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December 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Fatboy Slim: Back To Mine

Various Artists: Fatboy Slim: Back To Mine Back To Mine The Back To Mine series of mix-albums, first started in 1999, offers dance music for after-hours sips rather than for in-the-zone hips; these are the tunes you listen to at the end of the night, the idea being this would be the ‘private mix’ from […]
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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Khruangbin: Late Night Tales

Various Artists: Khruangbin: Late Night Tales Late Night Tales This is the one in the series I’ve been most looking forward to this year – for many reasons I guess, chief amongst them is the fact that I’m a pretty big fan of Khruangbin – as I was saying right here just recently.
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October 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 28

V/A, Hit Wave 82 (1982) These Various Artists compilations…I used to have so many of them – they’re worthless too, all battered up and bear-soaked and tattered covers but they’re fun. And I still collect them up a bit. Though not as much as I once did. They were fun fillers for DJing – you […]
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October 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Hot Chip: Late Night Tales

Various Artists: Hot Chip: Late Night Tales Late Night Tales We make our own playlists and compilations and mixtapes and many people have long given up caring about the curated mix-album…but I’m still a fan. And I love the Late Night Tales series – for a start it’s still going after nearly 20 years (it […]
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July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2

Various Artists: NOW That’s What I Call Yacht Rock Volume 2 NOW As with the first volume this is more a compilation of acceptable cheese than it is ‘Yacht Rock’. Yacht Rock’s dead anyway, it sunk – but not without traces. The wind changed. Maybe as soon as people started making compilations with the words […]
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May 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Mr. Scruff: DJ Kicks

Various Artists DJ-Kicks: Mr. Scruff !k7 Records What’s the point in a compilation or mix these days with streaming content – we make our own playlists now right? Well, every now and then I like to check in with the mixtape sessions and series’ I always valued – either because it’s a trusted series (DJ […]
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April 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Python: Mas Amable

DJ Python Mas Amable Incienso Miami-based DJ Python (aka Brian Piñeyro) – who has also worked under the names DJ Wey, Luis and Deejay Xanax – here releases his new album which is structured as a mixtape but very purposefully, consciously flows like a slow-build album – its opening track and a half all but […]
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July 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Floating Points: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Floating Points Late Night Tales / Night Time Stories Ltd Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, is a British DJ, collector and reissue label owner – he trades in rare grooves across soul, jazz, psych-rock, folk and ambient. There’s minimalist techno and low-key glitchy noise stuff in his selections and DJ […]
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July 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Peggy Gou – DJ Kicks

Various Artists:   DJ Kicks: Peggy Gou  !k7 Records  A really great DJ mix album should mean you really don’t spot any sore thumbs; you don’t care if a song that’s not really to your liking is included – because in and of that moment it sounds good, or at least sounds like it is meant to be there […]
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April 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 413

Snap!, Mega Mix (1991) Oh man did I love the band Snap! Maybe I still do. Maybe it’s guilty-pleasure stuff. (Maybe it’s not). Once a year or so I dig out a burnt-CD copy of World Power and crank it. I used to have the tape. (And the original CD). One day I’ll find the […]
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April 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 111 – Gil Eva Craig

Welcome to episode 111 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Gil Eva Craig – a sound engineer, producer, tech and musician. She was in the band Sugarbug (I loved them!) and she continues to make music in a variety of sporadic projects including as […]
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March 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Badbadnotgood: Late Night Tales

Various Artists Late Night Tales: Badbadnotgood Late Night Tales/Night Time Stories Ltd. Canadian jazz-meets-hip-hop-let’s-party band of clever clogs’ Badbadnotgood deliver a wonderful entry into the late night mixtape series. Just as you might be wondering whether these sorts of mixes are needed in the era of too many Spotify playlists along comes exactly this sort […]
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