I introduced my Chilean friend, Francisco Saavedra to a few nice tracks recently. Being the skilled man he is, when it comes to mixing, he wrapped them up in a tidy little mixtape for WCNS and all you lovely people. I find it pretty accessible, we listened to this last friday before heading to Julio Bashmore at the GSA and it put us in the mood, but you can play it when your just chilling. Tracklist for Mixed Up Afternoon is below. Please enjoy our third release in the series of invited DJs, you can listen to previous offerings here.

XXXY – Ordinary Things
Julio Bashmore – Ask Yourself
Logo – La Vie Moderne (French Fries and Tony Senghore remix feat PiuPiu)
Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You
Galen & Justin Martin – Dust Devil (Original Mix)
Julio Bashmore – Around
Untold – Come Follow Me
Sepalcure – No Think

Mixed Up Afternoon by We Can Never Stop

Soooo, it’s that time again – second Saturday of the month IS One More Tune up the Art School. Tonight is the third birthday of this great night and to get y’all amped for the big night we have a tasty little mix prepared by OMT’s Matthew Craig.

Glasgow School of Art, 11pm-3am, £5 (free before 11:30 for all). With Jackmaster (Numbers) and residents Define Define . Patchwork rocking visuals + mad crazy
bday shit and Joe Crogan video documentation…

Be there.

Delinquent ft. Kcat – I Got U – [Spoilt Rotten]
Helixir – Convultions – [7even]
Gold Panda – Peaky Caps – [Ghostly]
Debruit – Soles Sweat (Reso Remix) – [White Label]
Mount Kimbie – Maybes (James Blake Remix) – [White Label)
Big Boi - General Patton - [Def Jam]
Mono/Poly – Beatles Bitch – [Faces]
Megadeth – Set The World Afire – [Capitol]
DJ P.O.L. Style – Vampire Killah – [Nightshifters]
Clockwork – Airflow (Valerna Remix) – [White Label]
Brackles – Blo – [White Label]
The Dream – Love Vs Money – [Island Def Jam]
Minilogue – The Girl From Botany Bay – [Wir]
Marc Houle – Bay Of Figs – [M_nus]
French Fries – Senta (Emynd’s Mighty Quinn Piano Blend) – [White Label]
ESG – Dance – [99]
Retro/Grade – Pulsar (12″ Mix) – [Deconstruction]
!!! – The Hammer – [Warp]
Battant – The Butcher – [Kill The DJ]
Cubiq – Bor-Dom – [White Label]
Bent – Always (Mighty Mouse Remix) – [Godlike and Electric]
Warp 9 – Light Years Away – [Prism]
Naum Gabo – Black Lab – [Endless Flight]
6th Borough Project – Do It To The Max – [Instruments Of Rapture]
Local Natives – Airplanes – [Infectious]
These New Puritans – Hologram (Salem Remix)

OMT = 3 Mix

The second instalment of, the exclusive WCNS mixes, is provided by one half of the RPZ outfit, Hushpuppy. His mix, Sunshine Pop Happening, has opted for an off-kilter, summer vibe using classics and rarities from the 1960s. He has also included a very interesting piece on his views of the movement, music and culture surround the 60s and our perception of it (see below the player).

I think it’s good to hear something different, especially when combining modern mixing techniques with music, totally not designed with that in mind. We hope you enjoy it and also be sure to check out the first in the series, Mathew Craig’s Synthia.

Sean & David – La-De-Da
Blades of grass – Just Aah
Beach Boys – Busy doin nothing
Sugar Shoppe – Skip along sam
Mama Cass – Long time lovin you
Free Design – Umberellas
The Association – Goodbye Columbus
The Groop – Jet song
Harpers Bizarre – Hey, you in the crowd
Sundae Train – Love affair of two happy people
Lovin Spoonful – Do you believe in magic?
Orpheus – Lesley’s world
Chris Montez – The face I love
Sagittarius – I’m not living here
The Buckinghams – Don’t you care
Claudine – My guy
Nino & April – You’ll be needing me
Roger Nicholls – I can see only you
The Group – A famous myth

Download Sunshine Pop Happening here.

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I heard this mix of 80s/90s dream pop, synth lushness and textured heavenly tracks over at the ever reliable ISO50. I’m a real sucker for music like this. I love the impurities in the recordings, the early experimental confidence and that nostalgic path which was firmly laid into a new and unknown place in music.

The mix is by The Sight Below and was recorded for Fact Magazine.

slowdive – slowdive (1990)
chapterhouse – treasure (1991)
franke – jag älskar dig (2003)
joy division – isolation (1980)
echo & the bunnymen – do it clean (1980)
spacemen 3 – take me to the other side (1987)
cocteau twins – lorelei (1984)
kate bush – hounds of love (1985)
iggy pop – nightclubbing (1977)
teenage filmstars – loving (1992)
seefeel – more like space (1993)
clan of xymox – no words (1985)

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The Sight Below – Fact Mix 149

Okay, this is the first of many an exciting project. We Can Never Stop will be inviting many of the best DJs in Glasgow to produce exclusive mixtapes for the site. If you would like to be involved, feel free to get in touch.

First up is One More Tune‘s Matthew Craig with his mix Synthia. Matthew started the succesful One More Tune in 2007. The next night is on May 8th at The Vic Bar at the Art School. He also runs Cheap & Nasty in Nice & Sleazy and Itch! alongside with Gnarlyface and Mark David.

You’re welcome to download the mix and as always, it’s good to hear peoples thoughts, so share your thoughts.

Roj – What I Saw
Lucky Dragons – Power Melody
Tensnake – In The End (I Want To Cry)
Danger – 4h 30
Treasure Fingers – What Am I Supposed To Do
Capricorn – 20Hz
Four Tet – Sing (Mosca remix)
Beach House – Zebra
System 7 – Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Remix)
Starkey – Gutter Music
Lil’ Flip vs Dorian Concept – I’m A Baller vs Trilingual Dance Sexperience (Patchwork Pirates Refix)
Tyrone Davis – In The Mood

Matthew Craig – Synthia

Just heard this really nice mix by Washed Out over at the ISO50 site. The music Washed Out produces, relies heavily on the synths and often has a dislodged, old time quality to the sound. A lot like chillwave (I posted some examples here). If this is your bag, then this won’t fail in pleasing you. It’s free to download, so get over there and swoop up a copy.

Arch M – Bedrm Band at Caf NVA (edit)
The Samps – Magnetic Thys
Samiyam – Wrap Up
Toro Y Moi – Brubek
Koushik – Homage
Osborne – Afrika (Bullion Remix)
Iasos – Inter-Dimentional Music
Jack Nitzsche – Untitled (edit)
The Khalsa String Band – Song of Bliss

Washed Out – Fantastic Symphony

Night Dreams is a listening concept presented and curated by Dave Barbarossa (Fun Size, Curious Curious) and Hushpuppy (RPZ, Death Disco).

Both Dave Barbarossa and Hushpuppy are frequent players on the Glasgow club scene at various events – Huntley’s and Palmers, RPZ, Death Disco, Fun Size, Optimo and many others. However, both felt there was a distinct lack of opportunity in their sets to delve into the more interesting corners of their musical taste and present something that is a fraction out of the ordinary – if not totally off the planet – nor indeed was there anywhere where music fans and adventurous club-kids could travel to hear such sounds.

It was out of this realisation that NIGHT DREAMS was born. Night Dreams is designed to fill the gap that exists for a pre-club where a genuinely wild and varied collection of music can be heard that is interesting, stimulating and entertaining. Sounds that though might be danceable are not necessarily about playing straight forward club tracks and dance hits.

The proposed soundtrack at NIGHT DREAMS will include all things cosmic – rock, funk, synths, jazz, as well as punk, new wave, progressive electronics, psych, kraut rock, weird pop, foreign disco avant-garde and all manner of difficult listening. The ambiance will be complemented with soothing sci-fi video loops and calming fragrances (to sooth the rattle of the odd burst of jarring artifical sound).

The line up will be supplemented on the 13th March by the input of James Pole from the well know “Northern Lights” radio show on deepfrequency.com, who will be encouraged to come up with a set to challenge and delight the ears of the listener.

Night Dreams-February Mix

Deerhunter and Atlas Sound genius, Bradford Cox released another really nice mix (below). Perfect if you want some easy listening, folky unobtrusive music to work/chill to-more to download here. I was recently impressed to learn, that his lyrics are not pre wrote. He sings by stream of conciousness. I don’t know how accurate that is, however, as wikipedia can’t always be taken for word. If you haven’t heard his music before, check out these tracks under Atlas Sound and Deerhunter.

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