Here's a remix by me of Australian band The Lost Valentinos who have been doing rather well on their island homeland recently. It was produced by man of the moment Ewan Pearson too, but it doesn't sound like Delphic. It also features the majestic voice of the great mage of Northampton himself, Mr. Alan Moore, then it starts to go crazy.
You can download it by clicking here:
Only a few people have it so far (there was even some comedy fuss about it here: http://bit.ly/aM3mNd). It's also quite long. Some would say a psychedelic rave epic...
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Happy Holidays and all that.
I made this mix about ten years ago now. Before Ableton (Unbelievable but true - there was a time before Ableton). It was done one two real Technics decks, two very old CDJs (the big ones that looked like a suitcase), a sampler and a VHS tape recorder. It's one mix that people always ask me for and I think it's quite soothing. There are a couple of bits where it goes a bit wonky, but I was young and I'm not an octopus. It was sort of a prototype for a radio show I was doing in Leeds called "Skin Up, You're Already Dead".
Originally, it was going to be the calm disc of a two CD set - "An Outlaws Night Off" and "An Outlaws Night Out", kind of like what the Discobelle thing was. Dance music moves quite quickly though so there's never really a perfect party CD, just a party CD that keeps chaging, I suppose that's why we all keep doing mixes, to try and translate the sounds into a new great set.
It took me ages to find the artwork (I lost the original so I had to do it again). The photo is from a newspaper from 1999. I found the paper, but I'd ripped the picture out to scan it and then lost it! I called the British Library and they didn't have it and then I called The Guardian and they only had a really crap resolution version, but I got there in the end. I think it's a very lovely picture anyway. There's a high quality one here too, if you want to print it.
I hope you enjoy this anyway - maybe it's one to put on after the massive New Years rave up?
I be playing at "The Greatest Show on Earth" in Bristol on NYE on the Arcadia Stage (which is apparently looking even better than it did at Glastonbury). For some wierd reason even Pitchfork have picked up on this partly and someone just offered £1000 for 10 tickets, which is pretty bonkers. I reckon it's going to be an absolutely incredible party. Come and say hello if you're there...
Posted at 5:37 PM
This is all the text. I actually hand wrote it all out (including some on a pizza box) and I was going to build a site with it on, but time got in the way. Oh well.
“So here’s my mix. I’m glad you let me do it and I hope you enjoy it, I had fun making it, the first few mixes are slightly awkward, but hey, I wanted to get some weird stuff in there and if you don’t try, you don’t get anywhere do you? Hopefully there will be some things on here you haven’t heard before so you can find some great new sounds and maybe go to some shows, have a good time, meet some people, put some money in the system and keep the whole thing going a bit longer.
I’ve gone and made two mixes here – one of them is a out and about ravey affair with noises you might hear in nightclubs and the other one is something you might want to put on when you get home, perhaps in an advanced state of refreshment, wanting to “relax” or “chill out”, perhaps?
That’s about it from me. If anyone wants to book me in Sao Paulo please get in touch, I’ve never been there and apparently they’ve banned all advertising in the city and it’s totally wild with loads of art everywhere. I’d like to thank the lovely Morgan for providing the voice for the second CD, her funny stories made me laugh and I hope they make you smile too! I hope anyone who downloads this enjoys it anyway – be excellent to one another and party on dudes!”
Read a description on why he choose each track after the jump.
CD 1 – An insult to Reality
Intro sample.
This was originally for the Outlaws vs Bang Gang mix CD we planned one cosmic evening on the fateful eve we first met, many, many moons ago. Since then I’ve done my best to fuck my life up and they’ve released two albums and are now PLAYAZ on the SCENE. Whoops.
Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes
This guy’s totally awesome. Just awesome. Live, he’s got a shade of the early Jaime Lidell’s about him with all that wicked vocal
sampling, looping stuff going on. The guy’s a genius and this song’s great.
Bombay The Hard Way – Ganges A Go Go
I was doing some work for an ad agency and I gave a nice guy there some songs and this was one of them. Every time it came on the stereo I would ask him what it was and then be really embarrassed when he told me that I’d actually given it to him. This happened a lot. Strangely they didn’t invite me back to do more work.
Chris Joss – Magic Tubes
Cool name eh? Pretty fun song to start getting to the mix proper I reckon. Not much else to say really. It’s not BANGING but it does have a GROOVE.
Aphex Twin – Donkey Rubarb
Another cool name. Aphex is pretty awesome really isn’t he? He makes great music, fucks about with the press and doesn’t take it all very seriously. He’s also very talented, probably a good person to have around on a heavy acid trip and he’s from the West Country -
definitely a candidate for a top position in the Techno Parliament.
Ceasefire vs. Deadly Avenger – Evel Kinevil
A bit of an Old Bristol tune this one. Reminds me of Djing with Mulder from Urban Takeover and him saying “Your tunes are great but your mixing’s all over the shop!” (I was drinking a lot of Red Stripe back then). He a nice guy anyway, he’s making some good new Old School inspired tunes too, which can only be a good thing.
M.A.N.I.C. – I’m Coming Hardcore
Possibly the coolest name? How could anyone not like a tune with a name like that? The song could be the sound of a massive shit pressed onto vinyl, but then you’d see the name and be like “It’s called ‘I’m Coming Hardcore’ and the band’s called M.A.N.I.C. so it’s OK and I want to give them some money for being awesome”. And when girls look through my record bag they’ll know what kind of guy I am. One that “comes hardcore”, whatever that means.
Smart E’s – A Most Excellent Choon
OH MY GOD – another awesome name for a song. This song is also pretty awesome. Smart E’s get a pretty bad rep (probably because they’re called Smart E’s and they made Sesame’s Treat which OFFICIALLY SIGNALLED THE DEATH OF RAVE), their album is actually pretty good if you like old rave stuff. I really like old rave stuff.
Sureshot – Ichigeki
Pretty bonkers and very good. Sample heavy, lost classic in my book.
AKA The Junkies – Konijntje
Pretty bonkers and very good, oh I’ve said that already haven’t I? A bit of a killer from Holland here. They like darts in Holland, I like
darts too. Really underrated sport, Seriously, check it out. Darts is wicked and very exciting. I watched Ted Hanky win at the BDO
championship this year. Good times…
Indo Tribe – Owl
FSOL, what can you say. Awesome maybe? Lots of amazing records, still cranking them out. They do incredible interviews too and they got 11 out of 10 for one of their albums in Muzik magazine once, which is quite a claim. And then there’s that amazing story about them pissing on a chair and making A&R guys sit on it when everyone wanted to sign them back in the Nineties when everything was fun and people liked having a good time. Just wow. They have a great webshop where you can buy all their old stuff too. It’s all pretty amazing and a must for anyone who likes this electronic music thing we’re all supposed to be into.
Cappella – Helyom Halib (Acid Mix)
Very daft (not Daft Punk, just daft). There’s a lot of good old acid records in the world. I think this is one of them. So I put it in this
mix. That is all.
Funkatarium – Jump
I love this tune. It’s come back a bit recently in Australia, because it’s great and you can always play great tunes. My copy of this was
stolen when I lost my decks, half a 15k sound system and two bags of records when some not particularly nice people stole my van in Leeds nearly 10 years ago. I hope they got some joy out of it, but I doubt it. I would imagine they sold it for peanuts and wasted all the love it took to build and create and squandered all the good times it could have brought to people in future. Cheers guys. I’m not bitter though.
Syntheme – Red
Disco acid? Great stuff. Ace record from a very talented lady. More disco acid will come in future I reckon, because well, it’s the
future.
Zeigeist – Tar Heart
A touch of the old Kate Bushes on this one. I really wanted to remix this and do a kind of Rex The Dog Heartbeats vibe on it, but obviously not as good (how cool is that song?). They never got back to me though. I played it on the radio in Australia and someone asked what it was so I emailed it them. Maybe that was revenge for not letting me remix the track. Does that make me a bastard? I cost them a sale. Maybe that was a pair of socks for their children? Maybe the person I sent the track to bought the album? Hey – you owe me guys – let me have the stems for this tune…
The Cookie Crew – Got To Keep On
Another banger, samples Kraftwerk (but then everybody did then didn’t they?). UK rap / dance hip-house is great stuff – people like to dance to it (probably because it’s fun to dance to) and there’s always a nice verse or a fun sample to keep you amused. Why don’t people make records like this again?
Mujava – Township Funk
Ha ha. Had to put it on there really didn’t I? It’s such a monster tune. Apparently the main melody is the preset demo thing on some
brand of keyboard – all you have to do to make it is hold one of the keys down. We could have all become famous and have loads of gigs if we’d known that. But that’s the thing isn’t it? You kind of have to find these things first to make the most of them. But then again there’s the popular phrase “The pioneers get the arrows, the settlers get the land”, but I digress…
Shut Up And Dance – I’m Raving I’m Raving
Seriously, what a tune. Walking in Memphis goes rave. Only a proper genius could think of that. I had my own go at something stupid in this vein (not that I’m calling myself a genius or anything – I hope I’m not that much of a tool) when I tried to get my friend MC Gaff-e to record a song called Raver Lovin’ with Edu K. I had this vision of it being a daft parody of Summer Loving from the Grease soundtrack with more rave. They kind of made it a fidgit banger though and easy
on the jokes. Oh well, if you want something done properly…
Kolusion – Baby (Dubwize remix)
Might seem a bit boring but it’s pretty funky, it’s got a good groove and the productions dope. We can’t all be the shining gems in the
disco treasure chest can we? There have to be some sleeping giants to keep the vibe alive between the bangers…
Dubchild – Take Me (Reso mix)
My good pal Clark Kunt got me into this one. He’s so devoted to his music he works about 10 hours a day on it. This also makes him very skint, he has to survive off a few gigs at Blowpop and a couple of shifts at The Old Blue last (who probably pay him in mullets or
something). But it’s all about devotion to the rave isn’t it? Mr. Kunt has this devotion and one day it’s going to pay off…
Jess & Crabbe – In Your Eer
Jess and Crabbe were awesome. They made tunes like Sinden and Herve and that lot ages earlier but they never really got the cred they deserve. Their tunes are great though – it’s always good to have a couple of French bangers in your box (as the art mistress said to the gardener).
Stenchman – Fat Bloated Idiot
Samples Ren and Stimpy so it kind of must be wicked. Dubstep but still with ye olde rave vibes. Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom etc.
6bloc – Never Scared
Amazing. Just wow. Lush vocal. Great, great production. I’m very, very jealous of those drums and that bass. Full respect to this guy, he really, really knows what he’s doing. Just imagine this record on The Iration Steppa’s sound system. It would BLOW YOUR MIND!
Second Protocol – Basslick
Very, very weird tune. It doesn’t have a proper beat, but it’s very well produced and quite mental. It also sounds spectacular on a big
rig with lots of bass. But then most things do don’t they?
Machines Don’t Care – Spycatcher
I think this is the best track from the Machines Don’t Care Thing. You might not, but I do. I bet they had a laugh making that album. Or maybe not, maybe they’re all boring boys with no sense of humour who just like listening to basslines loudly. Good to see they got together and defined their sound though.
Tambour Battant – Kp3
Cool weird foreign music stuff, faintly psychedelic which can only be a good thing. Weird beat though, it’s a bit of a bugger to mix.
MC Serginho – The Book Is On The Table
Thank to Mr. Jaime Doom for this one. A bit of an Oz anthem from a few years ago. Still a definite winner. Funny but not stupid I reckon.
George Harrison: Art of Dying
My amazing dad played me this one (What a cliche that phrase is eh? But like most cliches, IT’S TRUE). Great song from the man like
George. Totally groovy, spaced out vibes. And you can dance to it. Please can people start making modern music like this more often? I reckon Dan Stricker’s a modern day George Harrison, I hope he doesn’t mind that I’ve said that.
Golden Girls – Kinetic
Golden Girls – Kinetic (Heavenly mix)
Cor blimey. A bit of a winner here. This is just sheer joy. It must be pretty amazing to sit in the studio and create something like this,
something that must have given so many people so much happiness. Putting both these mixes together just kind of happened, I hope it’s not too much, It just feels really nice.
Kris Menace and Spooky – Stereophonic
What a great tune – all the best bits of old prog before it became such a dirty word encapsulated in a blast of total rave bliss. It’s
those French dudes again isn’t it? Please can you stop making so many awesome records? Actually don’t, please, please don’t stop, keep going, keep making amazing songs. Especially Julien Delfaud – he’s made some monsters and he must make more, Please, please make some more songs that sound amazingly awesome…
My Digital Enemy – Time To Freak.
I think these guys make HARD HOUSE, I’m not completely sure what HARD HOUSE is anymore. It’s probably something like ELECTRO? Maybe it’s related to music that’s a bit too fast and hectic and has had a lot of the love removed, leaving only a slightly skeletal husk of E junkie raver chrysalis that gyrates to the pleasure button pushing rushyness of the music. Or something. It’s got a good beatboxy sample thing going on anyway.
Moby – Stars (AC Slater Mix)
Bit of a future lost classic this, most of the fidget sound is pretty hectic, but this is a wonderful piece of music. Crammed full of
positivity and good times. Moby’s given us some good times over the years hasn’t he? Go? Next Is The E? I have very fond memories of him playing Every Time You Touch Me live and it being pretty outrageously incredible.
Kilo – What I hear
Love this tune, slightly wonky mix into it though, but that’s life. Heavy bass on a big rig. Party vibes, kind of reminds me of Australia’s awesome Spruce Lee, although he’d never play it. Spruce once punched out Steve Aoki – he’s a legend. Not for the violence – it’s just pretty funny that when a famous guy from a far off land comes and tries to jump on the decks when you’re playing and you just give him a big old slap. Hilarious. SPRUCE LEE THUNDERCLAP! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
Circle Children – Zulu [Change Mix]
Hianta Fluokids / Fool House (the queen of Blog house who doesn’t blog anymore) loves this tune. She’s pretty awesome and she has a vision and she’s making it real, this is a very cool thing, One day she’s going to make a music obsessed boy very happy, but until then we can all dream, can’t we?
Ink and Needle – Tattoo One
Great track from a great label with good vibes. Crazy Nordics. I haven’t got any tattoos. Gus the Hoodrat has loads though. He keeps
getting new ones. There all really funny and personal too. I think my fave has to be his DEATH BY TECHNO one, I hope he doesn’t tattoo me in my sleep one day, that would be a bit of a pain. I’d have to explain it to my mum.
Fred Falke – Sanctuary
Hmmmm. Sounds that rhyme with ECSTACY maybe? Those French dudes really know how to make monster drug bangers don’t they? Most of them don’t seem to like partying that much though. Maybe they just sit in the studio taking E and making awesome tunes for the rest of us. If that’s the case, please don’t stop, keep doing loads of drugs and channeling all that bananas rave energy joy into dancefloor masterpieces like this that make people literally LOSE THEIR SHIT at the weekend. I heard a good story about a girl shitting herself in a club the other week, but it’s probably not much funnier than the fact that the story exists. You’ve got to be pretty fucking wasted to shit yourself in a club haven’t you? But then again maybe it’s not that embarrassing – if you shit yourself in a club, you must be taking gear to a professional level, which is worthy of at least some kind of respect. It’s not an isolated incident either – as this Youtube clip shows:
TVMR – Bowie In The Bronx (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
Shinichi Osawa is pretty awesome isn’t he? I still haven’t been to Japan. That Jeff Mills: Live at the Liquid Room CD is pretty awesome
though isn’t it? Like being at The Orbit, but with Japanese people, and in your living room or something.
Samantha Fu – Theme From Discotheque
This could possibly be the best tune ever. I’ve wanted it for about a decade. I first heard it in Bristol when Bentley Rhythm Ace Played it at The Blue Mountain at a party I was doing (Bentley’s used to be a bit of secret weapon in Bristol – if you needed to do a good party
quickly, you could book them and they’d rock it and everybody would have a great time). When I first heard this little number I thought it was mind bendingly awesome and packed full of joy – just like Bristol was then (and probably is now – Oh those crystals…).
Not many people know this one – it’s a bit of a hidden gem (NOT ANYMORE), I played this in a club once and someone came up to me and asked me what it was and I said it was a secret and the guy was like “OK, can you give me the CD then?”, I think that’s pretty weird.
Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400
There’s not a lot you can say about this is there? Apart from the fact it’s AN AWESOME BANGER. This would as they say, “go off at a funeral”.
Felix – Don’t You Want Me (Original, Red Jerry and Hooj mixes all
together at the same time and stuff)
What a tune this is. Here’s a few mixes of it put together I’m not sure how putting this together happened, but it did. I wish I’d it in
a club in an advanced state of refreshment because I think it would have blown my mind!
Transvision Vamp – I Want Your Love
A great stormer from my youth here (and a slightly dodgy mix into it!). I was lucky enough to meet Wendy James when she came to
Australia recently, she’s pretty cool for someone who’s been very famous. She’s got this mad internet stalker though who tries to
continually make her life a misery. Seriously, this guy must put in HOURS every day just harassing her and saying horrible things about her. He put some pictures of a mate of mine and his young son on the internet too and wrote some dodgy stuff about them. Strange world eh?
Cassetteboy – What? You’re Gonna Kill Me? Down The Phone?
Shit – that all got a bit dark didn’t it? We end on a happy note though with a bit of Cassetteboy. These guys are just so amazingly
great, everyone should buy all of their albums. Really, really talented and really funny. They deserve to be Number One for ever.
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CD2 – Lush
His Name is Alive – Blue Moon
His Name is Alive made some lovely records and they’re still making lovely records. This is just pure bliss. A 4AD classic. I was lucky
enough to meet Ivo Watts-Russell who started 4AD once. He was a great guy. That’s not a very interesting story is it? I’ll make it better – I told him Song To The Siren was one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded and then we both commiserated that someone had just made a bad trance cover of it.
Baby Fox – Girl
Baby Fox were in that whole Trip Hop thing, but don’t hold it against them, they made some interesting music. This is a cover of a Marc Bolan song. It’s interesting, cool and gorgeous – kind of like a perfect girl really…
Saint Etienne – Hobart Paving
Saint Etienne, what a band. Totally awesome, made some great albums and they obviously really love music. They’re also part of the whole Heavenly thing that’s given a lot of people a lot of joy. And they helped get the Manics out there which is pretty good work.
One Dove – Why Don’t You Take Me?
One Dove, Dot Allison, more beautiful music. The One Dove album is very special. Weatherall produced it after Screamadelica and it’s a wonderful collection of songs, haunting and full of emotion. I’d love to have made a record that good. There’s definitely a place in the world for slightly psychedelic country music.
Joy Zipper – 1
Joy Zipper were / are cool. They got a bit screwed by record labels though, which is a shame. I was lucky enough to hang out with them once when they did a show in Bristol and they were very nice. I hope they make another album that’s got lots of amazing songs on it.
Roy Harper – Another Day
Roy Harper, just a lovely song. Very tender with a beautiful atmosphere. Words don’t really work to describe things like this do
they? It just floats so gently and calmly and invites you on a little journey that’s full of yearning. Good stuff, it’s great being alive
isn’t it?
Shakespears Sister – Waiting
Shakespears Sister made some good records, this is one of them. Hidden away on the sound track to COOL BRIT FLICK Shopping, this is one of the most mind blastingly incredible things I’ve ever heard. I found this when I used to work in the record library at Leeds University, good times – this was before THE INTERNET and music being so freely available, yeah, there once was a time when you couldn’t just read about a song and find it – you actually had to hunt it out and discover it in a physical form. The library had been lovingly put together by some great music heads over many years and there was so much incredible stuff in there, some really wonderful records and lots of people enjoyed them. Which is nice.
This Mortal Coil – You And Your Sister
Another beautiful This Mortal Coil Song. This is a cover of Big Star, who are pretty awesome too. It’s amazing that this music exists isn’t it? It’s just so wonderful and full of real feelings and heartache and desire, wow.
The Pixies – Where Is My Mind
MY GOD NOT MORE 4AD! The Pixies. Bit annoyed I missed them when they toured because I was too hammered. Silly boy. The records are great though. This song is kind of culturally cemented to the end of Fight Club now isn’t it? With the building exploding and stuff. Hype and fame kind of devalues the artistic credibility of things doesn’t it? I reckon this song (and Fight Club) are OK though.
Dead Can Dance – American Dreaming
No really, more 4AD? There must be a reason for this? Maybe it’s because 4AD was so absolutely amazing we should all bow down every day and thank whatever power we believe in that such amazing music was unleashed into the world? Dead Can Dance can be quite obtuse, but this is quite intense.
Leonard Cohen – Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
My mate Duncan (who used to be in The Outlaws when it was a sound system crew “back in the day” as they say) got me into Leonard Cohen. He’s pretty great. I really wanted to see him at Glastonbury, but the whole thing turned into a bit of an apocalyptic psychedelic voyage ending with me getting so sunburnt I had to go home. Annoying. Great song though. Thanks Leonard.
Talking Heads – Nothing But Flowers
There’s something really amazing about this song. I’m not quite sure what it is. Maybe it’s just that it’s completely amazing? Those
lyrics: “Years ago I was an angry young man I’d pretend That I was a billboard Standing tall By the side of the road I fell in love With a beautiful highway”…are kind of awesome. Listening to the words, maybe Talking Heads predicted the whole Future Primative, MGMT / Midnight Juggernauts vibe thing years ago? “As things fell apart, nobody paid much attention…”
The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
From The Kinks’ concept album. There’s a lot of wishing for an England that doesn’t exist and maybe never has isn’t there? England’s a great country but it’s been so fucked now by our greedy, clueless, idiot government that is almost beyond depressing. Sorry, that’s a bit political isn’t it? I’ll try and keep to the music.
The Velvet underground – Venus In Furs
Amazing. I fell in love with this song when I heard it on a Dunlop advert directed by the great Tony Kaye. Great bit of film, great song.
I would imagine it’s about Heroin isn’t it? Heroin’s not very trendy anymore is it? All the Britpop people were bang into it weren’t they?
Everyone’s on the donkey dust now though aren’t they?
The Posies – Burn And Shine
The drums on the whole Posies “Frosting On The Beater” album are incredible. The Posies were pretty incredible too. Good songs, good vibes, all about being a teenager and doing awesome teenager stuff like falling in love and hanging out. Deeply cool.
Skylab – Mother’s Milk
Skylab kind of disappeared, but this is a wonderful tune. From theNineties, when people knew how to make albums and properly
experimented with things. I reckon we’re heading back to a time like that now. Everything’s so fucked now we’ve got to have a good time and get lost in some beautiful music, haven’t we?
Finley Quayle – Overcome
When I used to work for The Face (apparently I trot that little phrase out far too much, like some kind of Nathan Barley dickhead. Sorry about that – it was a good time with some good people though) I tried my best to champion the album this was on. It was a great record, and this is a great song. It reminds me of happy summers having a lovely time. I hope it can be part of some good memories for you too…
Posted at 8:09 AM
This is an interview I did with a nice chap in Adelaide.
There's a bit missing at the start and a bit missing at the end where I talked about some things I shouldn't have talked about.
Whoops.
I reckon I still managed to talk lot of crap though. Enjoy!
OUTLAWS INTERVIEW ADELAIDE
Posted at 6:12 PM
You can get a real one on CD (like the real ones on TV) from various places.
Gigs on the tour would be a good start as well.
Posted at 2:40 AM
Something quite uniquely Sydney about this picture. No offence to anyone in it obviously, it's just pretty funny. The guy in it is a DJ, he texted me to ask me to come and see him play the other night. I didn't go, which I felt guilty about, but then I had no recollection of giving him my number either, so maybe none of it happened anyway and it was all a dream.
Anyway, here's a mix I did for Damn Arms. I quite like it. Spruce Lee was kind enough to help with the synth bit, so thanks for that mate.
Damn Arms - The Boss (Outlaws Outlaws 'Eavy Mental Mix)
Posted at 7:31 PM
I'm not sure if I really like this one anymore, but here it is in the interests of completeness. Discobelle liked it, which can only be a good thing!
This is the email I sent wiv it like:
There's an Outlaws mix on the Australian release of Tricky's new single "Council Estate", but this is an extra special, exclusive, extra mental mix for you guys.
Just don't tell anyone I've done a better mix than the one that's on promo at the moment and then sent it out!
Give it a listen here: Tricky - Council Estate (Outlaws Monster VIP Mix)
Hope you enjoy it. I enjoyed making it.
The original is pretty much Switch produced Drum and Bass vibes, but this is mid-tempo, so you can actually play it in one of those nightclub things. It's also got a monster bassline and loads of druggy spaced out noises. What's not to like?
The big question is, does Tricky approve of rave? I'm not sure. He certainly approves of drugs though, so he's kind of halfway there.
Posted at 7:28 PM
WARNING - Lots of WORDS below.
Cassette Kids - Acrobat (Outlaws Party Mix)
Here's a remix I did for Australian band Cassette Kids and a little on the story behind it, which you may or may not find interesting, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
I did this mix a while back and never finished it. I submitted it and it went down well, but there was no money for it at the time and so it was left unfinished, but it got a good reaction at gigs and the other DJs and label people I played it to as friends were all positive, so I just though "take that one for the team, it was fun to do, let's just let it go, boo hoo", that kind of thing. Then I kind of forgot about it.
Then it was kind of brought back to my attention when I got a lovely email from the blogosphere asking about the mix, saying it was great and that it gave the band the balls they needed to swing some dancefloor action. Which was nice.
I thought this was all pretty positive of course, but I had to wonder how the mix had been released into the wild? After all, I'd never finished it and I hadn't been paid for it and no one had it except for a few DJ mates and music industry types who were good about not sharing stuff.
A little exchange of emails later and it turned out that Sony themselves had sent out the mix! Oh the excitement!
It seems like it must have been hanging out in a dusty hard drive of promo materials and they thought "oh that sounds OK, let's get it out there and hopefully get some more folk turned on to the band". And then I would imagine it was "seeded" to "bloggers" to use what I believe is the technical parlance.
Here I chucked the shits a bit because I hadn't been paid, there'd been no contact with me and I hadn't finished what I'd be doing on the mix. I thought it was slightly off that something I'd half done was being used as a promotional tool for THE BIG LABELS MAN. So then it all disappeared from Internet land before it even existed.
I had a nice talk with a lady at Sony trying to sort stuff out, and she was really positive, wanted what was best for the band which was cool and was trying to do something interesting with them. We even talked about little me doing some production with them, which I would have really enjoyed - I wanted to have a go on the first thing they recorded, but it had to be done quickly and I had to fly back to the UK so the awesome Jono Ma from The Lost Valentinos (who you'll be hearing a lot more about soon) did it instead.
But then nothing happened. They stopped replying to my emails and I got bored waiting. I liked the mix, other people liked it too, so here it is, I thought it would be good to get it out there, get rid of it and get it out of my head.
I don't know if I'm kind of making sure I'll never do any work for Sony again in future, and this isn't a case of sour grapes because I didn't get any production work with the band or money for the mix either, honestly, I'm so busy at the moment it's not even funny! I just thought it might be interesting and you might like the music (you might think it’s shit and I’m though, oh well…). I hope you get some enjoyment from it anyway and go and see Cassette Kids, they're a pretty cool band.
Posted at 7:26 PM
Bit of fun here. This is the email I sent out to blogsville with it. This was my first contact with the wonderful Bigstereo too, which was cool.
Here's a mix of the forthcoming Walter Meego single "Girls". The one that my pals Spruce Lee and Kato did is already in blog land so I thought it would be only fair to let this one out too!
It's got a monster bassline that kicks in at 3.03 (I kid you not!) and a very special surprise sample which means it can't be released in this form (you'll notice it, don't worry), so it's kind of a special version just for you! The name "Outlaws Done It For You" is ALL TRUE.
Fact.
As a special treat too it's got loads of super mental old school analogue psychedelic noises to trip you out if you're on drugs, as well as the heavy bass. It's hard to make weird synths without midi to wig out in time too, so that was fun.
I was going to call it the "My Girl Loves It Analogue" mix, but then I thought that would be a little rude.
It's here anyway: Walter Meego - Girls (Outlaws Done It For You Mix)
Posted at 7:24 PM
Gin - These Roses - Outlaws Straight Out Of Bristol Mix
This is the email what I sent out about this one:
Here's a remix I've had the pleasure of doing for Gin Wigmore (www.myspace.com/ginwigmore). I'd like to think they wanted an Outlaws mix to give it some kind of Bristolian mystery, creativity and underground cred, but they may well just have done it because I'm cheap.
She's probably going to be mega famous soon, that Perez Hilton guy likes her: http://tinyurl.com/46t2sw and she's been taken on by some US mega managers too, which is probably how he Perez bloke knows about them, but maybe that's just cynicism.
Please accept my apologies in advance, it's not a rave banger. I'm not even sure if it has a bassline. It certainly doesn't have a kick drum that wants to bash your mind in.
It's quite a nice song really.
I've never met this Gin Wigmore person, but she seems pretty nice.
I reckon she'd be quite fun to hang out with. Maybe we would watch a movie, go badger baiting and take a trip to the zoo together? I think my parents would probably like her anyway.
By the sounds of her voice it seems like she's quite fun, doesn't it? Kind of like that girl you fancied at school. A few years older than you, she'd got her shit together, she probably smoked, looked pretty tough, she had some kind of "attitiude", used to do cool things, you thought she was awesome (and really hot), and one day you hoped to be cool enough to get a girlfriend like her. Or if you're a girl, maybe you wanted to grow up to be free like her and have all the arty, alt boys yearn after you...
(Girls, please note, most arty boys are total idiots and never have any money)
Sadly though, not everyone can be amazingly, awesomely cool (and all the people who you thought were cool at school are probably accountants now, or dead), so we have to settle with our lives: plodding on day to day, the lonely hours on the internet looking for love, the hope that it'll suddenly all change and we'll be reborn magically as the beautiful, untouchable teen gods and goddesses at the end of a heart warming movie, our lives never blighted by drink, drugs, excess, madness, lust, depravity, shame, excess, insanity and that kind of good stuff.
So good on you Gin, thanks for keeping us on the right path, with songs about feelings and stuff. I'm going to go and have a good cry now. I hope you enjoy the song and don't think I've buggered it up with the remix. Until next time, be excellent to one another and party on dudes.
Posted at 4:47 PM
Here's a mix I did for Xfm's The Remix. The wonderful Eddy Temple-Morris ended up playing it twice on a kind of "best of..." show, which was quite nice.
OUTLAWS XFM SUPERCHUNK
What's especially cool about this mix is that it has an intro that the TOTALLY AWESOME Ann Shenton from Add (n) to X / Large Number recorded specially for me. That made me very happy (There wasn't any art for this mix, so I've used a picture on Ann, hope she doesn't mind).
Eddy Temple-Morris is a total star too and I've always been very glad of his support, but anyway, here are the tracks, some bits of this appeared on other mixes (I don't know if I should feel guilty about that?):
Ann Shenton from Large Number / Add (n) to X: 'Outlaws intro'
Undertakers feat. Kool Keith 'Party In the Morgue'
The Knife 'Heartbeats' (Rex the Dog Remix)
Bomb the Bass 'Megablast'
KLF 'Deep Shit Part 1'
LFO 'Freak'
Tomcraft 'Into The Light'
The Chemical Brothers 'Believe'
FC Kahuna 'Hayling' (ILS Remix)
Plump DJs 'the Gate'
My Robot Friend 'We're the Pet Shop Boys'
Aphex Twin 'Windowlicker'
Blim 'Dust'
Prince 'When Doves Cry'
Freq Nasty 'Amped'
Tsunami One 'No 43 with Steamed Rice'
Morcheeba 'Baby Sitar' [on 45rpm instead of 33]
Diplo 'Diplo Rythm'
Phil Kieron 'I Love You'
Busta Rhymes 'Dangerous'
Whitey 'Leave them All Behind'
MIA 'Bucky Done Gone'
Moguai 'U Know Y'
Unknown - Unknown
Marilyn Manson 'This Is The New Shit' (Goldfrapp Remix)
Fischerspooner 'Emerge'
Leftfield 'Phat Planet' (Dave Clarke Remix)
Dry And Roasted 'It's Like A Dream'
Queen 'Hero' from Flash Gordon OST
Posted at 5:53 PM
This is a mix with no mixing on it. It was a reflection of the kind of thing that I used to play early at the Arc in Bristol during those marathon six hour sets, back in the day as they say. GOOD TIMES.
OUTLAWS - WORK IS A DISGRACE
I've always liked the cover to this one for some reason. I think the pictures were taken in New York. Nice horse. This CD was spray painted yellow if I remember correctly. These are the tracks anyway:
1. MAGNAPOP: SLOWLY, SLOWLY
2. RATATAT: SEVENTEEN YEARS
3. DENNIS BROWN: THINGS IN LIFE
4. YEAH YEAH YEAHS: Y CONTROL
5. ELVIS PRESLEY: SUSPICIOUS MINDS
6. CAN: VITAMIN C
7. BELLE AND FUCKING SEBASTIAN: STAY LOOSE
8. THE CLASH: WHITE MAN IN HAMMERSMITH PALAIS
9. ARTHUR RUSSELL: KEEPING UP
10. NEU: HALLO GALLO
11. METHOD MAN: RELEASE YO’ DELF
12. THE UNICORNS: I WAS BORN A UNICORN
13. THE PRETENDERS: TALK OF THE TOWN
14. ARAB STRAP: THE FIRST BIG WEEKEND
15. TALKING HEADS: (NOTHING BUT) FLOWERS
16. THE PIXIES: WHERE IS MY MIND
17. JOY ZIPPER: 1
18. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD: TOTALLY NATURAL
Posted at 5:44 PM
This is a mix I did for the EXCELLENT Waves At Night Blog.You can read me talking some shit in an interview kind of thing there, here.
OUTLAWS - WAVES AT NIGHT MINI MAXI MIX
I played at load of these tracks at Glastonbury 2008 and had to change because they didn't go down too well - not minimal enough. Then again I was so spannered during the second set I played there that I hid under the decks and got Casper Clarke and Skull Juice to play records. So maybe I didn't play any songs off here and it was all in my head?
These are the tracks anyway:
1. Intro
2. Alan Hawkshaw - Hot Pants
3. Carlos Berrios - Get It On
4. Alex Gopher Gordini Mix (Brakes On Mix By Air)
5. Zeigeist - Tar Heart
6. AA - So Far (Dumb Dan Remix)
7. Pink Skull - Drugs Will Keep Us Together - Trevor Loveys Remix
8. Tambour Battant - Atomik Cirkus
9. Don Rimini - Nervous Breakdown
10. Ascii Disko – MDMA
11. Dream Frequency - Feel So Real
12. Alex Gopher - Belmondo
13. Curved Air - Armin
14. Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
Posted at 5:38 PM
This is a bit of an old one. A Mix of XFM's The Rinse show. Something different here - just nice songs and a few samples. Enjoy. Couldn't find the cover art (probably because there wasn't any - it was a mix for the radio), so here's a picture of someone trying to grab my friend Kate's boobs.
OUTLAWS - MIX FOR XFM's THE RINSE
The Neneh Cherry and Tricky song is really ace - they recorded a whole album together but the label wouldn't let them put it out. Some tracks appeared as b-sides though. Some great stuff there...
1.THE FLAMING GROOVIES: SHAKE SOME ACTION
2. GLORIA JONES: TAINTED LOVE
3. THE VIOLENT FEMMES: BLISTER IN THE SUN
4: NENEH CHERRY AND TRICKY: I WANNA KNOW
5. DAVID BOWIE: LOOK BACK IN ANGER
6. WHALE: DARLING NIKKI
7. SQUEEZE : TAKE ME I'M YOURS
8. HUSKER DU: NEVER TALKING TO YOU AGAIN
9. WOLF PARADE: DEAR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
10. SCRATCH MASSIVE: SEEING IS BELIEVING
11. ARE WEAPONS: HEY WORLD
12: LINDA LAMB: HOT ROOM
13: JENS LEKMAN: MAPLE LEAVES
14: GOLD CHAINS: ROCK THE PARTI
15: CHARLATANS AND THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS: TIME FOR LIVING
16: BRIAN ENO: HERE COME THE WARM JETS
Posted at 5:12 PM
Sneaky Sound System - When We Were Young - Outlaws Acid Disco Wig Out
I liked this one.
This is the email I sent out when it went off into blog land. I still haven't finished that bloody Michachu remix as I write this - and it's about four months later. Why aren't there 26 hours in the day?
So, when I finished this mix I listened to all the other remixes of “When We Were Young”, from cheery Breakbot to happy happy Juan Mclean.
All of them are very bouncy and make you smile. I felt really guilty that mine wasn’t like that, but hey, sometimes it’s good to be different.
This little number is like a drugged up stomp on the dancefloor at 3am, getting lost in the moment and maybe losing your mind a bit. Possibly thinking one of your friends has turned into a cactus then trying to eat them and get high or something like that. It was really fun making it and my good pal Gus Da Hoodrat said the drums were super fat and that I should keep them for another song on my own, but what would be the fun in that eh? Hope you enjoy it anyway. I’m currently finishing a mix of Michachu and the Shapes which is slightly daunting because godlike genius type Herbert did the original. I’ll be sure to send it out when I’m done.
In the meantime be excellent to one another and party on dudes!
Posted at 3:37 AM
This one's funny. Clowns puking up rainbows. Ha ha ha.
Lots of good songs. Fun fun fun. I'm going to listen to this now actually. Well, not "now" when you're reading this, "now" in my world. I think I'll probably enjoy it too.
I hope you like it, if you don't, just stop listening to it, I won't care and I'll probably never find out and if I did it wouldn't matter anyway.
OUTLAWS - WE WON'T STOP PARTYING FOR ANYONE
Posted at 3:19 AM
Oh look, different girls on this one. Weird that. Must have been bored. Reminds me of when I was looking for pictures to use once and it just struck me - "I'm looking at loads of pictures of girls tits and this is really kind of just work job stuff. This is what I do. Look at dodgy internet porn for pictures to nick and use in strange rave collages", weird world.
As a slight aside, this documentary on the pornification of youngsters is quite fun. Images and stories do inform our lives and it's pretty bonkers that little kids are looking at big cocks in bums and thinking it's normal and / or fun. Chill out guys: girls aren't just there to be blonde and spunked on. They can cook too. Ha ha.
Anyway all the information is on the picture and there's a picture of a Smurf too. I took a massive detour to go to Smurfland in Europe once. I remember we made lots of jokes about Smurfs being communists, but I can't remember them, so they can't have been that funny. I did buy some nice Smurf stickers though.
The name of this mix comes from a story one of my mates told me about driving on acid. He was really hammered and trying to keep it together and he kind of thought the road was a giant snake. The best thing to do in the circumstances seems to be to follow the rainbow and stay on the snake to make sure he stayed alive. He did so it's all good.
Here's the music file thing:
OUTLAWS- FOLLOW THE RAINBOW, STAY ON THE SNAKE
Posted at 3:12 AM
That's fun name isn't it? "Destroy Dead Time"?
I like this mix, it was about the first time I toured Australia, I'd just heard the demo of Dimention by Wolfmother and I blagged a copy to sick on the mix at the end! They got really massive after that which was funny. I don't think I had anything to do with that though. The whole thing kind of reminds me of when I first met Jaime Doom, Gus and Ewan Pearson who are all awesome dudes. Maybe it's a collection of songs from happy times. That's a good thing right?
This isn't the proper art - I don't know where that is. It's a funny picture though. Horses and smiley faces, what a combination.
Here are the noises:
OUTLAWS - DESTROY DEAD TIME
These are the tracks:
(The Clash song at the start is just so awesome, but then that's just my opinion)
Intro
The Clash – Lose This Skin
Bomb The Bass - Megablast
DJ Mink – Hey Can You Relate?
808 State - In Your Face
Trevor Loveys – Say What
Public Enemy – Shut ‘Em Down
M.A.N.D.Y Vs Booka Shade – Body Language
Radio Slave – Bang Bang Balck
Devil Disco Club – Timing Forget The Timing (Kerrier District Mix)
Thomas Bangaltier – Spinal Scratch
Coburn – We Interrupt This Program
Who’s Who – Lipstick
Moloko – Cannot Contain This (JDS Mix)
Juliet – Avalon (Jacques Le Cont Mix)
1.Up – Dance To My Records Bitch
Whomadewho – The Loop
Boyz Noise – The Bomb
Thomas Andersson – Washing Up (Tiga Mix)
M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gone
Les Visiteurs – Snoops Acid Drop
Ferenc – Yes Sir I Can Hardcore (M. Mayer Mix)
Savas Pascalidis – U Can Do It If U Dance
4 Be 2 – One Of The Lads (Dub)
Diplo – Newsflash
Mateo Murphy – Jack To Jack
Freeform Five – EEEEAAOOWW (Stanton Warriors Mix)
Sharon Phillips – Want 2 Need 2 (Trentemoller Mix)
The Prodigy – Girls (Rex The Dog Mix)
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
BT Embracing The Sunshine (Sasha Mix)
Underworld – Spikee
Goldfrapp – Oh La La (Tiefschwarz Mix)
Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass (Blackstrobe Mix)
MFA – The Motherload
Soldout – I Don’t Want To Have Sex With You (Mugwump Mix)
Hystereo – Validity Revision
Jesper Dahlback – Polyhouse Reworked
Etienne De Crecy – Someone Like You
Wolf Mother - Dimension
Posted at 3:02 AM
This is a mix CD. It's fun I think, it's definitely not French, although there are some French songs on it. It got some nice blog reviews and praise in Australian magazines, which was nice. I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's 'aving it or not. I think it's getting there at least. When it was on zshare over 25,000 people downloaded it, I reckon that's pretty bonkers. Only about ten people emailed me and said they liked it though, but ten's better then none.
IT'S NOT FRENCH, BUT IT'S FUCKING 'AVING IT!
The man like Mudwig helped with the cover (if you can call it help), but there's a whole other funny story there and that's for another day. Just like the reason why it's Outlaws Feat. Bez Lennon.
The track list for the CD:
Intro
South Rakkas Crew - Carry Feelings
Samim - Heater - Outlaws Edit
Herbert - Moving Like A Train - Smith and Hack Mix
Whirlpool Productions - Disco to Disco - Les Rythmes Digitales Remix
Franz Ferdinand - Do Tou Want To? - Erol’s Glam Racket Mix
Lemon Interupt - Big Mouth
Alphabeat - Fantastic 6 - Radioclit Mix
Fatboy Slim - Song For Lindy
Digital Boy - OK Alright
Dj Funk - Booty Bounce
Zen Kei - The Punisher
Utah Saints - What Can You Do For Me?
Armando - 100% Dissing Of You
Etienne De Crecy - Punk
Cut La Rock - Freeze
Fredrico Franci - Cream
Switch and Switch - Din Da Da
Back At The Club - Boy 8-bit Mix
Princess Superstar - Licky - Herve Mix
Altern-8 - Activ8
Deus - Nightshopping
Bow Wow Wow - Love Peace Harmony
Four Tops - It’s The Same Old Song
The Supremes - Baby Love
The Supremes - you Can’t hurry Love
The Exciters - Tell Him
Fat Controller - In Complete Darkness
Bass Mekanik - Can’t Wait Tonight
Sub Love - Underground
The Cure - Push - Outlaws Edit
Scam - Put Your Hands Up
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
Sonz of da loop da loop era - Far Out
Radioclit - Divine Gosa - Switch remix
Strip Steve - Tommy Boy
Revlover - Can’t Stand
Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene - Thin White Duke Mix
Bondo De Role - Gasolina - Fake Blood Mix
Effective Force - Complete Mental Breakdown
Toddla T - Inna di Dancehall - Count and Sinden mix
Teki Latex - Disco Dance with you - Para One mix
Fast Eddie + Dj Sneak - Booty Call
Chemical Brothers - Acid Children
Alex Gopher - Aurora
Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
Charlean Dance - Mr. DJ - Speaker Junk Mix
Don Rimmini - Let Me Back Up - Crookers Mix
Shinichi Osawa - Star guitar
Motor - 20 Volts of Steel - Franz and Shape mix
Bassbin Twins - Woppa - Outlaws Mix
Pergon - The Deliverer
Harry Belafonte - The Banana Boat Song
End bit.
Posted at 2:03 AM
This an old mix what I done for a magazine called Blowback that existed in England a few years ago. It was a good magazine too. And back when there was "The" before "Outlaws", it's kind of nicer now as Outlaws I think. I'm not sure if it can get shorter - Texas Outlaws to The Outlaws to Outlaws - where next? TLWS would be the magikal thing without vowels, but it doesn't really make sense does it? OTLWS would just be silly too. Anyway, here's some music:
OUTLAWS - ANTI ART WAS THE START
This is the original cover art. It's quite high quality, so if you're into that kind of thing you could print it out, all the CDs were hand spray painted too - this one was RED. I don't think anyone really uses CDs any more though, do they?
OUTLAWS - ANTI ART MIX - COVER ART
The name comes from a song by X-Ray Specs, who are / were a rather fun punk band.
Blowback wanted to do an interview and I wanted to make it interesting so I made it with the help of Wet Shame (they're designers and artists), I think I came out OK. If anything it's different form the standard interviews you see all the time...
"I really like playing in nightclubs"
"Do you?"
"Yeah"
"That's really interesting.."
It was all a good five years ago though, but the songs are still good, a funny bit of history maybe? The message and the ideas haven't changed, although the mixing is slightly better and I probably drink slightly less. Much less.
Here are the images of the pages, you'll probably have to download them to read them.
First Spread
Second Spread
Last Page
The other guy in the pictures is Steve Redux, who I used to do stuff with, he's a great DJ and a top guy, still very active in Bristol land. He and I were kind of Outlaws Mk. 2, if Outlaws Mk. 3 is just me.
This is the tracklist (only 24 tracks - what a cop out!):
SABRES OF PARADISE: WILMOT
DEPTH CHARGE: LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN SNAKE
PRIMAL SCREAM: JAILBIRD (TOXIC TRIO STAY FREE MIX)
FOUR TET: AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE
SEELENLUFT: MANILA (HEADMAN MIX)
MYLO: MUSCLE CAR (FREEFOM FIVE MIX)
MAX SEDGELY: HAPPY
KID ALEX: YOUNG LOVE (VIOLENT MIX)
THE STONE ROSES: I AM THE RESSURECTION
OUT HUD: DAD, THERE'S A LITTLE PHRASE CALLED TOO MUCH INFORMATION
LAURENT GARNIER: THE MAN WITH THE RED FACE
THE CLASH: MUSTAPHA DANCE
PULP: PARTY HARD (TOM MIDDLETON MIX)
FUNK D'VOID: DIABOLA
ELECTRONIC: GETTING AWAY WITH IT
ROB DOUGAN: CLUBBED TO DEATH (TOM MIDDLETON MIX)
RADIOHEAD: EVERYTHING IN IT'S RIGHT PLACE (HYBRID MIX)
HYBRID: I'M STILL AWAKE (GREY AREA MIX)
MAX ROMEO: ONE STEP FORWARD
DAFT PUNK: PHOENIX
THE DISFUNCTIONAL PSYCHEDELIC WALTONS: PAYBACK (THIN WHITE DUKE MIX)
WAY OUT WEST: AJARE
PHOENIX: TOO YOUNG (ZOOT WOMAN MIX)
RELAXED MUSCLE: AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Posted at 4:58 PM
So this is a blog and it's mine and I have to do some posts so here is the first one.
Posted at 4:51 PM
Believe it or not, people pay money for me to come and play records in nightclubs. And at festivals. And to remix musical songs that other folk have written.
If this is something that might interest you, there are people you can talk to: outlawsmix@gmail.com
If this is something that might interest you, there are people you can talk to: outlawsmix@gmail.com
Labels: About
Posted at 8:18 PM
I thought it might be refreshing for me to write my own bio and not do it in the third person. So here’s some words about me and THE MUSIC MAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN... It's long, so you might want to download one of the mixes here and listen to that while you're at it!
When I was 15 I went to the Prema Arts Centre in Uley to watch a film called “Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid”. I loved The KLF and a thing like that coming to a little village in Gloucestershire near where I lived was a pretty big deal. I didn’t watch much of the film though. Instead, I sat in the bar talking to Jimmy Cauty from the band. He was kind enough to sit with me for a while, sharing things that’d he’d done with me. This was a pretty amazing thing for little me from countryside land and it had a big effect.
Much as I loved the KLF, I was young and I didn’t really understand what the whole dance music thing was about. I was from a tiny village and there weren’t exactly any clubs there! Then I started going out with this amazing girl from Bristol who took me down to Lakota. Here I was introduced to amazing music like The Liberators, Billy Nasty, and The Advent. I learnt about the power of parties and how amazingly fun it was to go out and have a wicked time with your friends listening to incredible music.
I wanted to get involved in this awesome adventure, so I saved up some cash from my job in a comic shop (geek!), and bought some decks and my first drum machine. Around this time I also discovered sound systems, warehouse parties and raves in fields (and Bill Hicks, but that’s a whole other story).
After I finished school I went to University in Leeds. It was a great time to be up North, Leeds had clubs like Basics and The Orbit. The Orbit. What an amazing place: Jeff Mills, Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, Dave Clarke, Aphex Twin all on permanent rotation, everyone nutted at 10pm when it opened, then catching the bus back to the city when it shut with a whole crew of loonies! Scruff was doing his night in Manchester too which was ace (and I even ended up doing a great party with him) although getting lost in Moss Side afterwards feeling slightly shaky was slightly less fun.
University was great, I enjoyed the use of a very well stocked library and boring people senseless talking about Situationist concepts was all well and good but it was about time I started putting on parties of my own with a group of friends. We called ourselves The Texas Outlaws after Bill Hick’s gang of comics in Austin, Texas because I liked Bill Hicks and it seemed to fit with our attitude of doing things in a different way. Not just for money but to try and do something crazy, interesting and lots and lots of fun.
I also gradually built a massive sound system with my dad in the holidays. This gave me a lot of pleasure, doing parties, meeting and working with other sound system crews and even taking it into clubs to rattle the walls. Unfortunately all good things come to an end and a good portion of the rig was stolen after a gig, along with my decks, CDJs, loads of records and all the amps. This was pretty heartbreaking so I moved back to Bristol to get back on track.
In Bristol I ended up managing The “World Famous” Blue Mountain Club, which was a good laugh. There I drank lots of Red Stripe, got to know the Blowpop crew and learned to love the city. Unfortunately my boss was bananas and tried to fit me up for a robbery, which made it seem like a natural time to leave.
Putting on parties was still fun, so I started an Outlaws residency at the legendary Arc venue in Bristol playing for 4+ hours and having a great time. This also saw the birth of Giant Robot (and Giant Lobster). Here the idea was to bring a massive sound system into a little club (see a pattern here yet?) and bang it out. This introduced a lot of Bristol kids to the power of rave (and probably lots of ecstasy). A personal highlight here was getting Jimmy Cauty from The KLF out of retirement to play at my birthday party. This was quite spectacularly awesome.
Again good things must come to an end, but this time not so tragically. I had to leave Bristol to become music editor of The Face magazine in London. This was pretty much dream job material. I had a great time and also started The Face Weekly with Neil from Popbitch. I met some smart people like Lisa Anthony and Tom Whitwell too (you’re not supposed to know who they are, but if they Google themselves they might find this and know I still love them!).
Then things had a slight hiccup when The Face shut down, so it was off back to Bristol. I made an album called “Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules” which had some good reviews in places like The Guardian and The Times, which was nice. It also got me onto Kiss Fm doing a show on Friday nights, but my producer there wanted increasingly commercial music, which wasn’t cool, so that little number only lasted a couple of months. She’d shagged Brandon Block anyway so it wasn’t all bad vibes (no offence to either party intended, it’s just pretty funny).
Best of all putting out the record opened the door to do the Dance Tent at Glastonbury - more dream come true stuff. I’d being going to the festival since I was 15 and now I was playing at it (it was actually the second time playing down there, but the first time in the big, amazing dance tent). The place was packed with loonies on drugs having it like mad. One kind soul described the whole thing in print as “more like a punk gig than a DJ set”, which felt quite right. There’s also a nice photo of me doing a balloon of Nitrous Oxide behind the decks, good times! There was a lot of balloon action in Bristol around this time, in fact there was a lot of all kinds of action mainly based on having the best time possible.
Glastonbury has been such an important thing, the festival is incredible and run by an amazing bunch of people, it’s given me some wonderful memories – meeting John Peel, watching bands from the stage (thanks Emily!), the obvious but still completely awesome sunrises at the stone circle, going to a party at Joe Strummer’s campfire backstage and him taking the time to talk to me (a 17 year old guy looking a bit sheepish) and remembering me getting his signature at the signing tent earlier! It kind of inspired me and a few friends to put on our own festival too: “Jimmy Catholic’s 42 To Beat Summer Tyre Fire Birthday Massacre” with the awesome Ann Shenton from Add N to (x) and Chris Liberator, a bunch of cool bands and an incredible, inflatable world war two army tent.
Then came touring. This took me to Australia, mainly thanks to Mark Broadbent from We Love in Ibiza (cheers Mark!). He was kind enough to recommend me to the We Love crew in Australia who really looked after me. In Australia I met the Bang Gang and it was pretty much love at first sight: They liked good music, fucking about and good parties, they were also smart and liked good food. They were so fun I hung about in Australia for a while, played at their awesome club a few times then went back to England, mooked about for a bit, toured Oz again, thought “What am I doing? This is ace” and moved over.
So that’s where we are now. I’m lucky enough to be living in Australia (it’s the new Ibiza you know), sharing a studio with the awesome Jaime Doom, Gus The Hoodrat and Spruce Lee and doing a monthly residency at Sydney’s most consistent, mental party Starfuckers (Big Stereo reckoned it was the best thing last year behind the Daft Punk gig and I played at that too!). Since being unceremoniously kicked off Modular (as far as I’m aware it was for being too professional and generally rad?) things have never been better. I just hope I can play some more parties and maybe play some great music for some lovely people and keep enjoying this life here with everybody.
I just realised I missed a bit too – I’ve remixed some bands as well, from the brilliant Pink Grease to Tricky (A Bristol favourite). The mixes haven’t always been totally awesome, but I try, I do try, honestly.
When I was 15 I went to the Prema Arts Centre in Uley to watch a film called “Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid”. I loved The KLF and a thing like that coming to a little village in Gloucestershire near where I lived was a pretty big deal. I didn’t watch much of the film though. Instead, I sat in the bar talking to Jimmy Cauty from the band. He was kind enough to sit with me for a while, sharing things that’d he’d done with me. This was a pretty amazing thing for little me from countryside land and it had a big effect.
Much as I loved the KLF, I was young and I didn’t really understand what the whole dance music thing was about. I was from a tiny village and there weren’t exactly any clubs there! Then I started going out with this amazing girl from Bristol who took me down to Lakota. Here I was introduced to amazing music like The Liberators, Billy Nasty, and The Advent. I learnt about the power of parties and how amazingly fun it was to go out and have a wicked time with your friends listening to incredible music.
I wanted to get involved in this awesome adventure, so I saved up some cash from my job in a comic shop (geek!), and bought some decks and my first drum machine. Around this time I also discovered sound systems, warehouse parties and raves in fields (and Bill Hicks, but that’s a whole other story).
After I finished school I went to University in Leeds. It was a great time to be up North, Leeds had clubs like Basics and The Orbit. The Orbit. What an amazing place: Jeff Mills, Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, Dave Clarke, Aphex Twin all on permanent rotation, everyone nutted at 10pm when it opened, then catching the bus back to the city when it shut with a whole crew of loonies! Scruff was doing his night in Manchester too which was ace (and I even ended up doing a great party with him) although getting lost in Moss Side afterwards feeling slightly shaky was slightly less fun.
University was great, I enjoyed the use of a very well stocked library and boring people senseless talking about Situationist concepts was all well and good but it was about time I started putting on parties of my own with a group of friends. We called ourselves The Texas Outlaws after Bill Hick’s gang of comics in Austin, Texas because I liked Bill Hicks and it seemed to fit with our attitude of doing things in a different way. Not just for money but to try and do something crazy, interesting and lots and lots of fun.
I also gradually built a massive sound system with my dad in the holidays. This gave me a lot of pleasure, doing parties, meeting and working with other sound system crews and even taking it into clubs to rattle the walls. Unfortunately all good things come to an end and a good portion of the rig was stolen after a gig, along with my decks, CDJs, loads of records and all the amps. This was pretty heartbreaking so I moved back to Bristol to get back on track.
In Bristol I ended up managing The “World Famous” Blue Mountain Club, which was a good laugh. There I drank lots of Red Stripe, got to know the Blowpop crew and learned to love the city. Unfortunately my boss was bananas and tried to fit me up for a robbery, which made it seem like a natural time to leave.
Putting on parties was still fun, so I started an Outlaws residency at the legendary Arc venue in Bristol playing for 4+ hours and having a great time. This also saw the birth of Giant Robot (and Giant Lobster). Here the idea was to bring a massive sound system into a little club (see a pattern here yet?) and bang it out. This introduced a lot of Bristol kids to the power of rave (and probably lots of ecstasy). A personal highlight here was getting Jimmy Cauty from The KLF out of retirement to play at my birthday party. This was quite spectacularly awesome.
Again good things must come to an end, but this time not so tragically. I had to leave Bristol to become music editor of The Face magazine in London. This was pretty much dream job material. I had a great time and also started The Face Weekly with Neil from Popbitch. I met some smart people like Lisa Anthony and Tom Whitwell too (you’re not supposed to know who they are, but if they Google themselves they might find this and know I still love them!).
Then things had a slight hiccup when The Face shut down, so it was off back to Bristol. I made an album called “Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules” which had some good reviews in places like The Guardian and The Times, which was nice. It also got me onto Kiss Fm doing a show on Friday nights, but my producer there wanted increasingly commercial music, which wasn’t cool, so that little number only lasted a couple of months. She’d shagged Brandon Block anyway so it wasn’t all bad vibes (no offence to either party intended, it’s just pretty funny).
Best of all putting out the record opened the door to do the Dance Tent at Glastonbury - more dream come true stuff. I’d being going to the festival since I was 15 and now I was playing at it (it was actually the second time playing down there, but the first time in the big, amazing dance tent). The place was packed with loonies on drugs having it like mad. One kind soul described the whole thing in print as “more like a punk gig than a DJ set”, which felt quite right. There’s also a nice photo of me doing a balloon of Nitrous Oxide behind the decks, good times! There was a lot of balloon action in Bristol around this time, in fact there was a lot of all kinds of action mainly based on having the best time possible.
Glastonbury has been such an important thing, the festival is incredible and run by an amazing bunch of people, it’s given me some wonderful memories – meeting John Peel, watching bands from the stage (thanks Emily!), the obvious but still completely awesome sunrises at the stone circle, going to a party at Joe Strummer’s campfire backstage and him taking the time to talk to me (a 17 year old guy looking a bit sheepish) and remembering me getting his signature at the signing tent earlier! It kind of inspired me and a few friends to put on our own festival too: “Jimmy Catholic’s 42 To Beat Summer Tyre Fire Birthday Massacre” with the awesome Ann Shenton from Add N to (x) and Chris Liberator, a bunch of cool bands and an incredible, inflatable world war two army tent.
Then came touring. This took me to Australia, mainly thanks to Mark Broadbent from We Love in Ibiza (cheers Mark!). He was kind enough to recommend me to the We Love crew in Australia who really looked after me. In Australia I met the Bang Gang and it was pretty much love at first sight: They liked good music, fucking about and good parties, they were also smart and liked good food. They were so fun I hung about in Australia for a while, played at their awesome club a few times then went back to England, mooked about for a bit, toured Oz again, thought “What am I doing? This is ace” and moved over.
So that’s where we are now. I’m lucky enough to be living in Australia (it’s the new Ibiza you know), sharing a studio with the awesome Jaime Doom, Gus The Hoodrat and Spruce Lee and doing a monthly residency at Sydney’s most consistent, mental party Starfuckers (Big Stereo reckoned it was the best thing last year behind the Daft Punk gig and I played at that too!). Since being unceremoniously kicked off Modular (as far as I’m aware it was for being too professional and generally rad?) things have never been better. I just hope I can play some more parties and maybe play some great music for some lovely people and keep enjoying this life here with everybody.
I just realised I missed a bit too – I’ve remixed some bands as well, from the brilliant Pink Grease to Tricky (A Bristol favourite). The mixes haven’t always been totally awesome, but I try, I do try, honestly.
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