Sonic Sunset

Part 1: Right-click to download (78 min = 71 mb)
Part 2: Right-click to download (80 min = 73 mb)

Part 1: Boot up to mutant electro boogie and computerfunk, pop the strobe lights. Left-field synth freakouts from David Astri and Cori Josais meet Italo disco from Gary Low, Phrenic and Cellophane — are friends electric? Freeze.

Part 2: crisp rhythms from argentina’s zensible label collide with herbert’s deep dark world, and drop off into an oscillating ocean glittering in the moonlight, courtesy of heiko laux. the texture gets a level or two darker with beautifully subdued downtempo from pub, and comes back to the light with densely melodic dancefloor moves from holland’s duplex.

Part 1> Matt MacQueen

ABC – Theme From Mantrap (Mercury)
The Human League – Toyota City – Holiday 80 (Virgin)
Anthony Shakir – One Beat (Just Won’t Do) – Tracks for my Father (Seventh City)
KDJ – untitled – U Can Dance If U Want 2 (KDJ)
Thelma Houston – You Used to Hold Me So Tight – [12\” version] (MCA)
Cori Josais – Takin’ It Straight [Dub] (Sire)
David Astri – Dancing Digits [Dance Mix] (Award)
Dopplereffekt – Infophysix – LP (Dataphysix Engineering)
Man Parrish – Boogie Down Bronx [Dub] (Sugarscoop)
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power (Egyptian Empire)
Electric Mind – ZWEI [Dub] (Emergency)
Gary Low – You Are A Danger [Instr.] (Il Disc)
Scotch – Pengins Invasion (Il Disc)
Phrenic – Mischa [$tinkworx Italo mix] (DownLow)
Cellophane – Music Colours 3 (DID)
Faces Drums – (Original Records)
Farley \”Jackmaster\” Funk – Jackin’ The Trax – Funkin With The Drums Again (Trax)
Jamie Principle – Rebels [House of Trix Mix] (DJ World)

Part 2> Dave Siska

$tinkworx – yinmao (downlow)
gurtz – muroa – zensible beats (zensible)
agent blue – 3000 [herbert’s deep dark world mix] (lowlife)
rene et gaston – pouah! – merlouche ideale (pssst)
heiko laux – spaced – sense fiction (kanzleramt)
imax – 1 am – dc trax (octal)
wishmountain – video (antiphon)
peak:shift – one road in, one road out (nurture)
pub – film [springing daisys rmx] (ampoule)
urban tribe – covert action (planet e)
photek – kanei (op-art)
duplex – autoload – autoload (clone)
aril brikha – on and on (transmat)
mathew jonson – marionette (wagonrepair)

Part 1: Right-click to download (71 min = 65 mb)
Part 2: Right-click to download (73 min = 67 mb)

Part 1: Deeper crate diggin this week, back to some proper soul and spaced out jazz-funk, tracing it’s way to early-era house. New, forthcoming music on Unclassics: a beautifully sublime dub mix by Morgan Geist of an old discovery by Victor, he distills italo down to its irrestible beats and melodies that recall the deep, warm grooves of classic Chicago house.

Part 2: a slow, lush wash from chicago’s damon lamar (baby pop) fades into more dsp-ed action from adam johnson, then into downbeat electronics, including classic sci-fi autechre. then we go midtempo with new chugging bass-heavy waves from arctic hospital, and some old school chicago business in the mix, ending with some faster-moving dark melodics from the uk, detroit, and nyc.

Part 1> Matt MacQueen

Leon Thomas – China Doll – Blues & The Soulful Truth (Flying Dutchman)
Donny Hathaway – The Slums – Extension of a Man (Atco)
Bobby Womack – Woman’s Gotta Have It (UA)
Gato Barbieri – Los Desperados – Caliente (A&M)
Dexter Wansel – Life on Mars (Philadeliphia)
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes – Expansions – Expansions (Flying Dutchman)
The Detroit Experiment – Midnight at Twenty Grand (Planet E)
Steve Arrington – I Feel So Real [Extended] (Atlantic)
Kinky Foxy – So Different (Hot)
Virgo – Go Wild Rhythm Trax (Other Side)
Master C&J – Face It [Club] (State St.)
Victor – Go On Do It [Morgan Geist Breakfast Club Dub] (Unclassics)
Virgo 4 – Do You Know Who You Are (Trax)
Metro Area – Things Fall – 6 (Environ)

Part 2> David Siska

damon lamar – rising sun (tetrode)
adam johnson – kungpow – pressure point ep (parotic)
farben – alpin (formatted) (klang)
alex cortex – a2 – ctrl ep (ann aimee)
autechre – kalpol introl – incunabula (warp)
sunrise society – astral travel (pacific)
the stripper – after dark (pal sl)
murcof – ulysses [fax rmx] (leaf)
arctic hospital – cold wrapper – infirm and attentive (narita)
series 7 – a1 (evolution)
chip e – jack for daze [dub] (underground)
da posse – strings [fingers mix] (future)
scan-7 – system work (underground resistance)
solcyc – off the man (ifach)
deepart – picture #1 – collage #1 (rushhour)
dark comedy – inaroom – seven days (elypsia)
jeff mills – absolutespecial (axis)
damon wild – downtown world pt 1 (kanzleramt)

Part 1: Right-click to download (80 min = 74 mb)
Part 2: Right-click to download (75 min = 70 mb)

Part 1: Opens with emotive downtempo — from dark brooding strings to sparkling Detroit melodies from Carl Craig, past and future soul sounds. Winds up through electro to a classic from legendary B12, and brand new UK/Amsterdam handshake with New World Aquarium remixing Kirk Degiorgio.

Part 2: smoothed-out techno from vince watson and ali subsides into robotic synthesizer pop-locks from newcleus and kraftwerk, subtle mysticism from severed heads and the boards of canada, and nighttime driving tones from exos.

Part 1> Matt MacQueen

Pieter Noonten & Michael Brook – Finally I – Sleeps With Fishes (4AD)
Murcof – Memoria – Monotonu EP (Context)
69 – Desire (R&S)
Carl Craig – Wonderful Life – Landcruising (Blanco Y Negro)
Smokey Robinson – I Am I Am – Pure Smokey (Motown)
Delegation – Oh Honey (State Records)
L.H.A.S. – The Way (Push II Shove)
Claude Young – Electronic Dissident (Dust Science)
Future 3 – A Sound – Like… (April)
+One – Nibble – Bare Necessities (deFocus)
Cyboton – El Salvador – Enter (Fantasy)
Musicology – Bubbles – Outlook (B12)
Duplex – Axiom 3 (Frantic Flowers)
Kirk Degorgio – Holy [New World Aquarium RMX] – Amsterdam Remix EP (New Religion)
I:Cube – Bubblesphere – 3 (Versatile)
RAC – Root – Doublejointed EP (Warp)

Part 2> Dr. Siska

maas – look at me now falling [i:cube simple mix] (soma)
vince watson – cipher – sublimina (headspace)
ali – interstate – terminal01 (narita)
derrick carter presents tone theory vs oneiro – beat/move (icon)
q project – spek (emoticon)
newcleus – automan [dub version] (sunnyview)
kraftwerk – musique non stop (warner bros)
osborne – hydraglim exit (spectral)
plaid – assault on precinct zero – double figure (warp)
slag boom van loon – poppy seed [boards of canada] (warp)
severed heads – we have come to bless the house [remix two] (nettwerk)
sensorama – echtzeit (ladomat)
mode-m – the inner world ep (void)
exos – my home is sonic (ae)
stephen brown – rate & depth – ep#1 (transmat)

Sir K’s Workshop steps in for the assist

ian pooley & megashira – mr. booty (wea)
technasia – force (sino)
dave clarke – red 3 (bush)
yello – oh yeah (mercury)
new order – round & round (qwest)