. Rollz – Soul Calibur
09. Sigma – All Blue (Chase & Status Remix)
10. Netsky feat. Jenna G – Moving With You
11. Nixus – Rapture
12. Eric Prydz – Niton (Sigma Remix)
13. BCee & S.P.Y. – Anybody Out There (Friction & K-Tee Remix)
14. Blame feat. Ruff Squad – On My Own (Drum & Bass Mix)
15. Adele – Turning Tables (Blade Remix)
16. Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy (J Majik & Wickaman Remix)
17. Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Netsky Remix)
18. London Elektricity – The Plan That Cannot Fail (Logistics Remix)
19. London Elektricity feat. Elsa Esmeralda – Meteorites (Danny Byrd Remix)

Don’t Be Afraid of This Dark House… A long dark groove, early treat for the Halloween weekend. “Darkness falls across the land, The midnight hour is close at hand…Creatures crawl in search of blood, To terrorize y’awl’s neighborhood…And whosoever shall be found, Without the soul for getting down…Must stand and face the hounds of hell, And rot inside a corpse’s shell…”

Disqo Diabolique / Return To Devil’s Ball

00. Intro – Devil’s Nightmare
01. Missing Linkx – Got A Minute
02. James Teej – Night Time Story
03. Moshi Moshi – Illuminati
04. O Children – Ruins (Drop The Lime’s Afterhours Mix)
05. Sigha – Between Here & Yesterday
06. Redshape – Bound (Parts 1 & 2)
07. Sei A – Flicker (Terence Fixmer Remix)
08. Shlomi Aber – Propaganda (Paul Ritch Remix)
09. Photek – Solaris
10. Redshape – Dark & Sticky
11. Photek feat. Robert Owens – Mine To Give
12. Fairmont – Puppet With Glass Eyes
13. Extrawelt – NeverEverDiscoTricks
14. Traversable Wormhole – Exotic Matter (Terence Fixmer Remix)
15. Chook – Toontown
16. Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia – Dead Souls (Mark Moore and Kinky Roland Remix)
17. KIKO – Preludia
18. Coldcut feat. Robert Owens – Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Tiga Remix)
19. Alexander Kowalski feat. Khan – House of Hell
20. James Mowbray & D. Ramirez – I Choose Anger (H-Man Remix)
21. Depeche Mode – Everything Counts (Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub)
22. D. Ramirez – La Discotek (Cagedbaby Ceefax Nightmare Mix Remix)
23. Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar (Armand Van Helden Remix)
24. Wolfram Eckert & Constantin Zeileissen – Recession Session (Jori Hulkonnen Remix)
25. Faithless – Insomnia (Monster Mix)
26. Arthur Baker feat. Jimmy Somerville – I Believe In Love (Jacques Renault Remix)
27. Outro – Vincent Price Laughing (from Thriller)

Part 1 of 2 Halloween Special. This is the Soundtrack edition. Still in that same, 80′s to 90′s era Euro-Suspense Thriller mode, with some old-school spooky synthesizer sounds to boot (this was originally a much longer recording that had more electro / zombie sounding elements, and initially titled Zombie Breakdance Apocalypse). It becomes more of a dance mix in the last 3rd of the session.

Death Comes Calling For Her Sexy Nude Killer In The Dark With Plumage…and Multiple Endings:

intro – Tale of Two Sisters
01. Massive Attack – Heat Miser
02. M83 – Black Hole
03. Goblin – La Chiesa
04. Mondkopf – Moon’s Throat
05. Goblin – Suspiria (Main Title)
06. The Cure – Three
07. Roll The Dice – Evolution
08. Sylvain Chauveau – Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.
09. Kenji Kawaii – Phantom Screen
10. HTRK – Ice Eyes Eis
11. Deaf Center – Loft
12. Kenji Kawaii – Stand-and-Eat Soba Shop
13. Creep – Intro
14. The Hasbeens – I Fall To Pieces
15. Mondkopf – Legacy
16. Roll The Dice – Iron Bridge
17. The Aloof – Losing It
18. Camouflage – In Cold Blood
19. Romina – Hit Me
20. Lindstrøm – I Feel Space
21. Poni Hoax – Budapest
22. Goblin – Phenomena M15 (Alternate Version)
23. Light Asylum – Dark Allies
24. Doubting Thomas – F862

check back in later in the week for Part 2, Ghoulish Disco Edition. It’s the Devil’s Ball 2011.