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Andy Smith’s Essential Selection mix for Radio 1 is one of my favourite ever DJ sets. Almost as good is his mix album The Document, which led to a number of sequels. And now, years after it first came out, he’s uploaded what would have been Document 4 to SoundCloud so that anyone can have [...]

So I was chatting via email with Tom from distilled and we decided it might be fun to organise a night where a bunch of SEOs and other digital types get together. However, rather than just standing round talking about 301 redirects and making robots.txt jokes* (“so the actress said, didn’t you see that I [...]

Next year I AM going to go to Sète for the Worldwide Festival. Dancing to people like Laurent Garnier, José James, Ben Westbeech & Gilles Peterson on a cliff by the Med? What’s not to like? PS – Check out the little kid getting some tips on how to rock the house. Finally, check out [...]

Legendary DJ Greg Wilson is to play his first ever set at London’s Plastic People for new club night Misha…. Misha is a new club night playing the very best in dance music, whether it’s soul, disco, electro, funk, or anything else. And to celebrate their occasional residency at Plastic People they’ve acquired the services [...]

Some people say that there is no skill to being a DJ. But the 10 best DJ Mixes are more innovative & exciting than most of the ‘real’ music being released.. I’ve been taking part in a discussion on MOG to come up with the 501 greatest ever albums and was thinking of adding a [...]

Mixed Moods Future Soul Radio is an amazing German internet radio site that I recently stumbled upon; if you like Gilles Peterson then you will love this… I was trying to find somewhere to download the new Ben Westbeech track Nothing Else, and stumbled on to Mixed Moods by accident. I don’t know much about [...]

Those lovely people at the club night Shuffle invited me down to the Legion again to play some records last Saturday… And this is what I played… Gang Do Tagarela – Melo Da Tagarela (Brazilian funk cover version of Rappers Delight by The Sugarhill Gang) Chic – Open Up (Norman Jay favourite, from his Good [...]

Earlier this summer I went to the rather excellent Lovebox Weekender Festival in London, hosted by Groove Armada… There were performances from Ben Westbeech, Coldcut, Norman Jay, Jamiroquai and Gilles Peterson to name but a few. And now, to bring back the happy memories, I’ve discovered some podcasts that were done for the Lovebox website. [...]

New York based DJ illJazz provides a hip-hop mix to put the summer in everyone’s life… Well, we lost. But the sun is shining and I’m off on holiday tomorrow. And one thing that I will definitely be taking is a great mix I found. It’s by a guy calling himself illJazz and it’s a [...]

For those of you who made it to Old Street on Saturday, my funk, soul & hip-hop set-list from Shuffle is below. Hopefully I’ll be back there soon…. Donny Hathaway – What’s Goin’ On? (cover of Marvin Gaye classic, sampled by Grand Puba) Shirley Bassey – Light My Fire (cover of Doors rock classic and [...]