For the first Smugglers Inn show in March I am proud to feature the first guestmix of 2010 from a true pioneer of UK experimental music – Geoff Research.

Geoff is the mastermind behind several projects which have featured on the show in the past. Research is his post punk, industrial, jazzfunk, punk funk project who recorded several mindblowing albums in the early 80’s. The music has actually improved with age and has been re-released recently on several uber cool labels including Rong/DFA and Bearfunk.

Geoff has also recorded a fair bit of experimental dance music under the name Tek San and he’s currently setting up his own label Peak Of Normal (I featured the first release Sensation/Asleep At The Wheel on recent shows) and remixing punk funk heavyweights Liquid Liquid.

More info on Geoff can be found HERE.

The rest of the show contains plenty of new stuff from the likes of Aloe Blacc, Altered Natives, Roska, Erdbeerschnitzel, Atjazz and Si Tew, Al Kent, Semtek a preview of my next single, plus loads loads more..

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 09/03/10

1 – Aloe Bacc – I Need A Dollar (Stones Throw)
2 – Bug – Cosmic Lab (Jus Like Music)
3 – Benjamin Semtek – Idiotland [Mr Beatnick Remix] (Cdr)
4 – Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra – Crosstown Traffic (First Word)

Geoff Research Guestmix

5 – Cosmetic – So Tranquilizin’ [Francois K Mix] (Gramavision)
6 – Research – Shape The System [Bassjam Mix] (Cdr)
7 – Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions [Maurice Fulton Remix] (Witchita)
8 – Extra T’s – E.T Boogie (Sunnyview)
9 – Bumper – Mascara Love (Point One)
10 – Was (Not Was) – Spy In The House Of Love [Jeff Young Mix] (Fontana)
11 – Felix Dickinson – Smokeless Machine (Cynic)

End of Geoff Research Guestmix

12 – Simon Weiss – Arting Mellow (Cdr)
13 – Al Kent – Brock Party (All Out War)
14 – Erdbeerschnitzel – 360 (4lux)
15 – Red Rack’em – Exhalt (///Shift Music)
16 – Your Only Friend – Spelunkin (Your Only Friend)
17 – Roska feat Anisha – I Need Love (Rinse)
18 – Altered Natives – Raaahtid Einstein (Fresh Minute)
19 – John Waynes – Falling Leaves (Groovement)
20 – Slipdress – Fork Tender (Cdr)
21 – Soul Minority – Six Nine [Bleep District Remix] (Kolour)
22 – Mist Works – Common Question (Atjazz Music)
23 – Plasmik – Smoothy (Hypercolour)

Smugglers Inn Radio Tonight 7-9pm GMT @ http://www.myhouse-yourhouse.net

Tonights Smugglers Inn show feature the first guestmix of 2010 from a true pioneer of UK experimental music – Geoff Research.

Geoff is the mastermind behind several projects which have featured on the show in the past. Research is his post punk, industrial, jazzfunk, punk funk project who recorded several mindblowing albums in the early 80’s. The music has actually improved with age and has been re-released recently on several uber cool labels including Rong/DFA and Bearfunk.

Geoff has also recorded a fair bit of experimental dance music under the name Tek San and he’s currently setting up his own label Peak Of Normal (I featured the first release Sensation/Asleep At The Wheel on recent shows) and remixing punk funk heavyweights Liquid Liquid.

More info on Geoff can be found here - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Geoff+Serle

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There’s plenty of hot new music around right now as well so expect to hear -

Ace old school sounding soul from Aloe Blacc

An exclusive Mr Beatnick remix of Idiotland from Benjamin Semtek

A hot afrobeat cover of Crosstown Traffic from Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra

More wonky house heat from Erdbeerschnitzel

The brand new Altered Natives smasher Rhaaatid Einstein

New hotness from Roska on Rinse

Some fresh new big room stuff from Atjazz and Si Tew aka Mistworks

Brand new wrong house on Your Only Friend

My next single on ///Shift (well one side of it)

and loads loads more….

I have got track on the new Brownswood/FYE compilation ‘We Made This’, which is made up entirely of tracks produced by users of the Brownswood message board. There’s some ace stuff on the album including tracks from Mr Beatnick, Jimi Oh, Bergs, Deep Space Orchestra, Surra and Clause 4.

As it’s a non profit exercise the comp is available for only £4.99 which is a bargain considering the quality of the music and artwork. It’s all exclusive material too. Soon to be a collectors item!

It’s available at Juno and Piccadilly so far….

Back to the usual 2 hours of brand new music for this show with some ace new stuff from the likes of Floating Points, Fatima, Whitefield Brothers, Madlib, Ilija Rudman, Aotten, Tek San and loads more goodness. This show is dedicated to Erick Andersen who was one of the founders of http://www.myhouse-yourhouse.net. Erick passed away 2 years ago but has left behind a thriving international music community and family. RIP Erick.

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 23/02/10

1 – Souleance – Le Plaisir (First Word)
2 – Fatima – Soul Glo (Eglo)
3 – Whitefield Brothers feat Edan + Mr Lif – Gifted [Oh No Remix] (Now Again)
4 – Georgia Anne Meldrew – Can’t Stand Your Love (Ubiquity)
5 – Red – The Nuts (First Word)
6 – Strong Arm Steady feat Phonte – Best Of Times (Stones Throw)
7 – Jazz Chronicles – Done It [K15 Remix] (Futuristica)
8 – Busta Rhymes – I Love My Bitch [Red Rack'em Remix] (Red Rack’em)
9 – Whitefield Brothers – Joyful Exhaltation [J.Rocc Edit] (Now Again)
10 – 6th Borough Project – So Glad (House Is The Cure)
11 – DC La Rue – Indiscreet [Popular Peoples Front Edit] (DCRW)
12 – Yabba Funk – Nyash [Olatunde Remix] (Here And Now)
13 – Bonobo – Eyes Down [Floating Points Remix] (Ninja Tune)
14 – Ilija Rudman – Calypso (Red)
15 – Bang Bang – Broken (YSE Dub) (Lost My Dog)
16 – Red Rack’em – In Love Again (Untracked)
17 – Jimi Oh – 070707 (FYE)
18 – Nick Holder – Welcome To Detroit (House Is The Cure)
19 – Vakula – JF (Uzuri)
20 – Aotten – W-4rp (Rotten Planet)
21 – KRL – Time (Wolf Music)
22 – Levon Vincent – Double Jointed Sex Freak Pt 3 (Novel Sound)
23 – Red Rack’em – NIght Shift (Undertones)
24 – Ly Sanders and Michael J Collins – You Were There (Electric Minds)
25 – Erdbeerschnitzel – Tonight Is Today Is Tomorrow (3rd Strike)
26 – Tek San – Asleep At The Wheel (Peak Of Normal)

I will be playing in at Moog in Nottingham tomorrow (sat 20th) with one of my biggest musical heroes Afronaught from the legendary Bugz In The Attic crew. It’s a late one so bring your dancing shoes.

Full info HERE

Smugglers Inn Radio Tonight
7-9pm GMT @ http://www.myhouse-yourhouse.net

Smugglers Inn returns to the digital airwaves with another 2 hours of brand new music. Shedloads of quality stuff including

- more from the Brownswood message board FYE compilation

- some tracks from the ace House Is The Cure compilation which features the likes of 6th Borough Project, Kink and Nick Holder (all proceeds from comp go to Detroit charity Coats For Kids)

- a preview of the long awaited EP from Eglo songstress Fatima

- a preview of the new EP from Oetten on Rotten Planet Records surely the only techno coming out of the Isle Of Man?

- a garage tinged remix of Bonobo from Floating Points

- new hip hop beat from Oh No and Madlib

- ace new afrobeat from Yabba Funk on Here and Now Records

- new wonky beats from Souleance and Red on First Word

- shedloads of cool new house and techno from YSE, Tek San, Levon Vincent, Gerd and many more

Well it’s been probably my most long awaited release since the Joubert Singers remix (which came out about this time last year). Don’t ask me why it’s taken so long but it’s finally here. Gilles Peterson played In Love Again on Radio 1 way back in September 2009 and since then I have had so many people contacting me asking when it’s coming out and some even asking to buy an mp3 off me!

Anyway, it’s a 3 track EP of beatdown house which I think is fairly banging despite all of the tracks being below 110bpm.

It’s available to buy from Juno and Phonica who very kindly made it one of their records of the week. It should be in Piccadilly by the weekend for all people of a Northern persuasion.

Soundclips are below.

Red Rack’em ‘All I Ever Wanted’ by Red Rack’em

Red Rack’em ‘In Love Again’ by Red Rack’em

Red Rack’em ‘Beginning End’ by Red Rack’em

I have finally managed to upload some tracks onto Soundcloud. So if you want to hear most of my back catalogue and some new stuff too please go to http://soundcloud.com/red-rackem to check out some tunes in their glorious waveform displays.

I must say I am really enjoying how easy it is to share music with people on Soundcloud, it does seem a lot nicer than just sending people download links.

For this latest show I was joined by ex Keep On scribe and Cosmic Slop member Mike Greenwell for a vinyl only trawl through the old school. Mike was co-presented the new wave special I did a couple of years ago and he is one of the people behind the new ultra underground invite only Cosmic Slop parties which are taking place sporadically in Leeds. You can check out a mix from their 2009 New Years Eve party HERE and if you want more info about their parties then please get in touch with them on this email – cosmicslop113[at]googlemail.com

We tried to break the show up into 2 halves with the first half focusing on live music (played on instruments) and the second half representing some more electronic sounds. As ever the lines are a bit blurred in places! We played 2 tracks each throughout the show. I played the first 2 tracks if you want to work out who played what.

The Smugglers Inn Podcast 08/02/10

Vinyl Only Special Co-Presented by Mike Greenwell

1 – James Brown – Don’t Mind (Polydor)
2 – The Millenium – Prelude (Grand Gruyere)
3 – Danta – Mother (Light Sounds Dark)
4 – Tabukah X – Finger Toe (Soundway)
5 – Claudette and The Corporation – Skinheads A Bash Them (Grape)
6 – Bill Withers – You (Sony)
7 – Baby Huey – Hard Times (Curtom)
8 – East Of Underground – Smiling Faces Sometimes (Nowthen)
9 – James White and The Blacks – Money To Burn (Animal)
10 – Andreas Dorau – Reisen Un Die Welt (Ata Tak)
11 – Ralph Thomas – Big Spliff (Soul Jazz)
12 – Horace Ferguson – Sensi Addict (Soul Jazz)
13 – Paris – Punkin Funkin (Bluebird)
14 – Ronnie Jones – Video Games (Polydor)
15 – Roots – Sherrifs Horse (Derby)
16 – The Sexican – Liza (Golf Channel)
17- Yellow Power – Hae Samurai (X Power)
18 – Forever [Dagur Nillson Edit] (Hverfisgotu Disco)
19 -Unknown – Untitled [Ron Hardy Edit] (White)
20 – Elektra – Feels Good Dub (Emergency)
21 -Dompteur Mooner – Michaela (Super Tahoe Edits)
22 – Eurythmics – Regrets (RCA)
23 – Deekay Jones – New York New York (White)
24 – A Number Of Names – Sharivare (Obsessive)
25 – DAF – El Que (Virgin)
26 – Delicate Genius – Circular Motion (Nuts)
26 – Unknown – Untitled [Ron Hardy Edit] (White)

Smugglers Inn London Excursion @ Vibe Bar, Trueman Brewery, Brick Lane, London

Friday 12th Feb, 8pm-1am, Free Entry.

My monthly London residency continues with the return of the DJs DJ Louis Finch.

Louis Finch

Louis is one of those rare DJs who prefers to let his blinding selection and skills do the talking. As a resident at the infamous Boogiejuice night in north yorkshire hippy haven Hebden Bridge he regularly gave guests like Derrick Carter, Andrew Weatherall and Chris Duckenfield a run for their money behind the decks. Nowadays he tends to avoid the spotlight so I am really pleased that I have persuaded him to play at this event.

Plus Resident DJ – Red Rack’em -Tirk/Untracked/Hometaping

Danny Berman aka Red Rack’em is working on several musical projects including Hot Coins (disco/house), Marlinspike (Detroit techno 2 step) and Red Rack’em (wonky hip hop and beatdown house). He produces music for quite a few respected labels including Tirk, Untracked, Home Taping Is Killing Music, Society, Soft Rocks, Undertones, Autodiscoteque and Deep Freeze and has also remixed a few well known artists including Tricky for Domino Records. As a DJ, Danny plays many different types of music around the UK and in Europe and he also produces and presents his own radio show The Smugglers Inn.

Rack’em will be joined each month by respected DJs and producers from various scenes. Expect to hear the finest hip-hop, disco, cosmic, elctro, punk funk, proper house, broken beat, jazz, funk and wonky beats.

For more info please check – here