Kinda blog diary……eewww

Lately I have been real busy in the studio with Scatters finishing off some new Slap & Dash production, including a remix for Edu K’s ep coming out through Scattermusic, also working on our new Slap & Dash 4 deck,  plus adding some more Mu remix love on Lewis Cancut’s ep which will surprise a whole bunch of cats. The boy is a little genius. This is the first and last time I’m going to post something up like its a blog diary, but i kinda wanna share. In my hiatus I did a whole bunch of production mixes and edits for fashion shows around the country. I get a fair bit of this work and its always fun as you get to explore the different shades of electronic music. It’s kinda shaping the way i see music now, dance music especially. I’m looking for a bit more than just a hook. I’m finding myself deep in the arrangements of music. Anyway blah fucking blah. To sum it up I’m using arrangements and samples from 60-70′s world records and adding them to modern electronica to make some pretty fun stuff. More for the listen than the play out, but I figure I would share what I have been doing to excuse my no-posting for the last couple of months. Also for the club heads is my 15min mix I did for a dj comp in Melbourne a little bit back. This is a live practice from the day before so excuse some mistakes. In the end I didn’t win. Ripped off i tellz ya.. Nah, well done to Spacey who did.

Mu-Gen Dhini RAFW ’09 (DOWNLOAD)
No track list available for this one as its real short (like 5mins) and choc full of samples. Prob my favourite fashion mix I have made of late. The brief i worked with had key words like tribal and marching drums. The start of the show had a live marching band drummer playing along until the main drop where i sampled buraka. Was mad fun to work with  a live musician on a piece of work I’m really proud of.

Mu-Gen – Trimapee 09 (MFW) DOWNLOAD
This mix was so much fun to put together. I always do Trimapee’s show music and have a really good relationship with the guys who run it. They pretty much give a brief and let me run with what I want. This mix had a crazy brief, industrial, Arabic, historical and modern. WTF right? It took a bit of planning but i think I nailed it.
TRACKLIST:
1. Ahmed Abdule-Malik- Rooh (the soul)
2. Metronomy –Night Out
3. Fulgeance –Haggis (Mu-Gen Takseem edit)
4. Harmonic 313 – Quadrant 3
5. Ahmed Abdule-Malik – Mahawarra (the fugue)
6. Harmonic 313 – WOBBZ (Mu-Gen Grind’n Edit)
7. Modeselektor – Godspeed
8. Christan Dehugo – Viva El Cante
9. Brain Children – Future Flights
10. Harmonic 313 – Cyclotron
11. Nosaj Thing – FWD
12. Unknown –Mu-Gen Techni stutter edit
13. Dalt Wisney – R2FUX
14. Harmonic 313 – Dirtbox
15. Ahmed Abdule-Malik- Takseem (Solo)

Mu-Gen – Absolute 15 djcomp (practice mix) DOWNLOAD
So I won this comp a couple of years ago and was pretty keen to do it again this year. This happened around the time of the Major Lazer album drop earlier this year so i thought with all the hype around I would do a Major Lazer inspired mix. The way I would describe this is Carnival rave party with a dash of surf rock…
TRACKLIST:
1. Slap & Dash -mix tape intro
2. Major Lazer-Hold The Line (Douster Hold the Drop Edit)
3. Major Lazer-Jump up feat. Leftside & Supahyp (Co-Produced by the Crookers)
4. Major Lazer-How I Like It (Kid Kaio Rowel Sinester Remix)
5. Marcus Price & Carli-Mat, Bira, Kvinnor, Weed (Kingdom Remix)
6. Metronomy -Radio Ladio (Radioclit Swedish Remix)
7. Santigold -Creator (Photomachine Breakup Remix)
8. Sonic C -Stickin’ (original mix)
9. Spencer and Hill -Cool (afrojackremix)
10. April March -Chic Habbit
11. Laidback Luke & Diplo -Hey (original mix)
12. Blaqstarr -Shake It To The Ground (Switch remix Feat Santogold)
13. Loco Dice -Pimp Jackson Is Talkin’ Now (dubbel dutch bootleg)
14. Major Lazer -Baby (feat. Prince Zimboo & M.I.A.) (Switch Remix)
15. Dick Dale -miserlou