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Ministry of Sound presents The Underground Ibiza 2010

Ministry of Sound present the 6th in the Underground series and we're back in Ibiza with 3CD's packed full of sun soaked bangers in their FULL LENGTH UNMIXED DJ FRIENDLY glory. CD1 brings you a serious selection of upfront house cuts that’ll be rocking the island this summer featuring huge tracks from Tiga, etienne de crecy, Afrojack & Sidney Samson, Herve, Audiojack, King Unique and Thomas Gold to name but a few!! CD2 heads straight for the underground with the coolest selection of house from the world’s leading DJ's. producers and labels featuring Jamie Jones, Dennis Ferrer, James Talk, Dirty South & Bob Sinclar, Joris Voorn, Tim Berg and MR BLINK. CD3 hits the spot with a top notch selection of the more classic Ibiza sound with heavy weight tunes courtesy of Leftfield, Laurent Garnier, New Order, Slam, X-Press 2 and many more. Whatever your taste, whether you're going to Ibiza or not this summer, turn this up and indulge in a part of history.
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Wez G - On The Road

‘… one night we suddenly went mad together again; we went to see slim gaillard in a little Frisco nightclub. Slim Gaillard is a tall, thin negro with big sad eyes who’s always saying ‘Right-orooni’ and ‘How ’bout a little bourbon-arooni.’ In Frisco great eager crowds of young semi-intellectuals sat at his feet and listened to him on the piano, guitar and bongo drums. When he gets warmed up he takes off his undershirt and really goes. He does and says anything that comes into his head. He’ll sing ‘Cement Mixer, Put-ti Put-ti’ and suddenly slow down the beat and brood over his bongos with fingertips barely tapping the skin as everybody leans forward breathlessly to hear; you think he’ll do this for a minute or so, but he goes right on, for as long as an hour, making an imperceptible little noise with the tips of his fingernails, smaller and smaller all the time till you can’t hear it any more and sounds of traffic come in the open door. …

THAT WAS 2009 – THE YEAR IN CHARTS

2009 draws to a close and yet again my all-embracing, all-inclusive and all-rambling review of the year’s electronic music returns – wordier than ever before... Slightly earlier than I'd planned, but isn't that always the way.

On a personal level, it’s been a strangely disappointing year, so, this year more than ever, it’s been music and DJing keeping me going and giving life its colour. Trance, in particular, has been truly stunning this year, maybe better than it’s been since the “golden era” of 98-01. And that high standard itself has both kept me sane and yet at times driven me to states of embarrassing over-excitement and needless intoxication – something I’m sure most of my fellow trance addicts, Shpongloids and borderline paranoiacs can relate to. Whether this is my prediction that trance would improve in the final years of the decade coming true or just me looking a lot harder I’m not sure, but I’m still convinced trance fans, from both uplifting and techy ends of the spectrum…

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Wez G - Jetstream Psychosis

It's easy tofly into the clouds and I seem to spend half my life dreaming in the jetstream. There's been a break in the podcast so here it is back and mad as ever to steer you like a rocket through the atmosphere on a psychotic journey of house music. Starting with some mellow Bent classics the mix steers into some first class progressive beats. Enjoy the Jetstream Psychosis...

:::TRACKLISTING:::
1. Bent - Comin' Back (Reverso 68 dub) [Godlike and Electric]
2. X-Press 2 - Enjoy The Ride (Ashley's Magic Session Remix)
3. Bent - Magic Love (Ashley Beedle's Black Magic Vocal Remix)
4. Sandee - Notice Me [Da Records]
5. Röyksopp - This Must Be It (Rex The Dog's K-Dart Remix) [Wall Of Sound]
6. Fedde Le Grand - Scared of Me (Hardwell Mix)
7. BT - Rose of Jericho (Sultan & Ned Shepherd Remix)
8. Pole Folder - Hate Myself (Sasha Instrumental) [La Tour]
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Been meaning to do this for years - here's an incomplete list of bands I've seen at least once. Good or absolutely shite, they all make the list. Bold type denotes artists that I've had the pleasure of seeing more than once.

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Adem
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alabama 3
The Aliens
All About Eve
Lily Allen
Dot Allison
Allo Darlin'
Alpha
Amusement Parks On Fire
Annuals
Arab Strap
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Arrested Development
Asian Dub Foundation
A Silver Mt. Zion
B
Badly Drawn Boy
Banco De Gaia
Basement Jaxx
Bat for Lashes
The Bays
The Beat
The Beastie Boys
The Beautiful South
Beck
Beep Beep
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Bent
The Besnard Lakes
Big Country
Black Kids
Black Mountain
Blondie
Blur
The Bodines
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
The Boy Least Likely To
Boys Wonder
Billy Bragg
Brainiac
Bright Eyes
The Brilliant Corners
Broken Spindles
Ian Brown
Tim Burgess
Bernard Butler
C
Terry Callier
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Caribou
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It's been one of those nites where I wanted to let lose on the decks... so I sparked up TraktorPro and had at it... at some point I was starting to feel that the decks were speaking through me.. so I hit record and landed this set.

Because in the end, that is part of how we keep at it. We just keep holding on.

Vergel Evans - Persist (dj set)
(http://soundcloud.com/vveerrgg/vergel-evans-persist-dj-mix)

##. Artist - Title
01. Model 500 - Huesca
02. FUNK D'VIOD - Diabla (Funk D'Void's Heavenly Mix)
03. Extrawelt - Soopertrack (Fino Attack Mix)
04. Orlando Voorn - Still (Exclusive Download Only)
05. Joris Voorn - A Thousand Lost Souls
06. Cari Lekebusch - Rulermeasure
07. Octave One - I Need Release
08. Claude Young - External Remix - Claude Young
09. Steve Rachmad - Caterpillar
10. Dimitri Pike - Nightlife R
11. Joris Voorn - Chase the Mouse
12. Detroit People Mover - Reconstruction
13. disx3 - Slaanesh
14. Blake Baxter - H-Factor
15. Takashi Watanabe - You
16. Marco Bailey - Muzika - Track 2
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Vergel Evans presents: Under Overdrive (dj mix)
(http://soundcloud.com/vveerrgg/vergel-evans-under-overdrive-dj-mix)
Download or listen to it for free from SoundCloud.

It's been ages since I've actively got in-front of a mixer with the intent to do a dj mix, but over the last couple of weeks I've wanted to do nothing else... When I first started dj'ing in 1996 I was purely a vinyl fan. By the time I was able to manage 3 decks effectively I was burning through my records so fast, I hardly had enough time to pick the next track.

Now fast forwarding to today... with software like TraktorPro and dj interfaces like the VCI-100 or Xone:4d, it's possible to load, perform, and exit a song as quick as desired.... even better the maintenance of mixing 3 or more "decks" is easy when the hardware is a simple set of faders.

My goals with this mix was to build a set that had elements of all the styles of techno I really enjoy in a tight mix where every beat has a value. …

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We havent had a guest mix on the Beatz and Bobz Show for a while now so I was extremely happy when Mr No Hands popped up with a spanking x-rated mix for us to play. Chock full of killer tunes and cheeky re-edits Mr No Hands certainly drops the funk for us.

Also in this weeks show hot promo action from Far Too Loud, TCR, Rektchordz, Benjamin Vial and The Body Snatchers.

Ben And Lex

01. Bassbin Twins 'Ruffest'
02. DB3 'Baader (Dreadzone Mix)'
03. Koma And Bones 'Morphosis (Koma and Bones White Rabbit Mix)'
04. Rektchordz 'Feed Your Head' (Elite Force Remix)'
05. Splitloop 'Method V.I.P.'
06. Project Baseline 'Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Remix)'
07. Unknown 'Come Dancing'
08. Blue Effect 'Stop'

Mr No Hands

09. Unknown 'CookingbytheBooklilBiggerMix'
10. The Rolling Stones 'Satisfaction (DiscoTech Remix)'
11. DrumAttic Twins 'Dont Be So Fuckin DrumAttic'
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