Sonic Sunset

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Part 2: Right-click to download (59 min 128k MP3 = 54mb)

A bit behind on posting new shows due to the holidaze, but catching up quick and ready to lay it down thick in 2005. Watch for a New Year’s Eve blaster real soon too.

Part 1 > Quick holiday psychedelic soul then an ode to all things Friday Night. Live funk percussion mixes as Faze-O hits soaring spacefunk and Jackson 5ive’s drummy breaks pick up tempo. Arpeggiated boogie from Coco Du Jour and Johnson Products’ simple-yet-irrestible grooves push it along to a poppin’ italo cover of Tequila. Ends tag-team w/ moody chicago house classics including Mike Dunn’s anthem ‘Magic Feet’.

Part 2 > the tagteam fun continues with windy city acid from armando/armani, then stays close to the heart of chicago with early efforts from symbols & instruments, joshua, and ron trent, and a hard-edged mr. fingers. some cool uk obscurities follow, and deep dub techno from germany’s basic channel collective rounds out the set, with new music from the echocord label in the mix.

Part 1 > Matt MacQueen

Rotary Connection – Last Call for Peace – Peace (Cadet)
Booker T & The MG’s – Silver Bells – In The Christmas Spirit (Stax)
Rotary Connection – Peace at Least – Peace (Cadet)
Bell & James – Livin’ It Up [Friday Night] (A&M)
Faze-O – Space People – Good Thang (She)
The Jackson 5ive – Hum Along and Dance – Get It Together (Motown)
Coco Du Jour – Dancin In The Darkness – Club Mix (Moonglow)
Johnson Products – Johnson Jumpin’ – Disco Juice (P&P)
Magick Edit All-Stars – More Space to the Bass (Majick Cuts)
Wood Brass & Steel – Funk-a-nova (boot)
Kasso – One More Round [Frankie Knuckles mix] – Chicago Boogie 1/4 (Eskimo)
117 Mix Your Own Stars (Original Records)
Bo Boss – Tequilla (Emergency)

Tag Team 2+2

konk – your life (what you want) (sleeping bag)
the browns – what’s dub (dance mania)
Virgo – Free Yourself (Trax)
Master C&J – Dub It (State Street)
virgo – go wild rhythm tracks (other side)
risque rythum team – the jacking zone (chicago connection)
Cool House – Rock This Party Right – Tyree’s Beats 4 Now mix (Underground)
Mike Dunn – Magic Feet (Westbrook)
armando – 151 – [windy mix by robert armani] – warehouse mixes (djax-up-beats)
symbols & instruments – mood [optimystic mix] (kms)
Art Forest – The Flow – Soul In Motion (IRMA)
Circulation – Memory – Patterins (Balance)

Part 2 > David Siska

ron trent – altered states (djax-up-beats)
herbert – take me back (phono)
mr. fingers – play it loud – classic fingers (la casa)
neuropolitique – idiotic lantern – menage a trois (irdial)
insync vs mysteron – science fact – android architect (tenth planet)
pub – summer [arovane amx 2] (vertical form)
rhythm & sound – range (rhythm & sound)
anders ilar – trails and stairs – treasure gardens ep (echocord)
fluxion – multidirectional ii (chain reaction)

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This week marks our one year anniversary of archives for download. Thanks for all your positive emails and IMs — we wouldn’t be doing it without your interest and support. 🙂

Part 1 > Slow/deep funky Chicago steppers anthem from Loggins & Messina winds it up. Midtempo synthetic pre-house from Raww and WBMX left-field classic from Yoko Ono. Bangkok Impact bangs up Unit 4, and brand new music from Jersey Devil Social Club with their monster dub of MAGNIFIQUE!

Part 2 > fast-paced electro races through the uk, germany, holland, and detroit, returning to chicago with downtempo idm before re-launching into the swirling grit of minimal chord-driven techno, including some new bits from spain’s hard techno specialists exium and ottawa’s talented texture-slinger tim hecker.

Part 1 > Matt MacQueen

Parliament – Gloryhallastoopid intro (Casablanca)
Loggins & Messina – Pathway to Glory – Full Sail (Colombia)
Taana Gardner – Heartbeat (West End)
Mtume – Juicy Fruit (Epic)
Depeche Mode – Breathing in Fumes – But Not Tonight EP (Sire)
Jamie Principle – Waiting for my Angel (Persona)
RAWW – Don’t You Try It – dub (Emergency)
DJ Yoav B – Come Together – Boogie Down Saturn EP (Wabi Sabi)
Unit 4 – Bodydub – Bangkok Impact rmx (Clone)
Yoko Ono – Walking on Thin Ice (Polydor)
Charlie – Spacer Woman (Automan)
Raiders of the Lost Arp – Funk 008 (Palms ride) – (Pigna)
Jersey Devil Social Club – Magnifique! – Dub (Environ)
J.E.M. – Space Drums – Re-Edit MANIA!!!! (Freestyle Ltd.)
Roni Griffith – Spys (Vanguard)
Static – What It Is (Sonar Kollektiv)

Part 2 > dave siska

the advent – there’s no danger – elements of life (internal)
cane – fall (arcola)
the martian – intruder (red planet)
agent patrick & data – boogie down detroit (southern outpost)
nubian mindz – missing time (archive)
third electric – tele-funken (electrocord)
duplex – martian lakes – ep3 (clone)
bochum welt – new europa – program 11 (elypsia)
miles tilmann – double (sub:marine)
g man – le soleil – bayou paradis (force inc)
sven vath – augenblick [sensorama railway mix] (virgin)
phenomyna – everlast (otherworld)
mono junk – a… (trope)
ricardo villalobos – 2000 abdominals (perlon)
brubaker – in (ifach)
motorbass – visine (motorbass)
exium – unit 2 – highly intelligent units (warm up)
tim hecker – incurably optimistic – mirages (alien8)