Andy Votel – Vintage Volts mix

Only just managed to get a copy of this on CD – a great mix of analogue and 8-Bit wonders from Andy’s seemingly endless collection. Excellent artwork to go with it too, a nice story behind it and sound clips are here. Unfortunately it’s out of stock at FK but a couple of places have it if you look around the web.

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Holy Sh*t Batman! DJ Format & Mr Thing!

Christ this is good, Mary, mother of Joseph, this is shit hot, God I love a mix with a theme and they don’t get much better than this. DJ Format and Mr Thing – I’m not going to bother with any potted biogs, if you don’t know them, go and find out what you’ve been missing all these years.

Anyway, they put this together as a limited edition CD in 2009. Packed full of religious records of every persuasion and slant, it’s been uploaded to Soundcloud for your delectation. All kneel and praise the masters.

Holy Shit – DJ Format & Mr Thing by dj format

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The Death Set new album & single artwork

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Remember the iconic artwork for the first Death Set record back in 2009? One of my favourite covers of the year and their new releases are high on the list for 2011 as well. Another blend of B&W collage with yellow and red, this time coming on like Richard Hamilton meeting Eduardo Paolozzi. Below are the album and singles, front and back, plus a tour poster I found featuring additional artwork. Buy ’em all here.



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Mat Ducasse / Skylab / Disqo Conqrette mix CD

After posting this the other month I was contacted and sent this lovely item by Mat Ducasse himself from Skylab. It’s an excellent mix of French pop, psych rock, electronics and soundtracks, packaged beautifully with inserts and a unique CD sleeve. No idea if you can buy it anywhere but there’s a Disqo Conqrette page with a free mix here (different to this CD) and a sparse Facebook page here

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DJ Food – Magpies, Maps & Moons CD promo


Not for general sale but I bet there will be a few out there as journalists hear it, go ‘WTF?’ and sell them to their local record store. The 12″ should be at the label later this week, full photos when I get it. This is the final of 3 EPs and is released on 12″ and download on Nov 7th. ‘The Search Engine’ album will be out Jan 16th, 2012 and features versions of 12 tracks taken from the EPs, plus some exclusive bits.

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JG Thirlwell artwork

A couple of projects JG has been involved with recently have really caught my eye on the artwork front, both have a medical angle and lean on the black, white and red colour palette.

The first is Manorexia‘Dinoflagellate Blooms’, a double disc pack with X-rays and syringes. Click for larger versions. Buy it from JGT’s site here. It’s a double CD with regular and 5.1 surround sound version.


The second is a lovely 4 track 10″ under the name Hydrose Plus, a collaboration with Fred Bigot. The cover shows a face from a medical encyclopedia in profile but when you take the clear vinyl 10″ out of the sleeve you realise that the eyeball is printed on the label and fits perfectly into the eye socket on the front. Not only that but you also get an insert with the inside of the face cut away.

Buy it directly from the label here.

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64 Bar Challenge No.6 mix

The 64 Bar Challenge mix I did has finally gone up, 29 tracks in 52 minutes, the brief was for each track to be 110 beats per minute and last 64 bars. The series was originated on the Ninja Tune forum by Kovas and driven over 6 different challenges  with entries from all over the world.
The quality was really high, largely leaning towards the electronic end of the spectrum, and with roughly 50/50 of the entrants being unsigned or never having released anything. Take a listen and see what you think and contact Kovas at [email protected] if there’s anything here you’d like to know more about, we’d both like to see some of this talent get a lot further. If you go to mixcloud you can see who did what as it scrolls through the mix.

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Alex Paterson 3 hour Orb special

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I love The Orb, one of my favourite groups, and here Alex Paterson goes on a 3 hour mission with all sorts of rare or unheard versions, mixes and the like from their back catalogue. That unreleased remix of U2‘s ‘Numb’ that there are only 2 acetates of? He plays a lot of it here. Unreleased mixes from ‘…Ultraworld’ or a 2010 remix of ‘The Blue Room’. You can listen to it here on The 180, a monthly mix show from Music For Listeners on KRTU in San Antonio. Alex’s is July’s mix and Junes is System 7 whilst August is Thomas Fehlmann with exclusives all round.

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DJ Food flexi disc

Yes I can hardly believe it myself, I’ve wanted to have a flexi disc with my music on it for as long as I can remember and today they arrived. The fact that the last major manufacturer of flexis shut up shop in 2001 didn’t deter me from looking all these years and I finally found someone who had restarted the process late last year. David Read over at Vinyl Record Guru in Nanaimo, Canada is the man to speak to and they do a wide range of coloured inks, several different disc colours and both 33 and 45 rpm.

This little beauty will (somehow) be given away with a limited CD of my album sold via the Ninja Tune online shop later this year. More details when I have them (and better pictures too!) I’ve been planning to showcase my flexi disc collection for a while so I might do one a week starting next year in a ‘Flexi-stentialism’ section.



 

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Bowie’s Space Oddity illustrated book

This is wonderfully done – Andrew Kolb has illustrated David Bowie‘s ‘Space Oddity’ as a children’s book. If you go to the Comic Alliance site you can play the song and read the book lyric by lyric (don’t skip to the end and spoil it).


Unfortunately he’s been sent some sort of cease and desist by the song owners and has had to take the book off his own site for fear of a law suit.

I love his take on the Beach Boys‘Pet Sounds’ too.

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Bastard flashback

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A new Facebook group popped up this week reminiscing over the club at the centre of the mash up / bootleg / bastard pop craze of the early 2000’s. This short piece by a Swiss film crew was posted that I make a brief cameo in. The King Of The Boots/Bastard nights at the Asylum are some of my fondest clubbing memories (as a punter and a DJ), genuinely insane, hilarious as well, as each new mash was greeted with a roar of approval. There was a real shock of the new in some ways, you could hear the scene unfolding month after month, incredibly exciting as well as being some of the silliest, dance-on-the-table-shit-faced nights out.

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