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Dummy Mix 54 // Appleblim Experimental dubstepper warms our frozen toes with an electic mix
Please tell us a bit about the mix?
“Well the temperatures are plummeting here in the UK, so I thought I’d do a mix that started with some winter warmers, the kinda down, blue, melancholic vibes that I generally get into when the season changes to winter, which then rolls into some of the songs that soundtracked my summer, to warm you up and bring you out of your reverie!
First off I have to big up Prins Thomas for turning me onto the Jean Luc Ponty track, its a beautiful piece of music, and one of those tracks that i just can’t stop singing the melody to in my head once I’ve heard it..
The Michael Garrick tune is a smoldering belter of a British jazz piece, off a mid-60s Argo LP I picked up for a pittance recently – I think its worth a lot of money, but just can’t bring myself to flog it now!
‘It Was A Very Good Year’ by Frank just completely stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it – proper tingles down the spine stuff. It perfectly sums up the mood of melancholy, memories, and longing that haunts me in the wintertime…I love the way he jumps through the stages of his life, and the descriptive lyrics are just amazing:
“And now I think of my life as vintage wine
>From fine old kegs
>From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year”
I always have to stick a bit of Bert in, and this one comes from his Birthday Blues LP, a rolling, gently psychedelic folk thing with a lovely lyric
Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence was the drummer for Jefferson Airplane, but produced the amazing solo ‘Oar’ album before he very sadly started to deteriorate mentally. It’s got that gorgeous fuzzy cracked feel that I get from Syd Barrett but with an American heart & soul behind it..
I came to Gas late, but now can’t get enough – I use this track a lot DJing as a bed underneath stuff, or as n intro to switch the mood from the previous DJ, or as a segueway to move up in tempo…its just so cloudy and warm…i’m starting to grasp what important figures people like Wolfgang Voigt and Thoma Brinkmann were in shaping the future of minimal / techno..
Then its into a couple of Brit-funk stonkers that brightened up my year no end – these two go out to Scally Dan – many a great moment were had at festivals or in backyards grooving out to these sublime tunes in the sunshine! Nice to remember as im sat freezing my t*ts off in Bristol!
And now we’re hyped up and runnin and the warmth is spreading back to our fingertips and its into some 80s action from The B-Boys, everyone knows the ‘Rock The House’ sample, and I was chuffed to pick up an original copy of this the other day in Stoke Newington (a brilliant record shop called Lucky 7 – big shout to the guys there!)
The Clash’s ‘Outside Broadcast’ seems to ooze New York, and you can just imagine the guys running round NY with Don Letts and Kris Needs, soaking up the hip hop and graffiti and turning out this dubbed out version of Radio Clash..I think it might be Mikey Dread on the buttons for the dub – can anyone help me?
After that it’s one of the most sublime, soaring, sunny and beautiful tracks ever made, with Derrick May’s incredible remix of Sueno Latino, which itself was a version of Manuel Gottsching’s astonishing early 80s proto-techno krautrock piece ‘E2-E4’. Trust me if you haven’t heard that, go and find it NOW, you will not be disappointed! Derrick takes an age to build it up and smothers the track with those beautiful tripped out synth lines and pianos straight from the heavens above..yeah!
Then to finish, a guy who has really defined 2010 I think – Lone. This track seems to jump the generations effortlessly, keeping the vibe of old school Detroit and Chicgo house but giving it a modern glaze, again with those beautiful melancholic tears-in-yr-eyes melodies! Mmmmmm!
What’s coming up for you?
Well, ‘Void 23’ by Ramadanman and myself on Will Saul’s ace Aus Music is about to hit the shelves, and I’m super excited, not least because it features a re-edit from Carl Craig! This is a dream come true, even the thought of him working on it in his studio is a bit much! I’m really happy with the original too, it’s been going down really well in sets, even when pushing the tempo right up on it to mix into stuff like ‘Work Them’ by Ramadanman. Interestingly Damian Lazarus used it on his recent Fabric mix and slowed it right down, its interesting when people hear your tune differently to you..
Other than that there is a remix Peverelist and I did of an amazing track by our good mate Bass Clef called ‘Promises’ coming out in November too, again I’m really happy with the way it came out, its a true pleasure to work with people as talented as Pev and Ramadan, they really have got unique sounds and ways of working…
Also in the New Year there is a new Apple Pips release (please note the GAP between the two words! people keep missing it out!) by Bristol’s Orphan101, its on some mad 2step, techno, swingy type tip I think people are going love. After that there will be an EP from Arkist who is one of my tips for 2011 – he’s getting a lot of love from peeps like Gilles Peterson, Scuba and Mount Kimbie, and can turn his hand to lots of styles, all with an amazing melodic edge…watch this space! And then after THAT there will be an amazing single from October and Borai, a track I’ve been opening with a fair bit, a really beautiful trippy deep house thing that takes aaaages to build….
We just did Room 3 at Fabric again, which went amazingly, so hopefully more of that, and I have just heard myself and Al Tourettes will be warming up the main room at Space in Ibiza next summer, so am super hyped about that!
- 25.11.10