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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)

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Some current dub house disco favourites for Friday night

Loving this kinda sound right now - lots of Australian producers - go buy all these records :)

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

'That's the mystery about it'

Hoomba - Totem Projects (Totem Projects)
Chugboat (Rich Lane Remix) - Duncan Gray (Tici Taci)
Subtropique - Solar Suite (Haws)
New Life (Tech Support Remix) - Arp Deco (Shades Of Sound)
Eternal Thing - Nhar (Azzur)
Stairway To Heaven - Zombie Affair (Permanent Vacation)
Sansara - Vlad Jet (Disco Halal)
Head On - Eden Burns (Public Possession)
Anybody Out There? - Guy Contact (Contact Therapy)
Du Bist Ernst - Mala Ika (Roam)
Entropy & Ecstasy - Mooglepuff (Shades Of Sound)
Every Ending - Vhyce (Vhyce)
Desire (Mala Ika Remix) - Boys' Shorts (Correspondant)
Transcendence - Jeku (Haws)
Gentle Grit (Baby Rollen Remix) - mpeg (Permanent Vacation)

Progression - Eversines (Nous'Klaer Audio)
Lost At Sea (Dub Mix) - Reflex Blue (Haws)
Nostalgia - Jordan Nocturne (Correspondant)
Apus Cosmica - Suki (Haws)
In Your Mind - Hybrid Man (On Rotation)
Monte Kali - mpeg (Haws)
Motomami's Chant - Guy Contact (Craigie Knowes)
Far Away Places - Escape Artist (Craigie Knowes)
Negen - Human Space Machine (Space-Lab)
Rain Dance - Manami (Rhythm Section International)
Raging Spirits (mpeg Remix) - Benjamin Fröhlich (Permanent Vacation)
She Who Sees All (Human Movement Remix) - Soul Wun (Gallery Recordings)
To The Edge - Spencer Parker (Trick)
Rave Up - Blu:sh (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
Fitzroy Garage Party (Tjade Remix) - Cleanfield (Correspondant)
Evolution of Thinking - Juliet Fox (Drumcode)

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Late afternoon / sunset

Kincumba Mountain April 2025

Big up Bouddi Soundsystem everytime :)

'Going back to the mountains'

Mountain Top - Gappy Ranks (Greensleeves)
Laguna Azur (Jalusi's Acid Dub) - Suncream (Avec Plaisir)
Sunwave - Hybrid Man (Wax'o Paradiso)
The Orange Place - Apiento (Test Pressing)
Crockett's Theme - FPU (Turbo)
Subtropique - Solar Suite (Haws)
Summertime Sadness (Asadinho Dub) - Lana Del Rey (RVS)
New Life (Tech Support Remix) - Arp Deco (Shades Of Sound)
Eternal Thing - Nhar (Azzur)
Serenade - Tom Demac (Kompakt)
Magic Strings - Ivan Fabra (Nang Records)
Stairway To Heaven - Zombie Affair (Permanent Vacation)
Foreign Nature - Vhyce (Vhyce)
Floating Against Time (Wata Igarashi Shimmering Mix) - Wata Igarashi (Kompakt)

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Some current dub house disco favourites, for dancing at sunset or sunrise, or any point between :)

House / Acid House / Progressive House / Dub / Tech House / Trance

'A new way of looking at the future'

Serenade - Tom Demac (Kompakt)
Amnesia (Lindstrøm Instrumental Mix) - Radio Slave & Cagedbaby (Rekids)
Ignorance Is Bliss - Vhyce (W&O Street Tracks)
Magic Strings - Ivan Fabra (Nang Records)
All We See - Hardt Antoine (Kompakt)
On The Z-Plane - Guy Contact (Haws)
Love Loop (Club Mix) - Benjamin Fröhlich (Permanent Vacation)
In This Life - Joeski (Crosstown Rebels)
King Pharoah's Plague (Jay Tripwire Remix) - Yabby You (Repeat)
Euphoria Simulator - Guy Contact (Haws)
Ephemeral Eyes - Whitesquare (Correspondant)
Initiate Sequence - Guy Contact (Haws)
Gentle Grit (Baby Rollen Remix) - mpeg (Permanent Vacation)
Transcendence - Jeku (Haws)
Nostalgia - Jordan Nocturne (Correspondant)
Crop Circle - Robert Dietz (Nous'Klaer Audio)

Tune Of The Day: Poor Mans Story (Reggae Mix 1) - Dattman

Tune of the day: Poor Mans Story (Reggae Mix 1) - Dattman (Tomohawk 1993)

Lovely dubwise progressive house 🔈

My CD copy is dying (the curse of PDO), so very happy to find the 12” last weekend*

*at a market in the hall where Chrome Roots Jr plays basketball 😆

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A mixed bag of splendid tunes :)

Psychedelic / Trip Hop / Reggae / D&B / Post Rock / Shoegaze / Balearic / Acid House / Techno / Electronica

'A fuller, more meaningful understanding'

Don't Let It Pass - Junip (Shock)
Empire - Bomb The Bass Feat. Sinéad O'Connor & Benjamin Zephaniah (4th & Broadway)
Drifting - Charlie Chaplin (Doctor Bird)
Murderous Dub - Tuff Scout All Stars (Tuff Scout)
Youth Dem Cold - Richie Spice (VP)
In The Mood - Dillinja (Mo Wax)
Cruising Detroit - PFM (Moving Shadow)
Goodbye - Apparat w/ Soap & Skin (Mute)
Green - Tycho (Ninja Tune)
I Know - The Beta Band (Regal)
Speed Of Dark (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Emiliana Torrini (Rough Trade)
Falling Up (Leo Zero Acid Dub) - Vanity Project (Eclectics)
2000 - RPM (Mo Wax)
The Dream Machine (Space Echo Mix) - Sukia (Mo Wax)
Where Were U In 92? - Eden Burns & Christopher Tubbs (Public Possession)
A-B Music - Hardway Bros (Throne Of Blood)
It's True What They Say (Instrumental) - Sarah-Shaun (Hobbes Music)
Rheinlust - Fürsattl (Claremont 56)
Loner - Burial (Hyperdub)

Funny Break (One Is Enough) Weekend Ravers Mix - Orbital (FFRR)
Should I Get A Dog - Robert Dietz (Nous'Klaer Audio)
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones (CBS)