Mixtapes
2012 sees us re-establish this series of indulgent curated mixtapes by friends and family of the LuckyMe label. In an age of simply too many disposable club mixes there is something to be said for the trusted integrity of the curator. Don’t just take our word for it – feel free to pour over these mixes dating back to the formation of LuckyMe in 2007. We always ask our contributors to feel completely liberated – mixes of alternative genres and guilty pleasures are completely encouraged here. With over 100 tapes into the archive you are less likely to hear the big songs of the current month here. We will either bring you brand new exclusive dubs or dig deep and do something unexpected.
New tapes are available here on the 1st of the month. Then on iTunes & Mixcloud the following week. Thank you to the contributors. Oh, and most importantly… thank you girls.
103. Hudson Mohawke – Valentines Slow Jams Chapter V
This tape will be added to our mix tapes series next week – available either here, through iTunes, or no doubt on filesharing sites you love. But in the meantime you can get it now RIGHT HERE. <3 Y’all.
102. South London Ordnance – S London Mixtape
As expected, South London Ordnance takes us off piste more than a couple times over this excellent 55 minute tape. You may have heard his bottomlessly deep electro, techno and funky hybrids already but in this debut for our mix series he covers some serious ground with over 20 unreleased and forthcoming white labels that are destined to travel this year. A bold mission statement from this rising producer and extra props for the Lunice Fancy Forty hi5 at the end. Peace to South L’Ordnance.
Peace to Amber
1. LFO – LFO (Altered Natives Edit) (Unreleased)
2. Wheezie – Back It In
3. Boddika – Breezin (Swamp 81)
4. Wiley – Ice Rink (Moleskin Edit) (Unreleased)
5. Hodge – No Playing (Unreleased)
6. Graphics – 17 Crubside (Unreleased)
7. Boddika & Joy O – Swims (Swamp 81)
8. Martyn – Vancouver (Hackman Remix) (Unreleased)
9. South London Ordnance – Roofy (Unreleased)
10. Addison Groove – Work It (Beesmut Remix) (Unreleased)
11. Aquarian – Angst Lee (Unreleased)
12. Artifact – Turtle Fight (Unreleased)
13. Visionist – Circles (Unreleased)
14. My Nu Leng – Waltaknocks (Forthcoming LNUK Records)
15. Visionist – Tropics (Forthcoming Diskotopia)
16. Dro Carey ft. Trim – Lose My Head (Numan Instrumental) (Unreleased)
17. Art of Noise – Moments In Love (ZTT)
18. Dro Carey & Grown Folk – Southern Smoke (Forthcoming Templar Sound)
19. Last Japan – Projects NYC (Unreleased)
20. My Nu Leng – Damp (Last Japan’s 4.44am Remix) (Forthcoming LNUK Records)
21. Paleman – All Good (Unreleased)
22. South London Ordnance – Ordnance Dub (Forthcoming)
23. Artifact & Thefft – Cow Hop (Unreleased)
24. Bizzi – Bizzi’s Party (Booker T Vocal Lick Radio Edit) (Various)
25. Boxwork – Pressureface (Unreleased)
26. Hodge – You (Unreleased)
27. South London Ordnance – Rotor Cabinet (Unreleased)
28. Boddika – Acid Battery (K7)
29. Thefft – Distronet (Unreleased)
30. South London Ordnance – Big Boss Theme (Unreleased)
31. South London Ordnance – Electric Prom (Unreleased)
32. Lunice – Fancy Forty (Lucky Me)
101. Machinedrum – The Fader SXLND Mixtape
Commemorating the release of SXLND The Fader posted this tape by Drum. Its got some absolute exclusives from him and the rest of the crew. I can’t believe he put John Computer on here. That’s not out forever.
Peace to this girl
100. Helix – Rapid Mixtape
Helix is that dude with All Caps & Night Slugs 12″s out this apocalyptic 2012 which places him in unique position to quietly influence the best djs this year; just before the oceans evaporate forever… and so what’s he offering? Well he’s upping the tempo on all this pussy compressed laptop techno and trying to bring back something raw uncut with clattering, black-pepper drum programming that feels authentic. He builds music for 1AM and 4AM with equal weight – even his deeper, understated moments swing on long tape saturated pads. And with this tape for us, which could of easily just been a tribute to OJ Da Juiceman, he sorta surprised us with this perfect night drive soundtrack of rapid & classic techno that warrants bouncing to cassette just for the extra dose of fuzz as the planet moves slowly closer to the sun. Our 100th tape. Helix in the mix. Happy new year.
Peace to Karlin
99. Eclair Fifi – Urb Mixtape
This mix first went live on Urb.com in July 2011 but was recorded months earlier. It’s done so much damage that we’re posting here for eternal archive. This is where you first heard a hi quality version of Thunder Bay and there’s songs on here that still haven’t surfaced. Maybe never will. All expertly dropped by master selector Eclair Fifi in a Serato / Vinyl one-take mix. It’s the only way she records – #real.
Peace to Eclair Fifi
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Ciara – Promise (acapella) (la face recordings)
Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Timeline (underground resistance)
Machinedrum – Van Vogue (luckyme)
Diamond – Pretty Girl Swag (unreleased)
Krystal Klear – Pistol Chaffeur (unreleased)
Jeff Phelps – Super Lady (engineered for sound)
The Weeknd – What You Need (jacques greene edit) (unreleased)
Boddika – Syn Chron (naked lunch)
Twista ft Pharrel – Lavish (atlantic)
Hudson Mohawke – Foxy Boxing (unreleased)
Rick Ross – BMF (maybach music / def jam)
Wiz Khalifa – Say Yeah (instrumental) (warner)
Threat Misses – Juke Ya Girl (unreleased)
Lunice – Bricks (luckyme)
Jeremih – Look At Me Now Freestyle (unreleased)
Hudson Mohawke – Thunder Bay (warp records)
Louis Johnson – She’s Bad (capital)
Rustie – Jagz the Smack (stuff records)
Lunice – Trill Gates (luckyme)
Devo – Whip It (virgin)
Beyonce – Video Phone (instrumental) (rca)
Dorian Concept – Tiger Burger (forthcoming rush hour)
Pusha T – Alone in Vegas (decon / good music)
Machinedrum – Sakatak (luckyme)
Yummy Bingham- Come Get It (motown)
Hudson Mohawke – Cypress Phil (unreleased)
Jesse Boykins iii – Tabloids (machinedrum remix) (normrex)
Surface – Happy (columbia.cbs)
Timbaland – Miscommunication (interscope)
Lady l – Ice Cream Dreams (dub mix) (emergency records)
Sebastian – Embody (ed banger records)
98. Claude Speeed – Black Athena Mixtape
A mix by Claude Speeed showcasing his new exclusives. Thick synthetic chords and cracking 808s – it’s not dance music but it’s not not dance music.Recorded for our friends at Black Athena Radio in Greece.
Peace to Joanna
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Pioneers of Anaesthetic – Rainy Morning Retreat
Claude Speeed – Ssoon
Nightwave – Nightbird
Com Truise – VHS Sex
Gwen Stefani – Luxurious (Lapalux Bootleg Remix)
American Men – Witch
American Men – Dnaas
Gang Gang Dance – Glass Jar (Ango Edit)
Kuedo – Onset (Escapism)
Laurel Halo – Hour Logic
Claude Speeed – Bcccc
Claude Speeed – Dreamdream / Heart Racing
Luniz – 5 On It (Claude Speeed Short Edit)
Ango – What You Lose
Slimes – Slappers Only
Kim Hiorthoy – Det Blev Fel
Manabu (Santaruru) Namiki – Fly to the Leaden Sky (Arcade Version)
Claude Speeed – Drop Juke Out Edit
Claude Speeed – Moon Chord Supermagic
Sun Kil Moon – Exit Does Not Exist
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
Claude Speeed – Edo / Weird Cop
97. Obey City – Oh Bee Mixtape
Proud to introduce Obey City to the label. We’re a label born from a group of friends and how we continue to expand for now, is by working with people we meet through music. Friends or friends of friends. Well Sam (Obey) was the hot shit young producer who would give Machinedrum demos at his Cassette NYC Party and for the last year he’s been sending us hotter and hotter music. Let’s see where it goes from here fam-lay.
Peace to Christina
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Aeroplane – Mountains Of Moscow
Inc. – Heart Crimes
Beaty Heart – 2Good (Jam City Remix)
L.V. – I Am L.V.
$1 Bin – This Is A Melody
Gwen Stefani – Luxurious (Lapalux Bootleg Remix)
SBTRKT & Sampha – Evening Glow
Machinedrum – TMPL
Kon – Earthbound
123Mrk – Unrest
Look Like – Buggin (Sinjin Hawke Remix)
Obey City – Radio Rah
Starkey – Lost In Space (Kuhn Remix)
Raja – Big Guns And Coke (Can’t Ace Me)
Obey City – Intrigue
The Range – A Solitudinous Diptych
Todd Rundgren – Prana
Knxwledge – Dukshun
Chris Clark – Lord Of The Dance
Bobby Brown – I’ll Be Good To You
Bobby Nunn – Do You Look That Good In The Morning?
L-vis 1990 – One More Day
Paul Jones – Supermax (feat. Puff Daddy & Cassie)
Hyetal – Beach Scene
Rustie – Surph
Obey City – Melted Magic
d’Eon – Tongues
James Pants – Plain To See
96. Southern Hospitality – 600% Mixtape
Click here to download entire tape
Ok Ok… now this is some shit… we are very proud to present “600%” an exclusive mix from the infamous Southern Hospitality crew. Holding it down for years with their legendary London parties, hip hop karaoke events and journalistic manoeuvres they have played a huge part in shining a light on the myriad exciting strains of Hip Hop emanating from the Bay, the South and everywhere else that good new music comes from. We have been dying to feature a proper huge rap tape on the site for ages and the SH boys have more than delivered. New Trae, Juicy J, Rozayy … all new shit to get your heart pumping . Here’s to more collaborations with these guys.
In a break in convention – this tape comes in a zip with realer-than-real artwork and separated tracks – for the genuine experience burn it, pop it in a skinny jewel case and grab your car keys.
Peace to Trae, meanest mixtape gurl we had yet.
95. MA1 – RKS Mixtape
What you know about Roska Kiks n Snares? For the last year it’s been all about solid as fuck offerings of new UK House and tribal soul. Late in March scene-heavyweight and Rinse-champion MA1 dropped his sublime “Do it Better / Static” 12 and recorded this slick tape full of upfront peak time positivity for us. Thats not to say the Karnival Kingpin doesnt get down and dirty…. There’s enough exclusive material on here to turn you into house party legend-status. Peace to Roska who sent us this. All eyes on them.
Peace to Cal
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MJ Cole – TGV
Champion – Lose Control (Hyper Dub)
Jay Weed - The Naos (502)
Hackman - Just want your Clothes
MA1 – Static (RKS)
Katy B - Broken Record (Jacques Greene Remix) (Rinse Recs)
Benjamin Damage - No Snares
Kingdom – Hottest in America (dub)
MJCole&Wiley – FromTheDrop_LVis1990 Rmx
Teenage Mutants – Chango (Malente Remix)
Copyright - Kama Yeah feat. Shovell (Defected Recs)
MA1 – Do it Better – Extended Mix (RKS)
Tom Middleton - Cicadas (Marlon D’s U. C. Colombian Remix) (Lo Rise Recs)
Ossie – Tarantula
Roska – Abrupt (Hotflush)
Velour - The Scent Of Romance (Night Slugs)
MA1 – High Definition (T.Williams Remix) (Karnival Music)
The Electric- Overload (DVA remix)
94. Om Unit – Chug Revolution! Mixtape
Last Summer Om Unit took off round the country driving the full span of the British Isles reaching the farthest Northern point of the mainland in an incredible RV he’d hand-reared, full of food cans and equipment for making music. We’d spoken briefly online and shown mutual respect for each other on Ustream chat rooms but it was one of the rare moments that virtual friends become real friends when the guy just called us to say he was about half an hour away from our studio. We were playing in this tiny bar called Bramble that night and ended up all going up to this girls house-party afterwards where an only-in-edinburgh crop of trustafarians tried to hustle us chemical drugs, dancing with their breasts out, and electrocute us with a broken camera flash. I mean, it was a pretty weird and debased night for Om Unit to just sorta be there along for the ride – but it was natural. Instant family you know. You just click with some people. I think this is written all over this website – but music is one of the greatest ways to meet people – especially this weird shit we make – cause if you get that you can presume so much familiarity with each other. This tape, and in fact all these tapes, say more about the actual person than you might at first think. Enjoy.
Peace to Vixy
93. Oneman – Ninety Three Mixtape
First time we ever met Bok Bok I remember sittin backstage in Stereo with a blinking bar light, sat on cheap plastic seating with Jack Revill aka Jackmaster talking about how metronome-tight Oneman was – How he was ‘techno tight’. I mean, a DJ’s-DJ is kind of a rare thing in 2011 when even the guy who cleans your windows probably fucks with Serato. But Oneman is just that and here he explains why with an excellent tracklisting that’s so on-point with references we love that we feel almost embarrassed like he dropped the Quiet Storm instrumental in just for us. Big up the head of 502.
Peace to Nikita
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LITE – Drops
Mobb Deep – Quiet Storm [inst.]
Bad Autopsy – Pour It On
Zed Bias – Music Deep Inside
Damage Daneeka – Creeper
French Fries – Charlotte [Canblaster remix]
Boddika – Basement
Search & Destroy – Candyfloss [Toasty remix]
Unknown – Knock, Knock
Pelican Fly – Bendin’ [Jay Weed remix]
Boddika – Soul What
Prince – I Would Die For You
Velour – She Wore Velour
Marcus Intalex – Under Surveillance
Oneohtrix Point Never – Nobody Here
Scuba – Twitch [Jamie Vex'd remix]
Fantastic Mr Fox – Peep Show [Desto remix]
Joker & Rustie – Tempered
Addison Groove – Sexual
Ikonika – Space Ugly
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX – NY Is Killing Me
50 Cent & Justin Timberlake – Ayo Technology [Acapella]
Girl Unit – WUT
Wiley – Shower Eski [Mickey Pearce remix]
Digital Mystikz – Lost City
Starkey – Miracles
Desto, Clouds & Jimi Tenor ft. ChaCha – Time Bird
Wiley – Saw It Coming
92. Hudson Mo – Valentines Slow James Chapter IV
It is with great pride we present the 4th Valentines Slow Jams compendium by Hudson Mo. This time it’s a sparkling, sweat-drenched slab of hormones from the early 2000s with just a dash of Tevin Campbell cause… well…. he had to. So kick back in your dune-buggy or lay down naked on your sushi table. Light a candle and turn up the mids on this, another Hudson Mohawe soundtrack to make love to.
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3LW – Crush on U
Mya – For the First Time
Donnell Jones – Do U Wanna
Tweet – My Place
Babyface – There She Goes
Tevin Campbell – Could It Be
Joe – Peepshow
Montell Jordan – Let’s Cuddle Up
Jagged Edge – Can I Get With You
Ginuwine – All Night All Day
112 – Peaches n Cream
91. Brenmar – 12th Day The End Mixtape
And to close our 12 Days of Christmas tape season we proudly present a golden new dance champion from the United States, Brenmar. With a vibrant selection from this DJ / Producer its an essential mission statement to his year ahead. Is it possible for modern house to be ‘deep’ and shamelessly fun at the same time? If so, somebody give this guy the crown for effortlessly putting the best pomp of RnB midi brass together with bassline, funky and even the murky depth UK 4AM rollers. It’s a simultaneous shot of uppers & downers that few could pull off with so much cohesion and style.
Peace to Jeanette Hayes
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Brenmar – Intro
112 – Let This Go (Brenmar Edit)
Brenmar – Tasting
Samo Sound Boy – Burning and Stealing
The Living Islands – Empires (Sam Tiba Remix)
Young Joc – What She Like feat. Yo Gotti
Gutta The Producer – Your Body
Rizzla – Bandmind HA
Pure – Body Talk
Pocz & Pacheko – Tuki Love
Just Dre – All I Want Is You (Club Mix)
DeeJay Runnah – Alley Hoop Dat Feat Dj Tone Vocals
Nguzunguzu – Mirage (Brenmar Remix)
90. The Blessings – 11th Day Mixtape for Deadly Rhythm
The Blessings dropped this tape to spread the word about our Deadly Rhythm X LuckyMe show in November. You should of seen the lineup:
Mike Slott, Lunice, Cubic Zirconia, The Blessings, Kingdom, Optimum & Ikonika. I mean, the whole thing was pretty serious. Short but sweet mix here with that good dose of juju and a handful of world exclusives you can expect from Blessings mixes.
Peace to this lady from Hoya Hoya crowd
89. Salva – 10th Day Feng Shui Footwork Mixtape
Ahhhh, the soothing reverbs of Salva have nourished our aching ears this year – offering something all together more citrus to the world of bass music (yeah I said it). Fritenite have been our homefolks since myspace was a useful ‘two-cans-and-a-length-of-string’. Nowadays we’re just lucky to meet when one of us is thousands of miles away from home. But know that if there were ever some kindred spirits, holding it down on the other side of the world, Salva is one of em, fusing melody with high-production across a wide span of tempos and knowing that rap is not a dirty word yet. This tape is dope. Tell your friends about it.
Peace to Roisin
88. 8Bitch – 9th Day Mixtape
Footwork is a raw music that once can’t help feel has been exported to Europe a little prematurely. But its mutation is so fast that this international crop of first and second generation producers are giving this true battle music there own context entirely; away from community halls in the Chi. For now this new Footwork makes more sense in European clubs if you drop it after real detroit booty and a handful of big pop hop. 8Bitch is no fool to the format – making one of the tightest & complete mixes one could ever ask of this hybrid urban club music. It doesn’t drop a single beat, staying rigidly quantised with expertly pasted acapellos that’ll make you ponder the sounds of fairground music after the mayan apocalypse.
Peace to Marcy
87. Wrong Island – 8th Day Wrong Lucky Island Me Mixtape
Happy New Year Ery’body. I’d like to think the photo of Wrong Island’s ‘Teamy’ above is taken in New York after we bumped into each other in the old Knitting Factories last ever Sunn0)))) concert. The fact that I’d even just happen to meet this guy on the other side of the world at an auspicious gig like that explains why we had to get a mix from them. Wrong Island is a Glasgow institution that, should you ever be in town, you should see first hand. It’s one of those nights with a rare energy somewhere between cool, unpretentious, camp & messy. You know, after 2AM at Wrong Island every single song is an anthem. The music policy takes it over 4 decades of the cool shit but without the usual compromise of what’s hot and current. I mean the best of Funky and everything post-dubstep sat on top of HI NRG is no bad thing at all in my eyes. Smarter than your usual club mix by 3 miles, this is perfect for today.
Peace to Teamy
86. Dema – 7th Day NYE Mixtape
Safehands. Safehands. Safehands. Dema is our main fuckin guy up here, playin our club in the time slot where we want people to go crazy. Even if its some old 90s west coast trunk shakers, Dema gives us the weight that one needs in the wee small hours. And so when we had to make something special for the New Year mix, the longest party of the year – he was first choice.
Peace to this lady from our Sonar crowd
85. Roska – 6th Day Mixtape
Little known fact Dom’s been helping design the labels for Roska’s Kiks & Snares label. So to get us back Roska came through with a true-to-form UKF thumper with some the satisfying deep cuts from a legend who’s stock is rising all the time (when he’s not playin Words With Friends). Look out for more from Roska and Kiks & Snares as they melt funky down into some new shapes.
Peace to Joanna
84. Mooken – 5th Day Ikiryo Mixtape
Mooken was the first guy to ever put on Hudson Mohawke in Manchester in 2008. We drove down together with the founder of Firecracker Records to see Moodyman play (behind the curtain) and I’ll never forget waking up round Mooken’s place, hung over and groggy to pour over this enormous collection of prog, space disco & Drexciya piled up beside the makeshift bed in our room. It’s been a reality of making music that we have made friends who we met early which have continued to grow in profile through the record industry. So it was great to see Mooken hold down the other Sonar stage at the same time as us in 2010, playing directly after Matthew Herbert. Funny to think of the same dude that was so nice to us back then, sharing his house and last slice of toast with us now watching Herbert from the wings of the stage in Barcelona.
Peace to Cornelia
83. Claude Speeed (American Men) – 4th Day Mixtape
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but we put out a record called Cool World in July 2010. It’s an electronic vision of rock music by our friends American Men. We added a remix disk with work by Falty DL, Optimum & Ikonika, Machinedrum & Hudson Mohawke and hence put out our first gatefold double vinyl. It’s probably the most satisfied we’ve been as a bunch of guys making records, that we made a complete project. And if you’ve ever been lucky enough to catch the full band live you will be as hooked as we were, many moons ago when Claude Speed showed me their myspace page. And so kick back and enjoy Claude’s own heady mix of golden era electronica and drone-pulled corporate rock: a mission statement for the year ahead.
Peace to Becca
82. Elijah & Skilliam – Day Three Sugar Overdose Mixtape
Lets not get academic about it – Elijah & Skilliam are putting out some of the best grime in the world on their Butterz label. Every record is a practical, heavy-hitting, play out gem that does exactly what it should: keeps em moving. They are the reason we don’t suffer any ‘state of grime’ conversations anymore. Thanks to Butterz who turned round this mixtape us in just a couple of days and packed it full of exclusives. Stone cold professionals.
Peace to Katie
81. ANGO – Day Two Make Out To This Mixtape
Andrew Gordon Mcpherson aka ANGO delivers one of the most satisfying RnB selections of the year, just sneaking-her-in for the final week. This tape is all smiles. Can’t wait to hear what 2011 holds for him as he gears up with a debut record and very likely a host of other releases and remixes with fellow labels. Keep an eye on ANGO, cause his electronic soul music tinged with hip hop, house and disco might well offer an overdue alternative to the reverb’d swathes of melancholy that defined 2010.
Peace to Miriam
80. Untold – Day One Mixtape
So we sent out mails asking to take part in this special mixtape series to some of the most respected musicians doing it and Jack Dunning got right back. But he was soon to tour abroad and so 24 hours later this tape landed in our inbox. A masterstroke by Untold, of post punk and hardcore stompers you maybe didn’t expect if you didn’t know how clever and eclectic this real producer is. Not just because it was the first tape we got back, but because it is one of the very best we have ever brought to you – we are proud to kick off our new mixtape series and site with this tape. Thank you Jack.
Peace to Christina
79. The Blessings – Brainfeeder Galaxy High Mixtape
Lotus reached out to us way back at the birth of the Feeder site for a mix but he’s busy and we’re busy. So now, a few weeks from the christening of our debut release with Nod Navigators, The Blessings stitch together a bunch of exclusives. Our shit and our friends shit.
Peace to Abi
78. Machinedrum – The World Famous Show Mixtape
In 2010, with the release of Many Faces on LuckyMe, Machinedrum stepped from his place at the heart of Neu New York Hip Hop and RnB to take his place in at the heart of new UK/EU electronic music. After years of the most reputable beat production fused he was very influential to us here. But with his records on LuckyMe, Planet Mu & Hot Flush he’s now better known for this dubstep, techno and house hybrids which sound like they’ve been dragged into the teleporter from The Fly movies. HIs unique sense of melody and texture power the emotion of his music – but this tape here shows a bright bombastic love of old school electro, hip hop, stadium rock and boogie. No one expected it but fuck, aren’t you hearing what I’m saying. Machinedrum’s gonna mutate on us.
Peace to Sana
77. Konx Om Pax – End of Sun Mixtape
If you don’t know about Konx Om Pax’s home label Display Copy, you should. Some of the most discerning home for his releases, video and print indulgence since, well, here. But if you thought we were weird, wait til you hear Tom. He is the twisted mind behind sleeves and videos for all our friends and he’s one of the moodiest & friendliest people we know. We got made love for Tom. This is a funny tape though. It’s like he’s gone aw fuckit, i’ll dj like those normal djs for once! Like he’s been itching to put more krautrock spanners in the works the entire time. What he accidentally did here is make an excellent summary of trad-hits and this summers anthems. It ticks along satisfyingly, but gets really good when Tom can’t help himself fuck up the dance with granular synthesis.
Peace to Kyla
76. American Men – Middle of Sun Mixtape
Alilloyd from American Men didn’t make this for the site or anything. He just posted it to our private forum where we all swap music and talk about world affairs (read R&B Gossip) . We all just loved it cause this summer it’s been a lot of shows. Lot of clubs. Maybe not as much sun as we might of deserved. And so in the eternal hunt for new music to play out we slept on the Emeralds LP and a lot more of Ali’s choices. A shot of pure Vitamin D in the ear.
Peace to our Sonar front row.
75. Premier Rang – Premier Rang Mixtape
Is it obvious to say one of our favourite labels was Italian’s Do it Better. Actually, maybe it’s not obvious. Like sometimes people send us demos saying things like: “My music is like Mancuso mixed with Caribou” and then you get a patronising link to Wikepedia references. We don;t listen to a lot of Bass Music here. Please. Trust me. Back in the day when we listened to hip hop A LOT, and a beat on the Nas album would sound like a beat on the Can Ox record from the year before and people would be like ” it’s just coincidence”. I think we always had the opinion that the world of music is small. That it’s totally feasible that the overground is influenced by the underground. And that a label like LuckyMe, known for it’s blend of electronic music and hip hop could be deeply enthused about the world of Italo and Rock. Pan-genre in itself this tape from Premier Rang is an inspiring mix that we’re really proud to host. It’s far more in keeping with the idea of this series than a current club mix.
Peace to Anne Louise
74. Eclair Fifi & The Blessings – Road To Sonar 2010 Mixtape
We’ve been so busy in preparation of releasing Cool World and Many Faces this month, as well as preparing our visuals, live shows and contracts for the big Sonar show that we’re gonna have to sit on our contributors mixtapes til next month. We wanted to give you something special from the crew for this month to coincide with our Sonar spectacular. We called in Eclair & Fine Art late last night and asked if they’d be up for a live mix – no retakes. A one-shot back 2 back pass as a special Sonar Mixtape. Packed full of exclusives from the label roster and our super friends, alongside some straight-up Summer jams for the year. No biggie. It as rough as a good live tape should be with levels all over the place but we think it sounds like we had fun making it. Aight so, here comes the sun everyone. See you on the flipside of Europes largest electronic music festival.
Peace to Georgie
73. Respite – Too Cold Mixtape
All the LuckyMe artists featured on this site come certified. Don’t under estimate a single one. You may have never heard of him but music is beautifully uncontrolled. Max Dunbar once said of Respite’s song ‘Girls_Suitcases’ ” AMAZING…. it’s post everything.” What we have here is not a concept tape. It’s a ‘shit I’m feeling right now’ tape meaning the ubiquitous ‘want me’ makes an appearance, butted up against some shimmering rnb. It’s dope. A perfect example of LM in the ’10.
Peace to Annie
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Respite – Shirakami
Computer Jay – Maintain (FaltyDL Edit)
Deadboy – If U Want Me
XXXY – Que
Kyle Hall – Kaychunk
Addison Grove – Dumbshit
Fantastic Mr Fox – BrickAbrac
Zae – Thyow
Ikonika- Psoriasis
The Tuss – Shiz Ko E
Rossi B & Lucca – E10 Riddim
Brenmar – Kicked Beneath Too
Drake – Over (DJ Santa, Esemtrik & Sega Refix)
Microthol – Binary Systems
J-Treole – The Loot (Sully Remix)
Charanjit Singh – Raga Malkauns
Starkey – OK Luv
Bflecha – Ambrosia
Mario – Music For Love (Instrumental)
FunkinEven – You
DMX Krew – Particle Burst
Keyshia Cole – Last Night Remix (Instrumental)
Ceephax Acid Crew – The Celebrity
Subeena – Analyse
Norm Talley – In Yo Soul
Falty DL – Groove
Koreless – 4D
72. James Pants – A Horrible Fancy Tale
When Mo came back from his US Tour there was this weird looking dude living in his flat, eating from his fridge… James Fuckin’ Pants. Not the sorta shit that happens everyday. Or actually, for Mo this is exactly the sorta shit that happens everyday. James is one of our very favourite artists round here cause no one lets more of their character blossom out through their selection of music. It’s all in there: The humour. The outsider. The understated cool. The darned unashamed-ness. Even this weird flirtation with the macabre. Mannn, Pants truly loves the desperate and obscure. Not RARE. I said obscure. Those things that are seldom seen, heard or given any value. I’ve seen James play many times now and I remember he’d play some shit that I have never given a second to before – like Barry White records and, on this tape the Sabbath joint that kicks it off. Don’t get me wrong, I love these artists but when he put his hands to them they became something else. See, he’s drawing from this whole shitty chain of undervalued and unwanted music and he’s bringing them back into our modern context to say something about what it all means side by side. What does it say about man that we made all this horrible and beautiful sounds in our recorded history of 100 years? He’s making narratives out of minute morsels of new age music, kraut, punk, rock, rap & techno to string out this story. What you’re left with is the mixtape equivalent of the ride from the beginning of dungeons and dragons. You strap-in for 34 minutes and you pop out the other end of this horribly fancy tale sorta feeling woozy, dragged through a 1000 lost exotic places.
Peace to Sanaz
71. Bamboo Palace – Light Surfing Mixtape
Darrell aka Bamboo Palace used to share a flat with Hud Mo a couple years back and I’d head round to make music and next door dude was sat on his stolen office chair churning out immaculate heavy Garage and (forgive us) Bassline influenced edits. Native to Glasgow he’s been friends to Numbers and Fortified for years but it was over this period with Mo that we got to hearing more and more of this guys music and we became good friends. Well, Darrell’s got a better chair now. A better flat. He’s got a literal tonne of 80′s synth soul, pop, booty, early west coast electro & gangster rap and he goes to Miami once a year to collect vinyl and cuban sandwiches. One of the most prolific producers in our stable turning out dj tools and producing a new live band project – you should know that all our crew are safe-hands. All come up with the goods.
Peace to this girl from our HInterland show
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Michelle – Keep Watchin (quit bitchin margo mix)
Soft Pink Truth – Gender Studies
M Dubs – Over Here
Vanity 6 – Make Up
Anita Howard – T Shirt and Panties (2stepmix)
Scott Garcia – Music Takes You
Brian Zents – Everglades
Joy Orbison – J Doe
Dj Deeon – Hoes
313 Bass Mechanics – Can I Get A Ride (ed dmx mix)
Bamboo Palace – Light Surfing
Mr De – Sex on the Beach
Beyonce – Video Phone
70. Hyetal – Draw For The Fruit Bowl Mixtape
So, Bristol is nuts eh? Hyetal is yet another example of forward thinking electronic music coming out of the city. His music is beautifully stripped back which reeks of 80s Prince influences and 90s FM. Last year we were working loooong into the night on the Mary Anne Hobbs visuals for Wild Angels. The girl saying fuck you in the attached photo was the star of the viral film, and together with Konx Om Pax we created a huge set on these derelict tramlines on Southside Glasgow dressed up like wolves and druids. We played the soundtrack to the film as we shot, and every time Hyetal’s ‘We Should Light A Fire’ came round it was like the whole dusk just sank into a syrup. Jo was creeped out but sorta enjoyed it.
Peace to Jo
69. Kingdom – April Fools Gold Part 2 Mixtape
Back when myspace was really fucking exciting Eclair Fifi added a then ‘DJ Ezra aka KINGDOM’ who we bugged for his flip of Bustas ‘Eyes Can See’. We made some swaps and stayed in touch and when we toured the US in late 08 Kingdom came down and we finally met in person right before we blew up the amp in Nu Blu NYC. Jump forward to April 2010 and Kingdom is down with our peoples at Night Slugs (THE TRUTH!!!!) and has put out his first cerftified anthem in the form of his debut 12″ – Mindreader ft Shyvonne (Fools Gold Records). With two European tours in 4 months, Miami Winter Music, SXSW, tours of OZ and Radio One shine – man it’s looking like this is gonna be the year that Kingdom gets what he’s due. His sensibility is perfect. Back in February we played this show for Last.Fm at Cargo which wrapped up about 4 and then we slogged up to the Egg at Kings Cross for the Night Slugs label launch. By the time we got there the smoke was thick in the air and the crowd were grindin on each other. The booth was a who’s-who of shit we’re excited about right now: Bok Bok, L Vis, Mosca, Greena, Jam City, Ikonika, and Manara on the mic. Then this dancing shape from out the smoke takes to the booth and it’s Kingdom, banging out thousands of snare drums on CD-R. My memory of that night is buckafast-hazey but just in terms of vibe, Kingdom was the most satisfyingly ‘on my own shit’ DJ I’ve seen in ages. Every success this year Killa. Thank you for the mix.
Peace to Cynthia
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Egyptrixx – Everybody Bleeding (Kingdom Remix ft. Shyvonne)
Marlon D – Funky Angel (Edit ft. Lumidee)
Cooly G – Weak
DJ Clock – My Feelings
Roska – I Need Love (ft. Anesha)
Mike Q – Master Blaster 2009
Mike Q – Bring You Up
DJ Abis – My Derb
DJ Otto – Soy El Diablo
Girl Unit – I.R.L.
No Lay – Unorthodox Daughter (Kingdom Remix)
Shareefa – Hustlin’
Erykah Badu – Bag Lady (Girl Unit Juke Mix)
DJ Pierre – Baby Talk
Kingdom – Red Baron Juke
Gremino – Let’s Jack
Plasticman – White Gloves
Ciara – Speechless (ft. The-Dream)
68. Maxmillian Dunbar – Make Your Transistion Mixtape
Max Dunbar runs the excellllllent Future Times Records and as well as solo production and DJing contributes to his group Beautiful Swimmers who we absolutely fuck with. It’s just a beautiful thing to find guys all over the world who are so likeminded. If I was to copy paste our intro emails they would read like a ping pong of youtubes from two rap / new jack nerds who grew up just enough to get into dance music. What is that exactly what we are? So Max worked on this mix over a couple months and it shows. We at LuckyMe really love all these mixes equally as if they were our children or pets, but they seems to have all just upped the anti on each other these last few months. This Max Dunbar tape is so timeless. The whole thing is crystal. Support Future Times Records and the releases of Max Dunbar.
Peace to Naomi
67. JD Twitch – Optimo Espacio RIP
If there has been any single great influence on Glasgow’s musical reputation it has been the impeccable attitude and style of Optimo Espacio’s JD Twitch and Jonny Wilkes. If ever there was one, Sundays at the Subclub have been a complete institution of clubbing in Glasgow for the last 12 years- scaring off any competition. Whole venues would sooner close on Sundays than compete with Optimo. It was that serious. When I started at Glasgow School of Art there was no department that would put on a Monday morning lecture in acknowledgment that the attendance would be weak. Mondays were a ghost town on Renfrew Street. Can you imagine a club where dub turned techno turned hip hop turned electro turned rock turned punk turned techno. And the hand type-set flyers and the girls and the ‘we love your ears’ neon lighting. Man, these guys just knew myth building better than anyone. I once heard someone mutter that Twitch’s only rule in music was that he hated sax and would never play a record which included the instrument, but of course it was bullshit – I just ate up and believed it. I’d go down, and Hud Mo would be working the bar and Nadsroic would be working the bar and the whole time you’d be making these lists of songs in your head: what they played and how the fuck they took you on such a ride from here to there in three records and live 808s and effects. I mean, Optimo remain the absolute gold standard for us. A huge influence on LuckyMe and their Sunday night shows will be missed. This beautiful little acknowledgement by Twitch is an honour.
Peace to Nat
66. Nick Catchdubs – April Fools Gold Mixtape
Last year we April Fooled about having a Fools Gold tape, and this year it just sorta happened naturally. Nick mailed us out the blue a while back looking for Rustie’s Neko joint and a couple weeks later Mo & I were standing in SXSW in Austin in mother fucking shorts, eating nachos and watching Nick blast out his Drake edit. Nick’s so effortless with this shit, spanning so much in the 45 minutes it’s impossible to deny Fools Gold as one of the leading dance music labels in the States. But what we particularly love is there continuing association with Hip Hop with that Danny Brown XXX leak.
Peace to Anna Stride
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Armand Van Helden – Hey Yah Heh
E-40 ft. Laroo, The DBz, Droop-E, B-Slim – Spend The Night
Dungeon Family ft. Bubba Sparxxx – White Gutz
Dave Nada – Ruffcut (Moombahton Edit)
Doble T y Croc – Pepe (Ted Smooth Remix)
Busy Signal – Bare Gal
Martin Brothers – Duckface
Redlight – Stupid (Instrumental)
Geeneus – Ultrafunkula
SonicC – Drunk Skunk (LA Riots Remix)
Tim Dolla ft. DJ Spaz – Let It All Out
Mele – Bombay (Nadastrom Remix)
DJ Pierre – Feelin On Me
Ikonika – Heston
Devin The Dude – Where Ya At
65. Lukid – Don’t Luke, Now Mixtape
Lukid is part of Werk Discs. He’s one of our favourites. He understands subtlety. Hearing this tape is like walking down a slow decline. You start on a light stroll but end up heavily stomping. On receiving this we put it on and thought it would be a nice alternative to Catchdubs club mix, but it just builds momentum effortlessly creeping up into deep 125 territory. I need to a acknowledge I only gave this mix the title ‘Don’t Luke, Now’ cause I knew he’d hate it.
Peace to Christine
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Lukid – Untitled
James Pants – Sky Warning
Martin Dupont – Lonely In His Farm
Prince Jazzbo – Replay Version
Nochexxx ft. Sensational – Smashin The System
Lukid – Untitled
Theo Parrish – Lights Down Low (This One Mix)
Lukid – Stripes
Pepe Bradock – Sweet Interludes
Lone – Cloud 909
VIbes – Dead Horses
Candi Staton – Reconstruction A Rebrousse Temps
Tapes – Good Thing You Came Along
Hieroglyphic Being – Galaxy (milky Way Edit)
Actress – Lets Fly
Steve Poindexter – Maniac (Area;s Lost Meaning Version)
Lukid – Eye Begins To See
Lukid – Untitled
Breakage – Drowning
64. John Disco – Bistape
Legends tend to get pissed off with their own back-story. Sorry John. This lil blurb is for those of us who are naive to John’s legacy in Glasgow band and the culture of local/not local music. In 94 John formed indy pop band Bis and famously appeared on TOTP without a record deal (shit I remember watching that particular show. What a trip. Sugar Sugar was my jammy-jam). In time Bis signed with Chemikal Underground, K Records and even the Beastie Boy’s Grand Royal. Their song was used as closing theme on the powerpuff girls and if anyone we know gets to say this shit as fact, it’s John… “I’m BIG in Japan.” Bis sold 100,000 units in one week on the release of their debut in Asia. Since these crazy days John has been a constant innovator working as a DJ in Dirty Hospital and playing in ska band Amphetameanies with a couple of Belle & Sebastian’s. John also works the boards as a prolific producer for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Fangs, Linus Loves and Mylo. Okay, this is turning into a wikepedia page so let me conclude by saying that in our lifetime and in the current culture of music in 2000&when, we couldn’t hope to do what this guy has done for our home town on the international stage. We commend you John Disco.
Peace to Steph
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XTC – Meccanik Dancing
MFSB – Let’s Go Disco
Dâm-Funk – Galactic Fun
Flash and the Pan – Waiting For A Train
Yello – No More Words
Talking Heads – The Book I Read
Los Microwaves – What’s That Got To Do (With Loving You?)
Rick James – Cold Blooded
Naif Orchestra – Check-out Five
Magazine – The Light Pours Out Of Me
Datashat – Science Pipe Two
Wuf Ticket – The Key
Kebekelektrik – War Dance (Kobu Edit 1)
Gino Soccio – There’s A Woman (Moxie edit)
B.E.F – Groove Thang
The The – I’ve Been Waiting For Tomorrow (All Of My Life)
63. Swindle – Klipto Mix
Yin and Yang with the J Disco and Swindle tapes but that’s a beautiful thing. It’s dope for us when an artist just goes, fuck it, I’m the don of what I do. I’m gonna make a mix that stays banging. No beat is skipped here. Swin’ gives us exactly the dose of melodic grime and funky we were looking for. I feel compelled after the John Disco bio to really sell you this tape. Like it needs it when It don’t. Swindle does it big here. Get it.
Peace to Debbie
62. Ben UFO – Hessle Forever and Ever and Ever Mix
Ben Thomson aka Ben UFO is one of the chiefs of the excellent Hessle Audio. But you know that. And you know what to expect on this tape – seamless mixing from one the best out. The scene is so vibrant right now. WIth a new-found freedom to draw from anywhere in the last twenty years of dance and urban music, its made for a culture of producers and djs who don’t hold back on any fusion. Nothing is corny. Nothing is disregarded. You just make it, and add it onto the long chain of thousands of banging, fleeting ideas locked within the mixes that are quickly filling the internet and pirates. But don’t see this as saturation, cause the more we make the more there is. Let Ben UFO be your guide this month with 28 tracks in 61 minutes – each with the prospect of making another 28 tracks. That’s how it works. Hessle Audio X LuckyMe forever and ever and ever and ever and everand everand everand everand everand everand everandeverand everand ever.
Peace to Anna M
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BFC – Galaxy (Fragile)
Apple – Seigaliser (White)
Addictive – Domino Effect [DJ Naughty Unreleased mix] (Unreleased)
Champion – Tribal Affair (White)
Floating Points – SHARK CHASE (Eglo)
Jo Ann Jones – A Better Love [4am Mix] (111 East Records)
Karizma – ICU (Co-operation)
Scratcha DVA – Sci Fi (Unreleased)
Major Notes feat. Mellody – Friend of Mine (Lossol Productions)
T Williams – Afrik (Forthcoming Local Action)
Spooky – Rum Punch Riddim (Unreleased)
Jam City – A (Unreleased)
Girl Unit – IRL (Forthcoming Night Slugs)
Mya – Free [Brackles remix] (Unreleased)
Wookie – Trooper (Manchu)
Jeremy Sylvester – Making Love (United Sounds of London)
Ation – Move With You (Unreleased)
Solange – I Decided [D Franklin remix] (Unreleased)
Ramadanman – Bleeper (Forthcoming Hessle Audio)
Addison Groove – Dumb Shit (Forthcoming Swamp 81)
Skream – The Bug (Big Apple)
Mos Wanted – Hungry Tiger (White)
Ruff Sqwad – Misty Cold (White)
Cubic Zirconia – Hoes [Ikonika remix] (Unreleased)
Joe – Rut (Hessle Audio)
James Blake – CMYK (Forthcoming R&S)
Mala – Lean FWD (DMZ)
Terror Danjah feat. Shola Ama – With You (Aftershock)
61. Gosub – Message From The Stars Mix
Wow, the shit we learned from Gosub… Way back in October we put on this pretty horrible show in London with Rustie, Hud Mo, Jimmy Edgar, Dam Funk, Gosub, Kode 9, Ikonika, Manny Z and Greena all playing within an LED prison they call the Lightbox in Vauxhall. Our throw down with Citinite was a looong night of arguments with door staff and sound men but by the end the music had been incredible. One of the most cherished respites of the day was hanging out with Damon, Jimmy and Gos’ , catching an indian mixed grill with the stars. Gosub’s story is like Hudson Mohawkes’ in reverse. The product of years in California working as a major label studio engineer and producer (for major hip hop artists to skando majorette pop royalty). Shad felt dissatisfied with his studio tan, lack of spare time and value of life. It’s an old story of money to spend when you’ve no time to spend it. Having felt he’d accomplished his dream too early Shad drew back into this obscure analogue world of distopic electro and miami bass starting his own Isophlux label. Possibly in an exploration into what is ‘base’ and ‘real’ about electronic music after years of adding gloss to pop music. HIs choice to move back to Miami was a commitment to the underground. To travels with a backpack full of machines. To playing hot, dark shows. Overall, to the path one creates for themselves. One of the most unpretentious and heavy thinking dudes we have met throwing parties, we are watching all Gosub does these days.
Peace to Alex
60. Hudson Mohawke – Valentines Slow Jams Chapter 3
You know the deal. No one does it like Mo. Chapter 3 of his Valentines Slow Jam Tapes – released 14th February 2010. Go run a bath, bottle of Jacobs Creek, and this.
Peace to this ass. Has the tape photo thing gone too far?
59. Samoyed – Down With Everything Mix
Andrew Samoyed is another humble genius who we get to hang out with every now and again. We’re arrogant assholes but this dude… This dude is genuinely one of the nicest peoples in music. The head of Flask records and I talk about how there’s this generation graduating through the music industry, built on anti-elitism and genuine passion for music. Regular nice guys. In fact, most of these tapes are made by friends rather than hot producers. Support the good guys. You’ll know who they are by the girls they hang out with. In this case…
Peace to Ellen
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Mweslee – Variations Pour CX Pallas (nod navigators)
Rekordah – Green Check (unreleased)
Caural feat. Diverse – Blacktops & Plains (Choclate Ind)
DAK – Wego (Leaving)
Architeq – Mind Games (Samoyed remix) (Tirk)
Radiq – Rude Boy Anthem (Logistic)
Samoyed – fir (demo)
Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood Ferguson – All For Love (Extended) (Alpha Pup)
Samoyed – Slump (unreleased)
The Poacher and The Ghillie – Herself (forthcoming on Flask)
Comfort Fit – Superposition (Remix) (Tokyo Dawn)
Stoopz and Breeze – Mercury Morris (Butter Made)
Fingers inc. – Mystery of Love (instrumental) (DJ int)
Telepathe – In Your Line (Rupture & Shadetek remix) (Dutty Artz)
Lukid – Eye Begins to See (unreleased)
Kentphonic – Hiya Kaya (Stalwart)
Kenny Dope – Sown Bwoy (Dope Wax)
Manitoba – Dundas, Ontario (Remix) (Leaf)
Groove Chronicles – Stone Cold (DPR)
8Bitch – In the Moog for Love (unreleased)
Mast – Bullocks Running (forthcoming on Flask)
58. Mike Slott — Fernando Castillo Mix
I was making my way back to Scotland from the Numbers X Fabric takeover and I was feeling hungover and despondent. Despite a great crowd, great music and a great party – I was a total spoiled brat. I rode out the download of Mike’s new tape on the shitty train wi-fi and from the first 30 seconds of track one something shook me awake. Without planning it Mike had reminded me why we do what we do. It’s not a mix of white labels. Not cue-point ableton mixed. But is so timelessly fresh that it soaked up all my bleak, hung over, post-xmas negativity and turned it into an unexpected smile as I rode a train home in the snow. If there’s something Mike has imparted with this mixtape tribute to the life of Fernando Castillo, it is that we should stop studying our place in our art and start loving it again. We all need to hear that once in a while. It’s stupid and saccharin but I hope my schmutz is somehow relevant to you. Love what you do. And thank you Mike Slott for the wake up.
Peace to Diane. Miss ya kid.
57. Dorian Concept – Mi NYE Mix
We have friends all over now. Oliver is one of them. When he comes to Glasgow we pack out the club for him. He wakes up in the park when he stays here, drinking late with Joe beside the picnic benches in Kelvingrove. Hell, when he played Sonar I think we filled rows two and three with Glasgow folks going nuts. So know this: when we asked Dorian Concept to come stay with us over New Years Eve, to play our sold out party at Stereo with Numbers, and provide a soundtrack to the year ahead in the form of this here mix tape we knew it would be heavy. We didn’t know it’d be 90% original music. Thank you Oliver. Top legend status.
Peace to Checky
56. Wednesday Nite aka Mamiko Motto – LOVE LOVE Mix
Whoever this Wednesday Nite girl is, she sure does make the best tapes. They have this insanely wide span of moods and everything she touches smells of chanel and watermelon. Thank you to Mamiko Motto – since you posted this on our private forum a few months back this mix has come up time and time again as a favourite between various LuckyMe guys. So so dope when the Ludacris instrumental drops outta nowhere.
Peace to Anna
55. Shortstuff – What You Call It Mix
Shortstuff join us in Glasgow this weekend. a young veteran of Blunted Robots, Planet Mu, Berkane Sol & Ramp notoriety who we’ve been watching with the beedy eyes of Orson Wells for a minute. This mix effortlessly epitomises ‘shit we like’ in late late 2009.
Peace to Jordan
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Hard House Banton – Reign (Roska VIP mix)
Martin Kemp – No Charisma
Geiom & Shortstuff – Wardenclyffe
Mos Wanted Mega – Different Lextrix
Martin Kemp – Wot U Got
Martyn – Friedrichstrasse
D Malice & Rebecca Knight – Poison (Roska mix)
Martin Kemp – After The Night
TRG – Discotek 79
Joey Beltram – Back Porch
Deadboy – If You Want Me
Mosca – Square One (Greena mix)
Brackles – Bad Sandwich
Youngstar – Bongo
Untold – Bad Girls
Geiom feat. Marita – Sugar Coated Lover (Brackles & Shortstuff mix)
Shortstuff – Tweaked
Ramadanman – A Couple More Years
Untold – Flexible
Brackles & Shortstuff – Ipkiss Riddim
Shortstuff – Galaxy
Aardvark – Nosestep
Sully – In Some Pattern
Clouds – Napalm
Pangaea – Dead Living
James Blake – Pembroke
54. Andrew Meza BTS Radio – £s and Pancakes Mix
We whine on about our friends in high places huh? Yeah I know. I swear it’s all real though. Like we ACTUALLY saw Jimmy Edgar down a litre of Vodka last week. We actually went brogue shopping with Dam Funk last week. I mean, these are the stuff dreams are made of. Anyway, one of our best friends in music is this dude Andrew Meza from BTS Radio – one of the most delectable beat purveyors in LA. On his first Europe tour a few years ago he consolidated his place in our hearts by crashing at my folks place and recording this piece of youtube gold dust…
Peace to Kimmy
53. Profisee – Zonin’ DIp Mix
Honesty pill swallowed… Without the Scotland based / UK Rapper and DJ they call Nike Oruh aka Profisee – there would be no LuckyMe. No meeting of Surface Emp and a young Hudson Mohawke. I, Dominic Flannigan, used to bunk of school when I was 16 to go see this guy freestlye in a jazz cellar off Morrison Street in Edinburgh: picking-topics-out-the-hat-new-york-poetry-cafe-style. Basically this very young veteran showed us even younger dudes that we were capable of making hip hop music in Scotland. As we’ve kinda grown up Prof has too – doing well in battles and featuring on Neil Landstrumm & Starkey records. He’s supported everyone, making diocumentaries for the BBC and even hosting the Radio One’s regional show every blue moon. This time last year he holla’d at Martyn and I to speak about his new label called Cloak X Dagger – and now a year later we’ve helped with the design and completed a remix for CXD001 – The Zonin EP by Profisse and Eprom. It’s a dope record.
And so for the launch of this excellent label we asked our godfather Nike Oruh, aka Profisee to make us a tape about what it means for him to be Zoninnnnn. Very heady soul music in this mix.
Peace to this girl from our Last.FM show
52. Falty DL – DL Can’t Escape His Apartment Mix
Falty DL and Mike Slott have gotten close recently, looking to make NYC a lil bit brighter. That’s involved a little bit of racquet ball, a lil fine coffee and no doubt a pastry. Then to the studio to make more sophisticated, beautiful, bumping music. At some point when Mike was beaten down to match point he asked DL to provide a mix for our site and a week later, bang! An amazing breathe of fresh air arrived in our inbox. I kid. Those dudes never leave their apartments. Hence the name that DL has given this mp3.
Peace to Andrea
51. Jimmy Edgar – LuckyMe X Citinite X FACT Mix
Jimmy Edgar is incredibley respected around here and this month we are lucky enough to be courting him at our LuckyMe X Citnite parties in London and Glasgow. To help us spread the word he has taken the time to give you this exclusive product. Enjoy.
Peace to Amy
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Jimmy Edgar – Funktion of Your Love (vocal mix-unreleased)
Plastikman – Kriket
Captain Rapp – Bad Times
Andre Crom – Morphin
Jimmy Edgar & Machinedrum – Sin Love With You
Aaliyah – One In A Million
Dopplereffekt – Speaknspell
Posatronix – Shake It
Aaron Carl – Down (original mix)
Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle – Baby Wants To Ride (unreleased ron hardy mix)
lee jones – the ice train cometh
jJimmy Edgar – Be There (out soon on HYPERCOLOUR)
4th Measure Men – 4 You
Ralph Falcon – I Need Someone (stoned someone mix)
Squarepusher – Kill Robok
Laid Back – White Horse
Ed DMX – Mks Demo (unreleased)
50. Greena – Reduction B5C Mix
We got Greena from Night Slugs playing in fair Glasgow this month alongside Ghostleigh and Subeena so he made us a tape of bangers. If you haven’t heard of Greena already this mix gives you a feel of his world and we wanna see him get better known. He’s a very cool DJ to us.
Peace to Louise
49. Hudson Mohawke – Butter Mix
Yeahhhhhh. Butter was the debut album on Warp Records by Hudson Mohawke and to celebrate its release he made us this tape. Crew love.
Peace to Mamiko Motto
48. Terror Danjah – Glasssglow Mix
Damn! We worked on behalf of Planet Mu to make the sleeve of one of our favourites grime producers, Terror Danjah. He joins us at Ballers and to return the favour he made us this loud as fuck mixtape.
Peace to Emmanem
47. The Blessings – Dazed B5C Birthday Mix
Another mix to celebrate the Ballers 5ocial Club birthday party – this time bringing exclusive LuckyMe unreleased bangers spanning the full spectrum of the labels music. Hosted by the beatuiful folks at Dazed & Confused.
Peace to Maya 808
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Nadsroic – Higashi Vs Nishi
Hudson Mohawke – 3.30
Mike Slott – Six AM
Lunice – Hip Pop
The Big Pink – Dominoes (Rustie remix)
Jay Prada – From 1000
The Blessings – Faberge
Respite – Pang
The Blessings – Obama Sushi
Tiago – Hidden Sources
Invest in us skit
Dema – ChangXXX
Hudson Mohawke – Rising 5
American Men – Cool World
46. The Blessings – Nalden Mix
We made this for the Dutch Wizard of Oz they call Nalden and his flash happy website. His site is full of good shit. And if you’ve ever used We Transfer to send your work, you owe that to him. It’s his site. Peace to Nalden!It was all to get the word out for our clubs 2nd Birthday. Ballers don’t quit.
Peace to Una
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Ring the Bells Intro
Teedra Moses- Everybody Rock
Hudson Mohawke- Fuse
Ciara- Go Girl (Blessings Remix)
Mario- Break Up (inst)
Shortstuff- Stuff
Terror Danjah- Zumpi hunter (Swindle Remix)
Respite- Cache
Flying Lotus- Comet (Matthew David Remix)
Mike Slott- 40 Winx
Nadsroic- Peekaboo
Wale- Pretty Girls (inst)
Jesse Boykins III- Tabloids (Machine Drum Remix )
The Blessings- Moranis Riding Ants
Neverending Outro
45. Citinite – Nitecasting Mix
In November 09 we paired up with electro-soul label Citinite for two consecutive parties in London & Glasgow with their roster vs ours. The full lineup? Dam Funk, Hud Mo, Rustie, Gosub, Jimmy Edgar, Kode 9, Ikonika & more. Our mellow Manny Z made this Citinite promo mix for Fader in association with the shows.
Peace to Lauren’s homegirl who chatted-up Lunice
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The Broadcast – Gosub*
Hot Sex, Hot Love (demo) – Lil’ Kenny*
Milk – Robert O’Dell
Dirty Illusions – Rozzi Daime*
(untitled instrumental) – Michael Fakesch*
(I Need A) Modernaire Lover – Complexxion
The Last Time I Saw You – Gosub*
Electro-? – John Davis
Modernaire – Hot Persuasion feat. Egyptian Lover
Mirage – AD Bourke*
Hot, Raw, Sex – Jimmy Edgar*
Interstella – Sweat.X
I’m That Alley – Sweat.X remixed by Mike Slott
You’ll Understand – Markus Wormstorm*
Hang Glyde – Mynk Rychardz*
(Tracks marked * are unreleased exclusives)
44. Machine Drum – Footwerk Classixxx Mix
There are new artists coming up all the time that we love here at LuckyMe, but if you trace these mixtapes wayyy back to our first episodes a couple of – I guess you could say – ‘innovators’ dominated our tastes around the formation of the label you see here today. Machine Drum definitely, definitely counts as one of those. Before the world lost it’s mind on ‘wonky’ and latched onto the ONE IDEA that electronic music doesn’t need to be quanitsed, this guy was fusing electronic music with hip hop and treating that ONE IDEA as everyone else should: something to flirt with and then move the fuck on. Now, a couple years down the line he’s making some of the slickest rnb that ever kissed an ear drum. It’s a great honour to have him represent on here. But you know, ignore the blurb,cause before Europe caught on to Footwork, Travis was making us tapes of straight fire ghetto house and juke. So unstrap your vandals it’s gonna be a long night in the circle – or just sittin still on the tube, listening on your ipod.
Peace to Helen
43. Kode 9 – Hyper Luck Mix
It’s more than genre. It’s more than what’s new. It’s about whats true and real. Kode 9 is motivated by pure ideas in music. And it’s not just about the synthetic or the low end or the tempo or the artwork. It’s about the unique place that music can take you. Music is a journey for him. To us here at LuckyMe, Kode 9 defines ‘good sensibility’ and so we were honoured to step on board this month for 50 minutes with Kode 9 at the healm. This is the Hyper Luck Mix. Hope you like.
Peace to Danna
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Sa-ra – Dirty Beauty
Prince – The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Kleer – Intimate Connection
Cameo – Back & Forth
Herbie Hancock – Perfect Machine
Slava Tsukerman – Margrets Apartment
The Associates – Message Oblique Speech
Slava Tsukerman – Night Club
Gosub – Last Night at the Stardust
Slava Tsukerman – Seduction of Vincent
Simonetti/Morante/Pignatelli – Tenebre
Simonetti/Morante/Pignatelli – Slow Circus
Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian – Bamboo Houses
Dizzee Rascal – Brand New Day
Sun Ra – Rocket Number Nine
42. The Blessings – Thunder in Paradise Mix
The Summer has been a non-starter here in Scotland. It hit me pretty hard the other day when my vitamin deficient dark eyes cast out the studio window for another overcast day in the lab. But shit weather in Scotland holds it’s own subtle beauty – adding an absorbing melancholy to songs that can normally wash over you. The Blessings made three tapes this month – one for Dazed, one for Nalden and this one here as a labour of love with some really weird shit (the first place you ever heard FUSE by Hudson Mohawke for the record) to modern classical, fusion jazz, 90s rnb & soul. Intended to evoke the beauty I see in the white light of a failed Scottish Summer.
Peace to Danna’s friend
41. Respite – Two Years Ballin Mix
Joe Respite in the commemorative mix for the 2nd Ballers Anniversary. Can’t believe we are two years old already.
Peace to Ellen
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respite intro
bflecha – kosmic lovers
mark pritchard & om’mas keith – wind it up (freak mix)
respite – pang
zet. – assesino
respite – wall to wall
zomby – digital fauna
respite – hundreds & millions
joy orbison – hyph mngo
respite – ill at ease
snd – untitled
debruit – congo whoomp
limonious – pommak
force quit – third corner left
respite – clockwork east
tiago – never forget
40. Juiceboxxx – Heartland Sunset Bass Mix
Juiceboxxx reached out to us over the internet from sunny Milwaukee to say he liked the mixes and then we sent him one back that said we liked his music and then he got back and said thanks and that if we liked he would prepare a mix for our site and we got back to him and said that’d be awesome so then he got back and said he would do it like ’96 and mix booty house and weirdo shit onto cassette and we were like “okay, you get what this mix tape shit is all about.”
Peace to Vixy and Paisley
39. Frans Carlqvist – Proto Skweee Mix
A mix by Frans Carlqvist – the king of the Flogsta Danshall label – just filling in the gaps on where the Skweee sound takes its cue. All music dates between the silver era of 1980 – 1998.
Peace to Marissa
38. Alexander Nut – The Inside Man Mix
A mix by our good friend Alex Nut who we often refer to as our inside man. Part of the team of folks who help peddle our crack music without cocaine arrogance. Alex is family dating back to our first London shows. I hope you enjoy the music.
Peace to Kate, Heather and the french girl we never met
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dizzie rascal – flyin’ (instrumental)
tiago – babel fish
rustie – shadow enter
?>£>$>$>$$>$ – floating points remix
dark house – darkhouse meditation
om unit – cradle
dam funk – chocolate
funkineven 1956 – she’s acid
floating points – peoples potential
karizma – nessesary madness
rustie – bad science
afrika hi tech – blen!
brackles – get a job
brackles & shortstuff – sutorita faita
untold – its gonna work out fine
pearson sound – wad
tempa t – next hype (plastician remix)
joker – retro racer
skepta ft wiley – are you ready
zomby – godzilla
shaunise – catch
37. Eclair Fifi – U Can’t Play The Record Straight Mix
A vinyl only, one pass, real analogue mix by Ecalir Fifi. Done the traditional way playing records far from traditional – this one is another favourite from the best selector we’ve ever met.
Peace to Sally
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bernard fevre – fantasm
hovatron – gold star radiation
nadsroic – peekaboo
jega – ghost
dam-funk – hood pass intact
tiago – numberssss
computer jay – distance
john davis and too much – robot baby jane
bernard fevre – pendulum
dema – changXXX
hyetal – we should start a fire
mark pritchard and om’mas keith – wind it up
ciara – rattle
dj mujava – township funk (ikonika’s nexus 6 remix)
transllusion – unordinary realities
larry heard presents mr white – sun can’t compare
brackles – sutorîta faitâ
alexander robotnick – celle vache de ma mere
2000f – you dont know what love is & killer mike ft shawty lo accapella
36. Dâm-Funk – Funk is NOT a fad
2009 was Dâm-Funk’s year. Which is kinda ironic given the man is the anti-hipster. He loves this music. He loves its very essence. With Damon you should know you aren’t getting a DJ that’s just exploring genres looking for ideas. These are not samples on this tape, fresh for the plunder. Nor are you getting a connoisseurial collectors tape here. I mean, who else lists labels and the year on his tracklisting? Dam is for sharing. If this music is rare then so be it. It’s only there cause in Dâm-Funk’s mind this is the best party in the cosmos – and you are invited. He lives this music. The real deal. We got this in the post with a note saying ‘”All music was recorded via the ‘original wax’ recordings. No Mp3′s or re-issues were used whatsoever. Oh, and stay FREE!!” We’re trying homey.
Peace to Jo
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louis johnson – she’s bad – capitol records 12″ – 1985
impulse – can you hear me (calling you) – impulse records EP – 1984
bruford – one of akind pt’s 1 & 2 – polydor records lp – 1979
carole walker – rejoice – secret records lp – 1987
lamont dozier – Interlude – columbia records lp – 1981
bronner brothers – what do i have to do – neighbor records lp – 1986
maniacs – sweet ladies (instrumental version) – 25 west records 12″ – 1983
gosub – mind travel method – citinite records lp – 2007
reinhard lakomy – der traum von asgard – amiga lp – 1983
mike maineri – flying colours – warner bros lp – 1981
bim marx – stronger – stillove4music records 12″ – 2008
kaidi tatham – swift inspiration (quick kid) – freedom school lp – 2008
wizardz – boogie slyde (original version) – sound wave records 12″ – 2009
twennynine with lenny white – movin’ on – elektra records 12″ – 1981
bryan loren – do you really love me” (instr) – philly world records 12″ – 1984
ojeda penn – happiness is having you near – ife records lp – 1980
wavelength – funk dreams – glydezone records 7″ – 2009
dâm-funk – breakthru – (unreleased dubplate) 12″ – 2006
35. Rustie – Fun Time Mix
Lil’ Disco, Boogie, Italo & New Jack Swing mix to make the Summer a little brighter – all courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Rustie Rus.
Peace to these random girl who attended Kode 9 & Hud Mo at Stereo
34. Matthewdavid – Leaving Records for the New Utopia Mix
One of our favourite, favourite, favourite artists and a driving force behind two consemate sources of sun-drenched-West-Coast inspiration: Dublab & Leaving Records, this month we are proud to present a ‘sample palette’ of beautiful found noise and field recordings by Matthewdavid. Audio-nature porn if you will.
Peace to Anna
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Matthewdavid – fieldrecordings _ LA _ FL _BigSur @ 00:00 – 24:22
Flying Lotus – Arkestry @ 24:22 – 26:22
Ras G – Cosmic Tones _ edit @ 26:22 – 28:34
Golden Hits – Live in Big Sur (Dntel Remix) @ 28:34 – 39:20
Flying Lotus – Outback @ 39:20 – 41:00
Dntel, Frosty, Matthewdavid – 2009.04.30 @ 41:00 – 53:52
Lucky Dragons – The New Utopia cassettes @ 53:53 – 57:57
Mitchell Brown – Live at Simple Pleasures @ 57:57 – 1:02:46
33. 7VWWVW – Neglected Transient Works Tape
We are having a field day this month. Our favourite band 7VWWVW are playing live alongside Dam Funk in a couple weeks and so we are bringing you a beautiful selection of archive tapes, recordings and remixes from their lab. If you’ve lost your wonder lately for all things hi-fi you simply must visit the site for Crystal Wish Records.
Peace to Holy
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7VWWVW – intro
spells tower – peter vs simon
7VWWVW – interlude 1
rhododendron – actually
7VWWVW – there’s no such thing as love, only off and on
7VWWVW – interlude 2
kyon – the chuman escapes
cooptimists – hoofprints remix feat sage francia
albaross – broadcast monogamy
7VWWVW – found x1w3j
dyems – born00
7VWWVW – interlude 3
cooptimists – outro
32. Bok Bok – Manara’s Golden Fleece Mix
About 3 years ago I was dredging a vintage shop and in a coffin amongst a bunch of the tweed I found the polyester vision in gold that you see in the associated photo. That shit was kinda showey to wear in public more than a handful of times. So I wore it and then passed it to Joe Shabadu. Then when this dope, dope mix landed in my inbox from Bok Bok I found out the full story that Joe had got drunk last week and had gifted it to Bok Bok (who wore in it his main press images) in return for a mix for the site. You the man Joe. Cold night home huh. The stuff of legend – this jacket has become the littlest hobo of the UK scene. The golden fleece is now with the beau Manara.
Peace to Sara Manara
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refuge – u best believe
donaeo – love to happen
mosca – square one
dre skull – i want you ( bok bok remix dub )
alison hinds ft machel montano – ?
dj cleo – east rand funk
r1 ryders – rubberband
dorian concept – trilingual dance sexperience
short stuff & mickey pearce – tripped up
zomby – with lasers
electric red – drink in my cup
joker & ginz – purple city
terror danjah – sidechain
bok bok – crew dub
dj assualt – vandalism
mr de – time space scrilla
basutbudet – take them out to eat ( bok bok edit )
31. Front 2 Blaq – First Come Down Mix
We’ve been mailing back and forth for a while swapping songs. We thought we would reach out to F2B for the mixes section. It’s an epic, sprawling tape that really nukes in places and soothes in others. Much thanks to Front2Blaq.
Peace to Paisely – wearing makeup from our shoot for a Mary Anne Hobbs Compilation
30. Dema – Rich Kid GB2 Mix
Club shit put together so, so well by the guy that showed us how to do it.
Peace to Eclair Fifi and Christina.
29. Claude Speeed (American Men) – No Drums Mix
A beyond refreshing selection of drum-less eclectic songs spliced with talk radio, lectures and sound concede. But it’s more than that. It’s heart achingly beautiful music that helps remind us that in compiling other peoples songs into a narrative one can have a great impact. Together these songs becomes a unique whole. From the guitarist and keyboardist of American Men this mixtape is guaranteed to cut to the core of you.
Peace to Loren on the cover of The Face
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boards of canada – corsair
james orr complex – fade grey to fade blue
bump and bubble – tyrone slothrop
fuck buttons – sweet love for planet earth
chris clark – reen 1930s
khonnor – i was everything you wanted until i quit
sun kil moon – trucker’s atlas
lusine – jetstream
david grubbs – a dream to help me sleep
hood – untitled
dorian concept – teeth and vhs tapes
rachel’s – his eyes
joni mitchell – banquet
sunczartemple – sun3
solum – drone_police
boards of canada – olson version 3
28. Huntley & Palmers – Believe in Luck Mix
Few labels stand out to us like the H&P guys who run a few great clubs aound Glasgow. The residents are discerning and wear beautiful clothes so we asked them to make us a mix. Part two will no doubt come soon. Here are some of their recent bookings in the club which point towards their mysterious selection: James Pants, Daniele Baldelli, Jamie Thomson (Traxx), Unit 4, Turzi, Joakim, Musiccargo, Snowgoose, Todd Terje, Linkwood Family, Silver Apples, James Holden, Aeroplane, Francisco, Jackmaster, Mahjongg, Dominique Leone, Errors, Affi Koman, Heartbreak.
Peace to Alice and Big Bad Bryant from Lazersword
27. HRDVSION – Shoot Your Television Mix
Our guy HRDVSION sent this over to Joe Ballers aka Joe Division aka Joe Deci aka The Joe Nus Brother. We’ve dubbed it the Shoot Your Television mix. Why? – Y – O, I don’t know. It just seemed right some how.
Peace to Sarah from New Look aka the 16Bit Princess
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aphex twin – nannou
cursor miner – hair of the dog
model 500 – nightdrive (thru babylon)
mathew jonson & the mole – dirt road and a boat from soundwave
boards of canada – in a beautiful place out in the country
lee van dowski – duking
air – don’t be light (mr. oizo edit)
simian mobile disco – it’s the beat (luke vibert mix)
modeselektor – kill bill vol. 4
violent femmes – blister in the sun
26. Hudson Mohawke – Valentines Slow Jams Chapter 2
We had to do it. Part two of the ugliest baby-makers man ever made, fresh for 2009.
Peace to Sophie
25. Jamie Vex’d – Sunday Walkman Mix
This month we proudly present a selection by one of our favourite guests, Jamie Vex’d. We hope you enjoy.
Peace to Coco
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jamie vexd – saturn’s reply
rich reason & fantastic mr fox – bleep show
scuba – twitch – jamie vexd remix
starkey – creature
jamie vexd – in system travel
erykah badu – twinkle
darkstar – aidy’s girl’s a computer
cannibal ox – f word (instrumental)
zomby – fantastique remix
falty dl – to london
shawty lo ft dg yola vs timeblind – lets decay it (dev 79′s blend)
stagga – lopside – doshy remix
modeselektor – black box – rustie remix
joker – psychedlic runway
starkey – mutter music vip
naptha – soundclash – grevious angel vip
tim hecker – sundown6093
falty dl – paradise Lost
24. The Blessings – Floorstep Session 2
Dom Sum is a pussy who listens to terrible non club music all day and his girl is always telling him to turn off his ecm piano jazz. Here is his floorstep tape. It’s a really rough bunch of edits and it’s umixed – because I’m not a dj.
Peace to this girl from the crowd of Turbo Crunk Montreal. She was clearly lookin right at me. X. Extra peace to Lunice’s hat which stops us seeing her nose. Maybe it’s gross?
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susumu yokota – saku
new look – everything
wiz khalifa – shake em off
t.v.o – the dark is rising
daniel johnston – some things last a long time
efdemin – america
american men – ammn sys m2
papa m – plastic energy man
jonny kemp – let the walls come down
theophilus london – cold pillow
leif feat boody b – get digital
hudson mohawke – yo nard
scout niblett – kidnapped by neptune
gary bartz – drinking song
t3 feat elzhi & black milk – yawl
the flamingos – i only have eyes for you
susumu yokota – saku
23. Respite – Floorstep Session 1
We comissioned this mixtape a few months ago but Respites decks were set up on his bedroom floor. His studio game is poor but his selection is excellent.
Peace to Inga
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sunken foal – colloidal silver
tim joh – join the resistance : five
the long lost – woebegone (flylo’s like woe)
das glow – lite brite
ikonika – millie
wAgAwAgA – leggegedon
si begg – i see them everywhere
rustie – tempered
hrdvision – melting fire
felix – pict
untold – test signal
south3rn – luddities dub
boxcutter – good you dub
22. The Blessings – Purple Reign Mixtape
Doing what he does best is the label boss Fine Art of The Blessings with some great rnb including Turn It Off before the remixes and edits, before the X Factor renditions, before it was an anthem. In fact, before djs on our circuit were even bold enough to play these bold rnb records. I know it’s hard to think about these mixes in their true context – but this was middle of 2009. Really think about it. Rusko & Caspa. Baltimore Club. Funk Carioca. Not this.
Peace to Nuala
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intro
Janelle Monae – Many Moons (Trackademicks remix)
Keri Hilson – Turn it Off
Jazzheadz – Heartbeat
Rustie + Joker – Play Doe
Respite – Bside
The Blessings – Faberge
Nitta – Space Rewalk
Lunice + Al Ripken Jr – Bring out the jam
Knowledge + Front2Blaq – Velvet Rope
88keys + JDavey – Dirty Peaches
Nadsroic – Leopards
Rekordah – Cherry Coke
Rod Lee – Let me see (Rustie remix)
CLP – Spaceballs
Paris Houston – Make it bounce 4 ya (Fine Art remix)
21. Mike Slott – Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental Session 09/10/08
Mike stood up to Gaslamp Killer on the legendary BBC Radio One Experimental show.
Peace to Monty
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Mike Slott – ’23 halfs’ (unreleased)
Mike Slott – ‘Black Keys’ (unreleased)
Mike Slott – ‘Musics Fun’ (unreleased)
Mike Slott – ‘Flunky’ (All City Records)
Rustie – ‘Quick Tunnels’ (unreleased)
Mike Slott – ‘Knock Knock’ (All City Records)
Yann Kesz – ‘Like a Purple Shade’
Mike Slott – ‘Bamhouse’ (unreleased)
Nicole willis – ‘Soul Investigators Theme Mike Slott Reflunk’ (ATC Recordings)
Heralds of Change (Hudson Mo+Mike Slott) ‘Future’ (All City Records)
Mike Slott – ‘Cadet’ (unreleased)
Mike Slott – ‘My Lightbridge’ (All City Records)
Mike Slott – ‘Home’ (unreleased)
Flying Lotus – ‘Roberta Flack’ Mike Slott Reflunk (Warp Records)
20. Rustie – Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental Session 23/04/08
Peace to Holly
Rustie – ‘Dog Mask’ (Dubplate)
Rustie – ‘Keesha Resmak’ (Dubplate)
Hudson Mohawke – ‘Still On It’ (Wireblock)
Mike Slott – ‘Gardening’ (Dubplate)
Rustie – ‘Early Learning’ (Dubplate)
Olivier Daysoul – ‘Space Ship’ (Dubplate)
Alex Cortex – ‘Reminisce’ (Wireblock)
Music At Nite – ‘City to City’ (Wireblock)
Ghosts On Tape – ‘Port Moresby’ (Dubplate)
Dj Tamiel – ‘Body’ (Dubplate)
Pivot – ‘In The Blood’ (Rustie Remix) (Dubplate)
Rich Boy – ‘Chevy A Monsta’ (Dubplate)
Rustie – ‘Bad Science’ (Wireblock)
Starkey – ‘Blow Ya Mind Remix’ (Dubplate)
Joker – ‘Solid State’ (Dubplate)
Rustie – ‘Dragonfly’ (Dubplate)
19. Hudson Mohawke – Mary Anne Hobbs Experimental Session 30/07/08
Peace to this lady from the Thugs & Hug, Dazed Party at Sonar
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Aardvarck – ‘Water’ (Nod Navigators)
Mammal Ft Chris Brown/TPain – ‘Kiss Kiss’ (Mo Twrk)
Hudson Mo – ‘Zo0o0m’ (unreleased 2006)
Hudson Mo – ‘Open Lock’ (unreleased 2005)
HoC – ‘Work That’ (All City)
Hudson Mo – ‘Girders loop’ (unreleased 2007)
Hudson Mo – ‘Returning’ (Unreleased 2007)
Hudson Mo – ‘Dip It Low’ (unreleased 2007)
Hudson Mo – ‘Sequon loop’ (unreleased 2006)
Nas ft Keri Hilson – ‘Hero Instrumental’
MonoPoly – ‘MS20’
American Men – ‘Cool Snake’
James Pants – ‘Blowjob’
Damfunk – ‘Thank You’
Mike Slott – ‘Sumz’ (unreleased 2008)
Hudson Mo – ‘Polkadot Blues’ (Warp)
Harmonic 313 – ‘El n Kat rough mixx’
Hudson Mo – ‘Spotted’ intro
Hudson Mo – ‘Butterfat’ (unreleased 2007)
Rustie/Joker – ‘Play Doe’
Hudson Mo – ‘500 loop’
Heralds of Change – ‘Bopgunn’ (All City)
Hudson Mo – ‘YoNard’ (Warp)
18. Jackmaster – Mix for Sinden on Kiss Fm
For those just getting familiar with us, we all met in Glasgow. And hanging around the best record shop in Scotland, Rub A Dub records, there’s this alpha male looking dude called the Jackmaster – our main poppa dawg. He sells our records to this day as our main distributor. He heads Numbers and we often play shows together.
He did this mix for Sinden’s Kiss FM show and we thought it was extremely good. Be wary though. This shit is not suitable for work. Unless you work at Rub A Dub. It’s club shit.
Peace to Thea
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Kazey & Bulldog – Fo Da Real Gs (Demo)
Armand Van Helden – Necessary Evil (Armed Records)
DJ Tameil – Pop Lock & Drop It (Snocap)
Piddy Py – Giggle Riddim (More 2 Da Floor)
KW Griif – Ain’t None Of Y’all Safe (Clubtrax)
Bassline white label from Uptown Records
DJ Tameil – I Get Money (Dress 2 Sweat)
Benga – 26 Basslines (Tempa)
Rustie – Diwali Boom Club Mix (Dress 2 Sweat)
MIA – Boys (Tactic Remix)
Various Production – Turn It Up (Various Production)
Rustie – Preach (Wireblock)
DJ Tameil – Body (Dress 2 Sweat)
17. Dema – Rich Kid GB Mixtape
We have our own private forum where we all chat shit to each other and post youtubes of Kci & Jo Jo and Dema upped this tape to us as an example of the shit he was playing out. It kinda fitted with our rave theme alongside the Jackmaster mix. We’ve been too pompous lately and needed to hose it all down with this shit.
Peace to Asta
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Chipmunk – Dharrell ( another one of our Glasgow homeys! )
Day & Night – Kid Cudi (Crookers mix)
Gangsters – Rico Tubbs (discobelle edit)
Get Dumb – Awell, Angelo, Ingrosso , etc
Egypt Egypt – Egyptian Lover
The Big Kazoo – Style of the eye
Step Back – Nadsroic (Dema refiXXX)
Understand – Rod Lee
Boy Angles – Top Billin
Solid Groove – Diplo
Samir’s Theme – Hardwell Edit
Know How – Theme Mix
Rock this park – Emynd
16. 7VWWVW – Lucky Mammal Tape
I arrived at work today a lil late and there was a brown envelope posted through the door with c/o LuckyMe. Inside was a 45 vinyl effect CD-R and a note typed in Akzidenz Grotesk with the following message from 7VWWVW – ” Recorded at the stroke of midnight on July 18th 2008 using two domestic record playing devices and a modest assortment of analogue synthesisers. Band personnel took it in turn to select, hence the relatively diverse nature if the musical presentation. Thanks. ”
Peace to Annie
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7VWWVW – introduction
plastic little – brooklyn
school of language – rockist single
new musik – this world of water
reaching quiet – various
7VWWVW – interlude
plugs – shallow grave
planxty – planxty irwin
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the beatnuts – reign of the tec
kyon & dyems – polygon face
the magnificents – white lies
elewedu of agege – thank you, god
7VWWVW – hms mammal
15. DJ Babes – Tapioca Cosmic Soul
Disco from our local hero Babes. A guy who has been known to dig deep into space but here he goes no further than the orbit, bringing a mix of disco and pop from 74 – 84. It’s dope.
Peace to Vixy
14. The Blessings – XLR8R Star Podcast
The Blessings Star Podcast for XLR8R. A seminal moment I think as it was the first magazine we regularly read that asked for a mixtape. Dom was still rapping at this point and there’s even one of the last Surface Emp tracks on there. It went out to 10,000 people on itunes, and a further 5000 from their own website. And well… It’s deserving of the right mixtape girl.
Peace to Emma
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tiago andrade – interstellarjourneys (LuckyMe)
surface emp – moonbeam jars (LuckyMe)
american men – claude speed (the blessings edit)” (LuckyMe)
rustie – shadow enter (LuckyMe)
7VWWVW (aka mammal) – singer/songwriter (Crystal Wish)
mike slott & distant star – boxed in (All City)
respite – off track (the blessings edit) (LuckyMe)
the blessings – scared of heights (LuckyMe)
hudson mohawke – work (jimi tenor retwirk) (LuckyMe)
beyonders – barely eagle Intro (Firecracker)
nadsroic – chemical (LuckyMe)
the blessings – where Is anna? (LuckyMe)
michio okamiya – the story of the heroes birth (Unknown)
hudson mohawke – still on it (LuckyMe)
dema – stoned top the bone (LuckyMe)
eric coleman – what Is love intro (CD-R)
samiyam – petra’s birthday (CD-R)
jay prada – standing by (LuckyMe)
mike slott & muhsinah – Deux three (LuckyMe)
rustie – let you go (keisha cole resmacked (LuckyMe)
the blessings – fructose (LuckyMe)
13. Claude Speeed (American Men) – Cool World Tape
We asked Claude Speeed of AmericanMen to make us a tape of his favourite ‘real’ music to offset all our tricks, soft synths and fakery. This tape has been played in the daytime, more than any other tape we have published.
Peace to Anna & Rosie
russia – how i first imagined central park
lightning bolt- assassins
trans am – television eyes
maps and atlases – every place is a house
ganger – capo (south of caspian)
russia – output 1-2 (piano)
chavez – top pocket man
les savy fav – i.c timer
big black- bad penny
oxes – dear spirit, i’m in france
americanmen – ccccccc
tortoise – glass museum
slint – rhoda
gastr del sol – blues subtitled no snese of wonder
do make say thing – classic noodlanding
growing – onement
lightning bolt – wonderful rainbow
laeto – tears on the golf course
12. Eclair Fifi – Valentimes
Another all vinyl, one pass, analogue recording from Eclair Fifi – this time for the women and nerds at Valentines.
Peace to Nuala
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alien porno midgets – tea for two
drexciya – flux
52nd street – cool as ice
flying lotus – dancefloor stalker
j-zone – freak!
devo – girl u want
jneiro janel – eee love
les mogol – sunset in golden horn
dabrye – reconsider
electronome – bro
mono band – ghost town
hudson mohawke – waldo’s gift
count bass d – elevators make my head spin
taana gardner – when you touch me
clark – re-scar kiln
? – work this
ikonika – please
virus syndicate – echoes
skream – 2-d
jagged edge ft ludacris – cut something
wladislaw komendarek – znikaj’ce promienie
delia derbyshire – effervescence
claro intellecto – operation
cynthia roundtree – got to be next to you
ims – run away
scarface – i love
giggles – love letter
snoop dogg – sexual eruption
ims – bonus single joke
george duke – for love (i come my friend)
11. Hudson Mohawke – Valentines Slow Jams Chapter One
The original Slow Jams mixtape by the best who did it.
Peace to the Kate
10. Dema – The Late Ass Mixtape
Peace to Dema for this one. It’s so early into the label it’s funny reading this tracklisting now but makes perfect sense thinking back to early 2008. What’s Keak da Sneak up to now?
Peace to Lauren
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Intro
Coco Brovaz – Super Brooklyn
TTC – Codine
Cutty Ranks – The Return
J-Ro – What you looking at
Dema – Untitled Instrumental
E40 ft Keak da Sneak – Tell me where to go (trackademiks remix)
Daft Punk – Da Funk
Ronnie Hudson – West Coast Poplock
Zapp – So Ruff So Tuff
Parliament – Flashlight
Feadz – Sekxstyle
4 Hero – Mr Kirks Nightmare (DJ Ayres rmx)
Kazey – Big Truck
Rod Lee – Understand
Mike Jones ft Slim Thug and Lil Flip – Magic touch (Lankizzle remix)
Crime Mobb – Knuck if you buck (bruno beats remix)
Crime Mobb – Knuck if you buck (Pistol Pete remix)
OZ – Swag (dema Remix)
9. Jay Pizza – Goose Got Me Loose Mixtape
“Goose… A verb, which means to grab someone between their butt cheeks and to squeeze, almost with an intent to hurt, although it is often done in a joking, playful manner between friends. The most common way to goose someone is with the fingers and thumb of one hand. The fingers grab from the bottom, and the thumb from the top.” – this is a largely instrumental mix by Jay P of post-dilla beat music alongside underground hip hop and vintage dills’. At the time we were all self conscious of ‘dilla’ as a genre – but as an artist there is no denying his importance.
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Jay-P – Intro
The Blessings – Sumoon
Grooveman Spot – Whos This (Iceberg Inst Mix)
Simon Muschinsky – Activate
Red Room – Glowing Red
Jay-P – Blast
Buddy Leezle – Hey you guys
Tom Trago – Ale Jezus
Ta’Raach – I don’t rock parties
J Dilla – Busta
Sugiosounds – Super Fly Gift
DJ Babu – WalkaWalka
Jay-P – The Only One ( who could ever change me…pizzaman)
Dr Who Dat – Kelly Drive
Hudson Mohawke – Are you feeling hot
J Dilla – Jungle Love
Dema – Marvin & Diane Beat
Rustie – Gonna get ya
Bling 47 – Fire
Frank & Dank – Spitkicker
The Cool Kids – Pump Up The Volume
Buddy Leezle – Electric Boogie
G.Frequency Feat Tableek – No Control (Hudson Mo HOC Refixxx)
Frank & Dank – Why
O-Boogie – Paper Chaser
8. Oddisee 101 – Oddisee Mixtape
Click here to download whole tape
A real mixtape project by the first rapper we ever collaborated with – Maryland’s Oddisee. We looked up to these guys so much prior to actually becoming friends, working and touring with them. Even now if you download this 24 track zip you’ll be quietly convinced that Oddisee is one of the most charismatic and intelligent rappers and beatmakers still doing it. It’s no surprise that since this tape went live in 2008 his stock has risen to the point he’s considered underground royalty in the States with his group Dirty District.
Peace to Ira
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Intro (rhymes: Oddisee/ Beat: Tone Mason)
Once Upon A Mic (Rhymes: J-live/ Beat: Oddisee)
A Song For That (Rhymes: Oddisee/ Beat: M-Phazes)
Can I Catch A Break (Rhymes: 1st vrs- Oddisee, 2ndvrs Unknown/ Beat: Mudd)
iHate rap (Rhymes: YU/ Beat: Oddisee)
Delusional (Rhymes: 1st vrs Phonte, 2nd vrs Big Pooh, 3rd vrs Oddisee/ Beat: Oddisee)
Lost Without You Oddisee remix (Beat: oddisee)
Do Our Thing (Rhymes: 1st vrs Substantial, 2nd vrs Iomos Marad, 3rd Oddisee/ Beat: Oddisee)
Money On The Clock (Rhymes: Oddisee/ Beat: Roddy Rod)
Ride’n (Rhymes: XO/ Beat: Oddisee)
All Because She’s Gone (Vocals: Phonte/ Rhymes: 1st vrs oddisee, 2nd vrs Phonte/ Beat: Oddisee)
95 North (Rhymes: 1st vrs Lo-G, 2nd Akir, 3rd Enigma, Chorus: Oddisee/ Beat: Oddisee)
Soul Clap Remix (Rhymes 1st vrs Aziz, 2nd Jean Grae, 3rd Phonte/ Vocals: Josh Collins/ Beat: Oddisee)
Sand To The Beach (Beat: “ave.to” group that consist of Oddisee, Unknown & Kolai)
The Beginning (Rhymes: Hezekiah/ Vocals: Muhsinah/ Beat: Oddisee)
Random Verse (Rhymes: Oddisee/ Beat: Kev Brown)
Book Of Days (Rhymes: Soulstice/ Beat: Oddisee)
The Perch (Rhymes: 1st vrs Oddisee, 2nd vrs Phonte, 3rd Tor/ Beat: Flying Lotus)
Chain Letter (Rhymes: 1st vrs Kay, 2nd Zoin I, 3rd Brew, 4th Oddisee /Beat: The Are)
Chocolate City Dreaming (Beat: Oddisee)
Life’s Pie (Rhymes: 1st vrs Don Will, 2nd vrs Fresh daily, 3rd vrs Finale/ Beat: Oddisee)
(Rhymes: 1st vrs Kenn Starr, 2nd vrs Akir, 3rd vrs Oddisee/ Beat: Oddisee)
Camera (Rhymes: Oddisee/ Beat: Oddisee
7. Hudson Mohawke – RBMA Mixtape
Hud Mo was accepted as student to Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto in 2007 and made this mix on his return. It was on this trip that Steve Beckett of Warp Records publicly asked him to release on the label. A pretty incredible forum to be accepted onto a label we so greatly admired.
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Keaver – Cleff Recherd (cdr)
Clark Ft Soulja Boy – Autumnal Crank (Warp/Interscope)
Machine Drum – Don’t Wait (Normrex)
le N?ko – Loas En Je Laisse (cdr)
Chingy Ft Keri Hilson – Let Me Love You (Capitol)
Seiji – Chiggy Time (Sonar Kollektiv)
Sleepless Crew – Cold Rock (subplate )
Gaby y Carlos – Hot Heavy Heat (Dimlite Mix)
Taz – Strike First HudMo mix (Ramp)
V.C. – Hurme (cdr)
Timbaland – Give It To Me Rmx ft JayZ (Mosely Music)
Samiyam – Box (cdr)
debruit – Puccek (cdr)
SwizzBeats – Money In The Bank HudMo rmx (cdr)
Onra – Shhhhh (cdr)
Olivier Daysoul – Brain (cdr)
Teebs – Thai Bells (cdr)
Sleepless Crew – Vudootronics (cdr)
Nicole Scherzinger – Whatever You Like Inst. (Interscope)
Flying Lotus – Camel (cdr)
Rustie – Japanese Telecom Remix (cdr)
Claudia Fonti – iii (cdr)
Claudia Fonti – four (cdr)
Twista – 2 Times (Atlantic)
Cassie – Sometimes (Badboy)
Mike Slott – Good Morning (cdr)
Hudson Mo – Root Hands (cdr)
6. Rustie – Thump, Crack Mixtape
“There’s these guys up in Glasgow who all make instrumental shit that uses synths and they all seem to listen to Southern Hip Hop” – post on brownswood forum circa 2007.
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three 6 mafia – rainbow colors
n.w.a – dopeman remix
cool kids – one two
guilty simpson – get bitches, get riches
e-40 – dusted n disgusted
hudson mo ft. olivier daysoul – bopgunn
quasimoto – greenery
machinedrum – crime reaper
lazer sword – gucci seatshirt
trill fam – wipe me down remix
tampa tony – cant juke without me (tactic re-edit)
mims – girlfriends fav mc
turf talk – bring the base back
dj amaze – lean
rich boy – throw some d’s (starkey remix)
50 cent- she wants it
rustie vs vortex – deep fried
ludacris – splash waterfalls
three 6 mafia – lets start a riot
young jeezy & slim thug- diamonds (ayres & winslow remix)
spruce illest- bumper
famlay – no time 4 no’s
traxamillion- from the hood
5. The Blessings – Faux Real Mixtape
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the blessings – george jitson
the blessings – yalabama
rustie – deep fried
buddy leezle – luv (hud mo refix)
jay p – keep it lit
dema – hillophi
the blessings – l.o.b
the blessings – anna nicole
rustie + kissyapslund – atomic light and sound
madlib – freeze
illa j – new shit
alecto – hele jaar door
the blessings – sumoon
cinnaman – nonamesforthisone
mr beatnick – + ahu ‘i know all the bitches’
nasty p – nastyesther
nasty p – for defo
the blessings – last days
young jeezy – 22s or better (rustie refix)
hudson mohawke – extra sauce
the cool kids – black mags
the cool kids – gold and a pager
the blessings – shinnin
4. Heralds of Change – Roskilde Mixtape
This mix was produced for the Roskilde Festival of 2007 and features Heralds of Change in two halves.
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