Living Beyond Hope

Play that Funky Tuba, White Guy

My boss Murray who’s leaving us, plays tuba in a dodgy brass band. So I did him a funky brass compilation to send him on his way. I called it Play that Funky Tuba, White Guy. Here’s the playlist.

1.  Alyo - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

2.  House Arrest - Hackney Colliery Band

3.  Sexual Healing - Hot 8 Brass Band

4.  Gibbous - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

5.  Pygmy Goats - Hackney Colliery Band

6.  Ghost Town - Hot 8 Brass Band

7.  Jive Samba - Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass

8.  Party Started - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

9.  Jambalaya Got Fire - Jambalaya Brass Band

10. King Cobra - The Budos Band

11. Jupiter - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

12. 90% of me is you - Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Orchestra

13. Ballicki Bone - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

14. Asphalt Jungle - Jambalaya Brass Band

Sweet Summer 2013 Mix

And here’s my late Summer 2013 playlist. As New Zealand simmers in an extended drought, parched listeners should find some solace in these sweet tunes.

Plenty of soul, funk and reggae here, both new and old in the form Ramsey Lewis, Vin Gordon, Andre 3000 and new Bristol DJ Typesun. Plenty of decent remix action too with Ashley Beedle, Boomshot and the Rocknrolla Soundsystem mixing up Bob Marley, Aretha and Nina Simone respectively. Thom Yorke’s superstar side project Atoms for Peace throw in an ambient dream in the form of Default while finishing the mix is the brand new tune from Bonobo called Cirrus. Been waiting an age for this lovely piece of goodness, hope you enjoy!

1. The PL - Typesun
2. From Home to Work and Back - Tall Black Guy
3. SuperSharpTeng - Wrongtom
4. Stand Up Jamrock (Ashley Beedle Warbox Remix) - Bob Marley
5. Hey Kids - Ta-Ku
6. Default - Atoms for Peace
7. Forgetting and Learning Again - Lapalux
8. All the Secrets - Flying Lotus
9. Living In Unity - Rob Smith, Gaddiel
10. Red Blood - Vin Gordon
11. Hey, Mrs Jones - Ramsey Lewis
12. Rock Steady (boomshot refix) - Aretha Franklin
13. Prototype - Andre 3000
14. Chilled Cafe - Dubhead, Beto Paciello
15. Nobody’s Fault But Mine (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit) - Nina Simone
16. Cirrus - Bonobo

Pete’s November Niceness Mix - Nov 2012

This was actually a mix put together in the middle of 2012 but took me ages to get it copied off and sent out to friends. It features songs from three of my favourite albums of 2012, Mala in Cuba, Wrongtom meets Deemus J in East London and The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry’s The Orbserver in the Star House. As well as these I included tunes from Frank Ocean and Homebrew, and some decent remix work of Stevie Wonder, Yellowman and Fat Freddy’s Drop. Chur.

1. Introduction - Mala
2. Thinkin Bout You - Frank Ocean   
3. Only If You Wanna - Flying Lotus   
4. Sweet Europe - Tall Black Guy Productions   
5. King Yellowman - Tony Johns Edits   
6. 2 - Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
7. I Can’t Stand These Lonely Nights - The Inversions
8. Living For The City (JT Edits) - Stevie Wonder   
9. The Drop - The Nextmen vs Joe Dukie   
10. Time Don’t Wait - Home Brew   
11. Hold Me Upsetter - The Orb, Lee Scratch Perry   
12. Mun-Dun-Gu  - Cedric Im Brooks & The Sound Dimension   
13. Calle F - Mala       
14. Love Is Gonna Lift You Up (Julio Bashmore Remix) - Bobby Womack   
15. East London - Wrongtom Meets Deemas J

Generation Beats Radio Show Playlist - 7 February 2013

Our last show on Fresh FM included new music from Typesun, Flume, Bonobo and Pantha Du Prince …and lots of house music for my son Tom to go out on a big and beaty high note.

Much respect to The Bridge Street Collective here in Nelson for sponsoring us over the year as well. Here’s the playlist.

1. The PL - Typesun
2. Rough Sleeper - Burial
3. Jam - Moritz von Oswald
4. The Mahdi. (Prod. Marcasso) - The Underachievers
5. Heatwave (DEVolution Remix) - Wiley, Ms D
6. On Top Feat. T.Shirt - Flume, T Shirt
7. Hold On (feat. Amber Coffman) - Rusko
8. Language - Porter Robinson
9. City of Dreams - Dirty South, Alesso
10. Speak the Truth - Lee “Scratch” Perry
11. JS6Tooting Gangsta - JSTAR
12. Restructure 2 Rebuild - Digital Mystikz
13. Luuk Out Gurl (feat. Kid Sister) (Sich Mang Remix) - Flosstradamus, Kid Sister
14. Photon - Pantha Du Prince, The Bell Laboratory
15. Cirrus - Bonobo
16. Pressure - Submerse
17. Ezra - Flume
18. Pina (SWAG’s ‘Mas Jugo’ Dub) - Metro Area
19. Do It Your Way - Mood II Swing
20. I Like It - Fulbert
21. Peace Offering - Cobblestone Jazz
22. Come Alive (Submerse Remix) - Netsky
23. This Time You’re Not Wrong - Submerse
24. Bax - Mosca
25. Reminisce - Camo & Krooked
26. Everyday (Netsky VIP Remix) - Rusko
27. 500 Days of Summer - Netsky

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Generation Beats Radio Show Playlist - 10 January 2013

1. 4D - Koreless
2. Lion (Jamie XX remix) - Four Tet
3. Epsitrophy - Art Ensemble
4. Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version) - Kendrick Lamar
5. Deep Eastwood (DJ Fitchie Remix) - Bigga Bush
6. Run the Track - Ashley Beedle
7. Highs & Lows - Wiley
8. Retarded Fren (with Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood) - Doom
9. Peace Time - Groove Corporation
10. White House Race - Mad Professor
11. Watch We (Pinch remix) - Horace Andy / Ashley Beedle
12. Tribal Natty (Aphrodite Remix) - Tribe of Issachar
13. Light Years - Coki
14. Dum Dum - Baauer
15. Smalltalk (Four Tet Remix) - Ultraista
16. Shakea Body - Trus’me
17. Dance to my beat - Dirty Two
18. Something To Say (Souled Remix) - Kay Suzuki
19. Make You Wanna Do Right - Sub Zero
20. Moving in Circles - SPY
21. Krypto - Gridlok/Upbeats
22. Thing Called Love (Nu:Tone Remix) - Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford
23. Like a Dream - SPY
24. Painkiller (Lewd Behavior Remix) - Freestylers & Pendulum
25. Jack Your Job - Falty DL

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Generation Beats Radio Show

So, I’ve been doing this radio show with my oldest boy this year. We’ve had a great time playing a mix of bass music from dub and dubstep to electro weirdness and deep house. It was all made possible by the awesome peeps at Nelson community radio stataion Fresh FM (www.freshfm.net) and our sponsors at The Bridge Street Collective (www.bridgestreet.org.nz/).

I’ll start posting our playlists here in case anyone is interested. You can always head to our radio show site at www.facebook.com/GenerationBeatsRadioShow as well.

Spring & Summer Stunners Mix Part 2

This is my end of Summer mix with a definite nod to reggaelicious good times. The usual mix of old and new and plenty of sounds on the remix tip. Jungle Youth by Lee Scratch Perry gets a Congo Natty junglist rework from the 2011 Adrian Sherwood album “Nu Sound and Version”. The whole album is great so check it out.

I’ve also turned up the dancehall with a Conroy Smith classic and 2 reworkings of “Pumpkin Belly”, the latter by Gappy Ranks whose album I’ve been loving for over a year now. Non Jamaican niceness includes the dubby wonder of Resonators from the Wah Wah 45 label, Burial collaborating with Four Tet and Thom Yorke and a cheeky slice from Elbow’s latest album “Build a Rocket, Boys!”. There’s yet another Classixx remix, this time tuning up the niceness of Mayer Hawthorne’s “Green Eyed Love” single and a delicious slab of funk from Pimp Rekker courtesy of Norman Jay. Happy sunbathing… 

1. Beware (Edit, Slight Return) ñ DJ Kentaro

2. Jungle Youth (Congo Natty remix) ñ Lee Scratch Perry

3. Dangerous ñ Conroy Smith

4. As We Enter ñ Damian Marley & Nas

5. Sofa featuring Pupa Jim (Wrongtom Remix) - Nextmen

6. Pumpkin Belly - Tenor Saw

7. Pumpkin Belly - Gappy Ranks

8. Can’t Stop Now (feat. Mr. Vegas & Jovi Rockwell) - Major Lazer

9. Mission & 24th - Pimp Rekker

10. Sweet Love Affair - Resonators

11. Mirror  - Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke

12. Jesus Is a Rochdale Girl - Elbow

13. Everything Is Everything - Booker T. Jones

14. Plutonius (Recloose Re-dub) - Dennis Coffey

15. Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix) - Mayer Hawthorne

16. Gold Dub - Resonators