The Wire

New mix up from me here – ‘Some Smartass Pawns’.   Or ‘Quantifying the Unquantised’.   Or ‘Mostly in C#m with a bit in Em’.   Or ‘Triumph Of The Bees’.  Whatever.

Tracklist:

1.  Flying Lotus - Bad Actors
2.  Koushik - None In Mind
3.  Mike Slott - Knock Knock
4.  Erykah Badu - Soldier (acapella)
5.  Quasimoto - Axe Puzzles (instrumental)
6.  J Dilla - Love Movin feat Black Thought
7.  Aloe Blacc - Find A Way
8.  Karriem Riggins - 12s in 8
9.  Harmonic 313 - Cyclotron
10. The Pharcyde - Passin Me By (acapella)
11. Dabrye - Evelyn
12. Fulgeance - Rubiscube
13. DJ Design - No Games (instrumental)
14. Slum Village - Players
15. Guido - Way You make Me Feel
16. Harmonic 313 - Wobbz
17. Ward 21 - Anti-spy
18. Steely & Clevie - Nightcrawler riddim
19. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Marcus Garvey
20. Production Unit - Dem Sirens
21. Brandy - What About Us? (instrumental)
22. Roots Manuva - Witness (acapella)

Warning – it has lots of samples from The Wire in it.  Personally I don’t think there are any spoilers, and I’ve checked with that in mind, but if you’re going to get all prissy then I’d advise against working yourself into an apopleptic lather on my account.  I really liked the character Bodie, so he got some airtime.

It’s the first mix I’ve done since parting company with Numbers, so I guess I wanted to do something non-dancefloor to show what else I can do.  Most of the gigs I’ve played in the past while have been in pubs rather than clubs and this is a reflection of the stuff I’ve been inflicting on the blissfully ignorant masses.  I’m planning a more dooftastic mix soon though, once one of my decks stops acting up.

Otherwise, not too much happening.  The Bear Tracks is in a virtual queue for release; hopefully start of the year for that, by which time I should have some more stuff ready.  Doing a remix for academic show-off and general good cove Dextro at the moment.

Edit:  Big shout to Thorsten from HPLL for the cover image!