Rubber Stamped Mixes

What with family and 1 yr old son, work, playng and running the Warriors rugby team and Dubai Football Club it's been a busy year! I managed to spend a couple of nights last week trawling through beatport and some online record shops for some new tunes and today I had a rare few hours spare to finally gave me time to record a new mix. I used 28 tunes to make a peak time set of progressive house tunes mainly at 126-129 bpm so its quite pumping. The mix is 2.5hrs long, sit back relax and turn it up! Big Ups Rubber X

An impromtu 4hr late hrs cafe patron fuelled mix recorded live back 2 back with up and coming 19 yr old DJ, Cammy Dearie. Cam originally from Glasgow ended up going to school in Dubai before heading to Leeds for his university years. Cam can now be found playing at clubs across Yorkshire and as a real talent is certainly one to watch for the future!

This mix is made using my music and is a mixture of house tunes spanning the genres; deep, main room, progressive and and tech. We spin 1 or 2 tunes each at a time and just tried to keep the vibe rolling. The tunes are anything from 12 months to 10 years old so expect some classcis!

You can checkout more of Cam's sets here: www.soundcloud.com/cammiedearie

Dont forget to TURN IT UP..............

Ramadan Kareem

Rubber

Apologies its been a while, I've been kinda busy as Dubai FC won the DAFL premiership and my son Sam is now 8 months old but what better way to return than with a soulful, jazzy, funky, rolling drum and bass BANGER......

From labels like Goodlooking, Hospital, Beta, Integral, Innerground, etc this mix rolls for 1hr 40 mins and has 21 of my favourite drum and bass tunes from recent times.

I will hopefully be making another mix really soon so if you have any requests on genres, drop me an email on [email protected] with any requests/suggestions.

Until then, get your subwoofers plugged in, get the mix TURNED UP and let those jazzy beats roll!

Ramadam Kareem Everyone!

Rubber

What a crazy and amazing few months it has been since my summer Ibiza trip. My son was born in October and I've been hanging out with the little guy so I have not had time for much music. However I've had a few days spare before I travel to join him in South Africa for Christmas and i have managed to knock together a 3 hr 15min eclectic house mix for your music pleasure.

I handpicked 39 of my favourite tunes from the last 5 months that span a variety of sub genres of house music including deep, soulful, indie dance, garagy, nu disco, french, electronica, old skool and progressive. They are interlaced in a way that should take you on a musical journey. Personally this is what i would like to listen to at Salinas in Ibiza towards the end of a day on the beach. For those in Dubai, SA or anyway sunny this is an ideal mix to play while outdoors with a few cold ones and imagine you are Salinas, if you in colder climes, wrap up warm and pretend it is warm and you are on the beach!

Either way, turn it the fook up and have a happy Christmas everyone! RIP Madeba

Drop me an email or facebook shout to let me know if you've been listening and if you like it

Rubber Funk X

Tracklisting:

Recorded live from Claude Von Stroke's San Francisco record label's party named Dirtybird on Thursday 25th July 2013 in the rapidly becoming legendary club Sankeys located on the White Isle - Ibiza. When i was at uni Sankeys was just taking over from the fading Hacienda as Manchesters main club. In recent years Warehouse Project has assumed that mantle while Sankeys closed and put all its resources and efforts into its Ibizan venture.

Nestled in the heart of Playa Den Bossa close to Space and Ushuaia, Sankeys has been going from strength to strength since it opened it's door these last 3 yrs. Sankey's has already built a reputation for packed out crowds and an electric atmosphere with reviews saying that the atmosphere inside feels like a closing party carnival every night. It sure felt like it was a closing party crowd when i played there last week!

My set was pitched as a perfect foil to the dirtybird residents Justin Martin, Catz n Dogz, Claude Von Stroke, etc. in the main room. Dirtybird is a tech funk record label and their residents have generally been playing very deep and often minimal loud clubby sounds this summer in the massive main room. To balance the club out, I wanted to play something lighter and different so my set is mainly deep house (but funkier not minimal) and garage with a sprinkling of tech house, jackin house and nu disco and to spice it up a little, with some breakbeats and D&B to end.

Turn up the volume, let the mix flow, get dancing or just pretend you are in Sankeys listening live and most of all enjoy! 

Drop me an email or facebook shout to let me know if you've been listening and if you like it

Rubber X

Tracklisting:

Lost in Ibiza is the only underground boat party in Ibiza. After a calamitous first season, Sankeys Ibiza was the surprise success story of 2012, with Steve Lawler and Solomun helping turn it into the most intelligent underground den on the White Isle.

This year the Lost in Ibiza crew have teamed up with the legendary Claude VonStroke and his San Francisco Tech Funk "record label called "Dirtybird". The promotion is also called Dirtybird and it is held in Sankeys on Thursdays. Lost in Ibiza will host the Boutique room for their afterparty apres the boat and I have the privilege to be spinning some tunes for them in Sankeys at Dirtybird. Headlining is Justin Martin and Catz n Dogz.

I wanted to do a pre Ibiza mix with a little sampler of some tunes that i think will be big in Ibiza this summer. Its nearly a 4 hour mix and is mainly deep house with a sprinkle of nu disco, tech house and the like. I hope it gets you in the mood for your summer holidays wherever that maybe and for me it has 100% got me in the mood for the White Isle....

Turn it up, let it build and enjoy!

Rubber

p.s. My next podcast will be a recording of my set live from Sankeys! 

Fancy some sunshine sounds? this mix is pure soulful house goodness and is ideal for a summers day in the park, sitting by the pool or having a sundown cocktail. Strangely enough this is my first soulful house mix and this vibe takes me back to early 2000s and the era that was Rowsley Lodge, House FM, Unknown FM, Camden Palace, Bobby and Steve Soul Heaven, movers and shakers in bond street, the buffalo bar in highbury corner and everything else soulful house related. Mr Mole, Mundis, Han, Jenwah, Stace, Dee, Rob, Sam, Tracy Luv, Matt Nash, Piglet, Olner and the man himself Mikey Matt you all knows it!

The music on this podcast is what i call proper house music and while it reminds me of that era because every club or bar you went to was playing soulful tunes, these tunes i have used are fresh. The inspiration and many of the tunes on this mix comes from my man Choci. One of the pioneers of electronic music in London in the late 80s and early 90s for years Choci sold vinyls from his west end Choci's Chewns record shop to all the biggest DJs in the land Oakenfold, Tong, Rampling, Norman Jay, Bukem, Goldie and the like. He also DJ'd all over London and the world and had various residencies including Escape from Samara at the Fridge in Brixton. If you look on any flyer from the day Choci was there headlining and those guys previously mentioned were often supporting him. Choci is a musical legend inspired by the music not commercials, check out some of Choci's art and you can catch the man himself dj'ing on tuesdays live on Kane FM for Team Robbo.

It took me a few tunes to settle into this mix as some of the early stuff is recorded live so has varying BPMs, there are 4 or 5 exclusive Choci edits/remixes on this mix. I will bang a track list up when i have time. Enjoy the tunes, just let the mix roll it builds and builds, sit back enjoy the sunshine, hopefully your sundowner and turn it up!

Drop me an email or facebook shout to let me know if you've been listening and if you like it