SATURDAYS AT THE MAGNET, LIVERPOOL

I recorded my set at The Magnet on Saturday (the main juicy chunk can be found below). You can find me playing there every weekend from now on.

01. FLYING LOTUS - DO THE ASTRAL PLANE
02. A FOREST MIGHTY BLACK - ??
03. COSMIC BOOGIE - CATCH 22
04. ARMENTA - I WANNA BE WITH YOU (INSTRUMENTAL)
05. LOOSE FIT - CHUG (GREG WILSON REMIX)
06. NEUROTIC DRUM BAND - NEUROTIC ADVENTURE
07. MIDNIGHT MAGIC - BEAM ME UP
08. AEROPLANE - WE CAN'T FLY
09. MARIO BASANOV - DO YOU REMEMBER? (THE REVENGE DRAMA MIX)
10. ROMAN RAUCH - BIORHYTHM
11. WAGON COOKIN' - I'M GONNA MAKE YOU DANCE
12. HATCHBACK - JETLAG (FAZE ACTION REMIX)
13. MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE - RAW CUTS 5
14. LAUER - MTX9 SD BETA
15. JOHNNY DYNELL - JAM HOT (TENSNAKE REMIX)
16. MOODYMANN - THE DANCER
17. ROBERT HOOD PRESENTS FLOORPLAN - FUNKY SOULS
18. ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT - CHUNK (6TH BOROUGH INSTRUMENTAL REMIX)

GARETH CHESHIRE - THE MAGNET (JULY 2010) by Gareth Cheshire

SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER

Is the real sound of Detroit showing signs of a rebirth from both inside and outside of the cities borders? I certainly hope so, especially if it puts an end to a lot of the music that has been passed off as techno in the past couple of years.

I mentioned Space Dimension Controller (or Jack Hamill to his mates) briefly last week and one of his tracks also features on the Digi DJ's Podcast.

I would love to hear a collaboration between SDC and Motor City Drum Ensemble. I'm sure they'd come up with some great tracks together.

Here's two brilliant remixes to check out.

Fabrice Lig : Digital Forest (Space Dimension Controller remix) by fabricelig

Anthony Shakir - Detroit State of Mind (SDC's Pulsating Alien Mass Mix) by spacedimensioncontroller

DIGICAST PODCAST

I was recently given the opportunity to mix the first volume of the new Digi DJ's Podcast. I posted a stream of the set last week and its now downloadable from the website.

You can find more information on the collective at the Digi Electronic DJ's Facebook Group.

Thanks for the nice words Craig!

01. BRIAN FERRY - SLAVE TO LOVE (ZAMBON REWORK) [KUKABARA]
02. MARK E - YOU [MERC]
03. LOOSE FIT - CHUG (GREG WILSON REMIX) [JOIN THE DOTS]
04. TORNADO WALLACE - SWIMMIN' [DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR]
05. JOHNWAYNES - HIGH (JUST JOHN MIX) [ENDLESS FLIGHT]
06. THE BEATDOWN SOUND MACHINE - GROOVE IS ON MY MIND (LTJ X-PERIENCE MIX) [SLEAZY BEATS]
07. SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER - JOURNEY TO THE CORE OF THE UNKNOWN SPHERE [ROYAL OAK]
08. SOUL MEKANIK - FORCA MOSTAR SARAJEVO [WONK]
09. HATCHBACK - JETLAG (FAZE ACTION REMIX) [THISISNOTANEXIT]
10. TORNADO WALLACE - PADDLIN' [DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR]
11. MARK E - GET YOURSELF [MERC]

GARETH CHESHIRE - PEACOCK MIX PART II (02/07/10)

This is the last half an hour from the second set I played at Peacock earlier this month. If you are used to listening to my disco mixes this might come as a surprise!

I'm playing a full on techno set at the Hoofer Doofer Festival next month with Captain Johnson. We'll be recording both sets so look out for them on here in the not too distant future.

GARETH CHESHIRE - PEACOCK JULY PART 2 by Gareth Cheshire

GARETH CHESHIRE - PEACOCK MIX (02/07/10)

I thought I'd hit you up really quick with the stream of my new mix for the Digi DJs Podcast. It was recorded at The Peacock, Liverpool this past Friday. I'll do a further update when the file is downloadable.

Thanks to Mr. Paul for having me down there.

01. BRIAN FERRY - SLAVE TO LOVE (ZAMBON REWORK)
02. MARK E - YOU
03. LOOSE FIT - CHUG (GREG WILSON REMIX)
04. TORNADO WALLACE - SWIMMIN'
05. JOHNWAYNES - HIGH (JUST JOHN MIX)
06. THE BEATDOWN SOUND MACHINE - GROOVE IS ON MY MIND
07. SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER - JOURNEY TO THE CORE OF THE UNKNOWN SPHERE
08. SOUL MEKANIK - FORCA MOSTAR SARAJEVO
09. HATCHBACK - JETLAG (FAZE ACTION REMIX)
10. TORNADO WALLACE - PADDLIN'
11. MARK E - GET YOURSELF

GARETH CHESHIRE - PEACOCK (02/07/10) PART 1 by Gareth Cheshire

Disco Noir Recommends... ANDREW CLARKE

Burnley's Andrew Clarke drops an hour long mix that starts off in laid back fashion before progressing into peak time disco territory. Featuring tracks and remixes from Prins Thomas, Beatfantatic, Archie Bronson Outfit and (I'm sure I've heard this name before) Escape From New York.

You can catch a double dose of AC in Brighton on:

Friday 16th July - The Fishbowl with Black Lodge

Saturday 17th July - Black Lodge at The Globe with Local Zeros and Residents Black Lodge / Anthony Cox

Andrew Clarke - No Thought Mix by Andrew Clarke

Native Instruments MASCHINE

I've gone for a pretty big upgrade in the studio (in fact I'm just waiting for it to be delivered)! I hate the pads on my Korg Microkontrol and I've been looking at means of introducing a more 'live' element into my Ableton Live DJ sets.

I did consider some of the range from the AKAI MPD collection. However the more I looked and read up on Native Instruments Maschine the more it made sense.

Just one immediate possibility of its application - like sampling the last track of the previous DJ's mix and then incorporating that into the beginning of my mix is a mouth watering prospect.

Another scenario is if I'm playing a CD based set (I'm finally learning to use CDJs, I jumped straight from over 10 years of vinyl to Ableton Live) having Maschine as a standalone live accompaniment is really useful.

Obviously I realise both of these instances can be created with other hardware samplers but its the clever mix of hardware and software that I'm really looking forward to getting to grips with. Never mind the million and one other things it can do (like MPC emulation, DAW control, step sequencer...)

Anyway... I don't need to rabbit on about how good it sounds. I'll leave it to Carl Craig and Kelvin Scholar to explain:

GARETH CHESHIRE - DISCO NOIR CHART (JULY 2010)

I had the chance to play an early set at Peacock this past Friday which I recorded for a forthcoming Digi - Electronic DJ's Podcast (link shortly). A number of the tracks on the mix are featured in my July chart.

01. SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER - JOURNEY TO THE CORE OF THE UNKNOWN SPHERE [ROYAL OAK]
02. TORNADO WALLACE - PADDLIN' [DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR]
03. MARK E - YOU [MERC]
04. KING DJ - ATTACK OF THE KILLER MONKS [BEAR FUNK]
05. LOOSE FIT - CHUG (GREG WILSON REMIX) [JOIN THE DOTS]
06. JOHNWAYNES - GET UP (JUST JOHN MIX) [ENDLESS FLIGHT]
07. HATCHBACK - JETLAG (FAZE ACTION REMIX) [THISISNOTANEXIT]
08. LAURENT GARNIER - GNANMANKOUDJI (EMPEROR MACHINE REMIX) [PIAS]
09. AJELLO - 2000 LIGHTYEARS FROM HOME [MAD ON THE MOON]
10. SAN SODA - ODE AAN DE VERKEERDREMPEL [WE PLAY HOUSE]

Keep an eye on Space Dimension Controller AKA Jack Hamill. The 20 year old from Belfast recently played a live set at Sonar Festival in Barcelona.

The rather long titled 'Journey To The Core of The Unknown Sphere' sounds like it was produced in Detroit in the mid 80s before jumping into a DMC-12 and smashing into modern day slo-mo disco / house. Great Scott!

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - SAVE OUR LOVE (GARETH CHESHIRE EDIT)

I haven't done a complete re-edit that I've let loose on SoundCloud for a while. I felt I needed to come back with something good, I really love this track and extra care was taken with it so as to not destroy the feeling of the original.

When people create edits (I feel) a lot of the time they seem to lose track of why they're editing the track in the first place. Instead churning badly warped loops that take away, rather than enhance the original work.

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK - SAVE OUR LOVE (GARETH CHESHIRE EDIT) by Gareth Cheshire

It's been picking up some great support and feedback, thanks everyone!

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