Funky house mix, originally laid down as a demo for Hell Bar.

At the time, I may have told Selina it was produced especially for her birthday.

68’23” - 78.3 MB - MP3 file - 160kps

dj sneak - funky rhythm - border patrol refixx

a studio - sos - skylark vocal

rasmus faber - divided/united - dub

michael grey - the weekend - original

bobby blanco - 3am - original

area f - akumbe - bobby blanco

ooh yeah yeah - sax trip

a guy called gerald - voodoo ray - hoxton whores remix

scape feat d’empress - be my friend - michael grey remix

erik prydz & steve angello - woz not woz - vers 1

beautiful liaisons - yeah yeah

mutiny - holdin’ on - eric prydz mix

Not a sitar in sight. This mix is a selection of vocal lounge house tracks from around the time I was playing Buddah Bar on Frith Street in Soho. Lisa had been after a CD featuring Fade for a while, so that’s what we open with...

Buddah Bar Sessions - deep house for Lisa

1 solu music feat kimblee - fade

2 mj cole - sincere - naked music mig's petalpusher

3 soldiers fo twilight - believe - extended

4 lisa shaw - always - lovetronic vocal

5 petalpusher - surrender

6 little louie vega & arnold jarvis - life goes on

7 cerrone - the only one - jamie lewis club mix

8 cerrone feat jocelyn brown - hooked on you - jamie lewis club mix

9 jon culter feat vanessa freeman - focus (lifted up)

10 m.o.d. - notion ep: dance avec moi - main

11 violence (bootleg) - let the music play

12 kaskade - it's you, it's me

13 ian pooley - piha

109.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps

After Fabian’s bday party at Buddah, I started playing there every Saturday in summer 2004. The owners wanted me to play lounge beach house which became quite dull for me. Anyway, the bar manager, a top bloke called Tom, promoted a lot of club nights so I did him this demo of more banging upfront house stompers.

mix for tom @ buddah bar > 2/4/04

black shadow feat krs 1 can you stand the funk

laurent wolf feat sonu dee about that

beautiful liaisons yeah yeah

bini & martini feat su’su bobien say yes beginerz remix

5* clowns give it up

del gado coffee beats

bobby blanco shelltoe

eric prydz slammin’

powers that be planet rock

moog ii swing can’t get away full intention remix

gus gus david darren emerson remix

underworld 7 days off

el b get her

102.7MB AAC file 192kbps - 74 mins

Naresh was a founding partner of Karmarama, a creative agency I helped appoint for Emap radio. Naresh is a big music fan and I still see him every year back stage at Glastonbury.

He’s into rock more than dance and over a lunch he once told me he didn’t really know much about house music... so, as a thank you for the lunch, I promised to burn him a few CDs. I picked a few mixes from the vault, but laid down this blend of 90s anthems especially.

naresh’s retrospective of house > march 04

1. tori amos - professional widow - armand van helden star trunk funkin’ mix (‘96)

2. sex-o-sonique - thought it was you - original (’97)

3. jonny corporate - sunday shouting (2000)

4. frankie knuckles - tears - full intention remix (‘89)

5. pete heller’s big love (’99)

6. cj bollard - sugar is sweeter - armand van helden remix (’96)

7. reel to reel - go on move - original (’94)

8. bassheads - is there anybody out there? (’92)

9. d’lacy - hideaway - deep dish mix (’95)

10. heller and farley project - ultra flava - original flava (’96)

11. basement jaxx - red alert (’99)

12. xpress 2 - lazy - fatboy slim remix (’02)

13. gat décor - passion (’93)

109.5 MB AAC file 160 kbps

So, Paul and I were inseparable best buddies for through ‘99-’01, so when his lovely partner, Fabian, asked me to dj at his 30th, it was a pleasure. We spent a few nights in Soho in January looking for the perfect venue and decided upon what used to Buddah Bar on Frith Street.

The party invite was a 30 minute CD, for which I spent a whole afternoon burning 100 discs. The attached mix is that invite, introduced by Fabian, who recorded his voice over in the Kiss 100 studios.

Of course, the night itself (6 March) rocked. I took my old sound system down and we turned the quiet bar into a sweat box.

After the party, the owners of the bar made me their Saturday night dj. I kept it up through the summer for the cash, but they wanted me to play more mellow lounge house music, so it got a bit boring.

Enjoy the mix.

Fabian’s birthday invite.

Tweet - boogie remix

soul II soul - back to life bootleg

soulsearcher - feelin’ love part one

michelle weeks - the light morera re-edit

dr kucho - stings track???

grant nelson feat mica paris - bodyswerve

martin solveig - rockin’ music

pointer sisters - automatic bootleg

34.5 MB standard mp3 file 160kbps

Uploading these old mixes, I’ve noticed that I always manage to knock out something special every February. Maybe it’s because I’ve fully recovered from the Christmas hangover. Perhaps it’s the Miami WMC on the horizon, so there’s a wad of inspiring new tunes out...

Most probably it’s because it’s Selina’s birthday, which I often forget and so have to deliver a decent mix for her - even if it’s late.

80 minutes of funky house tracks from feb ’04, with a few bootlegs and classics from the back of the box for good measure. Pure party fodder.

The ‘all over my face’ track was co-produced by a good friend and former work colleague, Jon Shaw, who is sadly no longer with us. I still play the tune out as it’s a great warm-up track, and think of him every time, Lovely, lovely fellow.

79’39” - 110.3 MB - AAC file - 192kbps

01 kaskade feat joslyn it’s you, it’s me original

02 movearo & alan h all over my face version 2

03 full intention forever bootleg vocal

04 the disciples of phunk too far gone original

05 4 star clowns feels so good

06 identity consienta

07 m-gee bodyswerve original instrumental

08 martin solvieg rockin’ music

09 d.e.a. music is my life bootleg

10 robin s show me love original

11 byron stingly get up everybody ‘sting me’ bootleg

12 tim deluxe mundaya

13 junior jack e samba

14 mariah carey dreamlover 24th street bootleg

15 the ks feat robert owens living a life club version

16 lys & gigi your love 2003 love mix

17 scissor sisters comfortably numb fatboy slim remix

This mix is part of a trio of sessions I laid down for a trip to Ibiza in 2003. Selina & Matt, Ben & Lara, Lisa, Malcolm and myself took a villa up in the hills and had a fantastic break. I sorted out a wad of minidiscs for lazy poolside days.

From memory, and from reviewing my limited notes, this mix was actually two separate sessions. I initially recorded something in May which I guess I wasn’t very happy with - it may have been one of my late night pissed-up adventures - but liking the first few tracks (particularly the blend into Groove Armada’s My Friend) I decided to pick up the mix from half way through, adding tracks 6 > 13 in August.

Both the Aug and May sections lacked any meticulous planning. I just grabbed recent tunes that went with the laid-back mood to get some deep house faves into a mix for the holiday. It works on the whole but I’m sure the last few tracks (esp that Marvin Gaye booty) were probably just filler to use up the minidisc.

Enjoy!

deep house & balearic beats – mixed may & august 2003

1. sandy rivera – changes – original

2. louie vega feat julie mcknight – diamond life – dance ritual

3. laranjeiras – i want you

4. groove armada – my friend – dorfmeister mix

5. telepopmuzik – breathe – extended mix

6. blue six – do it together – jay’s besoul vocal

7. victor duplais – lookin for love – nature’s plan remix

8. racoon feat christine lucas – come alive – jay j’s jazzy vocal

9. sade – kiss of life – bootleg

10. victor davis – runaway train – wahoo remix

11. q-burns abstract message – innocent – joey negro ambient dub

12. michelle weeks – the light – sandy rivera club mix

13. ‘make love not war’ – sexual healing bootleg

74.7MB | 128kbps | AAC file

Daytime poolside vibes mixed for our trip to Ibiza, 03, with Malcolm, Selina, Matt F, Lisa, Lara, Ben and a few friends of Matt F.

Sunshine pop, disco, hip hop and few summer house classics. Easy going party vibes for beer o’clock: mid afternoon with hangover clearing, time to gear up for the night ahead...

Now also a favourite of Rachel’s.

Daytime Poolside Classics

mixed 13 aug 03

justin timberlake - rock ur body oakenfold mix

grace jones - pull up to bumper remix

pointer sisters - automatic

ultra nate - new kind medicine

shakatak - down on street

raw silk - do it to music

de la soul - roller skating jame named saturday

electribe 101 - inside out remix

alison limerick - where love lives cut to the bone morales mix

moloko sing it back

Todd Terry - keep on jumpin

Kelis - young fresh new timo mass remix

brand new heavies - sometimes masters at work remix

88MB standard mp3 file (not chaptered) 160kbps

Another daytime poolside session for our trip to Ibiza 2003. This time it’s all house tunes, but stacked with girly floorfillers and bootlegs (hence the title).

Private Eye is a bootleg of Hall & Oats’ I can’t go for that; the Coloursound tune is lost gem here in it’s original form; G Club’s Guitarra G oozes Ibiza sunshine; and with Balearic faves by A Man Called Adam and Smokebelch towards the end of the mix, you definitely know which island you’re on. Enjoy.

Laydeez Choice, bootlegs and daytime beats

mixed 13 aug 2003

private eye - no can do

class a - street life

disciples of funk - too far gone

come on sting me – byron booty

dlsp - horney ep – summer horns

highrise - time after time

coloursound - fly with me

mood ii swing - can’t get away from you

g club - guitarra g

a man called adam - barefoot in the booty

smokebelch 03 booty

richerd x & kelis - finest dreams

richie havens/groove armada – back to my roots

114.9MB standard mp3 file 192kbps

Another one of those sessions mixed with the decks on the floor in the hallway because we were still doing up the flat. Jill had just left the Kentish Town Massive and moved in with Nick, so it was a little house warming gift for them. I remember it blearing out at a BBQ they had that summer.

update april 03 | jill’s house warmer > mixed 13/4/03

jay-j feat latrice barnett - keep on rising

x-press 2/nelly - lazy/hot in here bootleg with acapella (noël’s)

bobby blanco - shelltoe

ya underwear - seamus haji

kid creme - together

jamiroqui little l joey negro club mix

ben watt / lone cat - holding on

?? - shout

young mc - know how flaunt it djs booty

narcotic thrust - safe from harm

?? - critacise booty

gus gus - david

?? - the beat goes on

108.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps (but from a 128 kbps source file)