Leftfield – Original

Mood – Karma

Portishead – Numb

Wax Tailor – Between Fellows

The Crusaders – The Well’s Gone Dry

MWD – Elephant

The Bees – Left Foot Step-down

Backyard Heavies – Expo 83

Cinematic Orchestra – Channel 1 Suite (Tom Tyler Mix)

Driving – O.S.T

Tommy McCook & The Supersonics – Reggae Merengue

Sly & The Family Stone – Remember Who You Are

Leaders Of The New School – Sobb Story

Suhov – Different

Natural Self – The Sound

Mr Scruff & Roots Manuva – Jus Jus

Latin Breed  – I Turn You On

Aretha Franklin – So Swell When You’re Well

Lamont Dozier – Going Back To My Roots

MF Doom – Deep Fried Frenz

Moss – Ching

Mux Mool – Night Court

Gnarls Barklay – Charity Case

D Nice & Treach – Time To Flow

Tipper – Off Kilter

Pretty Purdie – Soul Drums

MWD – Trouble Scene

The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows

This week’s set is brought to you by the letter “H.” Of course, when one is thinking drum and bass and “H”, the first thought is Hospital. High Contrast, London Elektricity, Logistics. But there’s a new “H” in town known as Human Soul. The label, hailing from Vienna, sports such great new names as Dirrrty B, 2Key, Motta and Atmospherix and Soultec, whose No Way Out is definitely tune of the month. All these Human Soul tunes are available on the recently released Beatitude EP. Big ups to the people over at Human Soul for providing us with such delicious tunes. Enjoy!

Liquid H

1. Motta feat. Jett – Love Sickness [Human Soul] (0:00)
2. Dirrrty B – Friday Night Fever [Human Soul] (~3:41)
3. Morphteck – Dreamers [Cadence] (~6:39)
4. D Bridge & Fierce – Twilight [Quarantine] (~11:06)
5. Intense – Careless Minds [Good Looking] (~14:17)
6. Atmospherix & Soultec – No Way Out [Human Soul] (~18:12)
7. High Contrast – Basement (High Contrast’s Upstairs Downstairs remix) [Hospital] (~20:42)
8. D.BO General & Mickey Finn – Lights Lock Off [Easy Sativa] (~23:14)
9. Bassface Sascha & Franksen – I Amen [Sidechain] (~26:44)
10. Random Movement – Believe No Other [Westbay International] (~29:40)
11. London Elektricity – Song in the Key of Knife (Off My Feet remix) [Hospital] (~32:04)
12. Redeyes – Let It Shine [Spearhead] (~35:05)
13. Roni Size – Strictly Social (Nu:Tone remix) [Liquid V] (~38:01)
14. >>Black Sun Empire – Arrakis [Black Sun Empire] (~40:03)
15. Bungle feat. Laura Pacheco – Resized [C.I.A.] (~42:54)
16. Logistics – Cosmonaught [Hospital] (~45:44)
17. Artificial Intelligence – Crocodile Smile [V Recordings] (~48:35)
18. Saburuko – Solstice [Inside] (~51:47)
19. 2Key – New Beginnings [Human Soul] (~53:35)
20. >>Tribe Of Issachar and Peter Bouncer – Junglist (Zinc remix) [Congo Natty] (~55:21)

It’s beans tim, but not as we know it:

This week the show takes an alternative direction in somuch as I have a guest in the studio with me, the delightfully cheerful Flevans. You can find out more about him on either of these sites: http://www.myspace.com/flevansmusic  or http://www.flevans.co.uk or take the more logical path of actually listening to the show. The choice is yours.

I’ve not bothered to compile a playlist as the two of us are babbling so much but I can tell you that there are some good tunes by Quincy Jones, Ty, Hereldeduke, Luke Vibert, Max Romeo, the Jazz and Milk label, Blue Mitchell, Backini, Kira Neris, Juggaknots and of course Flevans himself.

Feedback would be grand as he and I have discussed doing a regular radio show together at some point in the not too distant future. Obviously this will have a different format to this particular show as there are only so many times I can ask him questions before it gets annoying. Anyway, enough waffling – there’s plenty of it on the show…

Enjoy!

PS – Beans will be back with the standard 96% music format next week

us & us (april 2009) for motion radio
“daylight savings adjustment…”
transmitting from mount vernon, new york, usa

awake from winter hibernation and ready to spring ahead with the rest of the universe.  no big concept or anything like that this time around…just playing some tunes and having some fun.  starting off with the unstoppable shawn lee (why do i see myself doing an entire show based solely on his work?), then diving into some beats and rhymes and other odds and ends.  note the pair of joints from brothers and systems circa 1992: the transcontinental weekend album is one of my desert island picks.  both happy mondays and pop will eat itself come straight off the cassette.  anybody remember when the term “mixtape” still meant cassettes?  anyone?

newness comes in the form of n.a.s.a., the nat king cole and femi kuti remixes, and a killer closer from somalia’s finest, k’naan (make one pirate joke and i may have to cyber-slap you…).  i’m making up for lost time and it starts with this episode.  hope you enjoy it…

1.  shawn lee’s ping pong orchestra – hey ya!
2.  selda – yaz gazeteci yaz
3.  thes one – cheetah
4.  brothers and systems – 1/2 4 me, 1/2 4 u
5.  baron zen – burn rubber (dam funk remix)
6.  n.a.s.a. – money (feat. david byrne, chuck d, ras congo, seu jorge, and z-trip)
7.  myka nyne – me and my girl
8.  serengeti – guess what mom
9.  minamina goodsong – sollay
10. brothers and systems – trace element
11. luke vibert – i love acid
12. nat king cole – day in, day out (cut chemist)
13. happy mondays – bob’s yer uncle
14. the pop will eat itself – touched by the hand of cicciolina (edited highlights)
15. femi kuti – you better ask yourself (abel okugawa remix)
16. k’naan – somalia

…with a cameo appearance by the pharcyde.

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(“strange days, my people…”)

Some nasty and twisted basslines feature in this mix. Artists featured include Loxy with releases on Cylon, Def:Ltd and Mac II, Data with the immense track “Splice” on Metalheadz and a Chris SU tune on the ever consistent Renegade Hardware.

Loxy, Gremlinz, Matt-U, Munk & Spinline – The Justice League – Mac II
Sleeper Cell – Asymmetric (Loxy Remix) – Def:Ltd
Chris SU – The Peak – Renegade Hardware
Subterra & Lean – Calling – Def:Ltd
SST & Glitch – Let It Bleed – OHM Resistance
Loxy & Isotone – Ancients – Cylon
Damage Inc – Homework – Advanced
NuSense – Konig – Future Thinkin Digital
CABLE – Alternative – Advanced
Cosmo & Dibs – Star Eyes (Dylan Remix) – Big Riddims
Spirit – Re-dial – Metalheadz
Loxy & Perpetuum – The League – Def:Ltd
Data – Splice – Metalheadz
Hobzee – The Escape – Future Thinkin Digital
Cern – Sparrow Hawk – Revolution
Vicious Circle – Relapse – Digital Soundboy
Jubei & Tyrone – Tremor – IT Recordings
Raiden & The Sect – Leffe – Architecture

Yes, it’s been a while, but I think it’ll be well worth the wait. This week opens with a dubplate sent directly to me, after having heard the mixes here, by the one Zero Frequency, an up and coming producer from Tallinn, Estonia. Yet more Eastern European flavor had to be added to the mix as soon as I heard Missing Blue, the perfect set starter. Furney also weighs in as well as the relatively unknown Command Strange. Yes, it’s deep, but depth is sometimes a desired quality. Enjoy!

Semblance of Truth

1. Zero Frequency – Missing Blue [dubplate] (0:00)
2. Scenic & Advisory – Velocity [Binary Soul] (~3:50)
3. Kalu – Autumn [Outsider] (~6:35)
4. Kjell – Wind Tunnel [Influence] (~9:36)
5. Derrick and Tonika – Rumbambar [Fokuz] (~11:38)
6. Plan 9 feat. JOTJ – You (Ben Sage remix) [Subsonik Sound] (~14:11)
7. Logistics – Jungle Music [Hospital] (~17:34)
8. Furney – Distance [Good Looking] (~19:55)
9. Electrosoul System – With You [InnerGround] (~23:28)
10. Will Miles – 1 Week Later [Influenza Media] (~25:51)
11. Zero T – Speak Low [Liquid V] (~28:43)
12. Command Strange – See in the Sun [Influenza Media] (~31:07)
13. Prestige – Everything She Wants [Liquid Brilliants] (~34:10)
14. Mikal – Make It Now [Nu Urban Digital] (~37:03)
15. Madmen & Poets – Afraid Of Jazz (Lenzman remix) [Phunkfiction] (~39:40)
16. Lomax – Too Real [Soul:R] (~42:28)
17. Kjell – Calmante [Influence Records] (~45:26)
18. Furney and Locksmith – Wake Up Mr. Red [Camino Blue] (~48:04)
19. Stress Level & TC1 – Lost In Music (Part 2) [Dispatch] (~50:45)
20. Command Strange – In My Heart [Influenza Media] (~54:15)
>>Bachelors Of Science – The Beautiful Life [Horizons] (~56:10)

a little half an hour blend i put together on a deep/housey dubstep vibe. enjoy!

tracklisting:

>headhunter – paradigm shift
>headhunter – quanta
>spherix – look back
>shackleton – blood on my hands
>>>skream – midnight request line
>spherix – drone
>kryptic minds & leon switch – six degrees
>south3rn – krang
>shonx – canton
>distance – losen my grip
>silkie & harry craze – french knickers

Bit more electronic stuff than usual I think (although that said, as I upload this I’ve not listened back so i may be wrong!) but seemed to run as smooth as the proverbial baby’s behind, with the usual dosage of hip hop (US & UK), soul & funk.  Enjoy!

DJ Scientist – Atarius (The Other Version)
Roots Manuva – A Haunting
Iambic – Terra Firma (Halogen Remix)
Anne Peebles – Somebody’s On Your Case
Blueprint – untitled
Joe Tex – Men Are Getting Scarce
Dots – Why Does Anything Tickle, Ever?
Carolyn Franklyn – Alone
Pharcyde – Drop
Eddie Hazel – Frantic Moment
Jerry Butler – You’ve Been Around Too Long
Argument About Yellow – Some Grips Slip
The Grouch – Artsy
Sheik & Arch Deacon     - As You All Know
Tom Caruana – Keeping It Me
Mocean Worker – Shammalangadingdong
The Simon Sound – It’s Just Begun
Regal – The Mack (Flevans Remix)
***Epic Track ***
Teej, Elemental & Joncepts – She’s Mine
Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodyte
Mulato & The Heliocentrics – Live From The Tiger Lounge
Brentwood All Stars – Greedy G
Cut Chemist & Hymnal – What’s The Altitude
The 3rd Degree – Mercy
Flaming Ember – Gotta Get Away
Company Flow – 8 Steps To Perfection

Tinnitus

A banging mix set to get your ears ringing.  Showcasing the full scope of Drum n Bass this has something for everyone.

Enjoy!!

1. DJ Vapour – Shut Up

2. Damage Inc – Overload

3. DJ Vapour – Glucose

4. Jamal – True & Living

5. DJ Vapour – The Mask

6. The Insiders & Soul Intent – 128 Miles

7. DJ Vapour – Natural Mystic

8. DJ Madd – To The Massive

9. Loxy – Green Destiny

10. Data – Muted

11. D-Bridge – On Your Mind

12. Data – Splice

13. Data, Dj E & Dynamic – Skinwalkers

14. Alix Perez – Im Free

15. Instra:Mental – Hunter

16. Loxy & Isotone – Ancients

17. Calibre – Understand

18. Bungle – Unknown

19. Atlantic Collection – Skeleton Man

20. Artificial Inteligence – Days Of Rage

21. Calibre – In Denial

22. Subwave – Dreamcatcher

23. Spinline – Coldfeet

24. Enei – Deep

25. Notion – The Pastover

26. Logistics – Jungle Music

27. Mixmaster Doc & Soul Intent – The Unknown

28. Calibre – Two Drop

29. Subterra & Dekko – Lost Light

30. Bungle – The Need Of Being Alone

31. Survival – Red Letter (Remix)

32. Silent Witness – Blackhole

33. The Ripper – System Unstable

34. State Of Mind – Now This Is It (Remix)

35. Dom – Funkhunt

36. Silent Witness – Transworld

37. Dom & Gridlok – Catscan

1 A.I. – Crocodile’s smile
2. The BollZ – Happy Skank
3. Zero T – The Orginal R
4. Rudenko – Everybody – Danny Bird remix
5. Mist[i]cal – Amen Electric
6. Matrix & Futurebound – Family – Nu:Tone & Logistics Remix
7. Q-Project – The Three Things
8. Logistics – Toy Town
9. Sigma – El Presidente VIP
10. Lomax & Xample – Contra
11. Zero T & Mosus – Monarch
12. Dirtyphonics – Quarks
13. Break – Let It Happen
14. Future Sound Of Cambridge – Coffee
15. Silent Witness – Poster Girl
16. EZ Rollerz – Coming Home
17. Zero T – Why Would You