A mix made after an AV night called 'A Few Old Tunes' to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada's 'Tomorrow's Harvest' album. I made videos for a lot of the material so decided to do my first solo video mix. There is also a follow up mix called 'T Is For Trapped' but no accompanying video mix exists as yet.

Matt and Jon, Alex Paterson and Youth convening at Butterfly studio on the anniversary of JFK‘s assassination along with Coldcut studio accomplice Dor Wand and got down to it. The resulting session produced over 3 hours worth of material and I immediately volunteered to take on the edit job to sculpt it into the shape needed for a Solid Steel mix.

Luckily they had recorded everything to multi-track and just before Xmas 2012 I sat down to construct a 2 hour show from the chinese puzzle in front of me. After sifting, editing, compressing and discarding over a 3 to 4 week period I finally had something to send the guys. Matt came over to the studio to run through some finishing touches with fresh ears and we had 133 minutes of mind-melting madness.

For the Solid Steel 25th anniversary why don’t we get a rematch between Coldcut and the Orb? It’s no secret that their original New Year mash up from the end of 1991 is very high up on my list of greatest mixes ever and the thought of a new sound clash 21 years later was very appealing indeed.

DJs Cheeba, Moneyshot and I had the idea of collaborating on a version of the Beastie Boys‘ ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album made entirely from the original sample sources, shortly after Moneyshot aired his mix of their ‘Check Your Head’ album in the same way.

3 years in the making, ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’ has each of us taking a third of the album to work on and combined our efforts into a mix that will make you hear it in a new way. Aside from the original sample sources we’ve included commentary from the Beasties, vintage interviews, demo versions and much more.

A sampler of 2econd Class Citizen's second album 'The Small Minority', released on the now-defunct Equinox Records. This mix is available to download from Bandcamp but it’s only streaming via Soundcloud at the moment.

It was a real labour of love and I think I managed to get elements from all the tracks in there at some point including a remix of the single ‘Outside Your Doorway’ – see if you can untangle it all when you listen to the LP.

A more ambient condensation of 'The Search Engine' album used to soundtrack the 360 dome shows I made at the time of release. The 50 minute audio visual show was projected 360 degrees around the domes and planetariums it played at.

Includes the Deep Space mix of 'GIANT' and 2econd Class Citizen's remix of 'The Illectrik Hoax' as well as a re-recording of 'The Sky At Night' from 'Kaleidoscope' that PC and I made.

Tracklist:
Sixtoo  • Chainsaw Buffet
Gaslamp Killer & Computer J • Shattering Inner Journeys
Diplo • Don't Fall
DJ Food feat. Natural Self • The Illectrik Hoax
Diplo • Now's The Time
Gaslamp Killer & Computer J • Shattering Inner Journeys
The Slew • Robbing Banks, (Doin' Time)
Pop Levi • Blue Honey (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
DJ Food • All Covered In Darkness Pt.2
Diplo • Making It Hard (promo only)
The Dragons  • Sunset Scenery
Pop Levi • Blue Honey (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
Super Numeri • The Spies Of St. Ives
Loka •  Entrance
The Dragons • Big Mike Requiem
The Heavy • Oh No! Not You Again
Yppah • The Drag
The Slew • Battle Of Heaven & Hell
Sixtoo feat. Damo Suzuki • Storm Clouds & Silver Linings
Super Numeri • The First League of Angels

A mix of the more psychedelic side of Ninja Tune, Big Dada, Counter and Brainfeeder, put together for the Japanese release of ‘The Search Engine’ and available from independent stores as a bonus disc. Copies made their way into the Ninja shop for a time and were sold at the Planetarium launch party and Pure Evil exhibition as well.

The 64 Bar Challenge mix I did, 29 tracks in 52 minutes, the brief was for each track to be 110 beats per minute and last 64 bars. The series was originated on the Ninja Tune forum by Kovas and driven over 6 different challenges with entries from all over the world.
The quality was really high, largely leaning towards the electronic end of the spectrum, and with roughly 50/50 of the entrants being unsigned or never having released anything. Take a listen and see what you think and you can pledge for a vinyl version of the tracks on a compilation over on Beat Delete.

Showcasing the AV mix DK and I performed live on 4 decks and 3 mixers post-'Now, Listen Again'. Using Serato's Video-SL plug-in for Scratch Live, we mix, scratch and blend the sound AND vision for each track.
Months were spent creating videos for each piece of music, either using the original source material or, in most cases sampling footage to create a new video entirely. We called it 'Video Turntablism', a way to visualize our DJ sets, first performed in late 2008 at Videocrash in London.

This compilation was long overdue, the last one was way back in 2000 and the only label overview since had been 2006's Zen TV which was more of a retrospective look back than a current mission statement. There's still the Hip Hop, Jazz, Turntablism and Electronica the label became know for. But It's time to see what's behind the Ninja mask NOW - you'll hear drum n bass, folk, dubstep, glam rock, techno and other styles, none of which sum up the label completely.

“Don’t be fooled by me, my surface is my mask. Don’t be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a thousand masks… and none of them are me.”

Robots, mecha, androids, simulacra, I love them and, to commemorate the release of the first Transformers film in the summer of 2007 I put together a themed mix called 'Remember the Future' with the emphasis on the machine envisaged in the 50's, 60' and 70's when space travel was still a new wonder of the world. The intro was Transformer-themed and I was doing a gig with Hexstatic a few months later for the release of their album 'When Robots Go Bad'. I decided to make up some artwork to go with it so that I could sell some at the gig. Each one took around an hour to burn, print, score, cut and fold - I managed 75 in total.

The outer cover was a folding version of the Autobot logo (I wanted to do a Decepticon but it didn’t lend itself as well to the task in hand). This held the disc inside, each one of which was printed with a different image of a robot cribbed from an online gallery of bots made from found objects.