I’ve put one of the mixes I did for this weekend’s live streaming Altar Ego Radio on my Soundcloud so that it can kill two birds with one stone (pun intended) and promote my set at the Lunar Festival in Tanworth, Warwickshire on June 6th. The mix was done with that in mind being that it’s a psychedelic set for a gig of the same, check the line up below, tickets and other info available here.
A second hour of Magpie Music by 2econd Class Citizen is available here.
Gigs
This Friday I’ll be doing an early (6pm) all vinyl set at the Dust & Grooves book launch at the Proud Archivist in Hackney and then racing down to join Cheeba and Moneyshot in Southampton for another round of our Paul’s Boutique deconstruction. The gig was to be in the Orange Rooms but has been moved next door to the Roxx apparently.
‘Children of the Sun’ is a mix about the sun and summer in general, made especially for Farmfest 2014. 50 minutes designed to relax to outside, lying on the grass in the warmth of the sun. Taking in jazz, beats, ambient, soul, funk, rock and electronica each track comments on the sun, summer or the great outdoors in some way.
This is just being premiered over on ClashMusic.com and won’t be appearing on Solid Steel, being exclusively for Farmfest where I’ll be playing on August 1st.
Tracklist:
Wolfgang Dauner – Take Off Your Shoes To Feel The Setting Sun (MPS)
The KLF – Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border (KLF Communications)
Koushik – Lying In the Sun (Stones Throw)
DJ Food – Sunspot (Unreleased)
Boards of Canada – A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Warp)
Three Dog Night – Out In The Country (Dunhill)
Dr Rubberfunk – Sunset Breakdown (GPS Recordings)
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Ambient Mix MkI) (Big Life)
Ammoncontact – Children Of The Sun (Ninja Tune)
Belbury Poly – Summer Round (Ghost Box)
Sesame Street – Bees & Honey (Children’s Television Workshop)
July – Dandelion Seeds (Bam-Caruso)
Diplo – Summer’s Gonna Hurt You (Big Dada)
Isley Brothers – Summer Breeze (Epic)
Roberta Flack – I Can See The Sun In Late December (Atlantic)
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange – Dreams / Land (BBC)
The Dells – Wichita Lineman (Cadet)
The KLF – Pulling Out of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast (KLF Communications)
Two views of Lisbon; inside my hotel and out on the street by the MusicBox club where I played on Thursday night.
Sun through the clouds in Switzerland, driving towards France on Friday afternoon.
Sound check in La Rodia, Besancon, France with our new banner featuring every artist sampled on the ‘Paul’s Boutique’ LP.
The not-quite-finished hotel in France the next morning – note the 2 stars – it was actually OK inside. Next, a fantastic view on the road back to Geneva.
Saturday night back in London – Adam & The (original) Antz do ‘Dirk Wears White Sox’ at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Beastie fans get ready for the 3-Way Mix at the Moon Club in Cardiff on Sunday night and we premiere our new picture disc controller records from 12InchSkinz during the set.
I’ll be breaking out the vinyl for this one! Fumetto is the most important comic festival in Switzerland and I’ll be playing the final party this Saturday.
Some shots from last Friday’s 3-Way Mix set at Sonar in Siena, Italy taken by FotoSintesi lab project. See more shots here.
It’s going to great to be sharing a stage with these artists this coming Friday plus I’ll get to hook up with Kid Koala as a he’s part of the Deltron line up.
On Saturday I’ll be doing a rare vinyl-only set at the closing party of the Fumetto comics festival in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Check out these great photos from our gig with DJ Format at La Sirene in La Rochelle, France last weekend by Max Chill. Even more excellence on his tumblr HERE.
Poster for my solo DJ gig at Musicbox in Lisbon, Portugal on April 17th.
This May I’ll be playing in Sheffield at The Harley for the Thirsty Ear 9th birthday party.
This was for a gig I played on Saturday, I only saw it the day after but I like what they’ve done with the type.
We got back from Australia at 5am on Wednesday morning after what seemed like days of flying in cramped seats but it was worth it. The first mini tour of the Paul’s Boutique 3-Way Mix went well and I’ll throw out some highlights here rather than going into a prolonged tour diary.
Playing the Perth Festival outside and finishing before 10pm then going out into the crowd to chat and give away our rider. 
Landing in Melbourne to a torrential rainstorm, worse than back in the UK but being taken around by tour manager Joel to see local graffiti spots and ERT, shop sporting a tattoo parlour, recordstore, clothing, posters and spices.
Seeing old friends at the Melbourne show and rocking it despite the show being advertised as ‘Beastie Boys (USA) Paul’s Boutique feat. DJ Food, Cheeba, Moneyshot‘ (grrrrr). Finding out about ‘Vaporwave’, ‘Sea Punk’ and ‘Business Funk’ via a radio show on Melbourne radio.
Recording an impromptu mix of originals from ‘Shake Your Rump’ and ‘Hey Ladies’ for Jack Shit‘s show on FBI radio – you can listen back to it here.
Playing our best show in Sydney in front of more friends but ducking out of the proposed after party with Grandmaster Flash as it became a roadblock.
Taking the ferry to Manly to hang out with Moneyshot’s girlfriend’s ex-pat mates who served up the best BBQ.
Meeting up with DJ Hickory Dickory Dock who took me round various Sydney record spots, ending up at the excellent Revolve store near Newtown.
Off to Australia tomorrow for 3 gigs in the sun – can’t wait to feel warm again and hook up with the likes of DJ HDD and others. Posts on here may be sporadic to non-existent for the next 10 days but I’ve just finished a mix of 80’s pop remixes and re-edits that may appear on Solid Steel at some point.
One month to go until DJ Cheeba unveils his new, years in the making, AV show at Bristol’s Cube Cinema. After School Special looks at a century of drug use from both sides through music and film and there’ll be some special surprises for all who attend. It looks like it’s sold out already from the Cube website.
DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot and I are touring the ‘3-Way Mix’ this year. That being a 4 deck, 3 DJ reconstruction of the Beastie Boys’ ‘Paul’s Boutique‘ album made from all the original tracks that they, and the Dust Brothers, sampled + more.
Here’s the first round of tour dates (more to come) with a graphic I made featuring all the sources they sampled, can you spot the Beasties? I made several versions + several Facebook timeline headers. Click for large versions.
DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot & DJ Food – ‘3-Way Mix’ trailer from Solid Steel on Vimeo.
Here’s a little short I just edited to promote the ‘3-Way Mix’ tour DJ’s Cheeba, Moneyshot and I are doing at the moment. It was shot by Jim Alexander at Solid Steel‘s 25th anniversary party at Fire in London last December. We’re still taking bookings so, if you want to see this in your town or city then check the details at the end.
After seven years and nearly 100 events, I Love Acid is set to finish this April as they concentrate on different things. Luke Vibert headlines with Plaid, Mark Archer, Affie Yusef, Placid and, of course, Posthuman. I’ve played for them a few times over the years and it’s always good fun with a top set of people and an up for it crowd. Sad to say I can’t be there as I’m already booked elsewhere but nice to see my name in the thank you list they put up. More info and tickets can be found here and there will be a very special acid-themed Solid Steel the week before the final gig.
BELOW IS NOT A FLYER LINE UP – THIS IS A THANK YOU LIST! (I think they are regretting not making that more explicit going by some online comments)
Such a beautiful graphic, found on skipratmedia‘s site, tickets still on sale.
