Chrome Roots 9

New mix - mostly down tempo, dubwise head nodders. Made on a sunny afternoon :)

 

Techno / Drum & Bass / Dubstep / Reggae / Balearic / Trip Hop / House etc.

'Blue Dreamers' 

My Sun - Seekae (Rice Is Nice) 

Quiddity Last Visit - Max 404 (Mo Wax) 

The Schematics - DJ Vadim (Ninja Tune) 

Tape Syndicate - Beat Pharmacy (Silent Season) 

Ricorda Tell Me (Main Mix) - Isola (Godmode) 

The Spell (Burial Remix) - Charles Webster (Dimensions) 

uwem/creation - Space Afrika (Sferic) 

The Real Thing - Peshay (Mo Wax) 

In The Mood - Dillinja (Mo Wax) 

Cont No Stop - Pye Corner Audio (Type) 

Slow Jam - Young Echo (Nexus) 

Delphium - Aphex Twin (Distance) 

Visions - Slam (Soma) 

City Streets - Jehst (YNR) 

U (feat. Kinsey Lloyd) - Space Afrika (Dais) 

Wishful Thinking VIP - Vaccine (Hotflush) 

Your Say - Headhunter (Tempa) 

Dissolved - Kryptic Minds (Swamp 81) 

Tuning - Distance (Planet Mu) 

Stolen Shadows - Calibre (Deep Medi) 

Push The Tempest - Dub Terror (Universal Egg) 

Talk Some Sense (Gamma Ray) - Keith Hudson (Basic Replay) 

My Nocturne - Keith Hudson (Basic Replay) 

Rematerialised - Death In Vegas (Concrete) 

The Outsider - Coyote (Is It Balearic) 

Release Part 2 - Blackalicious (MCA) 

Bodybeat - Yargo (Bodybeat) 

Noctuary - Bonobo (Ninja Tune) 

Sabbia Magica - Hear & Now (Claremont 56) 

Soufie - Banco De Gaia (Beyond) 

QMS - T Love (Ninja Tune) 

One Time For Your Mind (JStar Under Arrest Re-Rub) - Gift Of Gab / JStar (JStar) 

This Earth That You Walk Upon - Simple Minds (Virgin) 

Until You're Worth It (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Mugwump (Subfield) 

Wrong Dream (Hardway Bros Cosmic Intervention) - Margee (Other Goodness) 

Red - James Bright (Eclectics) 

Weird Gear - Ultramarine (Rough Trade)

Chrome Roots 8

Following on from Chrome Roots 7...

2 hours of Dub Disco / Acid House. I've been listening to a lot of ALFOS mixes recently & loving this stuff. Respect, as always, to Andrew Weatherall.

'I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished, if none of us make it at least there'll be some kind of record'

Knuddelmaus - Ulrich Schnauss (City Centre Offices)

Space Operator (Donato Dozzy Cadillac Rhythms Reshape) - 4M International (Mr Disc Organization)

Buddah's Watching - Peza (Peza)

Argonaut - Hardway Brothers (Throne Of Blood)

Desertico - My Friend Dario (Hell Yeah)

Mania Theme (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Hardway Brothers (Is It Balearic?)

Goldenlips - Chicken Lips (Phantasy)

Mustat Varjot - Roberto Rodriguez (House Of Disco)

A Life Of Silence (Timothy J Fairplay's Fall Of Shame Remix) - Scott Fraser (Permanent Vacation)

A Love From Outer Space (Version 2) - The Asphodells (Rotters Golf Club)

Pleasure Moon (DJ Version) - Marcus Marr (DFA)

Reflextion (Ray Mang Knee Jerk Reaction Mix) - Daniele Baldeli & DJ Rocca (Is It Balearic?)

Ulysses (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animation) - Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

Albatros (Coyote Remix) - Bonnie & Klein (MM Discos)

Lose Your Love (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Le Carousel (Phil Kieran Recordings)

Feels Like Love (Tiefschwarz Remix) - Lost 'N' Alive (Fine)

Ours (Hermanez Remix) L0C (Akbal Music)

The Returning feat. James Yuill (Prins Thomas Disko Miks) - Downtown Party Network (Is It Balearic?)

Pacific Coastal Highway (Hardway Brothers Reconstruction) - Hawke (Is It Balearic?)

Charas - TOHT (TOHT)

Breathe - User Only (TOHT)

A Hymn For Your Dreams - Lee Burridge (All Day I Dream)

Rotting Hills - Avalon Emerson (AD93)

Chrome Roots 7

 

For anyone that missed my warm up set at the recent BSS party (i.e almost everyone 😉), this is kind of how it went... late afternoon, sunshine vibes, beautiful location & lovely party. Ambient / Downtempo / Trip Hop / Reggae / Electronica / Balearic & into some chugging Dub Disco / Acid House (which continues in Chrome Roots 8).

'I just woke from a dream... it wasn't like a typical dream, it seemed more like I'd walked into an alternate universe or something'

Cathedral Oceans - John Foxx (Metamatic)

Drunken Galleon - Walls (Kompakt)

Textures - The Amalgamation Of Soundz (Filter)

Refit Blues - The Mexican (Catskills)

Original Stuntmaster - Aim (Grand Central)

Take A Ride - Al Campbell (Studio One / Soul Jazz)

Truth & Rights - Johnny Osbourne (Studio One / Heartbeat)

Automatic - Lone Ranger (Studio One / Soul Jazz)

Protection (The Eno Mix) - Massive Attack (Wild Bunch)

Angel Dust - DJ Cam (Inflamable)

Tempest Dub - Edge Test 2 (React)

Ascension - Tycho (Ghostly)

So You Think You're Special - Scuba (Hotflush)

The Plug - Bonobo (Tru Thoughts)

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Playgroup (Source)

Signs - Badmarsh & Shri (Outcaste)

Feet Keep Moving - Natural Self (Tru Thoughts)

Phiesope - u-Ziq (Hi-Rise)

Valley Of Paradise - Psychemagik (Psychemagik)

La Marsa - Hear & Now (Claremont 56)

Paradise Lost (Dream Chimney Dub) - Faint Waves (Eclectics)

Lessons (Coyote's Deep Dub) - Statues (Eclectics)

Jah Wish - DJ Shepdog (Nice Up)

World Unite - World Unite (Creation)

In A Lonely Place - IWDG (Rotters Golf Club)

Lewi's Dub - Duncan Gray (Tici Taci)

The Moton 5 - Andrew Weatherall (Pamela)

Trebizond - Mr BC (Eclectics)

Something More (Dark) - Roisin Murphy (Skint)

Out The Window (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Confidence Man (Heavenly)

Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix) - The Sabres Of Paradise (Warp)

Chrome Roots 6

 

Strictly reggae selection. Roots / Dub / Early Dancehall / UK Dub & plenty of Lee Scratch Perry productions, RIP to The Upsetter.

'Greetings music lover'

Dyon Anasawa - The Upsetters feat. Full Experience (Island)
Mr Cop - Gregory Isaacs (Trojan)
Got To Be Witty - Morwells (Burning Sounds)
Talawah - The Gladiators (Studio One / Soul Jazz)
The Ruler (Cold I Up) - Johnny Clarke (Trojan)
A Colder Version - The Aggrovators (Attack)
Ball Of Fire - Israel Vibration (Pressure Sounds)
Rock & Come On Ya - Johnny Osbourne & Pappa Tullo (Soul Jazz)
When Will Better Come - Junior Byles (Trojan)
I Trim The Barber - King Tubby's & The Aggrovators (Trojan)
People Cruel - Cornell Campbell & Errol Scorcher (Pressure Sounds)
Rockers Master - Sugar Minott (Power House / 17 North Parade)
Lone Ranger & Tonto - Tenor Saw (Power House / 17 North Parade)
Hill & Gully Ride - Ini Kamoze (Xterminator)
Pumpkin Belly - Gappy Ranks (Greensleeves)
Stop That Train (Outta Babylon) - Reggae Roast feat. Ranking Joe & Donovan Kingjay (Reggae Roast)
Allergic To Lies - Lee Scratch Perry & Dub Syndicate (On-U Sound)
Roots Reality & Culture - Bounty Killer (17 North Parade)
We Rule The Dance - Interrupt & Tenor Youtman (Reggae Roast)
The Cutter - Cutty Ranks (Fashion)
Congoman (12" Mix) - The Congos (Blood & Fire)
Rejoice Jah Jah Children - The Silvertones (Music Club)
Rejoicing Skank - The Upsetters (Trojan)
Rock Me In Dub - Linval Thompson & The Revolutionaries (Trojan)
Slum - Gregory Isaacs (Burning Sounds)
Vibrate On - Augustus Pablo Meets The Upsetter (Island)
Better Future - Errol Walker (Pressure Sounds)
If You Don't Love Jah - Althea & Donna (Front Line)
So Jah Dub - Hydroponics (Dubhead)
So Jah Say - Culture Freeman (Dubhead)
Live Up - The Bush Chemists (Dubhead)
Voice In The Wilderness - Alpha & Omega (A&O)
Inner Dub - The Power Steppers (Planet Dog)
Run This Nation - Skari (Roots Garden)
Wrong Hands Dub - Manasseh & Skari (Roots Garden)
Pain Killa - Tiawa (Roots Garden)
Babylon Makes The Rules - Steel Pulse (Mango)
Never Get Weary - Culture (Heartbeat)

Chrome Roots 5

House & Techno - current favourites, old & new.

'How did all this start? How did you get here in the first place?'

How The West Was Won - Psyche (New Electronica)
On The Beach (Chaser Remix) - Marcel (Nuphonic)
Mana's Bounce - Recloose (Peacefrog)
End Times Sound - Andrew Weatherall (Byrd Out)
Brother Johnston's Travelling Disco Consultancy - Andrew Weatherall (Rotters Golf Club)
Brining It - Retromigration (Wolf Music)
Space Disco - Faze Action (Nuphonic)
Little Bullet Part 1 - Spooky (Guerilla)
Rainforest - Alaska (F Communications)
Sundar (Newman (I Love) Retouch) - Victhor & Christian Lepah (All Day I Dream)
Neunivai - Volen Sentir (Shanti Moscow Radio)
Jinx (Volen Sentir Pure Magic Healing) - Lost Desert & Hermanez (Peace Symphonies)
Mushrooms (Salt City Orchestra Out There Mix) - Marshall Jefferson vs Noosa Heads (Airtight)
The Deep - Manoo & Francois A (Buzzin Fly)
Ain't Got Everything - Gene Tellem (Wolf Music)
Baby Love (Muzique Tropique Love The Bass Remix) - Cassio (Glasgow Underground)
Something For The Dancers - Lea Lisa (Wolf Music)
Safe - Monkey Safari (Spectrum)
Tribal Confusion (Inhalation Mix) - Culture (Strictly Rhythm)
Jerusalem (King Soloman's Dub) - Jerusalem (Om Records)
Feels So Good - Scott Grooves (Soma)
Hurdy Burdy - Those Norwegians (Paper)
Walk So Lonely - St Germain (F Communications)
Take Child (Kenny Dope Mix) - Alex Gopher (Disques Solid)
8th Movement - Kassian (Heist)
Stay With Me - Mateo & Matos (Glasgow Underground)
Prix Choc (Ultra Bright Mix by La Funk Mob) - Etienne De Crecy (Different)
Big Tight Flares - Dave Angel (Blunted)
School - Four Tet (Text)
Bad Chicago - Martyn (Nonplus)

Chrome Roots 4

A very mixed mixtape, just playing some current (old) favourites :)

'Separation in one minute'

Dorje Ling - David Parsons (Celestial Harmonies)
9am Distant Train - Loop Guru (North South)
Arc - Scanner (New Electronica)
The River's Course - Black Eagle Child (Preservation)
Far Away Is Scotland - Early Songs (Preservation)
Propel - Ben Swire (Preservation)
Boarding Zone - Andrew Tuttle (Room40)
For Belgian Friends - The Durutti Column (Factory)
Zero Transfer - Neil Trix (Moving Shadow)
Cruising Detroit - PFM (Moving Shadow)
Gravitational Pull - JMJ (Moving Shadow)
Give My Soul - The Lab Rats (Lacerba)
Microlovr - 69 (R&S)
2000 - RPM (Mo Wax)
Nothing - Sandals (Open Toe)
Shook Ones Pt. 2 - Mobb Deep (BBE)
Be True (Burial Remix) - Commix (Metalheadz)
Touch - Holy Other (Tri Angle)
Drive - Beacon (Ghostly International)
Poppies - Scuba (Hotflush)
Falling - Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Invada)
Your Ghost - Kristin Hersh (4AD)
At The Dark - Group Rhoda (Night School)
Sea Of Storms - Synth Sense (Auxiliary)
7998 - They Live (Exit)
Cavalier - They Live (Exit)
Telepath - Boards Of Canada (Warp)
Sansui - Pluxus (Kompakt)
Test Signal - Untold (Hessle Audio)
The Sky Is Not Crying - Tiny Trendies (Nuphonic)
Water Ride - 16B (Eye Q)
Talkin' Talkin' - Matata (Harmless)
African Battle - Manu Dibango (Harmless)
Ring Da Alarm - Knowledge & Wisdom (Lacerba)
I'm Finished - U.T.I (Lacerba)
All The Time The Lyric A Rhyme - Tippa Irie (Soul Jazz)

Chrome Roots 3

 

I was due to play a warm up reggae set at a party last weekend... & then lockdown was announced, 6pm curfew with 4 hrs notice.

Undeterred, starting early, the party still happened... & it was quite magical. Salute to BSS crew - DJ Heuristics bringing the pre-lockdown good vibes in fine style.

The next day I thought I’d do a mix of the reggae tunes I’d pulled out to play at the party. Instead, the first 30 mins is reggae & the next 90 mins of house / techno was inspired by the party :)

After Electric Embers.

'I think it's time that we should try to get together, have a little fun together'

Me & Jane - The Morwells (RAS)
Ganja Smuggling - Eek A Mouse (Shanachie)
Under Mi Sensi - Barrington Levy (Soul Jazz)
Sensi Skank Reloaded - Reggae Roast feat. Ruben Da Silva (Trojan Reloaded)
Levi Rhythm - Manasseh (Roots Garden)
Who Knows - Protoje feat. Chronixx (Mr Bongo)
Do It Again - Reggae Roast feat. Horseman & Natty Campbell (Reggae Roast)
Weed Out Version - Zvuloon Dub System (Medtone)
Amlak Yimesgen - Kibir La Amlak (Kibir La Amlak)
Want Fi Goh Rave - Linton Kwesi Johnson (Island)
Mountain Top - Gappy Ranks (Greensleeves)
Rockers Rock - Augustus Pablo (Soul Jazz)
Snowflake 7 - Yagya (Force Inc)
Fragile Systems - Federsen (Silent Season)
In The Clouds (Simple Symmetry Remix) - Drugface (Multi Culti)
Spank (Instrumental) - Jimmy 'Bo' Horne (Essential)
Eau De Cologne - MRI (Force Tracks)
Funky Guitar (Lion Rock Dub Excellence) - TC1992 (Union City)
Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix) - Sunscreem (Soho Square)
Don't Hide It (feat. Lisette Alea) - Alexkid (F Communications)
New Jersey Deep - Black Science Orchestra (Junior Boys Own)
Wings Of Freedom - Gerd (Evolution)
Love Salad - Four Tet (Text)
Impact (The Earth Is Burning) - Orbital (Internal)
Ganja Mist - Fonka Delix (Plastic City)
Bleu - Daniel Thompson (Obsessive)
Dark & Dirty - Get Fucked (Eukahouse)
Hitch - Havana (Limbo)
Chrome Roots - Thunderground (Infonet)
Last Night A DJ Fucked Your Wife - Get Fucked (Eukahouse)
Darkness - Megalon (Plink Plonk)

Chrome Roots 2

Dancing with DK50

'Time is a social institution and not a physical reality'

Into Out Midst - Walls (Kompakt)

Innocence - Claro Intelecto (Modern Love)

Shards - George Fitzgerald (Double Six)

The Edge Of Wonder (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Silver Apples (Chicken Coop)

Find A Way - Round Four feat. Tikiman (Main Street)

Ezio - Motorbass (Motorbass)

The Way - Global Communication (Dedicated)

Jazz The Sea Turtle (16B Remix) - 4AM (Glasgow Underground)

Too Late - Impossible Beings (End Recordings)

Above The Skyline - Mr James Barth & A.D (Svek)

Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub) - Primal Scream (Columbia)

Ping Pong - Speedy J (Warp)

Spacelab - Kraftwerk (Kling Klang)

Waiting For You - Mode 2 (Alola)

Stella Sunday (Idjut Boys Sarbeni Remix) - Muzique Tropique (Glasgow Underground)

Right On Right On - Silicone Soul (Soma)

Baby - Four Tet (Text)

Phylyps Trak ii/ii - Basic Channel (Basic Channel)

Cro Magnon (What About Our Love) - Constipated Monkeys (Harmless)

Naked Woman - Stephan Grieder & The Persuader (Svek)

Two Fatt Guitars (Skankin' Mix) - Direckt (UFG)

Mmm... Skyscraper I Love You Telegraph 6.11.92 - Underworld (Boy's Own)

Broken English (Slam Sub Dub) - Sunscreem (Sony Soho Square)

Mystery Black Notes - Smart Alex (Eukahouse)

Sugar Daddy (Sugar Caned) - Secret Knowledge (Sabres of Paradise)

The Beach - New Order (Factory)

Peace For Thought - Russ Gabriel (New Electronica)

Chrome Roots 1

Mixtape for DK 50

'The wind gets in the wires'

Turbile Epic Casual, Stpl Idle - Autechre (Warp)
A Song For Hope - ASC (Samurai Red Seal)
Old Man River's Crying (Rope Of Sand Mix) - Full Moon Scientist (Hard Hands)
Norbert & Cecil - New Flesh (Big Dada)
Eulogy - Jehst (YNR Productions)
Enye Nyame Nko - Ebo Taylor & The Pelikans (Mr Bongo)
Asiko Mi Ni - The Nigerian Police Force Band (Soundway)
Let's Wade In The Water - Marlena Shaw (Chess)
When Will Be Paid (For The Work We've Done) - The Staple Singers (Ace)
Ego Tripping - Nikki Giovanni (Harmless) 
The Hard Margin (Instrumental) - The Creators (Bad Magic)
The Hard Margin (Street Version feat. Mos Def & Talib Kweli) - The Creators (Bad Magic)
Lundi Bleu (The Grid 'World Communications' Mix) - The Times (Creation)
Only You (Original Boot Knock Mix) - Talizman (Cowboy)
Junta Jaegar - Rune Lindbaek (Paper)
No One Receiving - Brian Eno (EG)
Sorongo - Cortijo (Soul Jazz)
Boys - Seekae (Future Classic)
Don't You Want My Love - Moodymann (Peacefrog)
I'm Doing Fine - Moodymann (Peacefrog)
Andromeda - Mundo Musique (R&S)
I Am Then - Nail (89 Ghost)
Transformation - Transform (Rising High)
165... Drop (Love From San Francisco Remix) - Hot Lizard (Pacific)
Beau Mot Plage (Heaven & Earth Re-Edit) - Isolee (Classic)
Passing Light - Versa (At One)
Let Jah Love Come w/ Sugar Minott (Sweet Substance Remix) - Rhythm & Sound (Burial Mix)
Holly Holy - The Fabulous Flames (Trojan)
No More Heartaches - Delroy Wilson (Pressure Sounds)
Plantation Run - King Tubby's & The Agrovators (Pressure Sounds)
Brothers Of The Blade - Prince Jammy (Greensleeves)
Uptown Top Rankin' - Estelle & Joni Rewind (Soul Jazz)
In A Lonely Place - IWDG (Rotters Golf Club)
The Moton 5 - Andrew Weatherall (Pamela)

Out The Window (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Confidence Man (Heavenly)