DJ Faceplant Live

I DJed between some of the bands from the Single Cell Collective who were performing as part of the Manchester Eurocultured Festival. Despite the odd massive change in volume, I think it went rather well. The Single Cell Collective are mighty and you can download their compilation album here.

DJ Faceplant Live at Eurocultured Festival 2009

A White Ball of Healing Light

A White Ball of Healing Light (right click and save)

A mixtape dedicated to the joys of working for a living. Woo.

G Force

DJ Faceplant is old school hardcore gangster evil.
Music For Cooking - A 60 Minute Mixtape of Gubbins.
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Frog Noises

Frog Chorus

1) Duet (2:34)

2) Water Frogs (3:36)

3) Frog Chorus (44:29)

This album is quite literally frogs croaking. It turns any room into an instant rain forest and has nothing to that Paul McCartney Song.

Classic House from 1987

The Best of House Volume 1 & 2

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In my opinion 1987 was probably the best year for music in the entire history of mankind. Before sampling was stomped on, technology enabled people to come up with brand new noises and combine them in original and ground shaking new combinations.

1) Face It (Club Version)- Master C & J (4:32)
2) House Nation (Serious Mix) - House Master Boyz And The Rude Boy Of House (4:31)
3) Carino (Club Mix) - T-Coy (4:31)
4) Everything Bamboo (Club Version) - Lenny Dee & Tommy Musto (4:32)
5) Fantasize Me (Mega Mix) - Pleasure Pump (4:24)
6) Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem) - Marshall Jefferson (4:30)
7) Hardcore (On The One) - Duane & Co. (4:29)
8) Jack The Groove (Hit Mix) - Raze (4:25)
9) This Brutal House (The Brutal Mix) - Nitro Deluxe (4:32)
10) It's All In Your Mind (This Mix) - Bamboo (4:21)
11) Do It Properly (Fierce Mix) - 2 Puerto Ricans, A Blackman And A Dominican (5:03)
12) Rok Da House (Remix) - The Beatmasters Featuring The Cookie Crew (4:21)
13) You Used To Hold Me (The Kenny "Jammin" Jason Mix) - Ralphi Rosario (4:20)
14) Can U Dance (Club Mix) - Kenny "Jammin" Jason (4:27)
15) Ma Foom Bay (Love Chant) - Cultural Vibe (4:32)
16) Doing It Properly Is XTC (Scoobie Swift Scratch Mix) - Denise Motto (4:36)

The tracks are hypnotic and really have the feel of an underground cultural force exploding from Chicago out into the mainstream. According to Discogs the tacks have been edited to fit on to a CD so despite saying "Full Length 12" Extended and Remixed Dance Versions" the tracks are all a bit shorter than they were on the original Serious Records LP or Tape compilations. They are, however, still amazing.

Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box Not Included

I Love 1991 - Classic Old Skool

This was given away free with Mixmag in 2001. It kicks off with, "Yeah check this next track out. You've got Asterix in space. Watch your bass bins, I'm telling ya." and then Altern 8's breakbeat hardcore classic explodes in a hurricane of Roland 808 bleeps. On the inside cover it does say, "The tracks on this CD were made on cheap gear and mixed on dusty ten-year old equipment so any crackles, pops or distortion are meant to be there." So even though this has been ripped at 320kbps the sound is slightly crackly at times but I didn't notice after a while because I was too busy waving my hands in the air while jumping around the house. I don't remember ever hearing the GTO's The Bullfrg back in 1991 but it's now my favourite track of all time becasue it has Sinclair Spectrum noises in the background. The Psychopaths's Nightmares is also amazing.

The tracklisting printed on the back of the CD is slightly wrong and has The Shamen and Sueno Latino written in the wrong order. This is the correct list:

1) Altern 8 - Infiltrate 202 (6:04)
2) New Atlantic - I Know (6:05)
3) React 2 Rhythm Intoxication (Leftfield Remix) (4:49)
4) Fortran 5 - Look To The Future (5:04)
5) Renegade Soundwave - The Phantom (2:55)
6) Scientist, The - The Bee (5:54)
7) Impedance - Tainted Love (3:23)
8) Shamen, The - Move Any Mountain (Beat Edit) (3:05)
9) Sueño Latino Sueno Latino (6:13)
10) GTO - The Bullfrog (5:25)
11) Joey Beltram - My Sound (1:48)
12) Psychopaths, The - Nightmares (2:41)
13) Ramirez - La Musica Tremenda (4:28)
14) Rising High Collective - Fever Called Love (7:46)
15) Nightmares On Wax - Dextrous (3:49)