70 Years of Music

October 25, 2012

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I recently compiled a collection of 70 tracks for my mum’s 70th birthday – one marking each year since 1942 (released/recorded/performed in a given year – fairly flexible). The result was four and a half hours of music in chronological order across four CDs – it went down a storm with Mixless senior: stuff she […]

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Keeping it Peel

October 25, 2011

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#keepingitpeel It’s John Peel Day and in memory of the great man I was going to upload a snippet from a classic Festive Fifty, but rather appropriately the technology’s not working. Hope to include it on a future Mixless mix, but till then here’s the transcript: “Cocteau Twins at number 21 in the Festive Fifty, […]

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Bristol’s electronic music scene on video

July 15, 2011

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Decent video on the Bristol electronic music scene – from Resident Advisor, via Shocklee and @weloveallthat. Real Scenes: Bristol from Resident Advisor on Vimeo.

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Gold Skies

April 1, 2011

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Yes not big and not clever, but today’s date gives a suitable enough excuse to post two seminal tunes…

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Mixless’ Mxlss The xx / Jamie xx xxlss mix

March 17, 2011

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As it’s been getting so many listens (well, compared to the other mixes), seems only proper to embed the Mxlss The xx / Jamie xx xxlss mix from late last year. What this mix does is throw together some of the best remixes of xx tracks (there have been many others best avoided), a couple […]

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Fuckery Witchcraft

November 1, 2010

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Played a few records before/between bands at the Fuckery Witchcraft Halloween bash at the Boneyard Bar above the Old Firestation in Bristol. Largely empty at the start which meant I got to play a couple twice (shh). Mordant Music – Hummdrumm Mujava – Township Funk Thriller – BBQ The xx – VCR (Four Tet Remix) […]

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Four Tet + The xx = …

October 5, 2010

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You know before you hear this it’s going to be spot on. There’s been a raft of xx remixes recently and you can count on the ears of one head the number that have been halfway decent. Four Tet shows us how it should done with this hypnotic take on VCR.

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