Mint DJ's This Week at Beatport April Mix

Aloha,

Sorry for the delay. Here is a new mix for this podcast which was recorded for TWBP on April 7th. I will be posting another mix tomorrow. I welcome all feedback, constructed criticism and critiques. All the tracks can be purchased at Beatport.com. Additional sets are available at www.thisweekatbeatport.com

Thank you for listening!

Geoffrey / Mint DJ

Forteba - The Birds Are Flying feat. From P60 - Plastic City
Brendon Moeller - Saviour - Third Ear
Vincent Casanova - Send The Probe - EpsilonLab
Jak Jaxon - Fatjak - New Era Recordings
Sharooz, Spinnin Elements - Dirty - Sharooz Remix - Rotor Recordings
Benny Beneventano, Paolo Ursini DJ - Sky Mode - Antibemusic
Leoesco (Aka DJ Leo) - Zukete - Bedroom Muzik
Clubbervision, Thomas Feijk - Fraud - Clubbervision Back To 99 Mix - Often Gruven Recordings
Dousk, Chris Nemmo, Andree Eskay - Affectation - Dousk Dub Electro Restart Records
Duca Bubble Gum Blue Tunes Records
Filtered Boogie - Suburban Train - Queep Organic House

Dub You More

A rework from a while back I found whilst trawling the vaults. It's a well thumbed classic which never seems to go away (probably because fools like me keep editing them). It's short and snappy at 4 mins so don't go for a piss while it's playing.

Rene & Angela - Love You More (The Revenge Rework)

Le Wildstyle

After the recent lack of posts on here I've started to delve back into my collection to pull out some overlooked, but much loved tracks that I've played over the past few years. First up we've got my favourite remix of a Daft Punk track ever, the wonderful "Wildstyle Edit" by Domenique Torti. Taking the original reel to reel method of editing by chopping up loads of loops and re-arranging the original track rather than doing a completely different song, this is pure deep dancefloor magic straight outta the '03...

Daft Punk - Voyager (Dominique Torti's Wildstyle Edit)

Dusty Street Tapes

Two dusty midtempo numbers from my Deportivo Street Team project. Although the DST stuff is a bit more boshing these days, we still occasionally find time to pitch it down and burn it out. Caught Up In The Stars was released last year on a Refo Recordings compilation and blends some live guitar with some ethereal, electronic swooping and swooshing. Pitched Down House Sound was written 5 years ago and has remained unreleased. It was the inspiration for my new midtempo stuff and is a strange concoction of cut-up horns, old-school piano and squelching electronic skullduggery running in at 11 mins. It was done in one take and I kept none of the parts so it is forever trapped in this ruff draft form.

Deportivo Street Team - Caught Up In The Stars
Deportivo Street Team - Pitched Down House Sound (Unreleased)

Kashif! ... Bless You

This lad's work is often overlooked for bigger 80's soul / jazz-funk cats. Kashif has been credited for classics like Evelyn King's "Love Come Down" and George Benson's "Inside Love (So Personal)" (Which i managed to pick up on vinyl in a Spar shop strangely) along with many other classics by Melba Moore, Meli'sa Morgan, Howard Johnson .... He's now a software developer. Oh well.

Here's my extended re-imagining of one of his numbers. Slide onto the floor ... smooth' like.

Kashif - Help Yourself To My Love (The Revenge New Jersey Soul Mix)

Midtempo Mixing

Here's a little midtempo mix I knocked up a few weeks ago, when the first shards of the typical shitty Scottish summer started hitting. It's being kindly hosted by our friends over at Five20East, incidentally where the first proper OOFT EP is now available to purchase (that was pretty seemless linkage, don't you think?!) Anyway I digress, back to the mix: it's a pretty relaxed journey through some favourite midtempo tracks from recent OOFT DJ sets, featuring belters from the mighty Mark E, Elektrons, and JJ Cale as well as a few cheeky Five20East exclusives from The Revenge, Craig Smith, and yours truly. Have a cuppa, sit back and relax...

Tracklist:

Lily Allen Feat. Wale - Smile (Mark Ronson DC Mix)
Mark E - Déjà vu
Elektrons - Be With You
JJ Cale - Ride Me High (Joakim Edit)
Mark E - Beat Down
The Eagles - One Of These Nights (The Revenge Rework)
Craig Smith & The Revenge - Let Yourself Go
Eddie Gale - Song Of Will (Jazzanova’s Rhythm Happening)
Karma - Beach Towel (I:Cube Cosmix Marathon Remix)
Outlines - Listen To The Drums (Jazzanova Remix / Dixon Edit)
OOFT Music - Betcha Wouldn’t (AliOOFT’s Version)
The Revenge - Got To Have Loving (The Revenge Pitch Down Rework)
Orbital Feat. Naomi B - Funny Break
Spiritcatcher - Space Crash

Ali's Summer Slow Down Mix

Get Yer Dub John

Since we're gearing up to festival time once again, I've been indulging my psychadelic side with some of the shows on Red Bull Music Academy's Radio. It makes for a darn good listen while you're trying to do more productive stuff.

Of special interest for me are Kirk Degorgio's 2 hour special on the legendary John Martyn who signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records in the late 60's. If you are into music full-stop, this should stir something in you. Martyn's music is full of emotion and his technique for layering up guitar with loads of delay intensifies this. He collaborated with Lee 'Scratch' Perry on Martyn's One World album giving birth to a sound we probably identify more with Trip-Hop. Check 'Dancing' below for a taste of this legendary songwriter.

Checkout other great sessions from Quiet Village, Daz-I-Que, Jazzanova and The Elektrons.

Here's a dubby number I uncovered from Primal Scream's Echo Dek album produced by dub-king, Adrian Sherwood (On-U-Sound). Sherwood trips out the track 'Trainspotting' from Vanishing Point to make 'Last Train'. Well worth checking the whole album if you're into ya dub, ya get me?

Primal Scream - Last Train (Echo Dek Dub)
John Martyn - Dancing