For the fourth episode in the Lifetracks series, we tracked down a true survivor of the original rave era and arguably one of the most under-rated producers around, Mulder. Mulder's output during the mid-90s for labels like Aphrodite's Urban Takeover defined the elements of jump-up when that wasn't such a dirty word, producing jungle anthems like Gettin' Blunted, Don't Give A Damn and Stick Up Kid . After an extended break away from music production, Mulder found favour in the fledgling hardcore breaks scene, recording for Malice & Enzyme's 2Fresh imprint with definitive tracks such as Soundclash and Devil Inside. With an encyclopedic knowledge of rave culture and all it's facets, Mulder's selection was always going to be top quality - and we weren't disappointed. Get ready for some stone-cold classics!


B: Hi Mulder, how are you today?

M: I'm fine.

B: Where are you right now?

M: Sat in my room, which is quite warm at the moment, in front of my laptop.

B: A common position for Mulder perhaps...cooking up beats?

M: I was playing around in Ableton earlier, trying to prepare some samples, yep.

B: For an imminent release or just for fun?

M: For a potential release, yeah, just trying to sort out the timings on a sample with really loose rhythm so it doesn't clash and flam with the breaks when I'm writing the tune.

B: So we're talking Hardcore Breaks or something else? Sounds intriguing...

M: Yeah, trying to write a jungly HCB tune with ska samples.

B: Sounds awesome! Are you always consciously trying to adjust the template of Hardcore Breaks with other elements?

M: Well, I think it's best to keep doing different stuff with it, otherwise I get bored.

B: Some people might consider HCB a bit of a creative cul-de-sac, but there seems to be loads of energy and invention in the genre these days...what's your thoughts on that?

M: Well, the idea was thought up by people who loved that original Hardcore / Jungle Tekno sound and wanted new tunes in that style to listen to, but you don't have to limit yourself to just that, you can become influenced by other new music around you and throw some of that in the mix too. I've been one of the people to break off a bit from the B2VOS forum where it started too, and do stuff under the 'nu-rave' banner, which whether it's a good idea or not is our way of sticking a finger up at the NME's attempts to pre-empt the oldskool revival by making Indie the 'new rave'.

B: NME weren't kidding anybody over 18 with that one! HCB has been fairly divisive amongst old skool heads though wouldn't you agree? Those that think of that era as a set time and should be left as it is, and those who want to take that sound further?

M: Yeah, there have been those who've lapped it up and those who just didn't care for it. The divisions within HCB itself were about certain personal differences more than anything else, and a lot of that has blown over now. It took a while for those of us who wanted to use the 'nu-rave' tag for ourselves and join up with the Rave Breaks and J-Tek guys, to get accepted by those who wanted to just stick to promoting HCB on it's own. Hang on, that didn't make any sense ...ah no, it does make sense, just a long-winded way of putting it!

B: No it makes perfect sense ha ha! So you feel the future for HCB is looking good?

M: It could be great, it could just fade into the background. I think there is a little oldskool revival happening within the fidget stuff and certain dubstep records have even tried to go a bit old skool - Skream's La Roux remix for one, even though he's just stuck a full speed amen at the end. Then there are people like Clipz who is doing some great varied stuff under the name Redlight, a lot of which has subtle or even quite obvious old skool influences in it. All this is good, but we need to bring it all together.

B: So where do you feel you fit in all of this? You've been around the block twice so to speak....

M: I'm not really sure! I have had a few problems which got me out of the D&B thing and I wasn't feeling much new music at all for a while until HCB grabbed me and I started doing it for fun. I guess I just want to provide some of the tunes and play a few gigs and see where it gets me.

B: Would you consider returning to D&B or do you feel your time in that genre is done now?

M: I think that I'm pretty much done with it, but if I feel like writing a tune in that style again then I'll just do it and see what happens, but I doubt I'll ever make a proper full-scale return. The genre seems so stuck in it's ways now.



B: Let's take a look at the mix you've very kindly put together, starting with the first brace of tracks which are all bonafide classics - Bang Zoom, Rock It, Close To The Edit - all pivotal in the development of dance music as we know it now. Where do these tracks take you back to, how did you come to experience them?

M: Rock It was one of the earliest things that introduced me to what we now know as turntablism. I have a funny feeling I'd seen somebody scratching and so on before Rock It came along but it's a really hazy memory. I was only 6 or 7 when it came out. I already had a fascination with record players and music as it was, so it kind of reinforced it. It wasn't my first encounter with Hip Hop though, that was a COI Public Information Film known as Don't Step Out or Close To The Edge, which I think was around at the same time as Rock It. It used Grandmaster Flash The Message beats and changed the words to teach the Green Cross Code.

Art Of Noise were the first people I heard using samplers and making records that were just a large collage of sounds. It's easy to see the link between Close To The Edit and early Hardcore records in that way. I think I've included Nu-Shooz I Can't Wait because that's the other big tune I remember with a lot of samples in it, especially the main riff of the Dutch version which I think is played using a sampled moan from a p*rn film or something!

Bang Zoom is similar again, uses a lot of Bugs Bunny samples, but it's the first Hip Hop record I actually bought and it's really a masterpiece. By now it was 1986, so I was 10 and really wanting to discover more Hip Hop which I did via the Beastie Boys a bit later. All this was so new and fascinating for a kid.



B: How were you experiencing music then? Through radio, TV?

M: Largely, yeah. I was really into Shakin' Stevens when I was about 5 or something and that was down to seeing him on Top Of The Pops. There was also my parents record collection which had a few interesting things in it. My gran also used to play me classical music and other stuff, mostly Strauss waltzes. On the telly side though, it wasn't just TOTP and music programmes but also any music used in the background or on the testcard or pages from ceefax, it all just soaked in to me.

B: So was early hip hop your first love musically speaking?

M: I think just music in general was my first love, hip hop became the main focus though by the time I was 12, and a bit of house too.



B: Speaking of which we have Jack Your Body here representing that...so you were just trying to consume as many styles as possible when you were growing up? We're heading into the mid to late 80s here...

M: Yeah, well, Jack Your Body is 1986 and I first heard it on TV-AM! They were talking about the tune and wondering what 'House Music' was, because on the cover of the record it's got The House Sound of Chicago written on it. Both the track and the video in combination I thought were really cool. 1986 was quite a year as I remember it, with Jack Your Body, Bang Zoom, and another Art Of Noise with Max Headroom called Paranoimia. That year I discovered Kid Jenson's chart show which aired on the commercial radio stations, and I thought was much better than Radio 1's show. They would often play 12" versions of records and make their own re-edits of these remixes. That's why I've got Janet Jackson in the mix, it's a tune I remember they chopped up and I always wanted to hear it again but I never will, so I did it myself! Hearing those re-edits got me doing it myself with two little tape decks and the lead from my ZX Spectrum to link them up Earphone to Mic socket.

B: So you were making re-edits from an early age, that's awesome! When did you get involved in DJing for the first time?

M: Well, I first remember trying to scratch on my Dansette using my 7" copy of Bang Zoom as it goes! Later I saw somebody doing something similar in the video to Roxanne Shante's Go On Girl. It was pirate radio that kicked it off properly though. I heard hip hop on Raw Radio in 1988 and it was all mixed. It was really the first time I'd heard beat matching and I wondered how they were doing it, so eventually I discovered how to mix a record on a record player alongside a tape on a tape player and realised there must be a speed control to keep the record at the right speed all the way through the mix. It just went from there and eventually I got some belt drives once I was earning a bit of money in my late teens.

B: So were you beginning to produce around then too?

M: Nah, I didn't really think I'd ever make any music until I started playing with Octamed in 1994. I just didn't think it was possible without loads of gear, until I realised the Amiga had really good sampling abilities.

B: I think you're not alone in cutting your production teeth on the Amiga. What were some of your first attempts back then styled as? Jungle?

M: Yeah, it was a mix of jungle and hardcore I suppose - some of it was as fast as 190bpm! I was just mucking about until I started writing to Aphrodite. I was pretty bad at making rhythms up and structuring tracks at the time.



M: So you pretty much went from bedroom producer to record label fairly easily?

B: Yeah, I was sneaky though. The reason I've included Some Justice is because I loved the bass in that tune when it came out and later on I found out that it was written on the Amiga, and I worked out that Gavin (Aphrodite) now had his own label and his tunes were still all done on the Amiga, and they were much better than mine. Booyaa for example, great bassline for it's time, great drum programming and a really danceable feel which a lot of jungle lacked at that point, because the beats were too chopped up and not rhythmic enough. So, I wrote to him and he told me my tunes were sh*t, but keep going. Eventually I managed to do something that he thought he could work with, and he offered me a release on Urban Takeover which he was about to start with Finn.

B: Seems a world away from the industry as it is today, even if it wasn't that long ago! Let's talk then about the rave/jungle portion of your mix. With your tunes getting around and DJ sets out and about you were starting to really make a name for yourself. You've picked some essential rave classics here, Mr.Kirk's Nightmare, Charly, Bang The Drums...what are your memories of that time, was that a great period for you in the first honeymoon period of rave culture?

M: It was a bit of a weird time for me. Hearing Mr Kirk, Spliffhead, and other tracks of that kind in 1990 moved my attention away from hip hop a bit and I was still only 14 I guess so I wasn't going out raving or buying many records but it was fresh and hip hop was going a bit stale I thought. I liked the bass and the crazy little stab melodies in the tunes. I was also sort of going off on a bit of a religious tangent in my personal life, which kind of conflicted with the idea of going to a rave a lot and came to an end just before I got the call from Aprhodite to do my first single. So, I stuck to just sitting in my room listening and buying records when I could. I've never really been much of a dancer anyway, and drugs are just bad imho. Except beer! It was all about the music for me!

I think that's why for a long time I was more interested in the Bukem etc side of things, because those tunes lend themselves to listening at home a lot more than the jump-up tracks. When the more 2-step period came in and people started calling it D&B rather than jungle, it collided with the basslines in the jump-up stuff becoming more than just sub and the melody of the basslines stood out more, so then I got bang into labels like Dope Dragon instead, but still kept buying the Good Looking 12s too. The early Bukem stuff is really ravey though!

B: Yeah for sure his early stuff is basically proto-hardcore! It's interesting you saying you were into the more "chilled" end of D&B, given your recorded output...

M: Yeah, I just didn't get on trying to write that kind of stuff I guess, because the Amiga was probably a bit better at doing bass than it was at doing lush pads for example, and by the time I'd learned how to write tunes better I'd gone out and realised how it didn't go down on the dancefloor so well compared to the jump-up, which was now more musically interesting to me anyway. The Bukem stuff also ended up going into the realms of jazz drum solos where the beats were concerned, especially when you look at some of Photek's output when he did his album. It's just not funky, it's jazzy, so when people talk about 'Drumfunk' I think they've got the wrong idea.



B: So the era of "liquid" D&B was something that didn't interest you in trying to make tunes for? At that time the scene was pretty much divided between the "jump-up" styles and the deeper styles...

M: Yeah, I really didn't get on with techstep either. The liquid stuff can be really great musically, really danceable, sometimes really rushy and ravey in a way, but often people just don't do enough with it for my liking and it just boils down to a loop of some nice sounds that you tire of really quickly. The best liquid tunes are things like 3am by MIST and High Contrast, really nice horns in that one and really ravey in a way. I wouldn't write either liquid or techstep off completely though, there's always good tunes and bad in all of it, I just guess I prefer party tunes.

B: Speaking of which, given your re-emergence on the scene producing HCB, you haven't selected any of that genre here. How did your transition back into production come about through HCB, and who influences you in that scene?

M: Well, I think all of us in that scene look outside for influences, we look to stuff we used to listen to or new forms of dance music and I don't know if we really look at one another like that. I know what artists and labels I like though. When I was writing D&B my love for oldskool was always pushing me to try and do something oldskooly anyway. I loved that little period in D&B in the early 2000s when the Dubplate remix came out and all of a sudden there were oldskool sounds all over the place in D&B again and remixes of old classics. I'd say hearing Vinyl Junkie and Darkus' Warehouse Wax stuff made me think that I should get into this. I just started listening to the clips of tunes on Hardcore Projecktz record shop and then I dug up a little thing I'd been working on about a year before and posted it on B2VOS. It got some interest but never got finished, I just started writing other tunes instead.

B: And so looking to the future, what's in store for you? Any more releases on the horizon you can tell us about?

M: Nothing solid. I've taken a break for most of the year so far, as my inspiration is a bit like that, it just runs out and I have to recharge until I get that itchy feeling to do something again. It's started to happen, I remixed Ghettozoid's Seeking for the hell of it the other day, and did a tune using the music from Ocean's ZX Spectrum version of Robocop for a laugh. I don't really think they are that spectacular, but something else will happen I hope with these samples I'm trying to sort out at the moment. I originally started the tune with Jamie Enzyme and Alex Fluff from the Nu-Rave forum in January, but we've not managed to get back there and do anything else since, so I thought I'd just work on it myself and see what the others can input.

B: Nice one, well I look forward to hearing what you come up with next! Thanks for chatting to me Mulder, anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up?

M: Can't think of anything!

B: LOL! Fair play...thanks anyway!!




Lifetracks # 04 - Mulder

01 - COI PIF - Close To The Edge
02 - Real Roxanne and Hitman Howie Tee - Bang Zoom (Let's Go Go)
03 - Herbie Hancock - Rock It
04 - Art Of Noise - Close To The Edit
05 - Nu-Shooz - I Can't Wait
06 - Kraftwerk - It's More Fun To Compute
07 - Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (Mulder Re-Edit)
08 - Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body
09 - James Brown vs. Coldcut - The Payback Mix Pt.1
10 - Home T, Cocoa Tea and Shabba Ranks - Pirates Anthem
11 - Ragga Twins - Spliffhead
12 - 4Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
13 - The Prodigy - Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
14 - Urban Shakedown - Some Justice (Concrete Jungle Mix)
15 - Tayla - Bang The Drums
16 - Amazon II - Booyaa! (Open Your Mind)

Download : Lifetracks 04 - Mulder
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BEST MIX 2008 - APPLEBLIM : DUBSTEP ALLSTARS 6

If one of the key points to a good mix is how often you return to it, then Appleblim’s addition to the Tempa series must be fantastic, as it hasn’t left the BUG stereo since it was released earlier this year. With a mouth-watering tracklist – including a nice chunk of Bristol artists – all expertly blended together, its been the soundtrack for many of our late nights, early mornings and long days in between. From the soaring vocals of Pinch’s Get Up to the sparkling melody of Peverelist’s Infinity Is Now, as well as a TRG triple mix and perfect last track in Geiom’s Reminissin, it’s a mix that BUG has come back to time and time again to enjoy.

Tracklisting:

Peverelist - Gather
Peverelist & Appleblim - Circling
Pinch - Get Up
2562 - Moog Dub
Martyn - Suburbia
Jus Wan - Action Potential
2562 - Morvern
TRG & Selector Dub U - Harajuku
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now
Skream - Percression
RSD - Pretty Bright Light
Mungo's Hi Fi - Babylon
Komonazmuk - Bad Apple
Komonazmuk & Gatekeeper - Cheeky Herbert
TRG - Decisions
TRG - Put You Down (Ramadanman Refix)
TRG - Broken Heart (Martyn's DCM Remix)
Geiom - Reminissin' (Dubplate Version)

BUY APPLEBLIM : DUBSTEP ALLSTARS 6





CHEEBA – THE CASE OF THE MISSING RECORDS

How do you even categorise something like Cheeba’s mix? An insane mash of styles and sounds, it surely had a factor in him being inaugurated into the Ninja Tune camp this year. Some times turntabalist mixes can be tiresome, a showcase of style over content, but Cheeba always seems intuitively capable of holding your attention throughout the sonic odyssey he creates for you. Outstanding.

Tracklisting:

Ray Conniff - Perry mason Theme
Harlem underground - Smokin Cheeba
Zion I - Cheeba Cheeba
Los Marijuanos - Cheeba Cheeba
Tone Loc - Cheeba Cheeba
Method man Redman - Smokin Cheeba
Mantronix - In Full Effect
DJ Food - Spiral (Dub)
Coldcut - Give it Up
Art of Noise - Beatbox
Gorgio Moroder - Tears
Kraftwerk - Trans-European Express
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
West Street Mob - Breakdance (electric boogie)
RJD2 - Bus Stop Bitties
Quantic - Life In The Rain
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (Accapella)
DJ Bombjack - The Lesson
Leftie Soul Connection - Bam Bam
Major Force - Re-Return (re-cut chemist mix)
The Mohawks - The Champ
Cameo - Word Up
Jurassic 5 - Acetate Prophets
The Breeders - Canonball
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers (reprise)
Alan Tew - The Peoples Court Theme
Unknown - Saphire and Steel Theme
Men From Atlantis - Billion Dollar Breaks
Task and Bear - Endurance Test
Hexstatic - Auto
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Coldcut - Just For The Kick
Kings of Leon - Knocked Up
Barry Gray - Theme from U.F.O.
PWEI - Home (orb sweet sin and salvation mix)
David Essex - Rock On
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
Clint Mansell - Pi Theme
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Saul Williams - List of Demands (Reperations)
Squarepusher - Planitarium
Squarepusher - Squarepusher’s Theme
Aphrodite/Wildflower - See Through It
Dissposable Heroes - Television, The Drug of The Nation
Steinski & Mass Media - We’ll Be Right Back
Aspects - Bristol Fingers
Cut Chemist - The Number Song (re-cut chemically by cheeba)
The Blues Project - Flute Thing
Beastie Boys - Flute Loop
FSOL - Amoung Myselves
Ennio Morriconi - Once Upon A Time In The West
DJ Vadim - Headz Still Aint Ready
Amon Tobin/Kid Koala - Untitled
Dr Rubberfunk - Apologetic Dub
Orbital - The Box
Dub From Atlantis - Things That We Do (dub)
Duran Duran - Watching The Detectives
Smerins A.S.C - Dr Who (Jah Humphrey’s Dub Explosion)
Coldcut - Doctor in The House

DOWNLOAD - Cheeba : The Case Of The Missing Records





KYMATIK – SUNDOWN

As Dubstep increases in popularity and the floodgates open to a whole barrage of frankly mediocre mixes (and mixing), its refreshing to see one of the long-time champions of the sound to come correct with a stunning mix of emotive, cinematic music that showcases the best aspects of the genre. From the beauty of Clouds’ Protecting Hands to the sublime textures of Hyetal’s Gold Or Soul – as well as a nice handful of Soul Motive tracks – it’s a pitch-perfect mix of atmosphere and mood. Beautiful.

Tracklisting:

Forsaken- Into The Sunset
Phaeleh ft Ngaio- Fires
Darkstar- Lily Liver (Starkey Rmx)
Clouds- Protecting Hands Pt 1
TRG + Dub U- Losing Marbles (2562 Rmx)
Clouds- Protecting Hands Pt 2
Peverelist- Infinity Is Now
Quark + Ruckspin- Sunshine
Forsaken- Last Saloon Swagger
Tekton Naggar- Moving On
Geiom ft Marita- Reminissin’
Hyetal- Gold Or Soul
Joker- Snake Eater
Pangaea- Router
Sully- Phonebox
Sines- Test 7 (Hyetal Rmx)
Martyn- Vancouver
Peverelist- CM3 Skank
Goth Trad- Genesis
Kryptic Minds- Minor 9 (Headhunter Rmx)
Cult Of The 13th Hour- Wickedness
Sharmaji- Break Your Heart
Silkie- Dam4
Coleco- Campfire Funk
TRG- Move Dis
Unknown- Untitled
Joker- 80s
Joker + Rustie- Play Doe

DOWNLOAD - Kymatik : Sundown





MR BENN – SQUARE ONE SOUND

One of the best party mixes of the year, every time this rotates into action on the BUG MP3 player it brings a smile to our face. A quality selection full of gems and refixes, as well as some truly inspired mixing (Unfinished Sympathy into Township Funk for one), you cant go far wrong with this assured mash-up of good time sounds.

Tracklisting:

Intro: Stop & Mix (Batman & Robin Style) – Dawbaz Band
Ain't No Rest For The Wicked (Wicked Devil Remix) – Cage The Elephant
Again & Again – Roots Manuva
Careless – The Magic Fly feat. Deadly Hunta
Cherry Pie Version / Ill Street Blues (Acapella) – Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
Girlie, Girlie – Sophia George
Long Time Skit
Long Time – Mr Benn feat. Blak Twang & Blackout JA
Western Soul – Parker feat. Rasco
Blud & MIA – Nice Up!
Gong Show – Tipper / Give It To Me (Acapella) – Masters At Work ft. Screechie Dan
Kinky – Stephanie McKay
Genius Of Love – Tom Tom Club
Rappa Rappa Rhythm – Tom Tom Club / Scream Out (Acapella) – Million Dan
Here Come The Girls – Ernie K Doe (DJ Andy Smith & K5 Re-Boot)
Sound And Vision – David Bowie
Bowie's Nuts – Mr Blennd
Riddim Killa – Parker vs Rodney P
Boogie On Reggae Woman (Jpod Remix) – Stevie Wonder
Used To Go Dancing (The Heatwave Remix) – Caspa Codina
Seaya Face And P. J. Body (Version) – DJ C feat. Johnny P / How High (Acapella) – Method Man & Redman
99 Hearts – Sham Sham
Dirt And Blood – Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Can't Help Myself – The Bamboos feat. Ty
Unfinished Sympathy (Paul Oakenfold Mix) – Massive Attack
Township Funk – Mujava / Frenchapella - Deee-Lite
Rock The Beat – The Jamaica Girls
Bass Man – Black Grass
Ghost House (Suspense is killing me part II) - Boy 8 Bit
Respect (Mooqee & Russ Cuban Edit) – KW Griff
Bad Forward – Ding Dong vs. Michael Jackson
T.O.K Mode – Mr Blennd
Doobie Brothers Edit – Barrio Katz

DOWNLOAD - Mr.Benn : Square One Sound





MULDER – HARDCORE BREAKS MIX MAY 2008

Hardcore Breaks settled from its initial flurry of press this year into a steady groove but the mavericks of the style were still playing around with the template, chiefly Mulder who was still dropping mixes of raw power all year. A perfect opener with his own remix of No Reality to the euphoric vibes of Portal’s Feeling You as well as a cheeky refix at the end, it was another mix which for BUG was played week in week out.

Tracklisting:

Ram Trilogy - No Reality (Mulder Back To 93 Remix)
Modular - Dark NRG
Reckless & Sous Chef - The Wobbler (Turntable Pivot)
Mulder - Dread Notes
Modular - 2012
DJ Nee - All The Same
Mulder - Cue Burn
Mistabishi - No Matter What
Sike - Jungle Rewind
Running Man & Sous Chef - Choon Called Choon
JMT - Ego
Brainstormer - My Love
Malfunktion - The Answer
Portal - Feeling You
Stu & Nee - Heartbeat
Robbie P - Do You Know
Austin - Relics
Mulder - Electro Green Eyes

DOWNLOAD - Mulder : HCB Mix





JACKOV & KALLENDAR – RISE OF THE BAGMAN

Two of the hardest-working DJs on the local scene, it felt as if they were slept on in 2008 after establishing themselves over the last few years. Which is a genuine shame as they grew in terms of ability and selection this year to become two of the most formidable DJs around. BUG could have selected any of the handful of mixes they released this year, but Rise Of The Bagman was the most succinct in encapsulating their style, with the bonus of including spits from some talented local MCs.

Tracklisting:

J&K Intro
The Chopper - Andy C, Shy Fx Remix
Where I am - Bungle
Milky Way - Ram Trilogy
> Ewan Hoozami Spit
Shark - Cadence Weapon
Loose - Bangers and Cash
No More Blood - Ghislain Poirier
Oh Jah - Black Grass
Keep Movin - Bespoke/Krafty Kuts
Hasir - Modeselektor
>Blacksmith Spit
Sketchy Grammer - Natty
Eight Zero Eight - Bass Clef
>Sophisticated and Course (Accapella) - Ty
Karma - Virus Syndicate
Two Many Emcees - Phaeleh, feat Aggi Dukes
No Smokey Ganja - Subvert
Bounce - Starkey
West Coast Rocks - Matty G (Caspa remix)
Stop the Revolution - Meat Katie & D. Ramirez (Bassbin Twins Remix)
Blazin - Ghislain Poier (Modeselektor Remix)
Smelly - Bogeyman
>Stand Up Tall (Accapella) - Dizzee Rascal
Yes I - Time
Uprise - Tes La Rok
Iron Shirt - The Qemists
When UR Lonely - The Qemists
Enery - Nero
Missing Link - Nu:tone
Draw On Me - Mutt
Solitary Native - Alix Perez & Sabre
Eternal Optimist - High contrast
South West Sound - Deleted Scene

DOWNLOAD - Jackov & Kallendar : Rise Of The Bagman





PLACID – AFTER HOURS

Placid is another DJ whose work rate is second to none, his radio show constantly throws out amazing mixes, this one included. An ocean-deep mix of subtle techno styles, it was a perfect companion for the twilight hours and a clear example of his prowess as a DJ.

Tracklisting:

Psyche - Elements - Ten
Balil - Nort Route - R & S
E R P - Event Related Potential - Down Low
Juan Atkins - Track Ten - New Religion
Elegy - \P Switch - ART
Aril Brikha - Deeparture In Time - Transmat
Nuron / Fugue - Likemind 02
Stasis - Disco 4000 (Witness The Future) - Time is Right
Juan Atkins - Interpret - ULR
Kevin Saunderson - Force Field - Kool Kat
Link - Aurora - Simbiotic
Mevrouw Spoelstra - Ultra Low Tar - Airtight
Millenium to millenium - timeline - UR
E dancer - Powerbass - Incognito
Likemind 04
Juan Atkins - Tango - New Religion
Justin David - Light Years - Future Monument
Stasis - Monolife (Rebuild) - Likemind
M5 - Celestial Highways - Metroplex
The Black Dog - Tactile - Black Dog
Octave one - Nicolette - 430 West
Reel By Real - Distance - Interface

DOWNLOAD - Placid : After Hours





DUB BOY – ROOTED & GROUNDED

One of BUG’s favourite local DJs, Dub Boy rarely releases mixes but when he does they are something to definitely cherish. This mix for Spannered was an awesome selection, and a reminder of how accomplished as a DJ he really is.

Tracklisting:

Beenie Man — Pardon (Taxi)
Lady Saw — Married Man (Taxi)
Mr Vegas — Lean Wid It(Taxi)
Sugar Minott — Tune In (Taxi)
Sugar Minott & Bounty Killer — Tune In (Taxi)
Taurus & Jimmy Riley — Pull Up Selector (Taxi)
Shabba Ranks — Respect (Shang)
Barrington Levy — Murderer (Jah Life)
Carlton Livingston — 100 lbs of Collie Weed (Jah Life)
RSD — Murderah (Unreleased)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Mikey Murka — Back on the Scene (Scotch Bonnet)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Soom T — Did you Know? (Scotch Bonnet)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Rock — Inna Dancehall (Scotch Bonnet)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Brother Culture — Ing (MJ Mix) (Scotch Bonnet)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Carl Meeks — Higher Level (Scotch Bonnet)
Mungo's Hi Fi ft. Top Cat — Herbalist (Scotch Bonnet)
Junior Delgado — One Blood (Fashion)
Junior Reid — One Blood (J.R. Productions)
Junior Delgado — Dub School (Fashion)
Junior Byles — Fade Away (Jama)
Disrupt — THC 1138 (Werk)
King Tubby — Fade Out (Firehouse)
Disrupt — Riddim Grid (Werk)
Mikey Dread — Saturday Night Style (Auralux)
RSD — Prophecy (Angels Egg)
Luciano — Just Hold On (Charlie's)
Chezidek — I Won't Change (Charlie's)
Fantan Mojah — Hold Dem Heads (Charlie's)
McPullish — Dub Change I (Charlie's)
McPullish — Aerophonic Dub (Charlie's)
Henry & Louis ft. Prince Green — Love Like (2 Kings)
System Error ft. Michael Rose — Time Bomb (Universal Egg)
VC — Gone (Dig Dis)
Rootz Underground — Victims of the System (Rootz Underground)
Dark Angel — Cool & Humble (Boka)
Mungo's Hi Fi — I Love Jah (Unreleased)
Etherealites — El Toro (Roots Garden)
Nick Fantastic — Kingdom Riddim (Massive B)
Collie Buddz — Let Me Know (Massive B)
Chezidek — Call Pon Dem (Massive B)
Richie Spice — Rooted & Grounded (Star Trail)
Richie Spice — The Plane Land (VP)
Richie Spice — Earth A Run Red (Henfield)
Taurus Riley — She Is Royal (Cannon)
Disrupt ft. Mikey Murka — Empress (Scotch Bonnet)
Henry & Louis meet Blue & Red ft. Willie Williams — Plastic World (BSI)
VC — Deeds Dub (Dig Dis)
Gussie P — Chill Out Dub (Sip A Cup)
Steretyp ft. Tikiman — Fling Style (G-Stone)
Smith & Mighty — Brain Scan (Angel's Egg)

DOWNLOAD - Dub Boy : Rooted & Grounded





RICHARD CARNAGE – SPACE BOUNCE

Richard Carnage had a busy year in 2008 with his club night Tape and appointment to Resident Advisor as UK Editor. But before all that right back at the start of the year he dropped this gem of a mix, a hazy late-night voyage through the narcotic sounds of italo disco and other intergalactic oddities.

Tracklisting:

Alan Parsons Project - Voyager/What Goes Up
Asha Puthli - Space Talk
Six Cups Of Rebel - Kontroll (The Organ-Grinders Breakdown)
Owusu & Hannibal - Delirium (Morgan Geist Unreleased Dub)
Kevin Harrison - Ink Man
Skatebard - Marimba
Westpark Unit - Blaxrotation Suite Mix
Mudd - Spielplatz
Erik Rug - Tribute To My People (Vocal Version)
Ultra Nate - Love's The Only Drug (Adam Rios AM Shelter Mix)
Jay Shepheard - Live On
Cori Josias - Takin' It Straight (Dub)
Virgo - In A Vision
Black Devil Disco Club - Follow Me (Instrumental)
Magnus International - Kosmetisk
Linkwood Family - Piece Of Mind
Cristina - Blame It On Disco

DOWNLOAD - Richard Carnage : Space Bounce