Monday, March 15, 2010

Oh yes! It's a Class A Afteroons podcast!

Download last week's show(March 10th) HERE (right click, save as)

Tracklisting is in post below.

HUGE thanks to the Futurebeats crew for sorting my podcast shit out, much love!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

March 10th Tracklisting

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS - Flex off
FOREIGN BEGGARS - Contact
ELLIE GOULDING - Under the sheets
EMIKA - Double edge
RUBIX - Baiser sur le disco
MICKEY AVALON - My dick
DIZZEE RASCAL - Brand new day
THE STREETS - Has it come this?
FLYING LOTUS - Quakes
SHINICHI OSAWA - Star guitar (Brookes Brothers rmx)
HOT CHIP - One life stand (Drums of Death rmx)
GRANDMASTER FLASH - The message
TRUTH - The fatman
DORIAN CONCEPT - The fucking formula
THE AVALANCHES - Since I left you (Cornelius rmx)
ICE CUBE - Today was a good day
JOY ORBISON - Hyph mngo
DUB FX - Free my soul (live in Italy)
GIL SCOTT HERON - Your soul and mine
SILKIE - Purple love
JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE - The general
WHITE LIES - Death (Crystal Castles rmx)
JOKER - How you like me now (rmx of The Heavy)

Monday, March 1, 2010

March 2nd 2010 - 1 hour

DOSE - The place in between
CLUEKID - Shifty
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - Bonita Applebum
CASPA AND RUSKO - One of the same
FEVER RAY - Concrete walls
THE STREETS (Nero rmx) - Lights are blinding my eyes
PROXY - 8000
MUTT - Kush talk
BLOC PARTY - Where is home (Burial rmx)
RUSKO - Woo Boost (Douster rmx)

Monday, February 15, 2010

Tracklisting for 16.02,10

PODCAST OF TODAY's SHOW DOWLOADABLE here.

MOS DEF - Ghetto
LUSHLIFE - In Soft Focus ft. Aerial P and Elzhi
MUTT - Kush Talk
SUB FOCUS - Move Higher
DDAY and the Q4 - Look Again (Dday One rmx)
JOINT FORCES - Here comes the morning
DATSIK & FLUX PAVILLION - Game Over
SHAPESHIFTER - One
CYPRESS HILL - Superstar
DIZZ1 - Frazzled
HUDSON MOHAWKE - Spotted
OPIUO - The Freaky Bean
LAIDBACK LUKE & DIPLO - Hey! (FOAMO rmx)
LUKE VIBERT - Belief file
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE - Rabbit Heart (P.E.S.T rmx)
WHITE LIES - Death (CHASE & STATUS rmx)
JAYLIB - The Red
MAJOR LAZER - Hold the line (DJ edit)
DAPPLED CITIES - The Price
LA ROUX - In for the kill (The Twelves rmx)
BAD COMPANY - Dr. Shevago
FORIEGN BEGGARS - No More (Ghost rmx)
ISAAC CHAMBERS - Skim

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

What's been floating my boat....

Woah! A whole month has passed me by! Now I share with you the treasures I have encountered so far in this lazy lazy month...


Essential Mix with ANNIE MAC and HOSTAGE

Because I have a two hour gym routine that I have a hate/love relationship with, I need music that is going to distract me and if it can't distract me, keep me pumped and running up a #4 incline at 10.7kmph on a treadmill. The latest BBC Radio One Essential Mix with ANNIE MAC and HOSTAGE is just the ticket!

It's been recorded live at Sugabeat in Edinburgh, so includes lots of drunken cheering and shouting, giving that delightful party atmosphere... reminding me that I better keep running otherwise I won't be fitting into any tight party dresses come Friday eve. The first hour of Annie Mac is electro/house/funky, while hostage brings the bass. Download here.


DIZZ1!

This guy was mega at SOUNDAY here in Christchurch on the 30th of January. I pretty much went just to see him and he exceeded my expectations. P-Money played directly after, and it was so clear to see the high level of integrity in Dizz1's music in comparison. I'm hoping to get his 3RD TIME LUCKY 12" for Valentines.... Here is the man live.... SKILL AHOY!




FUTUREBEAT CREW - Thanks, Float and Anon.

I love sharing my home city with other talented individuals with spot on music taste like these guys and love it even more when they chuck up free mixes. While Thanks has been hitting the decks over in Melbourne for a considerable period, Float and Anon have only been mixing for around a year. These guys are also fans of the above Dizz1 as well as Debruit, Flying Lotus, Fulgeance and Hudson Mohawk, giving their mixes undoubted class.

These Christchurch locals played at Double Happy last Friday and I hope we'll be seeing more of them out and about. Download the NAIS JUAN PROMO MIX here. Thanks and Float keep the mix offbeat/hip hoppy/glitchy for the first 40 mins, while Anon switches it into dubstep for the final 20 mins.

SLUGABED

See a theme here?




Yeah yeah, its a bit old (4 months) but HIGHER from FOREIGN BEGGARS has been delighting my ears lately....

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Tomorrow's show...

I've finally recovered from the New Year festivities - I've beaten all the post PHAT colds and sore throats, got the mud out from under my nails and clothes whilst the gumboot rub marks on my legs are beginning to fade - and so am eagerly anticipating dishing up some fresh beats tomorrow, as well as giving some previews of the artists playing at RDU's annual SOUNDAY, BIG DAY OUT and whatever other musical delightfulness is approaching us (I'll figure that out later).


ANNIE - DON'T STOP


Kicking it off I'm going to play some..... ANNIE! Okay, I'll be honest - I'm not entirely sure that I like the track wholeheartedly but the track has many quirks, opposing cliches and kitchy xylophone hits to make it worth playing. I can't decide if this is pop or on the underground tip - I think the mystery of its genre-bending is slightly uncomforting yet exhilarating at the same time. She is also a mega hottie. GIRL CRUSH. Download the track, 'DON'T STOP', here.


THE KNIFE, MT. SIMS and PLANNINGTOROCK -
COLOURING OF PIDGEONS

Whenever I hear the names 'The Knife' or 'Fever Ray' I swoon like I would if I ever found myself coming face to face with James Franco/Taylor Lautner/Zac Posen, and just want to listen to whatever that name is stamped on. This time The Knife duo have joined forces with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock to craft an album for a Danish performance group who are creating an opera based on Charles Darwin's book "On the Origin of the Species". The collaborators researched thoroughly the evolutionary theme, with Olof (one half of the knife) even attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon. I'll be playing the track 'COLOURING OF PIDGEONS' from the album, 'TOMORROW, IN A YEAR", which is due to be released on March 1st. Download here.

RJD2 FT. KENNA - GAMES YOU CAN WIN
RJD2 is a producer who has stood the test of time, bringing out many a musically enchanting album/ep. His latest work, album 'THE COLOSSUS', is being released on the 19th of January, so I thought it only polite to give you a taste of it. Its delicate and light feel may leave some unsatisfied, but I think it is an exciting view into what is still to come from Mr. RJD2.

Here's the first video to be made for THE COLOSSUS - I quite like it.





JOY ORBISON - HYPH MNGO



This genius, currently 22 years of age, starting DJing at 13 years old, thanks to the influence of his jungle loving uncle. The track HYPH MNGO (click to download) , which I really don't understand as a name (also is it really said 'mngo' or more like 'mango'?), makes complete and utter sense as it fills my body with pleasure of a musical sort. The track is still unreleased, but Joy Orbison is making waves in musictown and blogtown - I'm going to keep an eye on him this year as I am very excited to see what else he conjours up.


DIZZ1 - WE GO RIDING

I was very jubilant when I discovered this track on the CD issued by the Red Bull Music Academy, Spain, and found this track. Very. It's trippy, its hip-hoppy, its downright dirt. And I love it (along with more respected others such as BBC1's Mary Anne Hobbs and Benji B). I was also jubilant once more when I read through the SOUNDAY brochure and found he was making his way from Sydney, where he is based, to play at the festival!

I have heaps more goods to dish out on air tomorrow, tracklisting will be updated throughout the show so you can see what's on the go. Au revoir (Simone ahahaha)!

PS. PHATties - REMEMBER THIS?!!


Monday, January 4, 2010

Tracklisting 05.01.10

Caspa - Velvet Rooms
Crazy Penis - There's a Better Place (rmx)
Peaches - Tombstone, baby
Beastie Boys - Too Many Rappers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A Trak rmx)
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Tahuna Breaks - We Funk The Party (Crazy Penis rmx)
Jack Beats - Get Down (VIP Edit)
Truth - Lost at Sea
Pacific Heights - Peace (ft Joe Dukie)
Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This (James Rutledge rmx)
Proxy - 8000
Salmonella Dub - The Bromley East Roller (Digital rmx)
Mickey Avalon - My Dick
Echo and the Bunnymen - I Think I Need It To
Dead Prez - Selling DOPE
Busta Rhymes/The Neptunes - Light Yo Ass On Fire (ft. Pharrell)
Silkie - Purple Love
Matty G - For the Smokers
Optimus Gryme - Emotion ft Billy Fluid
Foreign Beggars - Shake it
Kinetix - White Water ft HLK
Starkey - Bang Bang the Witch is Dead
State of Mind - Universe
Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down