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I Love You/You Won't Let Me - New Nightbus/Drum and Bass/Ambient Techno mix - Free mp3 download 320Kbps

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If I manage to do one "proper" mix a year I'll be happy. To define what a "proper" mix is - to separate it from any other mix I upload - a "proper" mix is one that takes planning and meticulous execution. Last year's mix was "Send in the Drones" and that took a year from planning to execution and I'm still happy with it; this has taken around 6 months of working out. It started with a Guardian article about new musical genres which defined the music by the amazing Joe Synkro as "Nightbus" a term I'd not heard before but one I was happy to adopt, even if I couldn't be sure that the article was being entirely serious. What I was aware was of a new way of looking at drum and bass, a genre which I'd spent a lot of my dj career playing and one I'd pretty much given up on. Listening to tracks from artists like Synkro, Submerge, Lapalux and the amazing new releases from Apollo (R & S records "ambient" side label) it became clear that a new wave of producers were taking lessons learned from Dubstep and applying them to Ambient Techno, R 'n B, Garage and Atmospheric Drum and Bass. I was fascinated. The result of that fascination is this mix. The first 30 minutes or so of it came together pretty easily, but then I couldn't work out where to turn next and it sat on my hard drive for 4 months, taunting me as all unfinished projects do. I almost released it as a mini mix, just to get the "monkey off my back" but I'm glad I waited and am able to release something more substantial, something worth listening to, hopefully again and again.

Though I still don't know if Nightbus is the right term for it.

Tracklisting

Mario - Let Me Love You (Lapalux remix) (free download - http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/04/let-me-love-you-lapalux-bootleg Synkro - Open Arms ASC - Glass Walls Submerse - Cluster Jack Dixon - You won't let me (Synkro mix) Bop - Song about my Dog dBridge - 5th Floor Grimes - Genesis Bulb - Lonely Gravity Om Unit - Ulysses VIP (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/09/ulysses-vip) ASC + Ulrich Schnauss - 77 Lapalux - Guuurl Holy Other - Know Where dBridge - Cornered Yumi & The Weather - Not Again (Manni Dee remix) (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/12/not-again-manni-dee-remix) Marley Caroll -Woodwork (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/woodwork) Ital Tek - Pixel Haze Fybe:one - Harmonic Curve (Deft's footwork remix) (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/harmonic-curve-defts-footwork-re) Bering Strait - Apart Synkro - Reflection Reso - Aegis (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/09/aegis) Eagles for Hands - Glitterall (free download http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/10/glitterall) [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85882133" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]

here is a soundcloud link (for iThings)

Now on mixcloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/djmachv/i-love-youyou-wont-let-me/

Artwork shamefully stolen from the Internet - "Untitled" (1985) by Moebius aka Jean Giraud

 

Mach V @ Back To Mine, 20110119

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This weeks podcast (and a few to follow, I'm sure) is mostly a subset of an awesome christmas present my lovely wife Miko got me - the Bleep top 100 tracks of 2010 and I'm still not listening to all the tracks yet! :) The rest come from Jon Hopkins'  awesome Original Soundtrack from the Vertigo Films produced movie "Monsters", Daft Punk's superb and supportive OST for "Tron Legacy" and one track from the up and coming Tel Aviv based future garage label Botanika that you'll be hearing more of from me, I'm sure.  Anyway I'll let you get on as I'll be giving you two podcasts this week as Sunday 23rd Jan is time for the first of The Bearding Hour shows of 2011. Excited? You Betcha! :) Here's this week's

Tracklisting

Jon Hopkins - Monsters Theme
Daft Punk - Finale
Cyclobe - How Acla Disappeared from Earth
Shed - 44a (Hard Wax Forever!)
Oriol - Night and Day
James Blake - CYMK
Velour - Booty Slammer
Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin'
Bunny on Acid - Oxygen (NDV remix)
Model 500 - OFI
Health - Before Tigers (Gold Panda rmx)
SCB - Hard Boiled VIP
Darling Farah - Berline (Funkineven Remix)
oOoOO _ Burnout Eyes
Rustie - Hyperthrust
Lorn - Cherry Moon
Sepalcure - The Warning
Mathew Jonson - Love in the Future
Om Unit - Lavender
Seams - Platz


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