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Lamb, a contemporary of Massive Attack in the mid-late 90′s UK triphop & drum n’ bass scene, produced several albums of haunting, edgy electronic songs, the best of which are collected in DJ Finny’s awesome “This Is Lamb” mix.   Although getting their start in Manchester, Lamb are more commonly associated with the Bristol-based trip [...]

The following is excerpted from a larger article, found here: Matt Black and Jonathon Moore have been creating tracks since the mid-80′s. It wasn’t until they came together as Coldcut and formed the highly innovative label Ninja Tune that they really started to have any success. With tracks such as “Mo Beats”, “Beats and Pieces”, [...]

Clocking in at over four and a half hours, this epic mix collects Massive Attack’s vast collection of work into a flowing journey of elegiac, melancholy soul and deep, dubbed-out funk.  Spanning their career from 1991 to 2004′s “Danny the Dog OST” album, as well as a number of the essential Mad Professor remixes from [...]

Kinosport’s live DJ set at Helsinki’s Rytmikaravaani event is one of the most delicious deep house / minimal techno sets I’ve ever heard.  I’ve been playing it for over a year now, and it always gets enthusiastic compliments.  It’s a slow-burner that gets chunky and funky about ten minutes in and keeps it going.  It’s [...]

Artist & DJ Eraserhead assembled this excellent mix of Warp Records (and related artists’) work a couple of years ago.  The 79-song track list is encyclopedic, covering every genre from ambient to breakcore.  Lots of very innovative mixing and layering here, but Eraserhead also knows when to completely switch it up.  In his words: This [...]

I grabbed this mix from Diplo’s Mad Decent blog yesterday and am really feeling it.  Here’s their description: We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, so what’s in a wobble? You don’t have to be a smart man to know what love is. <3STEP completes you and [...]

Here’s a fantastic new mix from Shapeshifter, a talented DJ and producer whose mixes I have featured in the past.  I’ve been rocking it daily since he released it last week and it’s time to add it to the collection.  In his words: Here’s a mix that’s been well over a year in the making. [...]