I’m doing a mix for the Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting website to accompany a big profile on my record collection that they’re going to run soon. The mix is based around records that aren’t necessarily rare but that made a big impression on me when I first heard them and influenced my career etc.
I’ve made the selection, I just have to mix it – what I want to know is how well you think you know my tastes?
Which artists will feature? That might be pretty easy for some of you…
Which tracks from those artists might feature though? Bit trickier.
These will be artists and songs that blew my mind on first hearing and changed the way I thought about music.
Whoever guesses the most correct artists / tracks featured gets a mystery bag of records, comics and other bits and pieces I want to influence you with.
Put your answers in the comments below and I’ll pick the person with the most correct guesses after Nov 21st when the piece will be published. You can guess as many times as you want. You might have an unfair advantage if you know me personally but there will be no favouritism 
Also, if you’re waiting on the 2nd edition of the Dust & Grooves book it’s almost here and they have a nice little boxed set of 48 postcards available to pre-order (which I’m also featured in, see if you can spot the photo in the video). They’d probably make excellent Xmas cards.
and the winner of the ‘guess the DJ Food Dust & Grooves mix content’ competition is… Cheetah Brakes with an amazing 19 artists guessed and 14 songs or albums named correctly. Well done that man although some of the entries made for scarey reading in how close they came.
Special mentions for Tom Miller who got 9 artists and 4 songs including some curveballs that others didn’t (The Hellers, Meat Beat Manifesto) Dave Trigg who got 15 artists and 10 songs/albums, David Pickett with10 artists, 4 songs/albums and Cav Grey who managed 14 artists and 7 songs/albums.
Amazing amount of near misses too from all involved, well done
Ha, the playlist is out, who won?
(I know I didn’t … just curious ;))
Here goes my thoughts, been a long time fan. Must have some of them right:
FSOL – Papau New Guinnea
Herbie Hancock – Rockit
Art of Noise – Close to the Edit / Beatbox / Moments in Love
BOC – Aquarius / 1969 / Beautiful Place Out in the Country
DJ Shadow – Private Press
Grace Jones – Pull up to the Bumper / Slave to the Rhythm
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
KLF – something from Chill Out, Pulling Out of Ricardo?
Anything from Pauls Boutique
The The – Giant
Kraftwerk – Autobahn / Tour de France
Advisory Circle
Ken Nordine
A remix by Amorphous Androgenous
2nd Class Citizen
Deckard
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – would Welcome to the Pleasuredome be too long, would a snippet work?
Pepe Deluxe
Adam and the Ants – Zerox
Brian Eno
HiJack
Jean Jacques Perrey
Aphex Twin
LFO
Autechre
GMF – Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
Wow, there’s so many possibilities – here’s a few that might crop up:
Kraftwerk: Autobahn / The Robots / Trans Europe Express / The Model / anything from Computer World
KLF: Anything but maybe something off Chill Out
Adam and the Ants: Antmusic
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax / Two Tribes
Ken Nordine: Word Jazz / Son of Word Jazz / Colours
Boards of Canada: Aquarius / Happy Cycling
The The: Giant
Foetus
Tackhead
The Orb
Beastie Boys: Anything off Paul’s Boutique
ATCQ: something off The Low End Theory?
Double Dee & Steinski: Lesson 2
FSOL
Coldcut: Say Kids
DJ Food: Jazz Brakes
Autechre
Aphex Twin
Vangelis: Bladerunner OST
Malcolm McClaren: Buffalo Gals
Afrika Bambaataa: Planet Rock
Herbie Hancock: Rockit
Negativland
Art of Noise: Beatbox
Jeru the Damaja: Come Clean
The Human League: Being Boiled
New Order: The Beach
Eric B & Rakim: Paid in Full (Coldcut remix)
Brian Eno and David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
John Oswald: Plunderphonics
Artists are definitely easier to guess than tracks!
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t at least some of the following:
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
BOC – Telephasic Workshop
DJ Vadim – Terrorist
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Something from the Dune and Bladerunner Sountracks
Or I could be completely wrong and you do a 3 hour “1-Hit-Wonder Hits of the 80’s” – Tiffany Vs Debbie Gibson
ive been following you for a long time now, so I feel like I know you pretty well – so here goes:
adam and the ants – zerox, FGTH – relax / two tribes, the the – giant, art of noise – beatbox, grace jones – slave to the rhythm, the orb – a huge evergrowing…, kraftwerk – autobahn, FSOL – papua new guinea, eno/byrne – jezebel, Malcolm McLaren – buffalo gals, grandmaster flash – adventures on the wheels of steel, herbie hancock – rockit, public enemy – rebel without a pause, BOC – aquarius, the advisory circle, broadcast, aphex twin – didgeridoo, the human league – being boiled, klf – chill out, double dee and steinski – the history of hip hop, coldcut – beats and pieces, grace jones – slave to the rhythm, afrika bambaataa and the soulsonic force – planet rock, jungle brothers, beastie boys – pauls boutique, the irresistible force – the lie-in king, dj shadow – in/flux, ken nordine – word jazz, brother john rydgren, fourtet, neotropic – the man who catches clouds – greatly looking forward to hearing your mix
BoC
Beastie Boys
Jeru the Damaja
Kraftwerk
Future Sound Of London
FGTH
Soundcarriers
Amon Tobin
Broadcast
Ken Nordine
Four Tet
lfo
The The
James Brown
BoC, Coldcut, Kraftwerk, The The, A Tribe Called Quest, Squarepusher, Plastikman, Pressure Drop, Depth Charge.
BoC – Aquarius
A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita Applebaum
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Plastikman – Fuk
Coldcut – Beats and Pieces
[I give up, too hard]
The The
FGTH
BOC
Kraftwerk
The Orb?
FSOL
Giant, The The, Relax FGTH, Kraftwerk Trans Europe Express, FSOL ISDN or cascade
At the very least, some Thethe Soul Mining, Sesame Street and Boards of Canada!