Midweek Mixes (02/04/25)
A run-down of some of the mixes and radio shows that have been soundtracking my existence – from the box-fresh to the tried-and-tested – all guaranteed to brighten up your week.
Prosumer - Kiosk Radio (18/03/25)
From the opening MAW dub of ‘Erotica’ to the closing ‘Lust’ from Rinder & Lewis’s classic Seven Deadly Sins, Prosumer seems to have something on his mind. And midway through Kerri Chandler’s ‘Into The Night’, which he drops about two thirds of the way through this excellent set, a voice, certainly not from Kerri’s original tune, suddenly starts talking exceedingly dirty to us. I’ve often written about DJs expressing their emotions and thoughts through their DJing, and here Prosumer is leaving little doubt about his inner state: HORNY.
Once that overall vibe for this hour has been clocked, then everything starts to act as a vehicle for it. Legowelt’s otherwise creepy haunted house ditty ‘Ghost Stories From A New House’ becomes the soundtrack for a late night cruise, while Luke Solomon’s ‘Louder Than Words’ gives us psychedelic disco loop foreplay. In fact, disco runs especially strong through the whole set, teased and flipped on deep cuts from Shake, Derrick Carter, Gemini and Dmitri From Paris.
Achim is never one to pass up an aerobics vocal sample — remember him dropping Sexual Harassment’s outrageous ‘Exercise Your Ass Off’ in his set at Electric Elephant back in 2014? — and here he uses a drum track with an instructor going “1-2-3-4” to bridge from Gemini into Eli Murphy’s huge ‘Moving’. Lyrically, this latter song is about moving on from someone and harnessing that sentiment for throwing shapes on the dancefloor — though, like Carrie Lucas before her, it’s far from clear if Eli is succeeding in covering up her broken heart.
I’d never heard ‘Moving’ before and I absolutely love it, as I do the rest of this banger of a set.
Lakuti & Tama Sumo w/Your Love - Kiosk Radio (08/03/25)
I think this was also Lakuti and Tama Sumo’s first time on Kiosk Radio, marking the debut of their Outsiders residency for their platform Your Love. I didn’t actually know about this until their mix auto-played after Prosumer’s while I was working. At some point during the opening tune — a gloriously deep piano odyssey from the new Maurice Fulton aka Boof LP — I thought to myself “hey this is pretty good” and checked who it was, so thank you auto-play for that.
The rest of the show is a profusion of jazz solos, rolling house grooves, broken beat jams, a Roy Ayers tribute and several righteous vocal entreaties to pick yourself up and dance. It’s joy in music form, just like what the two of them always serve at their Your Love parties. They finish with another tune from that same Boof album — we love a good bookend to a mix!
Sixsixsixties - Kiosk Radio (28/03/25)
Sixsixsixties must have got the memo from the previous two shows as he brought a whole load of house-y disco and jazz-y house to kick off his latest residency show at Kiosk. The only thing I recognise is Downtown Gigolos’ ‘New Age’, a record I always struggle to mix but which Stijn blends easily into the chuggy flow. There’s a tune 40 minutes in that caught my ear with a kind of mid-00s lightweight UK tech house vibe, like Lawnchair Generals with a soulful male vocal. It feels particularly untrendy for 2025 and that’s why I like it so much. And then there’s the last two records, first a lovely UK Funky-ish bopper and second a jazzy, moody keyboard meditation. Amazing mix!
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