This gun's for hire

When The Boss wanted to sell records to the black kids he did what anyone would have done in the 80's, got Arthur Baker to re-edit Dancing in the Dark into a more DJ friendly version. Baker overdubbed synth lines, glockenspiels, additional vocal harmonies and chopped and echoed Springsteens vocal parts, all from tape.

The resulting remix, the Blaster mix, became the biggest selling 12" in 1984 and rocked dancefloors. Many of Springsteens fans hated the remix though, which lead to Bakers response: "I got really offended. What is so different? It has a fucking glockenspiel, which Bruce has used before, background vocals ... it's no different. See, if any of those mixes had come out before, with no one knowing the other version, no one would have said a word."

Dubstep primer

Here is a kind of dubstep primer mix I did a little while back for a friends website, don't know if its up there yet but here it is.

Tracklist:
1. Digital Mystikz - Misty Winter (Soul Jazz)
2. Shackleton - Hamas Rule (Skull Disco)
3. High Plains Drifter Vs. Goldspot - Sholay (Tempa)
4. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Roll Deep Remix) (Wichita)
5. RSD - Pretty Bright Light (Punchdrunk)
6. Zomby - Spliff Dub (Heavy Artillery)
7. Deadboy Racer - Champion Theme (dub)
8. Henry & Louis - Answer (Pinch Remix) (2Kings)
9. The Bug Ft. Flowdan & Killa P - Skeng (Kode9 remix) (Hyperdub)
10. Mark Ashken - Roots Dyed Dark (Skream remix) (Leftroom)

dance dance dance dance dance to the radio

Here is a Deadboy Racer vs Ghosthype live set broadcast on Radio Reverb in Brighton on Friday night, played on laptop, melodica, dubsiren and space echo and recorded to cassette. Hope you like (its a 320kbps mp3 by the way so you may have to exercise some patience). Bless!

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PULLIT! PULLIT!

Black Pudding Crew have secured a monthly residence at Hectors House in Brighton, get down there for bass and beats, plus big big acts in the pipeline.

February: Future Dub Soul

Ghosthype presents a night time mnml dub techno mix, in a basic channel/rhythm & sound vein with some 4/4 input from Burial & Shackleton.



1. rhythm & sound - king version

2. rhythm & sound - trace

3. L.V feat dandelion - takeover dub

4. rhythm & sound - dem never know (sleeparchive remix)

5. rhythm & sound - see mi yah (basic reshape)

6. burial - raverz

7. shackleton - blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)

8. simian mobile disco - hustler (shackleton remix)

9. burial - untrue

10. deepchord presents echospace - celestialis

11. basic channel - phylps trak

12. october - 3 drops

13. basic channel - radiance

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