Well I remembered another mix I did, about a year ago. I did it at home, for me, on my CDJs. Just to prove a point to myself really, as at the time the wife was 2 months away from giving birth and I was quite concerned , with her going on maternity leave weather we would be able to afford to live in the style we had become accustomed to. So I thought, if we’re struggling, I always have DJing, I still have some good contacts in the business I suppose I could go back and do a couple of gigs a week for pocket money (gadgets).

So I dusted of the CDJs, got Traktor out (my how that’s changed in a few years) and set about trying some stuff out again. Anyway, people seem to like it that have heard it. It’s quite housey with some random tunes and acapellas thrown over things like the old days

Here’s the tracklisting, don’t let it put you off.

1. Groove Armada – Lightsonic
2. Together in Electric Dreams – Georgio Moroder and Phil Oakley
3. The Black Kids – I’m not going to teach you (twelves remix)
4. MGMT Kids – (hacks mix)
5. Daft Punk – One more time (acapella)
6. Alan Braxe – Intro (acapella)
7. Kirs Kross – Jump (planet cross mix)
8 . CJ Bolland – Sugar is Sweeter (acapella)
9. Neds atomic Dustbin – Intact
10. Metallica – Enter Sandman
11. LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocous (soulwax mix)
12. Soulwax – NY Excuse
13. Grace – Not over yet
14. The Hours – See the light (calvin harris mix)
15. Grovesnor – Drive your car
16. A fifth of Beethoven (re-edit)

Mix i did for me by discuit

At the time this was recorded I was living with a few friends in Preston, all of us were DJ’s, we had George Thompson, owner and resident of feel, Chris Hunter who was working for Shaboom records in Blackpool, and his partner in Crime Jim Damentalist, they also used to DJ together at the time, in the back room at Feel. Why am I telling you who the hell i was living with, well when you put that many DJ’s in a house together you don’t need a dining room. You need a 6 Deck 4 CDJ DJ room, all wired into an old skool mac. Making for many hours of mindless “jamming” and noise making as many people tried to DJ at the same time.

It was a haven for making mix tapes though, and one afternoon i set about composing 30 mins worth of tunes and acapellas and this is what It came out with, I can’t find a track listing for it. But it’s very housey, and its hosue tunes that were about in 2002 (obviously)

There’s some good acapella bits in it, but my god you can tell this was all done on vinyl…

Matt Rycroft November 2002 Rock FM Mix by discuit

Drift your mind back to 2004, Liverpool were about to embark on the most amazing Champions League campaign in the history of ever, Petrol was cheaper than a bag of Chips and a 28 year old called me was djing a lot of house music all over the place, but lets be honest Djing house is pretty easy, so I decided to test myself, armed with a new found love of Native Instruments Traktor DJ Software as a complement to a couple of CDJ’s

A Couple of good friends of mine, lets call them Toocanx and Failedninja are in this crazy DJ duo by the name of cease and desist, cutting up bootlegs and messing about with records that have no place being messed about with. Back in the Summer of 2004 they asked me to join them for a gig, at this nice little palce in Preston known as Base.

Not doing my normal thing, this was about playing anything but house music, right out of my comfort zone.

And this is the mix that came out of it. I think it also appeared on the radio, and has been nicked and bootlegged and cut up and stuff. They go by the name of Cease and Desist.

Matt Rycroft – Jumping on the bandwagon mix by discuit

Heres the Tracklisting

C.W. McCall – Convoy
Coldcut – Bits and Pieces
Jackson 5 – I want you back (acapella)
Herbie Hancock – Rock it
Obie Trice – Got some teeth (Acapella)
Fine young cannibals – She drives me crazy
Junior – mama used to say
Coldcut – Can’t remember the name of it
Underworld Born Slippy
The Incredible Bongo Band – Apache
Bon Jovi – You give love a bad name
Belinda Carlisle – heaven is a place on earth (Orbital)
Wink – Higher State of Consciousness
Beatmasters- Beat Dis
MC Pitman Acapella)
Snoop Doggy Dogg – G’z and Hustlaz (intro)
Missy Elliot – pass that Dutch (acapella)
House of pain – Jump Around
David Bowie – Lets Dance
Mo Money’ Mo Problems (acapella)
Airplane
Batman
Felix da Housekatt – Silver Screen Shower Scene (acapella)
Pointer Sisters – Automatic
Queen – Flash
Krafty skillz – The music sounds fatter with you
We’re gonna have a party
Minder – Theme Tune
Cheryl Lyn – To be real
Bart Simpson – Do the Bartman – (Acapella)
Lesson 2 – Double Dee and Steinsky
Star Wars Hip Hop
Vanilla ice – Ice ice baby (acapella)
Warren G – This DJ (Acapella)
Jean Knight – Mr big Stuff

And Voice Snippets from the following films:
Bugs Bunny Looney toons
Back to the future
Batman
Airplane
Ghostbusters
Star Wars
Star Trek
Robocop
Daffy duck
Flintstones
Simpsons
Terminator
Scooby Doo
Pulp Fiction
Forest Gump
Empire Strikes back

Download it over at Soundcloud

EDIT
A friend has pointed out that some of the levels are bit up and down, but hey this was 2004 before everyone threw everything through ableton, so I’ll leave it in the raw way it was originally recorded