I recorded this mix 10 years ago but I don’t think I ever did anything with it… 1 Night Raver (2007 repress) by Mike Brooks 2 River Jordan by Luciano & Ras Zachari 3 Jah Works – We Tek Up by Jah Mali 4 Ava Leigh by Ava Leigh 5 Levi Riddim by Manasseh 6 …
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I was excited to be asked to do a mix for the 400th issue of The Wire. I know it’s fashionable in some circles to criticise it (usually for getting some minor trainspotterish detail wrong, or for not covering more of some completely marginal artist or scene). But 400 issues of a high quality independent …
John Eden: Dream Baby Dream Baby Dream versions Part Two by Johnedenuk on Mixcloud 1. Fuxa – Dream Baby Dream 2. Christian & the Heathens – Dream Baby Dream 3. Mark Refoy – Blue Moon Dream Baby Dream 4. Madrugada – Dream Baby Dream 5. Luna – Dream Baby Dream 6. Black Tambourine – Dream …
John Eden: Austerity Reggae Mix by Johnedenuk on Mixcloud (download the mp3 direct from here but don’t go mad and use up all my bandwidth) In which I slam down a bunch of the tunes I took to play out last week on the loose topic of austerity, poverty and the general insanity of the …
This is the first proper mix I ever did, back in those pre-blog times of 2002. I was interested in tracks that blurred the lines between reggae, dub, electronica and dance music. I still am, but it seems harder to find interesting angles on it these days. Thanks to Kate Bakhaus for helping me out …
One of the great things about reggae’s “version culture” is how getting your mitts on a new tune can reactivate whole swathes of your collection. I stumbled across a storming UK twelve on the Boops riddim recently and spent a very pleasant Saturday afternoon on a version excursion tip, fishing out classics and long forgotten cuts …
Olaf is a reggae writer and fan outta Cologne. We previously interviewed each other for the Audio Poverty programme. We also played some tunes to close the festival. They laid on a great soundsystem for us. We were preceded by Quarta 330, a really cool Japanese guy who fiddled with a load of gameboys to …
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