Tagged “mixtape”

Pitchfork’s review of Jeff Mills’ seminal mixtape is the best-written and most enjoyable music article I’ve read in years. The mixtape in question is also very close to my heart.

this is a mix without equal, the Techno Bible, unequivocally The One.

Then, as now, Liquid Room stands as a high-water mark of a Black artform built around space travel and the necessity of forward motion: ’90s techno at its most unyielding and free.

Agreed! Fun fact: in 1996, having played the shit out of my cassette copy for a few months, I went to see Jeff DJ at the Arena in Glasgow in 1996 and he signed the inlay! I would normally be embarassed at having done this… but not in this case.

I put together a fairly spacey and mellow selection of laidback electronic sounds with a little nod to summer.

Download my April 2022 mixtape.

Here’s the tracklist:

• Nale Sinephro - Space 1
• Culross Close - To Belong
• Other Lands - Matter (Reshaped)
• Mato – Summer Madness
• Desmond Chambers – Haly Gully
• Tom Churchill – Cast adrift
• Bright & Findlay — Slow Dance
• Quiet Force — Listen To The Music (Apiento & Tepper Mix)
• Fuga Ronto – Columbo De Domingo
• dreamcastmoe — l foot right
• Lord of the isles — Novwo
• Kofi B - Mmobrowa (Hagan Edit)
• State of grace — That’s when we’ll be free

This was a nice opportunity to get back into the rhythm of programming music of varying styles and tempos. Kit-wise, I used two Technics 1210s, a Pioneer XDJ-700, an Isonoe 420 mixer and an Eventide Timefactor delay.