Urban's All Back To Mine - chill out mix/playlist challenge

[ska invita]

Had an idea for something anyone can take part in: make a mix/playlist, ideally at least an hour long of music to chill out to

A new years challenge: Ideally make a mix and upload it somewhere (mixcloud/soundcloud/googledrive) etc with a download link
But if thats too hard then just do a Spotify playlist
anything is better than nothing
especially at this time of year (winter) i crave some nice mellow music to listen to at home
so with that in mind theres a nominal deadline you can ignore to get your entry in before March. Sooner the better really

Anyone up for that?

Dont think any other rules are necessary other than keep it mellow

(The thread title refers to the Back to Mine mix/compilation series which does a similiar though possibly slightly different thing)

Back To Mine

A DMC series from 1999 to 2008 based on the concept of after-party selections. The brand was relaunched as a label under Material Music (2) in 2019.

www.discogs.com

 

[killer b]

sure thing

 

[aqua]

No skill to contribute but will be following with interest!

 

[danny la rouge]

OK, but mine will be a playlist. I’m not a DJ.

 

[ska invita]

OK, but mine will be a playlist. I’m not a DJ.

you are a shining example of the limitless potential of humankind!
i hope other people have a go who normally would think its not for them
#BeLikeDanny

 

[Knotted]

If I do it will be a playlist and it won't be house/electro because I'm pretty clueless on that. Asking me to mix chillout house music would be like asking a donkey to pilot a fighter jet. I could give it a go but they'll be hooves everywhere along with the impending sonic doom.

 

[magneze]

Up for this , great idea

 

[hiccup]

Just bought myself a digital mixer thingy so this would be a fun project to use it for.

 

[ska invita]

If I do it will be a playlist and it won't be house/electro because I'm pretty clueless on that. Asking me to mix chillout house music would be like asking a donkey to pilot a fighter jet. I could give it a go but they'll be hooves everywhere along with the impending sonic doom.

of course it can be absoultely any type of music, Kylie Minogue B-Sides, Spinal Tap's unreleased piano numbers, anything goes - just no impending sonic doom please

 

[chemn]

I put something together to play at a NYE party which fits the bill ...up until the last few tracks where there is an element of subdued sonic doom ... maybe I'll rework the ending so it doesn't end on a dark note ...

 

[danny la rouge]

Here's a start. I may edit, but I'm liking it so far.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Well, I did a playlist. Just waiting for some software to auto-DJ it for me and I'll upload it somewhere.

It contains zero house music.

 

[danny la rouge]

auto-DJ

What now?

 

[rutabowa]

I reckon spotify playlists are as good as anything for this type of thing. Looking forward to these

 

[Knotted]

Here's a start. I may edit, but I'm liking it so far.

Liking that Conrad Schnitzler was your first go to.

 

[SpookyFrank]

What now?

Well I couldn't work out how to export a playlist as a single audio file so I got some basic DJ software, stacked all the songs up and set it to auto-DJ which basically means it plays all the tracks in order with cross-fades for transitions. This left both my hands free for the real DJ work, namely shovelling down cocaine and throwing speakers at my fans.

Anyway, here it is:

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ooh it gives you a little player, that's clever.

 

[Knotted]

Well I couldn't work out how to export a playlist as a single audio file so I got some basic DJ software, stacked all the songs up and set it to auto-DJ which basically means it plays all the tracks in order with cross-fades for transitions. This left both my hands free for the real DJ work, namely shovelling down cocaine and throwing speakers at my fans.

Anyway, here it is:

Do you have a playlist? Liking that first song, but no idea who it is.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Do you have a playlist? Liking that first song, but no idea who it is.

It's Odetta Holmes, playing the folk standard 'Sail Away Ladies'.

I'll put up the whole tracklist later if anyone's that bothered.

Spoiler

Odetta - Sail Away Ladies
Kaki King - Yellowcake
Venera 4 - 3 Studies For a Portrait
Minnie Riperton - Memory Band
Jenny Hval - Secret Touch
Kelly Lee Owens - Jeanette
Moondog - All is Loneliness
The Phantom Band - Galapogos
War - Lotus Blossom
Charles Mingus - Mood Indigo
Belbury Poly - Rattler's Hey
Duke Ellington - Sugar Rum Cherry
Low - Africa
George Benson - Golden Slumbers/You Never Give Me Your Money
John Cale - Roma
Cocteau Twins - Alice

 

[ska invita]

It's Odetta Holmes, playing the folk standard 'Sail Away Ladies'.

I'll put up the whole tracklist later if anyone's that bothered.

Tracklists always

 

[SpookyFrank]

Tracklists always

Added in spoiler tags above.

 

[rutabowa]

 

[Orang Utan]

Would love to contribute to this, but think the only way I can is just to provide a tracklist. I guess I could make a YouTube playlist if that’s a thing

 

[killer b]

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Would love to contribute to this, but think the only way I can is just to provide a tracklist. I guess I could make a YouTube playlist if that’s a thing

you can make a youtube playlist really easily, do that

 

[Knotted]

Thinking of doing a youtube list myself if I can find enough nice footage.

 

[ska invita]

By coincidence me and Fez have just both posted a couple of mixes that fit this bill. Im still going to done one for this thread but it can take me ages to put a mix together! So in the meantime:

Foundational Deep House 1987-1991 vs Fresh Deep House

A double bill of deep house: with a foundational mix from me, and a guest mix of fresh deep house from f3z. There's so much house music that...

mikusmusik.blogspot.com

A double bill of deep house: with a foundational mix from me, and a guest mix of fresh deep house from f3z.

There's so much house music that gets called deep these days, which is fair enough as there's many a way of going in, but this first mix is all about the original incarnation. Tracks full of sweet melancholy, rolling with no rush, drawing on the spirit of street soul and the logic of dub, and providing an emotional core to the endless second summer of love.

Featuring heavily are classic tunes from New York labels like Strictly Rhythm, Fourth Floor, and a big dose of the almighty Burrell Brothers driving the Nu Groove sound. Also touching a couple of Chicago tracks, from godfather of this sound Larry Heard and Robert Owens. A couple of rarer cuts in there too, including a previously unreleased instrumental version of Sha-Lor's 1987 deep anthem I'm In Love.

New York and Chicago both get some serious snow in winter, and there's something warming and fitting about this sound for the winter months. Larry Heard recalls on making his deep house anthem Can You Feel It "it was in the winter and at that time I was living in this apartment that had these really big windows, kind of a loft place, and I had a view of downtown Chicago and it was snowing. All of my friends that were over that night, they all remember that visual of the snow falling and this music playing." I love to picture that! Here's hoping this mix brightens up these dark months....

Time Out For Loving: Foundational Deep House 1987-1991

Devine Masters - Paradise (Vacuum Mix)
Arnold Jarvis - Take Some Time Out (Club Mix)
N.Y. House'n Authority - APT 3A
Mr Fingers - What About This Love (Extended Mix)
Mr Fingers - What About This Love (Dub Mix)
Aphrodisiac - Song Of The Siren (Black Sea Mix)
Soft House Company - A Little Piano
Scorpio - Shout It
Robert Owens - Visions (Album Version)
The Utopia Project - File #2
No Smoke - Righteous Rule (Vocal)
No Smoke - Righteous Rule (Dub)
Tech Trax Inc - State Of The Art (Unautomated Mix)
Tech Trax Inc - State Of The Art (Automated Mix)
After Hours - Waterfalls (3 A.M. Mix)
Sha-Lor - I'm in Love (Instrumental Version)
Fallout - The Morning After (Sunrise Mix)
Logic - The Final Frontier (Acoustic Mix)
Joey Negro - Do It, Believe It (Jeep Music)
Metro - Brownstone Express
Download link

and Fez's modern deep house mix:




Deep Winter by f3z

SPCE - Lightness
Dan Piu - A Beautiful Day
Aleqs Notal - Lighten You Up
Satoshi Tomiie - Thursday 2 AM (Ron Trent Remix Dub)
Deenamic - Fears
Baaz - Carbon Hair
Marcellus Pittman - An Afternoon Delight
Glenn Underground - Silent Pimp (Peace in My Place)
Alton Miller - All the Little Things
Chaos in the CBD - Double Dribble
Gerd - Palm Leaves (Mr Fingers Afropsychojungledub Mix)
Patrice Scott - Moments & Concepts
Zepherin Saint - Resurrect My Feelings
Alton Miller - Way of the Drum
GU - Peaceful Rage (Acid Revenge)
Leeon - That Generous Friend

 

[Clair De Lune]

Ooh nice idea
I'm wfh this week so I'll prob have time to make one. Listening to spookyfrank's rn...sweet

 

[Orang Utan]

By coincidence me and Fez have just both posted a couple of mixes that fit this bill. Im still going to done one for this thread but it can take me ages to put a mix together! So in the meantime:

Foundational Deep House 1987-1991 vs Fresh Deep House

A double bill of deep house: with a foundational mix from me, and a guest mix of fresh deep house from f3z. There's so much house music that...

mikusmusik.blogspot.com

Time Out For Loving: Foundational Deep House 1987-1991

Devine Masters - Paradise (Vacuum Mix)
Arnold Jarvis - Take Some Time Out (Club Mix)
N.Y. House'n Authority - APT 3A
Mr Fingers - What About This Love (Extended Mix)
Mr Fingers - What About This Love (Dub Mix)
Aphrodisiac - Song Of The Siren (Black Sea Mix)
Soft House Company - A Little Piano
Scorpio - Shout It
Robert Owens - Visions (Album Version)
The Utopia Project - File #2
No Smoke - Righteous Rule (Vocal)
No Smoke - Righteous Rule (Dub)
Tech Trax Inc - State Of The Art (Unautomated Mix)
Tech Trax Inc - State Of The Art (Automated Mix)
After Hours - Waterfalls (3 A.M. Mix)
Sha-Lor - I'm in Love (Instrumental Version)
Fallout - The Morning After (Sunrise Mix)
Logic - The Final Frontier (Acoustic Mix)
Joey Negro - Do It, Believe It (Jeep Music)
Metro - Brownstone Express
Download link

and Fez's modern deep house mix:




Deep Winter by f3z

SPCE - Lightness
Dan Piu - A Beautiful Day
Aleqs Notal - Lighten You Up
Satoshi Tomiie - Thursday 2 AM (Ron Trent Remix Dub)
Deenamic - Fears
Baaz - Carbon Hair
Marcellus Pittman - An Afternoon Delight
Glenn Underground - Silent Pimp (Peace in My Place)
Alton Miller - All the Little Things
Chaos in the CBD - Double Dribble
Gerd - Palm Leaves (Mr Fingers Afropsychojungledub Mix)
Patrice Scott - Moments & Concepts
Zepherin Saint - Resurrect My Feelings
Alton Miller - Way of the Drum
GU - Peaceful Rage (Acid Revenge)
Leeon - That Generous Friend

i thought it was supposed to be chill out rather than house?

 

[ska invita]

i thought it was supposed to be chill out rather than house?

it can be whatever you think is chilled out... this is a deep/minimal/IMO very chilled morning after style house mix
im going to do another one especially for this thread but who knows what it'll have in it - might well have some kick drums!

 

[Mattym]

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Had an idea for something anyone can take part in: make a mix/playlist, ideally at least an hour long of music to chill out to

A new years challenge: Ideally make a mix and upload it somewhere (mixcloud/soundcloud/googledrive) etc with a download link
But if thats too hard then just do a Spotify playlist
anything is better than nothing
especially at this time of year (winter) i crave some nice mellow music to listen to at home
so with that in mind theres a nominal deadline you can ignore to get your entry in before March. Sooner the better really

Anyone up for that?

Dont think any other rules are necessary other than keep it mellow

(The thread title refers to the Back to Mine mix/compilation series which does a similiar though possibly slightly different thing)

Back To Mine

A DMC series from 1999 to 2008 based on the concept of after-party selections. The brand was relaunched as a label under Material Music (2) in 2019.

www.discogs.com

I made one a couple of years ago called- All back to yours. Late night Fails! Will try & find it.