DJ Noël - Classic House Archive: Recent Episodes
DJ Noël
Commercial funky house anthems and deep soulful classics, direct from the vault!
Here's a choice selection of sessions gathered through 15+ years of rocking the decks at various bars, clubs and parties in London and Manchester.
If it’s more than a couple of years old, you’ll find it here in my Classic Archive Podcast. This library will grow over the coming months to uncover more retro gems. Visit noelc.com/classic for more info, and to subscribe to other DJ Noël feeds. Enjoy :-)
Funky house mix, originally laid down as a demo for Hell Bar.
At the time, I may have told Selina it was produced especially for her birthday.
68’23” - 78.3 MB - MP3 file - 160kps
dj sneak - funky rhythm - border patrol refixx
a studio - sos - skylark vocal
rasmus faber - divided/united - dub
michael grey - the weekend - original
bobby blanco - 3am - original
area f - akumbe - bobby blanco
ooh yeah yeah - sax trip
a guy called gerald - voodoo ray - hoxton whores remix
scape feat d’empress - be my friend - michael grey remix
erik prydz & steve angello - woz not woz - vers 1
beautiful liaisons - yeah yeah
mutiny - holdin’ on - eric prydz mix
Not a sitar in sight. This mix is a selection of vocal lounge house tracks from around the time I was playing Buddah Bar on Frith Street in Soho. Lisa had been after a CD featuring Fade for a while, so that’s what we open with...
Buddah Bar Sessions - deep house for Lisa
1 solu music feat kimblee - fade
2 mj cole - sincere - naked music mig's petalpusher
3 soldiers fo twilight - believe - extended
4 lisa shaw - always - lovetronic vocal
5 petalpusher - surrender
6 little louie vega & arnold jarvis - life goes on
7 cerrone - the only one - jamie lewis club mix
8 cerrone feat jocelyn brown - hooked on you - jamie lewis club mix
9 jon culter feat vanessa freeman - focus (lifted up)
10 m.o.d. - notion ep: dance avec moi - main
11 violence (bootleg) - let the music play
12 kaskade - it's you, it's me
13 ian pooley - piha
109.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps
After Fabian’s bday party at Buddah, I started playing there every Saturday in summer 2004. The owners wanted me to play lounge beach house which became quite dull for me. Anyway, the bar manager, a top bloke called Tom, promoted a lot of club nights so I did him this demo of more banging upfront house stompers.
mix for tom @ buddah bar > 2/4/04
black shadow feat krs 1 can you stand the funk
laurent wolf feat sonu dee about that
beautiful liaisons yeah yeah
bini & martini feat su’su bobien say yes beginerz remix
5* clowns give it up
del gado coffee beats
bobby blanco shelltoe
eric prydz slammin’
powers that be planet rock
moog ii swing can’t get away full intention remix
gus gus david darren emerson remix
underworld 7 days off
el b get her
102.7MB AAC file 192kbps - 74 mins
Naresh was a founding partner of Karmarama, a creative agency I helped appoint for Emap radio. Naresh is a big music fan and I still see him every year back stage at Glastonbury.
He’s into rock more than dance and over a lunch he once told me he didn’t really know much about house music... so, as a thank you for the lunch, I promised to burn him a few CDs. I picked a few mixes from the vault, but laid down this blend of 90s anthems especially.
naresh’s retrospective of house > march 04
- tori amos - professional widow - armand van helden star trunk funkin’ mix (‘96)
- sex-o-sonique - thought it was you - original (’97)
- jonny corporate - sunday shouting (2000)
- frankie knuckles - tears - full intention remix (‘89)
- pete heller’s big love (’99)
- cj bollard - sugar is sweeter - armand van helden remix (’96)
- reel to reel - go on move - original (’94)
- bassheads - is there anybody out there? (’92)
- d’lacy - hideaway - deep dish mix (’95)
- heller and farley project - ultra flava - original flava (’96)
- basement jaxx - red alert (’99)
- xpress 2 - lazy - fatboy slim remix (’02)
- gat décor - passion (’93)
109.5 MB AAC file 160 kbps
So, Paul and I were inseparable best buddies for through ‘99-’01, so when his lovely partner, Fabian, asked me to dj at his 30th, it was a pleasure. We spent a few nights in Soho in January looking for the perfect venue and decided upon what used to Buddah Bar on Frith Street.
The party invite was a 30 minute CD, for which I spent a whole afternoon burning 100 discs. The attached mix is that invite, introduced by Fabian, who recorded his voice over in the Kiss 100 studios.
Of course, the night itself (6 March) rocked. I took my old sound system down and we turned the quiet bar into a sweat box.
After the party, the owners of the bar made me their Saturday night dj. I kept it up through the summer for the cash, but they wanted me to play more mellow lounge house music, so it got a bit boring.
Enjoy the mix.
Fabian’s birthday invite.
Tweet - boogie remix
soul II soul - back to life bootleg
soulsearcher - feelin’ love part one
michelle weeks - the light morera re-edit
dr kucho - stings track???
grant nelson feat mica paris - bodyswerve
martin solveig - rockin’ music
pointer sisters - automatic bootleg
34.5 MB standard mp3 file 160kbps
Uploading these old mixes, I’ve noticed that I always manage to knock out something special every February. Maybe it’s because I’ve fully recovered from the Christmas hangover. Perhaps it’s the Miami WMC on the horizon, so there’s a wad of inspiring new tunes out...
Most probably it’s because it’s Selina’s birthday, which I often forget and so have to deliver a decent mix for her - even if it’s late.
80 minutes of funky house tracks from feb ’04, with a few bootlegs and classics from the back of the box for good measure. Pure party fodder.
The ‘all over my face’ track was co-produced by a good friend and former work colleague, Jon Shaw, who is sadly no longer with us. I still play the tune out as it’s a great warm-up track, and think of him every time, Lovely, lovely fellow.
79’39” - 110.3 MB - AAC file - 192kbps
01 kaskade feat joslyn it’s you, it’s me original
02 movearo & alan h all over my face version 2
03 full intention forever bootleg vocal
04 the disciples of phunk too far gone original
05 4 star clowns feels so good
06 identity consienta
07 m-gee bodyswerve original instrumental
08 martin solvieg rockin’ music
09 d.e.a. music is my life bootleg
10 robin s show me love original
11 byron stingly get up everybody ‘sting me’ bootleg
12 tim deluxe mundaya
13 junior jack e samba
14 mariah carey dreamlover 24th street bootleg
15 the ks feat robert owens living a life club version
16 lys & gigi your love 2003 love mix
17 scissor sisters comfortably numb fatboy slim remix
This mix is part of a trio of sessions I laid down for a trip to Ibiza in 2003. Selina & Matt, Ben & Lara, Lisa, Malcolm and myself took a villa up in the hills and had a fantastic break. I sorted out a wad of minidiscs for lazy poolside days.
From memory, and from reviewing my limited notes, this mix was actually two separate sessions. I initially recorded something in May which I guess I wasn’t very happy with - it may have been one of my late night pissed-up adventures - but liking the first few tracks (particularly the blend into Groove Armada’s My Friend) I decided to pick up the mix from half way through, adding tracks 6 > 13 in August.
Both the Aug and May sections lacked any meticulous planning. I just grabbed recent tunes that went with the laid-back mood to get some deep house faves into a mix for the holiday. It works on the whole but I’m sure the last few tracks (esp that Marvin Gaye booty) were probably just filler to use up the minidisc.
Enjoy!
deep house & balearic beats – mixed may & august 2003
- sandy rivera – changes – original
- louie vega feat julie mcknight – diamond life – dance ritual
- laranjeiras – i want you
- groove armada – my friend – dorfmeister mix
- telepopmuzik – breathe – extended mix
- blue six – do it together – jay’s besoul vocal
- victor duplais – lookin for love – nature’s plan remix
- racoon feat christine lucas – come alive – jay j’s jazzy vocal
- sade – kiss of life – bootleg
- victor davis – runaway train – wahoo remix
- q-burns abstract message – innocent – joey negro ambient dub
- michelle weeks – the light – sandy rivera club mix
- ‘make love not war’ – sexual healing bootleg
74.7MB | 128kbps | AAC file
Daytime poolside vibes mixed for our trip to Ibiza, 03, with Malcolm, Selina, Matt F, Lisa, Lara, Ben and a few friends of Matt F.
Sunshine pop, disco, hip hop and few summer house classics. Easy going party vibes for beer o’clock: mid afternoon with hangover clearing, time to gear up for the night ahead...
Now also a favourite of Rachel’s.
Daytime Poolside Classics
mixed 13 aug 03
justin timberlake - rock ur body oakenfold mix
grace jones - pull up to bumper remix
pointer sisters - automatic
ultra nate - new kind medicine
shakatak - down on street
raw silk - do it to music
de la soul - roller skating jame named saturday
electribe 101 - inside out remix
alison limerick - where love lives cut to the bone morales mix
moloko sing it back
Todd Terry - keep on jumpin
Kelis - young fresh new timo mass remix
brand new heavies - sometimes masters at work remix
88MB standard mp3 file (not chaptered) 160kbps
Another daytime poolside session for our trip to Ibiza 2003. This time it’s all house tunes, but stacked with girly floorfillers and bootlegs (hence the title).
Private Eye is a bootleg of Hall & Oats’ I can’t go for that; the Coloursound tune is lost gem here in it’s original form; G Club’s Guitarra G oozes Ibiza sunshine; and with Balearic faves by A Man Called Adam and Smokebelch towards the end of the mix, you definitely know which island you’re on. Enjoy.
Laydeez Choice, bootlegs and daytime beats
mixed 13 aug 2003
private eye - no can do
class a - street life
disciples of funk - too far gone
come on sting me – byron booty
dlsp - horney ep – summer horns
highrise - time after time
coloursound - fly with me
mood ii swing - can’t get away from you
g club - guitarra g
a man called adam - barefoot in the booty
smokebelch 03 booty
richerd x & kelis - finest dreams
richie havens/groove armada – back to my roots
114.9MB standard mp3 file 192kbps
Another one of those sessions mixed with the decks on the floor in the hallway because we were still doing up the flat. Jill had just left the Kentish Town Massive and moved in with Nick, so it was a little house warming gift for them. I remember it blearing out at a BBQ they had that summer.
update april 03 | jill’s house warmer > mixed 13/4/03
jay-j feat latrice barnett - keep on rising
x-press 2/nelly - lazy/hot in here bootleg with acapella (noël’s)
bobby blanco - shelltoe
ya underwear - seamus haji
kid creme - together
jamiroqui little l joey negro club mix
ben watt / lone cat - holding on
?? - shout
young mc - know how flaunt it djs booty
narcotic thrust - safe from harm
?? - critacise booty
gus gus - david
?? - the beat goes on
108.1 MB AAC file 192 kbps (but from a 128 kbps source file)
Funky house favourites from early ’03.
Produced for my bestest buddy, Selina, on her 30th birthday. There’s something about Sel that makes me want to pull out all the stops for her. This time I had to pull out the decks - Matt & I had just moved house and the building work we had done meant it was too dusty for playing vinyl.
I set up my decks on the floor in the hallway and pulled out some girly tunes I thought she’d like.
Her birthday was a great night clubbing in Brixton. We returned to her & Matty F’s flat (I seem to remember seven of us paying a dodgy cab double fare to squeeze us in??) and danced round their living room to this mix. Happy days.
79’57” - 110.9 MB - AAC file - 192kbps
fab for feat robert owens last night a dj (blew my mind) - original
the monsterz u.r.d.o.one - original
ernest saint laurent in the sky - joey negro red sky club edit
kurtis mantronix pres chamonix 77 strings
barbara tucker beautiful people - 2002 remix
white label - so much love (to give)
del gado coffee beats - original mix
eclipse take me down (6 underground) - bini & martini
manijama feat. mukupa & l'il t no no no (you don't love me) - original
bob sinclar the beat goes on - junior jack remix
bootleg - chic ("magic touch") phreak off
tim deluxe it just won't do - milk & sugar remix
bootleg - iio rapture booty
sounds of blackness the pressure – acap.
jon carter it's yours - original distant music mix
Another definitive update mix, full of Bethnal Green summer vibes. I was so pleased with this pair of mixes (check out 19.2 too - slightly tougher), that I ended up burning about 50 copies for friends.
This was also a labour of love. The two mixes were put together over a couple of months, grabbing snatches of time here and there. Each track was edited on minidisc, shortened so I could get more on the CDs. This gave me the opportunity to perfect each mix and use the best take. The process of refining, purposefully without computers, meant this project took fucking forever to complete.
It was quite a few months before I did another mix. Partly because moving house left me without decks for a while, but mainly I felt I couldn’t match this one.
After this point, I produced far fewer update mixes, and they are cataloged by dates instead of numbers.
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79’22” - 110.1MB - AAC file - 192kbps
project: update > summer 2001 > 19.1
mixed 8/9/01>5/10/01
a:xus you make me feel like (peace & love & happiness)
deep sensations somehow, somewhere (there’s a soul heaven) original mix
goodfellas soul heaven original mix 12”
silicon soul right on! Instrumental
deepswing in the music original version
dj robert feelgood I feel good (all night) original vocal version
boogie boy girl in a dream astral mix
bad hangover dub / hey everybody acapella
yo 2 go! zing original mix
jan kowalski she left me main mix
highrise time after time
dajae everyday my life junior jack main
rhythm masters underground phunk investigation extended club mix
flawless dub / underground acapella
the ones flawless extended club mix
cleptomaniacs givin’ it (runnin’)
true gold groove no.1 original solaris mix
indirect gold rush
static avenger happy people original version
kings of tomorrow finally danny tenaglia’s return to paradise mix
Part 2 of update 19.1. Slightly tougher/more tech-y.
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72’58” - 101MB - AAC file - 192 kpbps
project: update > summer 2001 > 19.2
mixed 13/10/01>2/11/01
jakatta american dream ski oakenfull mix
guarana ay camela le fabrique du sons remix
negrocan aquela esquina grant nelson club mix
bbt god’s child ep: oh yeah
inner city good love joey negro z mix
2 phat ladies ep vol 2: double whammy
love rush same ol thing sandy rivera’s deep vision dub
dj ionic feat. sabrynaah pope south beach theme richard grey vocal mix
raven maize the real life fatboy slim remix
raven maize the real life original mix
mutiny the virus king unique snakecharmer mix
dirty vegas days go by full vocal mix
g club presents banda sonora guitarra g g club original
per qx out tonight
dj pheonix ep: voices
el b’s get her anfield mix
u2 beautiful day quincey & sonnace mix
I mixed this for Billy when I couldn’t make it to his wedding. It’s collection of early 90s tunes that we played and heard out lots when we were at uni. With a few acapellas thrown in to segue the tracks, this is mixed for the living room / car, rather than the dance floor.
1 - arrested development - people everyday
2 - beats international - dub be good to me - norman’s excursion on the version
3 - opus III - it’s a fine day - acapella
4 - sueno latino - sueno latino
5 - boy george - generations of love
6 - the grid - crystal clear
7 - mk - always
8 - u2 - lemon - morales bard yard club
9 - east side beat - ride like the wind - acapella
10 - inner city - good life - cj macintosh revist
11 - alison limerick - where love lives - frankie knuckles classic
12 - james taylor quartet - love the life
13 - nightcrawlers - push the feeling - mk dub of doom
100.4 MB AAC file 192 kbps
Summer 2001. Matt, Mikey and Paul were sharing a house in Stoke Newington. The knocked-through lounge / kitchen / conservatory and outside yard made it an excellent party house. And being not-too-far from Finsbury Park made it an excellent venue for post-Pride shenanigans.
As with all these parties, I’d rock up with my mini disc and wire together a few stereos. Here’s a mix I knocked up for the 2001 event. We open with a few funky faves before moving to a few more banging post-trance thumpers, ending with the classic Hold That Sucker Down.
mardi gras mix > summer 2001
true gold groove no.1
smokin' jo
jakatta american dream
grace jones slave to the rhythm house bootleg
jazzin the way
static avenger happy people
el b get her
trisco muzak
basstoy running
serious danger deeper
tall paul rock da house fergie remix
touch me
faithless hold that sucker down builds like a skyscraper mix
51.8MB AAC file 128kbps - 62 mins
I’m uploading this on a very cold February Saturday - I’ve been playing it to bring a little sunshine through my speakers and thought I should share it with you.
This mix is a collection of vocal house anthems from the 90s. I made it for a summer party at “The Gay Church” (aka Kat and Chris’ apartment in a converted vicarage). The mixing isn’t much to be proud of - from memory, I’d already spent the afternoon prior to the party laying down a couple of mixes for that evening, and threw this together while I was getting ready to leave the house, just randomly grabbing old sunny tracks I had not played for a while.
I guess it’s no surprise the the original track list has gone astray. I recognise most of the tunes anyway. Lots of happy sing-a-long stompers, some already classics at the time.
For more Noël sessions visit www.noelc.com/tunes.
- Nuyorican Soul - It’s Alright, I Feel It
- ?? - So Inspired - promo
- Brand New Heavies - Close To You - Masters At Work Remix
- Moloko - Sing It Back - Boris Dlugosch Mix
- Incognito - Giving It Up - T’empo Remix
- Randy Crawford - Wishing On A Star - Mousse T
- Frankie Knuckles - Rainfalls - David Morales Soak & Wet Mix
- Dina Carol - Special Kind Of Locwe - West End Remix
- Ann Nesby - Witness - Mousse T Remix
- Todd Terry - Keep On Jumpin
- Voices Of Life - Say The Word - Steve Silk Hurley Mix
- ?? - Stand Up
- Sexosonique - I Thought It Was You
- Sounds Of Blackness - Everything’s Gonna Be Alright - Morales Mix
101.4 MB AAC file 192 kbps
I may have already mentioned what a great flat Andie and I shared in Bethnal Green. With a large living space it was perfect for big parties, and we had a few. Best of the best were our New Year’s Eve extravaganzas.
‘2001: A Spaced Odyssey’ was the biggest headline event I can remember. Andie’s room was earth, floodlit in green, mine was Mars in red, the hallway was a docking station and the main room was space. Everyone dressed up: gay space cowboys, a whole crew of Star Trek ensigns, monsters, aliens, the lot. Clearing up the day after we filled a box with toy ray guns.
As with all the best parties, it was a joint effort. Ted designed the invite artwork, Paul, Andrew and Cuneyt dressed the venue after raiding the Paperchase post-xmas sale, I was lights and music.
When hosting at home I don’t enjoy DJing through the evening so used to pre-mix the music. This mix kicked in at midnight after Big Ben’s chimes. We start with a few commercial dance favourites from the time, before going into a wad of funky disco house anthems and old skool classics. Ii think I must have run out of time before the party because the last 20 minutes are from a Ministry Of Sound CD. Thanks also goes to Tim Stoller for lending me ‘Salsoul Nuggets’ - my fave track of that Christmas, only available as an instrumental white label at the time.
Originally mixed across 4x minidiscs, the mix appears here for the first time as one continuous session. This is the soundtrack from midnight to 5am, at which point we switched to Strangeways Days Vol 2. It’s a big file so may take some time to dload.
My fondest memory of the party was at about 8am on New Year’s Day. The sun was rising and a Spanish couple we’re dancing. I’d never met them before - friends of friends of friends - but they had just been reunited as he had been living in Spain. They twirled each other around and around gently, never losing eye contact. A beautiful moment amongst the spilt drinks, fag ends and scattered beer cans!
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CD covers from Andrew’s discs of this mix, including Ted’s artwork: disc 1 - disc 2 - disc 3
2001: A Spaced Odyssey > New Year’s Eve > mixed 26 - 30 Dec 2000
1 - Daft Punk - One More Time
2 - Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man - mood II swing mix
3 - Bootleg - modjo / brandy - ladyboy is mine
4 - Spiller - groovejet (if this ain't love)
5 - Cleptomaniacs - all i do (Stevie Wonder)
6 - Soul Vision vs EBTG - Tracey In My Room
7 - Braxe & Falke - Intro (runnin)
8 - ATFC - Bad Habit
9 - Barbara Tucker - Stop playing with my mind
10 - Whitney Houston - I'm your baby tonight - dronez club mix
11 - Afro Medusa - Pasilda - Knee Deep club mix
12 - King Unique - Look ahead
13 - Daddy's Favourite - I feel good things for you
14 - Junior Jack - My Feelings
15 - M&S - Salsoul Nugget (If you wanna)
16 - Bob Sinclare / Sister Sledge - feel for you / lost in music booty
17 - Gamba Freaks - let's get down
18 - Cherie Amour - I don't want nobody telling me
19 - Bini & Martini - happiness
20 - Moloko - Time is now
21 - Sonique - feels so good - can 7 remix
22 - Joe Roberts - Happiness
23 - Bootleg - talking heads - once in a lifetime - remix
24 - Bootleg - bucketheads - the bomb booty
25 - K Klass - Show You Love - 99 remix
26 - Moby - Body Rock - olav bosaski remix
27 - H2O - Satisfied
28 -Bootleg noel - ce ce peniston funked up - finally - noel funk mix
29 - Gamma Funk - shake my ass
30 - Basstoy - runnin' - original
31 - Boney M - ma baker remix
32 - white label - party children
33 - Junior Jack - My feelings - remix
34 - Urban Species - alright
35 - Xpansions - move ur body
36 - Adeva - respect
37 - Inner City - big fun
38 - Moloko - sing it back
39 - Astro Traxx - the energy
40 - Brand New Heavies - sat night
41 - Diana Ross - upside down
42 - Daft Punk/Sub Sub - around the world booty
43 - Pete Heller - big love
44 - Basement Jaxx - playing with miracles
45 - Capriccio - hey everybody
46 - Darryl Pandy - sunshine & hap
47 - Soulsearcher - i can't get enough
48 - Jocelyn Brown - It's All Good
49 - MAW - To Be In Love
50 - Mocha - higher
51 - Byron Stingly - that's the way love is
52 - Gat Décor - Passion
53 - InDeep / Michael Jackson - Last Night / Bille Jean
54 - Club Fiesta - La Fiesta
55 - Full Intention - Timba
56 - Sade - By Your Side
57 - Kathy Brown - Dreaming
58 - King Unique - Look Ahead
59 - Ministers De La Funk - Believe
60 - Phunkie Souls - Tha Music
61 - M&S - Salsoul Nugget
62 -Cassius - La Mouche
63 - MOS Sessions - mixed by Jose Nuez
275.9 MB AAC File 192kbps
Chrissie is an old mate from my days at Kiss 100. Back in November 2000, she was particularly fond of a tune by Kojak that I’d blagged from one of the programming guys, so I built a mix around it for her birthday.
The session is filled out with various commercial party anthems and other big tunes from 2000. Most of these tracks also appear in the 2001 Spaced Odyssey mix for the following month’s NYE party, which is probably why I have not uploaded this before now, but this mix came first and no doubt inspired that soundtrack.
It appears I never noted the original tracklist for this mix, but all of the tracks were easy to recognise apart from No 4... I can picture the sleeve but it’s one I passed on to the charity shop long ago.
Enjoy!
Update 16.2 - Chrissie’s Bday
- daft punk - one more time - original
- club fiesta - la fiesta - knee deep club fiesta mix
- sade - by your side - ben watt remix
- ?? - so lonely - original mix (subliminal records)
- braxe & falke - intro (running)
- kojak - you can’t stop it
- atfc - bad habit
- barbara tucker - stop playing with my mind
- afro medusa - pasilda - knee deep club
- jonny corporate - sunday shoutin - funky dub
- bob sinclare / sister sledge - feel for you / lost in music booty - bootleg
- afropeans - no. 1
- mocha - higher - higher level vox mix
- glamour inc - vol 4: party children
- jill scott - getting in the way - mj cole mix
110.3 MB | AAC file | 192 kbps
mixed to Minidisc 18 Nov 2000, mastered to AAC 2006, uploaded 24 Jan 2010
This mix was laid down one hot summer afternoon for the first BBQ round at The Gay Church (Kat & Chris’ flat). They called it a BBQ, but it kind of started after dark and not much food was eaten...
Summer of 2000 was a scorcher. So many parties too. The mix is very similar to the set I played at a party in West London for one of Jane’s friends. I turned up just expecting to play for half an hour but rocked the joint for several hours. Happy Days.
summer bbq at church
union city - harmony
d’influence - waiting - remix
tom jones - sex bomb - dub mix
daddy's favourite - i feel good things for you
barry white - trouble with me
moloko - time is now - remix
sonique - feel so good - can 7 remix
joe roberts - happiness
bini & martine - happiness
mocha - higher
cherie amor - i don't want nobody
don’t even know if i should call you baby
mr devil
nu breed - born this way
spacedust - let's get down
boney m - ma baker
all boxed in - happen
71.6 MB AAC file 128 kbps
For more Noël sessions visit www.noelc.com/tunes.
Here’s a favourite for dancing around Paul’s living room. Many of the tracks here also remind me of Cuneyt, who stayed with Andie and I for a while when he split up with his ex. One Saturday evening we got trashed and danced away wearing a pair of headphones each.
The tracklist is a chunky selection of disco and filtered house anthems which I much overplayed at the time. Daddy’s Favourite is always a crowd pleaser, and the Phunkie Souls track should be one of my Desert Island selections. ‘For real’ by Bushbaby is beautifully lush. Excuse the pop tracks, it’s probably a result of working at Kiss at the time.
project:update > update 12.1 > november 99
1 triple x - feel the same
2 daddy’s favourite - i feel good things for you - original mix
3 sunkids feat. chance - rescue me - bibi & martini ‘999’ funk mix
4 madison avenue - don’t call me baby - original 12” mix
5 michael moog - that sound - full intention remix
6 supakings - back and forth - supakings vocal mix
7 phunkie souls - tha music - knee deep club mix
8 bushbaby - for real
9 big time charlie - on the run - original mix
10 defunk - pleasure love - cosmak dub
11 hurricane - on & on - origianl 12” mix
12 alena - turn it around - another mix
97.3 MB AAC File 192kbps
More summer anthems from the Bethnal Green days. Lots of Full Intention remixes here, including a retake on Frankie Knuckles’ classic Tears and Jocelyn Brown’s It’s All Good, which was an old Sunday morning favourite of Andie Tickner back in the day.
There’s also one of my early attempts at a live mash up, mixing To Be In Love over a George Morel groove. It’s not perfect but kind of works.
Enjoy!
project: update > update 11.1 > 11.9.99
1 pj happy days phats and small’s mutant disco vocal
2 george morel/maw let’s groove/to be in love noël mashed it
3 eclipse makes me love you sunset mix
4 bob marley vs. funkstar de luxe sun is shining funkstars club mix
5 frankie knuckles presents satoshi tomie tears full intention mix
6 nerio’s dubwork feat. darryl pandy sunshine & happiness
7 masters at work to be in love full intention vocal
8 da mob feat. jocelyn brown it’s all good full intention mix
9 basement jaxx miracles keep on playing re alert mix
10 moby bodyrock olav basoski’s da hot funk da freak funk remix
11 k klass let me show you ‘99 remix
12 onephatdeeva in and out of my life
99.6MB | 192kbps | AAC file
Classic tracks from my Bethnal Green days. Every one of these tunes reminds me of that particularly messy summer when we partied every weekend. I’d rock up with my minidisc player and annoy your neighbours, and this disc was usually in the set somewhere before Sunday evening...
Mainly commercial funky house, but beware of the trance tracks at the end!
70’30” - 96 MB - AAC file - 192kbps
phats and small – turn around – norman cook remix
basement jaxx – red alert – jaxx club mix
jose nuez feat. octahvia – hold on – jose’s 2000 vocal mix
pete heller – big love – original 12”
rythmatic junkies – the feelin’ (clap your hands) – original
boney m vs. horney united – ma baker/somebody scream – club mix
underworld – jumbo – future shock worlds apart mix
chicane feat. clannad – saltwater – original mix
mike koglin feat. beatrice – on my way – extended vocal mix
veracocha – carte blanche – original mix
tilt – invisible – lost tribe vocal mix (matt darey & red jerry)
This was my first session after moving to London. I remember mixing it on a grey day in Bethnal Green, so I assume Andie Tickner and I had just taken up residence at City View House. I had just started working at Kiss 100 and was enjoying discovering London’s record shops. From memory, I think was mixed for Matt Fowler as a bit of thank you for letting me stay at theirs until I got sorted with a flat.
I debated whether to upload this mix because the mixing’s pretty ropey through the first few tracks (what was I thinking of? must have been smoking while recording...) but, given that this is meant to be a comprehensive archive, the tunes should be allowed an airing for their tenth anniversary!
In 1999 Cassisus had released his first album, Defected records were throwing us their first beautifully packaged 12”s and Van Helden hit No. 1 with udon’tknowme. Enjoy...
project:update > update 8/1 | march 99
1 cassius cassius 99 - remix / long version
2 stardust music sounds better with you - bibi & dim’s anthem from paris mix
3 supercar tonight - extended mix
4 the astro trax team feat. shola philips the energy (feel the vibe) - original mix
5 soulsearcher can’t get enough - vocal club edit
6 bass jumpers make up your mind - original mix
7 dj eric we are love - gridlock mix
8 anthony moriah the reality - full intention mix
9 songstress see line woman - full intention remix
10 blockster you should be… - lisa marie experience club mix
11 cevin fisher feat. loleatta holloway (you got me) burning up - queen st. orchestra vocal mix
12 armand van helden udon’tknowme
13 doolally straight from the heart - club mix
100.5MB | 192kbps | AAC file
I remember that I’d been wanting to lay down a soul session for a while. I’d done the odd soul tape, but found RnB difficult to beat mix as the bpms can vary so much.
Anyway, I’d just started going out with John L, whose best friend was something of a soul girl. Her birthday presented the perfect opportunity to get this recorded. I did it in one evening, but it took a few hours to perfect.
Between ’99 and perhaps ’05, soul / RnB / hiphop basically became chart-topping pop pap, so I’ve never really been inspired to revisit it for a dj mix. This session is anchored in earlier 90s tunes and includes some real gems - like Rajanee’s turn it up, which is still one of my favourite Sunday morning tracks.
71’05” - 98.4MB - AAC file - 192kbps
new sunday flava > soul mix > 25/11/98
faith evans love like this
robyn do you know (what it takes) paradise garage mix
zhane request line
yvette michelle i'm not feeling you
r kelly feat. keith murray home alone
brandy feat. maze sitting on top of the world
monica like this & like that full crew club mix
soul ii soul represent
mc lyte cold rock a party mousse t's extended mix
chante savage i will survive steve's old skool extended remix
swv right here extended human nature mix
rajanee turn it up tha arsenal remix
sweetback you will rise bone idol mix
d'influence waiting d'original album mix
keith sweat twisted flavahood sexual remix
sade stronger than pride mad professor mix
I can’t really remember the story behind this mix which was recorded when I lived in Chorlton, Manchester. I think I wanted to pull together a selection of the different loops and grooves and riffs that had guided my taste through the recent years. The session journeys through funky house grooves, through fat speed garage b-lines, to a handful of pre-trance up-tempo favourites.
I love the total recall track. I think it was in a box of 12s that got nicked when I was moving to London. Naline & Kane’s Beachball will always be a fave too.
“instrumental…” > 3/11/98
‘…in my education: something old/new/borrowed/looped’
gat décor - passion - original mix
full intention - you are somebody - string express dub
pj - happy days - original mix
sex-o-sonique - i thought it was you - 12” version
artful dodger - the messanger - a d stateside mix
total recall - feel it baby - disco dub edit
d’influence - falling - booker t 1 soul inside dub
wildchild - renegade master - original
gusto - disco’s revenge - mole hole mix
cj bollard - sugar is sweeter - armand’s d&b mix
187 lockdown - gunman - original
revival 3000 - the mighty high - bomb mix
nalin & kane - beachball - original
way out west - the gift - original mix
bt - flaming june - chicane remix
way out west - ajare - way out west remix
101.4 MB AAC file 192 kbps
Another archive session with Selina’s name in the title. At the time I was still living in Manchester and traveling to London once a week to set up a new creative team at Magic & Kiss FM. I stayed at Selina & Matt’s regularly, trying to plan my trips to coincide with weekends. This mix is one of a few that regularly accompanied up and down the M6.
I’ve no idea why it’s called Selina’s Housewerk Mix. Maybe I thought thought she’d be up and down with the Hoover to it...
Hearing this reminded me of a few forgotten treasures: Bob Sinclar’s ‘2-3-4-5-6-7-8 and back’ Gymtonic, the original Holiday/Music Sounds Better bootleg, even Madonna’s Substitute For Love remix can still raise a hair on the back of my neck. Enjoy x
project:update > update 6.x | ‘selina’s housewerk mix’ > 9/98
stardust music sounds better with you original
deep dish future of the future
ultra nate new kind of medicine danny tenaglia mix
artful dodger the messenger brownstone booty
minimal funk groovy thang
bob sinclar gym tonic
jose nuez in my life
stardust vs madonna holiday booty
full intention you’re the one for me
?? ain’t no mountain high enough dub remix
madonna – substitute for love sasha remix
41.5MB | 80kbps | MP3 file
I can’t remember much about this session. I recorded it to minidisc when living in Chorlton, Manchester. It’s a mix of funky house and UK garage tunes from the summer of 1998. There’s are a couple of chart tracks in the mix (Tamperer and Horney) and Mad Professor’s dub-style Teardrop at the end for some reason - a 12” I had stolen when I moved flats in London - but most of the grooves still cut the mustard.
Enjoy!
update 5.1 – summer 98
1 randy crawford - wishing... (detail)
2 m j cole - sincere - vocal mix
3 shernette may - all the man that i need - ramsey and fen mix
4 nu birth - anything - nu vocal mix
5 full intention - you are somebody - classic mix
6 bump and flex - long time coming - big up version
7 danny j lewis - spend the night - h-man man
8 the tamperer - feel it - feel in the house
9 plastic city - see the way - phunk diggaz remix
10 the fog - been a long time - full intention remix
11 novy vs. eniac - superstar - distraction mix
12 mouse t vs. hot ‘n’ juicy - horney - boris gets horney mix
13 spacebase - what am i gonna do - dillon and dickens venus vocal version
14 massive attack - teardrop - lp/mad professor mazarurni vocal mix
1’13’37” 102 MB AAC file 192 kbps
Whatever happened to UK Garage? One minute it’s The Newest Bestest Thing In Town, then suddenly we’re all listening to rock and 80s-influence electro... These days it’s back underground
UKG had its roots in the South (“it’s-a-Lon-don-thing”), but despite being based in Manchester, I was really into it. I loved the darker, grittier, harder Speed Garage tracks too. You’ll find plenty of them in this mix.
This session was recorded some time between March and September ’98. I can’t find an exact date on any of the minidiscs. It was around the time I was DJing at Via Fossa on Canal Street in Manchester, filling in for Chris Buckley. He would often lend me his records and I had first dibs on the promos he didn’t want/sell, hence I ended up with quite a wad of Speed Garage tunes.
Also, in 1998, every pop tune seemed to be released with a selection of different genre mixes (RnB, house and UKG) as record companies hedged their bets to gain a hit in any scene. This is why the likes of Robbie Williams, All Saints & Janet Jackson turn up in this tough underground mix; although you could miss them if you didn’t check the tracklist.
Running at over 100 minutes, the mix was split over two minidiscs. In transferring it to a downloadable format I’ve edited the mix together as a single piece of audio. This is the first time it has existed as one continuous mix.
Enjoy!
106’50” - 148.6MB - AAC file - 192kbps
Noel Is Speed Queen vol 1
mixed summer '98 across two minidiscs, re-edited together 27 Feb 07.
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1. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - fen & ramsey remix
2. soul ii soul - pleasure dome - tuff jam’s uvm dub
3. olive - miracle - 187 lockdown deep dub
4. fatimer rainey - love is wonderful thing - dub is a wonderful thing
5. robbie williams - south of the border - 187 lockdown’s southside dub
6. miss bisto - barefoot bandit - white label
7. adeva - don’t think about it - 187 lockdown dub
8. all saints - i know where it’s at - colour system inc vox
9. down low - lovething - vip mix
10. bruce wayne - ready - bmw one’s ultimate bad boy mix
11. adeva - don’t think about it - nu birth dub
12. damage - lovelady - da funkstarz epiccamouflage dub
13. 5 - slam dunk da funk - sol brothers
14. bizzi - bizzi’s party - rolling bass mix
15. serious danger?
16. industry standard - what you need
17. ???
18. fabulous baker boys - oh boy - ??
19. janet jackson - got til it’s gone - armand van helden
**tracklisting for part 2 of the mix was lost so tracks 15>18 are guesses
There’s something exciting about a new bag of unplayed vinyl. Working as a radio producer at Key and Kiss, people often chucked unwanted wax my way. This mix was laid to minidisc after being handed a wad of upfront 12s by Chris Buckley. It was probably one of the weekends I filled in for him at Via Fossa.
The session starts off with some smooth uk garage tracks, and moves into chunkier house. It was originally recorded in two parts as it didn’t fit on to a single minidisc. It is one of a few two-part mixes that I have now edited together - finally a continuous piece of audio after almost ten years.
The transfer from minidisc to audio file, including the editing and chaptering, have been completed entirely in the digital domain, which means the resulting audio is as true to the original as when I put the needle on the record. This remains true for the majority of the mixes you’ll find on these pages.
105’16” - 146.5MB - AAC file - 192kbps
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Bag Of Promos Vol 1 - full vers
mixed 10 Feb 1998 across two minidiscs, re-edited together 27 Feb 07.
- indigo – RU Sleeping? – bump n flex
- voices of Life – say the word
- sandy B – world go round – ramsey & fen
- debbie pender – movin on – industry standard
- usher – U make me wanna – tuff jam
- another Level – be alone no more – another groove
- 187 lockdown – kung fu – 187 instrum
- family stand – ghetto heaven – toni morelli mix
- the absolute – catch me – get down vocal
- gems for jem – lift me up – monster club mix
- dive – boogie – nylon’s full length mix
- sounds of blackness – pressure – ubp classic club
- de’lacy – hideaway – 187 lockdown vocal dub
- hysteric ego – want love – sol bros bad boy bass
- CMV – move on up
- z factor – gotta keep pushin – extended
- camisra – let me show you – original
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rest assured – treat infamy – noël has 2 copies flange
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Thanks to everyone who has ever given me vinyl - esp. Chris, Christian & Andy.
Here’s an old Manchester mixtape that was always in the car stereo. I’m a little fuzzy on when it was finished, probably mid summer 1997 guessing from the tunes in the mix. Following the double update 1.1 / 1.2, I couldn’t wait to get back into the studio and cut up a new set of tracks.
I’m still quite proud of this session. The tunes are great: a beautiful summer mix of the classic Sueno Latino, Masters At Work’s groove-bound rework of Brand New Heavies’ Sometimes, fat funky remixes of Shola Ama, Ultra Nate and MK’s Always. The Rosie Gaines track reminds me of DJing at Via Fossa because one of the bouncers always requested it, and in this mix it kicks in beautifully to Sandy B’s much-sampled You Make The World Go Around. We even end with a bit of early euro trance...
With this being another studio mix, all the tracks are edited and mixed perfectly. Another labour of love, making the most of weekends and down time in the studio.
Update 2.0 – studio mix - Spring / Summer 97
1 Sueño Latino - Sueño Latino - Express Of Sound Groove Bass Mix
2 Mary J Blige - Love Is All We Need - Mark's Needy Vocal
3 MC Lyte - Cold Rock A Party - Mousse T Club
4 Brand New Heavies - Sometimes - MAW Smooth Mix
5 Ultra Nate - Free - RIP Up North Dub
6 Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody - Ill-In-Ton's Club Mix
7 Rosie Gaines - Closer Than Close - Mentor Orig
8 Sandy B - Make The World Go Around - Deep Dish
9 MK - Always - Visnadi's Extended Real Love Mix
10 Club 69 - Let Me Be Your Underwear - Vocal Club Mix
11 Brown/Bollard - Turn Me Sweeter - Bootleg W/L
12 Duke - So In Love With You - Full Intention Remix
13 DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima - Original 12" Cut
14 Lost Tribe - The Distant Voices EP: Gamemaster
58.1MB | 128kbps | AAC file
Geek speak:
I remember beat-matching and recording all the vinyl on to a Nicam video before loading it into Studer’s Dyaxsis software. I’m not sure why, maybe the video was simply the easiest way to get the tunes onto the computer. Vinyl turntables were removed from the com prod studio just before I started working at Key 103 - in fact the station had recently relocated to Castlefield and the new studios only had turntables in the one production studio that Stu Allen used.
Somewhere along the line I made a mistake and the first half of the mix is in mono. I can’t remember how this happened but by the time I’d noticed - which was when I was working on track 9, MK’s Always - it was too late. I’d already completed so much, it would have been a mammoth task to start again from scratch. The mono tracks aren’t too noticeable because parts were mastered with some stereo effects and there’s a wicked point in the MK track where the stereo kicks back in. Simple, but really effective.
Enjoy!
So, this is where it all began: a series of noël mixes with numbers in the titles that just confused everyone.
Through the early 90s I was pretty efficient at knocking out a new mix tape every month or so, but for some reason - probably a combination or work and going out too much - I hadn’t committed anything to tape or minidisc for a while. At the time I was working at Key 103 and I’d recently done my first mix in the studio, which I was pretty proud of. I decided that if I was going to ‘update’ my catalogue, it needed to be a stonker. And, with so many tunes to catch up on, I knew if would have to be a double disc.
And cramming in so many tracks would allow me to indulge in my second favourite hobby (next to DJing) of music editing. The station had spent £60k on a computer-based multi-track audio system, which I had just about mastered, and I couldn’t wait to get cracking on a personal project. It meant using the studios outside office hours, grabbing the odd hour in the evenings or going in at the weekends. This was certainly going to be some project...
Burning CDs was pretty new too. No one had computers or even hi-fi CD recorders back then, but we had an expensive Studer one at the radio station. I remember the blank discs alone cost £16 (maybe it was £30) each. Simply committing it to CD gave the mix a little more prestige.
Matt designed the cover - the ‘n’ in a circle - and came up with the font variation for track lists (bold = artist, regular = track, italic = mix) which I still use today. OK, it’s not rocket science, but these were the days when everyone was just moving from dot matrix printers to laser and bubble jet: things suddenly looked a lot smarter. The inlay was printed on tracing paper with the ‘n’, the circle and the title on different layered sheets. He’s always had a talent for great CD packaging, utilising different types of paper, plastics, even petals and leaves.
I’ve lost the front cover, but you can download the back cover here.
I gave the first copy of this to Kath or Janine. I’m pretty sure it was Janine. She had a boozy Sunday afternoon session in Chorlton’s Lead Station to celebrate her birthday.
Enough of the history, on to the tunes. We open with Get Carter, as my good mate and boss at the time had a thing about the melody in the movie. We were going through a pretty hedonistic period and this disc was often the soundtrack.
The first mix sets us up with some funky and commercial party tracks, then turns up the heat in preparation for the tougher second mix, which you find here.
update 1.1 – march 97
1’10’05” 85 MB MP3 file 160 kbps
human league - get carter
future force - what you want - karmasutrafunkyexpress
byron stingly - get up (everybody) - rhythmmastersdub/parademix
wildchild - jump to my beat - toddedwardsjumpremix
janet jackson - runaway - factorymix
ann nesby - witness - mousset'sfunk2000mix
whitney houston - step by step - k-klassicmix
h²o featuring billie - nobody's business - eurovocal
armand van helden - the funk phenomena - originalmix
that kid chris - feel the vibe - theonlymix
ninety nine all stars - luv is all u need - spacebaseremix
faithless - insomnia - armand'seuropeanvacationmix
lisa stansfield vs the dirty rotten scoundrels - people hold on - jonisthedonmix
express of sound - real vibration - realclubmix
ninety nine all stars - luv is all you need - originaldillon&dickensmix
cool jack - jus' come - sharpblasteddub.
Part two of update 1.1.
We pick up the tempo on this disc, but it’s not all banging stompers as there are a few blissed-out moments courtesy of Chicane and Way Out West. And I still love the deep phat ‘Huff and Puff’ track.
With appearances from the likes of BT and Paul van Dyke, alongside tracks from BBE and Natural Born Grooves, you can see how this pumped-up yet euphoric sound was a precursor to the 1999 trance explosion (with a little help from Mitsubishis...). Those latter two tracks remind me of a Manchester Mardi Gras when Key 103 sponsored an event at GMEX - a particularly messy evening!
Favourite of favourites here though is the closing Moonman tune. Bootyful.
Enjoy! May there be many more ‘updates’!
update 1.2 – march 97
1’12’10” 84.5 MB MP3 file 160 kbps
bt featuring tori amos - blue skies - paulvandyk'sblauerhimmelmix
huff and puff - help me make it - deepmix
souvlaki - inferno - firedupmix
the lisa marie experience - do that to me - originalw/lbootleg
chicane - offshore - original
underworld - born - slippy nuxxmix
bbe - seven days & one week
robert miles - children - dreamversion
tzant - hot & wet (believe it) - jfk'soriginalmonsoon
natural born grooves - groovebird - originalmix
atlantic ocean - waterfall - workinprogress'96mix
way out west featuring miss joanna law - the gift - original
moonman - galaxia.
I’m uploading this in December 2009. I’ve stumbled upon a box of old mix tapes from the mid 90s and this one’s a corker, full of main room peak time vocal anthems.
According to my scribbles on the inlay card (pictures attached to the file) I originally mixed this for Tony Mellor after a lost weekend at The Fridge in London. It may have been Pride weekend when I travelled down with Chris Buckley, Mark & Darren. Anyway, I remember mixing this on a sunny day in my flat in Chorlton.
Highlights include the opening pumped-up version of Where Love Lives, Moné’s Movin’, and The Happy Clappers’ Can’t Help Myself. The Lisa Marie Experience deliver ripping remixes of Helicopter’s classic On Ya Way and Nu Soul’s Hide-A-Way. The Naked Music NYC track has just been sampled and release on Defected.
Enjoy!
Late Summer Mix - 1996, mastered from cassette and chaptered 28 Dec 2009
Side A
1. Andrew Pearce vs. The Reese Project Where Love Lives (The Serial Diva Mix 1)
2. Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (Morales Always Club Mix)
3. Naked Music NYC - I'll Take You To Love (Tee's Master Mix)
4. Andrea Mendez - Bring Me Love (M&S Epic Klub)
5. Happy Clappers - Can't Help It (Grant Nelson's Trinity Remix)
6. Helicopter - On Ya Way (Lisa Marie Experience Mix)
7. Gusto - Disco's Revenge (Bootleg Re-edit)
8. Gusto - Disco's Revenge (Females Revenge Mix)
9. The Police - Voices Inside My Head (Voices)
Side B
1. Nu Soul feat Kelli Rich - Hide-A-Way (Lisa Marie Experience Remix)
2. ?? - This Is A Real Love
3. Chrissie Ward - Right And Exact (Stonebridge Mix)
4. Todd Terry Feat. Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown - Keep On Jumpin' (Tee's Freeze Mix)
5. Mone - Movin' (Fire Island Mix)
6. King Britt Presents Sylk 130 - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
7. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)
8. Joe T. Vannelli Project - Sweetest Day Of May
271.8 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps
This is one of my first mixes recorded in a studio. I’d just moved into Matt’s in Stetford and he kept getting burgled so I stored my decks at work. This was in the days when Piccadilly Radio was based in Piccadilly Plaza (Manchester). The commercial production studio was separate from the rest of Key103 and I was often working weekends uploading commericals... so of course it wasn’t long before I’d plugged my Technics into the desk.
Anthony (‘Subbo’) and I would have a few beers, get stoned out the back and play tunes.
With this session I learnt how digital editing could allow you to perfect a mix, restructuring songs as I wanted them, and also how prestigious it felt to have a mix burnt to CD - few people burnt CDs in 1995 as it was far too expensive. This mix spawned ideas that later became the Update 1 CDs.
studio mix – Aug 95
Billy Ray Martin – running around town – bt remix
Billy Ray Martin – running around town – original mix
Mone – we can make it – joe t vanelli remix
Jodeci - freak – mk dub
EBTG – missing – chris & james remix
The Original – I love you baby
Space 2000 – do you wanna funk? – joe t vanelli
De’Lacy – hideaway – deep dish mix
Brand New Heavies – back to love – gp mix
Mariah Carey – fantasty – morales dub
44.4 MB AAC file 1288 kbps
I had a week off recently and whilst digging around for tunes online I rediscovered a chunk of early remixes by Terry Farley and Pete Heller of Junior Boys Own fame. In the early 90s I was a big fan of their work under the Fire Island and Roach Motel monicas. This session pulls together some of my favourite FI/RM looped bassline grooves and brass stabs.
We open in 1992 with Sunsreem’s classic Perfect Motion, slide through dubs of Juliet Roberts and Monie Love (two records I foggily recall mixing back-to-back continuously one morning after Flesh at the Hacienda), In Your Bones reminds me of dancing downstairs at Paradise Factory with Selina, and as one of the finest house tunes ever produced, Movin’ On has to be one of my Desert Island Discs.
Transatlantic was a tune Ted used to play at post-Strangeways chill outs, and we close with a blissful Balearic take on New Order’s Regret - not a great dance floor moment, but a regular on the car stereo driving to work in my Key103 days.
All this seems pretty fitting as Junior Boys Own hosted their own event in London last night (according to the Guardian Guide, their first in 16 years) and much of the catalogue is now reissued through Defected, although I’ve tried to steer around some of those more obvious classics.
Most of the tunes are from ’92 - ’95 but as I only mixed this today, you’ll also find it on my Latest Mixes podcast. Apologies if you get duplicates. Enjoy!
Perfect Motion: Roach Motel / Fire Island - mixed 3 Oct, chaptered 4 Oct.
1 Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)
2 Deep Zone - It's Gonna Be Alright (Farley & Heller's Fire Island Vocal)
3 Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)
4 Juliet Roberts - Caught In The Middle (Roach Motel Dub)
5 Fire Island - In Your Bones
6 Roach Motel - Movin’ On (Correct House Mix)
7 Monie Love - The Power (Roach Motel Mix)
8 Fire Island - Fire Island
9 Ultra Naté - How Long (Fire Island mix)
10 Roach Motel - Transatlantic (Uptown Mix)
11 Roach Motel - Happy Bizznezz
12 Fire Island - There But for the Grace of God (Roach Motel Dub)
13 Danny Tenaglia - Music Is The Answer (Dancin' And Prancin') (Fire Island's 'La Musica Es La Respuesta')
14 New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)
142 MB | AAC | 320 kbps
I recently found a site full of CD singles from back in the day and, well, filled my boots, replacing worn-out vinyl with digital copies and filling a few gaps in the collection.
Having spent years just heading for the lead mix on a 12” it was interesting to rediscover some of the lesser-played mixes. Here’s a session of those alternative cuts, mainly dub versions, with a few of the smoother classics thrown in for good measure. Most of the tunes are from 93/94, and the session was thrown together for Matt on his birthday 2010.
Enjoy!
Club Dubs - alternative dub cuts of house classics from 1992 - 1996
- Martha Wash - Give It To You (Maurice's Underground Playground)
- Sounds of Blackness - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Chuff Chuff Dub)
- NY's Finest Victor Simonelli - Do You Feel Me (Club Mix)
- Trey Lorenz - Photograph Of Mary (MAW Dub)
- Monie Love - Never Give Up (Junior Dub)
- Sole Fusion - We Can Make It [Underground Network Mix]
- Michelle Weeks - Don't Give Up (M&S Epic Dub Mix)
- Greg Fenton Pres. Silver City - Love Infinity (Parkside Saturday Night Dub)
- Barbara Tucker - Beautiful People (Mac Dub)
- Karan Pollard - Reach Out To Me (Weekend Dub)
- Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (Deep Reese Mix)
- The Beloved - Deliver Me (Salt City Vocal)
166.1 MB | AAC file | 320 kbps
Classic old skool handbag house from our days at Manchester’s first Saturday gay house all-nighter, later to become Danceteria.
Although the tunes are from the early 90s, I produced this mix in April ’98 for a birthday party at Maple Ave, Chorlton. Includes: The Fog, Loni Clarke, MK, Joe Roberts, Bassheads, Judy Cheeks, K-Klass, Shy One and more.
I think most people already have a copy of this somewhere, but I’m uploading it anyway.
70’11” - 65MB - AAC file - 128kbps
1 liberty city - if you really love someone (murk remix) 3:34
2 joe roberts - lover - (k klassic mix) 2:56
3 colourblind - nothing better 2:09
4 jeanie tracy - it's my time (jules remix) 3:48
5 k klass - let me show you love 3:28
6 mk - burning 4:10
7 the fog - been a long time 2:46
8 shy one - another man (matthew roberts mix) 5:03
9 shawn christopher - make my love (stonebridge mix) 4:17
10 loni clarke - u (k klassic mix) 2:43
11 reel ii reel - go on move 2:16
12 bassheads - is there anybody out there? 4:44
13 direckt - two fat guitars (remix) 4:04
14 judy cheeks - so in love with you 2:58
15 roach motel - movin' on 4:05
16 the flava - no matter what u do (dub) 3:03
17 kristine w - feel what you want 2:57
18 ideal - hot 0:21
19 ideal - hot 4:27
20 loveland - let the music lift you up 4:34
21 billy ray martin - your loving arms (reprise) 1:40
More tunes from the good ol’ days of skipping across that filthy carpet on Sunday mornings. Sing along with T’empo, Janet Jackson, Brand New Heavies, Jinny, Inner City, My Friend Sam and more.
Volume 2 was mixed 27 Dec 1999 for Millennium New Years Eve party in Bethnal Green, although most of the tracks are circa 1993 (hence the date above).
71’36” - 66.4MB - AAC file - 128kbps
1 t'empo - saturday night sunday morning 7:32
2 janet jackson - if - brothers in rhythm remix 3:38
3 brand new heavies - back to love - graeme park club mix 3:27
4 taylor dane - can't get enough of your love - c&c extended club mix 3:41
5 greg fenton presents silver city - love infinity - zanzibar mix 3:45
6 inner city - pennies from heaven - kevin's tunnel mix 3:30
7 eric perez project - release - matthew roberts mix 0:30
8 eric perez project - release - classic mix 1:15
9 rupaul - house of love - t'empo's kitsch bitch club mix 3:43
10 m people - renaissance - master mix 3:30
11 jinny - keep warm - original extended 2:43
12 my friend sam - it's my pleasure - club mix / kickin in the beat acapella 4:19
13 eddy - someday - man city vocal 1:58
14 people in town - read my lips - club mix 3:28
15 shades of rhythm - the sound of eden - 12” 4:32
16 drizabone - real love - nush glamour mix 2:40
17 house of virginism - i'll be there for you (doya do do do doya) 2:34
18 coming out crew - free, gay and happy - deep throat vocal 5:52
19 alex party - alex party (read my lips) - rhyme time party mix 2:39
21 screen ii - mr dj - cathedral stab mix 2:07
23 jx - son of a gun - red jerry/jx mix 3:54