22.11.05

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Mary Anne Hobbs What a girl....
What a bird..... she plays fantastic choonz and rides bikes..... what more could one want in a woman.
The Avalanches

The Avalanches 12th September 2001

This is the first of three Avalanches Breezeblock mixes doing the rounds, though this is the one that's really special. I've had this mix for years, listened to it countless times and it still manages to send shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Some of the mixes in it are just ridiculously uplifting.

Tracklisting
The Avalanches - "Since I Left You" (Modular)
Madonna - "Holiday" (Sire)
Bob Dylan - "Like A Rolling Stone" (CBS)
The Avalanches - "Stay Another Season" (Modular)
The Avalanches - "Two Hearts In 3/4 Time" (Modular)
Blowfly - "Rapp Dirty" (House Of Funk)
De La Soul - "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturdays" (Tommy Boy)
Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Baby Got Ya Money" (Elektra)
Roy Ayers - "Running Away" (Polydor)
Kid Creole And The Coconuts - "Stool Pidgeon" (Ze Wip)
The Avalanches - "Close To You" (Modular)
Jimi Hendrix - "Crosstown Traffic" (Polydor)
Cyndi Lauper - "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (Portrait)
Thomas Bangalter - "Turbo" (Roulé)
The Smiths - "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" (Rough Trade)
Slum Village - "Raise It Up" (Source)
Men At Work - "Land Down Under" (Epic)
De La Soul - "Ring Ring Ring" (Tommy Boy)
The Avalanches - "Electricity" (Modular)
A Tribe Called Quest - "Electric Relexation" (Jive 1993)
Daft Punk - "Oh Yeah" (Virgin)
Detroit Grand Pubas - "Sandwiches" (Jive)
Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" (RCA)
Fatboy Slim - "Fatboy Slim Is fucking In Heaven" (Skint)
The Beatles - "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club" (Parlophone)
Jurassic 5 - "Jayou" (Interscope)
Deee Lite - "Groove Is In The Heart" (Elektra)
The Avalanches - "Little Journey" (Modular)
The Avalanches - "Diners Only" (Modular)
The Avalanches - "A Different Feeling" (Modular)
The Avalanches - "Pablos Cruise" (Modular)
Michael Jackson - "Billy Jean" (Epic)
Instant Funk - "I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get it Girl)" (Salsoul 1979)
Electric Light Orchestra - "Living Thing" (Epic)
Mike Curb Congregation - "Mickey Mouse March" (Disneyland 1975)
Michael Wycoff - "Looking Up To You" (RCA 1982)
Fern Kinney - "Together We Are Beautiful" (WEA)
The Avalanches - "Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life" (Modular)
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams" (Warner)

Thanks to this site who I ponced the tracklisting from.

Download - 31,100Kb, 33m 10s.
Freddy Fresh Freddy Fresh - 1st June 1999???
I can't find the tracklisting for this one (anyone?). This one's a cool funky mix, a bit cheesy at times but you just know you'd be loving it if you were hearing it live.

Enjoy.

Download - 25,785kb, 27m 30s
Hexstatic - Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson

Hexstatic - 21st August 2000

Not that many tracks in this one by comparison to some but they're all absolutely stunning. Another classic Breezeblock.

Tracklisting
Hexstatic - Ahead Of Our Time (N Tone)
Chicken Lips - You Need A Medic (Kingsize)
Unsung Heroes - Daily Intake (White Label)
Hexstatic - Robopop (N Tone)
The Micronauts - The Jag (Virgin)
Organic Audio - Always The Sun (Tummy Touch)
Newcleus - Jam On Revenge (Regal)
Organic Audio - This Could Really Happen (Tummy Touch)

Download - 27,962kb, 29m 49s
Lo Fi Allstars

Lo Fidelity Allstars - 16th October 2001

This set's a live recording at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, consisting solely of the own Lo Fi's material. You've just got to love someone who scratches samples from Willy Wonka into their tracks :-)

Tracklisting
Lo Fidelity Allstars - The All, The All
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Sleeping Faster
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Don't Be Afraid
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Dark Is Easy
Lo Fidelity Allstars - What U Want
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Lo Fi's In Ibiza
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Disco Machine Gun / Bootsy Call

Download - 49,398kb, 52m 41s
RJD2

RJD2 - 8th June 2004

Like this mix alot. Only a short one but it fits my journey to work quite nicely! Don't know how to describe it - it's only 33meg, download it anyway :-)

Tracklisting
RJD2- 'Act 2' (White)
Weathermen- '5 Left In The Clip' (White)
Volume 10- 'Pistol Grip Pump' (White)
Jethro Tull- 'Cross Eyed Mary' (White)
Diverse- 'Big Game' (White)
Diverse- 'Wylin' Out' (White)
RJD2- 'Rain' (White)
RJD2- 'Good Times Roll' (White)
Double Trouble- 'Steep Rap' (White)
RJD2- 'To All Of You' (White)
RJD2- 'Someone's 2nd Kiss' (White)
1976- 'Remix' (White)
Massive Attack remix/Eric B & Rakim- 'Follow The Leader' (White)
RJD2- 'Smoke and Mirrors' (Polyphonic Spree remix) (White)
Wagon Christ- 'Shadows' (Ninja Tune) (LP - 'Sorry I Make You Lush')
Soulwax- 'New York Excuse' (White)
Marco Bailey- 'Elektrik Mekanik' (NEWS) (LP - 'Rudeboy')
Detroit Grand Pubas- 'The Clapper' (Poker Flat) (LP - 'Galactic Ass Creatures From Uranus')

Download - 33,691kb, 28m 04s
Scratch Perverts

Unkle vs Scratch Perverts - some time in 1999?

James Lavelle, Tony Vegas, Prime Cuts and 5 decks.

Couldn't for the life of me find a tracklist for this, though there's nothing too obscure on there so might try and list them myself sometime. It's largely made up of tracks off Psyence Fiction so shouldn't be too hard. Not sure on it's exact date, but when it's introduced it says it's around the time 'Be there' was released which I think was sometime in 1999. Highlight of the mix has to be a remix of that track, typical Lavelle remix - absoultely rocks.

Download - 86,989kb, 60m 24s.
Mr Scruff

Mr Scruff - unknown date

There have been a few other Mr Scruff Breezeblocks but their tracklists don't suit the mix, think this one's quite old and the archives on Radio 1's website only go back to 2002.

It's a pretty good eclectic mix and worth a listen if just for the little adverts interspersed throughout it prompting companies like The Seventies Freezer Center, Morecabme, Chelmsford Erotic Telephone Banking and Shower Jazz (which sounds like it could possibly be more entertaining than any of these mix sets).

Download - 72,656Kb, 60m 32s.
Steinski and Jonathan Moore (inset)

Steinski vs Plus One vs Jonathan Moore - Unknown Date

What a combination. Start off with Jonathan Moore from Coldcut, throw in some classics from Steinski's encyclopedic knowlege and mix it up with some top class turntablism from Plus One and this is what you get.

Lovely stuff.

Download - 72,751kb, 77m 36s.

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