Idle Blues

Published January 31, 2010 mix 3 Comments
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Chicago skyline

Dreaming of beaches on the Lardossian coast, Dave plots a steady course, chasing the setting sun westward from the Chicago outpost before launching into orbit, keeping the D in IDM in a way that only the UK lads can. Down the home stretch, sit back in the rhythm with long exposures for some chord-driven cornerstones.

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Gino Soccio – So Lonely (Warner Bros) 1979
Efdemin – Acid Bells [Martyn's Bittersweet Mix] (Metisse) 2009
Hieroglyphic Being – The Strenuous Life – Machines for Lovers (Spectral) 2004
Jack Da Ripper – Jack’s Back (Circuit) 1995
Fingers Inc. – Distant Planet [Dub Mix] (Jack Trax) 1988
Planetary Assault Systems – Sleeping Sin Seamless – Planetary Funk Vol 3 (Peacefrog) 1994
Ian O’Brien – Tap Sketch (4th Wave) 1997
Soultek – Spaceman – Chapter One (Kompute) 2002
Alex Cortex – Prism – Skyle (Platzhirsch) 2008
UB313 – Q (Fortune8) 2007
Cassy – Idle Blues (Cassy) 2008
Maurizio – Domina (Maurizio) 1993
Mono Junk – Channel B (Trope) 1995
Vince Watson – Ethereal [Excerpt] (Delsin) 2008

Emotions Unknown

Published December 11, 2009 mix 15 Comments
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Dave takes us for a guided tour through dusky soft shadows and nighttime machines, leading into more relaxed territory before revisiting those chunky Chicago roots. New dubstep/techno genre-crossing sounds blended with their forerunners round out the meander. Too many great new cuts to mention all of them, but Stereociti lays down a thick, clean groove with Drexciyan flourishes, Joy Orbison offers you a rainbow-colored glowstick, and DJ Sprinkles goes beyond deep.

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DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central – Pt. I – Midtown 120 Blues (Mule Musiq) 2009
Schatrax – First Heartbeat (Schatrax) 1996
Stereociti – Waiting for Your Call (Mojuba) 2009
Anton Zap – Captain Storm (Underground Quality) 2008
Melody Boy 2000 – Monotone Fantastique (Dum) 1994
Model 500 – Starlight [Soultek's Falling Stars Mix] (Echospace Detroit) 2007
Eerik – Exformation (Raw Fusion) 2002
Reflection – Cube Loop [Morgan Geist Mix] (Clear) 1997
Circulation – Emotions Unknown (Balance) 1995
The MD Connection – Frantic Machine – Tracks That Move Ya (Muzique) 1989
Martyn – Seventy-Four – Great Lengths (3024) 2009
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo (Hot Flush) 2009
Millie – Path To Hell [Redemption Mix] (Daphne) 2009
Ben Klock – Gold Rush – One (Ostgut Tontrager) 2009
Studio Pressure – Resolution (Photek) 1994
Roof Light – In Your Hands – In Your Hands EP (Styrax) 2009
Fluxion – Redundant (Vibrant) 2001
Helical Scan – Index I (Chain Reaction) 1996
Peverelist – Junktion [Shed Rmx] (Tectonic) 2009

Grey Sky Cracks

Published May 7, 2009 mix 21 Comments
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berlin

With the controls of the Sonic Sunset space-time cruiser set on “random”, Dave pilots through retro-future analog visions, emerging out onto As One’s lush, blue-skied terrain.  Our cruising velocity throttles only slightly, guiding the ship into Plant43’s landing electro-bass, followed by a moody take-off that smoothly banks left into the evening stars.  Cool strings from Strictly Rhythm circa 1991, Aroy Dee’s abstract jack coolness with Peel Seamus, and advanced hybrid sounds from Martyn anchor the journey!

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Fokewulf 190 – Body Heat (Market) 1984
Carl Craig – Home Entertainment – Landcruising (Blanco Y Negro) 1995
Paul W. Teebrooke – A Face At The Window (Otherworld) 1995
Series 7 – Untitled (Evolution) 1995
Force of Nature – Traderoute (Mule Musiq) 2007
CiM – Numerique – Reference (Defocus) 2000
As One – Dhyana – Celestial Soul (New Electronica) 1995
Pieter K – Impressions – Everything All The Time (Breakbeat Science) 2002
T++ – Audio1995#8_2 (Apple Pips) 2008
Pangaea – You & I (Hessle) 2008
Link & E621 – Antacid II [Original Mix] (Warp) 1995
Martyn – All I Have Is Memories (Apple Pips) 2008
Plant43 – Bronfraith – Grey Sky Cracks (Ai) 2007
B12 – Ecliptic (B1215) 2007
Beautyon – Dome – Your Ignorance Makes Me Ill, And Angry (Irdial) 1992
Mike Grant – Sunlight – It’s A Detroit Thing (Moods & Grooves) 1999
Aroy Dee – All That Remains (M>O>S) 2008
Reese – Rhythm Track 1 (Incognito) 1988
Black Knight – Moody – Rob Gordon Projects (Source) 1996
Mike Ink – Astral Theorie – Dada Jack (Profan) 1994
Total Capacity – Ambience [Red Head Mix] (Strictly Rhythm) 1991

Night Shift

Published March 24, 2009 mix 11 Comments
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Northland Roller Rink, Detroit

Matt takes a 2 hour journey from chilled post-punk, slow-mo disco, post-dub remixes and post-bourbon crate digging.  Slower tempos then building, some favorites from 2008 including Osborne, Nite Jewel, Windsurf and a superfunky Hot Coins slab… plus Detroit techno and Chicago house records all jacked up.

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theme from sonic sunset
The Associates – White Car In Germany – Forth Drawer Down (Beggars Banquet) 1982
Derrick May & Carl Craig – Interval I – Relics: A Transmat Compilation (Buzz) 1992
The Names – Night Shift – Factory: Communications 1978-92 (Factory) 1981
King Midas Sound – One Ting [Daybre Mix] – Cool Out (Hyperdub) 2008
Hot Coins – Norway Man – The Laissez Faire EP (Society) 2008
Bim Marx – untitled B1 –  Stronger – (Stilove4music) 2008
Windsurf – Future Warriors – Windsurf EP (Internasjonal) 2008
AN-2 – The Gift – Wide Open EP (Theomatic) 2004
Fudge Fingas – Gettin’ Together – Linkwood Family: Miles Away (Firecracker) 2004
Moody – Heaven – Freeki Mutha F cker (KDJ) 2008
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes – Space Lady – Renaissance (RCA) 1978
Nite Jewel – What Did He Say (Italians Do It Better) 2008
Osborne – 16th Stage – Osborne (Spectral Sound) 2008
DJ D – Naked Eye – DJ D Edits Disco!  (AJP) 2008
Jimmy Ross – First True Love Affair [Larry Levan Mix] – (Quality) 1981
Midway – Set It Out [Long Vocal] – (Personal) 1984
Li’l Louis – How I Feel (Dance Mania) 1987
Marcus Mixx – Without Makeup [Ron Hardy Mix] – (Let’s Pet Puppies)  1988/2006
Jack Da Ripper – Beautification of House (Circuit) 1995
DJ Big Time Fashion – Tracky Thrills – The Me Me Me EP (Big Bear) 2002
Armando – Pleasuredome – New World Order Level 3 (Trax) 1994
M-D-EMM – Get Acidic [Strange & Dangerous mix)  (Transmat) 1988
DB-X - Shortwave - Bleep (Accelerate) 1993
Thomas Bangalter - What to do - Trax on Da Rocks (Roule) 1995
69 - My Machines - 4 Jazz Funk Classics (Planet E) 1991
Aaron Carl - Crucified [Quantec Remix] – (Millions of Moments) 2008
Appleblim & Peverelist – Over Here [Brendon Moller Remix] – (Apple Pips) 2008
Rhythm & Sound w/ Willi Williams – See Mi Yah [Hallucinator Remix] 2006

Distant Lights

Published January 14, 2009 mix 19 Comments
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calder-montreal

Dave starts the night with a sunset of hazy feedback, a cluster of scintillating Chain Reaction chords, and then onward into the starry skyway.  This set was recorded live at Chicago’s Empty Bottle in May of 2007, opening for Berlin’s Monolake, and was performed using Ableton’s Live software.

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My Bloody Valentine – To Here Knows When [vermilion endloop] 1991
Tim Hecker – Blood Rainbow – Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky) 2006
Vainqueur – Elevation [Original] – Elevations (Chain Reaction) 1997
Substance – Plate Element 3 – Sessions (Chain Reaction) 1998
Motor – 7 (Audio.nl) 2000
James Ruskin – Below – Further Design (Blueprint) 1998
Marcel Dettmann – A Req [T++ remix] (MDR) 2006
Marc Ashken – Roots Dyed Dark [Skream remix] (Leftroom) 2007
Burial – Distant Lights (Hyperdub) 2006
Porter Ricks – Nautical Dub [extract] – Biokinetics (Chain Reaction) 1996
Benjamin Brunn – Up the Escalator (Binemusic) 2005
Stephan Laubner – Portside Waves (Perlon) 2000
Convextion – Solum Ferrum (downLow) 2006
Exos – Orangeblue – U Can’t Stop Time (Statik Entertainment) 2003
7th Plain – Pearl – TEEX 3 (Volume) 1994
Pub – Summer [Arovane AMX 4] (Vertical Form) 2000

Foreign Affair

Published November 20, 2008 mix 25 Comments
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foreign-affair_mix

Matt sets a long launch pad through the dark and cosmic, then wringing out some longer and deeper house tracks. More new records this time out, including standouts from Oracy and a pair of Japanese artists really bringing it- alongside NY house moods and Detroit basement tracks.

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[theme from sonic sunset]
Quiet Village – Gold Rush – Silent Movie (K7) 2008
Mike Oldfield – Foreign Affair – Crises (Virgin) 1983
Critical Rhythm – I’m In Love With You [Stagger Back Mix] – Secret Codes (NuGroove / Network) 1992
Woolfy vs. Projections – Carry On – Astral Projections of Starlight (Permanent Vacation) 2008
Kuniyuki Takahashi – Touch [A Mountain of One peyote mix] – Remixed vol. 2 (Mule Musiq)  2008
Designer Imposter – Good News [Pink Alert's Good News remix] (Rubaiyat) 2007
The Utopia Project – File #3 (Nu Groove) 1990
Visual – Somehow, Someway [Dub] (Ram’s Horn)  1984
Octave One – Dominion – The “X” Files (430 West) 1994
Kelley Polar -  Entropy Reigns [Pearson And Usher's Closed System Dub] (Environ) 2008
Oracy – Rewound (Mojuba) 2008
Morgan Geist – Detroit [C2RMX1] (Environ) 2008
John Beltran feat. Open House – Earth & Nighfall [Club Mix] – (33rpm Records / Sinewave) 1993
Claude Young – Dream of Another Time – One Complete Revolution (Utensil) 1994
Leonid – Mora – Mora EP  (Statik Entertainment) 2008
Rondenion – The Beautiful Memory -Tokyo Deep (Aesthetic Audio) 2008
Rick Wilhite – Roots of Detroit – Three Chairs (Three Chairs) 1997
Theo Parrish – Goin’ Downstairs Part 1 (Sound Signature) 2008

Superpeople

Published July 10, 2008 mix 28 Comments
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superpeople

Matt uncorks a 2.5 hour extended trip through soul in different dance styles. From chill Detroit nighttime transitions to synthy boogie, house, and some abstract dub electronics. Don’t miss your medication from Talking Heads, and Deadbeat’s searing remix of Saul Williams for the closer.

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[theme from sonic sunset]
Junior Boys – Caught in a Wave – So This Is Goodbye (Domino) 2005
F.U.S.E. – A New Day – Dimension Intrusion (Plus 8 ) 1991
Cybotron – El Salvador – Enter (Fantasy) 1983
Brother Reade – Work Ain’t For Players – Rap Music (Record Collection) 2007
The Notations – Superpeople (Curtom) 1975
Prince & The Revolution – Tambourine – Around The World In A Day (WB) 1985
Kelley Polar – Satellite – I Need You To Hold On While the Sky is Falling (Environ) 2007
Komiko – Feel Alright (SAM) 1982
Amplified Orchestra – Disco Trippin – Electricity (Amplified) 2007
Michelle Wallace – It’s Right [Tee's Right Instrumental) - (Emergency) 1982
Simple Minds - Sound in 70 Cities - Sister Feelings Call (Virgin) 1981
Force of Nature - To the Brain [Prins Thomas Diskomiks] (Mule Musiq) 2007
Disco Revisited – Gonna Roc U All Nite – Crab Legs EP (Intangible) 1995
DJ Sneak – Funky Enuff – Funkadelicrelic (Cajual) 1994
Mike Dunn – Magic Feet (Westbrook) 1989
Mr. Flagio – Take a Chance (Squish) 1983
Yellow Magic Orchestra – La Femme Chinoise – Yellow Magic Orchestra (Horizon) 1979
Talking Heads – Drugs – Fear of Music (Sire) 1979
Dynamo – Aufenthalt 01 – Aufenthalt (DIN) 1997
Pole – Achterbahn [Shackleton Remix] – Steingarten Remixes 3 (~scape) 2007
Boxcutter – Sunshine VIP – Oneiric – (Planet Mu) 2006
Saul Williams – Black Stacey [Deadbeat Remix] – Journeyman’s Annual (~scape) 2007

Lighter Path

Published June 24, 2008 mix 15 Comments
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…and we’re back! Thanks for bearing with us and being with us! Dave lays down a near double-dose to make up for lost time, starting out loud and quick in the mix, and gliding into the sublime: a leisurely float along a space-side beach with nighttime electro twinkling to starboard and waves of lush electronics glistening on the port side.

Hell Interface – Midas Touch (Boards of Canada bootleg) 2007
Meat Beat Manifesto – God O.D. (Wax Trax) 1988
Plaid – Fly Wings (Warp) 2000
Kelley Polar – The Rooms in My House Have Many Parties – Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (Environ) 2006
Firefly – Love (Is Gonna Be on Your Side) (Emergency) 1981
Soul Center – Let’s Go – I (W.v.B. Enterprises) 1999
Newworldaquarium – Avon Sparkle – Dead Bears (NWAQ) 2007
Orlando Careca vs. The Cosmonut – Stars in Your Eyes – Just for Tonight (66 Degrees) 2000
Theo Parrish – Heal Yourself and Move – First Floor Part 2 (Peacefrog) 1998
Larry Heard presents Mr. White – The Sun Can’t Compare [Long Version] (Alleviated) 2006
DBX – Beat Phreak (Accelerate) 1994
Voyager 8 – Mothership Earth – Rings, Moons, and Clouds (Synewave) 1995
Daniel Lui – Tale of Motion – Act of Amnesia (Chair) 2000
Ulf Lohmann – My Pazifik – Pop Ambient 2008 (Kompakt) 2007
E.R.P. – Alsoran (Frantic Flowers) 2007
Redshift – Journey Through the Asteroid Field – Starbase EP (Surface Effect) 2001
Scuba – Braille Diving (Hotshore) 2007
FBD Project – Gesture without Motion – Enforcers Vol 7 (Reinforced) 1994
Drexciya – Aqua Worm Hole – Bubble Metropolis (Underground Resistance) 1993
The Advent – There’s No Danger – Elements of Life (Internal) 1996
Arovane – Yua:e – Icol Diston (din) 1998
Move D + Benjamin Brunn – On the Magic Bus – Let’s Call It A Day (Binemusic) 2007
Soultek – Lighter Path (Fortune8 ) 2007
Black Dog – Cost II (GPR) 1993
Stasis – Point of No Return (B12) 1993
Joakim – Cotton Gun [Original] (Versatile) 2002
Translucent – Light of Dawn Mix Pt 1 – Momentary Vision (Jelly Jam) 1989
LFO vs Fuse – Loop (Plus 8 ) 1995
Sven Weisemann – Cabana Fever (Mojuba) 2007

Near Dark

Published December 22, 2007 mix Leave a Comment
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Part 1 > A mood flows from disco to dub via deep house and detroit techno, the soundtrack to a suspended nightfall. Drive thru a babylon takeover on the slow but mighty deep.

Part 2 > dave runs a static-saturated descent from what basic channel hath wrought into a synth-soaked thread that unravels quickly into several detroit-infused filaments. from there, a slow, smooth burn evolves that has its place both in starlit streets and sunlit windows.

Part 1 > Matt MacQueen

Theme from Sonic Sunset
Glass Candy – Rolling Down The Hills (Spring Demo) – After Dark (Italians Do It Better) 2007
Gwen Guthrie – Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan Mix) – Padlock (Garage / Island) 1982
Culture Club – Time (Clock of the Heart) – Kissing To Be Clever (Epic) 1982
Fresh – Dum Dum Part Two [Instr.] – (Trax) 1986
Greyhouse – New Beats the House (Hip Hop) 1989
Chez N Trent – The Choice – Prescription Underground EP (Prescription) 1994
Tony Allen – Ole [Moritz von Oswald remix] – (Honest Jons) 2007
Daniel Stefanik – Growth Reshape (Statik Entertainment) 2006
Model 500 – Starlight – [Moritz mix] – (Metroplex) 1995
cv313 – Dimensional – (Echospace [Detroit]) 2007
L.V. + Dandelion – B. Takeover [dub] – (Hyperdub) 2007
Dom – Sodium – Dom EP (Clandestine Cultivations) 2007
Burial – Near Dark – Untrue (Hyperdub) 2007
Black Dog – Frisbee Skip – Spanners (Warp) 1995
Intex Systems – DS4 – Space and Time (Hotflush) 2007
Detroit Escalator Co. – Shifting Gears – Soundrack [313] – (Ferox) 1996

Part 2 > Dave Siska

andy stott – made your point (modern love) 2007
echospace – spatialdimension (echospace [detroit]) 2007
daniel stefanik – starless reshape (statik entertainment) 2006
joey beltram – land of oceans – aonox (visible) 1994
human league – dancevision – holiday 80 (virgin) 1980
kelley polar – rosenband – chrysanthemum (environ) 2007
le car – #16 (the concept car) – auto-graph (monoplaza) 1997
lil louis – frequency [track] (dance mania) 1987
stopp – i’m hungry (discomagic) 1983
model 500 – infoworld (transmat) 1990
erik van den broek – oiled love (shiver) 1994
reality or nothing vs. dan nurse – fait accompli (housewerk) 1998
newworldaquarium – bond – the twenty (delsin) 2006
benjamin brunn – kˆnig und drache [vitaltone speaker mix] – music under pin (binemusic) 2005
process – smp-k option 4 – shape-space (fatcat) 2000
xdb – descap (deep space) 2007
monoder – easylistening porvarimusiikkia part 1 (pakkas-levyt) 2006
schatrax – pink (schatrax) 1996
theo parrish – serengeti echoes – parallel dimensions (sound signature) 2000
nicolas denis – jackin’ a box [inner soul remix] (deeply rooted house) 2007
kenny larkin – butterflies – metaphor (r&s) 1995

Lay It On Me

Published September 16, 2007 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

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Part 1> Alternate soundtrack to a 1983 film about a spaceman stranded in Harlem, expressed with soul, electronic funk & boogie, and winds up with a few beautifully synthesized italo disco anthems from the same era.

Part 2> A melding of 80s styles with current Chicago/Detroit-influenced goodness floats away into lush ambience and two cello-based moods, followed by a late-summer house wind-down into dubbed-out sounds and 90s hypnotic minimalism. Notable new slabs from Pan Sonic, Sven Weisemann, and a hot re-issue of extra-rare old-school Chicago deepness from Joe Lewis.

Part 1 > Matt MacQueen

[theme]
The New Birth – It’s Been A Long Time (BMG) 1972
Loggins and Messina – Pathway to Glory – Full Sail (Columbia) 1973
Sylvia – Lay It On Me (Vibrations) 1977
MCL – New York [Dancefloor Cut] @ halfspeed (West Side) 1987
Aleem – Confusion [Dub] (NIA) 1985
Bombers – Don’t Stop the Music (West End) 1979
The Love Unlimited Orchestra (presents Webster Lewis) – Welcome Aboard (Unlimited Gold) 1981
Fonda Rae – HEYOBAH [vocal] (Posse Records) 1983
Venise – Play Boy (Superradio Records) 1984
Daniel Wang – Warped – Look Ma, No Drum Machine (Balihu) 1993
Boris Midney – D-D-D-Dance [vocal] – (Mi Sound) 1983
Baby Oliver – Primetime [Uptown Express] – (Environ) 2007
Mr. Master – A Dog In The Night [Instr. ] – (Radius) 1983/2006
Melba Moore – Standing Right Here (Buddah Records) 1977

Part 2 > David Siska

propaganda – frozen faces (ztt) 1985
depeche mode – enjoy the silence [ricki tik tik mix] (mute) 1990
propaganda – and dance – historical archives vol 2 (members only) 2006 unofficial re-edit
liaisons dangereuses – dias cortas (d.i.r.t.y) 2005 unofficial release of video-only track
joe lewis – love of my own [album version] (booton) 2007 reissue
j.m. silk – music is the key [basement key] (rams horn) 1985
aroy dee – dark day (m>o>s) 2006
sven weisemann – acquittal – vivid memento (styrax leaves) 2007
cluster & eno – wermut – cluster & eno (gyroscope) 1977/1996
pan sonic – katodivaihe – virta 1./ current 1. (blast first petite) 2007
arthur russell – see-through – world of echo (audika) 1986/2005
ulf lohmann – on frozen fields – on frozen fields (kompakt) 2005
detalles – move on – hello donee (kupei musika) 2006
herbert – deeper – parts one two and three (phono) 1996
drain pipe – low life (driftwood) 2001
smyglyssna – insvept i papper – dold ep (plug research) 1997
echologist – dreadscapes (mule musiq) 2005
kim rapatti – a2 – mood ep (plug research) 1996
detroit diesel – railway – moto-r ep (dum) 1995
robert hood – wandering endlessly (m-plant) 1996

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