Mix: The Bridge – Ross Allen & Jon Marsh

In October ’98 Phil Mison and I were bored so decided to throw our own little loft party in Camden. Friends helped, dirty walls were covered with white fabric (thanks Ange!), balloons blown and a few hundred people filled the space, got high and danced. The DJs on the night were Ross Allen and Jon Marsh. We asked them to give us a mix of some of the records they’d be playing on the night so we could give everyone cassettes on the way out and they could hear the music again. Here’s the mixes, both Jon and Ross on firing form.

The Bridge: DJ Ross Allen
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The Bridge: DJ Jon Marsh
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Mixmag: Coldcut – A History Ahead Of Our Time

Taken from Mixmag July 1988.


Thanks to Phil Mison.
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Atlas: 1969 Ibiza Article

Amazing piece from Atlas Magazine, which starts with a search for Herman (of the Hermits fame), then goes on to deal with the drug trade, the influx of hippies, the German ‘tourists’ (also known as Nazi’s) and the Ibizan attitude to drugs – ‘let the foreigners destroy themselves… as long as they don’t involve us’. There is a great conclusion to the piece – ‘all is possible and any story can be believed, or disbelieved, on the island of Ibiza without straining the imagination’.

Thanks to Phil Mison.
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Mix: Hampus Gunnarsson – Death Is The Dancer

Glad to have got a mix from London-based Swedish born Hampus Gunnarsson. Hampus is part of the Top Nice London/Stockholm axis alongside Guy Gormley and DJ Alonzo, throwing parties for beautiful people in different venues around Stockholm and London. Always a good vibe wherever they are. Hampus is normally hitting it on more of an Italo tip but here we are with an eclectic mix of white soul through to afro and disco. Harvey fans will enjoy.

Hampus Gunnarsson: Death Is The Dancer
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Flyer: Boy’s Own – Bogner Regis

In a recent interview for the Defected website Darren Emerson was asked about his initial involvement with the Boy’s Own crew. Here’s what he said…

When and how did you start playing at the parties for Boy’s Own?

The one that sticks out is the one where Andrew asked me fill in for because he couldn’t make it and he requested me to play for him. I was honoured because I looked up to Andrew and thought it was a fantastic thing to be asked to do, at a young age as well. It was in Bogner Regis so it was a weekender, I remember going on and doing my usual thing of using two records and starting off with a long intro. I remember Norman Cook was there and it was the first house party he’d been to, and he always says now in interviews that I was the first person to get him into house music. I remember using Robert Owen’s ‘I’ll Be Your Friend’ over and over again just looping it and going back and forth. Justin Robertson was playing there as well, it was really good fun to play that weekender. I remember waking up the next day and feeling a bit hazy sharing a hair of the dog with Charlie Chester! I spent that Sunday with him at the bar having Sunday afternoon pints.
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Thanks to Phil Mison (love the way you wrote ‘now that we’ve found love’ on the flyer Phil – Ed)
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The Face: Postcard Defunct

Following the piece from Emma Warren on the Edwyn Collins and Postcard documentaries here’s a quick post of a piece from The Face in November 1981 with interviews with Collins and Alan Horne of Postcard regarding the closure of Postcard as was.

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Mix: Cedric Woo – Dangerous Voyage

Cedric Woo of the Voices Collective, has good taste across the board. If you like this then track down his ‘Mind World’ mix. Deep.

Cedric Woo: Dangerous Voyage (Part One)

Paul White: Hustle (Bullion rmx)
Rednose District: Din-Ixen
Floating Points: J&W Beat
Kraftwerk: Techno Pop
Al Usher: Lullaby For Robert
Rainer Truby: Ayers Rock
Woolfy: We Were There
D. Lissvik: Track 2
Arp: From a Balcony Overlooking the Sea
Ronny & Renzo: Me, Myself, Good (Quiet Village rmx)
Venus Gang: Love to Fly
P Willsher / T Kelly: Dangerous Voyage
Lawrence: Grey Light

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Cedric Woo: Dangerous Voyage (Part Two)

Fluxion: Inductance
SoulPhiction & Move D: In The Limelight
Wild Rumpus: Tarzan
Fontan: …You Too
Fernando: Scarecrows
Still Going: Untitled Love
Los Charly’s Orchestra: Some of the Things (Joey Negro re-edit)
DiskJokke: Rosenrod
Kraftwerk: Kristallo
Coma: Re

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TV: Edwyn Collins ‘Home Again’ BBC3

In music documentary terms, triumph over adversity usually refers to someone getting over a drink or drug problem of their own making. For Edwyn Collins, much loved for songs like ‘Falling And Laughing’ and ‘Rip It Up’ with Orange Juice and for his standalone 1994 hit ‘Girl Like You’, his triumph was a real one. This documentary, first screened last year by Artworks Scotland and voiced by Alex Kapranos follows Edwyn as he recovers from a brain hemorrahage and stroke in 2005, learning to read walk, and talk again – and incredibly to write new songs and eventually to make his way back onstage. The film culminates with his performance at the BBC Electric Proms in 2007 and if you can watch him perform ‘Home Again’ without welling up then you’re made of stone. But it’s the final shot that’s the real killer. Asked what he misses about his old life (which incidentally, he doesn’t really remember), Collins pauses for a long time. “Nothing,” he says eventually. “Nothing at all.”

‘Home Again’ is available on the BBC iPlayer until Friday 25th September 2009. Watch it. Also available is the Caledonia Dreamin’ documentary covering the history of Scottish pop music and in particular Postcard Records.

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Time Out: Alfredo Chart

Taken from Time Out, November 1989.


Thanks to Phil Mison.
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The Face: Italia ’91

Terry Farley piece from The Face, March 1991.

Thanks to Emma Warren.
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Jockey Slut: Jon Savage On Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works

Taken from Jockey Slut No.1, January 1993.


Thanks to Emma Warren.
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Radio Show: Sole Music

Emma Warren, journalist and contributor at Test Pressing, has been part of the Red Bull team for some time now. Here she is talking about her lovely Wandering Feet show…

I’ve been doing these podcasts every month since January now. They’re linked to the Red Bull Music Academy, which is coming to London in February and March next year, but they’re mostly about what I’m tagging ‘new music and old-school knowledge’. This month we have music from Taken By Trees; an exclusive forthcoming track from American basshead and new Hyperdub signing Faltydl; a Wiley mix of Speech Debelle, before she won the Mercury; and Venezuelan dubstepper Cardopusher on a funky tip. We also have a few words from Candi Staton (did you know You Got The Love started life as the theme tune for an American dieting product?) and DJ Zinc came down to the studio to talk about junglist influences and his new jump-up house tunes. It’s worth taking a look at the Red Bull Music Academy site anyway, because there are hundreds of video interviews with everyone from Arto Lindsay to Bob Moog to Sly and Robbie. Ditto the radio site, RBMA Radio. My top recommendations would include the Warp special currently on the frontpage. And the new Wandering Feet, of course.

Get the show here.

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Radio Show: Dread Broadcasting Corp.

Dred Lepke was the man behind the Dread Broadcasting Corporation, the first black music pirate station in the UK. He began broadcasting from a shed in his Neasden back garden in in October 1980 with an aerial that sent his reggae and community vibes out as far as the end of the street. Soon it became a cultural phenomenon, the literal grandaddy of today’s vibrant pirate radio scene. I interviewed Lepke in 2002 for a Mixmag feature on the history of pirate radio and he kindly sent me this cassette tape, with a handwritten cover, of recordings from the station – something he later turned into the brilliant Trojan compilation ‘Dread Broadcasting Corporation: Rebel Radio’. It’s still got pride of place in my front room. As Lepke said: ‘tune in if yu rankin’.

DBC Online

DBC Radio
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i-D: Good Vibrations Reggae Piece

Taken from i-D June 1990. Great piece from Matthew Collins interviewing Paul Oakenfold (nice cap), 3D, Daddy G, Smith & Mighty and Joey Jay amongst others, on the influence of reggae and, in hindsight, why it all got slow in 1990.





Thanks to Emma Warren.
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i-D: Balearic Networking

Taken from i-D August 1991.





Thanks to Emma Warren.
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i-D: KLF And The Isle Of Jura

Taken from i-D August 1991.



Thanks to Emma Warren.
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The Face: Ibiza – Holiday Babylon

Taken from the Face in September 1985.








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Under The Radar No.6: Nana Caymmi – Ponto De Areia

Beautiful version of this lovely track originally written by Milton Nascimento taken from Nana Caymmi’s self-titled 1975 album on cid. Love the way it rolls in at the start.

Nana Caymmi: Ponto De Areia
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The Face: Nightclubbing

Taken from The Face September 1998.





Thanks to Phil Mison.
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The Face: Happy Happy Happy

Thank to Phil Mison.
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