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...:

I was totally stoked today to get this in my inbox today from Jutasi of Goulasch Exotica:

Forty Thieves Orkestar - Belboeli (andykisaragi remix - Goulasch Exotica vocal mashup)

...combining my Forty Thieves Orkestar remix with some soulful vocals (warren clarke feat. kathy brown - over you & michelle weeks - the light) to great effect, especially in the breakdown. I've always been a bit of a mashup artist and it's a massive honour that someone wants to take something I've done and progress it like this. I think it's definitely an improvement on the original - decide for yourself:

Forty Thieves Orkestar - Belboeli (andykisaragi mix 1.0) by andykisaragi

So after that I was checking out some of Goulasch Exotica's other stuff and man some of it is pretty hottttt... check it out after the jump:

This dude Matthew Hiscock got in touch yesterday to play me some of the stuff he's been doing, and man, he's been doing some good stuff! Chilled electro-step-breaks-lushness, according to Matthew 'It’s a bit of LuckyMe and a bit of Joy Orbison' but since I've not listened to those guys I can't comment on that... The whole sound is simultaneously warm and cold, bright sunshine on snowly mountains, or something like that.. reminds me of early 808 State for that reason (808 State's Gorgeous album - one of the best albums evar - has permanently burned mountains onto my inner retinas after it was the only tape I had with me on a skiing trip).

Here's Matthew's new EP for streaming, and he's been kind enough to send a download link for you as well, see below... I'm particularly loving Big Big Big.

EP2  by  matthewhiscock

Bass Music Blog has been running a little feature for a while, telling the story of putting together a free album... It's been making interesting reading, especially alongside the KLF's The Manual - How To Have A Number One The Easy Way which I read last night, for anyone thinking about ways to get ahead - and where, exactly, 'ahead' is - in the music 'industry'.

Here's the diary:

Diary Of A Free Album - Part 1
Diary Of A Free Album - Part 2
Diary Of A Free Album - Part 3
Diary Of A Free Album - Part 4
Diary Of A Free Album - Part 5

And here's the album, which was released on Monday. Did I mention it's free? 10 tracks of UK-break-step-funky fyah...

Free I.D. & Baobinga album - Bass Music Sessions OUT NOW

I've been thinking for a while that I need some good new balkan stuff to post, since I've been fairly light on it lately and it's kind of one of the main original forces behind Untimely Sound (although the Untimely remit is basically World Music, meaning Music from the World rather than any kind of colonialist interpretation.. ) and lo and behold this morning Brian May aka DJ Delay - no, that's not that Brian May (at least I don't think it is!) - sent me a link to check out his new album - 'a remix album like no other that plumbs the depths and traditions of Eastern European music styles' all with a fairly healthy slab of dub, house and breaks.

If you're anything like me then you're sure to be hankering for some dubsteppin-dancehall-electro-soca-breaks but in these chilly post-festive weeks you simply can't afford it.... well, those good folks over at Mad Decent may have just answered both our prayers with this free album from South Rakkas!

South Rakkas Crew - The Stimulus Package free download!

So like I said yesterday, was an awesome Fancy Pants themed night at the Boneyard on Saturday, I recorded my set and for once actually remembered to save it, so here it is....

andykisaragi - live at the Boneyard 12 12 09

Or if you want to stream it then head over to soundcloud.

Tracklist after the jump....

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:

Hm haven't posted anything for a while.. here's a mix of mine from a few years ago to keep you going... on a dubby breaksy electroy globaly folky kinda feel. A few tracks in there which I'm still playing now... and you get to hear me singing on Oxygen which is a tune of mine from way back. Rockin

Download it here!

Tracklist after the jump...