My latest mix is for the Derry based Underlying Form podcast, a newish series put together by Darren Allen. Guests so far have included Jane Fitz and Nick Craddock so keeping pretty good company all told. This one is a pace-y enough run through of electro, Chicago trax and some other bits and bobs.

Juju & Jordash – Jewsex
CYB – Five
Alden Tyrell – Disco Lunar Module (U4ria’s Superdunkel Rmx 1.25)
Monsieur Black – No Love
Polygamy Boys – Wake Up
Jackmaster Hater – Tracky Two
Marcus Mixx – Go Man Go
Donell Rush – Knockin’ At My Door (Dub)
Matt Whitehead – To The Beat
Acid Kings & Crystal Bois – Can You Handle The Acid? (Acid Kings Rmx)
Doctor’s Cat – Watch Out!
The Unknown Dj – Breakdown (Scratch Version)
Free Style – The Party Has Begun
Shangaan Electro – Anthony Shake Shakir Meets BBC
Lando Kal – Rhythm Sektion
Jordan Fields – Boxbeater
Farley Jackmaster Funk – The Acid Life
Transilvanian Galaxia – Transilvanian Galaxia
John Heckle – The Voyager (voyeur)
Raiders of the Lost ARP – Lunar Lander
Gene Hunt – May The Funk Be With You
Robert Hood – The Feel
Andres – New For U
Cerrone – Supernature
Lakker – Spider Silk
E.R.P. – El Camino
Lerosa – Titanium
Pittsburgh Track Authority – Untitled
Automatic Tasty – Over The Hill

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Pauly Martin aka Platinum Ray delivers his 2nd mix for us and it’s definitely one of my favourite mixes we’ve received in a while. Even in his home town of Dublin Pauly is somewhat under-rated and really deserves more kudos for his deejaying. The tracklisting on this one speaks for itself, get stuck in…

PSTN / CU

intro – Palace Video Malfunction
Bobby Konders – Nervous Acid
Megablast – Jubita (Stereotyp Remix)
Phortune – String Free (Club LeRay Mix)
LFO – Love Is The Message
20:20 Vision – Future Remembrance (20:20 Livestyle Mix)
Theo Parrish – Synthetic Flemm
Mr. Fingers – Amnesia
John Heckle – Life On Titan
Levon Vincent – Love Technique
Sylvester – Don’t Stop
Shock – Angel Face (uncredited JTC edit)
Hell & Richard Bartz – Rock My Body To The Beat (Digital Version)
Saturn V – Come Into My Life
Soylent Green – Low Pt. 1
Frankie Knuckles – Baby Wants to Ride
The Sound Vandals – On Your Way (Deep Mix)
Stevie Wonder – Race Babbling
Risqué III – Essence Of A Dream
Boo Williams – Flash Back
The Dirty Criminals – Acidbox
outro – Educution (unreleased locked groove)

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This is a mix of Walt J tracks and some other stuff from DOW Records.

A lot of this stuff is now being reissued, so no excuse not to buy them!

There’s a short blurb and direct download over on the blog.

Or you can check it on Soundcloud

New 3 hour session from last Friday on Deepfrequency. Low down industrial funk and melancholic synth ballads for the survivors of the fallout.

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One day back in November I hit record on my laptop with the sole intention of encoding (for train iPod listening) some tunes that I had picked up late last year. Tom had been nice enough to pass along an extra “promo” copy of the 2010 Donato Dozzy double pack on Further and I wanted to hear it so I started with that. I realized I was in sort of an ambient techno mood, so I put on the Recast record next, which was in my 2011 top 50 pile. I can’t remember where I found the older Scott Grooves record that I had been looking for for a while, but it seemed like the best next step in terms of mood. Besides, it meshes nicely with the Area record which admittedly is a very specific tonal palette and pretty dissimilar from much other house and techno. The rest of the mix just fell into place after that, gradually picking up energy and tempo. I figured I’d post it here – despite the two older records – by way of forcing myself to finish my long overdue year-end mixes. Download it here and let me know what you think! Tracklist behind the cut

01. Donato Dozzy – Untitled – Further Records
02. Recast – Consensual (Original Mix) – Third Ear
03. Scott Grooves – Detroit 808 (dub delay) – Natural Midi
04. Area – Hardplace – Kimochi
05. Kate Wax – Echoes & the Light (Holden Edit) – Border Comm.
06. Tang – Drone – Emphasis Recordings
07. NCW – Panther – Apartment Records
08. Mr. Scruff – Bounce – Ninja Tune
09. Yello – Bostich (Jamie 3:26 edit) – Strobelight Honey
10. Paul Woolford – Achilles – Planet E
11. Ricardo Miranda – Greenline – stilove4music
12. Jamie 3:26 – Acid Whump – Strobelight Honey
13. NCW – My Braindead Acid – Apartment Records

p.s. if you missed it, here’s what basically amounts to another portion of my best of 2011 list, September’s Friends and Friends of Friends Mix

Sunday Times! is an amazing lil party that takes place up the hill on Barrack St in Cork City, here in Ireland. It’s a unique  party where the Djs get to do their thing  from  early in the evening while sat upon a wee bar stool, chopping and changing their musical selections at will, gently easying the crowd into a full on dance off by nights end. I’ve played it a couple of times along with Lerosa and  I’ve rarely had more fun playing music. John and Barry put a lot of effort into making everything right and anyone who’s attended or played really appreciates this.

The mix is more focused on the early evening before it gets too rowdy, not too much mixing, nothing toooo uptempo and so on. So I don’t get berated for not mentioning it, I was informed that the first track had to be on it by Dean from Tr One. I didn’t own the record at the time of playing down there last summer but another friend had bought the 7inch the day before in a flea market and I took it off him to start  my set. So, after a bit of discoging, I put this mix together.

The mix can be found over here on the guys website. T/list is below. Enjoy.

Julee Cruise – Falling
Tangerine Dream – Tangram Set 1
Conrad Schitzler – Auf Dem Schawrzen Kanal
John Daly – Sea Level (Haze Mix)
Pittsburgh Track Authority – Archipalego 6 (Dub)
E.M.A.K – Filmmusik
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
Cosmic Touch – Nothing Ever Changes (inst.)
Ali Renault – Cuffs
The Cats n’ Jammer Kids – Disco Drum (C2C4 specimen)
Dfd – Go Ahead
Tullio De Piscopo – ‘E Fatto ‘E Sorde! E? (Max Essa edit)
Cottam – Cottam 4 A1
Massimo Barsotti D.J. – Whole Lotta Love
Fockewulf 190 – Body Heat (vocal mix)
Sensitive – Driving
Wolfram feat. Haddaway – Thing Called Love (Legowelt rmx)

Guest mix time here again, and this time we got a repeat offender; Dublin degenerate, Shane O Meara. Known for his insatiable love of Liverpool FC and liquor, Shane is also one of my favourite deejays in the city and this time around he’s cut us off a rapid fire mix of house, synth pop, disco and Italo, shit we love here at ISM. Worth posting alone for possibly the silliest titled mix we’ve received yet.

Tracklisting

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Stream from deepfrequency.com

Post apocalyptic hits from Apiento, Peaking Lights, Roberto Auser, Innergaze, Pas De Deux, Ike Yard, The Fallout Club and many more..

Mick Karn – Weather The Windmill
Future Primitives – Last Sunset
Pulsating
Speculator – Lucky
Peaking Lights – All The Sun That Shines
Panic Beat
Pas De Deux – Cardiocleptomanie
Voice Farm – Sleep
Ruins – Sexual Desire
Cabaret Voltaire – Here To Go
Mick Karn – Piper Blue
Innergaze – Whats Your Body Doing Tonight?
Magazine – The Great Man’s Secret
Capracara – Panic Beats
Roberto Auser – Love Maker
Dream Club – Pedestrian Walkway
Digital Effect
Kraan – Faust 2000
White House White- Oddball Harry
Apiento – The Orange Place
Ike Yard – NCR
Bainbridge – The Changing
Jeff & Jane Hudson – Mystery Chant
Deutsche Wertarbeit - Auf Engelsflügeln

Today we kick off the week with a mix by a name that is probably pretty new to most of you: Jay Simon from Washington DC. I had the pleasure of meeting Jay earlier this year when he came up to Pittsburgh when Omar-S played here in January. I could tell that he knew what was up, and now he is proving it with his first release on vinyl! Kyle Hall’s Wild Oats label is dropping Jay’s track “Faith”, which is a funky low slung house jam featuring vocals borrowed from the r&b singer of that same name (which is included on his mix of course!), on limited edition 7″. Pretty heavy stuff for a debut record!

We did a little email interview with Jay to go along with the mix. As you will see, he rolls exactly how we like here at infinitestatemachine…

ISM: How did you originally get into deejaying? Production?

JS: I had always been into “beats” (more from a hip-hop perspective) for as long as I can remember, but I didn’t really get introduced to underground hip hop & electronic dance music stuff till I was about 14 or so. Once I figured out that there were entire genres that catered to the sounds I liked I was hooked. I couldn’t stop looking for new music & sounds…I’m still like that. So along the way I amassed a good collection of music, and really took an effort to educate myself on the roots of it, from there I realized other people I really respected (DJs and producers) had similar taste as me, so I decided to share my perspective of it. As far as production again from a young age I realized I really wanted to do it, but I always felt like I never could because I had no musical education, but recently I’m just trying to experiment and do things for myself, if other people like it that’s great too, but I’m really not trying to make stuff for other people specifically.

ISM: I know you’re a younger cat in this scene, are lots of your friends your age into this music?

JS: Definitely not, haha. Although with the internet there are more and more young kids really schooling themselves at a young age. Especially because you can basically make music with just a laptop now, and websites like discogs allow kids to know and hear almost everything an artist has done with just a few clicks on youtube or whatever. But even now nearly all of the “music people” I hang out with and regularly converse with online are an average of 5-10 years older than me. There are a few exceptions though…Kyle Hall obviously, Jay Daniel, SlikTimm, Floating Points, Funkineven and, Space Dimension Controller to name a few.

ISM: What is the dance music scene like in DC? Who are your partners in crime?

JS: The Future Times guys are definitely my closest friends in D.C. Dance music wise they are the only crew consistently pushing things forward while still having knowledge and respect of the past. I don’t really have any “partners in crime” musically, I’m just on my solo dolo as far as that’s concerned. Most parties here are dominated by your typical RA type stuff, most party goers’ & promoters’ knowledge doesn’t really run too much deeper than that. So you get a lot of bullshit hipster post-minimal faux “deep” house stuff which I hate, so I don’t really go to non Future Times related events much at all.

ISM: How would you describe your deejaying style?

JS: The style of no style I guess…I really love a lot of different types of music and really try to incorporate as much as possible, which is usually difficult/basically impossible to do in a 90 minute set… I prefer to play all night if that’s possible. Because of that, you might catch me playing completely different stuff from party to party or mix to mix…to me it’s all the same shit, music that hits me physically and emotionally, I’m not too caught up on sticking to one thing these days at all.

ISM: Does it affect the way you approach making tunes?

JS: Yes and no. I think unconsciously it definitely does, but it just comes out of my own taste I guess. I just try to make what I like to hear, not necessarily something specifically for DJing. A lot of my favorite stuff isn’t so DJ conscious from a production or arrangement point of view, in that sense I see it as a challenge to work it into my own sets, and I like to challenge myself.

ISM: How do you work you love for hip-hop and broken beat, two non 4 on the floor musics, into what you do?

JS: It’s definitely a challenge, but my favorite DJs are the ones who don’t just stick to the modern idea of one genre or style, and I try to approach things that way too. I tend to gravitate more towards warm sounds & groove oriented music… which can be anything from post-punk to techno. Recently more than ever I’m really trying to take my selections to the next level and show people a broader picture of where I come from, not only as a DJ but as a person.

ISM: How did you get hooked up with Kyle Hall?

JS: We originally started talking on Facebook a few years ago, I was into his music and knew he was a young dude with ears beyond his years (haha) so we initially connected on that. From there we started sharing tunes, and a lot of the stuff I was very into at the time (broken beat mainly) was mostly new to him. I knew from his music he was attracted to more abstract rhythms and had a respect for musicality, so the broken beat stuff was like a natural fit. A few months after we met online, he played his first show in D.C. and we met in person for the first time. After that we just kept in touch.

The record came about just from me randomly showing him some of the stuff I did on Soundcloud, and he happened to be into a lot of it. I was never planning on putting that “Faith” track out, I just did it for my own DJ sets mainly, but he was really excited about it and wanted to release it.

ISM: You’re also starting your own label soon, right?

JS: Yeah…it’s called Must Have Records. The first release is a relatively under the radar Finnish producer named Saine. He mostly does hip hop & downtempo/jazz type stuff, but on his albums (he’s already released 2 full LPs) he would have 1 or 2 killer house jams. I contacted him on Soundcloud and he was down to do his first “dance music” oriented EP for Must Have. Stylistically its pretty unique, I call it “modern deep”, it’s definitely not your typical house record. It’s coming on vinyl before the end of the year…test presses sound excellent. The second release is going to be from a friend of mine named Julien Love, I included one of his unreleased tracks on the mix. His music has been heavily sought after by heads in the know for some time now, so its a real pleasure to be able to release some of it. 2012 will be a big year for Must Have Records so stay tuned…

ISM: Do you feel like you’re part of a bigger movement right now coming out of the US?

JS: I never really thought about it that way, but maybe? I’m just trying to do things with knowledge and respect of the founders of this dance music thing, while at the same time putting my own spin on it…anyone trying to do that I fuck with.

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Jay’s mix entitled “Swag Swag Woop Swag” can be downloaded HERE.

Tracklist:

1. Slum Village – Forth & Back Ft. Kurupt (Remix) [Ne'Astra]
2. The Shake Up Connection – Let’s Dance [Amplified]
3. Jay Simon – Faith [Wild Oats]
4. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulonimbus Mix) [Polygram]
5. Rondenion – The Beautiful Memory [Aesthetic Audio]
6. Hunee – Amiadar [Retreat]
7. Trio Zero – Twilight [Capitol]
8. James Mason – Nightgruv [Mighty Fine]
9. Julien Love – Touch [CDR]
10. Steve Arrington – Dancin’ In The Key of Life [Atlantic]
11. Burrell – I Really Like [Virgin]
12. E.S.P. – It’s You [Underground]
13. Theo Parrish & Marcellus Pittman – Night of the Sagittarius [Sound Signature]

You should also check Jay out on his Soundcloud page as well as his Podomatic page.

P.S. BOOTY