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Leftfield - "Melt" (Hard Hands) |
 | PiL - "Radio 4" (Virgin) |
 | Jam & Spoon - "Hispanos In Space" (Dance Pool) |
 | Beamont Hannant - "Sym-Phone 5" (GPR) |
 | Edge Test - "untitled" (white label) |
 | Happy Larry's Big Beat Orchestra featuring Shaggy Wonder - "Lego Beat" (Beep Distraxion) |
 | Cool breeze - "C'Mon" (Dorado) |
 | Danny Red - "Riddimwise" (Columbia) |
 | Dust Brothers - "Dope Cal" (Junior Boys Own) |
 | Up Bustle & Out - "Too Many Tricksters" (Ninja Tune) |
 | Mike Dread - "Machine Codes" (Kosmik Konundrums) |
 | Moody Boys - "Fight Back" (Guerilla) |
 | Mezzontinto EP - "Dub Experience" (St Germain En Layf) |
 | The Disciples - "Prowling Lion" (Boom Shaka Lacka) |
 | Alpah & Omega - "Jah Is Calling" (A&O) |
 | Kenny Dope Presents - "The Bucketheads" (Tribal Rydims) |
 | Disco Drunkard - "Tet" (Vinyl Solution) |
 | Dave Clarke - "Red" (Bush) |
 | Robert Armani - "Up" (Alternative Current) |
 | Flammable - "Dubbin' To The Sond" (Hard Hands) |
 | Vinyl Blair - "Dope" (Hard Hands) |
 | Leftfield - "Space Shanty" (Hard Hands) |
 | EC Groove Society - "Last Elboy" (Prime) |
 | Daft Punk - "Alive" (Soma) |
 | Oricom - "A Quick SoundAdventure" (MusicMan) |
 | Dual Mount - "Sub Bass" (Tesseract) |
 | Secret Cinema - "Timeless Altitude" (Music Man) |
 | Purpule Plejade - "Realms Of Juman Consciousness" (DJax) |
 | artist unknown - "untitled" (white label) |
 | Jazz Breaks Vol. 5 - "Consciousness" (Ninja Tune) |
 | Basscut - "Paradise Place" (Deep Distraxion) |
 | Strange Brew - "Hasashim's Groove" (Robs Records) |
 | Renegade Soundwave - "Mash Up" (Mute) |
 | Ballistic Bros Vs The Eccentric Afros - "And It Goes Like This" (Delancy Street) |
 | Strange Brew - "Burnin' Down" (Robs Records) |
 | Smith & Mighty - "Killa" (ffrr) |
 | Woodshed - "Tales From The Woodshed" (Cloak & Dagger) |
 | artist unknown - "untitled" (white label) |
 | Full Moon Scientist - "Monday Morning Dread" (Hard Hands) |
 | No Use - "Squong DM" (Oversky) |
This one seems to improve with each listen. Over a decade has passed and it still sounds remarkably fresh. Here we have a monumentally tasty mix that moves through highly diverse lands of range, style and tempo. Spacey downtempo electro, jazzy breaks, funk, dub, old-skool hip hop, strange futuristic techno, tribal beats and some seriously slammin acid house. What's more, it all works.
Really, the more I think about it, the more respect I have for the diversity of this mix. It's like a crazy mash-up of genres that nevertheless seems logically planned. Look for early Ninja Tune, Dust Brothers, Daft Punk and Jam/Spoon in the groovier sections, while obscure, classic acid rules in the middle of the mix.
Also, as is the case with these older mixes, Tong only chimes in a few times and there are no Radio1 promotional vocals mixed into the music.
These gents were true pinoeers. Find this mix and cherish it. |
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