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• Fabric Live 52

Fabric Live 52 - Zero T Published on 19th May 2010

Tracklist 1.Alix Perez + Zero T - Enemy Of Reason (Unreleased) 2.Zero T + Mosus - Videodrome (Unreleased) 3.Noisia ft. Joe Seven - Hand Gestures (Vision) 4.Zero T ft. Steo - Close To See (Unreleased) 5.Zero T + Beta 2 - North Beach (Unreleased) 6.Icicle - Garde (Unreleased) 7.Grace Jones - Love You To Life [Mala Remix] (Wall Of Sound) 8.Ramadanman - I Beg You (Hessle Audio) 9.Pariah - Orpheus (R&S) 10.Joy Orbison - So Disrobe (Aus Music) 11.Untold - I Cant Stop This Feeling (Hessle Audio) 12.Bonobo - Eyesdown [Warrior One Remix] (Ninja Tune)

“I don’t like to be pigeon-holed. People are constantly coming up with new names for jungle. It’s all jungle, to me. If it’s at 170 BPM it’s jungle, its drum n’ bass, that’s it.” – Zero T In the world of drum & bass, a scene all too often segregated by superficially constructed genre confines, Zero T stands as a figurehead for a new breed of producers tearing down these boundaries and building from the ground up, creating a more open musical plane. By setting his own parameters, Zero T not only explores the full spectrum of sounds within D&B, but expands beyond it with his forward-thinking, intricately textured and overtly musical sound. It comes as little wonder that Zero T’s absorbed such a plethora of wide-spanning influences that diffuse through his own music, amalgamating to create something unique and, in a word, peerless. Music is something that has surrounded the talented artist from his earliest days: from growing up alongside his father’s ever-expanding blue note jazz collection, to being tutored by his older brother’s multi-instrumental musicianship, to his exposure to jungle through older friends, to an entirely fortuitous meeting with fellow Irish D&B artist Calibre. Zero T’s rise to prominence was extraordinarily rapid, which is perhaps representative of the kind of artist, and character, he happens to be. After joining the Bassbin collective in Dublin, Zero T was quickly snapped up by the legendary 4 Hero for their Reinforced imprint. “Bassbin was Rohan and Naphta’s club night that turned into a bunch of residents…and we ended up getting our own club. We did it every week for a few years. When we started to make our own tunes, Rohan started a label - the first ever release was Naphta and I on Bassbin #1. As that was coming out, Beta 2 and I had just started to make tunes together. We had a handful of tunes going but we were very unsure of ourselves. One night, we went to go and see Digital and Stretch at a Reinforced Night. Beta 2’s girlfriend jumped on stage and said we were making some D&B tunes - and they actually asked us to bring them a CD! We got a phone call from Marc Mac a week later saying they wanted an EP. So our first release, other than on Bassbin, was a Reinforced EP - that was in 1999. It’s still mind-blowing to me; it was like winning the world cup.” – Zero T From there, Zero T was quickly picked up for releases on esteemed labels like Integral, V and CIA, culminating with the release of his critically lauded ‘Cheap Shots’ LP for Total Science’s imprint. Taking in a variety of different sounds and moods, ‘Cheap Shots’ was an ambitious LP, maintaining both immediate and lasting effect. Deftly playing with shades of light and dark, eschewing constrictive sound palettes and rhythmic rigidity, Zero T has not restricted himself to any one easily defined sound, letting each release occupy its own musical territory. That his music can sit as comfortably on Subtitles as Soul:r speaks volumes about his versatility. Refusing to let up even for a second, Zero T recently set up his own Footprints label as an outlet for his own productions as well as those of his close cohorts. The debut release, split between Zero T & Bailey’s hard stepping, ominous ‘Wasp Factory’ and Calibre & ST Files’ rolling ‘Devil Inside’ was unanimously devoured, announcing the arrival of the label in style. “I’d been toying with starting a label for a long time. I make lots of music, I collaborate with many people, and I’ve got 10 years of experience on my back. It felt like 10 years was long enough to just be an employee - I wanted to become the employer and be my own boss! (laughs) I was super lucky to get Calibre and Bailey to work on the first release and could never have hoped for it to be such a strong release. The second release comes from Moses and I, and I’ve got my original compatriot Beta 2, who has been studying and out of music for a few years, so this is kind of his return.” – Zero T With many more strings to his bow, Zero T is also working several other projects which serve as an outlet for just some of his myriad interests outside of drum & bass. Fuelled by an insatiable creative appetite, there’s no chance that Zero T will let himself stagnate; he tirelessly strives for evolution and expansion. “My main plan for this year is to branch out into other music worlds. I’m currently working on a hip-hop, soul project that will be aimed at commercial release. The band is called The Jones’s. It is a labour of love that I’m trying to launch in September. The sound involves a lot of samples and the use of some live players; everything from early 80s sleaze funk to 90s hip hop. It’s the music that makes me tick on a personal level; the music I listened to before drum n’ bass. The fact that I do play a lot of different styles is starting to filter out to the general populous.” – Zero T ‘FABRICLIVE 52: Zero T’ seamlessly connects the dots between the different facets of his sound with aplomb, deftly moving through tempos and styles to create a beautifully crafted mix. Fusing a wide spectrum of styles with ease, Zero T simultaneously showcases the expansive and diverse possibilities at one’s fingertips, while highlighting the common threads between them. At once free flowing and precise, the mix takes you on a journey through an intoxicating world of sound, veering from the ominous to the uplifting, the paranoid to the soulful. Expanding its appeal beyond the limitations of drum & bass, it effortlessly takes in dubstep, garage, house and hip hop along the way. Further ensuring its durability, it hosts a healthy smattering of exclusives throughout: Lemon D, Dillinja, Break, Calibre, and extremely special versions of tunes from Icicle and Paradox - never to be heard anywhere else. “It seems that here in the UK, strict genres and the rigidity of DJing are both melting away. Now it’s normal for me to switch tempos in a D&B set, and it’s just as normal for Skream and Benga to play a D&B tune - which is healthy. Hopefully it’s going to turn back into just UK bass music, with tempos being flexible. It really opens you up as a DJ when you can play a good tune at the right time, instead of being obsessed with double drops and stupid timings. That’s what I was trying to do with the mix: to show my sets at a peak time show, but also get really eclectic in the mix later on - with dubstep and old garage classics (such as Wookie’s ‘Little Man’), then some dub and straight up techno, finishing on some jacking Chicago-style house. At the very end there’s this new crew local to my adopted home (N8), it’s basically a hip hop tune that switches into something a bit like Roni Size’s ‘Music Box,’ with twinkly Rhodes and cosmic surfer samples. I wanted to give an honest representation of what a Zero T set is like, to play tunes that I genuinely love. I also wanted for it to be a CD for people that aren’t into drum & bass. It goes from dark, to more musical, to vocal, to properly minimal and deep stuff. I’ve managed to get all the artists I wanted, who are either heroes of mine or the current people to watch. Some of the tracks will only appear on the CD, they’ll never appear anywhere else - lots of exclusives.” – Zero T.

• Fabric 50

Fabric 50 - Martyn Published on 9th March 2010

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Martijn Deijkers' particular strand of bass defies genres or adjectives - to his fans and admirers, it's known simply as ‘Martyn Music.' With a sound that became a cornerstone for dubstep in 2009, and a debut album (‘Great Lengths') that became one of the most stylistically fierce long players the scene has produced to date, Martyn pushes a rebellious, out-of-the-box mentality into his every artistic venture. Commanding dancefloors with a strong sense of timing and attitude, his music revels in its relative simplicity – synth lines lounging atop swung drum patterns, all in turn massaged by warm low frequencies - a trait he's reinforced with fabric 50, his first mix CD to date. Born the son of a footballer in a music mad family in Eindhoven, Holland, it was his immediate family who sparked his love for vinyl. “I have been buying music for as long as I can remember really, as soon as I got a weekly allowance I spent it on 7” singles and albums. When I was studying I went clubbing a lot, there were a couple of clubs that I used to frequent, and I just got drawn to the music. When it came to house and techno I loved it, I enjoyed clubbing and listening to it but I just never really felt I was a part of that scene because I was too young. All the DJs that I saw playing were older, so I could appreciate the music as a follower but it wasn't my generation. When I encountered drum & bass around 94/95, it made a huge impression on me, and I just felt at home in that style; I was like, ‘This is my generation, so maybe I can play some sort of part in this.'” – Martyn After starting a club night along with a few others called Red Zone, named after the third track created by the merging of two records, Martyn began to explore his interest deeper through production. ? “We did the Red Zone nights for about 11 years, and I started DJing outside of the nights - at other venues and also in other countries. Around 2002-3, I was playing a lot and I found there was a void in the music.  That's why I started making my own music; just because I wanted to try and make something that I could play to bridge the gap.  DJ Flight and Marcus Intalex, who used to play at our night, they started playing my music. After a while Marcus signed something to Soul:R, and Flight signed a 12 for Play:Musik, and that's how I got my break, in 05, that's where the recording career started.” – Martyn With fabric 50, Martyn intertwines the essential elements of what makes his own style so pristine and easily recognisable, fusing dancefloor ready percussion with that element of raw soul - whether it's vocal led or simply inferred with emotive chords – and synthesizers that harbour those distinct frequencies that positively shimmer. Anyone who has witnessed Martyn meticulously construct one of his DJ sets over the tail end of 2009 can testify to the pitch perfect, unfathomably smooth beat and vibe matching. Whilst the mix is loaded with welcome surprises like Hudson Mohawke's ‘Joy Fantastic' and Levon Vincent's ‘Air Raid' - tracks that might not work on every dancefloor - it's an honest and healthy glimpse into the Dutchman's current DJ perspective. “I did the whole mix CD live just because I thought that was more honest than doing an Ableton DJ mix. It is how I would play live - not everything on the CD is perfect, but it's not meant to be.  That goes for my DJ sets and for my music as well; there's always little bits and pieces that could have been much better or more streamlined or whatever, but that's the beauty of music to me. I wanted it to be raw and honest. As for the selection, I just wanted to try and make it as varied as possible and get people from all different corners of the globe together on one CD.  The idea of it was to bring together all these sounds and vibes, something I would never be able to do on a studio album, just because I'm not able to make all that sort of music. It's amazing music though, I love it, so I want to play it to people.” – Martyn And the music Martyn selected for the mix reflects that personal change perfectly, leaning a little more towards music that takes house and techno as the nucleus from which to blossom. From the unique visions of producers like Actress (whose ‘Slow Jam' veers poignantly away from the synth swells of Redshape's mix of Martyn's ‘Seventy Four' with its spluttered sporadic melodies), Ben Klock and Zomby; to the polished percussion of Roska, Madd Slinky and Altered Natives, Martyn segues the tracks with a natural flair, blending rhythms emphatically, letting tried and tested productions like his own ‘Vancouver' fuse wonderfully with brand new pieces like fellow Dutch producer 2562's ‘Flashback.'?? “Fabric on Saturdays is mostly about four-to-the-floor; my music may not always be so straight up but at the root of it all there's my house/techno background. I just think it's interesting to show people how diverse music can be, if you make an effort and play a variety of things, some house alongside dubstep or instrumental hip hop. I will just have to make it work in this ‘Saturday vibe'. For me fabric 50 is sort of a temporary moment in time rather than the definitive Martyn mix, because I have been gigging so much over the past year, my sound has gradually moved a little bit more to straight up house and techno related music.” - Martyn

• Fabric Live 50 - Autonomic

Fabric Live 50 - Autonomic - dBridge & Instra:mental Published on 9th March 2010

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Despite the genre's future-forward and experimental beginnings in the early 90s, drum & bass' rigid uniformity over the last decade has made it a stifling environment for many producers. For dBridge, with his background as a former member of the drum & bass heavyweight champions Bad Company, the pressure of dancefloor expectations and DJs' desire for club smashers has been experienced and rejected once in his career already. Since going solo he has been busy developing a more cultured sound that has carved him a niche in a music scene from which he was feeling increasingly removed from. Instra:mental meanwhile, having had a successful stint in drum & bass some years earlier, returned to D&B production in the mid 00s with a uniquely fresh approach. Inspired by 80s synth music, the Detroit sound and the Warp back catalogue, and with a studio fully loaded with vintage hardware equipment, they set about writing drum & bass unlike anyone else; a method that struck a chord with a like-minded soul in dBridge. “There was no space in drum & bass, it was just running twenty breaks on top of each other, so we thought about what we could do, because what we were making was quite minimalistic in some ways; we decided to not fill the gaps. The way we work is great, because if you have got someone else working with you, you can all grab a synthesizer and just make some noise and have a little jam session.” - Instra:mental. “Hanging out with Instra:mental begun to influence me, they were thinking outside of the box, not just a little… a lot. I was still sampling whereas they weren't, one session I made a sound on the JP-8000 and started to get it, be re-inspired for my job… for music.” - dBridge. After a year in which Instra:mental collaborated with dBridge on the epic ‘Blush Response,' they decided to form a creative alliance as Autonomic. As a result a club night, a podcast, an umbrella for their labels, and, most crucially, a style was born. The Autonomic sound is music first, drum & bass second. The people behind it are not setting out to make a drum & bass track; they are setting out simply to make music, producing compositions that are emotionally charged, personally edifying and organic. This is a million miles from the music-by-numbers churned out by so many of today's producers; this is lovingly crafted with integrity, with vision and without the limitations of genre or style that so many artists impose on themselves.  And with the likes of Jimmy Edgar, Kyle Hall and Zomby lined up to release on Instra:mental's NonPlus+ label in 2010, it's fair to say that the trio are far from losing pace – they're only just getting started.?? “Eventually we want to go to any gig and have complete musical freedom. This is exactly what we are doing, any music, any style, and any tempo as long as we like the music.” - Instra:mental. After a year of server-crashing Autonomic podcasts - that have shown an overwhelming thirst around the world for drum & bass that does not conform to any institutionalised boundaries - dBridge & Instra:mental have mixed FABRICLIVE 50. With a tracklist that boasts some of dubstep's leading lights working at drum & bass tempo, FABRICLIVE 50 (note: the 100th addition to our compilation series) is a dreamlike collection of beat explorations and electronic soundscapes all lovingly woven into 90 minutes; a treasure of a disc that reveals more edifying details with each listen. Beautifully imaginative and colourful, enter the world of Autonomic, as they return drum & bass to the bleeding edge of electronic music. “We wanted the fabric CD to be like the best podcast we've ever done. That was our aim. When we were asked to do it, we approached all the people making music we love, and asked them to write us something special for the CD. Distance, Scuba, Genotype, myself and Instra:mental all did it. It's a great collection of music, harmonically it all works together; and as much as we have different styles, you'd be surprised what tunes stick together just from being in key. We wanted to showcase what it is that we're doing, and what the sound is capable of.” – dBridge

• Fabric 49

Fabric 49 - Magda Published on 19th November 2009

Tracklist 1. Ronnie Tyler - Nicer Things - Unreleased 2. The Seekers - Freckles - Unreleased 3. Andy Martin - Gecko - Unreleased 4. ADCL - Hear The Wall - Railyard 5. Madato - 3031 - Unreleased 6. Butane - Adaptation - Crosstownrebels 7. Heartthrob - Loop 101 - minus 8. Gaiser - mfnstmp - minus 9. Leo Choi - Paradox - Unreleased 10. Christian Burkhardt - Eye Shadow - Unreleased 11. Bruno Pronsato - We Were - Philpot 12. Robotman - Do Da Doo - Definitive

Being a key member of the worshipped Minus family, Magda is used to being propelled into the fast moving, cutting whirr of the hype machine, but she doesn't really pay it any mind. “I'm not really into this hype thing; I think it's kind of silly. What really matters is to develop your own ideas and not make any compromises against yourself. Even if there's big hype - or if it isn't cool anymore - as long as I'm happy and stay interested and things inspire me, then it doesn't matter.” All overblown hype and needless gender stereotyping aside, she remains one of the most respected artists around the electronic spectrum, and she shrugs it all off with unpretentious charm. Fleeing from the communist rule of Poland and relocating to Texas at the age of 9, her family ended up making a move right into the heart of Detroit. Her accidental entry into Detroit's rave and underground party scene as a teenager (coincidentally being handed a flyer for a party “around the corner from my house ”) was the kick-start she needed for a lifelong love affair. Soon all became a blur of cities (hopping the coast to New York), record stores, “small loft parties and gay house nights”; her life revolved entirely around the records on her cherished turntables. Around 1998 she moved back to the Motor City and, through mutual friends, scored a seat in the Minus label office, closely befriending boss Richie Hawtin and moving in with a then-on-the-rise Marc Houle (hence their collaborative Run Stop Restore work with Troy Pierce that came later). A move back to NYC in the early ‘00's birthed her Gel & Weave night, embracing artists as far and wide as Daniel Bell, Theo Parrish, Zip, Jeff Samuel, and John Tejada. “I did a small night called "Gel and Weave" and booked artists who inspired me like Zip, Dan Bell, and Theo Parrish among others. In return Zip invited me to Berlin to play for a Perlon/Playhouse party, which for me was a huge honour. My first show in Germany was at the old Panoramabar and it blew me away. The whole attitude towards electronic music was different. There were no rules it seemed. Just lots of time and people going crazy until all hours. The atmosphere of the city in general was very relaxed and a nice contrast to the hectic New York lifestyle. I knew I had to go there, so 6 months later I moved.”   – Magda These days, though living in Berlin, Magda isn't home very often. Her tour schedule is incessantly full, with dancefloors around the world being treated to her unique sound: “I've always played a mixture of different things. From Detroit techno to Chicago house/jack to German minimal. As long as something is interesting and has a groove I like, then I try to include it in my sets. I have a soft spot for obscure electro/disco as well and I do tons of edits.” Stylistically, Magda grooves through opposition – creating sets that are emotion-led yet clinical (having profound expertise with digital technology: Final Scratch, FX's, samplers, and so forth); trippy and disorientating, yet lucid and coherent; pairing up sparing beats with bass-swathed extremes. Beyond DJing, producing, and a myriad of releases – including her cult-worshipped mixed CDs ‘Fact And Friction' and the impeccably jam-packed (with over 70 tracks mixed in) masterpiece ‘She's A Dancing Machine' – she also heads up the fascinating label Items & Things with her good friends Troy Pierce and Marc Houle. The label's focus is always pinpointed on the off-kilter and the uncommon, sometimes even the borderline strange. And that same ethos is audible in her latest tour de force, fabric 49, a thumping trip into the otherworldly that breeds a rare feel of mystique and discovery, without ever compromising the groove. Crafted with meticulous detail and loving precision, it carries the weight of any Magda DJ set: intricate 4/4 licks that are bass-laden to devastating effect. Dramatic sounds and eccentric basslines carry the fast-moving, multilayered mix through the rising swells of Circlesquare, the haunting vocals of Luciano, the chilling chords and offbeat pop elements of her kindred spirits at Minus (Gaiser, Marc Houle and Heartthrob), and the funk-filled soundscapes of Magda's own productions. A watertight compilation that brims with lively character, and skitters with Magda's personal touches and effects, fabric 49 is a reminder of how rarely DJs truly break the mould. A mix CD with as much artistry, perfection and vision as an original album. "The mix is inspired by Italian horror film soundtracks from the 70's. I included the band Goblin, who made some very interesting dark disco, with trippy and drawn out psychedelic elements. I wanted to create something dark and groovy with a soundtrack feel to it, where sounds emerge and disappear, creating a spooky atmosphere. I chose tracks which were somewhat experimental along with dance tracks I like. I was very happy to be able to use "Heavy Whispers" by Yello because they are one of the most interesting bands for me. They had the ability to combine very different sounds and make some of my favorite new wave/electro/disco tracks ever. I also used a lot of unreleased tracks from producers whom I've met online and received demos from. It's nice to be able to support younger artists and their sound when I can." - Magda magda

• Fabric 48

Fabric 48 - Radioslave Published on 6th September 2009

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Anyone can construct a track, and lay out its elements in all the right places – have the bassline kick just here, or the percussion build right there - but only a select few can actually design one. It comes as no surprise that Matt Edwards is a graphic designer and artist by trade, as a visual thread runs colourfully through his sonics, rhythms and arrangements. Shaped by the groove, and ever leaning on an uplifting hypnotic lilt, every production that falls under the spell of Edwards becomes certified dancefloor gold. But success has never taken away from his prolificacy, nor his endless sense of reinvention - over the last eight years, Matt Edwards has been morphing and expanding under a variety of names: Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Matthew E, Rekid and of course his most famed name, Radio Slave. “I love doing the Radio Slave stuff, it’s a real passion for me: the night clubbing culture and the perfecting of making music for clubs. But it’s good as a producer to be able to switch between different aliases, because you can’t write the same tracks all the time, it’d drive you mad. You learn a lot of things from working at different tempos, it’s a good learning process, and one thing can influence the other.” – Radio Slave Growing up in an artistically led family in South London, Matt Edwards’ taste buds initially whetted when exploring the vast record collection of his father (who happened to design record sleeves as a profession), which makes sense of his schizophrenic, and voracious, musical appetite. In fact, all of his aliases seem to be tied by this same motif of imagination and experimentation. In his 20s, gaining a background education in playing downtempo tracks and Balearic beats, Edwards’ first forays into DJing were at the future-forward ‘Open All Hours’ night at Ministry of Sound in 1992. Perhaps his downtempo upbringing provides the explanation behind his Quiet Village project with partner, and fellow vinyl-obsessive, Joel Martin. And the poppy feel of Quiet Village, meanwhile, lends to the pop dance grooves he creates as Sea Devils, his work with celebrated musician Caged Baby. As Matthew E, he creates jackin’ house beats that groove and pulse under the most unexpected colour spectrum, which is the flipside to the soul-led and more articulate pull of Rekid, whose gold run of 12”s set the underground radar alight. His ‘Made In Menorca’ album (on Soul Jazz Records) as Rekid was a righteous success by critics and fans alike, breeding house beats that truly set a new precedent. As Radio Slave, a name which originally started out as a temporary venture (tongue firmly in cheek) as he attacked remixes of more mainstream-focused and radio-friendly tracks, he started off best known for his techy remixes of some of the biggest names in pop (including Kylie Minogue, Gwen Stefani and Sir Elton John, to name but a few). Remix after remix, 12” after 12”, and Radio Slave’s teched-out sound has since managed to find its way into an incomparable globe-spanning career, creating productions and compilations that are both exploratory and accessible. His 'No Sleep' EP series - launched in 2006, and now on its 6th edition - has become one of the most sought-after and eagerly anticipated set of 12"s in the 4/4 world. But there’s yet one more crucial, and perfectly tuned, string to Edwards' ever-expanding bow - Rekids, his hugely respected imprint shared with businessman James Masters. Kicking off in 2006 with Radio Slave’s anthemic ‘My Bleep EP’, the label has since gone from strength to strength, incorporating artists as far reaching as Luke Solomon, Toby Tobias, Spencer Parker and Mr G, among others. Rekids continually sets the blueprint for big-room grooves and hypnotic house and techno beats. “We’ve got a number of album projects coming up from some new artists; an artist from Canada, from Montreal called James Teej, who we’ve been working with. The Jjak Hogan album is finished; we’ve been mixing and mastering that. We’ve been trying to broaden the label; with different projects, especially with the album projects. We’ve also got a girl from Russia called Nina Kraviz who’s a singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist, she sounds like a Russian Moodymann; it’s very Detroit inspired. She’s getting a lot of props from American producers, she's just been working with Jus-Ed. We’ve got a few compilation projects that James and I have been working on, we’re doing a “best of” Radio Slave remixes compilation which, because of the fabric compilation, will be coming out in November. We’ll also be doing a Quiet Village compilation of “best of” remixes.” – Radio Slave On fabric 48, like any Radio Slave production, the devil is in the details. Unlike a typical DJ mix that crams as much as possible into a relentlessly full tracklist, Radio Slave strips back and grooves with only 13 productions, each as incandescent and hypnotic as the next. This is no quick-fix mix, fabric 48 slow-burns each beat and sizzles with a crisp sense of timelessness. All tracks are elegantly drawn out and pulled in directions unknown, creating drama through the smallest effects and bringing back the feel of classic DJ experimentation from the heyday of Larry Levan. Designing soundscapes that breed rich, deep tones and colourful percussive builds, the mix tours tempos and glows with Cadenza’s Michel Cleis, the tech-laced grace of 2000 & One, plus exclusives and re-edits from Radio Slave’s own unstoppable Rekids imprint. “It’s a mix of new and old tracks, something that people outside of the dance music snoberity would enjoy! I just wanted this mix to be a true reflection of my DJ sets, so I tried to capture the vibe of what I've been playing over the last year, and expose listeners to the kind of sets that I play at fabric. The club has the best sound system in the UK and this gives me the opportunity to really stretch out tracks and experiment with different sounds and atmospheres. Tracks like ‘La Mezcla’ have been in my record box for well over 6 months but it's still a track that's a great pleasure to play, plus there's two new tracks from me, an amazing track from Boola and Nergu and an unreleased song by Rekids latest signing Nina Kraviz. All in all, a modern mix of electronic sounds from around the globe!” – Radio Slave

• Fabric Live 47

	Fabric Live 47 - Toddla T Published on 6th September 2009
Tracklist	Radio promo for the latest Fabric live CD, mixed by Toddla T

• Fabric Live 46

Fabric Live 46 - LTJ Bukem Published on 17th June 2009

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In the midst of the explosion of the acid house and rave scenes in the late 80s there were no strict genres – back then pigeon-holing was a nonexistent entity - and amongst the raft of visionaries introducing breakbeats into a rave scene still dominated by 4/4 kick drums was a young Danny Williamson, aka LTJ Bukem. With beginnings as a DJ on London’s soundsystem scene, followed by the acid house days alongside the likes of Kid Batchelor and Mr C, it was a fascination with the sampler that sprung his career into pace. “One day, I found myself in a studio with Paul Waller. That was when I saw a sampler for the first time, and over a series of months I worked out how a sampler works and how to sequence: I had found my calling. I could be a DJ, I could do my soundsystem, but I could also buy a sampler and carry on making music where I had left off with the piano. So I got my first sampler, and the first track I made was ‘Logical Progression’ in 1990. It was a whole transitional period musically, but ‘Logical Progression’ was something that – at a time when drum & bass wasn’t really there – had a big breakbeat in it, so it was kind of the start of drum & bass.” – LTJ Bukem Whilst the likes of the Ragga Twins were fusing breakbeats with ragga samples and creating proto-jungle, Bukem’s masterpiece, firmly rooted in his jazz piano background, was melodically and musically of another planet. His early productions that followed – including ‘Demon’s Theme’, ‘Atlantis’ and ‘Music’ - which built the foundations of the nascent Good Looking empire – carved out a defined niche in the developing scene. It wasn’t long before other young beat makers rushed to get their music into Bukem’s hands, from PFM to one Rupert Parkes aka Photek (“no one had heard of Photek until I was playing out all these sets of his productions”). As the 90s moved on and drum & bass began to develop as a distinct genre, Bukem and long time friend and supporter Fabio set up Speed at the Mars Bar in London’s West End, a night that became integral to D&B’s development. “We first started Speed on a Tuesday night and about twenty people turned up - a few producers came to hear their tracks and that was kind of all it was. I remember to a certain extent Fabs wanted to give up, and I was like, ‘It’s a perfect place for us to play our music, just give it a few more months.’ He agreed, and then I remember about three weeks later, I walked up to the Mars Bar and there was an almighty queue round the block. And from that moment on, for the next few years every week was packed, and I still don’t know to this day why or what happened to turn it around. The night had a massive effect on me and Fabio personally, because it was around that time that I started getting loads of enquiries from abroad, and it was becoming an international thing – people were flying over to come to Speed.” – LTJ Bukem In 1996, Bukem released ‘Logical Progression’ - a compilation whose impact on the scene is considered by many to be the equal of Goldie’s ‘Timeless’ and Roni Size & Reprazent’s seminal ‘Newforms’ - bringing together some of the finest moments of the Good Looking catalogue. This has become a hallmark of Bukem’s career: the constant development the Good Looking empire, a collection of labels that transcended the drum & bass scene for the best part of a decade, sometimes at the expense of his own artistry. For running the Good Looking stable and developing their ever-talented roster was time consuming, and it substantially reduced his beloved studio time: “I had no time to sit and write music…I am at heart a music maker, and I’ve had to sacrifice my art to do some other things, things that benefitted other artists or the label.” After clearing his release schedule and releasing his artists to pursue label plans of their own, Bukem took a well-earned sabbatical from the Good Looking operation in 2004, and over the subsequent few years experienced a personal and musical rebirth. “I met my original mother two years ago, I was adopted at a very early age. As you grow up, as a person, you need to know who you are, and I never did actually know who I was until a couple of years ago when I met my mother for the first time, and now I feel a totally different person because of it.” – LTJ Bukem And as he was being given a new lease of life on a personal level, he was also being reinvigorated musically by a glut of new producers: “I just suddenly became engulfed in a world of new music. This is the music that I represent, and I’ve got to support it, so about three years ago I decided to go for it and get the label going again. Now every day I get up feeling inspired, the music that comes through my computer, the new artists, their way of thinking, their work ethic, everything.” – LTJ Bukem And it’s these artists that Bukem is representing on FABRICLIVE 46. A bold mix of new and burgeoning talent, this is a seventy minute sneak peek at the future of drum & bass. It’s a simple formula – one genius, two decks and 18 great records. This is the mix which will re-establish LTJ Bukem as one of electronic music’s maverick selectors – not afraid to shun the big tunes and, instead, stick to his principles, support the fam and remind the record buying world that Good Looking is still the relentless musical force it always was. “With the mix I really wanted to highlight what I’m doing as a DJ. I could’ve sat there with a computer and done what a lot of people do: a computer mix, which is great fun as you can do what you can’t do live. But for me personally, I wanted it to be exactly what I do on a Friday night, strictly dubplates and records. I also wanted to represent people on the mix that I am working with on Good Looking, who I have a strong belief will have some longevity in what they are doing, and are going to be prolific artists in their own right. For me, it doesn’t matter who the artist is, it’s just about good music. That’s been my ethos since day one.” – LTJ Bukem fabr

• Fabric 47

Fabric 47 - Jay Haze Published on 17th June 2009

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Jay Haze - fabric 47 It’s difficult to know where to begin with an artist as complex and multifaceted as Jay Haze. On one hand, his upbringing - desolate beginnings in the processing plant-infested lands of northeast Pennsylvania, surrounded by drug addiction, death, group homes and jail - is a tainted window into the complicated soul within. But on the other hand, against all odds, nothing has overshadowed his talents, and the family of like-minded artists he has shaped is testament to his unshakable spirit and unerring ability. Jay Haze stands out as a visionary in the world of techno and house, a true nonconformist within a blinkered scene. But his work supports his revered status as an exceedingly prolific producer, DJ, live performer, collaborator and label owner. His wide-ranging labels ring true to themselves and never sway, each holding on tight to their own characteristic sound and group of artists: the house-oriented TuningSpork; the harder hitting tech-based Contexterrior and the downtempto dubby tones of Future Dub. “TuningSpork was always the more housey one. Getting people to laugh is a form of seduction, and that’s what TuningSpork is about: being positive, funny, not taking itself too seriously. Then Contexterrior was more serious, more avant garde, more pushing the limits of sounds. I started TuningSpork with Sean O’Neal, aka Someone Else, and Bjoern Hartman, and then I started Contexterrior on my own. Future Dub was a label that exists, but never really existed. We have had 6 releases in 9 years, it was just for my love of dub reggae; if it comes, I’ll release it. I have so many different musical loves.” – Jay Haze Jay also brought on the explosion of 2003’s Textone, his inventive creation of an online music magazine and internet label, which was created years before digital stores like Beatport or the now-prevalent online magazines/blogs had caught on. Beyond his own labels, Jay Haze’s genre-expanding, experimental productions have graced the catalogues of Playhouse, Kitty-Yo, Cocoon, Get Physical, and his remixes have been on labels far and wide, from Shitkatapult to Playhouse to BPitch Control to Soma. In 2005, he released his debut LP on Kitty-Yo, ‘Love For a Strange World,’ an album that challenged the world of techno further by questioning genre lines and embracing all that’s unconventional and unpredictable. His more dancefloor (and humour) geared moniker Fuckpony launched his career with Get Physical, the ‘Children of Love’ album being one of the most celebrated underground albums of 2006. It’s interesting that someone whose life story has so many dark chapters still dedicates much of his music to love - wearing his heart on his record sleeves, for instance, as well as his endless dedication to charity work. “I’ve been homeless two times not by my own doing - by life situations, crazy coincidences. In those times on the street, I have seen the lowest things you could possibly imagine - paedophiles, blood suckers, I know what this world is made of. It’s these things that motivate me to do charity work. I want to help people who have it even worse than I did. When I was younger, I got so stuck on thinking my life was so bad, lost in really dark moments - but as I get older, all I can think about is helping others. I think it comes with the happiness of still being alive.” – Jay Haze And it’s this that leads us on to fabric 47, an incomparable mix that lends itself to the world, in more ways than one. In addition to donating a piece of himself to the music world, Jay Haze will also be donating all profits made from the mix to the rest of the world, specifically “The Democratic Republic of Congo. I work with different charities, and because fabric is a UK company, I wanted to honour that and do something in the UK, so I’m working with Merlin Health Services. What they do is really positive, and 95% of every dollar you give goes out into the field, and this is provable. Right now, they’re working in Congo, a country of 75 million people that’s been in civil war for 50 years. 1200 people die every day of simple things, preventable things, and it breaks my heart.” – Jay Haze fabric 47 is the deep, wandering heartbeat of 4/4’s most bold, valiant and versatile character; a bright, cohesive mix that is inherently Jay Haze through and through. Deeply-rooted in his free and capricious spirit, the flawlessly assembled collection of tracks thump with soul and alluring eccentricities. Grooving with an airtight flow across wide-ranging beats and styles, fabric 47 is a charismatic portrait of Jay Haze’s musical clan: the mix not only showcases the peerless artists he works with on his family of labels, as well as the many monikers that comprise Jay Haze, it’s also a glimpse into the soul-fuelled, future sound that they’ve collectively mastered. Teased throughout with samples from his Fuckpony track ‘Lady Judy’ (a song dedicated to our own fabric promoter, Judy Griffith – and a nod to the Daniel Bell classic, ‘Baby Judy’), he takes things dubbier with Alex Celler’s enchanting ‘Trapped In Dub’, trippier with the groove-laden ‘Mellow Dee’ (created with former studio partner Ricardo Villalobos in ’08), and epic with the penultimate Fuckpony track, ‘Burning’, fabric 47 is Jay Haze incarnate; deep, daring and brave. Seventy minutes in the company of this disc leaves you feeling edified and your faith in music’s brilliance renewed. “I realized this mix was a great opportunity for me to put my people on, and it represents exactly what I stand for in this scene and my contribution. In the beginning I thought, should I put my own labels’ music on here? Is that too daft? But after some serious thinking, I really couldn’t be happier with the way it came together. I was able to get some of the core artists I work with to give me some exclusives, some yet to be released and even some edits of tracks I loved from their pasts. And I was able to combine it with a cause I believe is worth fighting for, so in a sense all the music I used brought my artists closer to me, and made them part of my experience. It’s a very personal mix” – Jay Haze

• Claude Von Stroke Fabric mix

Claude Von Stroke Fabric mix - Claude Von Stroke Published on 27th April 2009

Tracklist 1) Arb Almnub Almoh-Minlogue-Mothership 2) Pit Spector-MIRI-Minibar 3) Re:Direct-Coconut Bob (Delete & Francisco Allendes Mix)-Terminal M 4) Mauro Picotto-Living For The Times- (Meganight remix)-Alchemy 5) Aka Aka-Nightingirl-Still Vor Talent 6) Brett Johnson-Rubber Duck-Frankie 7) Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner-Quantum Jump-Highgrade 8) Feygin-Budva (Slum dOp Remix)-Diynamic 9) James Braun & Dan M-Lessons-Mothership 10) John Dalageis-Asio (Harada remix)-Dieb Audio 11) Omar Chibbaro-Vistebisti-Trazable 12) Damian Marley-Jamrock (Vonstroke Sonar bootleg)-no label

Sometimes life moves in mysterious ways. Take, for instance, Barclay Crenshaw, aka super-producer and dirtybird/mothership boss Claude VonStroke. How could he, as a rap-obsessed 16 year old dreaming of an engineering job at Metroplex (Juan Atkins’ studio) in Detroit, expect that someday he’d end up headlining gigs alongside Atkins? The same could be said about his days as a frustrated creative working in post-production houses, when he began creating an electronic music documentary by interviewing internationally-renowned DJs. He never could’ve predicted that one day, rather ironically, he’d be in the opposite chair: the world-famous DJ being interviewed. “Around 2001, I moved in with a high school buddy of mine to Oakland, and we started going to crazy raves. I was working on my third career then, editing commercials for a post-production TV house. They had all this great equipment at the edit house, so I had this idea. [Up to that point] I had created all this original music but nothing ever happened with it, because I didn’t really know what to do after the music was done. I never really learned when I was a kid because no one was there to mentor me. So I thought to myself, ‘When I was 16 and getting into music, what would’ve been the ultimate instructional video that I could’ve watched?’ I came up with the idea for this DVD, to interview the most famous DJs in the world: asking them how they became famous, how they make music technically, how they run their label, all of that. I ended up interviewing 50 people, from Paul Van Dyk to Derrick May to Orbital, everyone. After two years, I didn’t have enough money to license the music, and I needed to have a piece of music playing under each interview. So Justin Martin, Nigel Richards (from 611 Records), this trance guy from Sweden and I made all of the music for the whole DVD by imitating the sound and style of each interviewee. That’s how I learned to make house music.” – Claude VonStroke Cleveland-born, Detroit-raised, San Francisco-based Barclay Crenshaw has been fuelled by happy accidents and a contagious, happy-go-lucky attitude in general. He’s living proof that everything happens for a reason, even if everything might seemingly happen at the wrong time. Ask him about his novelty rap tapes as a teenager, or his time in Hollywood that ended with his song being pulled from a blockbuster movie, or his short-lived drum & bass career that ended in a disheartening electrical disaster. There were many reasons for Barclay to think that his musical fate was doomed, but it took a “surprise” production (and the meeting of a likeminded spirit, Justin Martin) to convince him otherwise. “Justin Martin and Sammy D made the first track released on dirtybird. So just as a surprise, I did a remix of it. The response was great so then I made another surprise track, which was basically my first original house track ever, ‘Deep Throat.’ I’d been dying for my entire life to not have a real job, and to do something interesting that I enjoyed. My wife’s a little more sensible, and I’m a little dreamier, so she said: ‘I’m going to give you one year and I’m going to pay for everything - and if in that year, you can make this certain amount of money doing music, then you can do it forever. And if you don’t make it, then you have to get a job for the rest of your life.’ This was extremely motivating and that first year, everything went totally crazy, and I doubled the money, which surprised me even more than my wife, I think. I put out ‘Deep Throat,’ and followed it with ‘The Whistler’ and ‘Who’s Afraid of Detroit’ on the same record. And then somehow, it all came together and took off…that record was bananas.” – Claude VonStroke The three records ended up being the sound of 2006, the most recognisable and demanded tracks throughout scenes far and wide – ‘The Whistler’ even made its way onto worldwide TV screens via a T-Mobile advert. His debut album, ‘Beware of The Bird,’ pushed both Claude VonStroke and dirtybird to become house-household names, tuning the world’s ear to the vibrant new movement that was bouncing out of San Fran. These days, as he remains one of the most sought-after remixers across every genre imaginable (from Bmore club to drum & bass to hipster rock to mainstream pop), works busily through a globe-trotting DJ schedule, and manages two wonderfully quirky, impressively consistent record labels that forever raise the bar, Barclay Crenshaw undoubtedly holds his own in the electronic music hall of fame. Taking the characteristic bump of dirtybird/mothership, including the fresh sounds of Italoboyz and Voodeux, and merging it with the likes of Troy Pierce’s stripped-back precision and the melancholic grace of Stimming, fabric 46 is the eccentric, animated, wide-ranging sound of Claude VonStroke embodied. Always maintaining a sense of humour throughout, and projecting his playful personality into each transition and groove, it vividly captures the feel of his often imitated - but never replicated - bubbly bass-driven style. Tricked out and chopped up to perfection, the 22+ tracks hold on to a tangible underlying motif throughout: for lack of a better word, fun. Arranged with such artistic dexterity, fabric 46 swells and pulses with womps, stomps, climbing basslines and slippery beats; sounds collected from across the electronica map, all housed stylistically on one immaculate disc. At times the mix will make you laugh out loud; other times you’ll find yourself disarmingly spellbound; other times still, you may even close your eyes in a delicate daydream – but most of all, the point is to make you move. So, as DJ Deeon says: “Shake what your momma gave ya.” “Everything is really tailored; the tracks aren’t really the tracks, it is all cut up, chopped and twisted. It’s challenging to do a project that has to say everything in such a small time frame because I play a lot of genres. So I worked hard on getting all the different sounds that I really dig into one mix. It wasn’t made as a dancefloor mix, but if you listen to it and you don’t tap your feet, or move in some way, then it’s just a complete failure. I wanted to create a greasy, dirty vibe but also get melancholy and funky – a little hard here, a little soft there. I picked the best music I could find and put it together in a creative way that fully represents my sound and personality.” – Claude VonStroke

• Fabric Live 44

Fabric Live 44 - Commix Published on 9th February 2009

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Commix duo George Levings and Guy Brewer were famously raised in the historic English town of Cambridge. Of the Cambridge trinity - Nu:Tone, Logistics and Commix - it was Commix that were the last to take a firm grip on the D&B scene, yet when they did finally cement themselves it was in some style; their album ‘Call To Mind' was the sound of 2007, and it's tough to recall a drum & bass record that is quite so successful at marrying the beautifully listenable and the gloriously experimental. It's the experimentalism of the boys' approach to production, and of their attitude towards drum & bass - and music as a whole - that is their most fascinating trait. But how did they reach this point? Whilst George's route into music had been through performance, playing saxophone, flute and piano, he developed a taste for hip hop which led him in to electronic music. Guy had gone from a broad canvas of taste that ranged from The Smiths to Dr. Dre, to receiving an education in drum & bass from a best friend's older brother. Initially their records were very much in the vein of the likes of the more soulful, house and disco-influenced sounds of Marcus Intalex, Calibre and their ilk, but despite taking what they describe as "a long time to find our sound", find it they did. Their development was rapid, and though many people would have expected them to naturally gravitate towards the Hospital camp, it was with Goldie's legendary Metalheadz imprint that Commix found their natural habitat, a symbiotic relationship that eventually resulted in the release of their remarkable debut album, and the first ever artist album to be released on Metalheadz, ‘Call To Mind.' The album was to some extent informed by their general dissatisfaction with the drum & bass scene as a whole. "To be honest, a lot of the drum & bass scene depresses us at the moment; the whole state of the large majority of the scene is quite depressing. In fact, we'd like to say it's almost completely removed from what we do." - Commix. But what came out of this malaise was an album that pushed stylistic boundaries to the limit, yet was still devastating on the dancefloor. Their maverick spirit wasn't limited to what they demonstrated on ‘Call To Mind' though: they have a follow-up in the works, a remix album entitled ‘Re-Call To Mind.' Hankering after the days when the likes of Photek and Reprazent could tackle alternative genres or attract luminaries from alternative scenes to remix their work, Commix are looking to re-energise that spirit. "We're hoping to regain the interest of people who gave up on drum & bass a few years ago; perhaps they'll listen to someone like D-Bridge and rediscover something new about it. It's a great thing... Burial's done a remix for us... Claude Von Stroke, Carl Craig, Mathew Jonson, Konrad Black, really good people. It's a new way of giving the music some nobility." - Commix A bold statement, one they work by, and one that could just as easily be applied to the inspired mix they have put together for us here at fabric. Informed by the likes of Doc Scott and Fabio, a Commix DJ set has always been about smooth, rolling mixes, a continual flow - rather than the high-energy, high impact histrionics many D&B DJs have fallen into. However, it is the sounds and the techniques of the house and techno scenes that seem to have had the biggest impact on Guy and George, in the DJ booth as well as the studio. "We're really influenced by tech housey stuff, and I suppose minimal stuff as well. On the minimal side of things Troy Pierce, Mathew Jonson; on the housier side of things- Steve Bug, obviously. Steve Bug can play for hours and he doesn't really do much, but it's just so down the same line of funky techno. And we really aspire to that in drum & bass - not really narrow-minded or just one-levelled, but with a bit of experimentation in it." - Commix. This way of thinking is demonstrated perfectly on FABRICLIVE 44; the mix ebbs and flows effortlessly, swerving unnecessary frills or gimmicks entirely, it is measured and precise. Commix have put together a selection of tracks that takes any listener - whether ardent drum & bass heads or curious techno enthusiasts with an adventurous streak - on a journey through the studios of the deepest and most innovative producers in D&B. From the enchanting keys in the opening bars of their own ‘Life We Live' to the sublime closer - a downtempo Instra:mental piece ‘Photograph' - there is beauty here, not an adjective often used to describe a drum & bass mix album, yet the music's integrity and credibility could never be questioned. This album has basslines that will warm your stereo, intricate and lovingly crafted drum beats, apocalyptic stabs and heart-wrenching vocal snippets. It's a complete mix that anyone with even a passing interest in any style of electronic music could take pleasure from. Magical and mystical. This is the sound of Commix putting nobility back into drum & bass. "Creating a mix is almost like a jigsaw puzzle - there were a couple of tracks we knew would go at the beginning of the mix, a couple we knew would go at the end, and slightly harder tracks that would fill in the gaps. It's quite exciting because we were able to include new, key tracks that we play in our sets, but for us it was also important to showcase some older material that has really influenced us. Listening to this mix, we hear what drum & bass was when it started out - we hope to enlighten people about where it came from." - Commix.

• Stanton Sessions 3

Stanton Sessions 3 - Stanton Warriors Published on 9th February 2009

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The Stanton Warriors and fabric records are pleased to partner for the next installment of arguably the most revered breaks compilation series in action today - STANTON SESSIONS VOLUME 3. Breaks genre pioneers, swathed with awards including Breakspoll Number One DJs, DJ Magazine's Number One Breaks DJs, and DJ Magazine's 50 Best Remixers Of All Time.Their last edition, ‘Stanton Sessions 2' was immediately voted Album Of The Year on Annie Nightingale's BBC Radio 1 show which, added to the salutations following their FABRICLIVE 30 mix including Timeout Compilation Of The Year and Breakspoll Compilation Of The Year, meant the collective breakbeat breath was baited for Session number three. "Coming off the back of an absolutely mental worldwide tour schedule we thought it was the right time to drop another Stanton Sessions comp. It's going to be the 3rd installment of the series and contain all the unique tracks, edits and remixes that define our sound today. We have been playing and running our Sessions nights successfully at fabric for 8 years now, so it seems only natural to continue this partnership with the release of Stanton Sessions Volume 3." - Stanton Warriors. Stanton Warriors have remained unrivalled in their genre for more than a decade. They have achieved international success through their own productions, numerous high profile remixes / collaborations for such luminaries as Missy Elliot, Fat Boy Slim, Basement Jaxx, Mylo, Freeform Five, and Busta Rhymes to name a few. They have also built an extended fan base, playing to huge audiences all around the globe. This long awaited third installment in their seminal "Stanton Sessions" delivers an unsurpassed mix for the electro & breakbeat aficionado alike, including some exclusive SW remixes specially crafted for this session & unreleased tracks ( Yo Majesty – Club Action - SW RMX, SW - Blaze -Baobinga and ID RMX) . "It's a hugantic 3rd release! love it.. the champions of bouncing beats and booty basslines deliver another benchmark album. and as always lead the rest of the pack into a new phase for the scene..the wise should follow! listen... watch my head nod, can you see the look on my face…big grin, eyes shut..I'm right inside that monster bass groove. - Tom Middleton "Put simply,one of the most exciting mixes i've heard for years" - Tony Vegas (Scratch Perverts)

• Fabric 44

	Fabric 44 - John Tejada & Arian Leviste Published on 12th December 2008
Tracklist	Fabric44 features John Tejada... Here's a mix featuring John Tejada and Arian Leviste

• Fabric 43

Fabric 43 - Metro Area Published on 12th December 2008

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Some musical partnerships seem to require a leap of faith or a suspension of our collective disbelief; others progress come along so naturally that the synergy almost seems fated, their work resolutely undeniable. Brooklyn-based Metro Area (Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani) is of the latter group without doubt: a beautifully harmonious relationship wherein the duo push and pull in all the right directions without compromise. Although both listened to pop RnB/electro of the mid 80s growing up in quiet pockets of the East coast (Darshan in Poughkeepsie, New York and Morgan in New Jersey), they independently found themselves drawn to synthesizers and the techy side of producing long before they discovered one another. Morgan Geist: “I feel like I was designed to do studio work or electronic music; it must be in my genes or something. When I was little I used to tape myself playing something on the piano and then I’d rewind, play it back and play over it. So before I even had a sequencer, I was doing live multi-tracking when I was quite small. And I remember my dad had ‘Future Shock’ by Herbie Hancock; I remember reading the back of that record and triying to figure out what a Memory Moog and Mini Moog were. Speaking of which, weirdly enough - it’s like fate set it up for me – when I was really young, I had a babysitter who was a musician and he used to bring over synthesizer catalogues. I used to look at these Roland catalogues and, even though I didn’t know what they were, just the synth names – like, Juno and Jupiter – it was the kind of shit that a little boy could get into. I got a keyboard as soon as I could, when I was about 15.” Darshan Jesrani: “My dad had a lot of Indian music, as he’s from Bombay. He used to play Lata Mangeshkar and all the hi-fi stuff was in the living room, so I gravitated toward it by looking through all of the records. He also had an open-reel tape deck and I used to play with that a lot.  One of Kiss FM’s DJs, Shep Bettibone, did special remixes of R&B hits and very early rap, and those were amazing to me, because he would stretch out and edit the songs and emphasise all the electronic, trippy sounds and textures in them. These were really dance-y and oriented towards club play; they really caught my ear and imagination. That really propelled me in the synthesizer direction, along with a lot of synth-pop stuff like Devo and Thomas Dolby. There was a confluence of things that led me into synthesizer stuff, but I didn’t actually get a synthesizer till I was about 16.” but I didn’t actually get a synthesizer till I was about 16.” As Morgan and Darshan migrated towards equally remote areas of America for college (Darshan staying in the east coast and Morgan relocating to the Midwest) and gradually coaxed releases from the closed confines of their dorms (Morgan even started his label, Environ, in his dorm room), they simultaneously lived their formative years feeling somewhat misunderstood and somewhat misplaced musically. It’s a sentiment that’s rung true from when they met each other on email lists in the days before internet forums through their early days when the two first teamed up as an avant-garde, creatively unbound production/DJ team. Darshan Jesrani: “Because we went to school in such isolated areas, we were both on these music mailing lists. It was the text email equivalent of chat boards. From the conversations we were having on the mailing lists, I really liked where Morgan was coming from.  A friend of mine had one of his first records and I was really into it.  I don’t think we met until right after we graduated, around ’95 or ’96. We met in the city, at a record store on 14th Street, just  to get some records and chat. We tried to make some things together around 1996, first experiments.  I think Morgan and I have different, but complimentary, angles that we approach the music from.  Taken broadly, we’re into the same thing, but we have slightly different styles, or we’ll play slightly different records - sometimes we overlap.” Morgan Geist: “When we first met, we had similar tastes but coming from a different perspective. Like with Ron Trent or Derrick Carter, I would have something coming from the more abstract tracky Chicago side, and he was more into the house side of it. It was sort of revelatory, because we’d have almost the same artists in our collections but we didn’t know each other’s records.” With disco-infused sounds seducing unsuspecting Londoners across a wide spectrum of independent scenes, step beyond the pigeon-holed scenesters and step up to Metro Area’s brand of obscure disco, which they have promoted with no regard for hype or popularity since their very first dancefloor explorations. Both gifted producers with a knack for textures and dynamics, Metro Area embraces sweetly tuned synths and warm grooves, effortlessly unifying the synthetic and the organic and, likewise, fusing early Detroit techno and Chicago house with 70s boogie and Harlem-birthed underground disco. While their vibrant releases (from the depth of ‘Atmospherique’ on Metro Area 1 in ‘97 to the shimmering brilliance of ‘Miura’ on 2001’s Metro Area 4 to the classy disco shine of ‘07’s Metro Area 7) are deemed nothing short of classic today, it took a little while for the rest of the world to catch up. Morgan Geist: “In college, I always felt out of step with everyone – even at Oberlin in ‘95, I’d DJ Chicago Trax records, Detroit techno records and Kraftwerk, and people would fucking run off the floor. (laughs) I felt completely isolated when I was there. That’s why I’d go to Detroit and Chicago, just to get away. So I started DJing in college, and then Darshan and I started playing together. And we were playing disco, so it was also a phase of feeling out of step – for a long time, I felt like people didn’t really get it, and all of a sudden, people sort of came around. I keep hearing people say how there’s some disco renaissance now, and I don’t really understand where why people are saying that – I would say it happened in 2001, 2002, 2003. Maybe it’s just because Hercules & Love Affair is everywhere now? Or maybe it’s because I’m in New York.” Fabric 43, an artistically arranged and brightly coloured journey through Metro Area’s vast record collections, remains as reflective as it is forward-thinking. Metro Area deliver a peerless jam-packed mix of Easy Street dance classics (World Premiere’s “Share The Night”) through to 80’s club hits (“Work For Love” by Ministry), with a generous helping of disco and boogie anthems and electropop output from the likes of Premiere Class. Poppy and infectious, retro and yet timeless, Fabric 43 dazzles with uplifting dancefloor gold. Darshan Jesrani: “It’s a really mixed bag of music, but it’s all really groovy stuff. There’s some not so obvious disco, there’s some sort of really spare and weird NY house tracks - we had to figure out how to make it cohesive. We did a few of our own custom deep tracks and made some little drum tracks and little mixing utilities to throw in there as well.” Morgan Geist: “We’re trying to not put in the classic records that we’ve played forever. We wanted to explore an area that’s not mined so heavily, but still have an emphasis on the older disco stuff. So we thought we’d do a mid 80s sort of thing, which is kind of a neglected time period but there’s some really nice records from then. With fabric mix CDs, it can sometimes be so homogenous; it’s like this

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Updated monthly, the Freerange radio show is presented by matt masters, and features guest mixes from label artists and friends.

Set up twelve years ago by Jamie 'Jimpster' Odell and Tom Roberts, Freerange has slowly but surely blossomed into one of the most consistently brilliant record labels around. One of the few labels that manages to resolutely stick to its musical guns whilst always sounding fresh and completely relevant, Freerange injects deep house with an energy and bounce that takes it about as far away from the 'dad house' tag as you could possibly get. 

Producing subtly anthemic tracks that are mellow enough to be played as a warm-up but hypnotically uplifting enough to finish a night with is some feat - but one that Freerange achieves easily with almost every release. From Brett Johnson's wobbly basslines to Milton Jackson's euphoric melodies, they seem to hit the mark every time. Jimpster's own productions are beautifully composed house masterpieces combining melodic keys and irresistible basslines. 

Freerange have always worked hard to avoid throwaway, disposable music choosing instead to focus on releases which push things forward whether it be 12 inches rocking the dance floor or classic artist albums that the listener will come back to time and time again. We see Freerange as a label where quality always overrides quantity guaranteeing that our records, whatever the style or current trend, sound fresh and musical.

With diversity in mind Freerange is proud to be a label of choice for many of today's top radio and club DJ's with regular support and praise coming in from such luminaries as Tom Middleton, Karizma, Jesse Rose, Ben Watt, Laurent Garnier, Gilles Peterson, Danny Howells, Pete Tong and many others involved with both the house and freestyle scenes. This popularity has been reflected in the licensing interest Freerange has received with tracks appearing on some 500+ quality compilations from the likes of Poker Flat, NRK, Ubiquity, Compost, Global Underground, Fabric, MOS and OM to name just a few. 

Things have really started to gather momentum in recent years with a number of new signings, the introduction of a label compilation series (The Colour Series) and a consistently high quality series of releases and label nights (Sonar, AKA, WMC etc). Not to mention being voted Best British Label 2007 by the readers of DJ MagazineRecent LP's such as Jimpster's 'Amour' received worldwide critical acclaim and heavy radio support right across the U.S. and Europe as well as excellent exposure in Japan.. Sweden's Andreas Saag returned in 2007 with his debut Swell Session LP which included collaborations with Mr Scruff, Seiji, Domu, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Earl Zinger, and Landslide. Gaining support from Gilles Peterson who shortlisted 'No No'(Swell Session vs Mr Scruff) as one of his Worldwide tracks of 2007

On the club side of things, Switch's 'Get ya Dub On', 'Get On Downz' and 'Just Bounce 2' This' turned out to be true underground house anthems with heavy spins coming from the likes of Lottie, Fred Everything, Pete Tong, Ralph Lawson and Yousef to name but a few. This was a key release for Freerange emphasising their more dancefloor orientated sensibilities, and introducing them to the more heavyweight club DJ's across the globe. Further 12's and remixes from the likes of Black Joy, Trackheadz, Milton Jackson, Brett Johnson, Francois Dubois, Justin Martin, Manuel Tur, Shur-I-Kan, Rocco, Charles Webster, Llorca, Serafin and Jimpster all give a hint at the quality of output over recent years

Jamie Odell aka Jimpster continues to push the Freerange sound at his regular guest DJ spots across the globe. His DJing reputation has grown steadily since he began spinning in '91 and has now firmly established himself as a purveyor and selector of all things deep, twisted, soulful and funky. Regular gigs in New York, Moscow, Cape Town, Dubai and Tokyo, as well as here in London at his Freerange monthly residency at AKA are testament to this. Jamie is also touring constantly as part of maverick live improvising electronic outfit The Bays. 

Visit the official Freerange website

Archived Mixes:

• Freerange Radio-July part 2

Freerange Radio-July part 2 - Jimpster Published on 9th August 2010

Tracklist Vakula - You Can Do It - Firecracker Nacho Marco - Rising (Agnes Remix) - Loudeast Tyree Cooper feat. Tony Davis - Get Up (FCL remix) - We Play House Motorcitysoul - Love Will Save The Day - Finale Music Pezzner - The Tracks Are Alive (Rozzo Remix) - Freerange Ezel feat. Tamara Wellons- In My lifetime (Deetron Remix) - Ocha Records Delano Smith - I Fly - Undertones Chopstick & Till von Sein - You Dont See - SUOL Nikola Gala - Keep Walking - Freerange Leix & Ronro - Dzuhmpa (AlexKid Remix) - Melisma Audiocad - Snap To Sea - Between Us

1 hour in the company of label head Jimpster

• Freerange Radio-with guest Nikola Gala

Freerange Radio-with guest Nikola Gala - Matt Masters & Nikola Gala Published on 9th August 2010

Tracklist 30 Minutes Hosted & Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Iron Curtis & Leaves - Over and Over Again [Morris Audio City Sport] Boohgaloo Zoo – Testify (Soulphiction’s Boogie Version) [Lovemonk] Pezzner – The Tracks Are Alive (Jay Shepeard Remix) [Freerange] Kasper `Bjork - Heaven (Muzzle Flash Remix) [HFN] Matt Masters – Under Wahawo [Metroline] Wavetest – For Real [Drumpoet Community] 30 Minutes Mixed by Nikola Gala Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Leif Feat.Donna Lea - Priority [Fear Of Flying] Nikola Gala - Broken Chords [Freerange] Stefano Tropeano - Zenon [Yellow Tail] Jayson Brothers - Monster Box [Faces Records] Hermanez - Do You [Kling Klong] Franck Roger - Same Old Beat [Desolat] Rodriguez Jr. - La Guapa [Mobilee Records]

Freerange radio hosted by Matt Masters with special guest Nikola Gala

• Freerange radio show with Jimspter-april 2010

Freerange radio show with Jimspter-april 2010 - Jimpster Published on 19th May 2010

Tracklist Declo - It's Me (Feygin Mix) - Safari Numerique Jackname Trouble - Light Again (KiNK Remix) - Pets Djebali - Elastik Hour - Freak n Chic Andreas Saag - People Say (Jimpster Remix) - Freerange GummiHz - Freaky - Real Tone Pete Heller - Overtime - Buzzin' Fly Ribn - Fig Tree Sinners - Mild Pitch John Berg - Stabs - Room With A View Boom Clap Bachelors - L-O-V-E - Innervisions Marius Våreid - Vallefaret - Full Pupp

1 hour hosted by Jimpster

• Freerange radio show with Jimspter-May 2010

Freerange radio show with Jimspter-May 2010 - Jimpster Published on 19th May 2010

Tracklist Tornado Wallace - Paddlin' - Delusions Of Grandeur Mark E - Christo - Merc Scope - Runnin' The Game (The Revenge Mix) - Large DJ Koze - Rue Burnout - Pampa Records Sasse - The Right Way (Tony Lionni mix) - Moodmusic Shiny Objects - Blacker (Pezzner Live build) - ? Joel Alter & Savas Pascalidis - Moirae (Joel Alter Edit) - Sweatshop Bassfort - Dixtritt - Freerange I:Cube - Grandes Orgues - Versatile Gorge - Erotic Soul feat. The Writer's Poet - 8Bit Rene Breitbarth - We Like The Style - Deep Data

1 Hour hosted by Jimpster

• Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Andreas Saag

Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Andreas Saag - Matt Masters & Andreas Saag Published on 19th May 2010

Tracklist Freerange Records Radioshow – May 2010 Part 1 with guest Andreas Saag 30 Minutes hosted & mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Donnacha Costello - Its What We Do (KiNK & Neville Watson Rework) [Poker Flat] Yosa - Rough Trade [Drumpoet Community] Bassfort - Dixtrit (Jimpster Remix) [Freerange] Onionz – Space Bass (Matt Masters Remix) [Endemic] Evren Ulusoy & Sezer Uysal - Da Boom [Loco Records] Pezzner - Chiuso Per Ferie [Freerange] 30 Minutes Mixed by Andreas Saag Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] At Jazz & Marc De Clive Lowe - Sweat No Sleep (Deeper Drop) [At Jazz Record Company] Cazuma Mori - Umibe No Mura [Kurbits] Andy Compton - The Plan (Andreas Saag's It's Our Future Perspective) [Deepermotions] Andreas Saag - People Say (Jimpster remix) [Freerange] Andreas Saag - Deep rising [Rebirth] Pablo Fierro - Just Break It (Simbad rmx) - [Stratospherik] (Synth solo on intro played live by Andreas in the mix) FCL - Let's Go [We Play House] Shur-i-kan - One Night In Tokyo [Freerange] Dr Abstract - Struck On Jazz [Schema] Saint Germain - Rose Rouge (Saag's 2009 Jazz perspective) [GAMM]

Hosted by Matt masters with special guest Andreas Saag (Swell Sessions)

• Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Philipp

Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Philipp - Matt Masters & Philipp Published on 8th March 2010

Tracklist Freerange Records Radioshow – February 2010 with Guest Philipp (Curl Curl Records) 30 Minutes Hosted & Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Jay Tripwire – Never Go Back (Main Mix) [1Trax] Stimming, Ben Watt & Julia Biel - Bright Star (Sunset Mix) [Buzzin Fly] And.Id - She Was There [Mobilee] Wille Graff & Tucillo – Give You Up [Freerange] Session Victim – The Keyboarder [Delusion Of Grandeur] Marino Berardi - Best Intention (Pezzner Perspective) [RWAV] 30 Minutes Mixed by Philipp Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Donnacha Costello - Ten Thousand Hours (Edit) [Look Long] Philipp - Federation [Freerange] Martyn - Elden St (Sebo K Watergate Edit) [Watergate] Philipp - Black Dog (Chris Lattner Remix) [Curl Curl] Felipe Venegas, Francisco Allendes - Llovizna [Cadenza] Glimpse, Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul [Buzzin' Fly]

Freerange Records Radioshow – February 2010 with Guest Philipp (Curl Curl Records)

• Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Kasper

Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Kasper - Matt Masters & Kasper Published on 8th March 2010

Tracklist 30 Minutes Hosted & Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] I.F.M. Yes We Are (Bonus Deep Mix) [Drumpoet community] KiNK - Kiss the Sky [BOE Recordings Manuel Tur – Fianchetto [Delusions Of Grandeur] Peter Horrevort - Escapade [SUOL] Rusty James - Everybody's Talkin' [Left'd] Pol_On - 2 Be (Salvatore Freda Remix) [Freerange] 30 Minutes Mixed by Kasper (Esperanza, Madrid) Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Willie Graff & Tuccilo - Give You Up (Damiers A little More Mix) [Freerange] Salt City Orchestra - Attack Of The Crab Monsters [Paper Recordings] Rills - Peep Show Photon Inc. - Generate Power (Jimpster Dub) [Strightly Rhythm] Franco Cinelli - The Sound of the city [Esperanza] Chuck Love & Spur -Share It (Jay J Shifted Up Drums) [Large Records] Black Rabbits - She´s Bad (Gadi Mizrahi & Soul Clap remix) Session Victim - Tomorrow Night [Delusions of Grandeur]

Freerange Records Radioshow – March 2010 with Guest Kasper (Esperanza Madrid)

• Freerange radio show with Jimspter

Freerange radio show with Jimspter - Jimpster Published on 8th March 2010

Tracklist p>Tomasz Wakulewski - Never As Good As Before (Pol_On Raw Mix) - Empedo Records FCL - Let's Go Seven - We Play House MotorCitySoul ft. Ernesto - Deliver Me (Prosumer Mix) - Simple Josh Wink - Jus Right (Jimpster Mix) - Ovum Argy - Sometimes I'm Blind - These Days JT Donaldson - Getting Up - Amenti Pol_On - Molala - PetZ Shur-i-kan - One Night In Tokyo - Freerange Shur-i-kan - Out Of Time - Freerange Reynold Feat. Janvier Jones - To Know You - Trenton

1 hour hosted by Jimpster

• Freerange radio show with Jimpster live from ADE

Freerange radio show with Jimpster live from ADE - Matt Masters & Jimpster Published on 18th November 2009

Tracklist 30 minutes presented and mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Matthew Burton – Fallen For You [Connect Four] Bearweasel – Linoleum [No.19] Ethyl & Flori – Kabenhavn [Freerange] Michel - Weg Afro (Original Mix) [Denkbar] JOEL ALTER - Alley Cat [RWAV] Tony Lionni – Celebration [Freerange] 30 minute mix by Jimpster Live from the Freerange vs DIYnamic party at ADE No Tracklisting Available

Freerange Records Radioshow – November 2009 with guest Jimpster Live from Amsterdam Dance Event

• Freerange radio show with Jimpster

Freerange radio show with Jimpster - Jimpster Published on 18th November 2009

Tracklist 1] Vakula - Half - Quintessentials 2] Enola - Lost in Shibuya (Quarion Dub) - Initial Cuts 3] Mathias Meyer - Infinity - Liebe Detail 4] Kasper Bjork and his Skeleton - Alcatraz (Jimpster Dub) - Unknown 5] Alex James - All I See In Me - Affin 6] Stimming - Melodica - Green 7] V. Sexion - Ache In The Clups (Afrilounge Remix) - Unknown 8] Kasper - The Pressure - Bass Culture 9] m0h feat. Graciella - Disrupted (M.in & Patrick Kunkel Remix) - Ground Factory 10] Davidson Ospina - Do You (Instrumental) - Ospina Digital 11] Trus'me - Put It On Me - Prime Numbers

60 minutes presented by Jimpster

• Freerange radio show with Jimpster & DJ Yellow

Freerange radio show with Jimpster & DJ Yellow - Jimpster & DJ Yellow Published on 18th November 2009

Tracklist 30 minutes presented by Jimpster 1] Langenburg - Times (Manuel Tur's Ground Glass Reflex) - Mild Pitch 002 2] Oskar Offermann - Only My Shorts - White 3] Sonogama - Wink Bias - Sounderground 4] Solomun - Cloud Dancer - DIYnamic 5] Ilija Rudman - Night People (6th Borough Project Love Rub) - Instruments Of Rapture 6] Mark Poppcke - Far Away From You - Freerange 30 minute mix by DJ Yellow / Mindz Kontrol 1- Sygaire- The Time Is Now (Honesty Perspective) - Room With View Records 2- Deetron- Orange - Music Man Records 3- Alain Ho- Don Marvin - Composite Records 4- Mindz Kontrol Ultra- Mindz Theme - Freerange records 5- Dj Yellow pres. Mindz Kontrol Ultra- Reflection On The Self - PLastic City Records 6- Tigerskin, Till Von Sein- Love - Dirt Crew Records

special guest DJ Yellow (Mindz Kontrol) joins Jimpster

• Freerange radio show with Jimpster &

Freerange radio show with Jimpster & - Jimpster & Salvatore Freda Published on 29th September 2009

Tracklist 30 minutes presented by Jimpster 1] Zwicker - Dragonfly (Soultourist Remix) - Compost Black label 2] Quarion - Turn Off The Light - Retreat 3] Jagged - Langenthal - Quintessentials 4] Mountain People - A Side - Mountain People 5] Tony Lionni - Running Away - Freerange 6] Robert Babicz - Astor (Shur-i-kan Remix) - Systematic 30 minute mix by Salvatore Freda (Freerange, Cadenza, Liebe Detail, Remote Area) 1) Catz n Dogz - Kawa Z Gruntem - Get Physical recs 2) Salvatore Freda & Volta - Bombolone - Liebe Detail recs 3) Uner & Coyu - Raw Sweat - Diynamic recs 4) Unknown - Don't stop booty - Mofo.01 (White) 5) Marek Hemmann - Gemini - Freude am Tanzen recs 6) Salvatore Freda & Michel Cleis - Sassicaia - Cadenza recs 7) Troublemakers - Va et Vient - Kiff recs

Jimpster Joined by Salvatore Freda (Freerange, Cadenza, Liebe Detail, Remote Area)

• Freerange radio show with Jimpster & Franc Spangler

Freerange radio show with Jimpster & Franc Spangler - Jimpster & Franc Spangler Published on 6th September 2009

Tracklist 30 minutes presented by Jimpster Mr Raoul K - Wind Of Goree - Mule Musiq Paulo Olarte - Vivir Sonando (Garnica Remix) - Trenton Office Gossip - Sirius A (Kruse & Nuernberg Remix) - Dark Energy Glimpse & Martin Eyerer - Southern Soul (Jay Shepheard Remix) - Buzzin' Fly Photon Inc. - Generate Power (Jimpster Dub) - Strictly Rhythm Rene Breitbarth - My 80 - Mina 30 minute mix by Franc Spangler Fritz Kalkbrenner - Wingman - Baalsaal Chez Damier - Why - Time visions Mark E - Gunstone - Endless Flight OOFT - This Sound - Instruments Of Rapture Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie - Eglo KRL - Remember Donny - Wolf Music

• Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Andre Crom

Freerange radio show with Matt Masters & Andre Crom - Matt Masters & Andre Crom Published on 6th September 2009

Tracklist 30 Minutes Hosted & Mixed by Matt Masters Andre Crom & Luca Doobie - Attica (Makam Remix) [Freerange] Discowboys - At Midnight (Steve Bug's Always Late Mix) [Dessous] Catz N Dogz - Gotta Know [GPM] Neil Bainbridge - Dubseventeeone [Baker Street] Scope – This Rhythm (Florian Kruse & Nils Nurnberg Remix) [NRK] Soul Minority - Retroplex (Daniel Kyo Remix) [Elevation] 30 Minutes Mixed by Andre Crom Andre Crom's Sneak Peak Mix Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Andre Crom & Luca Doobie - Broadway [OFF (unreleased)] Larsen & Marano - Bad Choice (DJW!LD RMX) [OFF 010] Andre Crom & Dekay - When I'm Gone [VIVID (unreleased)] Jaffa Surfa - Feel [OFF (unreleased)] Manu-L & Paul Cart - Babajee [OFF (unreleased)] Andre Crom & Luca Doobie - Better Now [Freerange]

• Freerange May Radio Show

Freerange May Radio Show - Jimspter with Salvatore Freda Published on 17th June 2009

Tracklist Part 1 - Hosted & Mixed by Jimpster Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] 1] Butane - Inferno Jack (Kalabrese Remix) [Crosstown Rebels] 2] Manuel Tur - Golden Complexion (Pepe Bradock Minnie Mouth Mix) [Freerange] 3] Sven Tasnadi & Juno6 - Tranquillo [LIEBE*DETAIL] 4] Santiago Salazar - Arcade (Stefan Goldman Rmx) [Macro] 5] Andre Lodemann - Where Are You Now [Best Work] Part 2 - Mixed by Salvatore Freda (Freerange/Cadenza/Liebe Detail) Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] 1) 3 alarm prokect - hardcore africa - [Dj exclusive] 2) Deep beats vol. 2 (first track) [BPM] 3) paul Johnson - I cannot Hide [relief] 4) Attias - Domino Dub [Reincarnation] 5) Spencer Parker & Diesel (nick curly rmx) [Saved] 6) Martin Czubala - jedwab [8bit] 7) Boris Horel - Is that a yes ? [Supernature] 8) Jamie Anderson - Inova [Artform]

Freerange Records Radioshow – May 2009 Hosted by Jimpster with Salvatore Freda

• Freerange June Radio Show

Freerange June Radio Show - Matt Masters and Pash Ostovar Published on 16th June 2009

Tracklist Freerange Records Radioshow – June 2009 with Guest Pash Ostovar Part 1 Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Manuel Tur - Golden Complexion (Live Dub) [Freerange] Angel Alanis - The Question (Ciselant Remix) [Shakers Plates] Soultourist – Wild Cats [Drumpoet Community] Aron Friedmann & Jason Lanox - Heavy Romance [Bangbang] Sygaire - Mono-Poly (Marlow Remix) [Room With A view] Alpha child - Gamma Ray (Francs Rolling Dub) [Delusions Of Grandeur] Part 2 Mixed by Pash Ostovar Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Weather Report - River People [Sony Music Ent. Inc.] Jay Scarlett & Cinnaman - Paperchaser (Instrumental) [Rush Hour] Tullio De Piscopo - Stop Bajon (The Pashmo Re-Snip) Todd Terje & Prins Thomas – Reinbagan [Sonar Kollektiv] Craig Smith & The Revenge - Untitled [Unsigned] Casinoboy – Jobsagoodun [Jiscomusic] Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje’s Extra Doll Mix) [Permanent Vacation]

Freerange Records Radioshow – June 2009 with Guest Pash Ostovar

• Freerange March show

Freerange March show - Matt Masters and Tony Lionni Published on 27th April 2009

Tracklist Part 1 Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Dplay – Browse [Drumpoet Community] Tony Lionni - This Feeling [Freerange Records] Lars Bartkuhn - Goodbye Dancing, Hello God (Arto Mwambe Remix) [Based On Misunderstandings] Homewreckers - Wreckers [Delight] Nick Holder - Sunday (Jimpster remix) [CDR] Vincenzo - Shonen Jump [Freerange Records] Lusine - Two Dots (Pezzner Mix) [Ghostly International]   Part 2 Tony Lionni Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Tony Lionni - Come with me [Unsigned Demo] Chymera – Sumatra [Len series] Brendon Moeller - Ignition [Apnea] Shahrokh K Sound of K - Love Happens (Roberto Rodriguez rmx) ]Compost Black] Tony Lionni - 5th Cycle [Aesthetic Audio]

Matt Masters joined by special guest, Tony Lionni

• Freerange April show

Freerange April show - Matt Masters and Gorge Published on 27th April 2009

Tracklist Part 1 Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Manuel Tur - Stay feat. Larissa Kapp (12" extended instrumental) [Freerange] Manuel Tur - Stay feat. Larissa Kapp (Original) [Freerange] Craig Smith & The Revenge - The Soul Part II [Delusions of Grandeur] Jonny White - Gush (Justin Drake Remix) [No19] Jerkhouse Connection - Each & Everyday (Rocco Remix) [CDR] Steve Jones – Mind Games (Matt Masters Remix) [Deepology] Salvatore & Volta - Patatas Madras (Webster Remix) [Freerange] Pezzner - Valldemossa (Justin Martin Remix) [Freerange] Mixed by Gorge Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] James Talk - The Beginning (Gorge rmx) [Noir music] Solan - Gotta Use It (Gorge rmx) [Hertzlich] Marcin Czubala – Jedwab [8bit] Langenberg & Manuel Tur - Silk drive [Freerange] Argy feat. Bajka - Upon Ourselves [These days] A Coyu & Edu Imbernon´ - El Baile Aleman´ [Liebe Detail]

Matt Masters is Joined this month by 8Bit music's Gorge

• Freerange January Show

Freerange January Show - Matt Masters & Brothers Vibe Published on 9th February 2009

Tracklist Part 1 Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Rio Padice - Road to Alberqueque (Ray Okpara Mix) [Metroline Limited] Wbeeza – He So Crazy [Third Ear Recordings] Milton Jackson – Crash (Lovebirds Remix) [Freerange] Mike Monday & Will Saul – Zippo (Main Mix) [Buzzin Fly] The Revenge – Night Flight [White Label] Part 2 Mixed by Brother vibe Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Actor One - Stay (Gruber and Nürnberg Remix) [Bloop Recordings] Ash & Patrick Zigon - Sanjam [Tanzbar Musik] Shonky - Coco Feel & Love Shonk [Contexterrior] Gorge - Garuna (Brothers' Vibe Rmx) [8bit Records] Aaron Ross - Butterfly (Raw Mix) [Max Trax] James Curd - You Know What to Do (Derrick Carter Dub Mix) [Greenskeepers Music]

Freerange Records – January 2008 with Guest Brothers Vibe

• Freerange February Show

Freerange February Show - Matt Masters and Milton Jackson Published on 9th February 2009

Tracklist Part 1 Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters Pierre LX - Sketch Drive [Unknown] Luomo - Tessio (Stimming Dub) [Great Stuff Roots Edition] Milton Jackson – Backwards Disco [Freerange] Sei A - Knowing Innocence (Llorca Remix) [Seinan Music] Nick Holder - Suite 202 Curcio [No19] Motor City Drum Ensemble - Keep Up [Unknown] Part 2 Milton Jackson Artist – Title (Mix) [Label] Milton Jackson - Ghosts In My Machines (HOSH Remix) [Freerange] Milton Jackson - Mode 3 [Freerange] Anton Zap - Deeper [Quintessentials] Azuni - I Feel For You [Sthlmaudio] Daniel Steinberg - Pay For Me (Lauhaus Remix) [Style Rockets] Art Bleek - Escapism (Langberg Remix)

Freerange Records – February 2009 with Guest Milton Jackson

• Freerange Records December 08

Freerange Records December 08 - Matt Masters & Jimpster Published on 12th December 2008

Tracklist Part 1 - Hosted and Mixed by Matt Masters 1. Men With Sticks - 3rd Eye (Dixons Edit) [Defected] 2. Seal - Hear I am (Jimpster Mix) [Warners] 3. Jay Shepheard - Beast Regards [Diynamic]  4. Dana Ruh - History of the Sun (Agnes Rmx) [Perspectiv Records] 5. Sideshow - If Alone (Chateau Flight Dub) [Aus Music] 6. Little Dragon - Twice (Unknown edit) [Infamous Upstarts] 7. Milton Jackson - Crash [Freerange] Part 2 - Mixed by Jimpster 1. Kai Alce - Power Thru Pt 3 (KZR's ReRub) [NDATL Muzik] 2. 6th Borough Project - The Formula (Dub Vibes) [Instruments Of Rapture] 3. R.I.P - Linkwood [Prime Numbers] 4. Junesex - Worst Than Love (Losoul's Art in Times of Love remix) [12 Actions] 5. Billy Shane - Throwback [Tronicsoul] 6. I:cube - Supernovac [Versatile]

This month Matt Masters is joined by special guest, Freerange label boss Jimpster...

About TACTiLE

TACTiLE loves house, techno, dubstep, funky, disco and more...

At TACTiLE we aim to push the sounds we love - future-thinking, dancefloor-orientated music - in intimate, no-nonsense venues. We also love friendly crowds, visuals, low door prices and parties that go on all night. If you love these too, come and be a part of it.

Universal Vibes will feature sets recorded at TACTiLE nights recorded at the Horse & Groom in London

Archived Mixes:

About The Garden Festival

By 2005 The Garden Zadar had already established itself as one of the best loved and most musically adventurous additions to Croatians nightlife and culture. So much so that the owners of the Pinija Hotel in the nearby village of Petrcane approached us about taking on an event space which had been dormant for some years.

When we were shown around this fabulous 70s designed complex, set on a pine tree covered peninsula with a circular nightclub, large outdoor terrace and a circular beachfront cocktail bar we knew it would be the perfect location for an intimate boutique festival. So, we set about renovating the site, called on our contacts from years working in the dance music underground, and started to put together the first Garden Festival in 2006. Although some unseasonable weather kept the numbers down in the first year, the music and atmosphere were amazing, with the emphasis on quality and not big name attractions. It was promoted almost totally word of mouth and those that came spread the word so effectively that the attendance figures jumped up from a few hundred in 2006, to 1500 in 2007 and then to 3000 people in 2008.

We have decided to limit the capacity to a maximum of 2000 people in the future as we feel this is the optimum number for the site at present, but The Garden Festival is now going to be held over two weekends (The Double Whammy) to allow it still grow without ruining the seeds that were sown. Some people are choosing to come to one of the weekends and others to both. Live bands and DJs from all aspects of dance music culture have been to play and party, and there are not many festivals where revelers can swim in the glistening Adriatic, relax beneath the pines and dance under a canopy of stars.

The 3 main areas are > The terrace hosting the main live stage, Tiki Bar, also with its own dance floor terrace overlooking the sea and then there is Barbarella’s Discotheque for the after-parties.

As a special treat the instantly legendary Argonaughty Boat Parties set sail twice daily for more fun and frolics on the open sea. Everyone gets a chance to enjoy the breathtaking surroundings and, without the usual hordes, it’s easy to find old friends and to make new ones. Many people who made the trip decided to stay for a full week so they could settle in before the festival and relax afterwards and maybe take a trip to nearby waterfalls or visit the many beautiful islands just off the coast of Zadar. The 900 year old village of Petrcane is almost as much a part of the festival as the site itself. Most of the festival goers from the UK and Ireland/Europe stayed in the village and fell in love with this enchanting place, with lovely seafood restaurants and friendly cafes it adds to the festival experience enormously and is just a couple of minutes walk around the bay.

Visit the official The Garden Festival website

Archived Mixes:

• The Garden Festival presents-Faith DJs

	The Garden Festival presents-Faith DJs - Published on 6th September 2009
Tracklist n/a	Faith DJs at Barberella's nightclub, Garden Festival, croatia...Terry Farley, Stuart Patterson, Dave Jarvis, Jimmy P, Raoul Galloway

• The Garden Festival presents-Michael Rutten & Rainer Truby

	The Garden Festival presents-Michael Rutten & Rainer Truby - Michael Rutten & Rainer Truby Published on 6th September 2009
Tracklist N/a	Michael Rutten & Rainer Truby back to back session on the terrace, Sunday afternoon at The Garden festival..sunny, happy days!

• Faith presents Doc Martin

	Faith presents Doc Martin - Doc Martin Published on 6th September 2009
Tracklist n/a	Faith presents Doc Martin at Barberellas night Club, Garden Festival, Croatia

About Vibes

Vibes is all about taking it back to basics and presenting cutting deep electronic music in different spaces. From September we will now be hosting monthly showcase in the mainroom at Cafe 1001 until midnight, followed by an afterparty in various lofts, basements and warehouse spaces around the East End...this show features live recordings from Vibes events

Archived Mixes: