TrickyDiscoMix: Sean Kelly & Sell By Dave - Redfield Sessions Vol 2

Ey up! It's been a while since we've posted any new music (or articles, for that matter). Praise be, then, for this new mix offering from yours truly and Sean Kelly.

A couple of years ago, when Sean and I shared a house, we recorded an 'off the cuff' mix which we called 'The Redfield Sessions'. It featured a mixture of wonky, dubbed-out disco, house, acid, techno, old skool electro and nu-disco. It was a little rough round the edges (it was recorded live, with no post production) but great fun. Last week Sean suggested we get together and lay down another mix. The results can be downloaded below.

We set the recording going and then just mixed, until, nearly 2 hours later, we decided to stop. Since we've given it a listen and reckon it's worth sharing, so it's presented below in it's original state, cut into two palatable chunks. Part 1 is just over 50 minutes, and eases us in with a variety of largely downtempo/beatsy flavours – aqua-crunk, wonk-hop, slo-mo space funk, electro, mutant disco, deep house and the like. Part 2 goes more uptempo, boasting italo, nu-disco, acid house, classic rave-isms, garage, stupidly wonlt beats, dub house and even a bit of Kelley Polar Quartet. Enjoy!

Part 1 (51 mins)

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1. Chilled By Nature - Otherness [Black Mustang's Frozen Moon Jam]/Outkast - Playaz Ball

2. Harmonic 313 - Quadrant 3

3. Atlantic Conveyor - You Got Me

4. Floating Points - Love Me Like This [Radio]

5. Severed Heads - The Ant Can Legs

6. Osborne - Out Of Sight [Luke Vibert Remix]

7. Arcadion - Fly Vision

8. Her Bad Habit - My Bad Habit

9. Truffle Club - She Made Me

10. X-Rabit & DSG - Thundercat

11. MV v RM - Witness Heads

12. Vagabond - Sweat [Toddla T Instrumental]

13. Paul White - (unknown)

Part 2 (58 mins)

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14. 40 Thieves - Click Naif

15. Syclops - Where's Jason's K?

16. M-D-M - Get Acidic

17. Pierre's Fantasy Club - Fantasy Girl

18. Blackfinger - VMF

19. M.I.A - Tactic Boyz

20. Slugabed - Let's Go Swimming

21. Falty DL - Human Meadow [Luke Vibert Remix]

22. MJ Cole - Wondering Why [Dub]

23. Housemeister - Vakum

24. Dorian Concept - Vertical Output

25. Alden Tyrell - Another Explosion

26. Modeslsektor - Sucker Pin [Feadz Mix]

27. Richard Sen & Cazbee - 2 Up, 2 Down

28. Keley Polar Quartet - Maurizio

Laurent Garnier: A Kleptomaniac Speaks

Just a quick heads up for you. Recently I traveled to London to meet up with a genuine electronic music legend… one Laurent Garnier.

You can read my interview with Monsieur Garnier at Resident Advisor >>

Expect more updates soon, including new mixes, edits and other random shizzle.

Fresh from the scalpel…

Last Friday the curtain fell on our long-running best before: night with a blow-out party and a limited edition CD giveaway. That, 'The Final Version' featured a bunch of unreleased reworks and re-edits. Since only 50 lucky people got a CD, we thought we'd share some of those edits here. We've also included a couple of cuts that weren't on the CD.

So, without further ado, here's a selection on scalpel jobs… Click on the track titles to go directly to the applicable download page.

Can U Re-Edit?

Barnstorming early 90s Warp moment given a bit of a going over. Hey hey!

Rip It Up [Sell By Dave's Final Curtain Excursion]

The end of night best before: anthem, reworked, extended and played around with. Getting some great feedback from DJs so far…

Stick Around [Thumbs Aloft's 2009 Re-Cut]

Our first Pointless Edits release from 2007, re-cut for the '09 (and those with short memories)

Get Busy [Thumbs Aoft's Short Cut]

The original is too long. So we made it shorter and punchier. I wanna rock!

The Final Version

When we decided to call time on our long running best before: party, we thought it would be good to mark the occasion with something extra-special. First, we decided that a bit of a farewell bash was in order, and secured the services of our old pal and regular guest Chris Duckenfield for the occasion. Then we started thinking about doing something special to giveaway - a mix CD or limited artwork. Then we had a brain wave: we'd put together a disc featuring exclusive unreleased re-edits, reworks and remixes from DJs in the best before: family and give it away at the 'Final Curtain' party. Except there's a twist - we'd press up just 50 CDs.

So, here it is: 'The Final Version'.

To say that we're a bit chuffed with it is an understatement. We asked Chris Duckenfield if he fancied offering up some unreleased Popular Peoples Front fodder for the disc, and to our surprise he agreed, sending over a number of belters for the CD. We also asked some of our regular DJs and friends in Bristol for contributions. The response was impressive, and 'The Final Version' boasts gems from Al Dare (resident at BYTE and Socialism) and Vast & Bulbous, whose 'I Love You Too Much' edit is a doozy. The disc also features a couple of classics we released on Pointless Edits - from Hardway Brothers and Thumbs Aloft respectively - and a clutch of edits done specially for 'The Final Curtain' party from yours truly.

There's only one way to get the CD, and that's to head down to Native in Bristol on Friday 20th March for our farewell bash. Come down and claim a piece of history… and enjoy our last hurrah!

More info, including tracklisting, very soon!

The Last Chance To Dance!

We've gone multimedia! Our promo video for the forthcoming best before: party at Native. Incidentally, the music is a special re-edit of a classic.

TrickyDiscoMix: Sell By Dave - Sunshine Love

We continue our TrickyDiscoMix series with another selection from yours truly, this time in a more downtempo style. I initially put this mix together as a valentines' pressie to my girlfriend Kate, but she liked it and said I should share it with the world at large. So here it is.

It was initially inspired by the old mixtapes I used to make as a student DJ, where I'd mix some tracks together and drop in the others - the idea being that the music is more important than precise beatmatching. So, in true 'old skool' fashion, some of it is beatmatched and some of it isn't. Musically, it's a mixed bag, starting off on a luscious instrumental hip-hop/street soul tip and finishing off with a bit of loved-up disco and boogie. Along the way, there are some great tracks I've not played in yonks, notably the Marvin Gaye Project's brilliant 'Turn On Some Music' bootleg, 'Music Feel Soul', which was a huge record at Lights Down Low in Sheffield and best before: in Bristol five years ago. There's also a couple of Grand Central bits, some classic Coldcut, a DJ Mitsu The Beats remix, some Love Unlimited Orchcestra (it wouldn't be a valentines tape without a bit of Barry White!), a dash of King Britt and some choice slick disco and boogie. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed putting it together. Turn the lights down low and enjoy…

Download TrickyDiscoMix 2009/02 // Sell By Dave - Sunshine Love >>

1. J-Walk - Following The Noughties (Grand Central)

2. Gripper - Jazz Cop (Grand Central)

3. Coldcut - Autumn Leaves (Arista/Ninja Tune)

4. Alex Attias presents Mustang - Help Me [DJ Mitsu The Beats Remix] (Compost Records)

5. Marvin Gaye Project - Music Feel Soul (Choonz Inc)

6. Love Unlimited Orchestra - Midnight Groove (Philips)

7. Basement Soul - Boi Girl You Knock Me Out (Kat)

8. Skyy - High [Kenny Dope Classic Remix] (Playa)

9. King Britt presents SYLK 130 - Happiness (feat Alma Horton) (Six Degrees)

10. Starshine - All I Need Is You [Vocal Version] (Prelude)

11. Surface - Falling In Love [Danny Krivit Re-Edit] (Salsoul)

12. Matsubara - S.O.S [Prins Thomas Re-Edit] (Rong Music)

13. Tata Vega - Get It Up For Love (Motown)

14. Gwen Guthrie - Getting Hot (Island)

Hey you, get on my SoundCloud

Ever the upfront, tech-savvy types that we are, we've recently discovered the goodness that is SoundCloud.com. For the uninitiated, it's a Berlin-based music sharing website that aims to give music listeners (and, specifically, DJs/producers/labels) an easy one-stop place to share music. Think of it as a kind of MySpace/Facebook for music, but with 'private' functions that allow you to promo/share tracks directly with friends, other producers and DJs and so on. As you'd expect, you get your own public profile page where you can showcase tracks, as well as a Drop Box (where anyone can deposit tracks for you to check out - very handy). Just like other 'social networking' sites, you can become 'follow' the producers/DJs/labels you're interested in, which means you get alerted when they upload some new music for public consumption. There are also forums and opportunities to comment on tracks (including 'timed comments', where you can say something about a specific bit of a track or mix).  You can also upload music to share 'privately' with just the people you want to hear it. Simple to use and a top idea, we reckon.

You can check out Tricky Disco's public SoundCloud profile here >>

If you want to send us tracks, mixes etc, you can dump them in our SoundCloud DropBox here >>