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Breezeblock DJ Set 1998

Rob — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:37:23 +0000

Well it was an awful long time ago but I was recently asked about my Radio 1 Breezeblock setlist from 1998. It took a fair bit of digging but I found it on an old minidisc and here’s the setlist:

Intro
Derek B… - Get Down
Chemical Brothers - Block Rocking Beats
Midfield General - Devil in Sports Casual (fatboys slim does my beat look big in this mix)
KRS1 - Sound of Da Police
Method Man - Release Yo Delf (Prodigy Remix)
The Hooliganz - Hooliganz???
Overseer - Triumph 2000 remix???
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Smack My Bitch Up - Prodigy
2 Unlimited - No Limits (? Remix)
Eboman??? - Bounce to Diss????
Metallica - Enter Sandman (Overseer Remix)
Speakerfreaks - Check It
Cavemen - I’m Ready
Frank Sinatra - My Way
Overseer - Stompbox Demo
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
Goofy - Fudgie
Zina OST - Trotskys Address to the Red Army
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (Overseer Remix)
Frank Sinatra - The Summer Wind
The Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)

Spy Next Door Trailer

Rob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:29:28 +0000

I have a new track in ‘Spy Next Door’ trailer…

In case you missed it, here it is….although not so much a song as a sketch (but great for fans of crunchy drums), it’s called ‘Santa Monica’.

Meteorology Video

Rob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Check this out! Manfred Baulig has shot a short film using Meteorology as the soundtrack. Nice work!

Kanute Album Now Available

Rob — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:08:17 +0000

Kanute is my side project with Rachael Gray.
Behold our lovely new full-length debut album “Standing Room Only” which is available from Ebay in all of it’s limited (to 100 copies) edition digipak lovliness for a measly £10 plus shipping.

BUY ME, BUY ME!

Reported Attack Site!

Rob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:38:46 +0000

Some of you have been experiencing a ‘Reported Attack Site’ warning message when attempting to view this site - apologies but the site was temporarily hacked but it’s now fixed. Unfortunately it takes Google a while to catch up hence the warning is still up. Fingers crossed this’ll be sorted out soon.

The Daisy Age

Rob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:16:35 +0000

A friend has just sent me this relic from a far distant past - what an honor to support one of hip hops greatests.

Jumper DVD Trailer

Rob — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:22:52 +0000

Hey, they’re using Supermoves (Animatrix Mix) to flog the Jumper DVD in the US. Catch it on TV for the next month.

Here Be Dragons

Rob — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:14:00 +0000

Here is the Overseer remix of the Dragons track Obedience, completed a few yonks ago…..

Dragons features my old mucker Dave Francolini (ex of the under-rated Darkstar) on them there drums and other bits, as with all things this is pure nepotism. Find out more at myspace.com/dragons1.

Evolution of a Song (or Three)

Rob — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:26:27 +0000

This is the tale of one instrumental and it’s torturous path to completion on the Wreckage album…

The backing track was pretty much written in one go back in late 1999, it had the horn scratchy verse and big string chorus. I think perhaps this was my first departure from the faster breakbeats to something more slow and epic, it got called ‘Bighorn’. My then manager suggested Andrew Montgomery (ex Geneva) to finish things off. Here’s the result of that collaboration, recorded on my mini-disc in New York, August 2000.

I loved Andrews vocals but wasn’t sure it was appropriate for the track and some months later I tried putting him on top of a weird Dub thing I was working on - hey presto ‘Aquaplane’ as you can hear on the album.

Sometime later while recording some vocals for the album I played Nick Life the still instrumental Bighorn, he loved it and asked me to give him half an hour to come up with something. This is that incredible something…

BTW the chorus melody that Vicky sings was written by studio assistant Nick. Still not quite happy with the results I moved Nicks vocals over to what was to become Doomsday.

So the track remained unfinished for ages, I remember thinking Morrissey would be the perfect fit but alas the man is nigh impossible to persuade. Eventually Kevin Patrick at Columbia suggested new signing Jakk Frost. Jakk was a gent and wrote the track in front of me that became the version of ‘Never’ you hear on the album.

Take a listen to the finished versions of Never, Aquaplane and Doomsday.

And finally here’s the unreleased ‘New York’ mix of Aquaplane….

Invincible Love Video

Rob — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:30:39 +0000

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