Warped Rhythms (a trip through 25 years of Warp Records)

Warped Rhythms (A trip through 25 years of Warp Records) by Leftside Wobble on Mixcloud

Includes tracks from Boards of Canada, The Sabres of Paradise, Red Snapper, Jake Slazenger, Nightmares On Wax, Jamie Lidell, Link, Leila, Speedy J, LFO, Kenny Larkin, Luke Vibert, !!!, CSS, AFX and B12. As you'd expect from Warp Records it's a heady mix of styles and genres but it's held together by a common 'off kilter' attitude. 

A few of the tracks originally appeared on the Aphex Twins Rephlex imprint but they're by artists that have a long history with Warp (including RDJ himself).

Ambient Jazz Ensemble - The Journey (Leftside Wobble 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Remix)

Just sit back and let this one slowly envelop you. From the gentle piano led intro, it builds to a rousing crescendo with the finest horn section you'll have heard in quite some time. Can't wait to play this one at sunset on the Beach Stage at The Garden Festival in a few weeks time. ;)

Due for release in the coming months.

Grab the album now via Bandcamp - hereandnowrecordings.bandcamp.com/

Richard Earnshaw - Cry Me A River (Leftside Wobble Unreleased Dub)

Always my favourite version of Cry Me A River but it wasn't ready on time for the release so I thought it was about time to make it available as a free download. www.artistlink.com/home/products/460494

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (Leftside Wobble Rework)

Due for release in a few months time, we'll be giving an advanced promo copy to everybody that comes to next week's opening Acid Soul party at Trapeze in London.

Here's the event page for next week - http://d.pr/NLac

Tiefschwarz - Acid Soul (Leftside Wobble Rework)

The record that inspired the podcast series, that became the club night, given a LW twist - grab the download links from www.facebook.com/acid.soul

Public Service Broadcasting - The Guardian Interview

There's an ace interview in today's Guardian with Public Service Broadcasting- http://xrl.us/bqj7eh - a band that I've been supporting from their earliest days. Last year they took the UK festival circuit by storm and now they're just about to embark on their first US tour.

My remix of Everest is still to be officially released but has become an anthem for those few DJ's that managed to nab a copy. Justin Robertson closed a good many of his 2012 sets with Everest and it even found it's way on to the set list of disco don Jim Stanton of Horse Meat Disco fame.

Really happy to be associated with such a great & inventive band. Let's hope they smash it in the US they way they have here in the UK for the last 18 months or so.

Groovement Soul

Really fantastic mix from Keith Dalton of Dublin's Groovement Soul collective. A deep, funk fueled, soulful selection to get you ready for the weekends escapades.
 
And talking of Groovement Soul here's a rare live mix of me recorded at their ace loft party back in Sept 2012.

The Leftside Lounge part 2

The second instalment of The Leftside Lounge brings things back to a more relaxed state after the dance floor focus of last weeks Acid Soul selection.

Playlist:

Stupid Human - In Slo Moshun
Synkro - Fading Lights
Synkro - In My Arms
Flight Facilities - Stand Still
John Wizards - Lusaka by Night
The Cosmologist - Trip 2
Telonius - I Make You Man (Dub)
Starfucker - Golden Light (Matrixman Mix)
Leftside Wobble - Vision Of Sound
Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimba (HNNY Mix)
Carrot Green - Home or Abroad (Leftside Wobble Mix)
Forever Forever - Play Flights
Brian Ferry - Don't Stop The Dance (Eric Duncan Mix)
London Grammar - Nightcall (Re-Edit)
IAMNOBODI - Recreate

Carrot Green - Home or Abroad (Leftside Wobble Remix)

The folk behind the hugely popular Chopshop imprint have a new label launching this Autumn called Our Records and they got me onboard to remix a track from one of their signings - Carrot Green. Heavily influenced by my love of Kerri Chandler & Larry Heard productions this takes the deep jazzy vibe of the original and couples it with a heavy duty dub bassline and heavily filtered chord progressions.

Late night deep disco shenanigans...

A Guy Called Gerald - Specific Hate

And talking of Manchester. I noticed that you can grab hold of this A Guy Called Gerald gem from 1989 for peanuts via Discogs second hand sellers http://tinyurl.com/owjvbx3. This was on the flip side of Gerald's first major label release and is a reworking of 808 States 'Pacific State', a track Gerald co-wrote (without credit) so he made this version to let the world know exactly what he thought of his former bandmates!

Played by a diverse set of DJ's at the time including Weatherall, Sasha, Grooverider & Laurent Garnier it still sounds great today.

The Bank - Lagos Tahoe (Leftside Wobble Mix) Preview - available now at Juno, Beatport, What People Play etc

Stevie Kotey (Bear Funk's head honcho) can always be relied upon to sign great leftfield dance music that pays no heed to current trends or fashions but that has lasting impact. The Bank are just such a signing, so I'm overjoyed at being part of such a great package. Other mixes come from disco legend Al Kent, Italian cosmic warriors The Mushroom Project and the bands own Frank Agrario. Buy the whole package as there's not a duff mix included.

Frankie Goes Deep

One of those occasional Soundcloud delights you come across. Frankie Goes Deep has been uploading stuff to SC for the last three years (very similar production style to Late Night Tuff Guy) and he keeps getting better. Check out the full archive - there's gold in them there hills! :)