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When a mix bags the accolade of Kid Kameleon's mixtape of the year, you know it's going to be shit-hot, basically. The Collaborator Mixtape is a unique and wonderfully fluid piece of work from Daniel Perlin, aka DJ N-RON, an artist, producer and sound designer based in New York. Originally released in January 2008, the selection is mostly original beats and tracks from Daniel, featuring a raft of 'collaborations', made with artists both wittingly (Matt Shadetek, DJ /rupture) and unwittingly (M.I.A., Lady Sovereign). DJ N-RON is currently on tour in Europe — check his MurdochSpace for a list of dates. If he's playing in a city near you, we recommend you go check the man out! Tracklisting: Suso’s Refix Cities into Worlds (featuring Vito Acconci) Cantakerous remix Wrong From Right (Featuring M.Sayyid) Rival Riddim Aboio 2.0 Pull It Up (with Mike O) Rich and Shameless (with DJ $mall ¢hange) Analys D’amour du Maga Bo (Capitalized remix) Possible Darker Spaces (N-RON mix of Possible) Try Harder Again Farida Maqam Al Hijaz (Occupied Signal Mix) Burhan Oçal All Stars remix (with DJ /rupture) Lower Ends (with Matt Shadetek) Bug Mash I Need a Dime (Double-up Mix) Random rmx (with Mike O) Grim Jonze Dubs (avec Leftenant) Sleeping Cities 3
A warm welcome to James Elphick, aka Mys-Elf, art director and organiser of London's heady Guerilla Zoo events, and sonic conjurer behind the sixth instalment of Spannered's Oddcast series. Entitled A Room With a View, Oddcast #6 slides, drifts, hops and chops between sublime electronica, infectious folk-rock, Latin rhythms, crackly cinematic samples and queasy instrumental hip hop; we've had it on heavy rotation since he sent it in to us (we particularly recommend it for long train journeys across the UK, accompanied by a four pack of Guinness). If you're feeling the boy's style, we recommend you head on over to his MurdochSpace page and check out his tunes too. Guerrilla Zoo is a London-based art/music/performance collective, featuring a slew of cool bands, live artists and performance acts from around the capital. For more info on forthcoming events and other mischief they're getting up to, check the site here. Tracklisting (*** denotes unknown trackname): Controller 7 — The World Outside My Door Controller 7 — Test #4 The White Stripes — Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn Amon Tobin — Horsefish The Mars Volta — Con Safo The Chamber Brothers — Love, Peace and Happiness Centepede — Clover.Come Together Con Julian y Sucombo — Enyere Kumbara Palmelra - Tapa Jos 1, R, P, 3 — Tema de Soninha Seguida Mam Bo — Rock The Mars Volta — Day of the Baphomets ? (edit) Omar Rodriguez Lopez — Deus Ex Machina The Buena Vista Social Club / Vieha Trova Santiaguera — El Tren Cunninlynguists — Where Will You Be Emperor Penguin — Burnt Sienna and Avocado Emperor Penguin — Mood Mound Controller 7 — Follow The Light Diplo — AEIOU (edit) *** Oh No Stomp — That Diplo & System D128 — Kill Yourself Mix (edit) *** Amon tobin — Big Furry Head NIN — Me I'm Not Wagon Christ — Boney L J Dilla — People Matisyahu — Shalom-Saalam Grizzly Bear — Easier Sufjan Stevens — Kaskaskia River / Vivian Ladytron — CMYK Controller 7 — Imagination Cycle Squarepusher — Radio 1 Breezeblock Session (edit) *** Mars Volta — Asilos Magdalena Bjork — Earth Intruders (Endtro edit) / Amon Tobin — Horsefish Surjan Stevens — For The Window In Paradise Electric Light Orchestra — Fire On High (reverse edit) Manitoba — Crayon Aphex Twin — Nannou Felix La Band — track ? *** Coco Rosie — Hairnet Paradise
Scottish techno pioneer, Spannered associate and owner of one very fine hat, Neil Landstrumm last graced these pages when the site launched back in December 2006. Well, he's back with a splendid new live recording, put together in Edinburgh this month as a promo for his current Subs & Steel tour. The string of dates kicked off at the Today's Art festival last weekend, where he also performed for the first time with collaborator Milanese. On more of a broken tip than his previous studio mixes, the sound is still unmistakably Landstrumm, with all manner of spannered electronic rhythms freaking out under a storm of bleeps, bass and thick Jupiter 8 stabs. For current tour dates, check his MurdochSpace page. No tracklisting. ^ Read Spannered's 2006 interview with Neil Landstrumm ^ Read Overload Media's interview with Neil Landstrumm from 2001 ^ Listen to Neil Landstrumm's Ravestep studio mix, recorded in 2006