Track-By-Track: O/B #18
This was the first of a one-two combo of response records I played at O/B. Produced by The Unknown DJ and Professor X from Techno Kut records, it was an...
Track-By-Track: O/B #17
“What? You talking to me? Surely you jest. I thought I made myself perfectly clear. Get on out the door. Listen, hon, read my lips. Get out my face. Get out...
Track-By-Track: O/B #16 (Guest post by Prosumer)
Today's guest post comes from one of my all-time favourite DJs, Prosumer. This record transports my mind right back to being in my early teens at the...
Track-By-Track: O/B #15
I was turned on to the Canadian house labels Hi-Bias, Bigshot and Blast by Tama Sumo and Prosumer playing tracks like 'Get Into The Music', 'Got U On My...
Track-By-Track: O/B #14
This must be one of the last tunes that Chep Nuñez worked on before his untimely death, and the credits dedicate the record to him. Eric Kupper, an unsung...
Track-By-Track: O/B #13
I've written about this multiple times before even though it's essentially indescribable – you just have to hear it. I've told the anecdote about getting...
Track-By-Track: O/B #12
Anyone losing their shit over the Warhol photo of Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Fela Kuti and Basquiat (and rightly so), get a load of this one. Hashim ('Al-...
Track-By-Track: O/B #11
Frankie Bones is known for 'bringing rave to the US' after the experience he had playing a 25,000-person party called Energy in England in 1988. Acid house...
Track-By-Track: O/B #10 (Guest post by Bleimann)
Today's guest post comes from Madrid-based party starter and long-time friend Bleimann. Every so often you encounter a track which is so utterly Your Kind of...
Flamingo #27 (24/02/21)
February's Flamingo sees a new format: an hour of tunes introduced by me followed by a second hour with a talking-free DJ mix (my dad always asked me if I...
Track-By-Track: O/B #09
We take a left turn into the world of slamming tape edits and effects pioneered by a small crew of Latino musicians in The Bronx in the mid-80s. Chep Nuñez,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #08
Where Mtume talked down the life of dancing and partying on 'So You Wanna Be A Star', Touché revel in it, though not without some particular conditions. The...
Track-By-Track: O/B #07
It's difficult to put into words the lyrical achievement of this track, which functions not only as an account of the rise and fall of one ghoulish social...
Track-By-Track: O/B #06
"Lots of runway, room to spare. Trouble due to pilot error." Is this one of the best transport-as-metaphor-for-sex songs in music? There have been hundreds....
Track-By-Track: O/B #05
I first heard this tune by Trinidadian husband and wife duo Carl & Carl Jacobs played by Mário Valente, I think in Musicbox, and then another time in the Lux...
Track-By-Track: O/B #04
Where do we even start with Bruce Forest? He produced, mixed or post-produced (usually for the US market) Alexander Robotnick ('Problèmes D'Amour') Paul Haig...
Track-By-Track: O/B #03
Ben Liebrand gives the 1986 original a light-touch update, in which it loses its live feel and funky guitar licks and gains some shiny synth swagger and, uh,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #02
The producer behind this Armenta banger was Amir Bayyan, aka one of the Bell brothers from Kool & The Gang. He was a writer and producer for La Toya Jackson,...
Track-By-Track: O/B #01
This is the first entry in the Track-By-Track series for the live recording of my set at Ouro/Bravo in February 2018. Index Track-By-Track: O/B #02Track-By-...
Track-By-Track: BSU #16
I've spent enough superlatives about Huey Mnemonic's music over the past 18 months since I first heard 'D'waved Zone', so here i'll simply defer to one of...
Track-By-Track: BSU #15
'Ceased trading' is what it says on Spillway's discogs page, making its 6-volume catalogue a short but very sweet statement, not unlike Derek Carr's original...
Track-By-Track: BSU #14
There is not a single element out of place on this tune: sound palette, arrangement, harmonies, vibe. It's as pristine as they come, which also makes it...
Track-By-Track: BSU #13
Back in 1992, Three-Bu were among good company on Antima and Mystic Records, releasing alongside such classics as Omniverse, Oneiric and the supergroup...
Track-By-Track: BSU #12
Three years after the first Casa Sports volume and the label is still going strong. Last year saw a number of superlative digital releases, including label...
Track-By-Track: BSU #11
This particular tune has a unique and lateral logic that continues to reveal itself many plays later. It comes with happy personal associations – I bought...
Flamingo #26 (27/01/21)
The first Flamingo show of 2021 is dedicated to the listening habits of my late teens and early 20s. Made during the second lockdown in Lisbon, it's a...
Track-By-Track: BSU #10
From those short, sweet, unknowing weeks of clubbing at the start of 2020 there are a few moments that really stand out. Near the top of that list is seeing...
Track-By-Track: BSU #09
Slick breaks, a big wobbly bassline and, contrasting with all that heaviness, those bittersweet harmonies on top. Not much else to say about this one apart...
Track-By-Track: BSU #08
8+ minutes of squiggly, swirling psychedelia that truly lives up to its astounding cover art. Squirrels On Film (wonderful name) is an SF label, co-run by...
Track-By-Track: BSU #07
In the year Roni Size & Reprazent won the Mercury Music Prize, there was one nominated album that I was obsessed with and it wasn't New Forms. Bear in mind I...
Track-By-Track: BSU #06
Call me partisan, but this was without question one of the best tunes of last year. Much of my pride in helping this record see the light of day has derived...
Track-By-Track: BSU #05
[SkiSunday] I've been proper skiing just once, on a school trip when I was about 14, but Ski Sunday formed a big part of my childhood weekends. Recently Nick...
Track-By-Track: BSU #04
This track has everything I look for and fits it into just 3 minutes: sharp percussion, a fat bassline, sophisticated harmonies, and a tight arrangement that...
Track-By-Track: BSU #03
If you want an accessible summary (with all its limitations) of what Plaid, Mark Broom, Dave Hill and co. were up to in the early 90s you can do worse than...
Track-By-Track: BSU #02
Maurice Fulton is one of the all-time great producers and also one of the DJs who had the most impact on me during my first year in London, due in particular...
Track-By-Track: BSU #01
This is the first entry in the Track-By-Track series for my mix for Butter Side Up. Index Track-By-Track: BSU #02Track-By-Track: BSU #03Track-By-Track: BSU...
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I’m a DJ, label owner, radio host and listener writing about the internal side of dance music.