Discodrone - Exclusive Mix

As the season of giving is upon us it's only right we bestow a christmas gift on the world, and here it is in the form of an exclusive mix by Parisian don Thomas Di Matteo AKA Discodrone.

As always, impeccably mixed and an impeccable selection veering from mutant disco to post-punk to krautrock and back again. Wonderful stuff.

Thanks all for a wonderful year and here's to 2012.

Tracklist:

1. Intro - Tom
2. Jesse Rae - Rusha
3. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Room Mate
4. Medium Medium - Mice Or Monsters
5. 23 SKIDOO - Coup
6. A Certain Ratio - Skunk
7. King Crimson - Elephant Talk
8. Liquid Liquid - Scraper
9. Maximum Joy - White & Green Place
10. Can - Vitamin C
11. APB- Danceability Part 2.
12. Quando Quango - Atom Rock
13. Marquis De Sade - Cancer & Drug
14. The Names - Night Shift
15. Dunkelziffer - See It
16. Outro - Jerry

The Unabombers - Live in Rome mix (November 2011)

Office parties never go to plan, it's either an untethered release of anarchic joy and lust or one big moan/rant to a soundtrack you'd never choose. Well here at The Beat we aim to improve things where we can and therefore we suggest slipping this on the soundsystem and dancing like you would 10 years previous. Big up the Unabombers, the lovely Manc party crafters that they are.

The Unabombers - Live in Rome mix (November 2011)

Bodytonic Podcast - Daft Punk 'Teachers' mix (House Music 1989-1997)

The guys at Bodytonic have released a new mix centred around the influences behind Daft Punk and their 1997 debut 'Homework'. There's an introduction if ever I saw one, let's hope it stands up to our epic expectations... jeez check that there tracklist - blimey, let's jack!

Bodytonic Podcast - Daft Punk 'Teachers' mix (House Music 1989-1997)



Carl Craig (69) - Sound on Sound (Planet E) 1993
Mike Dearborn - Raw Acid (Djax Up Beats) 1995
DJ Hyperactive - Tilt (Sm:)le Communications) 1996
Baby Pop - U Know What I'm Sayin' (Relief) 1995
Boo Williams - Flashback (Relief) 1995
DJ Funk - House the Groove (Dance Mania) 1993
DJ Pierre/Roy Davis (Photon)-Give A Little Love(Wild Pitch mix)(Strictly Rhythm)1992
Mike Dunn (MD Xpress) - God Made Me Phunky (Solo) 1994
DJ Sneak - Sounds From The Pipe (Cajual) 1996
Motorbass - Ezio (Different) 1996
DJ Tonka - Give It Up (Force Inc.) 1995
Daniel Wang - Unhouse (Balihu)
Lil Louie Vega/Tony Humphries (Hardrive) – Jus’ Believe (Strictly Rhythm) 1993
Parris Mitchell/Jammin' Gerald - Ghetto B**ty (Dance Mania) 1994
Idjut Boys - Schlamm Me (U-Star) 1996
Nick Holder - Get It Up (DNH) 1994
Joey Beltram (Code 6) - Quad II (Nu Groove) 1991
Todd Terry - Bounce To The Beat (Freeze) 1994
Todd Edwards - Push The Love (i Records) 1997
Boo Williams - Cloudburst (Relief) 1995
Paul Johnson - Y'all Stole Them Dances (Relief) 1994
Mousse T - Everybody (instrumental) (Swing City) 1996
Kenny Dope Gonzales/Lil Louie Vega (Kenlou) - The Bounce (MAW) 1995
Cajmere - Electric (Cajual) 1997
Armand van Helden - Break da 80s (Strictly Rhythm) 1994
Drexciya - Water Walker (Submerge) 1994
Glenn Underground – Beyond (Cajual) 1995
DJ Slugo – Drum to Drum (Dance Mania) 1995
Armando - Confusion's Revenge (Muzique) 1989
DJ Deeon - Ping Pong (Dance Mania)
Neil Landstrumm - Scratch'n'Sniff (Peacefrog) 1996
Waxmaster - Ride the Pony (Dance Mania) 1997
Cajmere - Horny (Horny Toad mix) (Cajual) 1995
DJ Rush - Crusing (Dance Mania) 1991
Robert Hood - The Pace (Axis) 1994
DJ ESP - Ab Fab! (Volume) 1995
Richie Hawtin (Robotman)-Do the Doo (Plastikman Acid House remix) (Definitive) 1993
K Alexi (K.A Posse) - Stick Music (D.J International) 1990
Hardfloor - Mahogany Roots (Harthouse) 1994
Mad Mike Banks/Davina - Don't You Want It? (Happy) 1992
Brian Wilson - 'Music is God's Voice'
Laurent Garnier/Shazz/Ludovic Navarre (Choice) - Acid Eiffel (Fragile) 1993

John Forde - Stardance (Extended Version)

Here be cosmic disco of the most literal variety. John Forde's 1977 ode to interstellar love is a remarkable piece of work - it's spectral sound uses deep, bubbling 303 sounds a good 5-years before the 303 was even invented!

John Forde - Stardance (Extended Version)

Rickster - Night Moves (Night House mix)

We're dining at house music's top table here, released in 1988 'Night Moves' was mixed by the legendary Steve 'Silk' Hurley - that's Mr.Jack Your Body kids. So this really is an apple pie moment, pure perfection.

Rickster - Night Moves (Night House mix)

Lola – Wax The Van (Junior's Awesome Edit)

'Wax the Van' was written by the late great Arthur Russell, but this is the 1987 edit by Mr.Ego himself, Junior Vasquez. It's especially good for both their input. Put it on and repeat, repeat, repeat.

Lola – Wax The Van (Junior's Awesome Edit)

Gettovetts feat Rammellzee - Gangster Lean

Rammellzee is the real deal; musician and all-round artistic visionary. This 12" single released in the same year as the 2 Much single below, 1988, is testament to his talent and the pioneering edge to hip-hop at the time.

Gettovetts feat Rammellzee - Gangster Lean

2 Much - Wild Thang

We don't post much hip-hop nowadays, but this track was on my mind and deserves a post for the Grace Jones sample, the lazy (lazy meaning good) delivery and the er... climax.

2 Much - Wild Thang

Sad Lovers and Giants - Things We Never Did

English alternative band Sad Lovers and Giants hail from the glamour of Watford, maybe that might explain the slant of this 1981 track 'Things We Never Did', taken from the LP 'Epic Garden Music'.

Sad Lovers and Giants - Things We Never Did

Amon Düül II - No Sushi For Camels

Amon Düül II are a German rock band that was born out of the radical West German commune scene of the sixties. Responsible for laying the foundations of the Krautrock scene, the track 'No Sushi For Camels' is taken from the reissue of their twelfth album 'Only Human' originally released in 1979, all the tracks of which are as wonderfully genre bending as this.

Amon Düül II - No Sushi For Camels

DJ Harvey - Essential Mix (31.05.98)

Here's an old favourite of mine, the man the myth, DJ Harvey providing an Essential Mix back in 1998. It's a good few years old, but there's no stagnant filler rather two hours that prove the man's worth in full. Pull back the sofa and tear it up.

DJ Harvey - Essential Mix (31.05.98)



Billy Cobham - "Storm" (Atlantic)
Vangelis - "Let It Happen" (Vertigo)
Last Poets - "Mean Machine" (Douglas 7)
Instant Funk - "Got My Mind Made Up" (Salsoul)
Herb Alpert - "Red Hot (Remix)" (A & M)
Cookhouse - "Recipe 002" (Cookhouse)
Wamdue Project - "King Of My Castle" (Eruption)
Pleasure - "Joyous (Edit)" (White Label)
Those Norwegians - "Can You Dig It" (white label)
Vampire Sound Inc - "Lions & The Cucumber" (Warners)
Azymuth - "Dear Limmertz" (Milestone)
Don Blackman - "Hearts Desire" (Arista)
artist unknown - "Love & Happiness" (white label)
Chayanne - "Waited Too Long" (Syncopate)
Art of Noise - "Beat Box (Diversion 1)" (ZTT)
Harvey & UFO - "Pioaresque Eye" (Browns Wood)
Brooklyn Dreams - "Street Man" (Millenium)
Stevie Wonder - "Lovelight In Light" (Motown)
Micheal Wilson - "Groove Your Body" (Prelude)
TOTO - "George Porgy" (Columbia)
Eddie Russ - "Zabis" (Impact)
Steely Dan - "Do It Again" (MCA)
Trolly Dollies - "Space Cake" (Sunday Best)
Santana - "Free As The Morning Sun" (CBS)

Beat Djs - Live In Sheffield

Beat Djs - Live in Sheffield by The Beat! on Mixcloud

A few years back we were asked to venture up to steel city to dj a techno loving friend's birthday party. We hastily threw together a set we thought would sound great played on a massive pa in a sweaty club under the cinema and here it is. No idea why the mp3 has taken this long to surface but it gives a good impression of what a beat dj set is like. Mixing ain't great (we were quite drunk) but it's full of attitude and that's what really counts.

Tracklist:

1. Mugwump - Everything Remains
2. Plastique De Reve - Lost In The City (40 Thieves Dub)
3. My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Dub Version)
4. Adonis - No Way Back
5. Discodeine - Ring Mutilation
6. Bobby Orlando - The "O" Medley (Glimmer Twins Edit)
7. Plastikman - Spastik
8. Anthony Shakir - Sequence 10
9. Binary Chaffinch - False Energy
10. Crash Course In Science - Flying Turns
11. Marc Houle - Bay Of Figs
12. Kano - It's A War
13. Skatt Bros - Walk The Night
14. Shout - Jack Frost & Circle Jerks
15. Mayer/Voigt - Trasparenza

Miles Hollway & Elliot Eastwick - Hard Times Boxed mix pt1 & pt2

Theme, we're on a theme... after the Back to Basics mix, a club of unprecedented importance in my life, here's another pinnacle of North of England club history - Hard Times. From it's origins in Mirfield (opening in 1993) it existed in a number of places in and around Yorkshire, pulling in many of the more refined US DJs, but the highlight for me were original residents Miles Hollway and Elliot Eastwick (along with Jason Boardman and Nigel Lee). Here's a two part mix from 1996 full of that premium house sound.

Miles Hollway - Hard Times Boxed mix



Elliot Eastwick - Hard Times Boxed mix