For our third podcast we asked one of our favourite guests of 2008, Matt Walsh, to put together an exclusive mix for us. Matt is a regular guest here at AF and is set for big things in 2009 with residencies at Turbo Records, Bugged Out, Durrr and T Bar as well as his new production project, Clouded Vision.
Matt Walsh Bio
Heavily influenced by his father listening to Adam and the Ants, The Human League, New Order and 60’s Psychedelic acts, Matt was introduced to electronic music via Primal Screams’s Andrew Weatheral produced “Screamadelica” in 1991. Living outside London amongst a rave scene in 92-95 and hearing of parties on the local pier headed by The Prodigy and Altern 8, Matt was desperate to be old enough to be a part of something what would eventually lead him to take up playing two records together.
Matt has emerged onto the scene over the last Four years and was seen by Tiga at T-Bar in London where Matt impressed him with his DJ’ing and style. He then produced three great podcasts for ‘Sid Loves Turbo’ and has been touring with Turbo Recordings on their “Omnidance” tour of North America and Europe in 2008. Now a Turbo Resident, Bugged Out Resident worldwide, resident at T Bar and Durrr in London Matt can also been seen regularly at Wax:On, fabric and venues across Europe. Matt is known for his varied music style ranging from New Wave, Acid House and Disco to Electronic House and Techno. In 2008 he visited Japan, Rome, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, North America and Canada with further touring planned for 2009.
Matt has shared bills alongside a large variety of acts including Tiga, Alter Ego, Zombie Nation, Tomboy, Fredski, Popof, Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco, Pilooski, Jojo De Freq, Stuart Patterson, Riotous Rockers, Thomas Von Party, Cut Copy, D.I.M., Padded Cell, Mock n’ Toof, Tiefschwarz, Dixon, Carl Craig, Andrew Weatherall, Digitalism, Erol Alkan, Mylo, Williams, John Dahlback, Feadz, Simian, Jon Carter, Danton Eeprom, Ivan Smagghe, Boys Noize, and more.
Matt has also been part of a production duo, Clouded Vision, formed alongside Steve Cook. They are heavily influenced by early Acid House and Techno acts such as AFX, DMX Krew, 808 State and The Chemical Brothers. Their first track “Satur8” was picked up and played by Tiga and used in his best of 2007 podcast. Turbo then approached Matt to remix “Shaded” by Cari Lekebusch and the Clouded Vision “Acid Dub” was released alongside remixes from Comphphonic & Kolombo and Jesper Dahlback in February 2008.
Since then they have remixed two further tracks for Turbo Recordings/Mute Records, Moby’s “I Like To Move in Here” and rising star and friend Brodinski's "Oblivion". In December 2008 their mix for UK band "Toob" was realeased on Process Recordings and further remixes are being currently worked on. Clouded Vision's work has had great support from DJ'S across the globe and plays from Mr Oizo, Nick Warren, Laurant Garnier, Erol Alkan, Tiga, Photonz, 40 Thieves, Skull Juice, Casper C, Disco Bloodbath, Luke Solomon, Black Strobe, Slutty Fringe, Love Supreme, Deepgroove, Tronik Youth, Riotous Rockers, Thomas Von Party and more...
Clouded Vision will have two EP's in 2009 on Portugese label "Dig We Must" and are working on their EP for Turbo Recordings and one other as we speak….
Tracklist
Victorville - Cloaks (Losoul remix)
Affkt and Danny Fiddo – Points
Marco Corola – Long Jump
Mihalis Safras – Catman
Heinrichs & Hirtenfellner – Tromp It
TG – Mr Dry (Jakob Hilden M Right Remix)
Andre Winter – Trauma
Extrawelt – Trummerfeld (Oliver Huntemann Remix)
Oliver Koletski – Requiem Fur Die Vernunft – (Lutzenkirchen's Max Payne Remix)
DJ Cardillo and Flavio Lodetti – Clang
Kolombo – Sniff
Milton Channels – Powa
Mowgli – Sequencer
Popof – Faces uh?
James Braun – The Shakers
Mike Mind – Acid Machine
Dj Pierre – I’ve Lost Control (Glenn Underground Mix)
GB and The Tracks - Woman (Tim Paris and Ivan Smagghe vocal mix)
DJ Koze - Abudinga
002 : STOPMAKINGME
AITBF and Kill Em All resident DJ Stopmakingme has won over many an admirer as of late with his unique sets of mutant disco, post punk, percussive jams, techno bleeps and clicks and good old fashioned electronic beats. His style has seen him play at Fabric, Bugged Out, Durrr, Glastonbury Festival and beyond.
www.myspace.com/stopmakingme
TRACKLISTING
Live Mix For Always Fridays (October 2008)
The Emperor Machine - Non Functioning Apeman
Black Devil Disco Club - Free For The Girls (Richard Sen Remix)
Step Mode - Full Moon Rising/ In Flagranti - Brush Beat
Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Alter Ego Remix)
Pinch - Tiptoe Beni - My Love Needs You
High Powered Boys - Hoes Get Down
Daft Punk - Phoenix
A-Trak & Laidback Luke - Shake It Down/ Green Velvet - Bathroom
Golden Bug - Look Look Look (In Flagranti Remix)
Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth (Joe & Will Ask? 11pm Remix)
Til West & DJ Delicious - Same Man
Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Discodeine Remix)
Dieter Schmidt - Morse Code From The Cold War
001 : RIVA STARR
We will be asking one of our favourite artists to contribute a mix for our podcast every month. For the web launch, we are very lucky to have Always Fridays regular guest and up n coming producer / DJ, Riva Starr, providing a very special jackin' set! Some straight up party sounds … gotta love it ;)
www.myspace.com/rivastarr
A little it about Riva Starr…
Every once in a while a new producer just smashes their way through into the bigtime. That's what's happening with Riva Starr's sneak-in-and-blow-the-place-up approach. An act whose influence comes from blogs, wild afterparties, music that works for the kids as well as the cool ubercoolische europeans, Riva seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed - but in reality he's been working his arse off for years.
Riva Starr plunders the best in tech house and beeping, burping synth lines to create a dirty, messy dancefloor affair. His first appearance on Jesse Rose's ubercool Frontroom label with the Thizzle EP led to a release on Claude Vonstroke's pivotal Dirtybird label with the WTF?! EP - described by IDJ as "essential - 5/5". Then there were two releases in quick succession on Southern Fried - a remix of Armand van Helden's smash J'Taime, and his own EP, Scratch'n'Itch, which had raves from a stupidly wide variety of DJs...
And the gigs have kept apace. Just in the last months there's been a China tour, Glastonbury, Glade and Fusion Festivals, two slots at the Winter Music Conference - the Dirtybird party and a huge Lot49 event – an Australian and US tour on the pipeline and definitely more to come...
A single mix offered to the influential Discobelle blog was downloaded TWELVE THOUSAND times, and a sneaky download of a DJ edit of La Conga, his followup single on Dirtybird, lead to that single going top 5 on Beatport through pure word of mouth - no ads, a secret release with no press, and it had gone top 10 in the tech-house chart before Beatport decided maybe the track should have some advertising...
As the Scatterblog review of Riva's career says ... "It's not like he has a big trademark bassline, or some sort of analog synth style (although he does have some mad analog synths), instead he incorporates a range of different sounds. It seems like the main thing that ties each song together is just that each one has an awesome hook of some kind. Music is all about having a cool sounding something these days, it's not about ripping out some big guitar solo, or having a really musically sound piece (how many songs are based around three notes these days, but sound fresh as), Riva Starr is easily on top of all that..."
What's next? A follow-up on Southern Fried with a Derrick Carter rmx. A new sampleadelic track Maria on Get Physical's Kindisch records that is already doing damages worldwide reaching the top 10 on the Beatport house chart, a new single on Jesse Rose’MADE TO PLAY...
Collaborations with London's underground scene. A few remixes due out during the summer (check out his remix for Exploited rec with the featuring of the 2 dupstep mcs Jammer&Frisco!). And a new label, Snatch! - for the stripped-back musical types who aren't ashamed to get their rave on...
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