Here’s the new podcast which as ever features 2 hours of brand new music and my occasional musings on it. I caught a bit of a cold in Berghain last weekend and then got totally soaked on my bike on tuesday night so please forgive my slightly muted tone. Starting to feel better now which is good as I have quite a large weekend ahead of me!

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 27/04/12

1 – S.Maharba – Something In The Way She Moves (BTS)
2 – Homeboy Sandman – They Can’t Hang (Stones Throw)
3 – Regional Garland – 15 Ain’t Young Anymore (Now Again)
4 – Quakers – Smoke (Stones Throw)
5 – Peter Power – Red Roses (Kleine Reise)
6 – Synus0006 – Back (Chi)
7 – S.Maharba – Nice To Meet You (BTS)
8 – Elitechnique – Intrusion (Clone Loft Supreme)
9 – Nasrawi – Nasty Money (Lovin)
10 – Leif – Big Smoke (Cdr)
11 – Alex Hentze – Stars In Your Eyes (Max Essa Remix) (Plasma Torus)
12 – Infestus – Electric Purple (Groovement)
13 – The Heels Of Love – Flight 707 (Jadoo Remix) (Nang)
14 – Play On The Comet – Don’t Tell Me Things (Cdr)
15 – Chymera – Strange Things Are Afoot (Claro Intelecto Remix) (Connaisseur)
16 – Downtown Party Network – The Other Side (Best Kept Secret)
17 – Blacksmif – Microweight (Blah Blah Blah)
18 – Mystery Artist – Wuut (Cdr)
19 – Flori – Sing It Out (Leif Remix) (Cityfly)
20 – Spargel Tarzan – Sauce Hollandaise (Spargel Trax)
21 – Superloader – Walk With Me (Rest! Music)
22 – Toby Tobias – Paradise Lost (Throne Of Blood)
23 – The McGurk Effect – Sporadic (Audio Parallax)
24 – Stephane Vera – Peppermint Funk (Si Begg Remix) (Nice And Smooth)
25 – Christian Vance – Step 3000 (Brick Veneer Dub) (Haul)
26 – Deepchild – Lovejack (Cdr)

So here’s the latest podcast. 2 hours of brand new music. Me talking. Yeah.

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 16/04/12

1 – Homeboy Sandman – I Do Whatever I Want (Stones Throw)
2 – Regional Garland – Girl You Better Hurry (Now Again)
3 – Quakers – Russia With Love (Stones Throw)
4 – SpinOFF – Letter (Safe Sexx)
5 – Cancelore – Supa Sunny (Panama Red)
6 – Souleance – La Belle Vie (First Word)
7 – Peter Visti – Besos (Bearfunk)
8 – Pykup – How’s Wally? (Cambrian Line)
9 – Redman x Madlib – Medicine Show Track 12 (Stones Throw)
10 – Nasrawi – Two Won’t Do (Lovin)
11 – Rita Lee and Roberto Lanca – Perfume (Shux Edit) (Cdr)
12 – Yvein Monq – Godess Of The W (8 Ounce)
13 – Henry Wu – Midtour (Gorilla Tech)
14 – Dara – Scribble Me This (Kleine Reise)
15 – Ave Blaste + Lopez – NTA (Keep Up!)
16 – Clap Rules – Oh Uibe (Bearfunk)
17 – Roman Rauch – All I Need (Endless Flight)
18 – Dakini9 – Human Existence (Plan B)
19 – Four Tet and Burial – Nova (Andreas Saag Treatment) (Cdr)
20 – Deyal – I Bring You 96 (Cdr)
21 – Leon Vynehall – Mauve (WRHP)
22 – Hint – Physical Stamina (Tru Thoughts)
23 – Synus0006 – Capricorn (Chi Recordings)
24 – Lady Blacktronika – Understand My Heart (Supreme Scyence)
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New podcast. New music. New style economical write up as I am tired from the weekend. Enjoy….

Smugglers Inn Podcast 21/03/12

1 – Blackula – Early Dawn Bites And Electric Spirits (Bearfunk)
2 – Souleance – Tryin’ 7 Edit (First Word)
3 – Two Left Ears – Marshmallow Lento e Largo (Laybell)
4 – Arp 101 – Mystery Man (Eglo)
5 – Incarnations – Sunsest On Punto Paloma (Lovemonk)
5 – Leif – Swaying (Cdr)
6 – Vex Ruffin – Perfect Congestion (Stones Throw)
7 – Unclepasha – Spirit Free (Nang)
8 – Kool DJ Dust – Dancing Suite (Basic Fingers)
9 – Abstract Eye – Analogous (Eglo)
10 – Hard Corps – Dirty (Stones Throw)
11 – NY*AK – Echoes (Cdr)
12 – Incarnations – Sunsest On Punto Paloma (Frisvold + Lindbaek Remix) (Lovemonk)
13 – Mr Beatnick – Sun Goddess (Don’t Be Afraid)
14 – Mo Kolours – Mini Culcha (One Handed)
15 – Henry Wu – 9 Bit Stoners (XVI)
16 – Saine – Medium Grind (Must Have)
17 – Ajukaja – Benga Benga 2 (Cdr)
18 – Recloose – Feels Like Magic (Rush Hour)
19 – Franklin De Costa – Bulk (Cdr)
20 – Movie Star – Bootlegged Bitches (Ajukaja Remix) (Cdr)
21 – Red Rack’em – Right (All Night) (Bergerac)
22 – Deyal + Raadz – The Exchange (Porridge Bullet)
23 – Special Request – Alone (Special Request)

Hey folks. Here’s the latest and the greatest…

Smugglers Inn Podcast 09/03/12

1 – Mo Kolours – Temi (One Handed)
2 – Bryan Ferry – Me Oh My (Quiet Village Remix) (Vinyl Factory)
3 – 2 Left Ears – 5 Jay Divas (Laybell)
4 – Mo Kolours – Banana Wine (One Handed)
5 – Real – Oak (XVI)
6 – Ruins – Fire (Stones Throw)
7 – Escort – Cameleon Chameleon (Ilija Rudman Remix) (Red Music)
8 – My Panda Shall Fly + Benjamin Jackson – Data Module (Five Easy Pieces)
9 – Unknown – Body Slam (Nelue Rework) (Groove Democracy)
10 – Volta Cab – Wake Up And Get Into The Groove (Ubertramp)
11 – Mr Beatnick – Savoirfair (Don’t Be Afraid)
12 – Ajukaja – Benga Benga (Cdr)
13 – Sonar Pilot v Jonny Miller – LTM (Lay-Far Remix) (Sonarpilot Audio)
14 – Philippe Laurent – Distorsion (Stones Throw)
15 – Gerry Read – Crawlspace (Delsin)
16 – Murphy Jax – The Acid Housekeeper (Deep Detroit Mix) (Hypercolour)
17 – Eye Love – Mysticism (Cromie Remix) (Slime)
18 – Deyal – Get To This (Porridge Bullet)
19 – Decyfer – MiYU (XVI)
20 – LowLow – Low Phase (Breakbit)
21 – Beca – Lets Run World (Klic Remix) (This Is Music)
22 – Geiom – Lost Monarch (Cdr)
23 – Artificial Intelligence – Rise n Shine (Altered Natives Remix) (Cdr)

Smugglers Inn Now On NTS and Sweatlodge

I am pleased to announce that the show is also broadcasted on London based station NTS Live fortnightly Thursdays 2-4pm UK time and weekly Wednesdays 5pm on Berlin based Sweatlodge Radio.

As ever you can tune in live to the Smugglers Inn Radio show every second Wednesday from 7-9pm UK time @ http://myhouseyourhouse.net.

So here’s the second podcast during February. Just want to say a massive shout out to everyone I met in Estonia a the weekend! It was an epic trip – 4 flights, 2 gigs, 1 radio show, 1 near death drive during the worst snowstorm I have ever seen, too much vodka and not enough sleep. Feeling a bit wonky this week but hey that’s the life of a DJ eh…

New Recloose, Dragon, Mo Kolours, Gerry Read, Tom Noble and much more. Enjoy….

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 23/02/12

1 – Mo Kolours – Ridda Mountain (One Handed)
2 – Homeboy Sandman – The Miracle (Stones Throw)
3 – 1000 Names – Sushi Hour (Project Mooncircle)
4 – New World Generation – Curious Soul (Now Again)
5 – Hint feat T Fly – Aliens Enter (Tru Thoughts)
6 – Blackula – Deadlier Than Love (Bear Funk)
7 – Mo Kolours – Twelve (One Handed)
8 – Heion – It Can Be (ISM)
9 – Quakers – Fitta Happier (Stones Throw)
10 – Mannmademusic – Untitled 1 (Cdr)
11 – Holiday In Arabia – Gravitation (Billy Bogus Remix) (Mad On The Moon)
12 – Dragon – Wackaday (Cdr)
13 – Chordashian – Don’t Wait Up (Downtown Party Network Remix) (Mullet)
14 – Tom Noble – Dancing Hard (Tom Noble Remix) (Clone Loft Supreme Series)
15 – Tommy Rawson – Shy Track (Cdr)
16 – Magnetic Soul – Heads Over (ISM)
17 – Gerry Read – Yeh Come Dance (Delsin)
18 – Placeholder – Don’t U Know (Jacob Korn Remix) (Space Hardware)
19 – Felix Lenferink – Untitled (Triphouse Rotterdam)
20 – New Build – Do You Feel Loved (Juju and Jordash Remix) (Lanark Recordings)
21 – Recloose – UHF (Rush Hour)
22 – Red Rack’em – If Only The Past (Bergerac)
23 – El Provost – Massive (Third Ear)
24 – Franklin De Costa – Belongings (Cdr)

So here’s the first real podcast of 2012 and I am really happy with the selection of music on the show! The Best Of 2011 special allowed me a bit of breathing space so I had 2 months worth of promos to choose from which was nice – although I have since remembered a few notable omissions (like the new Gerry Read EP on Delsin how could I forget that?). Not much more to say really apart from welcome to 2012 and welcome to another Smugglers Inn podcast.

Smugglers Inn Podcast 04/02/12

1 – Speech Debelle – I’m With It (Lapalux Remix) (Big Dada)
2 – Quantic + Alice Russel – Look Around The Corner (Tru Thoughts)
3 – Finn Peters – Purple and Yellow (Crewdson Remix) (ISM)
4 – Homeboy Sandman – Unforgettable (Stones Throw)
5 – East Of Underground – Walk On By (Now Again)
6 – Jordan and Santero – Oh Yeah (Elementz Remix) (Weird Science)
7 – New World Generation – One Of A Kind (Now Again)
8 – Kompleks – Brod (Bored Audio)
9 – Rondenion – Song A (Faces)
10 – Stan Smith – No Big Thing (Tokyo Dawn)
11 – Debukas – Knowledge (Debukas)
12 – The Meb – Il Principal (Chicago Damn Remix) (Lets Play House)
13 – Wasserfall – Unwind (Greta Cottage Workshop)
14 – Hugh Pascall – Chasing Heat (DSCNCTD)
15 – Raffertie – Brevity (Ninja Tune)
16 – Ka§par – Stella Maris (Cdr)
17 – Neon Jung – Delirium Tremons (Magic Wire)
18 – Dragon – I’ll Do Eddies House (Cdr)
19 – Luke Type – L-Shift (Cdr)
20 – Gerry Read + Kevin McPhee – Demolition Man (Ramp)
21 – Franklin De Costa – Bogart Space Funk (Argumento)
22 – Grand High Priest – Mary Mary (Altered Natives Remix) (More About Music)
23 – Red Rack’em – Alone Always (Bergerac)
24 – Dakini 9 – The Weight Of Disbelief (Plan B)
25 – El Provost feat D Ham – Putting Out Fires (Third Ear)
26 – Conforce – 24 (Clone Basement Series)
27 – Aeromaschine – Fawn (White Rabbit)

Happy New Year everybody! After much mirth and merriment in December and the most epic New Years Eve I have ever experienced (the Berlin ‘don’t forget to go home’ cliche is still ringing in my head), I am pleased/relieved to present to you my own personal take on some of the amazing music which was released in 2011. You know the deal by now. I try not to play the hyped big name stuff. What’s the point? You will have read about it already in the press lists. So this podcast is about representing people who I think make music which deserves more praise and profile.

Downtempo stuff was equally as strong as dancefloor stuff last year, so the first half hour of the show is devoted mainly to some of my favourite folky, soulful woozy numbers. There has been some great club music released this year of course, so I tried to include some of the lesser known numbers which have worked for me this year.

I can’t think of much more to say really apart from MASSIVE thanks to everyone who sent me great music to play last year. Respect to the producers and labels who are pushing things forward. On a purely personal level, I want to express my gratitude to everyone who listened to the radio show, downloaded and shared the podcast, bought one of my records, booked me to DJ, came to see me in a club and spent time with me while I was on my travels.

There were so many highlights last year. My first trip to Australia, returning to Japan, finally visiting Russia (twice), being made so welcome when I moved to Berlin, completely re-designing my life, releasing records which I was proud of, playing some of the coolest underground parties I have ever experienced….

Sorry for the rambling – I will sign off now by just saying – massive thanks to everyone. You know who you are. x

Bring on 2012!

Smugglers Inn Podcast Best Of 2011 Special

1 – Jonti – Begone Slumber (Stones Throw)
2 – Deft – Paradise (DCNTD)
3 – Mo Kolours – Biddies (One Handed)
4 – Debukas – Set Myself On Fire (2020)
5 – System Status – Ancient Astronauts (Night Sweats)
6 – Steve Reich – 2×5 Movement 111 (Vakula Remix) (Cdr)
7 – Mouth – Ghost Lips (Mad On The Moon)
8 – Roberto Rodriguez – I Got (Fina)
9 – Ajukaja – Oh Babe (Umblu)
10 -Klic – Disco Music (Home Taping Is Killing Music)
11 – Recloose – Electric Sunshine (Rush Hour)
12 – Bon Voyage – Sorciers Des Airports (Disques Stendec)
13 – Royalty – Heat Ray (Five Easy Pieces)
14 – Robot Koch feat John Lamonica – Heal (Project Mooncircle)
15 – NY*AK – No More Music (Audio Parallax)
16 – The Police – When The World Keeps Running Down (Souled Edit) (Cdr)
17 – Lay-Far – Triptych (Cdr)
18 – Billy Bogus – Terror Island (Nang)
19 – Arttu feat Jerry The Cat – Nuclear Funk (Clone Royal Oak)
20 – Trevor Deep Jr – Keep It Raw (HPTY)
21 – The Units – One Man (Chris Carrier Rework) (Opilec)
22 – Ka§par – Able To Find (Carlos Nilmmns Glasgow Tangent) (Groovement)
23 – Funkineven – Rolands Jam (Eglo)
24 – Red Rack’em – Courting (Bergerac)
25 – Dexter – Space Booty (Clone Crown)
26 – Semtek – Goons (Don’t Be Afraid)
27 – Gerry Read – We Are (Fourth Wave)
28 – Franklin De Costa – Goomer (Resolute)
29 – Red Rack’em – Kalimba (Philomena)
30 – Nick Harris – Medication Time (Juju and Jordash Xanax Time Mix) (NRK)

So here’s the latest podcast. No guestmix this time so it’s 2 hours chez moi. This will be the last normal show of 2011 as the next radio show will be a best of 2011 special. I am hoping to broadcast that on the 21/12/11 but as I am also traveling back to the UK on that day, it might have to be broadcast 2 weeks later.

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 08/12/11

1 – Jimmy Flamante – The Ninja (Jus’ Like Music)
2 – Dimlite – Heroine Roof (Now-Again)
3 – Union feat. Talib Kweli & Sly Johnson (Opolopo Remix) (Tokyo Dawn)
4 – Midnight Davis – Nothing Is Obvious (Five Easy Pieces)
5 – Nick Waterhouse – I Can Only Give You Everything (Innovative Leasure)
6 – Madlib and Freddie Gibbs – Deep (Stones Throw)
7 – Cyclonix – Dagobah (Cdr)
8 – Mecca83 feat Grand Ear – Good Morning (Freeform Records)
9 – Andy Meecham – Moog Prodigy (Nang)
10 – The Detachments – Holiday Romance (Frenchbloke Remix) (Thisisnotanexit)
11 – Dennis Jr feat Christabelle – Call Code (Beatservice)
12 – Joni Haastrup – Imokiraria – (Tummy Touch)
13 – Sportloto – Will I (Fabrizio Mammerella Remix) (Nang)
14 – Lord Of The Isles – Fresh For You (Tusk)
15 – Kindness – Cyan (Female Energy)
16 – Paul White feat Danny Brown – One Of Lifes Pleasures (One Handed)
17 – Discomendments – Tales From The Bunka (Out Of Bounds)
18 – Kez Ym – Alley Of Mind (Faces)
19 – Axel Boman – Vodkaskot (Cdr)
20 – Ka§par – Able To Find (Groovement)
21 – Hugo Barret – Lilly Hole (Ethyl Remix) (Vitalik)
22 – Lady Blacktronika – Lil Re Re (Sound Black)
23 – The Chain – Suffer For Your Art (R+S)
24 – Darling Farrah – Grace (Civil)
25 – Alex Jones – Stamp (Hypercolour)
26 – Frits Wentink – Ezzo 2 (Triphouse Rotterdam)

I played in Rotterdam at the start of last month for the Triphouse guys and I had a great time. I spent the afternoon in their newly opened record shop and when we ended up at the venue I was blown away by the opening set from Khalil who is one of the founders of the label/promotion company. Fortunately the entire evening was recorded so I was able to procure Khalils mix for this podcast. I want to take this opportunity to recommend the first release on Triphouse by Frits Wentink, which I think is pretty special.

The rest of the show features ace new music from a variety of corners. Warped chanteuse pop from Ajukaja and Maria Minerva, rawk and roll from Nick Waterhouse and The Watkins Screamers, banging techno funk from Arttu and Gerry The Cat and mad garage spin offs from Kuhn and Geiom.

Smugglers Inn Podcast 16/11/11

1 – Stealing Sheep – Noahs Days (Colo Remix) (Heavenly)
2 – Nick Waterhouse – Is That Clear? (Innovative Leasure)
3 – Ajukaja + Maria Minerva – Nii Hea (Cdr)
4 – The Watkins Screamers – Nighttime (Ten Thousand Yen)
5 – Amalia – Freeze That! (Tokyo Dawn)

Khalil (Triphouse Rotterdam) Guestmix

6 – Lapalux – Time Spike Jamz (Devonwho Remix) (Cdr)
7 – White Lies – The Power & The Glory (Bibio Remix) (Fiction Records)
8 – Tokimonsta – Stigmatizing Sex (Brainfeeder )
9 – Jed & Lucia – Helium (Letherette Remix) (Ubiquity)
10 – Tokimonsta – Darkest (Dim) (Brainfeeder)
11 – Teebs – Arthur’s Birds (Brainfeeder)
12 – The Please – Just-in (Cdr)
13 – Machinedrum – Late Night Operation (Letherette Remix) (Cdr)
14 – Bibio – Chancylvania (Warp)
15 – Dutchmassive – Fireworx (cdr)
16 – Linkwood – Hear The Sun Firecracker)
17 – Jed & Lucia – This Is Why (Ubiquity)
18 – Paul White – Gentle Freak (Now Again Records)
19 – Young Montana? – Sacre Cool (Alpha Pup)

End of Khalil Guestmix

20 – NYAK – Lydia (Cdr)
21 – Dennis Jr – Feel (Beatservice)
22 – Frists Wentink – Ezzo 1 (Triphouse Rotterdam)
23 – Royalty – Cookie Dough (Five Easy Pieces)
24 – Radical Majik – Mental Health Time Bomb (The Boardroom)
25 – Arttu feat Gerry The Cat – Nuclear Funk (Clone Royal Oak)
26 – Simon Weiss – Yesterday Is Around (Hometaping Is Killing Music)
27 – Audiojack – Definition Of A Track (2020 Vision)
28 – Pariah – Left Unsaid – (R+S)
29 – E.S.C – The Prophecy (The Boardroom)
30 – Billy Shane – Fahk (Falk)
31 – Cyclonix – Gynougv (Cdr)
32 – Kuhn – Slime Beach (Phillip D Kick Remix) (Civil Music)
33 – Geiom – When It’s Real (Cdr)