Couch Boy Music

A mix that I did on Saturday afternoon as a present for a friend’s house-warming party (did you see what I did there?).  All vinyl, one take, no software edits… quite boring really.  I was trying to do an all-house mix, and almost succeeded – as you can see from the tracklisting:

Eddie Amador – House Music

Mount Rushmore – You Better

Funky Green Dogs – Fired Up (Angel’s DDDDeep Vocal Mix)

Living Colour – Elvis is Dead (Elvis is in the House Mix)

Dreadzone – Captain Dread (X-press 2 Mix)

X-press 2 (feat David Byrne) – Lazy

Ruffneck Featuring Yavahn –  Everybody Be Somebody (Original Vocal Mix)

CJ Boland – Sugar is Sweeter (Armand’s Drum n Bass Mix)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo – The Star and the Wiseman (S-Man’s Supafunkee Club Mix)

Winc – Thoughts of a Tranced Love

They Came from the Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song (The Gospel According to Mung 2012 Live at the Hacienda Version)

Couch Boy – Warm House Mix

Ok, here’s what happens when you let a four year old choose the tunes.  Excuse the mixing as I also had a one year old climbing all over me.  Some of the tunes are ones that Keir knows, and others he stumbled over and demanded requested that they get played… and a few were my choice!

Short mix this one, due to short attention spans!

Abba – Mama Mia

Terence Trent D’arby – Dance Little Sister

Fatboy Slim – Rockafella Skank

Elextric Six – Danger High Voltage (Soulchild mix)

X-press 2 and David Byrne – Lazy

Stone Roses – Fools Gold (Rabbit in the Moon mix)

They Came from the Stars I Saw Them – Moon Song

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Posted this note on Facebook but I thought I should also put it on here:

Here’s a nice Sunday afternoon activity for you.
Put on your slippers, it’s time to have a snoop round your mp3 player

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Turn on your MP3 player.
2. Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
3. Write down the first 15 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating!

Here’s what came out of mine:

1. Shy FX & DJ Ash – One in the jungle mix (1995)
2. The Walls – With or without you (U2 cover)
3. Bob Mould – Lost Zoloft
4. Alex Harvey – Silhouette and Shadow
5. Grimethorpe Colliery Band – Floral Dance
6. The Meters – The Handclapping Song
7. Lionel Richie – All Night Long
8. Beastie Boys – Sure Shot
9. The Beach Boys – I Know there’s an answer
10. Optimo Exotica Mix
11. Zero 7 – Warm Sound
12. Husker Du – Up in the Air
13. King Tubby – Sound Boy Massacre
14. Psychic TV – BB
15. Flying Matchstick Men – If you want to

Try it.  What came out of your ipod?

I submitted the following mix to BBC Radio Scotland for a competition they ran in April 2001… and won.  The prize was to have it broadcast on one of their shows.  Would you have given me the prize?  Have a listen and decide for yourself…

Couch Boy – Competition Mix

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Started late… lots of hung-over people… hair of the dawg… beautiful views… friendly peeps… delicious food… and then… rain

Couch Boy – Paradise Club mix

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Yes they did.  In Cyprus, no less… in a town called Polis at 2pm on 25 September 2008.  I was there and played some tunes at the end of the evening (after most of the grown-ups were in bed).

Couch Boy – Rob & Claire’s Wedding

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Following my involvement in We Dance Wee Groove at the Imaginate Festival, Edinburgh in May, I am pleased that we will be staging similar events in Glasgow, on 30/31 October and 1 November.  I’ll post again soon with the exact details.

For now, you can enjoy this (slightly distorted) recording, from the last show in Edinburgh.

Wee Dance, Wee Groove (Sunday 2pm)

I started recording about 10 mins in. The signal is from the DJ mixer (so no percussion or crowd noise) but gives a good representation of the records played.

This mix is from March 2003.  I’ll let the music speak for itself:

Couch Boy – Electronicat etc

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Another mix…

Couch Boy – The Snake etc

I’ll stick my neck out and say that “The Snake” is one of my favourite tunes of all time.

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This was a good few years ago… Did I really play these records? Who knows. I’m cringing a lot as I type the track listing but, hey, this must have been what the kids wanted.

Couch Boy – Love is in the Air

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