Liz Torres feat. Edward Crosby - Can't Get Enough (Dub Version)

Just been reminded of this Stong Cold Classic and thought it was worth sharing. Dub, English and Español versions are all equally great. Heard this first on a Larry Levan mix and bought it staright away. Don't think it left my record bag all year which is EXACTLY where it's going. (Once I find it...)

Wrong Island 4th Birthday

Yup, so for four years now, myself and Larry have been quietly making lots of noise in the basement of Nice&Sleazy. Cannae believe it.
Things have gone pretty well for us so far, considering the choice you have in Glasgow and the added pressure of a) being a residents' night and b) being a pair of disorganised twats therefore finding it hard to get articles written about us.

Despite our best attempts at making our lives difficult, some people still seem have cottoned on. Resident Advisor just mentioned us in their piece on Glasgow clubbing which was a nice surprise considering a few of the bigger, bolder clubs aren't mentioned. OK, so we know Kit and he comes to the club a lot but still...it's nice.


Birthday mixes coming up soon on luckyme, Radiomagnetic and some other places...

Larry Levan & Sylvester at Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday

Thanks to the Niallist for this little gem. Not really much to say about this as it probably speaks for itself:
Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday

Talking of birthdays, Wrong Island's fourth birthday is in Glasgow next month. We'll be doing a host of mixes which we'll post up real soon.

KT Tunstall - Uummannaq Song (Wrong Island remix)

I've been working with my friend, Aleks, on some tunes for about a year or so now. A few things of our own and a few remixes. So far we've rejigged music by Hot Chip, Detachments, Moon Goons and now KT Tunstall and Sons and Daughters (though we've only just started that yin so it might be a few weeks).

Remixing is a funny thing as you end up putting just about as much work into it as you would with an original compostition only with the added attraction of not having to write lyrics.
This one came about in a rather long and convoluted way: I saw KT play in MacSorley's on Jamaica Street in Glasgow as part of a tour of wee pubs she was doing. This song stuck out due to the Kate Bush sounding backing vox and I thought we'd quite like to remix it. So I asked her tour manager if she'd say something at the end though in the end it was a bit of a rush out the door thing so I never got to speak to Ms. Tunstall herself. A few months later I got an email from an old friend in San Francisco who'd met Kate through a mutual friend and it turned out she'd mentioned me asking about the remix. Fast forward about 8 months and I got an email in NYC with the parts as an attachment. Very nice.

The remix we've done is quite different to what I thought we were going to do; mostly because of Aleks having borrowed a Vostok synthesiser which we had a bit of fun with (mostly him patching lots and lots of cabling in while I looked dumbfounded and tried to keep up with the sheer volume of information he was telling me.) before laying down a bassline. Always a good place to start.
We then layered several arpeggios over each other, added drums, percussion (I finally got my timbale obsession out my system) and then the vocals. There's still one or two minor changes to get done but mostly this baby is put to bed. Hope you enjoy.

KT Tunstall - Uummannaq Song (Wrong Island's Cold Summer mix) by wrongisland

The Memory Becomes A Treasure.

The Memory Becomes A Treasure (soundcloud edit) by teamy

Due to copyright issues this is an edit and the first track is missing. You can download the full, unedited version here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bbaogm

I suppose in a way this is a companion piece to Larry's 'Mind of a Creep' mix; it’s a bunch of records I pulled out when I had a weird time recently. The theme is roughly ‘Loss’, whether it is a loss of Love, a loss of things which are significant, a loss of friends or even loss of places (again significant ones).

I felt like I was in one of those funny transitionary times where everything in your life is in flux and you don’t feel like have any control over events. Some things leave your life and there’s a bit of a void whilst you wait for new stuff to fill the vacuum.

All of which was exacerbated by the fact I got crazy jetlag from flying to NYC, not sleeping more than 2 hours a night for a week then flying back just as I got used to the time difference. I think I went slightly mad. I keep comparing it to the last episode of Twin Peaks where the ‘wrong’ Agent Cooper returns from the Lodge; the ‘wrong’ Teamy came back from New York and it took a wee while for things to return to normal (ironic for someone who runs a night called Wrong Island).

It’s a natural thing to feel bereaved and sad when something/one leaves your life but it’s also natural to begin to accept it and move on. You are not betraying a memory by getting on with things as hard as it may be to let go sometimes. ‘Time soothes all sorrows’ as The Little Prince says.

And from loss sometimes come new opportunities; if a tree in the jungle falls over there is a sudden surge of growth from below the canopy as seedlings which would otherwise die reach up as quickly as possible to the sunlight which now reaches the ground.

Talking of trees, the last thing I ‘lost’ before I did this mix was my favourite tree in the park across from my flat. I was upset about it for reasons I won’t bore you with but the other day I realised that whilst I might not be able to sit under this particular tree, I can now sit on it instead. I wonder if the council might let me carve it into a bench? That'd be nice.

So yeah, that’s a rather complicated and pseudo-philosophical way of saying that this mix is about letting go of the things you’d like to hold onto.


Tracklisting:

Jimmy Scott – Sycamore Trees (download only)
Khan & Julee Cruise – Say Goodbye
DaFluke – Hotboyz
Magda – Panna Cotta Eyes
Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom – Track 5 (Ame remix)
Bad Boy Bill – Sex
Mu - Let’s Get Sick
Photonz – Shaboo (andy’s edit)
John Waynes – White Track
Out Hud – Put It Away, Put It Away, Put It Away, Dad
Two Lone Swordsmen – The Bunker
Das Krause Duo Nr. 2 – Illegalkrafthaschie
Bukaddor & Fishbeck – Raederichen
Tevo Howard – Arena
Disco Nihilist – Quit While You’re Ahead
James ‘Jack Rabbit’ Martin – Only Want To Be (Acid Mix)
Ralph Rosario – You Used To Hold Me (Kennny ‘Jammin’ Jason mix)
The Chemical Brothers – It Doesn’t Matter
The Sixteen Million Dollar Man – Pink Yo Black
Hutton Drive – 324
Kenny Larkin – Loop 2 (Luke Slater mix)

*EDIT*I'm happy to say my favourite tree is now trimmed and seems to be getting left in the park. I went by the other day and there was lots of kids using it as a climbing frame. I realised it's really nice now as a tree that was special only to me before is now special to lots of people.

A dreamy mix from the archives.

So spurred on by Larry's excellent mix, I decided to do a mix with a theme. I've yet to decide what the theme will be so in the meantime here's something I did a few years ago which I found on my hard-drive which had a theme.
It was for my friend, Rob Theakston's morning radio show in Kentucky and was gonna be on the early slot so I thought it might be quite nice to have one half sort of like a dream, sweeping in and out and slightly surreal followed by lots of tunes to get people up and going in the morning.

Teamy's slightly high concept morning mix for radio free lexington, kentucky by teamy

Tracklisting:

A Lewisman in Exile - Sarah Jane Summers
P - Labradford
A Shapely Balloon - Ivor Cutler
100 Miles/Going Home To Live With Love - The Parsonage
Teamy's Alarm Clock
Wake Up! - The Upsetters
Good Morning, How Are You? SHUT UP! - Ivor Cutler
Don't Stop The Music - Yarborough and Peoples
You Gave Me Love - Crown Heights Affair
K Choppers - Mock and Toof
Piece of Mind - Linkwood
Open The Door (Truffle Club Mix) - Lynsay J and Sneak Thief
Jolene (Peter Visti edit)
Floating (Prinz Thomas Discomiks) - Jape
Rambha Ho - Usha Uthup

Inside The Mind Of A Creep // Mix (Larry)

I was trying to put a mix together towards the end of last year, just as my life was going through one of those shitty wee phases that come along every so often.

Without doing a great deal of searching I began pulling out records from my collection that were somehow reflective of how I was feeling at the time. It’s funny sometimes when my emotions are high, or low in this instance, that certain records seem to have a way of finding me, presenting themselves as some kinda emotional therapy for my problems, well I guess that’s one of the things that music does so well for so many people!

So anyway being the procrastinating fool that I am, it took me till March of the year 2011 to actually get round to finishing the damn mix and this is the end result…

Inside The Mind Of A Creep / Mix by Dirty Larry

I made a few changes to the original track selection from last year, as it was turning out to be a little bit too doom and gloom for my liking, and hey life ain’t all that bad right now! The result is still a pretty moody affair, quite dark, a little weird, seedy and ‘creepy’ for the majority, with of course moments of uplifting relief.

For those who know me (and those who think they know me), the title and concept of the mix will be apparent. Delve in.