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2008-07-25T10:23:00.002+01:00

Apologies for the lack of updates (again!), been a manic month or two with visits to Berlin - great city but an absolute nightmare trying to get into clubs if you're in a group of guys, especially if you've been on the sesh since lunchtime! And Sonar in Barcelona - Richie Hawtin and the Minus guys were great, although much of the other stuff was a bit of a blur. Next year I'll go sober ;)

Actually no I won't.

Anyway by way of compensation for the lack of updates, here's a list of new purchases, no particular order, hopefully gonna get another mix done very soon so stay tuned!

Marko Furstenberg - BBT (Original Mix) - a.r.t. less
Tigerskin, Smash TV, Dave DK - Volar (Smash TV Remix) - Mood Music Records
Guy Gerber - Disorientation (Original Mix) - Supplement Facts
Class71 - Diamond Door (Original Mix) - Four:Twenty Recordings (fourtwenty)
TG (Tim Green) - Test It (Original Mix) - Infant Records
Will Saul, Jamie Jones, Tam Cooper - Tech Noir (Jamie Jones Fresh Water Remix) - Simple Records
Trentemoller, Modeselektor - The White Flash feat. Thom Yorke (Trentemoller Remix) - Bpitch Control
Einmusik, Stimming - Magdalena (Original Mix) - Diynamic
Serafin, Marcel Wave - 27 Holton (Serafin's Back To New York Re-interpretation) - Freerange Records
Mike Shannon - Dr. X (X Flex Mix) - Plus 8 Records
Matthias Meyer - Tout Va Bien (Original Mix) - Liebe Detail
Dyed Soundorom - Remote Cocktail (Original Mix) - Freak N Chic
Sasse - Clemens (Original Mix) - Mood Music Records
Sascha Dive, Nekes - Cristal (Sascha Dive Remix) - Oslo
Marko Nastic - Back In 4th Dimension (Original Mix) - Bondage
Radio Slave, Ramirez - Hablando (Radio Slave's Panorama Garage Remix) - Hell Yeah
Mathias Kaden, Less - Sans Of (Timeless Remix) - Enliven Music
Heartthrob - Confession (Original Mix) - Minus
Ellen Allien, Audion - Out (Audion's Out For Infants Mix) - Bpitch Control
Shoutbox - Nutrition Facts (Crispy Crunch Edit) - Circle Music
Shonky, Jennifer Cardini, Jamie Jones - Tuesday Paranoia (Jamie Jones' Submerged House Mix) - Crosstown Rebels
Danton Eeprom, Jamie Jones - To The Bone (Jamie Jones Percussion Shake Dub) - Tsuba
Haruki Matsuo - DanKan (Original Mix) - Rush Hour

Mix: Dave Begg June 2008

2008-06-28T16:47:00.002+01:00

Knocked up a new mix last night after a few beers, as with other recent mixes it's completely unplanned, in fact I was still downloading some of the tracks on it off Beatport when I started the mix, and wasn't entirely sober. Not really how you're meant to do it, in fact I think I will try to plan the next one for a change.

128k version. Right-click and save as: Dave Begg June 2008

Will upload a 320k version to the main site soon

Dave Begg June 2008

Loco Dice - How Do I Know?! - Desolat
Argy, The Mole - Cantstandlovegetaway - Poker Flat
Freedarich, Stiggsen - Redlights (Autotune Remix) - Buena Onda Records
Partial Arts - Telescope (Radio Slave's Prenzlauer Blur Remix) - Kompakt
Rhadoo - Slagare - Cadenza
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling - Wagon Repair
Maetrik - Acid Uprock - Circle Music
Mathew Jonson - Marionette (Adam Beyer Remix) Wagon Repair
Laurent Garnier - Panoramix - Innervisions
Dantom Eeprom - Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Infiné

Website problems & CLASSICS!!

2008-05-28T09:41:00.002+01:00

aaaaarrrrrgghhhhh!!!!

As some of you may have noticed, I've had massive problems with my website for over a month now after transferring (very unsuccessfully) to a new, disastrous host.

I am now waiting for my site to be transferred again, to a hopefully better one, but in the meantime I'll just use the blog.

At the moment there is no gigs/news section but the only thing I'd really like to push is my "Classics" gig at Ivy this Saturday. I'm not normally one for looking backwards, especially when "underground" music is concerned, but this is the first time I've done a classics set ever so I'm really looking forward to it. It's also got me thinking I should get around to doing the classics mix I've been thinking about for so long. Having dug out some huge tracks from the early Skank days, going back to 93/94 and racking my brains for some of the stuff guys like Nick Arthur, Ronnie Pacitti and Brian Hutcheon used to play, I've managed to source some amazing old stuff. Lots of Zoom and Hard Hands kinda stuff, including the obvious Shi-take, Sourmash, Flammable, Delta Lady tracks, to the less obvious including the TTP releases (unbelievably ace and still sounding fresh today), tribal stuff like The Daou, plus a few of the older Billy Nasty things like Razor's Edge and Exit EEE, and some of the Hyper Hype stuff - Mo-Tune anyone?

Anyway I will get that classics mix done soon but in the meantime if any of you can make it to Ivy on Saturday I'll be on early doors, probably 11-12.30 or so, hopefully see some of you there :)

Mix: Dave Begg Audio Porn Mix

2008-04-10T22:20:00.002+01:00

Just did a new mix for the NoisePorn site, check it out now, cool new Edinburgh based blog with loads of new free music of all types

Anyway, I'll edit this and upload a smaller 64k version soon, but until then here's the 128k version, hope you like it. Right-click and save as: Dave Begg Audio Porn April 08

Sticking with the recent theme, it's another deep techy one. The fun thing about making this mix was that I didn't plan it at all, had no idea where it was going to go, just stuck it together on Thursday whilst killing time before the Liverpool Arsenal game.

Am quite pleased with the result, particularly from that perspective. There's something to be said for those people who spend months planning mixes meticulously, making sure every track fits seamlessly into the next, all mixed in key and timed to precision, spending weeks looking for that one elusive track to make the mix perfect.

But isn't that taking the fun out of it? And doesn't that take any form of art out of it, that is if you can even call playing other people's music an art in the first place? And does anyone really care about your perfect 3 min 43 second transitions?

I'll admit I've spent time in the past trying to perfect every mix but, as well as leading to an output of approximately one mix every 3.7 years, it really sucks the fun out of djing. A DJ mix was never meant to be about polished, perfect mixing - it's about getting new, or good, or hopefully both, music out there. And it should be about having fun. That was the key thing about this mix for me, and something I'd like to carry forward - it was fun, just me messing about on my decks for an hour or so. Who knows, I might even get another one done some time in the next 6 months :)

Anyway enough ranting... check it out, hope you enjoy it. T/L:

Dave Begg Audio Porn Mix - April 2008

Luciano – Montana (Digital Edit) [Cadenza]
Ricardo Villalobos & Jay Haze - Free Ride [Tuning Spork]
Reboot - Letters [Cadenza]
Martinez - Tool 1.6 [Re:connected]
Steve Bug & Cle - Behind The Curtains [Poker Flat]
Micha Klang - Geschichten Aus Jemineh (Mathias Kaden rmx) [Glueckskind Schallplatten]
Petre Inspirescu - Mostra [Cadenza]
Seuil - Salazie [Minibar Music]
Funk D'Void – Ginebra (Sian rmx) [Soma Recordings]
Reboot - Be Tougher [Cadenza]
Matt John - Olga Dancekowski (Audion mix) [Bar25]
Tony Lionni - Shuffle [Versatile Records]
Len Faki - Do Us Part (Par Grindvik rmx) [Drumcode]

March Chart

2008-03-28T17:01:00.001Z

Been a long time since I did one of these... top 30 for March, in no particular order (well, alphabetical order if you want to be really annoying about it, but you know what I mean

Dave Begg (Beatroot) March Chart

Alex Under - -7 [Net28]
Ben Klock - Similarity [Bpitch Control]
Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann - Scenario [Ostgut Ton]
Brendon Moeller - Saviour [Third Ear]
Cassy - Somelightuntothenight (Troy Pierce mix) [Beatstreet]
Chaton - Precis 1 [Plak Records]
Danton Eeprom - Confessions Of An English Opium-eater [InFine Music]
Funk D'Void, Sian - Ginebra [Soma Recordings]
Guido Schneider, Jens Bond - In Order to Dance [Upon You Records]
Holger Zilske - Spooky Kissing (Kiki mix) [Playhouse]
Len Faki, Par Grindvik - Do Us Part [Drumcode]
Luciano - Montana [Cadenza]
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M [Cocoon Recordings]
Martinez - Tool 1.6 [Re:connected]
Mathias Kaden, Micha Klang - Geschichten Aus Jemineh [Glueckskind Schallplatten]
Matt John - Olga Dancekowski (Audion mix) [Bar25]
Pan-Pot - Faces feat. Vincenzo [Mobilee Records]
Peace Division - Voodoo (Its In The Wall) [Crosstown Rebels]
Petre Inspirescu - Mostra [Cadenza]
Pier Bucci - Chiloe [Crosstown Rebels]
Prompt - Evolve [7Noise]
Reboot - Be Tougher [Cadenza]
Reboot - Letters [Cadenza]
Ricardo Villalobos, Jay Haze - Free Ride [Tuning Spork]
Ryo Murakami - Her [Poker Flat]
Sascha Funke - Mango [Bpitch Control]
Seuil - Salazie [Minibar Music]
Steve Bug, Cle - Behind The Curtains [Poker Flat]
Substance, Vainqueur - Emerge 0 [Scion Versions]
Tony Lionni - Shuffle [Versatile Records]

mix: Matthew Dear aka Audion Essential Mix 15 Mar 08

2008-03-27T13:46:00.003Z

Sometimes a mix comes along that you know is going to be something special - Matthew Dear's Essential Mix from a couple of weeks ago is one I was really looking forward to, and unsurprisingly he didn't disappoint. Sticking more to his Audion style sound, he treads a fine line between house and techno, on the minimal side of things at time but never losing a funky edge. I've probably made that sound crap but trust me it isn't! The mix features some top tracks from Cadenza label-mates Reboot and a particularly nice track from Prompt, a new discovery for me and one that will be heading straight into the Beatport cart.

Download the mix here: MEGAUPLOAD link

And check out some of these whilst you're at it:

Matthew Dear website

Ghostly International website

(whilst we're on the subject of Ghostly, I noticed that Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities play in Aberdeen on 26th April, worth checking out if you like "experimentation, and unpredictability with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir" :)

Anyway, back to the point.... the mix... link & tracklist below

Matthew Dear Essential Mix 15 March 2008

download here

TRACKLISTING:

Matthew Dear ‘Dom & Sheri’ (Ghostly)
Hot Chip ‘No Fit State (Audion Mix)’ (EMI)
Marco Da Mata & Elle ‘Circling Dub’ (Acid Milk Recordings)
Santizzo, Makka ‘Goom’ (Supernova Digital)
Dapayk & Padberg ‘Theiss (Guido Schneider Remix)’ (Mos Ferry)
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts ‘My Main Man (Flying Filter Edit)’ (Hartchef Discos)
Reboot ‘Clear Motion’ (Below)
Reboot ‘Be Tougher’ (Cadenza)
E-Contact ‘Frozen Girls’ (Stock5)
Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra ‘Kisses (Over Temperature Mix I)’ (Get Physical)
Prompt ‘Evolve’ (7Noise)
Michael Ho ‘Break Free (feat. Lil Dirty)’ (Moon Harbour)
Prompt ‘Elephant’ (7Noise)
Supermayer ‘The Art of Letting Go (Ewan's The Art of Getting Low Dub)’ (Kompakt)
Ryo Murakami ‘Rise’ (Dessous Records)
Rozzo ‘I Wish I Was a Black Cat’ (Trackdown Records)
Jichael Mackson ‘Schnurz’ (Hartchef Discos)
Tim Woestenenk ‘Sunset Love’ (Quagmire)
Elflein & Fox ‘Map (Liebe Ist Cool Remix)’ (Synket)
D-Nox & Beckers ‘Shanghigh (Minilogue Remix)’ (Electribe)
Seth Troxler ‘Love Never Sleeps’ (Crosstown Rebels)
Life Lessons ‘Lee Curtiss’ (Unreleased)
Marc Neyen ‘Mad Suit (Pheek Remix)’ (Archipel)
Jichael Mackson ‘1000 Bugz feat. Blimp’ (Stock5)
Reboot ‘Tony Der Schieber’ (Combi Int.)
Kreon ‘Shake N Make (Reboot Remix)’ (Below)
Alka Rex ‘Ghost Convertibles’ (Musique Risquee)

Mix: Terrence Dixon

2008-03-16T21:32:00.004Z

Whilst checking out this cool article on MP3 blogging by Steve Mizek I stumbled upon Steve's blog, Little White Earbuds

Check it out for an exclusive mix from Detroit techno producer and dj Terrence Dixon plus loads of other cool music reviews and mp3 samples to download (low quality of course!)

James Holden cheesefest

2008-03-07T22:41:00.003Z

what a way to celebrate not posting in a couple of months than by posting this.... it's not often that James Holden, one of our first "big" undiscovered guests at Area 51 (apart from the time we had an up & coming Lee Burridge play to 100 people), is mentioned in the same sentence as cheese, but this time it's more than apt, as he becomes surely the first "name" dj to play at his own cheese tasting evening. Roquefort & roll? boom tsh... i'm here all week

Anyway, check this out (link courtesy of RA)

London’s oldest Swiss restaurant St. Moritz is the venue for a unique dance-music-meets-cheese-tasting party next week: The Fondu-Fun-Do.

"During my travels around the world I've developed a bit of an obsession for different types of cheese,” explains Border Community boss James Holden. “Now it's great to finally be able to combine my two biggest passions in one night in London—music and cheese!"

Put together by the mad wags at Allez-Allez, the night kicks off with a fondue tasting party from 9 p.m. onwards—while stocks last of course. Then the main course—non-cheesy sets from James Holden and the Allez-Allez DJs until 3 a.m. Sounds pretty civilized, huh? Be quick, though: tickets are limited to 150.

nice :)

pass the oatcakes

MIX: Dave Begg ECCF Podcast

2008-01-23T13:07:00.001Z

Finally done a new mix that I am reasonably happy with - tracklist below - it's available for now as a podcast over on the ECCF site

** EDIT** now that it's no longer the featured podcast I can put it up for download here... click here for the 128k MP3 version: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z4KDF333

Will upload a 320k version to the site this week

ECCF Podcast Jan 08 tracklist

It's a kinda minimal, techy number...

ECCF Podcast Jan 08 tracklist

Seph :: Creep Take Two :: Dumb Unit
DJ Koze :: Mariposa :: Kompakt
Lawrence :: Place To Be (javascript:void(0)
Publish PostDaniel Stefanik rmx) :: Liebe Detail
Ellen Alien :: Go (Marcel Dettman remix) :: Bpitch Control
Tim Xavier :: Zombie Walk With Me :: LTD400
Minimono :: Stories from the City :: Tuningspork
Roberto Babicz :: Crystal Castle (Marco Resmann rmx) :: Systematic
Butane :: How Low Can You Go (Lee Curtiss rmx) :: Dumb Unit
Jorge Savoretti :: Subterraneo (Seph rmx) :: Igloo-Rec
Tim Xavier :: Astral Plane :: Podium
Robert Hood :: And Then We Planned Our Escape :: Music Man
Will Saul :: Sequential Circus (Gui Boratto) :: Simple Sounds
October :: Three Drops :: Caravan::**

MIX: Tim Xavier at FUSE, Belgium

2008-01-21T13:42:00.000Z

Following on with the Tim Xavier theme, check out a mix of his from a couple of weeks ago from the legendary FUSE club in Belgium.

Tim Xavier live at FUSE, 06 Jan 08 - right click here

Bigups to Clink Recordings for hosting.

Artist: Tim Xavier

2008-01-21T13:24:00.000Z

Just a quick heads up on one of my favourite artists at the moment - Berlin based techno boffin Tim Xavier. At least I thought he was based in Berlin, but according to the Clink site he is based in Brooklyn... maybe he accidentally wrote Berlin on his Myspace site after a heavy weekend.

Anyway, check out his new(ish) release on LTD400 - "Soil Between My Fingers". It's the latest release on his Limited 400 label, and it's amazing, all 4 tracks are unreal.

[shameless plug] I've actually featured "Zombie Walk With Me" and "Natural Desire" on my latest mix, a podcast for ECCF. You can grab it here - [/shameless plug]

Given that Tim is almost as well known for his mastering skills as he is for his production and djing, he must hate the fact that many people like myself only buy his releases via digital download, as it turns out he personally stencils a limited number of the Limited 400 releases (I'm guessing maybe 400 of them!) by hand with spray paint. Pretty cool. Stuff like that almost makes me want to buy vinyl again.

Anyway as usual here are some vital links - check his stuff out now:

Tim Xavier's Myspace

Clink Recordings website

RA Top 10 DJs of 2007

2008-01-01T16:15:00.000Z

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a good one. I had a relatively quiet one by my own standards hence this post... usually even seeing the screen on Jan 1st would be a struggle.

Anyway as we enter 2008 it seems like a fitting time to post a link to RA's top 10 DJs of 2007

The list is a pretty comprehensive list of who was on form in 2007 and, even if it's maybe slightly skewed by the popularity of some of the listed djs amongst the RA community due to recent RA podcasts, it certainly beats the ever-worsening DJ Mag poll for a realistic view on what was what in the world of house & techno djs over the past year.

MIX: Jorge Savoretti & Dario Zenker @ Harry Klein

2007-12-28T16:17:00.000Z

Just grabbed this set after finding the link courtesy of Minimal Sausages (or should that "ssgs" to give it its proper if slghtly wnky mnml spllng) :)

Jorge Savoretti is an Argentinian producer (who did "150 Reasons to Bite You", one of the bigger tunes of 2007) - have just listened to his Undo remix on his Myspace page, awesome stuff - check it out here: Jorge Savoretti Myspaz

Dario Zenker is a prolific Berlin based producer. I first became aware of him when he remixed one of the Lee Van Dowski and Quenum tracks on Soma; since then he's done loads of stuff for labels including the likes of Esperanza, and more recently with Bruno Pronsato on Telegraph. Clickety here for more info: Dario Zenker Myspaz

Anyway here's the link to their set at the Harry Klein club in Munich:

Jorge Savoretti & Dario Zenker @ Harry Klein 06-12-2007 - left click here

Brendon Moeller

2007-12-10T09:07:00.000Z

Q. What's more depressing than having no good new music?

A. Having wads of ace new stuff like Tim Xavier - Soil Between and DJ Koze 'Mariposa' on Kompakt and loads more when one of your CDJs decides to pack in :(

Whilst I'm a huge fan of digital djing and will never go back to playing vinyl, I've never had any problems in 15 years of Technics 1210 abuse, literally not even one, so I'm a bit gutted that one of my supposed "market leading" digital turntables broke without even the slightest hint of rock'n'roll style chucking out of a hotel window, soaking it in Jack Daniels, or using it as a small plastic punchbag after the Mayweather Hatton fight.

Still, for all the money I've saved buying digital instead of black I could probably buy three spare DVJs and still have money to burn, so can't complain really.

Anyway whilst the nice people at SI Sound And Light fix my baby, I've been making the most of a good opportunity to catch up on some other mixes, starting off with another amazing Resident Advisor podcast

This time it's Beat Pharmacy honcho and New York based dubby techno producer Brendan Moeller at the controls. Grab the podcast here on RA (be quick though, not sure how long it will be up). On first glance the tracklist looks great, featuring tracks from some of my faves including Michal Ho, Tim Xavier, Jichael Mackson and loads more, and after a few listens I can safely say the mix doesn't disappoint...

01. Substance & Vainqueur - Resonance (Scion Versions)
02. Michael Langlois - Snap (Sub Static)
03. Tony Blunt - City Rain (Cv313's Reduction Mix) (Dpress Industries)
04. Michal Ho - Take Me Away (Tuning Spork)
05. Jungle Brothers - Ultrablack (feat The Dela Soul Sound) (Gee Street)
06. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Get Slapped Up (Compost)
07. October - Homosapiens (Caravan)
08. Tim Xavier - Stuck On Earth (Limited 400)
09. Vainqueur - Elevations (Reducer) (Chain Reaction)
10. Jichael Mackson - Fluff In The Bellybutton (Liebe Detail)
11. Natural Rhythm - Eclectic dub (Earthtones Recordings)
12. Seuil - Salazie (Minibar)
13. Mikkel Metal - Delta (Echochord)
14. Catz n Dogz - Searching (Leena)
15. DeepChord - Vantage Isle (DC Mix III) (echospace)
16. Orange Kush - Tremelo (Botchit & Scarper)
17. The Disco Evangelists - De Niro (Choirs In Vietnam Reprise) (Positiva)
18. Brendon Moeller - One Man's Junk (Third Ear)
19. Pigon - Beau Monde (Dial)

Grab it whilst you can :)

Chart - 27 Nov 2007

2007-11-27T12:44:00.000Z

Some stuff i've been playing lately

Off to Madrid tomorrow... come on Aberdeen! :)

chart 27 nov 07

Anthony Collins - Cannibale (Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier Remix) (Highgrade Records)
Rasmus Hedlund - Hidden Structure (Resopal Schallware)
DJ Koze – Mariposa (Kompakt)
Nightcats - Inside (Kompakt)
Baggy Bukaddor & Tim Fishbeck – Supaglass (MBF)
Redshape, Simon Flower - The Whisper Had It (Redshape's Discodub) (Poker Flat)
The Cheapers - Fog (Upon.You Records)
Aril Brikha, Deetron - I Cling feat. Ovasoul7 (Aril Brikha Remix) (Music Man Records)
Sascha Dive - Bdown Variation 3 (Deep Vibes)
Sasha - Park It In The Shade (emFire)

Highgrade

2007-11-20T21:34:00.000Z

Just stumbled across a new Tom Clark track - in fact Tom Clark is a somewhat recent discovery for me courtesy of Philip Shelburne - anyway it's the Tom Clark and Daniel Drier remix of Anthony Collins 'Cannibale', on Tom's own Highgrade Records.

Check it out on the Highgrade Myspace or buy it now on Beatport ;)

first post

2007-11-19T21:27:00.000Z

Ok, so i've added a blog to the site and this is my first post... i thought it would be good to have a place to post random stuff, from music rants to Alan Partridge YouTube clips etc etc... It may however turn out to be yet another place that i don't update nearly often enough, we'll see.