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After the long wait, I got Muxtape! 

Stella Music is the work of Keishi (now based in London) who gathered global and local jocks to share their sounds in the form of podcast. I was invited to work on a set, hence this was born. Once again, I was still collecting and playing vinyls at breakbeat parties, but was more clued in to the local dance music trends as compared to the Equlibrium 001, Dawn of Breaks days. Breakinasia was a decent music site that I was running, inspired by the style of Drum n Bass Arena and after my first bagpack trip to London, Club Fabric and other parts of Europe.  It then became a blog, now defunct with remnant of its past existence here. I had gotten some vinyl and CD promos from labels through the site but most of them were crap while others were more of the other members’ style preference. 

Personally, I had begun to dabble in throwing CD samples to differentiate my mixeset from others, hence the intro and outro to get the listeners into the ‘car-ride’ mood. In this podcast, none of them are ”I’m playing promos” or “I’m playing what A-list DJ is playing” stuff (which is still such a backside scratching thing  to do and responsible for dumbing down the overall quality of mixsets). In terms of track selection, I still go for timeless tunes and they are all acquired from Juno Records. For a mixset, the quality of the sound and flow of the music has to be somewhat consistent. The only exception where I would put together labels, artists or friends’ music together within an hour is hosting an internet radioshow. 

If the only breakbeat you ever come across is still Fat Boy Slim and Crystal Method, it’s not your fault, blame it on the hype of mass media & the lack of social media back then. Now, there’s nothing to stop anyone from digging deeper to find out if there are more. Many years later, I still owe much to Yukun for egging me on to do up this promo mixset and helping out with the distribution of the CD to the hungry ears out there (*I suck at marketing myself). Personally, it was ground-breaking stage of my life; I had never been to any breakbeat party before, let alone afford any vacation to club overseas. Coupled with an active imagination of a non-existent dancefloor, the mixset was conceived in wax, 2nd hand turntables and a crappy Gemini mixer in my bedroom. 

Of how these vinyls ended up with me, it was a mystery to those chin-strokers who had this mental image of me heading down to a proper DJ record store or HMV to source for these goodies. The truth is I started out not even knowing how or where to go about ordering vinyls from overseas. They were mostly vinyls stashed in unwanted boxes at this strange store up on the Army Market at Beach Road. I still remembered the concerned face of the owner, Andy who kept asking me, “You collect this?”

Hence if you are a vinyl head or looking up for these tracks in this set, good luck and have fun clicking for the digital copies! 

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A tune which I shared at Syndicate’s Beat Invitational (11.06.2011). Msg me if you need it in wav/aiff format for playing it out. Reactions appreciated!

Vocals - Reggae Singer Lady Patra
Check the Original Tune here.

Here’s my fruit of labour after completing the sound design course at Point Blank Online School. It wouldn’t be possible without all the sharing of knowledge among my coursemates and the PB staff over the past 24 weeks. Special thanks goes out to my tutors Paul Crossman, Dave ‘Deptford’ Pine for their tips, patience and encouragement.

Vocal Credits: The lovely voice of Suzi Q. Smith | 
http://ccmixter.org/files/suziqsmith/27018 

Feel free to drop comments, rate or download this tune!

My first piece of completed work. Would love to hear your comments as that is the only way for me to improve further. 

The second installment of Tango mixset…tunes that I always wanted to share with peeps at the soundbar. Just hit the Download link beside the play count to grab the mixset for your music players!

TRACKLISTING

1. Shane Shu - Push Me To The Ground (Dem Slackers Remix)
2. C83 - Twisted Logic (Kraymon Remix)
3. Frou Frou - Must Be Dreaming (Farace ReRub)
4. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Brendon P’s Edit)
5. MGMT - Time to Pretend (Blogula Remix)
6. AMB - Wisp
7. Iamamiwhoami - T