Here’s the audio(and video if you scroll down) of my International Mash Bash set (btw several inclusions of Lady Sov’s Love Me Or Hate Me means it is a bit sweary in places). The idea of the set was to combine audio and video – a new one for me – and in part represent Bastard and a theme runs through it commemorating 20 years since the Second Summer of Love (1989) – it seems piano house sound is coming back, so I wanted to mix old and new.

Also it includes Far Out – which was one of the first songs I DJ’d back in 1994 at Milk Laboratory (hence the Milk Lab mentions in the video which I also did) approriate as I said in my previous post, this is my last DJ set…at least for some time, might do VJing, might do online DJing, but probably the last one I’ll do in the flesh. Far too stressful, and far too many people ‘not getting it’ even when I try and make a floorfilling set like this one. Time to stop

EDIT: Safari users might want to download and play the MP3 below rather than click the player, looks like Soundcloud’s Flash has a problem with Safari going crashy crashy…

Tracklist:

• DJ Contaminations – Stand Up Against Bonkers Justice
• Funkytown Kiss (Art of Noise ft Tom Jones vs Lipps Inc)
• Ian Fondue – Edit!
• Instamatic – Burn Yr Radio (PE Edit – Leftfield vs Queen & Public Enemy)
• Skynet UK – Back to ’89 (Calvertron remix)
• Black Box – Ride on Time (Dreamland remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• Sonz of Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out
• Juan Maclean – One Day (Surkin Remix)
• El Barto & Liam B – Charly the Cat (Prodigy vs Depeche Mode)
• Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (AC Slater remix)
• El Barto and Liam B – I Feel Out of Control (Donna Summer vs Chemical Brothers)
• Dunproofin – Electro Sandman (Metallica VS Deadmau5 VS F*kkk Off)
• DJ Lobsterdust – Put On The Red Light (Police vs. Coldplay vs. Thin White Duke)
• Soundhog – Dire Bass (Azzido da Bass vs Dire Straits)
• Dunproofin – FU2 (Lady Sovereign remix)
• La Roux – In For The Kill (Re-edit of Skream’s Remix by High Contrast)
• DJNoNo – Supercalibreaks (Julie Andrews vs Shy FX)
• DJNoNo – Do Re Mi Bombscare (short version – Julie Andrews vs 2 Bad Mice)

You can also download it here – or if you’re subscribed to this blog you’ve probably got it already

And drumroll – here’s the video. Yes I’ve combined the backing video for the Saarbruecken DJing with the set audio – most of it is synched, especially at the end. It is itself a mashup of films, found video, my own work, stop frame anim and animation. It includes video from:

• Unfinished works from 2002 – you might recognise a few people in there
• Hausu (strange 1977 Japanese film)
• My Milk Lab Tapes and TV Smash films
• Amiga demos new and old
• Architectural films
• 24 Hour Party People
• A Swiss documentary about Bastard
• Variety films from the turn of the last century
• Certain D*sney films starring Julie Andrew
• Various documentaries on the Second Summer of Love, rave culture
• Music videos (like, duh)
• UHF (Weird Al film) and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
• My Printer Jam video (incidentally Fox has just removed that off YouTube! Boo!)
• Mistah Pok video for Burn Yr Radio with a new arty background which will make you go postal
• Wild Zero – another exceedingly odd Japanese movie

Medium res (you can share/embed by clicking on the icon in the right hand corner – feel free! – also for some strange reason you have to click play twice with this player – click the centre twice, or the two play buttons)

Higher res:

Here’s the second of the Parkade Flashback series – it’s a short, angry and rather rude mix from 2007 (you might have guessed from the title) and utterly exclusive. How do I know that? Well I recorded it when no-one was in the room at the Parkade, hence the ‘Empty’ bit – one of the down sides of DJing in Second Life and generally is when no-one turns up – I assure you this rarely ever happened, I always had at least a small attendance for my gigs in SL, but it does happen every once in a while.

So I vented my frustration via the medium of music

Half empty? Half full? Or just Halfway? (33Mb, 45 mins)

• Simian Mobile Disco – Tits & Acid
• Daft Punk – Around The World (Killdahype remix)
• Electrosound – Gossip around the World (The Gossip vs Dangerous Dan & Nicky Van She)
• Spoon – Don’t You Evah
• Instamatic – Dizzee Justice
• Smith n Hack – Space Warrior
• Hexstatic – Bass Invader
• Rum & Black – Fuck the Legal Stations
• Yo Majesty – Club Action (Chris Bagraiders Sailing to Baltimore Edit)
• Apeboy/Lenlow – Enya vs Prodigy
• Stakker/Humanoid – Humanoid
• Aggro1 – Pull Up The Poor Bitches
• Dillinja – Hard Noize
• Lemon D & Dillinja – Ghost
• Rx – Imagine / Walk on the Wild Side
• Los Hermanos Dalton – Pink Panther

Original CC image by Lord Jim, design by Tim Baker Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK

Whew what HASN’T happened since the last show? New US President -and he’s black. New back pains and colds for Tim – and he’s ill. Yes we can, and No to H8, but not during happy hour or eating your Credit Crunch cereal (you know the one that turns the milk red). A new hope, Episode III, ‘I have a good feeling about this’, but first where’s my money?

This is a dance we do down Johannesburg way (93Mb, 111mins)

Tracklist:

• Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
• Fosforo – Cumbia De Obama
• San Francisco Mime Troupe – Because you’re Stupid
• Incredible Bongo Band – Bongo 73
• Nan Vasconcelos – Brasil (Luciano Re-Edit)
• Nina Simone – Sinnerman (Felix Remix)
• Fifth Dimension – Let The Sunshine (Solly Bmore Edit)
• Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Solly Remix)
• AC Slater – Poison
• ZZT – Lower State Of Consciousness (Justice remix)
• AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
• DJ Donna Summer – Hoovermore
• Faex – What Poetry
• Ground Shelter (fear)
• The Chambers Brothers – Funky
• Mercury Rev – Senses On Fire (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix)
• Chase & Status – Against All Odds (Ft Kano)
• Chase & Status – Take Me Away
• London Elektricity – This Dark Matter
• Chase & Status – Is It Worth It
• London Elektricity – Outnumbered
• Eric B. and Rakim – Don’t Sweat The Technique
• The Moog Synthesizer with The Camarata Contemporary Chamber Orchestra – Sports et Divertissements – Le Flirt
• Tom Wilson – Lesbian_Seagull
• Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (Demo Version)
• Rah Band – Is anybody there
• Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs (Rough & Outtakes)

‘Dark electro / Disco noir’ is what I call a certain type of music referencing or sampling certain horror movie soundtracks from Goblin to John Carpenter that’s popped up recently in certain electro / electro house quarters, and it’s a music that I can connect to for several reasons, it’s dark and broody and seems to fit the state of the nation at the moment (and I also love the music of those 70s and 80s horror movies).

It seems like a lot of new bands from the French (Zombie Zombie, NOTe Found, daRoc, Justice, Maesthelvin, Mustard Pimp) to the British (Padded Cell, Emperor Machine, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and Sisters of Transistors) and even further outposts (Rico Tubbs, Tsk Tsk, Presets, Supermayer) have a common basis to me, so this is also a manifesto of sorts linking these bands together with older and less obvious inspirations (or just my guilty pleasures!) such as Fad Gadget, David Shrigley, Meat Beat Manifesto and Peter Gabriel.

So although not a ‘Halloween’ mix I’ve mixed together these horror-inspired tracks with some of the original tracks that I think inspired them, and thrown in some horror movie samples (can you spot where they are from?) as a nod to Halloween…and this is the first in a series. It’s also the first mix I’ve done in Ableton.

Thanks go out to several blogs that have helped inspire this in posting various tracks, and are blogs I regularly read also:

• Discodust
• Discoworkout
• Valerie
• Trashbagkids

Instamatic – Dark mix 1 Remember a Monster mix is not just for Halloween (113Mb, 109 mins)

• Justice – Planisphere 1/2
• NOTe Found – Error 403
• Zombie Zombie – What’s happening in the city ?
• Fad Gadget – State Of The Nation
• Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming (Emperor Machine Remix)
• Padded Cell – Savage Skulls (Extended Version)
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Maethelvin – Lost In Big City
• John Carpenter – The Bank Robbery
• David Shrigley – Loathsome
• Sage Francis – Civil Obedience
• Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
• John Carpenter – Escape From New York
• The Sisters of Transistors – the Don
• Padded Cell – World Of Mouth
• Fad Gadget – 4m
• Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)
• Padded Cell – Far Beneath London
• John Carpenter – The End
• Meat Beat Manifesto – Oblivion/Humans
• TSK TSK – Un-Mustered
• Peter Gabriel – Of These, Hope
• The Presets – Girl and the Sea
• Justice – Phantom Pt2 (Soulwax Remix)
• John Carpenter – The Shape Stalks Laurie
• Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Weird Science
• Detroit Grand Pubahs – If Snow Was Black
• The Presets – Kicking and Screaming
• David Shrigley – The Jist
• SebastiAn – Victimo
• John Carpenter – Arrival At The Library
• Ragga Twins – The Homeless Problem
• Giorgio Moroder – If You Weren’t Afraid
• Mustard Pimp – Zombie Revenge
• Rico Tubbs – Gangsters (Original Mix)
• Mustard Pimp – Oh la la Satan (Stereoheroes Remix)
• Glowstyx – 7 Daze
• Legowelt – Electro Race
• Vangelis – End Titles
• DaRoc vs Preston Park – Serie B aka The Ice Entrance
• Eric Idle – That’s Death

Hardcore you KNOW the score. So I don’t need to write a blurb about it then, do I?

Sorted! (45mins, 34Mb)

• Bassheads – Back to the Old School
• Xpansions – Move Your Body (original mix)
• Altern-8 – Move my body (Hard Hardcore mix)
• 2 Bad Mice – Bombscare (94 US mix)
• Zero B – Lock Up
• Shut up and Dance – The Green Man
• Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era – Far Out
• Art Science Technology – AST
• Prodigy – Charly (original)
• 2 Bad Mice – Hold it Down
• Awesome 3 – Don’t Go
• Rebel MC – Wickedest Sound (Soundclash mix)
• T99 – Anathasia
• Isotonik – Different Strokes
• Bizarre Inc – Playing with Knives (Quadrant mix)
• Rachel Wallace – Tell Me Why
• Urban Shakedown – Some Justice (original mix)
• Rhythm on the Loose – Break of Dawn
• Shut up and Dance – I’m Raving I’m Raving