Yer Mam!'s Guide To Essential Summer Listening Part II: Mixing it up.

Okay, let's get back into it. The sun is really out today, so here are three great summery mixes for you to pump out of your car stereos when the sun is blazing...


Friends of the blog and all-round top blokes, Canyons (aka Leo and Ryan from the Hole In The Sky label) are used to sunshine and barbecues, I guess, being Aussies. Lazy geographical stereotyping aside, they've put together a terrifically sunkissed mix exclusively for you guys. Readers of Yer Mam! rejoice as it's a doozy. Don't forget to pick yourself up a copy of their recent 12", The Lovemore EP, on vinyl at Juno or, if you prefer mp3s, get the digital release at Play.com...

Canyons Mix (click through to download)

1. Aqua Bassino - Too Hard to Try and Find (F Communication)
2. Her Bad Habit - Lock me up (Citinite)
3. Arthur Russell - Pocketknife's continual Cornfield remix (Flagrant Fowl)
4. Late of the Pier - The Bears are Coming - The Emperor Machine remix (Vote)
5. 40 Thieves - Theme from nutrider (Permanent Vacation)
6. Escort - Karawane (Escort Records)
7. The Juan Maclean - Happy House (DFA)
8. Virgo - Free Yourself - (Eskimo)
9. E.V.I.A.N and the Atlantis Posse - Robo Tech (Techno Kut Records)
10. Lone Ranger Dub - Bingo mix (Kaos)
11. Syclops - Monkeypuss (DFA)
12. Tyree - I'm Free (Clone)
13. Martyn - Velvet (3024)
14. Luis Gasca - Spanish Gypsy (Universal)
15. Kathy Diamond - Over (Permanent Vacation)
16. Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine - Canyons Drunken Rage Mix (Hole in the Sky)
17. The Emperor Machine - Slap On (DC Recordings)
18. Hercules and Love Affair - This is my love (DFA)
19. Only Fools and Horses - Spectacle Wins - Holy Ghost! remix (Permanent Vacation)
20. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (Reprise)

Two more mixes to clue you in on now from a couple other friends of Yer Mam! First up, Peter Jay, who did an exclusive mix for this blog a couple of months ago, has a new mix over at the Nish Nash Nosh podcast. Here's the tracklisting, which should be all the convincing you need to go over there and get downloading...

1. Prince - Musicology
2. Pure P - Fonky President
3. Busta Rhymes - Touch It (pee wee's incorrect funk mix)
4. The Rebirth - Shake It (j-boogie remix)
5. Tangoterje - I Get Lifted
6. Kraak & Smaack feat Ben Westbeech- Squeeze Me
6. Alessi Brothers - Savin' The Day (the revenge rework)
7. Jermaine Jackson - Lets Get Serious
8. Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter (u-tern edit)
9. Popular Peoples Front - Bits 'N' Pieces
10. Neighbour - Robo Dick
11. Parov Stelar - The Flame
12. Wolf Myer Orchestra & Parov Stelar - Next To Me
13. Hydroponic Sound System - El Narco
14. Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Guajira '78
15. Alex Wilson - Ain't Nobody

Finally, Freddy Flaggermus has cooked up another winner in the form of the 'Summer Whoreoff Volume II' mix he has up for download over at twentyfourhours. Go git it! Any mix that has The Bangles and Grace Jones is a blinder in my book.

Back real soon,

JMx

Exclusive Mix: Peter Jay (Nish Nash Nosh)

Back in January, I gave Peter Jay's Nish Nash Nosh mix the number five spot in my DJ mixes of the year list. Not for nothing either. I know a lot of you were probably thinking I was doing it out of Manc loyalty (Moston in the area!), but I genuinely thought that Nish Nash Nosh Volume 3 was the dog's balls. Mixing up the finest disco and soul, past and present, Jay found room for Rene & Angela, Crown Heights Affair, Stevie Wonder, Skinny Joey, Frank Hebly and Phantom Slasher along the way. If you haven't got it then shame on you (Fat City still have some by the look of it), but you can redeem yourself a little in two ways...

First of all, you can make it down to Nish Nash Nosh this Saturday, the 22nd - or every Saturday for that matter - at the Mint Lounge on Oldham St., Manchester, where you can see the disco hairdresser himself on the ones and twos, alongside fellow resident, Dave "Serious" Walker from 10pm 'til 3am. It's always a good 'un and at £6 a throw (£5 for members or for people hardy enough to get there before 11), it's not to be sniffed at.

Secondly, you can download the exclusive mix Peter's knocked up especially for Yer Mam!'s readers below. It's well good...

Peter Jay (Nish Nash Nosh) Exclusive Mix

Tracklisting:

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Mix)
Bittersweet - Overdue (Blackbeard Mix)
Beatconductor - Jibaro
Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost (Ray Mang Edit)
Banbarra - Shack Up (The Revenge Edit)
Restless Soul feat. Shea Soul - Turn Me Out
Tangoterje - I Wanna Dance
Gino Soccio - Try It Out (Barna Soundmachine & Der Beat Mix)
Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (Todd Terje Re-Edit)
Coppa - Society Ho's
Prince - Let's Work (Dark Dancer Remix)
Phantom Slasher - Woman
Macho - I'm A Man (SDC Edit)
RS - Under My Dub
Mindless Boogie - Emotional R (In Flagranti Edit)

Back later (maybe) with more hot shit.

JMx