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House / Acid House / Tech House / Progressive House / Techno / Trance

Still feeling the post BSS Spring Bounce glow – a very welcome return to playing tunes & dancing in beautiful Bouddi – a stunning location, great music & good vibes

This is pretty similar to what I played at the party, with a few extras that I could have played – deep, groovy, spacey sounds 😊

Big up to all the BSS crew

‘more freedom than you’ve ever felt before’

Sometimes Feel Like - Nuage (House Of Youth)

Dancing Is Life (feat. Diamondancer) - Massiande (Freerange)

Foreign Nature - Vhyce (Vhyce)

Love You Got (Club Edit) - Kelly Lee Owens (DH2)

Meteors - Scuba (Last Night On Earth)

Euphoria Simulator - Guy Contact (Haws)

Fever - Command D (The Vibesmith)

Entropy & Ecstasy - Mooglepuff (Shades Of Sound)

Into Dust (Still Falling) - Four Tet (XL)

Close To You - Boys' Shorts (Correspondant)

Hot Life - Retromigration (Edits From The Function)

Monte Kali - mpeg (Haws)

Far Away Places - Escape Artist (Craigie Knowes)

Sunscreen (Live Mix) - Spriitzz (Punctuality)

Reward Chemicals - Sleep D (Kalahari Oyster Cult)

To The Edge - Spencer Parker (Trick)

Artist Of The Day: Blancmange

 

Listening to Blancmange today.

Wonderful early 80's electronic pop. Loved these records then & still love them today.

From the moody electronica of Running Thin & the excellent I've Seen The Word, to the dancefloor with Feel Me (best heard in Greg Wilson / Derek Kaye version) & Blind Vision (12" extended mix). Sitars & tablas on Top Of The Pops for Living On The Ceiling, & the Mange Tout album is just full of highlights (+ the 12" versions of the singles). 

All brilliant stuff :)

Top marks for the artwork as well, particularly on the first three.

RIP Stephen Luscombe

Blancmange Spotify Playlist

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House / Tech House / Progressive House / Techno / Trance

Friday night dub house disco | Deep spacey goodness :)

Look out for BSS Spring Bounce, coming to a lush Bouddi location 04/10/25

'This cosmic journey'

Bansuri Breeze (Extended Club Edit) - Mooglepuff (Mooglepuff)
Lose Your Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Le Carousel (Phil Kieran Recordings)
The Hope (Recondite's Nocturnal Car Ride) - Scuba (Hotflush)
Eternal Thing - Nhar (Azzur)
Samarkanda (Zombies In Miami Audio Guide Remix) - Cannibal Ink (Rotten City)
Astra (Sasha's Daydream Mix) - Sasha & Super Flu (Last Night On Earth)
Animatronic - Scuba (Last Night On Earth)
Spa Down - Rambal Cochet (Space Lab)
Close To You - Boys' Shorts (Correspondant)
Planet Love - Boudi & Boy Boogie (Work Them Records)
Sort Of Like A Dream (feat. Anunaku) - Avalon Emerson (Dead Oceans)
Virtual Flight - Solar Suite (On Rotation)
Forward Motion - Nathalie Capello (Permanent Vacation)
Invoke Hysteria - Tifra (Haws)
Reward Chemicals - Sleep D (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
Remembering - Escape Artist (Phonica)

On This Day - 11th of September 1991

 

On this day… 34 years ago.

11th of September 1991. Flowered Up at The Event, Brighton. Support from Soul Family Sensation & DJ Terry Farley.

Saw Flowered Up a few times, great band, always very vibey. Good times 🔈

It’s On & Weekender (+ Weatherall remixes) are still top tunes 🔈
The Flowered Up album was reissued last year with extra tracks & some new remixes - all good stuff, go check it out 😊
Had a listen to the Soul Family Sensation album earlier, for the first time in many years, enjoyed it 😊

@flowered_up_official @terryfarley

Tune Of The Day: Total Confusion (Heavenly Mix) - A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd

Tune of the day: Total Confusion (Heavenly Mix) - A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd (Tam Tam 1990)

The A side is pretty good, kinda breakbeat / hardcore (with P.E samples)… but the Heavenly mix is an absolute gem, almost trance, totally hands in the air 🙌

Massive flashback, joyful memories of Stoke on Trent 1989/90 🔈

Very happy to find this in @relitrelit today 😊

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Ambient / Dubstep / Dub / Post Punk / Reggae / Techno / Electronica

The whole world has gone mad, with war & division everywhere, it’s been cold & raining for weeks & has also been the toughest time for our family

Escaping into music for a few hours, when I can, is really helping me right now 😊

Introduced with some words of wisdom from Joe Strummer, this is 2 hours of dread bass weight, music for serious times, but there’s always beauty & light in the darkness 🔈

(when I recorded it I saved it as ‘Moody’ 😆)

‘It’s all of us or none’

Past Is Past - Demdike Stare (Modern Love)
State Forest - Burial (Hyperdub)
Ghost Town - Kode9 & The Spaceape (Hyperdub)
Your Say - Headhunter (Tempa)
One Of Us - Kryptic Minds (Swamp 81)
Friend Version - Rhythm & Sound (Burial Mix)
Can't Touch Jah (Dub) - Centry (Dubhead)
Forward Youth - RSD (Punch Drunk)
Lockjaw - Special Request (Houndstooth)
Skeng (Feat. Killa P & Flowdan) - The Bug (Ninja Tune)
Robber Dub - The Clash (Columbia)
Two Thieves And A Liar - Gary Clail & On U-Sound System (On-U Sound)
Black Eye Boy - Renegade Soundwave (Mute)
Lone Swordsman - Daniel Avery (Phantasy Sound)
Pushed - Stray (Exit)
Focus Inwards - ASC (Nonplus)
Life We Live - Commix (Soul:r)
Electronic Rhythm Number Two - Pye Corner Audio (Type)
Things You Do For Love (Heartbeat) - Apiento (Test Pressing)
Fast Moving Cars - Carla Dal Forno (Blackest Ever Black)
Laundry Pt. 1 - Neotropic (Ntone)
Arachnae - Ancestral Voices (Samurai Horo)
Like a Motorway (Skin Up, You're Already Dead) - Saint Etienne (Heavenly)
Paradise Circus - Massive Attack vs Burial (Massive Attack)
Street Halo - Burial (Hyperdub)
Breakthrough - Versa (System)
Jammin' For Survival (12" version) - The Morwells & Prince Jammy (Trojan)
War Of The Stars - Gregory Isaacs (Blood & Fire)
Spying Glass - Horace Andy (Wackie's)
Live Up - Bush Chemists (Dubhead)
Version 78 Style - Glen Brown & King Tubby (Blood & Fire)
Nuh Skin Up Dub - Keith Hudson (Pressure Sounds)
Long Life - Prince Far I & The Arabs (Pressure Sounds)
A Wonderful Life - Carl Craig (Blanco Y Negro)

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Winter solstice mix 2025

Deep sounds for peace in troubled times

Ambient / Electronica / World / Dub

'It's like being in the eye of a hurricane'

No Safety Zone - ASC & Sam KDC (Auxiliary)
Drunken Galleon - Walls (Kompakt)
Shinagawa - Kiyoko (Auxiliary)
Vision - Versa (At One)
Weed Out Version - Zvuloon Dub System (Med Tone)
Lightning Flash Weak Heart Drop - Big Youth (Front Line)
Amassakoul 'N' Ténéré - Tinariwen (Independent)
Plains - Tycho (Ghostly International)
Good Over Evil - A.J Robinson / WhoDemSound (Meditator Music)
Too Dangerous Dub - Manasseh (Roots Garden)
Sweet Incense - Wareika Hill Sounds (Honest Jon's)
Textures - The Amalgamation Of Soundz (Filter)
The Frequency Ov Thee Truthers - The Black Dog (Dust Science)
Candles - Jon Hopkins (Domino)
Into The Night - Angelo Badalamenti (Warner)
Come To Me Slowly (Pt.2) - Rohan (One World)
Knuddelmaus - Ulrich Schnauss (City Centre Offices)
Balthus Bemused By Color - Harold Budd (All Saints)
Dorje Ling - David Parsons (Celestial Harmonies)
Sub-Surface - John Beltran (R&S)
Melt - Leftfield (Quango)
Chasing Circles - Broken Chip (Feral Media)
Ralome - Plaid (Warp)
Danny's Song - PFM (Good Looking)
Living - Moby (Elektra)