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...:

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

Here's a lil mix from me for the sunshine, or the rain, depending on the weather. An Untimely tangent through music space with a wonkily soulful vein running through it... hip hop beats, 2 step shuffle, epic house deepness & dubstep pressure! Some old tunes, some new tunes, some tunes of indeterminate age.

Untimely Sound WonkySoul mix

Tracklisting after tha jump....

It's a bit miserable outside today. I quite like it.

There's something about old US garage which fits perfectly with rain for me ever since a community festival in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield which got totally washed out, and everyone gave up and went home except for a soundsystem and a few committed ravers (at the age of 14 or so I was the most committed raver of all at these free festivals since I didn't know about free parties and I couldn't get in to any clubs) dancing to chunky Armand Van Helden-esque beats...

So it was well timed that I picked up DJ Romanthony - Live in the Mix from a charity shop yesterday and I was bumping it in the car on the way to work this morning... I love Romanthony's production style, but I'm finding it hard to express exactly why... there's something kind of thin sounding about it - but that's not really a word normally used positively when describing dance music. It's the way it seems to just lightly brush over you from a distance, like an overheard snatch of a party in the next room, or next street, or maybe the next universe, which gives it a sense of urgency, but also a sort of relaxed generosity. You gotta dance, but no need to go crazy if you don't want to. Teeny dancing will do.

One tune in particular really got me, a repetetive, hypnotic, addictive groove that made me want to get out the car and get lost in the music & the mist... here's a cheekly lil 128 for ya:

Romanthony - Down 4 U.

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

Fresh from the Generation Bass trip to South Africa, UMB has dropped this mix of epic SA deepness. I'm all about the house music at the moment so this mix is hitting the spot for me. Morning is the best time of any party if you ask me, and house is the perfect morning music, generous and spacious... This mix to me sounds like pre-dawn, still retaining some of the deepness and inwardness of night, but without the frenetic rush of midnight, soon the sun will be up and we'll bust out some Smokescreen-esque chunky house...

House Of Afreaka Vol Ii – Deeep South Sessions by Dj Umb on Mixcloud

DOWNLOAD IT IN 320 HERE

Me and Globalibre's O.live.R were having a bit of a trans-European love in this afternoon, he was checking out some of my remixes and I was checking out his latest mix:

DJ O.live.R - "All U Want To Know About Bass"-Tape by o.live.r

which is an awesome selection of UK Funky / UK Garage / Houseyness, mostly quite minimal and spacious, with occasional snatches of brass & vocals... like all of his mixes the entire tracklist is now on my want list... definitely improved my afternoon, check it out!!

Been quiet on here from me in the last couple of weeks, all sorts of Real Life things occuring, but here's something awesome to make up for it... I covered Opa Novy God's awesome free album Original Goods a little while back, well here's the first of a couple of remixes I'm doing for them, on a carnivalesque balkan house tip with a little dancehall shuffle thrown in too...

Rumba (andykisaragi remix 1.1) by andykisaragi

Shazalakazoo - Live in Amsterdam (2010) by shazalakazoo

This speaks for itself really, 2 solid hours of Balkan Folkstep Bangers from carnivalesque balkan soca-dancehall-house to hardcore balkan junglistic fever... all in Shazalakazoos inimitable style... for free!

via Globalibre

Am really loving the swing house sound at the moment, and this mix from Peter Bounce is doing good things to me... ranging from fun, bouncy and brassy to spacious and minimal...

Demo - Swing´in April 2010 by Peter Bounce

loads of ?s in the tracklisting which is just a tragedy, man i want those tunes! The tune from about 7-10 minutes has a cut up sample from Belleruche's version of Minor Swing, and one near the end is that Gramophondzie tune which has been doing the rounds (surely not a ? - methinks Peter may be being a little secretive), any advances on these??