DJ Noël - Latest Mix Sessions

It’s been a long time / I shouldn’t have left you / without a dope beat to step to...

I can’t believe it’s two and a half years since my last post. I have over 20 playlists of tunes ready to be mixed, but the weight of the task led to a sort of paralysis... I get a bunch of tunes ready but never get the time to blend them. Then more tunes come along, or ones I have chosen wear out a little, so the tracklist loses its shine... then three weeks pass and it seems even more like yesterday’s news.

So, fast-forward to today and I find myself sorting music for a party. Time to clear this DJ constipation with eight awesome tracks mixed live, perfect for slamming on if you’re getting ready to go out over the festive season.

First up, The blissful Benediction. This summer anthem’s been rolling around my head non-stop for the past month. I wake up and go to sleep with ‘keep on riding on and on’ as my soundtrack. Frank B gives us a phat old skool re-take of the classic ‘Chain Of Fools’ - I love the fact he cut out the chorus, and just you wait for the bass drop.

The Jessie Ware and TEED tracks are festival favourites but the crescendo is definitely the Maxxi Soundsystem transformation of a classic disco Scandal track, with a bassline to end all basslines.

Oh, and there’s an Adele song. LOL.

45 minutes. Just enough to fill up one side of a old C-90 tape. Enjoy!

winter warmer minimix | mixed 17 Nov 2012

1.Hot Natured feat. Ali Love - Benediction (Original Mix)

2 H.O.S.H. feat Malonda - No One (Original Mix)

3 Frank B - Chain of Fools (Original Mix)

4 Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix)

5 Hot Chip - How Do You Do? (Joe Goddard Dub)

6 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Your Love (Original Mix)

7 Adele - Rolling In The Deep (VILLA Remix)

8. Scandal - Just Let Me Dance (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix)

104 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps

Bit of an odd one this. I’m uploading it in Dec 2013. It seems it’s been hanging out in my iTunes library awaiting upload, forgotten but hopefully not unwanted. Was there a reason I chose not to post it? Maybe there’s some really dodgy mixing in there... who knows.

Here it is anyway. Enjoy!

Deep House 2010 - mixed 6th March 2011, chaptered 16th March

1 Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind? (Andre Lodemann Remix)

2 Thyladomid - The Voice (Original Mix)

3 Robert Babicz - Chordy (Gorge Remix)

4 Elastic Sound - Moscow After Autumn Rain (Soul Minority Remix)

5 The Normalites - The Sun Rising (Shur-i-kan Dub)

6 Fred Everything, Lisa Shaw - Here I Am feat. Lisa Shaw (Shur-I-Kan Dreamy Dub)

7 Mario Basanov - Caribean Girl (Original Mix)

8 Ensemble Du Verre - Just Another Thursday Morning (Aaron Bingle & Timo Weiner Sleepless Version)

9 Groove Cocktail - Deep Touch (Karol XVII & MB Valence Loco Mix)

10 Vincenzo, Lovebirds- Epic (Original Mix)

11 Nicolas Stefan - Closer

12 The xx - VCR (Four Tet Remix)

1'14:20

172.4 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps

The track list also appears in the ‘Lyrics’ tab of the track info.

Use the iTunes ‘Chapters’ menu to jump between tracks in the mix.

Apologies to all subscribers! I’m getting quite behind with my releases, mainly because I’ve been quite absorbed in completing a separate project - an iPad DJ controller for Traktor users. if you’re interested, you can see the results at ipad-dj.net.

So, I have a stack of mixes lined up waiting to be recorded. The attached file features a wad of faves from April - commercial and funky floorfillers following the usual ‘update’ format.

Enjoy!

project update: update april 10 | mixed 6 June 2010

1. Hardrive - Deep Inside (Jesse Rose Play Prime Mix)

2. Sabb - Re-Activated (Original Mix)

3. Montilla - From The Stars (David Penn & Rober Gaez Rework)

4. Arthur Baker feat Nona Hendrix & Ladonna - Tear Down The Walls (Riva Starr Remix)

5. Jay-J featuring Latrice Barnett - Keep On Rising (Jay-J's Shifted Up Mix)

6. Vision Factory feat Nina Hall - Music Brings You Back (Original Mix)

7. The Black Project - Off The Wall (Simioli & Black Original Mix)

8. Martijn ten Velden & Afroboogie - Cowbell

9. Underground Solution feat Jasmine - Luv Dancin (Harry Choo Choo Romero B-Boy Remix)

10. X-Press 2 feat James Yuill - Time (Riva Starr Remix)

11. Joey Beltram - Slice 2010 (Carl Cox Rerub)

12. Noir, WestBoy - She's Got My Heart (Uner & Coyu Remix)

13. Ramon Tapia - This Groove (Original Mix)

14. Andreas Henneberg, Simon2 - Bolingo Grigo (Original Mix)

15. Rasmus Faber & Alf Tumble feat Candi Staton - Wilder Side (RaFa Remix)

195 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps

Here’s a hour of indie-funk and nu disco for butt-wigglin’ through the Easter break. Dont’ be put off if you were hoping for some house tunes.... you’ll love this :-) It’s one of two sessions I’ve had on the backburner for a while, hence the tunes being cherry-picked from the past year or so. This mix is quite upbeat, there’s another to come that’s deeper and more spaced out.

We start with Beth Ditto’s reflective vocal on Cruel Intentions, cut up here by The Edit Master himself, Greg Wilson. LCD Soundsystem take us into orbit with Padded Cell’s funk-chugging take on 45:33. Other highlights include a spacey disco groove by Curses!, a Crazy P track dropped by Unabombers at Big Chill 09, electronic disco from Lifelike, Chris Menace and even the Pet Shop Boys beefed up by Trentemøller.

And of course, two iPod favourites of last month: the best track from New Young Pony Club’s slightly disappointing second album, and the Talking-Heads-on-M-Kat ripper, High Pressure Days by The Units, a top track I discovered on a Mixmag covermount CD mixed by Mylo. Enjoy!

High Presh-ah! | 4 April 2010

1. Simian Mobile Disco feat Beth Ditto - Cruel Intentions (Greg Wilson Re-edit)

2. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Padded Cell Remix)

3. Chris Menace - Metropolis (Day Version)

4. Friendly Fires - Hold On

5. Faze Action - I Wanna Dancer (Old School House Extended 12' Mix)

6. Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School Dub Mix)

7. Crazy P - Love On The Line (Unabombers vox mix)

8. The Units - High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix)

9. Lifelike - Sequencer (Original Mix)

10. Todd Terje, Akwaaba - Bodies (Prins Thomas Orgasmatron Mix)

11. Juan Maclean - Happy House (VHS or Beta Remix)

12. Friendy Fires - On Board (Joakim Remix)

13. Pet Shop Boys - Sodom (Trentemøller Remix)

14. New Young Pony Club - We Want To

169.8 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps

Something I prepared earlier... A little treat for Kat on her birthday. She texted me one evening just before Christmas saying she was listening to Blisstech Glisten and it was pushing her buttons, so I pulled together a playlist of similar vibes in her honour.

We start blissfully Bent, slide through some familiar Soulsearcher vocals before being impaled on a glitchy Hobo track with its twisted Jabba The Hut bassline. Sebastien Leger turns a corner and turns up the sparkle as we float through a new take on an Orbital classic and on to the triumphant, hands-in-the-air piano finale by Tony Lionni.

Enjoy!

Blisstech Glisten Vol 2 | for Kat - mixed 11 Feb 2010, chaptered 12 Feb

1 Bent - As You Fall (Guy J Remix)

2 Lee Kalt & Mark Alston featuring Missus M - Kiss & Fly (Main Mix)

3 Soulsearcher - Can't Get Enough (Hy2rogen & Nikola Remix)

4 Hollis P Monroe feat. Christa - This Way (Hideo Kobayashi Tech Remix)

5 Anton Pieete - Players (Original Mix)

6 Hobo - 23:59 (Original Mix)

7 Afrojack - Radioman

8 Sebastien Leger - Majuro (Original Mix)

9 Orbital - Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-model)

10 Matt Darey, Urban Astronauts - See The Sun (Aurosonic Remix)

11 Kaskade - Angel On My Shoulder (Edx's Belo Horizonte At Night Remix)

12 Tony Lionni - Found A Place (Original Mix)

166.2 MB | AAC | 320 kbps

Here’s a selection of main room party stompers for the party season. The usual blend of house genres play out across this update mix. It’s one that’s been sitting ready to be laid to tape for a good few weeks now, sorry for the delay.

Giom kicks off the session with a slice of his usual funky French bump stuff. Fake Blood’s Fix Your Accent serves up a wacky brew Mad Hatter-style. Crazy P’s Stop Space Return is a favourite from the summer, with Unabombers tweaking their 303 on the mix. Other highlights include the nu disco/retro house stomper from The Juan Maclean, and Dennis Ferrer’s massive Hey Hey.

Enjoy!

update nov 09 - mixed and chaptered 13 dec 09

1 Giom - Some Of That (Original Mix)

2 Joris Voorn - Chase The Mouse (Original Mix)

3 Fake Blood - Fix Your Accent (Original Mix)

4 Crazy P - Stop Space Return (Unabombers Vox Mix)

5 The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Will Saul & Mike Monday Remix)

6 Una & Coyu - Raw Sweat

7 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (DF's Attention Vocal Mix)

8 Sir James - Special (I'm Rushing) (Bingo Players Remix)

9 Nomand vs Bingo Players - Devotion

10 Deadmau5 feat. Rob Swire - Ghosts 'N' Stuff

11 Tiga - Beep Beep Beep (Punks Jump Up Remix)

12 Butch - Disco Shhh (Original Mix)

13 Patrick M - Paulis (Original Mix)

14 Candi Staton - Musical Freedom (The Shapeshifters 'Big Fish Little Fish' Remix)

15 Leventina - Nightshift (Prok & Fitch's Endless Summer Remix)

16 Glimpse & Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul (Jay Shepheard Remix)

193.8 MB | AAC | 320 kbps

I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.

We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.

Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.

All this seems pretty fitting as Junior Boys Own hosted their own event in London last night (according to the Guardian Guide, their first in 16 years) and much of the catalogue is now reissued through Defected, although I’ve tried to steer around some of those more obvious classics.

Most of the tunes are from ’92 - ’95 so I’ll also upload this to the Classic Archive podcast. Apologies if you get duplicates. Enjoy!

Perfect Motion: Roach Motel / Fire Island - mixed 3 Oct, chaptered 4 Oct.

1 Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)

2 Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Alright (Farley & Heller's Fire Island Vocal)

3 Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)

4 Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roach Motel Dub)

5 Fire Island - In Your Bones

6 Roach Motel - Movin’ On (Correct House Mix)

7 Monie Love - The Power (Roach Motel Mix)

8 Fire Island - Fire Island

9 Ultra Naté - How Long (Fire Island mix)

10 Roach Motel - Transatlantic (Uptown Mix)

11 Roach Motel - Happy Bizznezz

12 Fire Island - There But for the Grace of God (Roach Motel Dub)

13 Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer (Dancin' And Prancin') (Fire Island's 'La Musica Es La Respuesta')

14 New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)

146.2 MB | AAC | 256 kbps

Here’s the latest ‘update’ instalment. The tunes are mainly from July with a couple of stragglers from May/June, plus the usual rediscoveries thrown in for good measure.

Giom’s mix of As Darkness Falls has been in the box a lot this summer. It was on a CD I bought whilst shooting in LA in January but only found a few weeks back, hence it’s cropping up on a few Noël mixes. The Wawa track is an old favourite that’s resurfaced since Defected reissued the Fluential catalogue earlier this year.

KneeDeep’s All Night doesn’t disappoint, but it’s trumped by Tony Lionni’s Found A Place - my current top tune, which leads us into the heart of the mix’s commercial dancefloor stompers.

A few slices of electro towards the end including a different mix of La Roux’s breakthrough single and the theme from the Orange RockCorps tv ad.

Enjoy!

update july 09 - mixed and chaptered 2 aug 00

1 Vernon & Dacosta feat Apple Rochez - As Darkness Falls (Giom)

2 Joshua Heath & Inland Knights - I Refuse (Inland Knights Refuge Remix)

3 Gramophonedzie - Why Dont You

4 Wawa feat. Eddie Amador - The After Party (Main Mix)

5 KneeDeep - All Nite

6 Tony Lionni - Found A Place (Original Mix)

7 Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now (Abel Ramos To Brighton With Love Remix)

8 Chocolate Puma, Bingo Players - Disco Electrique (Vocal Mix) Noël Edit

9 Audiowhores & Haze - Stay (Audiowhores Dub)

10 Yass - When Doves Cry (Thommy & Spen Remix) Noël Edit

11 The Face, Adam Shaw, Mark Brown - Needin U (DJ Wady Ibiza Mix)

12 Analog People In A Digital World - Rose Rouge (Vocal Edit)

13 Visti, Meyland - Yes Maam (All Nite Long) (Trentemoller Remix) Noël Edit

14 Tiga - Shoes

15 La Roux - In for the Kill (Lifelike Remix)

16 Mory Kanté - Yeke Yeke (Afro Acid Mix)

17 RacknRuin - Skitzo VIP (Original Mix)

183.7 MB | AAC | 320 kbps

Here’s a sunshine session I mixed a few weeks ago but needed to get through The Big G before I found time to chapter the tracks and upload it for you.

The attached file is 75 minutes of deep and classic house for poolside toe-tapping, helping to make those sunbathing hours slip by a little faster. You’ll know the wad of commercial classics in the middle of the mix, but other highlights include Dennis Ferrer’s massive Sinfonia, and Inland Knights do the business once again on Jake Child’s Undergound.

Enjoy, and don’t forget to slip slap slop x

beach beats - mixed 14/6/09 - chaptered 5/7/09

1 Fred Everything feat. Wayne Tennant - Mercyless (Fred Everything & Olivier Desmet Remix)

2 Jake Childs - The Underground (Inland Knights Remix)

3 Marco Soundee feat Maggie Smile - Summer Rain

4 Phonique feat. Liora - Teenage Love (Kevin Yost Remix)

5 Mark Farina - Dream Machine (JT Donaldson Mix)

6 Kings Of Tomorrow Feat. Julie McKnight - Finally (Usual Suspects Remix)

7 Louie Vega & Jay Sinister Sealee starring Julie McKnight - Diamond Life (Copyright 08 Main Mix)

8 King Unique - Love Is What You Need Look Ahead (Ralf Gum Vocal Mix)

9 Arnold Jarvis & Alix Alvarec - Rising Into Joy (Jay-J's Vocal Remix)

10 Hollis P Monroe feat. Christa - This Way (Hideo Kobayashi Tech Remix)

11 Audiowhores & Haze - Stay (H. Soundsoul Mix)

12 Dennis Ferrer - Sinfonia Della Notte

13 Copyright Feat. Imaani - Deeper (Baggi Begovic Dub Mix)

174.1 MB | AAC | 320 kbps

I had my lower wisdom teeth removed on Monday. I had my upper ones out a few years ago and thought this would be a similar experience: bit of discomfort and back to work in a couple of days. I didn’t believe the dentist when he said it would take me over a week to recover.

It’s now Saturday and I still have a numb jaw. Why am I telling you all of this? Well the dihydrocodeine pain killers I’ve been prescribed have kept me floating through the week and they have inspired the title of this latest sleepy deep house session.

The attached file compiles an hour of vocal and tech grooves, perfect for drifting off in the sunshine. Whether you’re sunbathing in the park or snoozing by the pool, kick back to Osunlade’s old skool Momma’s Groove, Skylark’s deep interpretation of Go That Deep, or the haunting perfection of Ben Watt’s Guinea Pig.

Love is in the detail. Oh yes.

Enjoy x

Codeine Coma - mixed, mastered and chaptered Sat 6 June 09

1 Soundexile - Love Is Morphine (Oliverio Remix)

2 Ben Watt feat. Julia Biel - Guinea Pig (Vocal Variation Mix)

3 Nufrequency feat. Shara Nelson - Go That Deep (Skylark Vocal Mix)

4 Mr. V - Jus Dance (Quentin Harris Mix)

5 Osunlade - Mommas Groove

6 Fred Everything feat. Wayne Tennant - Mercyless (Atjazz Vocal Mix)

7 Marshall Jefferson, Chris Liebing, Andre Walter - Mushrooms (Martin Eyerer Remix)

8 Dennis Ferrer feat K.T. Brooks - How Do I Let Go (Charles Webster Deep Mix)

9 1st Class - Sharing Transparently (Jon Silva Deep House Mix)

10 Asad Rizvi feat Lauren Kitara - Apathy (Tommy Largo remix)

11 Marc Evans - Given Me Joy (Lovebirds Suite Vocal Edit)

12 Morten Sorensen - Start Something (40 Thieves Remix)

13 Marius Våreid - Skumle Planer

102.6 MB | AAC | 184kbps VBR