27 November 2013

Swooner Exclusive Mix no.7: Faithful Players' 'Played Out Deep' Mix



What better way to celebrate my return to polite society (and the internet) after a brief but hectic sojourn in Olde London Towne than unleashing Swooner Mix number 7! It comes from Dublin's Faithful Players (aka Al Killian and Brian Parr) and is pretty damn sweet. Get ready for some serious deep vibes and TUNES!



Tracklist:
Come On Now - Francis Inferno Orchestra
House Track One (Pete Herbert Version) - Moon Runner
Ain't My Style feat. John Turrell (Psychemagik Dub) - Featurecast, John Turrell
Les Mondes Engloutis (Ray Mang's Sun Sea remix) - ALICO vs CAGRI
Top Up (Original Mix) - Stefan Obermaier
Running to the Sea feat. Susanne Sundfør (LNTG remix) - Royksopp
The Waves (Psychemagik Remix) - Villagers
If You Only Knew (Original Mix) - Finnebassen
L-O-V-E (Tuff City Kids remix) - Boom Clap Bachelors
Suzy (original mix) - Darren Clark
Street Luv (original mix) - Fred Everything

To DL this mix, click here.

I've posted a previous Faithful Players mix, check it out here. They put on a very sweet Hallowe'en Disco Ball, and they will be having another party in February so go like facebook.com/FaithfulPlayers for more sweet tunes and info! Thanks Al and Brian!

soundcloud.com/lasso-damore
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19 November 2013

Swooner on YogaHub Radio 11.11.13


Matt from theyogahub.ie asked me to pick the tunes for his radio show last week. In theory it was a chill out set, but it didn't really work out like that. (It's a pretty random selection of tunes I really like, with a chill out song at the end!) Thanks for having me Matt!

Tune into YogaHub Radio every Monday afternoon from 2 - 4 pm on www.radiomade.ie and follow him on www.mixcloud.com/Yogafaces for more!



To download this show click here.

I've also put these tracks together in a Spotify Playlist in case you are that way inclined:

18 November 2013

Tiga: Fact Magazine Mix 410


My hero Tiga made a mix for Factmag and it's pretty damn filthy. Some serious beats in there. Get in!

factmag.com/2013/11/18/fact-mix-410-tiga/

Tracklist:
Actress – Maze (Long Version)
Osborne – Bout Ready To Jak (Ryan Elliot Remix)
The Mole – Like The Way
Plastikman – Risk Assessment (Original Mix)
Aphex Twin – Actium
Ben Klock – Subzero (Function & Regis / Sandwell District Remix)
Duplex – P.O.M. (Heinrich Mueller Remix)
Philip Gorbachev – Where Is Rony Douglas?
Black Asteroids – Black Acid (Alva Noto Rmx)
O/V/R – Descending The Left Corner (Original Mix)
Isaac Johan – Sally Wants Silver
Myler – Blue Madams
Acid Arab – Sidi Gouja
Forward Strategy Group – Elegant Mistakes
Tiga Vs Audion – Let’s Go Dancing (JoeFarr remix)
Donato Dozzy – Destination: Eskimo pt 1
Gesaffelstein – Nameless
The Velvet Underground – I’ll Be Your Mirror

soundcloud.com/mynameistiga

P.S. If you haven't seen the film about chess called 'Ivory Tower' that Tiga made with Chilly Gonzales, you are missing out, check out more about it here.

17 November 2013

LeBron's Galaxy of Love Mixtape


Lovely, light and upbeat disco mix from LeBron. Always a pleasure, always such a wide selection of tracks. Perfect Sunday afternoon buzz.


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Tracklist:
Crown Heights Affair – Galaxy of Love
Michael Baker – Don’t You Want my lovin
Kashif – Are you the woman
52nd Street – Tell Me
Kathy Buck – Don’t beat around the bush
Phyllis St. James – Candlelight
Delegation - Dance Like Fred Astaire
Bloodstone – My Love Grows Stanger
Inner Life – I Like it Like That
Cheryl Lynn – I just wanna Be your fantasy
Barbara Fowler – Come and Get Me
The Emotions – You’re the best
Attitude – I wanna get to know you better
Aurra – Make up your Mind
Maxx Traxx – Don’t touch it
Klique – Baby you can be the one
The cool notes – in your car
Melba Moore – Livin for your love
Evelyn king – I cant stand it
Aurra – Like I like it
High fashion –Feeling Lucky Lately
Carrie Lucas – Rocking for you love
Howard Johnson Keepin Love new
Kashif – Stoned Love
Thunderstorm – Here’s to you
Cheryl Lynn – Fix it
Shalamar – Don’t try to change it
Tommorrows Edition – im the best
Gloria Gaynor – runaround love
Tavares – Loveline
The Keith Diamond Band – All Night Rocker
Hayewood – A time like this
Attitude – Love me tonight
Status 4 – Loving You
The whispers – Keep on Loving me
September – The lover in me
Goody goose – it looks like love
Con Funk Shun – if youre in need of love
The players association – turn the music up
Siriusmo – high together

I've posted a bunch of other sweet LeBron mixes, check 'em out here.

soundcloud.com/samroney
facebook.com/pages/LeBRON

15 November 2013

Faithful Players' Disco Ball mix


I went to a Hallowe'en party Faithful Players put on and it was deadly, full of amazing costumes and quality tunes. This mix is full of sweet disco edits. Nice and chilled, but also very head-boppy.


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Expect a Swooner mix from Faithful Players soon too!

soundcloud.com/lasso-damore

12 November 2013

Talib Kweli's Red Bull Fireside Chat radio show


Talib Kweli did a Fireside Chat for RBMA. Really interesting to hear him talk about how he got started and came up with Mos Def, being friends with Dave Chapelle, working with DJ Quik and Madlib. And a load of gorgeous tracks in between of course.



Tracklist:
1 Industry - Lies Mood
2 Fortified Live - Reflection Eternal
3 Definition - Black Star
4 Chaos - Reflection Eternal
5 Move Something - Reflection Eternal
6 The Blast - Reflection Eternal
7 Love Language (Instrumental) - Reflection Eternal
8 Put It In The Air - Talib Kweli ft. DJ Quik
9 Little Brother - Black Star
10 In The Mood - Talib Kweli
11 Over The Counter - Talib Kweli feat. Madlib
12 Time - Hi Tek feat. Dion & Talib Kweli
13 Country Cousins - Talib Kweli feat. UGK Raheem DeVaughn
14 History - Mos Def
15 Just Begun - Reflection Eternal feat. Jay Electronica, J.Cole & Mos Def
16 Come Around - Reflection Eternal feat. Termanology & Royce da 5’9
17 In This World - Reflection Eternal

I've posted other similarly sweet Red Bull radio shows where artists talk about their influences and careers, check out these awesome shows by Chromeo, Mayer Hawthorne, Holy Ghost!, Kim Ann Foxman, Breakbot, The Rapture, Jamie Lidell or Nile Rodgers.

I've also posted a couple of non musical podcasts that are really good radio, check 'em out here.

rbmaradio.com/
talibkweli.com/

09 November 2013

Adriatique: The BPM Festival podcast


Adriatique are playing at the BPM festival in Mexico in January and made this podcast for them. It's gorgeous. Deep vibes. Would LOVE to see 'em live.


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They are so slick. I've posted some of their other sets here, and follow soundcloud.com/adriatique for more. I've also posted a load of Diynamic artists' mixes, check out soundcloud.com/diynamic-music too.

07 November 2013

Compuphonic Tales #1


YES! Compuphonic has started a monthly mix series. If this is anything to go by we are in for some treats. Always such a good vibe, chilled but housey beats. Lots of Mano and that deadly Solomun remix of 'Let's Go Dancing' - AND it's downloadable. Swoon!


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Tracklist:
Downtown Party Network - Space Me Out (Mario Basanov remix)
Daniel Bortz - Monkey Biznizz
Maya Jane Coles - Burning Bright (Joyce Muniz Remix)
Bruno Be - Hideway (Vincenzo Remix / Compuphonic Edit)
HimSelf Her - Gone Too Long feat. Kieran Fowkes (Compuphonic Remix)
Mano Le Tough-In My Arms
Cesaria Evora - Angola (Carl Craig's Mix)
Audion & Tiga - Let's Go Dancing (Solomun Remix)
Mano Le Tough - Primitive People (Tale Of Us Remix)
Lovebirds Feat. Novika - This time (Gorge Remix)
Afefe Iku - Mirror Dance (Yoruba Soul mix)
Ian Pooley - Kids Play
Animal Trainer - Charly
Agoria - Scala

I've posted a load of Compuphonic mixes before. About 10 of them! Check 'em out here and follow soundcloud.com/compuphonic-1 for even more of his stuff, tracks and remixes.



Moshigogo's November 2013 mix

Image from here

Another winner from Moshigogo. He just never lets us down. TUNES. And some savage mixing. And some nice Roisín Murphy too!


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As per usual, check out the previous mixes I've posted including the mix he made for Swooner.

soundcloud.com/moshigogo

06 November 2013

Kool Clap's Fall/Winter mix 2013


Another sweet mini-mix from Kool Clap. Always great tracks, this one includes some Mr. Oizo and also has that Kuar track by Emmanuel Jal, the Henrik Schwarz remix (I think?) which is awesome. (I put that in a spotify playlist recently, check it out here!) and some Chromeo, John Talabot and even some Jets, so you know it's good!


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I've posted a few Kool Clap mixes before, they are always great, if too short! Check out here, here and here and follow soundcloud.com/kool-clap for more!

facebook.com/pages/Kool-Clap

05 November 2013

Sunset Blood - the debut album by Starcadian

"I make ear movies" - very apt description of these tunes

My mate Stu over at the deadly www.wunderground.ie got me onto this album 'Sunset Blood' by Starcadian. It is basically my dream music. Synthy, 80s dance vibes with space lasers and robot voices, and amazing, gorgeous disco-ey tunes, and then some epic movie music near the end. At the risk of being lazy and reductive I'm just going to say that if you like Breakbot, or Daft Punk's Discovery album, or Drive, or Lasertom's debut album I posted about recently, you should check this out. (If you don't like any of those things, you are probably in the wrong bit of the internet.)

Stream and buy it here: starcadian.bandcamp.com/album/sunset-blood

facebook.com/pages/Starcadian
twitter.com/SunsetBlood
starcadian.com/
soundcloud.com/starcadian

I think he killed somebody with a Commodore 64:

04 November 2013

Stream John Talabot's DJ Kicks


Been waiting for ages for this! - You can stream John Talabot's DJ Kicks mix here. It's quality!

pitchfork.com/advance/283-dj-kicks/

"It's not a mix to dance to," says Talabot. "It starts really slow, 90bpm or something like that. It has some dance tracks towards the beginning, but as it progresses it chills out. It's not an easy mix. It's quite strange. It doesn't really build up in the way many mixes do. A lot of the tracks I've never played in a club because they wouldn't work. It's definitely not a club mix. When I DJ in a club at 4AM I play a dance-oriented set, but I wanted my DJ Kicks mix to show a different side of me, where I come from and what my influences are." - from the DJ Kicks site

Tracklist:
01. North Lake - Journey To The Center Of The Sun
02. Pye Corner Audio - Underneath The Dancefloor
03. Maps - I Heard Them Say (Andy Stott Remix)
04. Pye Corner Audio - Zero Centre
05. Michael Ozone - Hetrotopia (Young Marco Remix)
06. Madteo - We Doubt (You Can Make It)
07. Harmonious Thelonious - The Grasshopper Was The Witness (Elmore Judd & Rowan Park Remix)
08. Tempel Rytmik - Anagrama
09. John Talabot - Without You (DJ-Kicks)
10. Axel Boman - Klinsmann
11. Joaquin Joe Claussell presents Residue Part One - Eno (Melodic Dub)
12. Bostro Pesopeo & Pional - Bonus Beats
13. Mara TK - Run (Moodymann Remix)
14. Alex Burkat - Shower Scene
15. Mistakes are Okay - Night Watcher
16. Unknown - #001
17. Round - Glass
18. Max Mohr - Old Song
19. Samo DJ - Tai Po Kau
20. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Escape To Nowhere
21. Paradise's Deep Groove - Innermind
22. Abby - Streets (Wraetlic Remix)
23. DJ Jus-Ed - Turn Of The Century
24. Genius of Time - Juno Jam
25. Kron - Silikron (Jürgen Paape Remix)
26. Talaboman - Sideral
27. Pional - It's All Over (Locked Groove Rendition)

I've posted a load of Talabot's mixes on here, check out this, this and this!

He is touring the album and I'm heading over to London to see him on Saturday November 23rd! He will play The Button Factory December 7th.

soundcloud.com/john-talabot
dj-kicks.com/johntalabot/

Hellraisers


This tv documentary is about how mental Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne and even the snooker player Alex Higgins were. It was made in the late 90s so Liam Gallagher is held up as the current bad boy. Highly amusing. The whole doc is entertaining and also bananas, and sometimes sad. G'wan the lads. Richard Harris, what a legend.
 
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I've posted a couple of other good documentaries - check out this one about Björk and David Attenborough, and this one about Nile Rodgers.

02 November 2013

Mitzi: Triple J Mix Up Exclusives Week 3

Weekend advice for the ladies. 

Mitzi were on Triple J Mix Up Exclusives back in February (Australian radio station Triple J gets different DJs and bands to do 4 hour sets each Saturday night for a month) and this is part 3 of theirs, a load of great tunes. Hadn't heard that Nhan Solo 'Survivor' track before or the Motez JT edit, both whopper!


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Tracklist:
Flight Facilities feat Christine Hoberg – Clair De Lune (Them Jeans Edit)
Mitzi – All I Heard (Cassian Remix)
Elias Tzakis – Faces Everywhere
Maxxi SoundSystem feat Name One – Regrets We have No Use For (Matthew Herbert Remix)
Nhan Solo – Supervisor
Tigerskin– Windfall
Bondax – Baby I got That (Justin Martin Endless Summer Remix)
Bicep – Vision of Love
Julio Bashmore – Au Seve
Toyboy & Robin – No More Sunshine
Wordlife – Breakthrough
Justin Timberlake – Like I love You (Motez Edit)
Jacques Green – The Look
James Blake – Limit To Your Love (Daniel Bortz Edit)

I posted the first 2 weeks' sets here, check 'em out, I've had them playing loads the last while. I've also posted a couple of other Mitzi mixes, click here and here to listen.

If you haven't heard the Flight Facilities Triple J mixes, you missed out, or possibly have been in a coma. Check 'em out here.

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soundcloud.com/mitzi_band
abc.net.au/triplej/mixup/

01 November 2013

Drift - the debut album by Lasertom

Gorgeous album artwork by davedarcy.com/

So, I don't usually write much on here, I prefer to let the music speak for itself. It should go without saying that if it's on Swooner, I think it's ace. But every once in a while something comes along and 'I think it's ace' is an insufficient amount of words to describe it. The album 'Drift' by Lasertom is one such thing. So here are some other words: Beats. Space lasers. Beautiful. Darker beats. Epic. Layers. More space lasers. Groove. Dance. Repeat.

It's rare for me these days to be taken with an album in its entirety as opposed to just liking a few tracks. And although I have my favourite songs on it (No Play and Norwegian Pine today), Drift as a whole is quite moreish and satisfying and seems almost cinematic in its cosmic journey. Reminiscent of some of Lindstrøm's tunes (albeit less frantic than most of his) it could be the soundtrack to an amazing space movie - à la Interstellar 5555.

So yes, it is way more than ace. But now. Enough words! Use your ears! Decide for yourself:

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I saw Lasertom (aka Dublin's Simon Cullen,) live at Body and Soul last summer and it was definitely one of my highlights. If you ever get a chance to check him out I'd highly recommend it. The album release party will be in The Twisted Pepper on November 29th. Go to Lasertom on Facebook for updates.

soundcloud.com/lasertom-blast-crew
Buy Drift at Juno