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Bill Shakes 28 – Wrench 5

Bill Shakes — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:53:22 +0000

Et Voila!, Wrench 5 for your listening pleasure. It’s the usual Wrench affair, wistful pianos, guitars, vocals, orchestral sweeps and moody electronic soundscapes. For some reason it doesn’t feel as fluid as the last Wrench but no matter, I like the collection of sounds and emotions and there are 28 tracks to choose from (including the faint hum of the planet Jupiter). I hope you find something to tickle your unique fancy.

A great practical use of the Wrench series is for the odious task of Shopping. Press play and glide through the clouds instead of crowds in your very own impenetrable Wrench bubble, works for me… As for the artwork, well it’s just too good for words is it not…

Listen to the mix below or DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Bill Shakes 28 – Wrench 5 by Billshakes on Mixcloud

Tracklist

1. Jupiter Recording – Voyager (Nasa)
2. Eldorado (Instrumental Medley) – Electric Light Orchestra
3. Hommage – Patrick Watson
4. Mind Swamp – Fudge Fingas
5. la la la – The Time And Space Machine
7. Music Box- Low Anthem (The)
8. Smilin’ Billy Suite Part II – The Heath Brothers
9. For the record – Kathleen Edwards
10. Sudden Landing – Fudge Fingas
11. Opus 28 – Dustin O’Halloran
12. El Oeste – John Talabot
13. Souvlaki Space Station – Slowdive
14. Maria, The Poet (1913) – Max Richter
15. My Grandmotha – DJ Koze
16. Have A Cigar (Osvaldo Wilson Grey Sunday Edit) – Pink Floyd
17. Running, Running from Home (ὠδή Edit) – Mojo Filter ft. Bert Jansch
18. A Walk – Tycho
19. Hey Maggy – David Holmes
20. Brazil – Luke Abbott
21. My Sex – Ultravox
22. Bewildered (Piano Mix) – Nova Nova
23. These Days (B-Shakes Edit) – Glen Campbell
24. Little Pleasure (Featuring Gavin Turek) – Tokimonsta
25. To The Lifeboats – Thomas Dolby
26. Remember – Windy & Carl
27. Autumn Music 2 – Max Richter
28. Found a Little Baby – Plush
29. Jupiter Recording – Voyager (Nasa)

Bill Shakes 27 – Crack Happy

Bill Shakes — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:25:31 +0000

The music is flowing thick & fast this month which is unusual as January tends to be alcohol and 4/4 free for me… This is the new FYB mix of tracks from 2011 that were Funktion One ready at our NYE party Boompt! and that I haven’t already used on previous mixes. The first hour of the mix was also broadcast on the finca am show on Ibiza Global Radio & welovehouse in Germany.

Listen to the mix below or DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Bill Shakes 27 – Crack Happy by Billshakes on Mixcloud

Tracklist

1. Crack – The Sopranos
2. In High Spirits – Luft
3. Lush Life Libid – Roman Flügel
4. Houston We Have A Problem (Original Mix) – Genius Of Time
5. Hard To Find (Maceo Plex Funk Drop) – Bazar
6. Large Processor – Session Victim
7. Boy meets Girl – Jef K & Gwen Maze
8. Loss (original mix) – SCB
9. Physical Thrill – Leo Zero
10. Keep My Secret (Rory Phillips Club Dub Mix) – Munk
11. Chasing Things (Original Mix) – Lovebirds
12. Point Of No Return (Original Mix) – Alex Niggemann ft. John Rydell
13. Hard To Find (Danny Daze Love Dub) – Bazar
14. Lets Dance – Cajmere & Russoul
15. A Thing Called Love (Kink Dub) – Wolfram feat. Haddaway
16. Two Dots (Nic Fanciulli Remix) – Lusine

Bill Shakes 26 – Carousel

Bill Shakes — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:27:47 +0000

The new mix for the Finca am radio show was influenced by the flawed Utopia of Logans Run (as was the name and images from the original film). It comprises of recent ish music for a fresh start to 2012 (which almost sounds like a year in a sci-fi film).

Many of these 70′s genre films age terribly but I have a soft spot for the kitsch and weird nature of Logans Run, just let your imagination do what the films painfully dated special effects don’t…

Listen to the mix below or DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Bill Shakes 26 – Carousel by Billshakes on Mixcloud

Tracklist

1. Carousel (B-Shakes Edit) – Logans Run
2. Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) [The Emperor Machine Dub] – Yacht
3. Families (feat. glasser) – John Talabot
4. Love Love (Kasper Bjork remix – Mojo Filter edit) – Ghost Society
5. Casio Romance – Mr Beatnick
6. On 2 You – Bobby Tank
7. Take Me Home – Poolside
8. Myrtle Avenue – Floating Points
9. Love U Mama (Original Mix) – Maceo Plex Feat. Fabel
10. Scribbled Paper (Fear of Theydon Remix) – Little Dragon
11. Rule of the Bone – Ballistic Brothers
12. We Could Forever- Bonobo

Check out the scene in the film from where I sampled Track 1, love it…

B-Shakes Edit 2

Bill Shakes — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:06:55 +0000

B-Shakes Edit 2 glides gently away from B-Shakes Edit 1. It’s in a similar vain and parent pleasing sentiment to the Glen Campbell Edit and one of my favorite James Taylor songs (wanna learn the guitar with James? click here). I have also added an exclusive AOR Disco mix, check it out their blog as it’s full of edit ear gold. Here’s hoping I haven’t done too much damage to the original and have taken it somewhere new and interesting.

James Taylor – Fire & Rain (B-Shakes Edit) by Bill Shakes

Fire & Rain (B-Shakes Exclusive AOR Disco Version) – James Taylor by AOR DISCO

If you want to hear the original then here’s a live version from 1970 (Aren’t those cardigans back ‘in’ again?).

Thanks again to AOR Disco for adding the track to their mighty stable. All comments, feedback and Edit suggestions welcome

Soundcloud worth $200 Million!

Bill Shakes — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:03:08 +0000

WOW. Soundcloud the You Tube of audio was recently valued at $200 million with a new injection of $50 million I think the social aspect and content sharing/sourcing is fantastic but there is significant room for improvement and if they don’t raise the virtual bar you can guarantee that someone else will.

Given a superior User interface and a more sensible pricing structure I would definitely consider jumping clouds. Hopefully they will spend wisely and eradicate my own medium user pet peeves:

Downtime – Service regularly interrupted (perhaps due to success and scalability)
Price – Annual storage options are very expensive when comparing to other storage/play platforms but it’s popularity locks you in…
Track/content – re-ordering not possible due to poor original coding design.
Track hiding – When your time quota is reached it auto hides the oldest upload which is a royal pain in the proverbial to get it back and organise playlist.
Copyright Infringement – Not really their fault but very annoying once you’ve waited and uploaded a mix and are told that it’s got one tiny element that won’t clear. (Has happened on several occasions)

I’ll be Meldrew sure to update this post if I think of or encounter any more issues