This week’s top mixes include Willie Burns Moving On Dekmantel, Hessle Audio Introducing Bruce, Eugene Ward Blowing Up The Workshop, and House Shoes’ Fresh Selections.
Willie Burns Moving On Dekmantel. When he’s not releasing records on the likes of LIES, The Trilogy Tapes and Creme Organization, Brooklyn-based Willie Burns makes absurdist home movies with Legowelt, has his own regular radio show, and runs W.T Records and The Thing record store. His mix for Dekmantel‘s podcast rushes into energetic and abrasive lo-fi rhythms and textures, decorated with sirens and rave stabs, and effortlessly moves between styles from there on. Stream and download above.
Hessle Audio Introducing Bruce. Bruce, aka Larry McCarthy, arrived from Buckinghamshire via Bristol on Hessle Audio and Livity Sound‘s sub-label Dnous Ytivil as one to watch for 2014/15 for his distinctively dancefloor-conscious experimental techno productions. Ahead of his Room One debut next month, Bruce places unreleased and untitled cuts of his own between tracks from Bjørn Torske and Pangaea in this FABRICLIVE x Hessle Audio Mix. Stream and download above, read an interview with the artist here, and full track listing here.
Eugene Ward Blowing Up The Workshop. Otherwise known to most as Dro Carey/Tuff Sherm, Eugene Ward has previously released music on an impressive roster of labels including The Trilogy Tapes, Ramp, Opal Tapes, Merok, Berceuse Heroique, and Greco-Roman. A selection of ultra modern compositions recorded for his series of performance collaborations with choreographer Patric Kuo over a five-month period have recently been released as an LP titled Paint en Pointe on Where To Now?. Stream Ward’s contribution to Blowing Up The Workshop mix series, mostly of his own material, above.
Crossing dBridge. Exit Records boss and D&B pioneer dBridge, whose other projects include collaborations with producers Instra:mental, Fierce, Break, Survival, Calibre, and Skream, has recently starting creating techno and house under the alias Velvit. This five-hour set, which took place in Fabric’s Room Three on Friday 3rd August 2012, was archived in promotion of dBridge’s upcoming appearance in the Soul:ution-hosted Room Two takeover on 14th August where he, Calibre and Marcus Intalex are all set to go B2B2B for another five hours. Stream above.
House Shoes’ Fresh Selections. Fresh from producing tracks on Danny Brown’s XXX and Quelle’s Shotgun and Sleek Rifle, Detroit Hip-Hop’s Ambassador to the World – Michael “House Shoes” Buchanan, whose limited vinyl issues have been released on FlyLo-endorsed Do-Over Records and All-City Records, performed an exclusive mix recorded live in-studio for the Tight Songs radio show’s 11th Guest Selects Mix, hosted by Fresh Selects – an independent label based in Portland, Oregon specialising in eclectic sounds from all over the world. Stream above, full track listing here.