andy grant- once upon a time in london (MP3)

london, mid ’90s…..the warm glow of the second summer of love has long since faded and repetitive beats have been banished from the fields once and for all, retreating to dark, moody clubs in the city’s back streets. the sounds of bad boy pirate radio stations ring out from boom boxes across town; the dial is locked to girls fm, with legendary shows from the likes of kenny hawkes, princess julia and the wonderfully named dj fellatio. house dj’s across the city look to the usa for inspiration, but the post-rave house crowd’s feet are tapping to a chemical beat, needing more than the 120bpms of the classic strictlys, emotives and nu grooves…..back in chicago the pitch may have been wild, but in london it’s firmly on +8. a new genre is born - speed garage. it’s not long before bedroom producers armed with affordable new technology start sampling, looping, slicing & dicing us house classics of old, pitching ‘em up and beefing up the beats. we’ve got an acapella and we’re gonna use it. every week at records stores across the city the moody geezers show up with unmarked white labels tucked under their jackets…sell ‘em for 3 quid, retail for 5…the latest mashup of a house classic on speed, pressing plant id meticulously scratched out of the runout groove. the new uk tracks sell like hot cakes; why pay import prices when you can buy domestic? soon labels are springing up across the city, putting out the new home-spun garage sound: nice’n'ripe, deep trouble, ice cream , G.O.D., each week a new label with a new release. dj’s and crowds are lapping them up, ‘avin it in clubs, railway arches and warehouses across the city. soon enough the sound evolves; increasingly influenced by r & b, drum and bass and hardcore, it moves away from its us house roots, mashing up genres to become firmly rooted as the sound of urban london. this mix is my trip back to that time in london, before armand time stretched tori; before kelly g two-stepped tina; before rosie got closer than close; before “UK garage”….and in keeping with the pirate radio mix tapes of the day, there ain’t no tracklist for this one :)

Genres: deep house, garage, house, speed garage

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andy grant - back in the saddle (MP3)

kerri chandler – the drive (max trax) kerri chandler - kong (deeply rooted house) dj rasoul – candlelight affair (greyhound) kinky movement – safe house (tango) jimpster – a hold on your soul (freerange) kimouts – down to earth (mymy monterrey wash remix 1) (buzzin’ fly) tiefschwarz – original (drama society remix) (souvenir) jay shepheard – 4nc (compost blacklabel) kimouts – down to earth (original) (buzzin’ fly) trentemøller – miss you (trentemøller remix) soul clap – the giraffe (original mix) (airdrop) jerome syndenham, texu, romantic couch - ebian (samual l session remix) (ibadan) jon cutler & matthias heilbronn – 651 (original mix) (distant music) ray charles – eleanor rigby (quentin harris remix) jay shepheard – …the party’s upstairs (compost blacklabel) kurd maverick – the rub (instrumental mix) (cr2 records)

Genres: deep house, electro-house, house, minimal

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Andy Grant - Certain Depth (MP3)

Finally got round to doing a mix....been a while since the last time. This time a couple of hours of quality deepness to follow up my Sudden Depth mix from some time ago. Track listing: Sine – I Like It Deep (Deeper Still) (Brainiak Records) Sine – I Like It Deep (Deep Beats) (Brainiak Records) Filsonik – Evolution (Filsonik’s Times Square Dub Mix) (Funk La Planet) TR – Movement (Restricted Tracks) Håkan Lidbo – Grande Fama (Fiji Recordings) Milton Jackson – Rogue Element (Milton’s Nightmare Mix) Marc Cotterell – Strong Words (Frankman Mix – AG Trapped Edit) (CDr Promo) Burnski – Stand Still (Exquisite Music) Dub Dookies – Pupile (CDr Promo) Dee Bunk – Tog (Freudenhouse) Mood 2 Create – Keening Note (Underground Music Movement) Two Men On A Struggle – Project 1 (House Jam Records) Raymond Castoldi – Cycles of Life (X-Ray Records) Solaris Heights – Solarism (Off The Beaten Track) (Paper Recordings) Doi-oing – This is the Way (Fender Rhodes Mix) (Brainiak Records) Tunnel Traxx – Potion No. 1 (Drums of Fire) (ACV Records) Nadirah Shakoor – Pride (Main Mix) (Set) Audio Soul Project – No Exit (Dessous) Lil Mark – What? (Matthew Styles Mix) (Disco 45) Dubble D – Blunder (Swag’s No Such Remix) (20:20 Vision) Essa – Rock Iz Dead (Paper Recordings) Laid Back – White Horse (Sire) Donnell Rush – Symphony (Maurice’s Underground Movement)(ID Records) The Craftsmen – Cem’s Groove (Greenhouse Recordings) Franck Roger – No Way Back (Instrumental) (Seasons Limited) Oasis – Seventeen (FXHE Records) Slam Mode – Neveah (Desvio)

Genres: deep house, house

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Andy Grant - Retrospace (MP3)

A selection of solid housey doings from back in the day recently extracted from local bargain bins and slapped together in a half-arsed fashion. Pal Joey – Runaway (Loop D’Loop Records) Mr. Fingers – What About This Love (Dub Version) (Alleviated Music) Romanthony – Testify #2 (Creators’ Remix) (Black Male Records) Darkman – Annihilating Rhythm (The Destruction Mix) (Strictly Rhythm) Rio Rhythm Band – Tio Amo Semprini (Up & Down Mix) (Vinyl Solution) Todd Terry – Put Your Hands Together (TNT Records) “Jackin” Bernard Badie – Peut Etre House (DJB Records) Black Traxx – Retrospace (Night Club Records) King Amazin – The Shot (House Jam Records) Black Traxx – Doctor’s Housecall (Night Club Records) Robert Owens – I’ll Be Your Friend (Dead Zone) (RCA) Chez Damier – A 2 ½ Step (KMS) Black Traxx – Can U Feel It (Night Club Records) Ray Castoldi – And Everything That Creepeth (X-Ray Records) Chez Damier – Untitled (KMS) Chez Damier & Co-Inside – Give A Little Love (Madie In Detroit Mix) (t:me) Black Traxx – The Party (Night Club Records) Bang!

Genres: chicago house, deep house, house

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Andy Grant - Planet Deep, Planet Soul (MP3)

Here's one from my mix archive from a couple of years ago that I was just revisiting recently. Some quality deep house tunes. Tracklist: Glenn Underground - To the King O.I. (Peacefrog) Pete Moss - Strive to Live (Alola) Larry Heard - Guidance (Calm) (Guidance) Fresh & Low - Love Capsule Deluxe (Vocal Mix One) (Guidance) Boo Williams - Mars (Headphoniq) Glenn Underground - Sun, Moon & 12 Stars (Guess Who Mix) (Peacefrog) Chris Lum - Feelin' High (Thinking of You) (Nova Scotia’s Player 1 Remix) (Hooj) Glenn Underground - Musical High (Defender) The Wayfarers - State of Being (Main Mix) (Hush Hush Recordings) Mark Grant - Spirit of the Black Ghost (The Black Mix) (Guidance) Fudge Fingas - Musical Lens (Mike Delgado Remix) (Hush Hush Recordings) Glenn Underground - House of Blues (Guidance)

Genres: deep house, house

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Andy Grant - Selections from the Bargain Bin (MP3)

Been doing a lot of crate digging recently, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to get a mix together of some of the recent finds. Most of the first half of the mix came from the 10 and 25 cent bins at the local CD / Game Exchange, with some of the later tracks from $2 and $3 dollar crates of my favorite second hand record store. Starting of with a bit of deep house, then heading of into some classic chicago, this is the result. Tracklist: Maurice Fulton Presents Alderon – Pleasure Me (Realtime Records) Universal Agents – Solomonic Agents (Worship Recordings) Latino Circus – In Your Soul (Deep Blue Mix) (Yoshitoshi) + Acapella: Said – To Motherland (Acapella) (Wave Music) Morgan Page – Too Late (Fiji Recordings) Soul Creation – That Feeling (Brian Bristol Catch That Feeling Dub) (Groove On) Stephanie Cooke – Everything (95 North Deep Jersey Mix) (King Street Sounds) Four On The Floor – Your Mind Is So Crazy (Dancefloor Mix) (Night Club Records) Jerzzey Boy – Get Wid It (Bottom Line Records) Devastating – U + Me, Me + U (Bottom Line Records) Norty Cotto – I Said I Like It (Jazzy Records) Raze – Jack The Groove (Grove St. Records) Farley Funkin Keith – Funkin With The Drums (Jackin The Bass) (House Records) Housemaster Baldwin Presents Confusions – Zone By Confusion (Drum Mix) (Future Sounds Records) Movement – The Movement (Underworld Records) Black Traxx – Dreamin (Night Club Records) Farley “Jackmaster” Funk & Jessie Saunders – Dub Can’t Turn Around (House Records)

Genres: chicago house, deep house, house

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Andy Grant - Mainline (MP3)

A mix of mostly new deep housey percussive stuff...tracklist: Faze Action – Keep It Coming (Special Disco Mix #2) (White) Slam Mode – Imagine (UK Promotions) Beat Pharmacy feat. Mutabaruka – Wata (Water) (Acid Dub) (Deep Space Media) Blackcoffee – Whistling Joe (Soul Natives Music) Lagos Nagoya Players Association – Yaba (Ibadan) Sideshow - Philly Soundworks (Lee Jones Remix) (Aus Music) + Acapella: Bongoloverz feat. An-Tonic – Spirit of House (Soulfuric Trax) DJ Ino - 981 North (Motor City Soul Remix) (House Café Music) + Acapella: Mozie B Project Feat. LaTasha Spencer – Free (Free-Apella) (Freeze Dance) Robert Owens vs. Robert Mello – The Energy (Goes Round & Round) (No Ears Vocal Mix) (Disco 45) Square One – Vesuvius (Justin Martin’s “I Hope It Doesn’t Blow Mix”) (Freerange) + Acapella: Key To Life Feat. Sabrina Johnston – Forever (Swingapella) Skwerl – All Woman (Sonar Kollektiv) Live Element Feat. John Ray – Over and Over (Live Element Dark Element Mix) (Gossip Records) Luke Solomon – Bad Brains and Black Flags (Bad Brains Vocal) (Icon Recordings) Green Velvet Feat. Walter Phillips – Shake & Pop (Mark Grant Dub) Fast Eddie – Acid Thunder (Fast Eddie Mix) (DJ International Records)

Genres: deep house, house

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Andy Grant - Shaken Not Stirred (MP3)

Finally got round to buying some new tunes for the first time in about six months yesterday, and following a trip to the local flea pit to see the new bond flick I managed to squeeze in a bit of time on the decks. Here's the result....mostly new deep housey doings, chugging along at around 123 bpm. Track list: ferrer & sydenham inc. – timbuktu (âme beatless mix) (ibadan) roland clark – sunshine (ron trent remix instrumental) (need2soul) alicia – p.o.w. (restricted access) gus gus – very important people (warner bros.) fresh and low – deep end (west side records) quentin harris feat. monique bingham – you can’t have new york (clean shelter vox mix) (shelter records) shotsis – deep desert soundz (multi-racial records) juke joint feat. yvonne brown – gotta get up (muthafunkaz dub work) (tony records) roy davis jr. – goodlife (rdj original mix) (mile end records) d3 – dreamin’ (rurals funk mix) (peng) rich medina feat. sy smith – can’t hold back (king britt scuba mix) (kindred spirits) quentin harris – house (unrestricted access) f12 – go bang! (ibadan) ferrer & karizma ltd. – the cube (objektivity) âme – rej (pastaboys dub mix) (defected) tiger stripes – what was (nite grooves) jus’dope – deep shit (soul heaven) marshall jefferson feat. rachel pearson – feel me (usb records)

Genres: deep house, house

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Andy Grant - A Case of the Mondays (MP3)

another month, another mix! a bit more uptempo than the last couple of dc house grooves mixes...something to groove to on those painful monday mornings when you've got to get up and face the week after having far too much fun on the weekends. kicking off with a bit of latin flavour, then heading off into a touch of two-step before hitting the deepness mid-mix, then rounding it off with some bumpin', jumpin' chicago beats...there's something in there for everyone. enjoy :)

Genres: deep house, house

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Andy Grant - The Way We Used To Do It (MP3)

A bit of deep house the way we used to do it.....Backroom Productions – The Definition Of A Track (The Backroom) (New York Underground Records) Fre-Dee – Ride It…You Can’t Fight It (Drum Break) (Underworld Records) Robert Owens – Gotta Work (Uncut Mix) (Freetown Inc) Desiya – Comin’ On Strong (Zanza Dub) (Black Market London) Latour – Blue (Underground Ice Pick Mix) (XX Records) Davis Feat. Adolfo – 2B Or Not 2B (Klubb Kidz Flava Dub) (DJ Exclusive) Sub-Culture Feat. Marcus – Dreams (Tribal Life Mix) (Strobe Records) House Of Swing – Rockaby Baby (Lazy Boy Records) The Creeps – Change It (Simonelli’s Late Nite Disco Dub) (Clubvision Records) Wanda Rogers – Prove Your Love (Mad Enthusiasts Dub) (Interstate Records) KCC Feat. Emile – Heaven (Mood Mix) (Azuli Records) Hardrive Feat. LG – Sindae (Masters At Work Dub) (Strictly Rhythm) The Klubb Kids – Don’t Want To Hurt You (Flava Dub) (DJ Exclusive) Freedom – Closer (Pierre’s Generate Power Mix) (Power Music) Midi Rain – Shine (Pierre’s Chicago House Mix) (Vinyl Solution) Jam & Spoon – Right In The Night (Fall In Love With Music) (MK Mix) (Epic)

Genres: deep house, house

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