Showing posts with label Uptick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uptick. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 May 2022

Totally Together

I'd originally planned to post on Friday about Jesse Fahnestock's new single as 10:40, the rather wonderful Thickener, available in "full fat original" and "thinner" mixes and sporting a striking photo by Swiss Adam
 
No surprise then to find that I'd been pipped to the, er, post by Adam, who posted a Bagging Area review on Thursday. The slight pause for thought was actually for the best, as it inspired me to go back and create a playlist, bringing in Jesse’s wider music as 10:40, his collaboration with Darren Bell as Jezebell as well as remixes and re-edits from both projects. From there, I started sequencing a selection of tunes for an expanded post.

I developed a stinking cold yesterday - it always feels weird/worse when it's a gloriously warm, sunny day outside - and didn't get to finish the selection as my head was full of cotton wool. Woken by a sore throat (and a hungry, wailing cat) early this morning, and armed with a mug of steaming hot lemon, ginger and honey, I returned to the half-finished selection. I went back to Bandcamp and purchased a few 10:40 tracks and mixes that I didn't already have (I originally jumped on board in 2021 with 10:40's second album, All Of Us) and completed the selection you find here.
 
Apologies in advance for the sloppy cues, inept crossfades and bumbling beat matching. I'd like to blame it on my compromised physical health, but if you've listened to even one previous Dubhed selection, I think you know the score.

For your patience, you get 16 tracks over 89 minutes, spanning early mixes, tracks and re-edits and bang up to date with Jezebell's last two singles as well as their contribution to the excellent Shelter Me compilation. The latter is raising money for the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, a cause very dear to my heart. 
 
Appropriately, the selection closes with the song that started off the idea for this post, 10:40's Thickener, freshly released to the world on Wednesday 25th May. All in all, just what the doctor ordered for a Sunday... or any day, for that matter. Sod the cold, I'm dancing!

You can buy all of this music - and I strongly recommend that you do - respectively from 10:40, Jezebell and Paisley Dark Records via Bandcamp. The only exception is Uptick, where the original version and 10:40 remix of Universe is available as a free download on Soundcloud.
 
1) Green Shoots: 10:40 (2021)
2) Sleepwalker: 10:40 ft. David Rosenheim (2021)
3) Universe (10:40's Dark Matter Mix): Uptick (2021)
4) Hawaii (Album Version): 10:40 (2020)
5) Dancing (Not Fighting) (The Rhythm Stix Mix): Jezebell (2022)
6) Monster In The Middle (Interesting Lives Dub): 10:40 (2020)
7) On Marche (New Sheux Mix): 10:40 (2020)
8) Let Me Down Gently (10:40's Torn Parachute Dub): Spacemen 3 (2021)
9) "Bed Heads": Jezebell (2022)
10) Dizzy Dean: 10:40 (2021)
11) Allow The Beat (Dark Money Dub): 10:40 (2020)
12) Last Night But Three: 10:40 (2020)
13) Jezebelle Et Moi (Le Funk Et Moi): Jezebell (2022)
14) Stop Bajon (Primavera) (Jezebell Edit): Tullio De Piscopo (2021)
15) Left Behind Blues (Album Version): 10:40 (2021) 
16) Thickener (Thinner Mix): 10:40 (2022)
 
2020: Closer EP: 11
2020: Found Time: 4, 12
2020: Hawaii EP: 6
2020: On Marche EP: 7
2021: All Of Us: 1, 10, 15
2021: Paisley Dark Edits Box 6 EP: 14
2021: Sleepwalker EP: 2, 8
2021: Universe EP: 3 
2022: Dancing (Not Fighting) EP: 5
2022: Jezebelle Et Moi EP: 13
2022: Shelter Me: 9
2022: Thickener EP: 16
 
Totally Together (1:28:29) (KF) (Mega)

Saturday, 19 February 2022

I'm So Deep In A Cloud I'm Drifting Out

Storm Eunice was fairly gentle with us: a couple of smashed windows and a strip of roofing ripped off of the shed and that was pretty much it. The Saturday morning sky promises a calmer day, and although the wind and rain will be back in force later, hopefully nothing like yesterday.

To capture this moment of serenity, today's selection gathers up some healing and uplifting tunes from the past couple of years. I raved about Jezebell's new one on Monday and Little Dragon's latest EP in January. I subscribed to The Future Sound Of London's digital calendar again this year and include their first offering for 2022. 
 
On the last day of 2021, Dave Allen's new project Uptick released the marvelous Universe, with a typically fantastic remix from 10:40 aka Jesse Fahnestock, bringing Bolton & Stockholm together in a stupendous soundclash. Available as a free download on Soundcloud.
 
Thanks also to blogging legends The Vinyl Villain and Bagging Area for the nods to Mogwai, GCOM (aka Tom Middleton) and Hypernatural (including Cut Copy's Dan Whitford). The selection closes with Mildlife, hailing (like Hypernatural) from Melbourne and bringing some welcome Antipodean sunshine to dispel the stormclouds.
 
1) Drifting Out (Version): Little Dragon ft. Jakob Koranyi & Yo-Yo Ma (2021) 
2) Beyond The Milky Way (Edit): GCOM (2021)
3) Jezebelle Et Moi (Original Widescreen Version) (Cover of Max Berlin's): Jezebell (2022)
4) Opk Machines Trx M2: The Future Sound Of London (2022)
5) Ritchie Sacramento (Other Two Remix By Gillian Gilbert & Stephen Morris): Mogwai (2021)
6) Universe (10:40's Dark Matter Mix By Jesse Fahnestock): Uptick (2021)
7) Stormfront (Album Version): Hypernatural (2022)
8) Automatic (Jono Ma Ascend Mix By Jonathan Marr): Mildlife (2020)