Paul's Best of 2015

Greg's Best of 2013

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1. Les Sins - Grind
2. Disclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind (feat London Grammar)
3. Bibio - A Tout A L'Heure
4. Sam Smith - Nirvana (TIP's Promised Land Remix)
5. Billie Joe & Norah Jones - Long Time Gone
6. Cliff Martinez - Wanna Fight?
7. William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got (FKJ Remix)
8. Jungle - Platoon
9. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home
10. Rhye - The Fall
11. Oliver - Night Is on My Mind
12. The Knife - Tooth for an Eye
13. Rhye - Open
14. The Black Angels - Love Me Forever
15. Erland Oye - La Prima Estate
16. M.I.A. - Boom Skit
17. Jungle - Drops
18. Dj Koze - My Plans (feat. Matthew Dear)
19. John Talabot - Without You (Reduced Mix)
20. Luis Bacalov - Django Unchained Theme (Guts Remix)
21. Misun - Battlefields
22. The Dirty Diary - The Betrayal in Blackwater
23. Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
24. Trentemoller - Gravity (feat. Jana Hunter)
25. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (Oliver Nelson Remix)
26. RJD2 - Her Majesty's Socialist Request

Darcy's Best of 2013

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1	Entrance	Washed Out	1:21
2	Reach For The Dead	Boards of Canada	4:48
3	Sleepwalking	The Chain Gang Of 1974	3:36
4	Darkness	Du Tonc	4:39
5	I Wanna Go	Summer Heart	4:08
6	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Rhythm Scholar Remix)	The Beatles	4:30
7	Default	Atoms for Peace	5:16
8	Wings	Haerts	5:08
9	The Night Comes Again	St. Lucia	4:07
10	Toro Y Moi Rose Quartz Remix	Toro Y Moi	1:50
11	Permission To Love	Hayden James	4:25
12	You Too	Glenn Jackson	6:44
13	Peach (6809) (at Room 205)	Com Truise	5:09
14	Thinkin Bout You (feat. O.N.E.)	Bastille	3:06
15	New Seeds (Supra Remix)	Boards of Canada	5:49
16	Get Lucky (Daft Punk cover)	Daughter	4:55
17	Once There Was a Hushpuppy (Edit)	Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer	4:32
18	What Love	Jagwar Ma	3:54
19	Harlot	Misun	2:34
20	Mechanical	Oliver	3:46
21	Sructures	iamforest	4:43
22	Bring You Back	Beacon	4:17
23	All I Know	Washed Out	5:27
24	Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before	Hardly Subtle	3:14
25	Snow Angel (The Places Beyond The pines) [Edit]	Mike Patton	4:30

Darcy's Rest of 2012 - Mixes, Re-works, Edits & Fun

A little bonus material for you lot that enjoyed The Best Of list.  Click to download

	Track Name	Artist
1	A Great Design	Black Marble
2	Dreams (Gigamesh Edit)	Fleetwood Mac
3	Think/Feel (feat. Chelsey Scheffe)	Beat Connection
4	'Elephant' (Todd Rundgren Remix)	Tame Impala
5	LIGHTS (Ellie Goulding Cover)	wanderhouse
6	Fascination Street (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)	The Cure
7	Flutes (Sasha Remix)	Hot Chip
8	Vintern jagar	Bam Spacey
9	Fuga (Adult Contemporary)	DanyDorado
10	I Gotta Try You Girl (Daft Punk Edit)	Junior Kimbrough
11	if i was a dancer (whiskey barons edit)	the rolling stones
12	Le Fou (Eddie C's Space Sagittarius Re-Work)	Move D
13	In the air tonight (Cosmo black remix)	Phil Collins
14	Love Some1	Holy Other
15	No Doubt About It (Hatchback remix)	Grovesnor
16	Waiting for a Girl Like You (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)	Foreigner
17	Rhabarbarum	Slow Hands
18	The Same Love (Whiskey Barons rework)	Bill Withers
19	Suffocation [HEALTH Remix]	Crystal Castles
20	You Know	Washed Out
21	Superstition (SIMØNE CLG remixes)	Stevie Wonder
22	Float	KO KO
23	Plex	Plexo
24	Nothing Compares 2 U	Capital Cities

#LSPElixir

For those of you who enjoy the LSP I've started to concoct a little portable mixture I like to call the LSPElixir. The rough ingredients for this remedy include a touch of bass for boldness, a dash of guitar for sharpness and a hint of synth for some finishing sweetness. Expect a wide selection of unique, yet bold flavours.

WARNING: This elixir may take some time to perfect and is intended for my own personal consumption however I might as well share along the way. hope you enjoy.

The #LSPElixir playlist can be followed on the Youtubes.  Or follow me @Dubsonic on the twitter . I'll be posting trax to the hashtag #LSPElixir.

Have a swell weekend!

A Late Night Mix

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1. Magnetic Man - Flying into Tokyo
2. Holy Other - Know Where
3. The KLF - Build A Fire
4. Skream - Live & Learn
5. Miles Davis - Blue In Green
6. Darkside - A1
7. Vangelis - Pa Petite Fille de la Mer
8. New Order - Your Silent Face
9. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part 4
10. Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx - Nightcall
11. John Maus - Do Your Best
12. Intrusion - Little Angel (ft Paul St. Hilaire)
13. Dreadzone - A Dream Within A Dream
14. Kenny Graham & His Satellites - Sunday
15. FPU - Crockett's Theme (FPU Original)
16. Lobt Noch Irrt - Heizgas Meter
17. Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train
18. Anthony Rother - Part VII
19. Brian Eno - And Then So Clear
20. Leftfield - A Final Hit
21. Luke Slater - Love

Soundtrack Tuesday Vol.2

The Soundtrack Tuesday (STT) experience is a compilation loosely based on the passion of a couple music/movie junkies who listen to exclusively soundtracks, scores, and film clips at their offices each Tuesday. 

Soundtrack Tuesday is much more than just soundtracks and scores, but it also includes film clips, trailer snippets, and other samples to create a truly immerse experience.

Have a listen, Hope you enjoy.

Soundtrack Tuesday Vol.2 by Dubsonic on Mixcloud

1 - Hans Zimmer - The Coral Atoll - The Thin Red Line (1998)

2 - John Barry - Walkabout Theme - The Walk About (1971)

3 - Ennio Morricone - Harvest - Days of Heaven (1979)

4 - Carter Burwell - Blood Simple - Blood Simple (1984)

5 - Jon Hopkins - Temple - Monsters (2010)

6 - John Carpenter - Look for the Fog - The Fog (1980)

7 - Georg Friedrich Haendel (Perf. National Philarmonic Orchestra) - Sarabande Main Title - Barry Lyndon (1975)

8 - Bob Dylan - The Man In Me - The Big Lebowski (1998)

9 - The Plugz - Reel Ten - Repo Man Soundtrack (1984)

10 - Gheorghe Zamfir - Fantasy (Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului) - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

11 - Riz Ortolani - Oh My Love (feat. Katyna Ranieri) - Drive (2011)

12 - Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The World - Heat (1995)

13 - Wojciech Kilar - Love Remembered - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)

14 - Popol Vuh - Die Nacht Derhimmel - Nosferatu (1979)

15 - Richard Wagner - Vorspiel - Nosferatu (1979)

16 - Vince DiCola - Unicron's Theme (demo) - Transformers The Movie (1986)

17 - Gabriel Faure - In Paradisum - 28 Days Later Soundtrack (2003)

18 - Thomas Newman - New Fish - The Shawshank Redemption (1992)

19 - Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme) - Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

20 - Alain Gorageur - La Bracelet - La Planete Sauvage (1973)

21 - Sigur Ros - Staralfur - The Life Aquatic

22 - David Shire - Theme From The Conversation - The Conversation (1973)

23 - Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea - Goodfellas (1990)

24 - Popol Vuh - Aguirre I - Aguirre (1972)

25 - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition #2 - The Proposition

26 - Dion - The Wanderer - The Wanderers (1979)

27 - The Inkspots - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire - Fallout 3 (2010)

28 - Full Metal Jacket - Mickey Mouse - Full Metal Jacket (1988)

If you enjoy Vol.2 here is a link to Vol.1

LSP Best of 2011

1. Click on 'Top 25' to Download
2. Import into preferred media player 
3. Sort by Track # to organize by interest
4. Shake don't stir
5. Enjoy
 
Greg's Top 25
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1	Gimme The Loot (Superginger Dubstep Remix)	Notorious B.I.G.
2	High Priestess	Active Child
3	Wilhelms Scream	James Blake
4	What Would You Do? (City High Cover)	Bastille
5	Caroline	Alex Clare
6	Limit To Your Love	James Blake
7	Waves	Jhameel
8	Little Man	Little Dragon
9	Baby Missiles	The War on Drugs
10	Savage Night At The Opera	Destroyer
11	Lady Luck	Jamie Woon
12	County Line	Cass McCombs
13	Future Funkizm	Skream
14	Comin' Through	The War on Drugs
15	Jay Z Empire State Of Mind Remix	Pretty Lights
16	Codex (Mojib Remix)	Radiohead
17	Don't Move	Phantogram
18	Know Where	Holy Other
19	Hard In Da Paint (Bellizio Remix)	Waka Flocka Flame
20	Scale It Back feat Little Dragon (Party Ben Remix)	Dj Shadow
21	Battery Kinzie	Fleet Foxes
22	Are You Can You Were You (Felt)	Shabazz Palaces
23	California Sunrise	Dirty Gold
24	I Follow Rivers	Lykke Li
25	Up Down Up Down	Koreless

 




Darcy's Top 25
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1	Hours	Tycho
2	Echoes (Live @ Midi Festival 2011)	Washed Out
3	Can You Get to That [Funkadelic]	Stone Darling
4	Fallout	Neon Indian
5	Brokendate	Com Truise
6	Still Life	The Horrors
7	Fly Me To the Moon	Groove Armada
8	New Theory (RAC Mix)	Washed Out
9	Sweet Virginia (The Rolling Stones cover)	Everest
10	Wilhelms Scream (BBC Radio 1 Session)	James Blake
11	Toro Y Moi - Still Sound (John Kunkel New Division Remix)	Toro Y Moi
12	Raconte-Moi Une Histoire	M83
13	Fragments	Thievery Corporation
14	Bitch, I Love You (Baby Bollox Master Remix)	Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
15	Monsters Theme	Jon Hopkins
16	I got the driver	Drive
17	A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth)	College
18	Riders On The Storm (Ibizarre Remix)	The Doors
19	Meridian	Southern Shores
20	Heart: Release	Neon Indian
21	Diamonds (prod. by Jus-Stone the Great)	Jay Fresh
22	Lofticries	Purity Ring
23	All I Want / Heroes (LCD Soundsystem / David Bowie cover)	Lightouts
24	Ragysh	Todd Terje
25	Mit Dir (Robert Görl cover)	Bright Future
26	Run Through the Jungle (LeSale's Satanic Edit)	Creedance Clearwater Revival
27	Triangle Waves	Teeel
28	Alisa	Cut Copy

 




Paul's Top 25
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1	Burned Out	The Field
2	Shatner Rap [Feat. Greenleaf]	Fanu
3	Iwywaw	Com Truise
4	Generations	Bcee
5	Open The Wormhole In Your Heart	Warm Ghost
6	Motivation	Clams Casino
7	End Of Line [Photek Remix]	Daft Punk
8	Eyes Be Closed	Washed Out
9	The Fourth [Feat. Jenni Potts]	Blu Mar Ten
10	Don't Look Back	Bungle
11	Circular Logic [Front to Back]	DJ Shadow
12	Let You	Sully
13	Kabuki Disco [previously unreleased]	808 State
14	Bare Knuckle	Fred Falke
15	Without A Danger	Warm Ghost
16	As Young As Yesterday	Korellreven
17	Four Walls	Massive Attack and Burial
18	A Voice From Outer Space	Nikola Gala
19	Cecconi	Photek
20	La Teta [MiniCoolBoyz Remix]	Pig and Dan
21	Latchmere Allotments [Nocturnal Sunshine Remix]	The Orb
22	Heat Haze	Walls
23	True	DFRNT
24	California Dreamin'	DJ Cam
25	Somnl	Plaid

Fraserburn's Top 25

1	Helena Beat (Build Remix)	Foster the People
2	Heartbeat	Childish Gambino
3	Come Alive	Hanni el Khatib
4	She's Not There	Neko Case & Nick Cave
5	Love Attack	Monster Truck
6	Listen to Your Love	Mona
7	How Can U Luv Me	Unknown Mortal Orchestra
8	The Walk	Mayer Hawthorne
9	My Body (Tokyo Police Club Remix)	Young the Giant
10	Catfish 2 Boogaloo	The Sheepdogs
11	[Banter]	Royal Wood
12	On Top of Your Love	Royal Wood
13	Nightcall	Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx (Drive OST)
14	You Are a Tourist	Deathcab for Cutie
15	Revolution	Flogging Molly
16	Little Black Submarines	The Black Keys
17	Yes, I'm Stalking You	Dante vs. Zombies
18	Moneygrabber	Fitz & The Tantrums
19	Liquidation Sale	Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
20	Northern Air	Elliott Brood
21	Downbound Train	Kurt Vile
22	Ghosts That We Knew	Mumford & Sons
23	All My Fault	The Hounds Below
24	Whistleblower	Arkells
25	End of Line	Daft Punk

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
  --  Friedrich Nietzsche

LateNightTales: At the Movies

If you're a fan of the talkies like myself, Late Night Tales: At The Movies is a must listen. The disc features an amazing array of scores & samples from over 40 years of film. The subtle snippets of dialogue extracted from various movies adds a powerful touch.

Purchase your copy here

Excerpt

13. Carmine - Saigon
14. Phillip Glass - Powaqqasti

Soundtrack Tuesday: Music of the Pictures

At the Movies inspired me to dig through my personal archive of soundtracks, film scores and clips to mix a compilation of favorites. I intentionally avoided using of any Late Night's selections to keep both compilations unique. Either make for a great bit of ear candy for a rainy day.

I had to get the creative bug out of my system during these winter months. Hope you enjoy.

Soundtrack Tuesday Vol.1 by Dubsonic on Mixcloud

Track Name - Artist - Featured in
1 Main Title - Lalo Schifrin - Cool Hand Luke
2 Lara’s Theme - Maurice Jarre Conducted by Henry Mancini - Doctor Zhivago
3 The Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns - Days of Heaven
4 Wise Up - Aimee Mann - Magnolia
5 Contempt - Théme De Camille - George Delerue - Casino
6 You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Dean Martin - Swingers
7 Clair De Lune - Debussy - Oceans 11
8 Prospectors Quartet - Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
9 Show me the way to go home - Jaws - Jaws
10 He Needs Me - Shelley Duvall: Harry Nilsson - Popeye the Sailor Man
11 Rhapsody in Blue (Woody Allen Diaglogue) - George Gershwin - Manhattan
12 Main Title - Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind - The Shining
13 I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You - Alfred Hitchcock & the Jeff Alexander Orchestra - Music to be Murdered By
14 Carillon - Ennio Morricone - For a Few Dollars More
15 Magic - Mick Smiley - Ghostbusters
16 What Must Be Done - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jessie James
17 You're so Cool - Hans Zimmer - True Romance
18 You Only Live Twice - Nancy Sinatra - You only Live Twice
19 Strangers on the shore - Acker Bilk - Mad Men
20 Theme from The Warriors - Barry De Vorzonors - The Warriors
21 The Nursery - Clint Mansell - Moon
22 The Elephant Man Theme - John Morris - The Elephant Man
23 O Willow Waly - Isla Cameron - The Innocents
24 Main Title - Jerry Goldsmith - Alien
25 Alien (trailer) - Trailer - Alien
26 Love On A Real Train - Tangerine Dream - Risky Business
27 Summer Overture - Clint Mansell - Requiem For A Dream
28 The Winner Is - Mychael Danna - Little Miss Sunshine
29 Two Ways Out - Eric Serra - Leon
30 The Morrow - Michael Nyman - Gattaca
31 Leaving Wallbrook on the Road - Hans Zimmer - Rain Man
32 The Way I Am - Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders - The Hurt Locker
33 The Kiss - Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman - Last of the Mohicans
34 The Godfather Waltz - Henry Mancini & Nino Rota - The Godfather
35 Moon River - Audrey Hepburn: Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer - Breakfast at Tiffany's
36 Dream Is Collapsing - Hans Zimmer - Inception
37 Midnight The Stars & You - Henry Hall and The Gleneagles Hotel Band - The Shining


A full PDF of the set list can be found here

Be kind please rewind!

The Beatles '71

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am an absolutely huge Beatles fan. My obsession began at the impressionable age of 13 - right before The Beatles Anthology aired on television, which afterwards only fueled my obsessive fire to the point of absurdity. Since then they've still remained my favourite band from Liverpool, where I revisit my obsession at least once a year where they are all I play for weeks.

Lately I've been listening to a large amount of solo Beatle material, which is dangerous territory to the uninitiated due to the vast majority of it. My first exposure to the solo albums came with the purchase of the 1987 release of Paul McCartney's All The Best! through Columbia House about 15 years ago. The mental and emotional scars that greatest hits compilation left me have only recently begun to heal. For quite a while this album gave me the impression that mostly all solo Beatle material was shit, and trust me, there's a lot of sordid albums released by the fab four over the last 4 decades. However this has also taught me to never truely trust a Greatest Hits album from someone with SO much material. The true golden gems are the ones usually buried within the albums, and not the radio played singles.

A Selected History of Beatles' Solo Material 1970-1971:
March 1970 - Ringo Starr releases Sentimental Journey, a collection of rock and pre-rock standards. Through the sands of time, this album is very much forgettable.

April 1970 - Paul McCartney releases his solo album simply called McCartney. A self-penned interview was issued to the press prior to the album release, you can read it in full here. This interview was the first indication made to the public that there were some serious issues within the band. Quite frankly, Paul comes across as a total smug asshole in it, but considering the circumstances in which they album was released (pressure from within the band to delay the release in favour of Ringo's solo) - Paul's angst may have been justified.

November 1970 - George Harrison releases the epic triple album All Things Must Pass. Harrison had been accumulating these tracks as far back as 1966. However, his tracks were always pushed to the back burner in favour for those of Lennon/McCartney. Harrison enlisted the aid of Phil Spector to co-produce the album, giving All Things Must Pass a heavy and reverb-oriented sound, typical for a 1960s/1970s Spector production.

December 1970 - John Lennon releases Plastic Ono Band (the name given the collection of artists who performed on the album). This album is his first proper release (not including the three practically un-listenable experimental albums he did with Yoko in '69 & '70).

Early 1971 - Paul McCartney sues his band mates for the dissolution of the group's contractual obligation. The actual break up is a long and sordid tale, followed by years of lawsuits. In the years prior, however all members of the band (except Paul) had left for various reasons, only to be coerced back... By 1971, the writing was on the wall and the band was done.

May 1971 - Paul McCartney releases Ram with his wife Linda. A short musical feud ensues with John Lennon as he he feels Paul took lyrical jabs at him through the choice of words in the songs Dear Boy & Too Many People.

September 1971 - John Lennon releases Imagine. A commercial and critical masterpiece, some of you may have heard of it. This album also includes the track How Do You Sleep? which is the musical response to the feud he believes Paul started previously.

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Over the years there has been speculation over what the last Beatles record would have sounded like if they had remained together for just a few more years. As mentioned, The Beatles broke up in 1970 but they hadn't even been in the same studio together for more than a year prior. Many of the tracks listed on the solo albums above were originally written while the band was still together, and some tracks as far back as 1966.

The Beatles '71 is my attempt to compile the best of the solo Beatles albums released between 1970 and 1971. This project was a true labour of love so I hope you enjoy listening to the end result. The album's running time is 75 minutes so it will fit nicely onto a CD for your parents, who have no idea what an MP3 is. Also the album cover is clearly a revamp of 1970's Let It Be now featuring the fab four as how they appeared in 1971, as they bravely ventured into new worlds, solo.

Three tracks are available to preview now, and if you like what you hear you can download the album in it's entirety below:

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01 - Paul McCartney - Ram On
02 - John Lennon - Power to the People
03 - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
04 - John Lennon - Instant Karma!
05 - George Harrison - Awaiting On You All
06 - Paul McCartney - Eat At Home
07 - John Lennon - Working Class Hero
08 - Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
09 - George Harrison - Let It Down
10 - Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
11 - John Lennon - Jealous Guy
12 - Paul McCartney - Every Night
13 - George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
14 - John Lennon - Imagine
15 - Paul McCartney - Oh Woman, Oh Why
16 - George Harrison - Wah-Wah
17 - John Lennon - Oh My Love
18 - Paul McCartney - Mumbo
19 - John Lennon - How Do You Sleep?
20 - John Lennon - Mother