Don Fardon - I'm Alive

Smashing bit of late 60's beatery from Coventry's unsung blue-eyed soulster, Don Fardon. Currently being used on a  daft soft drinks ad.

Ashley Beedle's done a nifty re-edit, too.

LCD Soundsystem Remixes

There are about a squilizillion LCD mixes out at the mo' but my current fave is Loving Good's slightly dubby tweak of 'Home'. Honourable mention to Soulwax's version of 'Hit', too.

 LCD Soundsystem - Home (Loving/Good Remix) by Loving/Good

Oh, and the ever-brill Holy Ghosts!'s re-rub of Drunk Girls is still sounding good!

 LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost! Remix) by Hypetrak

Mighty Mouse August 2010 Mixtape

Soon-to-be-huge London production duo Mighty Mouse have put together a rather nice summery mixtape over on their Soundcloud page featuring some lovely tunage including 40 Thieves' brilliant 'Don't Turn It Off', the Chicken Lips version of Bell X1 'Flame' and the evergreen 90's banger 'Is there Anybody Out There' by the Bassheads.


 AUGUST 2010 MIXTAPE: Lost In Space by MIGHTY MOUSE by Mighty Mouse 




Full tracklisting:


1. Naomi 'Note We Never Play' 
2. Quasifunk 'Dancing In The Jungle' 
3. Douze 'Les Paradis Artificiels' 
4. Clock Opera 'A Piece Of String' (Magnets Remix) 
5. Blamma Blamma 'Beyong 17' (Mighty Mouse's Lost in Space Remix) 
6. Jaga Jazzist 'Banabfluer Overalt' (Prins Thomas Diskmiks) 
7. Bell X1 'Flame' (Chicken Lips Version) 
8. 4Tech & Nano Tech 'I I I' (Original Mix) 
9. 40 Thieves feat, Qzen 'Don't Turn It Off' (Original Version) 
10. Stefano E Bene & Hard Ton 'Why Your Love' (Katzbatz Remix) 
11. Bassheads 'Is The Anybody Out There) 
12. Kitkalitto feat. Petteri Sariola 'Traveler' 
13. Health 'Nice Girls' (Little Loud Remix) 
14. Severed Heads 'Dead Eyes Opened' 

The Hollies - Dragging My Heels (Special Disco Version)

The Hollies (yes, those Hollies!) unleashed a Balearic-before it was-Balearic classic in 1980 in the shape of this slice of Disco heaven. A popular cut at David Mancuso's legendary Loft nights in NYC, so I'm told read!

Thanks to a contributor to the ever-wonderful Popular blog for bringing this fantastic tune to my attention.

This Is A Journey Into Sound ...

Brilliant Radio 4 documentary examining the phenomenon of crate digging. Contains a superb sequence of Coldcut running through all the samples from their mix of Paid In Full in real time (just before the halfway mark).

Thanks to the excellent  speechification blog (see link to show below).

http://speechification.com/2010/07/08/beat-mining-with-the-vinyl-hoover/

Jackie Mittoo - Summer Breeze

Perfect Isleys cover for this time of year from Studio One's Keyboard King. A rare outing for JM on vocals!

Orange Juice - Bridge

Quite simply one of the best and most underrated bands of all time. Looks like we're going to get some new material from Edwyn soon, too :) PLEASE Universal, put out the original OJ albums - it's time they got their propers!!!

 ... thought is was about time for a bit of Orange J love what with all the talk of The Drums ...