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…

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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 >>

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TrickyDiscoMix: Sell By Dave - Third Bass

The other night I was playing around with some reckuds and decided to record a mix ‘on the fly’. This is what I came up with – 80 minutes of bassline-heavy garage, house, proto-house and bleep techno.

 It kicks off with one of my favourite ever British garage records, the brilliantly wobbly BB Boogie version of Roy Ayers’ ‘Tell Him’, moving onto a classic record I’ve neglected lately – Todd Edwards’ hugely influential dub of St Germain. Then it’s off for a stroll through bumpin’ house pastures, with Solid Groove, Trevor Loveys and DJ Sneak at the helm. It was nice to revisit Paul Woolford’s always ace tech-house banger ‘For My Bleeps’ (2020 Vision meets early Warp via hip-house) and some heavyweight acid jack from Armando and Swag (under their bootleg ½ Inch Jack guise). The mix then takes a rather odd turn, going from early piano house (West Philips’ 1987 dub of ‘Tell Me’) and party anthem territory (M/A/R/R/S) to The KLF via some very heavy bleep techno vibes (Tricky Disco’s ‘Flyspray’). The whole shebang culminates in some dubby warehouse tackle (Francisco, a very early Todd Terje remix and Serious Intention’s legendary proto-house classic ‘You Don’t Know’). As always, it’s mixed straight from vinyl with no computer trickery, so look out for the crackles and mix adjustments!

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1. BB Boogie - Tell Him [Booty Bounce Part 1] (Laws Of Motion)

2. St Germain - Alabama Blues [Todd Edwards Dub Mix] (F Communications)

3. Roy Davis Jnr - About Love [Solid Groove Remix] (Classic)

4. Trevor Loveys - Bouce To This [Trevor's Willsden Rub] (Freerange)

5. Freaks - Washing Machine [DJ Sneak's Longspin] (Music For Freaks)

6. Paul Woolford presents Bobby Peru - For My Bleeps (2020 Vision)

7. 1/2 Inch Jack - Red Dragon (1/2 Inch Jack)

8. Armando - Don't Take It [Johnny Fiasco Remix[ (Let's Pet Puppies)

9. West Philips - Tell me [Dub Mix] (Kool Kat)

10. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume [Remix] (4AD)

11. Tricky Disco - Flyspray (Warp)

12. The KLF - What Time Is Love [1988 Pure Trance Original] (KLF Communications)

13. Francisco - Fregna (The Age) (Pigna Records)

14. Snuten - Wild & Free (Claws Against Knives) [Todd Terje Night Version] (C&C Records)

15. Serious Intention - You Don't Know [Special Remix] (Easy Street Records)

best before: faces The Final Curtain

Those of you in Bristol - and perhaps beyond - will be familiar with Tricky Disco's regular shindig, best before:. For nearly five and a half years we've been putting on parties in a variety of venues across the city, inspired by a love of great music - both new and old - and the sorts of 'anything goes' club nights that thrill, inspire, surprise and entertain in equal measure. It's been something of a rollercoaster, if truth be told, with plenty of memorable nights along the way. We've been lucky to host some of our favourite DJs, who have without fail smashed up the dance alongside some of our friends from the world of dance music - and, of course, our little group of forward-thinking, party-minded residents.

Good things don't last forever, though, and after taking time out to decide the best way forward we've decided to call time on our little party once and for all. Of course, we couldn't go out without a final blow-out, so on March 20th we're taking over one of our favourite spaces in Bristol, Native, for one last hurrah. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you…

best before:

 presents 

THE FINAL CURTAIN

A magical evening of disco dancing and  dancefloor debauchery

F•E•A•T•U•R•I•N•G

CHRIS DUCKENFIELD

[Swag/Popular People's Front - special party selection!]

THUMBS ALOFT live feat MC COHERENT

[best of best before: mash-up!]

THE best before: ALL-STARS

Feat LEGENDARY TONE, PUFFIN JACK, THE KELLY TWINS, RICHARD CARNAGE, JAMES SMALL & PAUL WALKER

10pm-4am. £5 on the door, £3 with fancy dress/best before: Facebook Group members! Fancy dress theme: 'theatrical'.