AbstractRadio session - dem's da breakz - december 2016

Good people,

This time 'round in what will inevitably - as night follows day - come to be known as our "legendary" series of sessions, our devilish ninjas here at the AbRad work-house have knocked up a slightly twisted selection of action-packed beats and pieces for all you head-nodders.

Chock full of blunted funk, dirty beats, phat jazzy breaks and good ol' drum & bass and featuring, among others, the corrupted talents of Dusty Springfield, Led Zepellin, Marvin Gaye and the Reverend Al Green, there's nothing too hard on the mixer here, but more than plenty enough to scare the neighbours with.

File under uneasy listening.

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The AbRad team.

select mixes by genre:

Beats

Jazzy

Funky

Broad

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	soul mission	jackie in action	lacerba
004:08	a skillz vs beatvandals	feelin kinda insane	insane bangers
006:05	hardwire	conkskank	kingsize
009:35	agent sumo	keep the faith	freskanova
013:04	nice7	party people	area remote
015:30	skillz	happiness	finger lickin
016:47	paul murphy	soul call	afro art
019:28	kurt harris	emperor of my baby's heart	diamond
022:51	s.m.o.v.	marvin's state	kudos
025:48	glover & crockett	latin soul strut	chappell
027:38	krafty cuts	latin bounce	fsuk
031:23	telephunken	feeling good	actúa
033:00	duke of harringay	sarcacid	spymania
036:59	paysbass	I got you	zanzara
037:33	drome	hoax? what did you get	ninja tune
040:15	quantic	snakes in grass	tru thoughts
044:00	naturacinema	fastlane	noton
048:24	speedometer	happy	freestyle
050:47	tape five	soulsalicious	chinchin
053:56	amon tobin	stoney street	ninja tune
057:06	dj food	freedom	ninja tune
060:57	count skylarkin	dub of a preacherman	mftp
063:17	amon tobin	easy muffin	ninja tune
065:24	technimatic	looking for diversion	shogun audio
069:27	dj food	scratch yer head	ninja tune
074:15	fernando porto	só tinha de ser com você	trama
077:25	hexstatic	led zebamen	boot
080:39	superbreak	whole lotta dub	superbreak
086:20	tor	glass	loci
089:14	time machine	million and one things to do	miclife
092:00	stereo action unlimited	hi-fi trumpet	¡ya basta!
093:03	poldore	but I do	cold busted
096:40	fdel	how lucky am I	inertia access
098:25	gramatic	muy tranquilo	lowtemp
102:14	bozo meko	spread love	bozo meko
102:45	esbe	tribute to music	cult classic
105:57	keith mansfield	morning broadway	jazzman
108:42	atmosphere	sunshine	rhymesayers
111:20	ed wizard	straight up	editorial
114:52	gramatik	the prophet	lowtemp
116:52	jackknife lee	here kitty kitty	pussyfoot
119:39	jay-j	bone down	downshift
122:11	d-code	dust devil	adult swim
124:48	disco tech	waiting on you	discodat
127:37	gramatik	break loose	pretty lights
130:17	hyper	cascade	kilowatt

-- Total running time – 134.50 --

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AbRad Video: Litmus vs Freemasons - Uninvited

"Bravely we venture into uncharted waters."

In a departure from the norm, we thought "Wouldn't a video be nice every now and then."
So, in what will be undoubtedly a very occasional series, here's our first sortie into the wonderful world of on-line video...

Freemasons - Uninvited
Litmus Extended Edit

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Featuring the combined vocals talents of both Alanis Morissette [the original unlicenced version] and Bailey Tzuke (daughter of Judy) [the official 2007 rework] married up with some eye-popping visuals, we think we've got off to a half decent start.

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Here's the vid:

AbstractRadio session - masters at work 2016

Kenny Dope Gonzalez and Little Louie Vega aka the Masters at Work are unarguably the finest production team yet to grace the world of house music. Their truly gargantuan talents and influence require no further introduction.

Dominating the scene for over two decades, and recording for every legendary US house label of the early ‘90s - Strictly Rhythm, Nervous, Cutting, Nu Groove etc, MAW’s unprecedented output embodies the essence of soul in modern dance music, with tracks ranging from twisted house to pounding latin beats, often topped off with the sweetest of vocals (it certainly helps if one of your number was husband to the ultra-gifted chanteuse India). And the quality of their remix work remains unrivalled – all in all, a bar set very high, and yet to be paralleled.

As you may be able to discern, we’re big fans.

Here’s our tribute - a rather special selection of their finest, rarest and most influential tracks and remixes, starting from the early ‘90s.

Of course, for a body of work so large, there are many omissions here – countless Kenlou dubs, including Tito Puente’s Ran Can Can and Debbie Gibson’s One Step Ahead, Chris Cueva’s Hip Hop, MAW’s I Can’t Get No Sleep, Souffles & Everybody Needs Somebody to name a tiny selection. And then there’s their more recent solo work…

Maybe we’ll knock up another some time down the line?

With huge love and respect,

The AbRad team

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	vega & anthony	the ride	atlantic
004:00	jamiroquai	emergency on planet earth - club mix	sony
010:49	joe t. vannelli	play with the voice - MAW in your face mix	nervous
016:33	masters at work	our mute horn	cutting
022:19	julio iglesias	oye como va - organ mix	columbia
028:18	soul II soul	back to life - vocal dub	virgin
032:15	masters at work	brazilian beat - dope mix	mr bongo
036:04	hardrive vs dino lenny	deep inside - dino’s dub	strictly rhythm
037:44	nuyorican soul	runaway - spanish underground mix	giant step
045:00	people underground	my love - underground network dub	freetown inc
050:43	freedom williams	voice of freedom - bass hit dub	columbia
055:42	nuyorican soul	I love the nightlife / disco round - 12” mix	work
065:15	the cover girls	wishing on a star - jeep	epic
069:56	the braxtons	the boss - masters at work album mix	atlantic
079:20	linda clifford	runaway love	curtom
085:12	george benson	the ghetto / el barrio	grp
094:52	nuyorican soul	it’s alright	giant step
103:11	soul fusion	we can make it - underground network mix	strictly rhythm
107:47	mutiny	bliss - MAW main mix	sunflower
115:18	masters at work	backfired - frankie feliciano edit	MAW
124:21	voices	voices in my mind - cosmack master	sound of ministry
130:50	voices	voices in my mind - cosmic edit	sound of ministry
135:28	hardrive	sindae	strictly rhythm
141:40	barbara tucker	beautiful people - underground network mix	strictly rhythm
148:09	hardrive	deep inside	strictly rhythm
150:32	hardrive 2000	never forget	strictly rhythm
158:40	river ocean	love and happiness - junior boys own superdub	strictly rhythm
165:25	river ocean	yemaya y ochún - original	strictly rhythm

-- Total running time – 175.37 --

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AbstractRadio session - august 2016

Meanwhile…

Here’s another box of delights lovingly crafted for your pleasure - a cornucopia of house, from bigroom belters to disco reworks, featuring not just one but two previous AbRad tunes of the week; perennial dancefloor favourites Snap!, Boney M and Kylie [admittedly, rather twisted versions thereof] and, shoved onto the end for good measure, a smattering of AbRad faves, all very dear to our hearts.

Enjoy.

The Abrad team.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	milk and sugar	heat	enormous
005:53	mambo brothers	momento	toolroom
011:44	jindo	summer stories	inmotion
015:22	dj face off	the power	ppmusic
019:55	mark knight	your love	toolroom
025:35	technasia	suga	toolroom
029:30	giom	kalimba song	supremus
034:43	coeo	native riddim	toy tonics
040:17	superlover	circus	suara
044:27	love committee	just as long as I got you	alkalino
053:29	razor-n-tape	so true	razor-n-tape
057:51	italobros	for love	fogbank
061:36	paolo barbato	keep on loving	ocean trax
064:28	prok and fitch	tears	suara
069:25	ronn	sunshine	guesthouse
073:19	dirty secretz	trippin	whartone
076:42	brothers in progress	collision	monza ibiza
081:19	dj face off	surfer	white
085:57	the face	loving	defmix
090:36	nice7	point	gruuv
096:18	greg gauthier	another door	what’s up
101:44	gerd	for 12 mins she danced with an alien	bmu

-- Total running time – 109.48 --

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AbstractRadio session - july 2016

Like the veritable bad penny, we’re back once again, diving into another stack of delectable danceable delights.

Tons of tremendous toe-tappers here, from smooth vocals to big summer tunes, including Liem’s great reworking of a Sydney Youngblood classic, F. Rizardo’s re-jig of Joyce Sims, DJ Dan and Purple Disco’s cracking contributions, and then there’s the filthy bass running through The Swiss’ disco-drenched Elouisa…

Enjoy, and as ever, thanks for listening.

The Abrad team.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	jean claude gavri	nightfly	ebo
005:10	kaiserdisco	que ritmo	stylerockets
009:59	james winter	deeper love	city soul
014:06	winnie deep	new day	afrikamotion
018:27	life less ordinary	new day	club sweat
025:06	disclosure	holding on	caracal
029:32	todd terry	leaving me again	phoenix
033:45	alfred azzetto	funkasso	minimarket
037:02	djoon experience	baptise me	djoon
044:22	teddy douglas	check it out	nervous
047:51	liem	if only I could	white
053:21	the swiss	elouisa	kitsune
058:16	purple disco	love	defected
061:47	vhyce	hard to find	no brainer
067:46	dj dan	I got a man	instereo
071:09	noisy bears	u got my love	abcdeep
074:48	franky rizardo	come into my life	simma black
078:24	mr moon	freaky	mr moon
081:49	knee deep	all about love	kneedeep
090:38	siege	yeah	brobot
095:45	gabriel and castellon	harlem	inhouse
099:08	kenny summit	like a moth to the flame	guesthouse
103:27	sugarstarr	hey sunshine	enormous
109:00	claptone	ghost	exploited
114:21	damian lazarus	vermillion reprise	crosstown rebels

-- Total running time – 119.54 --

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AbstractRadio session - june 2016

This month’s spicy AbstractRadio Session Recipe:

Take a bit of deep and a pinch of disco. Throw in a splash of funky together with just a hint of old school to bring out the full flavour. Add a dash of all-time classic for good measure.

Leave to marinate in a dark place for several months before serving.
No extra seasoning is necessary.

[serving suggestion – loud, with good, solid footwear]

As is customary for any AbRad session, every track’s a winner, but deserving of a special mention in dispatches are:
J. Sikora’s “Larry’s Garage”, Sahagun’s twisted latin workout “The 3rd Advice”, Kink’s ethereal “Pocket Piano” and X-Press 2’s autumnal masterpiece - “Give It”.

Enjoy!

More soon

The Abrad team.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

House

Deep

Funky

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
00:00	rhythm doctor	intro	truelove
00:39	grand larceny	body workin	b2
03:32	rich pinder	hat play	d-vine
07:26	man without a clue	morning funk mix	clueless
11:01	roter lewis	get out of my life	nite grooves
14:21	juliet sikora	larry’s garage	kitt ball
19:15	clio	dangerous	truesoul
25:40	be as deep	music makes me happy	plastic people
32:22	disk nation	saxophonists	cruise
35:09	rene amesz	like it deep	tiger
41:34	diskode	burp	moulton
44:46	move d	jus house	uzuri
49:07	lenny kiser	this time	moulton
53:37	soledrifter	soul groove	large
57:35	joi resh	here we go	kaleydo
64:38	rafa barrios	daledalehey	intec
67:43	alan de lanier	dance	mycrazything
71:49	soul divine	secret love	stereo flava
74:54	manuel sahagun	the 3rd advice	development
81:13	kerri chandler	mommy whats a record	downtown
86:16	kink	pocket piano	running back
91:39	x-press 2	give it	skint

-- Total running time – 101.27 --

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Tune of the Week - No.9 - 12.05.16

With so much wonderful music knocking around here in the Abstract studio, we thought we'd take the opportunity to showcase a few very special items that are close to our hearts. Our choices for Tune of the Week may be fresh through the door, or decades old - our aim is that they will always epitomise the ethos of AbstractRadio...

And welcome back to our continuing search for aural excellence...

Milk & Sugar ft. Nomfusi - Heat (African Day) - Sandy Dae Mix -
Enormous Tunes ETR308

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Coming to an AbRad Session near you soon, here's our latest tune of the ... well, you can insert your own appropriate time-frame here [we suspect you're not all sitting on the edge of you collective seats awaiting our Tunes of the Week].

Featuring the silky vocals of South African chanteuse Nomfusi, Heat tells a tale of pastoral existence; collecting wood to make a fire, grinding flour for bread, taking water from the near-by river - no story of urban life and love here. In fact, she may well be camping, though we suspect not. Some of her lyrics remain unclear to us here at AbRad mansions, but frankly, she had us after the lines:

"Wake up in the morning, I was feeling kind of cold so I decided that I'd go and get some heat. Chopping at the wood so I can take it home with me so I can get the fire started for me tea."

[It's her pronunciation of "tea" that gets us - just exquisite!].

Milk and Sugar of course require very little by way of introduction - they've been knocking out cracking house tunes for decades, but the accolades here go to the remix duties carried out by relative newcomer Sandy Dae. She's added a cracking little bassline to the original, plus a couple of fat breaks, and has tightened the track up a fair bit, delivering a really fantastic floorfiller.

Go on, get some heat.

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Here's the vid:

AbstractRadio session - dirtydiscodubs II - april 2016

And we're back, with a second seasonal helping of smooth summery disco reworks, dubs and edits.

As ever, it’s hard to separate the men from the boys track-wise, but both Beaten Space Probe contributions are crackers, as are those from Fingerman, Stranger Danger, JC Gavri, Alkalino, LNTG, Anthony Mansfield, KS French, Ron Basejam and 78 Edits.

It’s all sun-blessed and drenched in vitamin C.

Enjoy.

AbRad - where the listener always comes first.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

Deep

Funky

House

Lounge

Disco

Tracklist

Start	Artist	Track Title	Label
000:00	vinyladdicted	so hot	noton
006:09	disco tech	waiting on you	discodat
012:20	p sol	love down	editorial
017:25	peza	do you have any	midnight riot
024:05	b-jam	stop out	superbreak
029:12	sunner soul	dancing to the music	noton
034:04	78 edits	meet patti	editorial
041:00	ks french	trippin' dub	digging deeper
050:32	get down edits	two timin' lady	editorial
056:02	the lonely smoker	on fire	bustadub
059:37	ltj	happiness	super value
065:51	tim zawada tugboat	deep n slow	white
073:04	b-jam	infinity	editorial
078:12	anthony mansfield	son of zeus	whiskey disco
082:57	jean claude gavri	az alwayz	coco
090:16	alkalino	come back baby	audaz
094:30	shit hot soundsystem	disco bukowski	undercover operations
101:49	buzz compass	your daddy loves you	a friend in need
104:42	the lonely smoker	hang on	los grandes
112:36	lntg	baby you fooled around	dessert island
117:38	beaten space probe	nine lives	bsp
124:32	beaten space probe	burnin up	bsp
131:45	stranger danger	want some more	hotbox boogie
135:40	ron basejam	someday	razor-n-tape
137:20	fingerman	lenny's disco	chopshop
143:52	fingerman	phoenix	undercover operations
151:22	giano v the spinners	single	tequila trax

-- Total running time – 160.06 --

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AbstractRadio session - ambient abstractions II - 2016

Aka: "Now that's what I really call chilled volume 2"

Appreciators of ambient abstraction & dedicated devotees of chill …

To [finally] see in 2016, we’d like to take you on an epic journey through 60 years of the finest chillage, featuring a hand-picked selection of laid-back noodlings from the AbRad vaults, favourites of daytime TV producers, idlers and insomniacs alike the world over.

With a lot of fantastic stuff from the Ninja stable, there’s just too many stand out tracks to mention in dispatches - you will have to listen for yourself. Suffice to say, there’s a fair number of golden moments here.

So, lie back, snuggle up, relax and float downstream [but keep your hands where we can see them].

Enjoy.

Horizontally yours,

The AbRad team.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

Lounge

Chill

Broad

Tracklist

000:00	incognita	intro	noton
001:33	flashbaxx	livingroom adventures	im electronic
006:54	brian eno	always returning	eg
011:10	kings of tomorrow	finally	distance
016:35	the cinematic orchestra	dawn	ninja tune
020:49	rollo	let this be a prayer	cheeky
023:22	sylvian & sakamoto	forbidden colours - ghosts edit	virgin
030:08	devotchka	how it ends	cicero
036:00	pink floyd	if	emi
040:46	sarah winton	blue jazz	noton
043:22	thomas dolby	I scare myself	capitol
048:27	i:cube	adore	music land
054:44	klf	six hours to louisiana, black coffee going cold	klf
056:06	ry cooder	paris texas	warners
060:32	klf	dream time in lake jackson	klf
063:14	avro part	spiegel im spiegel	bis
069:36	alucidnation	I’m not bad	induction
074:54	sunsay	wind song	noton
079:08	a man called adam	easter song	other
085:45	dj disse	walk on the wild side	music for dreams
091:59	fragile state	the barney fade	bar de lune
096:21	litmus	world on fire	noton
098:03	the exploding thumbs	sky holds the sun	holistic
101:17	jose padilla	walking in the air	react
106:22	lemon jelly	don’t stop now	xl
114:01	hafdís huld	who loves the sun	mvine
116:33	the penguin café orchestra	another one from porlock	zopf
119:24	philip glass	koyaanisqatsi	island
123:23	olive	not alone	rca

-- Total running time – 128:28 --

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AbstractRadio session - ambient abstractions I - 2016

Aka: "Now that's what I really call chilled"

Appreciators of ambient abstraction & dedicated devotees of chill …

To [finally] see in 2016, we’d like to take you on an epic journey through 60 years of the finest chillage, featuring a hand-picked selection of laid-back noodlings from the AbRad vaults, favourites of daytime TV producers, idlers and insomniacs alike the world over.

Here’s the first half of the two-part, 5 hour [we did say epic] session.

With a lot of fantastic stuff from the Ninja stable, there’s just too many stand out tracks to mention in dispatches - you will have to listen for yourself. Suffice to say, there’s a fair number of golden moments here.

So, lie back, snuggle up, relax and float downstream [but keep your hands where we can see them].

Enjoy.

Horizontally yours,

The AbRad team.

[any feedback, much appreciated]

select mixes by genre:

Lounge

Chill

Broad

Tracklist

000:00	the cinematic orchestra	manhatta	ninja tune
002:37	snooze	the spy from ankara	ssr
005:37	peace orchestra	10	g- stone
008:54	moby	lie down in darkness	mute
011:41	prince fatty meets nostalgia 77	quiet dawn dub	truthoughts
015:18	78 edits	meet patti	editorial
022:13	pink floyd	granchester meadows	emi
027:57	fila brazillia	subtle body	pork
036:32	rhye	the fall	polydor
040:47	dj food	the sky at night	ninja tune
044:52	the penguin café orchestra	nothing really blue	zopf
050:19	skalpel	sculpture	ninja tune
054:47	achive	old artist	Island
057:01	lemon jelly	the curse of ka’zar	xl
065:33	mystic diversions	flight ba0247	bacci bros
069:04	yo la tengo	blue/green arrow	earworm
075:26	cayetano	fairy tales	klik
077:48	hector zazou	and she stepped aside	ssr
085:20	coldcut	autumn leaves	ninja tune
091:25	smooth touch	10 minutes of pleasure	purple
098:19	sneaker pimps	6 underground	clean up
105:20	moby	the lonely night	little idiot
114:22	hans zimmer	journey to the line	rca
119:35	this mortal coil	song to the siren	4ad
121:26	the cinematic orchestra	burn out	ninja tune
127:45	river ocean	love and happiness	strictly rhythm
132:17	sisterlove	the hypnotist	on
140:39	kings of convenience	parr-a-pluie	source
143:30	reload	the enlightenment	infonet
148:54	elizeth cardoso	manhã de carnavalt	festa
151:41	angus and julia stone	big jet plane	emi
155:37	doctor rockit	café de fleur	accidental
162:31	the irresistible force	the lie-in king	ninja tune
167:26	m83	wait	mute

-- Total running time – 175:46 --

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AbstractRadio download - ambient excursions

Aka: "Now that's what I really call chilled"

Dear Listener,

For you, seeing as you asked so nicely, here's our latest epic session in all its five hour meandering magnificence, available as a single download in glorious stereophonic sound.

You can thank us later.

Just don't say we don't spoil you.

File details:

abstractradio-abstractions-260216.mp3
Recorded at 320kbps/ HQ VBR.
Beware: a fairly sizeable file:- 423MB.

[the above link will take you to the download page on google drive]

Session details:

Recorded in February 2016 with VDJ7 and SoundForge10.

Enjoy!
The AbRad team.

If you have any problems with the download link above, please let us know.

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NB: The session is also available as a stream in two parts: here and here.

The full track-listing is also available via these two links.

[There, that should keep you going for a while]