Remember that electro swing dj mix I posted last month? Well the mysterious someone who asked me to do it, I can now reveal, was Pod from Ripsnorter... and on Saturday 11th September we're going to be bringing the undeniable sound of this summer (Yolanda Be Cool at no 1!?!? RivaStarr Scott Mill's record of the week?!?!) to Ripsnorter's terrace for a night of future-vintage debauchery. Myself, Pod and others will be bouncing on the Terrace, with the usual Ripsnorter hard/acid/psy/tech/trance shenanigans in the main room from Jim Hedges, Ed Real, Glowbones, DJ Eldy and Pod.

I'm real excited about this gig, some of my first DJing outings were playing hard trance / hard house back around 2000 at Sheffield free parties, and I was a regular at friends-of-Ripsnorter Planet Zogg, so it feels a little like I've come full-circle here, but brought something a bit Untimely to the mix...

Check the event on facebook: Ripsnorter Autumn Antics!

as a reminder of what you're in for... here's that electro-swingin mixtape again:

andykisaragi - Swing Hard mixtape

Just come across this mix on the Hijack Bristol forum by someone called JE3Z-LUNCHBOX... It's a wicked selection of swinging balkan electronic craziness, loads of tunes I can't identify, good work sir... if you find your way here, any chance of a tracklisting??

Here's what he had to say about it:

Its good to see that more people are getting into the whole electro swing, gypsy beats scene.
Thought id make my contribution with a seriously phaaaaat mix of said awesomeness.


LUNCHBOX PRESENTS! THE BIG BOX OF SWING MIXTAPE!
GYPSY BEATS, JAZZY TREATS, DUBBY BASS, STEPPY WOBBLES AND TIMELESS CHIPTUNE INFLUENCES MAKE THIS MIX A MIND NUMBING FEET STOMPING CARAVAN CRASHING TREAT.GET IT WHILE ITS HOT!

Download it from Divshare!

Awesome gig at the Boneyard in Bristol on Saturday... I recorded my set, will have it up here tomorrow sometime hopefully - but in the meantime i've got to mention these guys who played straight after me: Octa Push.

Check this out:

Haven't added anything here for a while - we've just moved onto a boat and can't get internet where we're moored up at the moment. I'm grabbing 5 minutes at work to post this...

My big-haired homie from Bristol Afro-E posted a bunch of stuff on Soundcloud a while back and I've been checking it out. I love this one:

Afro-E - Do the Big Man

I'll be back in Bristol next weekend supporting Max Pashm & band at Fiddlers... should be amaaazing! Here's the details on Facebook. The gig is organised by my new friends at Gypsy Tings - bringing (even more!) balkan & gypsy music to Bristol & the south west, check em out!

Just got back from a gig at Hamilton House which was apparently rather awesome judging by the amount of people who cam to tell me so...! I gave a bunch of them this URL so thought I'd post some of my old mixes & upcoming gigs here so it's all in one place...

coming up in Bristol...
21st Nov at Fiddlers with Max Pashm
28th Nov Circus2Iraq fundraiser at Bridewell / The Island (the Invisible Circus police station thing in town) with a bunch of awesome stuff no doubt

Then in a barn near Frome, Team Barn Mashup on 12th Dec, check the Facebook group

Now some mixes - links are to my old blog with tracklisting & download link

Mix Summer 09 70 tracks in 80 minutes! jeepers

more below....

As I mentioned the other day I'm coming to play at Hamilton House in Bristol on Saturday. Well now I've found out who else is playing! It's a Bath band called Idiot Savants who are a bouncy ska type outfit there's only one song on their myspace not very well recorded but it sounds good!