2 mixes by Blood Diamonds

Ah, Christmas.

Blood Diamonds' recent Dazed Digital mix, lots of sweet beats, reminds me a little of the Eton Messy mixes. That last tune is some unexpected Japanese pop music that I cannot get out of my head now, be warned.


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Trackist:
1. Clouds Across Face - Andrew Thomas
2. Poloniusz Style - Pol_On
3. Cut A Hole - Jay Shepheard, Martin Dawson
4. Come to the City - The War on Drugs
5. Two Dots - Lusine
6. My World - Ambassadeurs
7. Meant to Be - Nocturnal Sunshine
8. How Did I Get Here - ODESZA
9. vvi+h You - Taquwami
10. Antiochus IV Epiphanes - Grimes
11. Getting me Down -Blawan
12. Jackson - Super Pitcher
13. Clutch - Pearson Sound
14. Dancing Mountains - M83
15. There Will Be Tears - Frank Ocean
16. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Tsukematsukeru

Also: a mix by Blood Diamonds from last year. Slightly eclectic collection of tunes, lots of upbeats and different style tunes mixed really well together. Also includes Sunchyme by Dario G, so you know it's good.


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Tracklist:
1. de Montevert – The Ghost
3. Chalices of the Past – Slow Dance
4. Dario G – Sunchyme
5. Star Slinger – Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins Rework)
6. Adeptus – Sonique Remix
7. D’eon – Kill a Man with a Joystick
8. Baths – Pop Song
9. Avey Tare – Lucky1
10. Yazoo – Don’t Go
11. Clive Tanaka – Neu Chicago
12. Evan Voytas – Tomorrow Night We’ll go Anywhere
13. Seeing Suge – Breaking

http://blooddiamondsmusic.com/
https://soundcloud.com/blooddiamonds

P.S.
Listen to one of his own tunes, Ritual. (You can hear the Sunchyme influence):


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Nancy Whang's Dazed Digital Mix

A big bunch of thank yous to my pal Liadain who sent me this deadly Dazed Digital mix from Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsytem fame today. Lots of gorgeous tunes from current musical crush Holy Ghost! and that amazing tune 'Look Right Through' by Storm Queen, among others: 

Nancy Whang's Wintry Dazed Mix by Dazed Digital on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
It Gets Dark - Holy Ghost!
Day By Day (Psychemagik Mix) - Research
Too High - Gramme
U Got Me Dancin' (Piano Party Mix) - Neurotic Drum Band
After the Dance/Let No Man Put Asunder (Eros Edit) - Marvin Gaye/First Choice
How Do You Do (Todd Terje Remix) - Hot Chip
Don't Go Lose It Baby (Stretch Mix) - Hugh Masekela
Ou Est Le Soleil? - Paul McCartney
Look Right Through (Dimitri From Paris Erodisco Mix) - Storm Queen
I Just Love What You're Doing - Hot Chocolate

For the Dazed interview with Nancy click here. I've posted other Dazed Digital mixes -this amazing one by Perseus and this one by Lemonade. Check 'em out.

dazeddigital.com

Lemonade's Dazed Digital mix

Lemonade are a Brooklyn based band on the True Panther Sounds label. I'm not actually into their tunes but they made a mix for Dazed Digital and the first tune on it is Midas Touch by Midnight Star, one of the best songs in the whole world. That is then followed by a bunch of whopper tunes.

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Tracklist:
1. Midnight Star - Midas Touch
2. Clara Mondshine - Memory Metropolis
3. Helium Robots - Bring Drinking (Tuff City Kids Remix)
4. dOP - Rave Forever Together
5. Hardrive & Dino Lenny - A DJ Deep Inside (Shadow Child Vocal)
6. Shadow Child - String Thing
7. Huxley - Let It Go (Eats Everything Refuse)
8. Christian Löffler - Eleven feat. Mohna

www.dazeddigital.com/

Any excuse to post the Midas Touch video:

Perseus Dazed Digital Mix

I have just realised I don't have this mix on here yet, despite it being the thing I've listened to most the past few months. Get it in your ear boxes. The mixing at the end with 'Show Me Love' by Robin S going into 'Paris Is For Lovers' by Fet et Moi always makes me extremely happy:



The video for that Fet et Moi tune is also deadly: