New mix from myself, some mostly Balkan Beats, trying to avoid too many of the usual suspects, with a fair few quick semi-live edits & mashups in there...

Gonna keep this short n sweer: This is some swingin wonky electro awesomeness. I love how you can't really work out how its all going to fit together for the first minute or so.

Red Nichols - Strike up the band (maratekatropical remix) by maratekatropical

PS. no idea what that image is all about. just the first one that caught my eye searching for 'wonky swing'

Just randomly come across these guys on soundcloud: Dungeons and Dj's... here's a few tunes I'm mostly loving:

Chopped up broken brass:

good morning ! by Dungeons and Dj's

Atmospheric swingin dub steppa (with a space between dub and step :)

harlem swing anthem by Dungeons and Dj's

Groovy frenetic swing hopper:

french drip by Dungeons and Dj's

Supaquick post: Check these awesome beats from Rumblejazz on a kinda swing-hop thang:

Hip Bop and Swing Hop by Rumblejazz

Check out the Rumblejazz blog where there's more tunes like this dubsteppy affair and mucho other awesomeness...

I've been seriously neglecting my blogging duties lately... but guys! I've been restoring a 100 year old dutch barge! gimme a break! sheesh. some people

anyway

Quick reminder that your Saturday night could be totally awesome if, and only if, you head down to Ripsnorter's Autumn Antics in Bristol.

Roll up Rippers for a jamboree of jive-tastic hip-jigglin' on The Terrace, bass-boomin' wonky glitch-bombs in The Cave & a supercharged barrel-blowin' beat-fest in The Tunnel.

Swingin'on The Terrace;
ANDY KISARAGI
DJ POD
DJ HIPPY

Going hard in The Tunnel;
ED REAL
DJ ELDY
GLOWBONES
DJ POD
JIM HEDGES

Gettin' a wonk-on in The Cave;
NICK THE KID
ED REAL
EATS EVERYTHING
ANDY BAYLEY

Download your free e-ticket from ripsnorter.co.uk and make a donation on the door.

Prizes for the best dressed swingers in town!

The shenanigans continue over the road at The Old Fox til you actually want to go home, not a moment sooner.

To whet your appetite, first off you could do worse than check out my Electro Swing DJ Mix for Ripsnorter... then after that, there's a few tunes that have caught my attention lately after the jump...:

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

Been noticing quite a few searches coming in for my tune Amyl Balkan since I posted my Electro Swing Mix a few weeks ago, so I thought it was time to unleash it... eeer it is, a fairly silly but fun balkan house tune with vocals from DJ Supreme's Tha Wildstyle which is one of my favourite Amyl House type tunes from back in the day, and fiddle from Mad Manoush's Start It Up.

Amyl balkan by andykisaragi

It's been a while, but here's a new mixtape from me!
I got asked to do an electro-swing mix which was just swinging enough to bounce, but just electro enough not to scare off techno/trance kids... so here it is. Probably the most consistent mix in terms of genre and bpm I've recorded in years..!

Download andykisaragi - Swing Hard mixtape

Tracklist:

Mighty Boosh intro
Der Dritte Raum - Swing Dub
DKS - That's Jazz
Stephen Barnam - Rumba Kalumba (Alex Young rmx)
Harbour Horse - Country Calling
Kormac - People Rising
Poni Hoax - We are the Bankers (Renaissance Man dub)
Pizeta feat. Reagadelica - Klezmer (Alvaro Arabic Nights Bootleg)
Papa Tango Charly - Tigani (Fred Berthet mix)
Vato Gonzales - Badman Riddim
Opa Novy God - Rumba (andykisaragi remix 1.1)
Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - We No Speak Americano
High Maintenance - Ol' Sam
andykisaragi - Amyl Balkan

oooh and the last tune is a super exxxclusive new one from me heavily utilising parts from Start it Up by Mad Manoush and Tha Wildsyle by DJ Supreme... (UPDATE!! download it here: andykisaragi - Amyl Balkan